Werner Krauß Movies

In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special...

Prince Karl Heinz enjoys his carefree life as a student in Heidelberg. He falls in love with the beautiful Käthe and everything is fine and...

Directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj.

Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live...

Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist who is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and...

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II....

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of...

A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries...

After her brother is sent to Siberia, Sonja heads to Moscow to participate in a revolution.

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions...

Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the...

Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has...