
Hermann Picha
Acting
Known For

Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking care of him and spends her life savings into a cake shop to move further away from prostitution, but trouble comes when another woman enters the picture.
Tragedy of the Street

The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
Svengali

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
Destiny

Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
People Among Us

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
The Old and The Young King

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
Tartuffe

A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Manon Lescaut

The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed.
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin

The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric nobleman. He and his antics are rapturously received by the members of a bourgeois family desperate to mingle with the aristocracy. The daughter of the family takes a fancy to the baron (in reality, merely a “joke baron”), assuming him to be immensely wealthy.
The Imaginary Baron

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Petronella - Das Geheimnis der Berge

When Ilona visits her married friend Otti, she is just delighted to discover that the man she likes is not other than Otti's brother-in-law, Paul. As he is in need of a maid, she disguises herself as such to try to enamour him.
Paprika

August Pipin is a very reliable and loyal cashier who is always level-headed, no matter which trouble faces him. One day that suddenly changes and a fiasco breaks loose.
Pipin, der Kurze

A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
Flight Around the World

The story of Romeo and Juliet, a tale as old as time-- Here, played as farcical lark: A goofy comedy of manners set in a snowy Bavarian village.
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow

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Small Town Sinners

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Das Erwachen des Weibes

First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist.
The Beggar Student

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O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

Billionaire's daughter Ethel Vandergolt has rejected so many lovers that they set up a club to get revenge on her.