Emilie Kurz
Acting
Biography
Emilie Kurz was born on July 17, 1874. She was an actress, known for The Last Laugh (1924), The Burning Soil (1922) and Die Tochter des Mehemed (1919). She died in 1934.
Born: July 17, 1874
Place of Birth: Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]
Known For
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.
The Last Laugh
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Manon Lescaut
A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Rübezahl's Wedding
In this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festival: ideally, a place where they can eventually erect dwellings and cultivate crops. Led by the local nobleman (Arthur Ehrens), they find an appropriate spot, and the festivities begin. Some children briefly perform a charming folk dance. Suddenly the Rübezahl arrives and threatens to kill all the townsfolk if they don't leave immediately.
Kill No More!
The director and co-writer Lupu Pick plays musician Erik Paulsson, who loses his beloved son after a peaceful yet critical poetry reading is raided by the tsarist forces. Paulsson, beside himself with grief, kills the officer responsible and is sentenced to life, which will mean 18 years in prison before he is free again. While he is inside, by a strange quirk of fate, his daughter Karin falls in love with writer Sebald Brückner, the son of the state prosecutor, who indicted Paulsson and is a staunch advocate of the death penalty. The conflict between the fathers does not impair the relationship of the young couple. However, when Sebald’s long-desired success on the stage is threatened by a vengeful theatre director who had sexually harassed Karin, he is enraged and kills the other man in a fight. The prosecutor now must face the blow of losing his own son to the death penalty.
Filmography
as Tante des Bräutigams (archive footage)
as Manons Tante
as Bridegroom's Aunt
as Anna Striebe
as Gouvernante