Heinrich George

Heinrich George
Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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Metropolis
It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). (imdb)
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Kolberg
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments. (imdb)
Jud Süß
In this notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama, a conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman, Suess Oppenheimer, snares a post as treasurer to the Duke of Wurttemburg by showering the corrupt duke with treasure and promises of even greater riches... (imdb)
Berlin - Alexanderplatz
Yearning for respectability, George finds he cannot escape the influence of his old criminal cohorts. When George refuses to pay "hush money" to the mob, his faithful wife Margarete Schlegel is killed. George resignedly returns to a life of crime, ultimately descending into madness. (answers.com)
Erdgeist
Fascinating Lulu (Asta Nielsen) loves men, but mainly Dr. Schön. But he gives her in marriage to a painter. Lulu flirts with the son of Dr. Schön, who wants a decent marriage. He tries to force her to commit suicide. But she points the weapon against the one she loves. (film.at)
Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend
A Nazi propaganda film based upon the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert Norkus, killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood. (imdb)
Sprengbagger 1010
The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and decides to use the excavator there.
She
Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler
George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo he meets the voluptuous as always Cleo (Bigitte Helm) where they have a whirl wind romance which becomes short lived after she flees from him. (youtube.com)
Lucrezia Borgia
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. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors. (imdb)
Heimat
1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at church. The lady is welcomed by an enthusiastic welcome committee comprising the Prince of Imlingen himself. (imdb)
Das Mädchen Johanna
France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage.
Pillars of Society
Heinrich George plays a powerful shipping magnate who has kept secret the fact that he fathered an illegitimate daughter many years ago. His past begins to catch up to him when his brother-in-law, a circus member, returns to town from the US. (mubi.com)
Schleppzug M 17
German drama from 1933 directed by Heinrich George & Werner Hochbaum.
Der Postmeister
When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her. (imdb)
Wir schalten um auf Hollywood
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery. (imdb)
Der Biberpelz
In a district of a small, German principality, things are going haywire. And this, even though Baron von Wehrhahn, who is loyal to the prince, does everything possible to make "his Highness" popular. The only problem is, he's always using his zeal on the wrong crowd. He always seems to see free-thinkers or revolutionaries in the harmless of citizens; but the really bad ones get to go on their way unmolested!
Der Mann, der den Mord beging
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
Das Meer ruft
In order to feed his wife and child, a sailor attempts to bypass a naval blockade but is caught. After imprisonment for a number of years, he returns home to find his family dead, and years later finds a chance at vengeance against the captain who arrested him.
Versprich mir nichts!
Maler Pratt, an artist, refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika thinks differently and sells them because she thinks they are good...and they need the money. As he only signs an "M" on his work, Monika has no difficulty in claiming she is "M", but problems arrive when she is commissioned to do a large mural and Maler refuses to help her out.
Der Andere
Psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme. (imdb)
Unternehmen Michael
During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
Überflüssige Menschen
Superfluous People is a 1926 German silent film made by Prometheus-Film which was affiliated to the German Communist Party and the Moscow-based Mezhrabpomfilm. Russia, at the time of Tsarist rule. At the center of the plot are several lower middle class people with their worries and needs in a shtetl in the deepest province that is disconnected from major world events: they are down-to-earth craftsmen and service providers like the carpenter Bronsa.
Der Sträfling aus Stambul
The Levantine Thomas Zezi had to go to prison for a year and a half for smuggling. Now he is released back into the wild and returns to his home. But there he discovers that his old friend Manopulos has taken up residence in his apartment. To make matters worse, during Zezi's stay in prison he also became the lover of Zezi's girlfriend Jola, who has since run away. The returnee, beside himself with anger, unceremoniously throws the greasy Manopulos out of his four walls.
Dreyfus
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.
Das unsterbliche Herz
Biography of Paul Henlein, the man who invented the pocket watch.
Schmutziges Geld
After committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front of two intrusive sailors. She loves him for it, and together Song and Jack appear in the tingle dungeon of the port, he as a knife artist, she as a dancer.