Cast: Friedrich Kayßler

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Friedrich Kayßler. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Girl from the Marsh Croft

1935 · Movie · 78 min. · Germany

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Hansi Knoteck · Ellen Frank · Kurt Fischer-Fehling · Friedrich Kayßler

Synopsis Based on a Selma Lagerlöf 's short story ,"Das Mädchen..." belongs to Sierck's long series of melodramas ,a genre he was one of the indisputable masters. Probably influenced by Frank Borzage's characters, he made Helga a pure heroine who sacrifices...

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Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Paul Hartmann · Friedrich Kayßler · Lil Dagover · Käthe Haack

Synopsis A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

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The Man Who Committed the Murder

1931 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Conrad Veidt · Trude von Molo · Heinrich George · Friedl Haerlin

Synopsis The Marquis de Sévigné is put in a difficult position when he falls for the lovely Lady Falkland, a married woman whose husband, the strict Lord Falkland, subjects her to constant abuse.

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Gold

1934 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany

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Der zerbrochene Krug

1937 · Movie · 86 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky · Emil Jannings

Cast Emil Jannings · Friedrich Kayßler · Max Gülstorff · Lina Carstens

Synopsis The blank verse does not work all that well in subtitles, but the film works even for those who don't understand German. The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug....

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Träumerei

1944 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany

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The Tunnel

1915 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany

Direction William Wauer

Cast Friedrich Kayßler · Hermann Vallentin · Felix Basch · Hans Halden

Synopsis Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.

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Direction Arzén von Cserépy

Cast Otto Gebühr · Albert Steinrück · Gertrud de Lalsky · Erna Morena

Synopsis Part 1 of a four part series of biographical films about king Friedrich II of Prussia focuses on his early life, his love of music and his father's displeasure with it.

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Direction Arzén von Cserépy

Cast Otto Gebühr · Lothar Müthel · Eduard von Winterstein · Wolfgang von Schwindt

Synopsis Part 4 of a four part series of biographical films about the Friedrich II of Prussia shows the king as the man who leads the Prussian army to the ultimate victory in the seven-years-war.

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Zwei Menschen

1930 · Movie · 108 min. · Germany

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Peer Gynt

1934 · Movie · 119 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Wendhausen

Cast Hans Albers · Lucie Höflich · Marieluise Claudius · Ellen Frank

Synopsis Peer Gynt is the son of the once highly-regarded Jon Gynt. Jon Gynt spent all his father's money on feasting and living lavishly, until there was nothing left; thus, Jon had to go from his farm as a wandering salesman,...

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Frisians in Peril

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany

Direction Peter Hagen

Cast Friedrich Kayßler · Helene Fehdmer · Valery Inkijinoff · Jessie Vihrog

Synopsis The peaceful life of a village of Frisions by the river Volga is troubled by the arrival of a troop of Red Guards led by the inhuman commissary Tschernoff. Not only content to mistreat the brave villagers led by no-nonsense...

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The Old and the Young King

1935 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Hans Steinhoff

Cast Emil Jannings · Leopoldine Konstantin · Werner Hinz · Claus Clausen

Synopsis The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

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A Woman of No Importance

1936 · Movie · 81 min. · Germany

Direction Hans Steinhoff

Cast Gustaf Gründgens · Käthe Dorsch · Friedrich Kayßler · Hans Leibelt

Synopsis Oscar Wilde adaptation ,a satire of British society, in which the father of a bastard son returns after two decades in India and challenges the son who doesn't know him to a duel over a woman they both want.

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Covered Tracks

1938 · Movie · 81 min. · Germany

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Kristina Söderbaum · Philip Dorn · Charlotte Schultz · Friedrich Kayßler

Synopsis Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning...

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