Esther Carena
Acting
Biography
The daughter of a German father and Spanish mother, she studied medicine for one semester and trained in an Italian acrobat troupe. Until 1916 she lived mostly in Italy and performed there in stage sketches. In 1916 she came to Germany and was discovered by Swedish film actor and director Nils Olaf Chrisander. She was presented as a heroine in thrillers, dramas, and melodramas that were staged by Harry Piel at the end of the First World War. She designed many of her own costumes. In 1924 she married the set designer Franz Schroedter and retired from films.
Known For
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Der Frauenkönig
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Die von der Liebe leben
Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.
Ikarus, the Flying Man
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Die Peitsche
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Zur Strecke gebracht
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Das neue Paradies
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Die Diktatur der Liebe. 2. Die Welt ohne Liebe
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Die Geisterjagd
A tale of cheating in both love and business.
Die Diktatur der Liebe. 1. Die böse Lust
The doctor Ada Haller pursues a successful career as a scientist, in which she comes more and more into conflict with her marriage and the role expected by society as a woman. An extremely progressive and conventional film at the same time, which takes up modern themes and shows parallels to the life of the leading actress: Esther Carena, real name Franziska Lucia Pfeiffer, studied medicine for a semester before she came to film through acrobatics and pantomime; after their marriage in 1924, she withdrew from an extremely successful silent film career into private life.
Women Who Shouldn't Get Married
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Wenn Colombine winkt
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Die Geschichte eines Spitzentuches
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Ich klage an
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Das Gift der Odawara
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Der stumme Zeuge
German vampire movie from 1920.
The Vampire
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Sein Todfeind
German silent film
Der Schrei des Gewissens
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Der Sünde Sold
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