Robert Wiene was a film director of the German silent cinema. He is particularly known for directing the German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films. Wiene also directed a variety of other films of varying styles and genres. Following the Nazi rise to power in Germany, Wiene fled into exile.
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18 January 1918
Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
27 July 1934
A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with a cabaret singer at a Parisian nightclub.
24 May 1918
Two rich men decide that their son and daughter will marry when they're grown. Now, as adults, the fathers decide the two should meet.
22 October 1920
In Calcutta, McAllan meets the beautiful Indian woman Malatti, with whom he immediately falls in love.
27 February 1931
After winning a cash prize in a contest a young woman decides to visit Venice. She hires a secretary, a wealthy young man in disguise, to accompany her on the holiday.
25 July 1919
A young academic decides to accept guardianship of the daughter of a late friend. Expecting her to be a young child, the household is shocked to find out she is in fact a young woman.
04 May 1931
Musical about a girl typist who leaves Berlin for Venice after winning a contest. A rich bachelor pretending to be poor takes a job with her and competes for her affections with a count and a tenor.
30 January 1920
A three-part historical film: the first episode takes place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on the Hugo novel La Fin de Satan, and the third takes place during the 1917 Russian revolution.
15 March 1918
Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.
18 November 1920
The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
27 February 1920
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through.
22 June 1931
Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police.
29 October 2016
A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.
10 February 1927
In Vienna, Anna von Ziska is the beautiful daughter of an upper-class family that has lost its wealth.
19 May 1921
A method actress likes living out the roles she is playing in real life. To prepare for her new play, she enters the criminal underworld and ends up being implicated in a burglary of a Duke who is one of her suitors.
11 August 1930
A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul Lindau.
24 September 1924
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
22 October 1920
The American engineer McAllan is appointed site manager for a major project in Asia. He is to oversee the branch line of the railway line from Calcutta to Beijing.
27 October 1938
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
18 November 1917
A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.
09 December 1925
The story: While her husband is becoming famous in the war, the marshal of Werdenberg's wife consoles herself in the arms of the youngster Octavian and tries to arrange the love affairs of her cousin, the baron Ochs, by presenting him to young Sophie.
01 February 1934
A German-language film loosely based on the 1883 operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) by Johann Strauss II.
02 September 1920
Since completing a portrait of Genuine, a high priestess, Percy becomes irritable and withdrawn. He loses interest in painting and refuses to see his friends, preferring to spend his time alone with the portrait in his study.
10 January 1913
The young girl May is taken by her father to a girls' boarding school. However, May is quite a wild girl: she makes music in the dormitory at night, dances, and so on.
26 June 1924
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.
01 February 1916
An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.
01 January 1919
A prosecutor, keen on punishing those he deems undesirable, convicts a woman of murder. It is only after the conviction that he learns of the circumstances that lead to the crime.
12 January 1934
A Hungarian-language film loosely based on the 1883 operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) by Johann Strauss II.
