Max Wogritsch
Acting
Biography
Wogritsch had received musical training and played as a cellist before he began his first acting engagement at the Zurich City Theater in 1906 . He stayed there for the next five years and in 1911 moved to the Stadttheater Düsseldorf . Max Wogritsch appeared there until the end of the First World War and, since August 11, 1911, also appeared in films of Düsseldorf and Berlin provenance, including two early Asta Nielsen successes. Based in Berlin since 1919, Wogritsch concentrated on his work for the cinema. From the early 1920s he worked primarily as a unit manager, occasionally also as a production manager. In the 1930s, Wogritsch earned his living as a scheduler and manager in the audio engineering department at Tobis .
Known For
A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life. Possibly an early example of genderqueer representation.
Lady Juan
One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up being darker than the fairy tale itself.
The Lost Shoe
George Manolescu (Ivan Mosjoukine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York. Along the way, during a train ride to Monte Carlo, he meets the voluptuous Cleo (Brigitte Helm). They have a whirlwind romance that ends suddenly after she flees from him.
Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family fortune and marriage seems an unlikely prospect. Impoverished Franz's love for effervescent and upright country girl Marika coincides with the tragic tale of lovelorn violinist Josef, all but ignored by royal beauty Camilla.
Hungarian Rhapsody
Gypsy girl Zidra falls in love with the lieutenant she is supposed to spy on.
A Romany Spy
Hanna is a lush and her artist friend abandons her only to reacquaint himself with when she is down and out. His motive is to paint her as a washed up women. When she realizes his intentions she ruins his painting and him.
Die Sünden der Väter
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Die von der Liebe leben
Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolteacher succeeds instead in having an opera of his acceptance in Vienna. But this isn't the happiness he wanted, he becomes a hobo.
The Immortal Vagabond
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Die rote Nacht
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Gräfin Maruschka
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Die Ehe der Hedda Olsen oder: Die brennende Akrobatin
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