Karl Platen Movies

If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same...

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London...

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.

In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its...

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch

A young student, Stephan, inherits shares in a coal mine from his father. The mine is no longer profitable, and Stephan needs money to finance his...

A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor. Lost film, minor fragments survive

Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family.

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.