Harry Liedtke

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen... (imdb)

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution. (imdb)

The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation. (imdb)

Women and their virtue, in the Orient. Yannaia, a young dancer who is happy to have men desire her, comes to the attention of an old but powerful sheikh; his son also wants her. The leader of the minstrel troupe, a hunchback, loves Yannaia and opposes her sale to the sheikh... (imdb)

Oyster-king Quaker cannot be impressed anymore. He is so rich that he even has a special butler holding his cigar while he is smoking. The only thing Quaker would be impressed by is if his daughter Ossi were to marry a real prince. He makes an offer to the poor prince Nucki, who sends his friend Josef to get a clear idea of the woman. (imdb)

A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position. (imdb)

The king of the Ethiopians hoping to make peace with Egypt, offers his daughter Theonis to become the wife of King Amenes. But Theonis falls in love with Ramphis, the handsome son of the king's advisor Sothis.

At the christening of a long-wished-for princess, fairies invited as godmothers offered gifts, such as beauty, wit, and musical talent. However, a wicked fairy who had been overlooked placed the princess under an enchantment as her gift, saying that, on reaching adulthood, she would prick her finger on a spindle and die. A good fairy, though unable to completely reverse the spell, said that the princess would instead sleep for a hundred years, until awakened by the kiss of a prince and true love (wikipedia)

In this silent film, an Egyptian priest terrorizes the Englishman who eloped with his priestess. (TCM.com)

Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell her. When she hears from her husband he is a waiter, she thinks Lerksi lies and throws him out. (imdb)

Lea, Damen Pola Negri, is a Jewish girl who wants to go to St. Petersburg to help her ailing foster father. She's learning to be a wise and independent girl (those kind of characters that Damen Negri was so fond of during her career) but she is warned by her teacher that because she is Jewish she will not be given the usual work/travel permits, if she wants to travel she will have to be given a special paper, a yellow ticket. These permits are usually given to a certain kind of woman.... (imdb)

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck. (imdb)

Deutschland is under the power of Rome; the heartless Empire, ever in need of new conquests, is merciless and its legions pillage and sack throughout the land with deep Gallic hatred. Hermann, son of the Cherusci prince Segimer, is a hostage at the service of Rome and has been given the name of "Armin." Ultimately, he will lead an army of his countrymen and drive out the Roman tyrants. (imdb)

Shortly melodrama about a young woman who is executed because she shot at an army patrol. Her fiance turns out to be the leader of this army unit, but he can not save her.

A melodrama about a circus dancer, a femme fatale, and three men.

Friends Franz and Bela work in a deli belonging to Mr. Wallis. Franz is the manager and Bela a salesclerk. Both get to know the lovely Lilo. But while Bela is rebuffed, the charming womanizer Franz is more successful. After a boisterous celebration in the deli, Mr. Wallis tells Franz to get lost and hires Lilo as a new salesperson. Franz and Bela take a job at Mr. Markow's deli across the street and a serious competition begins between the two delis for survival.

The manufacturer Florian Pieper, who comes from vinegar and cucumber, invented the insect powder Pieperlin. He believes that he can use it to conquer the German market and therefore goes to the metropolis of Berlin. But the naive country egg is here on a pavement that it cannot cope with: everything is bigger, everything is faster and brighter, and dangers lurk everywhere for a straw widower, a single "sinful" temptation.

A public prosecutor's fiancée, who has just been hired as a teacher, lives in the front of a building, while a working-class family lives in the back of the building. The woman from a poor working class background wants to abort her fifth child, but the doctor refuses because it is illegal. The porter's wife advises the worker to do it herself.

The film has been described as a hymn to Austria.

Christa, the forester's daughter, falls in love with the emperor. But that love will be clouded by reasons of state.