Hermann Picha
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 20, 1865
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
People Among Us
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
Destiny
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
Tartuffe
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
The Weavers
Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
Lola Montez, the King’s Dancer
Deviating from the historical facts, Lola is introduced as a young Spanish “Gypsy” who becomes involuntarily embroiled in an attempt to poison the Infante of Spain (a short but splendid cameo by Heinrich George). As a result, she has to flee the country, arriving first in Italy, where she is taught how to act like a lady. Later, in Paris, she is invited to dance at the city’s prestigious opera house, becoming a worldwide sensation. She then becomes secretly involved in a revolutionary plot by Louis Napoléon, the future emperor of France. When the plot fails, Lola is once again forced to flee, this time to Munich, where she captures the attention of Ludwig I. Their ensuing affair arouses a great deal of hatred among the people and the establishment, however. In the end, Lola has no choice but to leave again, and vanishes into the night mist.
Cab No. 13
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
Pipin, der Kurze
Circus Life
Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the trapeze act angle, combining it with romance and jealousy for a darker plot, it has a lot of the right the ingredients. Does have moments where it spends too long of circus footage, which ruins some of the pacing, but otherwise a fine circus flick.
A Crazy Night
Hilde Warren and Death
Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live, or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.
Filmography
as Der Garderobier
as Rippe
as Herr Fiedler
as Portier
as Gesangslehrer Schubert
as Kasimir Makeldey
as Hausdiener
as Eduardo
as Enterich
as Wirt
as Gustav Müller
as Inspizient
as Peter Fistelhahn
as Prof. Voronoffsky
as Kunibert Wespe
as Hieronymus Abendroth
as Piano Player
as Sultan’s fool
as Ein Spitzel
as Sunny
as Franz Kiekebusch
as Kampl
as Buchhändler
as Beppo
as Enterich
as Schuster
as Schopfinger
as Sekretär Kraatz
as Musiker
as Meiseken
as Caféhauswirt
as Bürgermeister
as Baumert
as Kauzke - Pianist
as Johannes Rabe
as Landstreicher
as Minister
as Heinrich Taube
as Frau Meier, Hebamme
as Lehrer von Maxhausen
as Bräblich
as Ein alter Bauer
as Bürovorsteher
as Siegfried Spitz
as Hinzelmann
as Monsieur Coco
as Der Greis
as Betrunkener
as Herr Storchschnabel
as Portier
as Piefke
as Photograph
as Maler
as Direktors Garderobier
as Der Notar des Herzogs
as Signierer Pix
as Ortsvorsteher
as Glanden
as Baron Alleardi
as Sekretär bei Falke
as Gospodar von Valona
as Jess
as Det. Ohlsen
as Professor Leyden, an Orientalist
as Taylor
as Schreiber
as Jonathan Fletcher
as Alte hexe
as The Minister