Xenia Desni
Acting
Biography
Xenia Desni was an Ukrainian stage and screen actress. During the Russian Revolution her family fled first to Constantinople and later to Weimar/Germany. She started out as a vaudeville artist.
Born: January 19, 1897
Place of Birth: Oster, Russian Empire
Known For
The Tower of Silence
Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...
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.
Woman of Destiny
Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.
Die Andere
Die 3 Niemandskinder
Die Boxerbraut
Radio Magic
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Leap Into Life
A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.
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Filmography
as Marise Laborde
as Stasia Schopfinger
as Gerda Reiner
as Poldi
as Helen von Vliet
as Franzi Steingruber
as Eva
as Georgette
as Idea
as Lady Teodora
as Princess Suvarin
as Vera