Richard Eichberg
1888 - 1952Der Fluch der Menschheit - 2
Richard Eichberg
Lee Parry, Violetta Napierska
French aristocrat falls for Russian nightclub singer, gets involved in underground Russian revolutionary movement. Part 1 and 2 were re-edited in the surviving copy named Daughter of the night.
Daughter of the Night 2
Der Film im Film
Friedrich Porges
Ernst Deutsch, E.A. Dupont
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.A. Dupont.
The Film in the Film
Es geht um mein Leben
Richard Eichberg
Karl Ludwig Diehl, Kitty Jantzen
The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie star Christa (Kitty Jantzen), allegedly had an affair with singer Juan Navarro (Harry Hardt), who was found dead in front of Dr. Lessners house. Christa is arrested ...
My Life Is at Stake
Großstadtschmetterling
Richard Eichberg
Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
Pavement Butterfly
Der Kurier des Zaren
Richard Eichberg
Adolf Wohlbrück, Maria Andergast
A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.
The Czar's Courier
Die Bräutigamswitwe
Richard Eichberg
Mártha Eggerth, Georg Alexander
The night before his wedding George gets drunk and marries a chorus girl. Her boyfriend appears, they fight and are believed dead, so she is now "the bridegroom's widow" (die Bräutigamswitwe). When they both come back one after another they must hide from the Police as they believe they have murdered each other, while the inspector believes there are ghosts in the house.
The bridegroom's widow
Schmutziges Geld
Richard Eichberg
Anna May Wong, Heinrich George
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.
Song
Die keusche Susanne
Richard Eichberg
Ruth Weyher, Willy Fritsch
Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.
The Chaste Susanne
