Ferdinand von Alten Movies

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

A lost film.

When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman...

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...

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.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries...

A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.

Madame Récamier hosts fashionable and influential salons. Her beauty and intelligence attract many suitors, and her politics put her in...

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a...

A banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he...

In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the...

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...

Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to...

The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment...