"Comedians" - Axel Swinborne is a celebrated stage star. Although much in demand, he now wants to recover and travel by train on vacation. He leans out of the window at full speed, as happens a momentous mishap: his jacket gets tangled on the window lever so unhappy that it ejects the suction force out of the window.

The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.

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

Deviating from the historical facts, Lola is introduced as a young Spanish “Gypsy” who becomes involuntarily embroiled in an attempt to poison the Infante of Spain (a short but splendid cameo by Heinrich George). As a result, she has to flee the country, arriving first in Italy, where she is taught how to act like a lady. Later, in Paris, she is invited to dance at the city’s prestigious opera house, becoming a worldwide sensation. She then becomes secretly involved in a revolutionary plot by Louis Napoléon, the future emperor of France. When the plot fails, Lola is once again forced to flee, this time to Munich, where she captures the attention of Ludwig I. Their ensuing affair arouses a great deal of hatred among the people and the establishment, however. In the end, Lola has no choice but to leave again, and vanishes into the night mist.

Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live, or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.

1932 film by Carl Boese

A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.

1929 film

deutscher Spielfilm

Als naiver aber stets korrekter Buchhalter plagt Pipin die Eifersucht. Seine Frau hat offenbar ein Verhältnis mit einem Sänger, der zur Untermiete bei ihnen wohnt. So bleibt es nicht aus, dass er in seiner Nervosität einem Geldboten 300 Mark zuviel auszahlt. Als er den Fehler bemerkt, ist es zu spät. Pipin fürchtet um seinen gutbürgerlichen Ruf und seinen Arbeitsplatz und setzt alle Hebel in Bewegung, um das Geld zurückzubekommen. Unbeholfen und planlos, wie er dabei vorgeht, steht er schon bald im Mittelpunkt eines inszenierten öffentlichen Skandals um eine prominente Sängerin und hat nun alle Hände voll zu tun auch noch seine von seiner Unschuld überzeugen zu müssen. Denn die erfährt von der vermeidlichen Affäre ihres Mannes aus der Zeitung...

deutscher Spielfilm

deutscher Vergangenheit

1924 film