Direction: Urban Gad
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Urban Gad. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Afgrunden
1910 · Movie · 40 min. · Denmark
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Robert Dinesen · Poul Reumert · Hans Neergard
Plot Magda meets her fiancé and he invites her to visit him and his parents. While visiting them, a circus comes to town and Magda asks her fiancé to take her...
6.2
223 votes
6.2
223 votes
The Black Dream
1911 · Movie · 53 min. · Denmark
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Valdemar Psilander · Gunnar Helsengreen · Emil Albes
Plot The young circus performer Stella is adored by two men: An earl and a jeweler. She fancies the earl the most, but at some point the jeweler made advances to...
5.8
25 votes
5.8
25 votes
The Treacherous Woman
1911 · Movie · 40 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Emil Albes · Max Obal · Robert Valberg
5.5
38 votes
5.5
38 votes
Det berygtede Hus
1912 · Movie · 32 min. · Denmark
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Augusta Blad · Richard Christensen · Frederik Jacobsen · Lilly Lamprecht
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The Dance to Death
1912 · Movie · 34 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Oskar Fuchs · Fritz Weidermann · Fred Immler
Plot Bella is married to engineer Burk who meets with an accident. To provide an income she starts as a performer, but happen to meet an infatuated, intriguing composer. On the...
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Cinderella
1916 · Movie · 49 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Max Landa
Plot Growing up with mean foster parents, Lotte is employed as a kitchen maid with the von Harten family. After a dramatic interlude including accusation of theft, Mrs. von Harten reveals...
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The Film Primadonna (S)
1913 · Movie · 17 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Paul Otto · Fritz Weidermann · Fred Immler
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Christian Wahnschaffe, Part 2: The Escape from the Golden Prison
1921 · Movie · 75 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Conrad Veidt · Rose Müller · Werner Krauss · Esther Hagan
Plot Wealthy heir Christian Wahnschaffe decides to give up his fortune and dedicate his life to the poor.
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Engelein
1914 · Movie · 49 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Alfred Kuehne · Max Landa · Fred Immler
Plot Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle...
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The Aviator's Generosity
1911 · Movie · 34 min. · Denmark
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Poul Reumert · Christel Holch · Einar Zangenberg · William Bewer
Plot The pilot Vidart and his good friend Aubert are competing against each other in an aviation contest. When Vidart gets in the claws of a loan shark, winning the prize...
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Poor Jenny
1912 · Movie · 34 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Leo Peukert · Emil Albes · Hans Staufen
Plot Jenny is a cleaner. Seduced by a local boy, Edouard, her parents reject her. She finds a job as a vaudeville dancer, but winds up in the gutter and decides...
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When Passion Blinds Honesty
1911 · Movie · 43 min. · Denmark
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Johannes Poulsen · Frederik Jacobsen · Elna From · Emilie Sannom
Plot The poor shipwright's daughter Hulda i dating the equally poor clerk Aage. One day she meets theatre manager Winckler who makes her a famous varieté star. Despite her many new...
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S1
1913 · Movie · 54 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Charly Berger · Siegwart Gruder · Paul Meffert · Asta Nielsen
Plot The general's daughter spies on her fiancé to achieve information.
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Die Insel der Verschollenen
1921 · Movie · 78 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Fritz Beckmann · Hans Behrendt · Loo Bell · Alf Blutecher
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Der fremde Vogel
1911 · Movie · 45 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Hans Mierendorff · Eugenie Werner · Louis Ralph
Plot Vacationing in Germany, May falls for boatman Max. Her father disapproves and during a night of romance between the young couple Max drowns.
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The Wheel of Fortune
1926 · Movie · 134 min. · Denmark
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Carl Schenstrøm · Harald Madsen · Lili Lani · Peter Nielsen
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Zapata's Gang
1914 · Movie · 42 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Fred Immler · Senta Eichstaedt · Adele Reuter-Eichberg
Plot Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the...
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A Romany Spy (The Girl Without a Fatherland)
1912 · Movie · 32 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Asta Nielsen · Paul Meffert · Max Wogritsch · Hanns Kräly
Plot Gypsy girl Zidra falls in love with the lieutenant she is supposed to spy on. When the sordidness of her mission dawns on her, she kills herself in order to...
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Die Gespensterstunde
1917 · Movie · 56 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Carl Zickner · Viktor Senger · Hans Adalbert Schlettow · Olga Engl
Plot German semi-horror by Urban Gad about a inheritance and the games the greedy play to get it. Including hiding their deformed son away like a dog. You know the monster...
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Christian Wahnschaffe, Part 1: World Afire
1920 · Movie · 77 min. · Germany
Direction Urban Gad
Cast Conrad Veidt · Lillebil Ibsen · Hermann Vallentin · Hugo Flink
Plot The son of an industrialist joins the Nihilist movement planning a revolution in Russia in 1905.
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