Ferdinand von Alten
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 12, 1885
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Known For
The Pride of Company Three
The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.
Moral
When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsburg, the local Morality Society, a band of sanctimonious middle-aged men, stages a protest. Meanwhile, the reigning monarch is concerned that his son and heir is not living his life to the full. Ninon d’Hauteville, a showgirl and the revue’s star attraction, takes a job as piano teacher to the young prince after her engagement at the local theatre was brought to a premature end, a result of the Morality Society’s interference. It doesn’t take long for those hypocrites to get wind of this. While on the outside they appear to be concerned with running the immoral woman out of their town, behind closed doors they rank among the new piano teacher’s most ardent pupils. However, Ninon, out to right the wrong done against her, secretly keeps a “diary” of their visits, recording each encounter on film with a hidden camera.
Countess Mariza
When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her authoritarian ways collide with Török, her manager. Based on Emerich Kálmán operetta.
Othello
Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.
Anna Boleyn
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
The Student of Prague
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
Warning Shadows
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?
Luther
German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
Die Flamme
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
Danton
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.
Filmography
as Prinz Wenzel von Marana
as Bomberger Verwandschaft
as Kienast, Chef eines Modesalons
as Martini, Lakai
as Wallner
as Viviana
as Muphy
as Lindborg
as The Man
as Court Marshal
as Baron Sterny
as Miltitz
as Kammerherr von Schmettau
as Zar Alexander
as Arthur Canisius
as Vaughan
as Herzog von Orleans
as Freiherr von Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Verlobter
as Bankier George Neumann
as 3. Kavalier
as Prince of Aragon
as Rodrigo
as Hérault-Séchelles
as Joe Deebs
as Mark Smeaton
as Napoleon Bonaparte