Werner Krauss Movies

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special...

Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live...

The film tells the story of Ivan Mazeppa, a Ukrainian page at the Polish court who has an affair with the young wife of a much older count. Outraged...

When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count...

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

Xanten am Rhein, 1870/1871. Roffer Rottwinkel has two sons. His favorite is Mathias, whom he prefers to Lonius, a quiet and introspective man. ...

Twenty years ago, the Count of Groningen left his ancestral castle. Since then, it is said to be haunted. Shortly before his escape from the dark...

Harlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his sanity will leave him completely. He hires a young nurse,...

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...

A woman with a troubled past connects with two refugees while working at a homeless camp after World War II.

The everyday lives of a poverty-stricken railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape. One day, they...

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.

In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will...

An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique...