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Alexander Granach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s who immigrated to the United States in 1938.
Granach was born Jessaja Gronach in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Horodenka district, Austrian Galicia then, now Verbivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Granach entered films in 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was the vampire classic Nosferatu (1922), in which the actor was cast as Knock, the lunatic counterpart to Renfield, effectively a substitute name for Dracula. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as Kameradschaft (1931).
The Jewish Granach fled to the Soviet Union when Hitler came to power. When the Soviet Union also proved inhospitable, he settled in Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Granach proved indispensable to film makers during the war years, effectively portraying both dedicated Nazis (he was Julius Streicher in The Hitler Gang, 1944) and loyal anti-fascists. Perhaps his best role was as Gestapo Inspector Alois Gruber in Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die! (1943). His last film appearance was in MGM's The Seventh Cross (1944), in which almost the entire supporting cast was prominent European refugees.
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12 February 1929
Drama of plot and intrigue in Imperial Russia.
22 February 1923
When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death.
16 May 1930
A version of Nosferatu to which sound was added. Some scenes were left out and new ones were added including a different ending.
16 February 1922
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
29 April 1943
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
07 November 1942
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building.
03 March 1944
Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.
06 November 1928
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
07 March 1941
A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in love with the politician's daughter.
20 October 1922
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others.
18 September 1942
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
31 August 1939
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl.
16 August 1940
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war.
16 November 1939
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
21 January 1931
This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat.
27 February 1941
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
09 April 1929
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong.
12 July 1943
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains.
31 March 1923
Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
28 October 1942
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
26 April 1944
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.
24 July 1944
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross.
12 October 1944
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger.
01 April 1943
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process.
07 December 1928
The struggels of the German proletariat over the course of several centuries. Propaganda film by the Social Democratic Party.
16 October 1923
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife.
20 January 1942
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured.
17 November 1931
At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners.
02 April 1923
The dancer Navarro has lost her husband and son. With her daughter at her side, she returns to her homeland and comes under suspicion of spying when she gets into a relationship with a business friend of her deceased husband.
30 December 1943
Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad.
24 December 1923
From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
20 January 1931
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.
24 August 1931
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.
11 June 1923
A shoemaker and his wife become the parents of a little girl, but they cannot find anyone willing to be the godfather of the newborn.
02 October 2025
This special presentation of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) pairs the original silent film with Radiohead’s “KID A (2000) / Amnesiac (2001) as its score, courtesy of Silents Synced.
03 May 1921
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.
06 September 1927
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
08 July 1929
An adventure tale about three men tasked with defending a fort in the Syrian desert against advancing French troops.
29 July 1936
A Soviet agent tries to win over a band of gypsies to a happy life on a farm co-op.
31 December 1931
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
