Alfred Gerasch
Acting
Biography
Alfred Gerasch was a German stage and screen actor.
Born: August 17, 1877
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
The World Turns Backward
Franz Xaver Silvester Pomeisl travels thru the decades looking for the good old times.
The Congress Dances
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
Schatten der Weltstadt
The Charm of La Bohème
René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their main worry being to avoid the housekeeper. Whenever they get some money they call more friends in and celebrate. This is how he meets beautiful but fragile Denise, who wants to be a singer as himself, and they fall in love. Yet when she finds out her real condition she takes a drastic decision which will determine their fates. La Bohème arias, and more.
1914: The Last Days Before the War
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Ariane
Ariane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner's charming wife, Elizabeth Bergner, likewise making her talkie debut. Young, naive Ariane sets herself for an emotional fall when she falls in love with Konstantin (Rudolf Forster), a much older and very married businessman. For his part, Konstantin regards the girl as just another harmless fling -- until he realizes a shade too late that he's really in love with her after all. Filmed in German, Ariane was simultaneously lensed in an English-language version, The Loves of Ariane.
So Ended a Great Love
The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
Fridericus
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
Der Meineidbauer
Adrian Vanderstraaten
Filmography
as Field Marshal General Daun
as Francois Vernier
as Französischer Gesandter
as The Doctor
as Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
as Karl-Magnus de Lorche
as Franz, deren Sohn
as Georg de Gobert
as Knight Rochus
as Adrian Vanderstraaten