Lydia Potechina
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 5, 1883
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known For
Eva and the Grasshopper
Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
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.
Looping the Loop
Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.
I by Day, You by Night
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.
The Chaste Susanne
Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
The Waltz Dream
Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.
Manon Lescaut
A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Filmography
as Falsche Großfürstin
as Frau Liesegang
as Brunhilde
as Miss Betta
as Frau Lydia Abendroth
as Blanches Verwandte
as Rosalinde
as Angelica Dorna
as Frau Simonitsch
as Witwe Maaß
as Mathilde Buxbaum
as Camilla Pappenheim
as Driennes Gesellschafterin
as Frau Taube
as Mrs. Gyurkovics
as Baronin Aubrais
as Rosa del Prado
as Frau Gold
as Mrs. Mierig
as Steffi, Bassistin
as Susanne
as Frau des Zirkusdirektors
as Emils Wife
as The Russian
as Alte Gutsbesitzerin
as Landlady