Fritz Alberti
Acting
Biography
Fritz Alberti was a German actor. He studied construction at the Technical University of Berlin, worked in the construction industry and was a government construction manager from 1904 to 1907. In 1906 he decided to become an actor and appeared in Kassel and at the National Theater in Mannheim. In 1922 he came to Berlin. Soon after, Alberti also received film roles and became a frequently used supporting actor. In 1928 alone he appeared in ten different films. He also continued to be on stage, for example at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm. He joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1933 (membership number 1,667,025), became chief treasurer of the NSBO film specialist group and head of film records. In this role, he arranged smaller roles, occasionally reprimanded artists who did not conform sufficiently, and checked requests for financial support from the Goebbels Foundation " Künstlerdank ". After the end of the war, Alberti did not return to the stage, but instead worked as a voice actor and acting teacher.
Known For
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Metropolis
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
When actress Mary Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague's murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
Mary
A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous crew.
The Ship of Lost Men
Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he enter the priesthood, but he is reluctant to break up his blissful romance with the fair Judith. A religious fanatic of the first order, the mother swears before God and her Church that Rochus will indeed take his vows. When this does not come about, she dies of grief, whereupon the guilt-stricken Rochus abandons Judith to become a priest. The girl subsequently commits suicide -- and it is Rochus who must officiate over her body during the funeral. This final scene was excised from the print of Zwei Menschen released in New York, leaving audiences hanging in regard to Judith's ultimate fate.
Two Souls
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Verirrte Jugend
A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl whom he believes bears a resemblance to the painting, and who wants him to become famous, he comes up with the idea of stealing the painting. Based on the real-life theft of 1911.
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
1914: The Last Days Before the War
Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Murad as a go-between in his plans to conquer the Caucasus mountaineers, the Russian ruler finds that the hero is not so easily manipulated. Rescuing the beautiful Saira from the Czar's clutches, Hajji Murad leads the mountain people's revolt against the despotic regent." Needless to say, the film ends in tragedy.
The White Devil
A handsome barber in Sweden doesn't know he's actually the Crown Prince of a Balkan kingdom in this charming Swedish-German comedy that effortlessly weaves together multiple Ruritanian tropes.
His Majesty the Barber
A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
The story of Brennende Grenze (= Burning Border) starts after the end of WWI. Polish franctireurs invade the German bordering regions which are to be given to Poland as agreed on in the post-war peace treaties. Luise von Willkühnen's manor is invaded by Ladislaus von Zeremski, his lover Nadja and their gang. They treaten the inhabitants until Luise's son kills Zeremski.
Brennende Grenze
Due to an intrigue spun by his grandmother and two cousins, the engagement between the officer Hans and his fiancée Traute breaks up. His fiancée is said to have been unfaithful during his 4-week absence on official business. The fabricated rumors allege an affair between Traute and Oberleutnant Grobitzsch.
Love's Carnival
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
The Student of Prague
A cabaret dancer loves a German engineer and helps save his vital drawings of ship designs from falling into the hands of foreign plotters.
Salon Dora Green
a silent war movie by Heinz Paul
U 9 Weddigen
The daughter of a wealthy industrialist falls for a pickpocket.
Cafe Electric
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