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Richard Oswald was an Austrian director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed more than 100 feature films from 1914 to 1951. Among them the classics "Nachtgestalten" (1920), "Unheimliche Geschichten" (1919/1932), "Die Prostitution 1-2" (1919) and "Alraune" (1930).
Being Jewish, Oswald was forced to flee Nazi Germany, first for occupied France and later emigrating to the United States.
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29 August 1919
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
21 May 1936
Two twin brothers working in a Vienna fair and who are both gifted for singing meet different luck both in love and their careers.
22 December 1931
Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.
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.
08 November 1918
A young Jewish woman is pressured to marry a wealthy man even though she is in love with someone else.
09 July 1915
An innkeeper in sheer despair murders a passing by musician and steals his money in order to buy medicine for his dying wife.
27 October 1916
All is not well in the Mollheim home. The elder Mollheim decides to marry off his daughter with an unusually large dowry, in exchange for a rare Chinese idol.
27 August 1926
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.
01 January 1929
Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it.
03 April 1930
Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller.
01 January 1915
rich count, who is an avid collector of antiques, buys an antique box. However, he does not know that this artifact is under a terrible, centuries-old curse.
20 March 1919
Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
20 April 1938
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
05 September 1919
Engineer Walter Fahr has constructed a massive passenger submarine, the 'Gloria'. The vessel undertakes a test journey with various esteemed invitees aboard, together with several animals, and the blind passenger Professor Keigo Sotuma.
21 February 1927
Film by Richard Oswald.
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.
01 January 1928
An ill-fated love affair between a brothel waitress and a doctor's son.
02 March 1917
A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.
29 January 1931
An episode in the life of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert, who wrote the most beautiful love songs, but whose love life was very unhappy: The timid, myopic and rather portly Schubert falls for the beautiful, blond Countess Maria Esterhazy and has impossibly unrealistic fantasies about the two of them as she only admires him for his music.
01 May 1920
An abandoned baby is saved by a river god. Now aged 20, she yearns to see the world outside the water.
24 March 1918
A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.
22 August 1927
"Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with an easily seducable man whom she finds in Joachim Burthe.
12 December 1918
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor.
13 January 1918
A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.
07 March 1918
Woman doesn't let the man know whether he is the father of the child.
19 October 1921
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
02 March 1930
A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer.
06 September 1932
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
26 February 1916
This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer and judge E.
06 December 1914
Siles, a wealthy American, devotes all his time to research. When he tests a tincture on himself he discovers his physical appearance has transformed, and that he can transform back with the use of another tincture.
18 September 1942
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
15 August 1930
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage.
05 November 1919
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
10 November 1916
Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hires a detective to investigate.
26 October 1933
The already successful tenor Mattei is discovered after he already retired into private life. Der Wiener Staatsoper place a significant part in this musical comedy drama.
12 March 1915
Early drama about alcoholism.
12 June 1914
In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes.
01 January 1915
A family's newfound wealth causes problem after problem.
28 November 1940
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
15 September 1932
When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up.
05 May 1916
Georg Bertrand, a gambling addict and the son of a wealthy landowner, is kicked out of his family home.