Maria Forescu
Acting
Biography
Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. Killed in the Holocaust.
Born: January 15, 1875
Place of Birth: Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
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.
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms. This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is.
A Crazy Night
Faded Dreams
A wealthy skirt-chasing drunkard marries a simple country gal, yet he doesn't take time off from his regular 'affairs'.
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
Husbands or Lovers
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
In the Slums of Berlin
It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.
Susie Cleans Up
Susanne Braun is keen to meet her father who she has never seen, but who supports her financially. She visits the Berlin lawyer who oversees the monthly maintenance payments, but he sets her on completely the wrong track. Consequently she encounters several potential fathers.
Wer wird denn weinen, wenn man auseinandergeht?
The Vice of Humanity
Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the daughter, but Tamara intervenes before dying amongst family members.
Filmography
as Strafende Mutter
as Miss Laron
as Madalina's mother
as Maid
as Madame Lourdier
as Zimmermädchen
as 2. Wärterin
as Li
as Frau Lindemann
as Frau Flickschneider
as Arjuna