Karl Platen
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1877-03-05
Place of Birth:Halle an der Saale, Germany
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Catherine the Great (1920)
The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.
Miss Liselott (1934)
Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.
Gilgi: One of Us (1932)
A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.
Destiny (1921)
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The...
Ein Ausgestoßener: 1. Teil (1913)
Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his...
Polish Blood (1934)
The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.
Warning Shadows (1923)
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...
Romance in a Minor Key (1943)
A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (1926)
The title alludes to the popular 1925 song I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg composed by Fred Raymond with lyrics by Fritz Löhner-Beda and Ernst...
Das Lied der Schwarzen Berge (1933)
German adventurers discover the cultural and natural riches of Yugoslavia regions, their own carelessness almost pays for their fascination with...
Children of No Importance (1926)
If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same...
Husbands or Lovers (1924)
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
Life's Shadows (1925)
An unscrupulous husband exploits his beautiful wife to advance his own career. When he dies under mysterious circumstances, she is accused of murder....
Patience (1920)
Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch
Rivals (1923)
Using his marauding robot and other futuristic weapons, power-crazed scientist Professor Ravello carries out various plots to win the hand of Evelyn...
Two Souls (1930)
Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he...
Asphalt (1929)
Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons...
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939)
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....
Salon der Meerungeheuer (1930)
A show booth owner presents "Udine" the mermaid and animals of the sea.
Wie werde ich reich und glücklich? (1930)
The permanent lack of money is giving Kibis a real headache. The rent has been overdue for seven months and now he is threatened with eviction. Then...
Eva and the Grasshopper (1927)
Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy...
The Great Passion (1930)
A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film...
The Golden Butterfly (1926)
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down...
Express Train of Love (1925)
Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
Her Dark Spot (1929)
When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief....
The Old Fritz II (1928)
Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.
Des Lebens Würfelspiel (1925)
a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Anna Boleyn (1920)
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...
Student Life in Merry Springtime (1930)
a music movie by Heinz Paul
Paul und Pauline (1936)
a movie by Heinz Paul
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another...
Das Spiel mit dem Feuer (1921)
A method actress likes living out the roles she is playing in real life. To prepare for her new play, she enters the criminal underworld and ends up...
Die Geliebte (1927)
In Vienna, Anna von Ziska is the beautiful daughter of an upper-class family that has lost its wealth. Prince Augusto notices her in a chance...
Madame DuBarry (1919)
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
The Buddenbrooks (1923)
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard...
Faded Melody (1938)
After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at...
The Unknown (1936)
The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The...
Petermann ist dagegen (1938)
Experiences during a voyage with a KDF-steamer (Kraft Durch Freude = Power Through Joy, a nazi campaign that allowed working class people to make...
Dreams of Love (1935)
The film depicts the composer Franz Liszt and takes its name from his 1850 piano work of the same title.
Barbarina, the King's Dancer (1932)
Prussian King Frederick II was keen to hire the dancer Barberina, who had already enjoyed great success in Italy and England, for the Berlin opera...
Ferryman Maria (1936)
A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.
Anna and Elizabeth (1933)
The two main people in the story are Anna, a young girl, who is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth is a young -...
Luther (1928)
German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
Free Land (1946)
After World War II, scores of refugees leave in search of a new home. They now stand in the hall of a large mansion, waiting to receive their deeds...
The Trombonist (1949)
The Trombonist is a 1949 comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Paul Dahlke, Sabine Peters and Ludwig Körner.
Love's Carnival (1930)
Due to an intrigue spun by his grandmother and two cousins, the engagement between the officer Hans and his fiancée Traute breaks up. His...
A Student's Song of Heidelberg (1930)
A long time ago, John Miller emigrated from Germany to America. Now he wants his daughter Elinor to get to know his old homeland and sends her off...
Glück im Schloß (1933)
A Bavarian baron has invited his three illegitimate children to come on a visit. Suddenly, happiness can be seen in this house only recently cut off...
The Fourth Did Not Show Up (1939)
Four school chums who meet yearly are missing their friend, who was working in a Stockholm bank and supposedly killed himself. But was it murder,...
Humans, Animals, Sensations (1938)
The artist Hansen and his wife have separated due to professional stubbornness, even though they love each other. The animals behave more sensibly:...
The Man in the Saddle (1945)
After a bad losing streak, Lisa Freyberg wants to sell her inherited horse stall. Trainer Roberts, however, is successful in making the stall...
Kollege kommt gleich (1943)
Robert is almost the epitome of a head waiter: Politely and courteously, he informs guests about the goings on in the stock market as well as...
The Chaste Beloved (1940)
A sinister man instigates blackmail against the wayward wife of a banker.
Fire on the Ocean (1939)
Tom Finberg and Nick Dorland, two highly competent divers working for the Caribbian Oil Company, have been the best friends in the world since the...
Sonntagskinder (1941)
Alexander and Poldi, the “Sunday Children”, work as a headwaiter and servant in the Palasthotel in a southern German spa resort. Like...
You and I (1938)
Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family.
Tanz mit dem Kaiser (1941)
The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time his mother makes arrangements for him to...
Fahrt ins Leben (1940)
The four sailing school cadets Gerhard, Fritz, Kurt, and Christian are close friends; there's hardly anything they don't do together. But when the...
Du gehörst zu mir (1943)
Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That...
My Wife Theresa (1942)
Teresa is a young, always cheerful woman, who has a harmonious marriage with the writer Peter Duhren. Unfortunately, it’s so harmonious, that...
Lady Hamilton (1921)
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Du sollst nicht begehren (1933)
Görk, the hardworking son of a heathland farmer, meets Nelly, the daughter of a traveling merchant, by chance and falls in love at first sight....
Seine stärkste Waffe (1928)
"His Best Force" - Harry Petersen has just made a big invention: the lamp without electrical supply. In American businessman Al Kinley, Harry hopes...
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi (1921)
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her...
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei (1937)
Gabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common folk. With her stewardess Fanny Flint and the tour...
The Young Count (1935)
A young woman poses as a boy to ingratiate herself better with her strict aristocratic grandfather and to get him to better accept the new freer ways...
M (1931)
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's...
Eins + Eins = Drei (1927)
Paul and Peter share a garret flat. Paul is smitten with Anni, but her father forbids their match. Then Paul inherits a fortune—on one...
An Ideal Husband (1935)
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...
Liebelei (1927)
Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.
Morgenröte (1929)
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...
Invitation to the Dance (1934)
Biopic of composer conductor Carl Maria von Weber, who championed the little regarded German opera instead of the then popular Italian opera, in the...
Fridericus (1937)
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near...
The Beggar Student (1936)
To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student,...
The War Sofa (1915)
Before leaving Pillkallen in East Prussia for Berlin, Schnirpel hides the money he is saving for his daughter Marie in the cushions of his sofa. In...
The Boy in Blue (1921)
A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor. Lost film, minor fragments survive
So ein Flegel (1934)
The great Dr. Pfeiffer plays the little Primaner Pfeiffer. As the successful playwright Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, he is planning a play about school. In...
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to...
Man soll es nicht für möglich halten ... (1922)
Graf Sylvains Rache (1920)
Comedy about dare devil Emile who falls in love with Madeleine. The consequences are devastating.
Narkose (1929)
Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with him and becomes pregnant. Years...
People Among Us (1926)
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the...
Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935)
Marianne is an accountant, but since she is so pretty the employment agency sends her to the theater. There, Max's gaffer falls in love with Marianne...
Das Opfer der Ellen Larsen (1921)
Ellen, the secretary to General Manager Rasmussen, marries her fiancé Norbert Larsen, who also works at the steelworks. They have a happy...
Der letzte Kampf (1923)
The industrialist's daughter has been kidnapped by the mad inventor Ravello, but Harry Peel stays hot on their trail with the help of his dog Greif....
Road to Rio (1931)
A young woman causes a fatal accident. She flees the country, only to get caught in the net of Brasilian traffickers.
The Sweet Girl (1926)
The Sweet Girl (German: Das Süße Mädel) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Manfred Noa.
Ball at the Metropol (1937)
At a ball at the Metropol, the married Margit gives a harmless kiss to a one-time friend from her childhood and cousin, Eberhard. The two notice,...
Atlantic Hotel (1933)
Life for Hanna Bollova has never been easy. No matter what she did in life, how hard she worked, there never seemed to be any money. That is, until...
The Black Whale (1934)
Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.
The World Without a Mask (1934)
An inventor works on coming up with a radio-television device, but can't get it to work properly. A slick con artist sees a chance to fleece gullible...
Elisabeth and the Jester (1934)
Elisabeth is subject of a girl's boarding school run by the nuns. The village idiot Michele adores her and is particularly drawn to her organ...
So This is Midnight (1934)
A group of popular musicians including a girl singer is staying in a spooky castle where there may be a treasure of money.
The Assumption of Hannele (1934)
The story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide.
Hearts Are Trumps (1934)
Hotel tycoon Paulsen re-meets an old flame who mistakes him for a waiter. Paulsen's daughter Toni likes hotelier Reno and accepts to work for him as...
The Night with the Emperor (1936)
A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French...
Men Before Marriage (1936)
German romantic comedy from Carl Boese.
Gypsy Blood (1934)
Princess Stauffenstein has arranged a marriage for her grandnephew Poldi and orders him to meet his unknown bride Steffi. But he falls for alluring...
The Secret Lie (1938)
The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy...
Fahrendes Volk (1938)
Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son,...
Frühlingsluft (1938)
At the behest of the financially strapped Duke, his nephew, Crown Prince Rudolf, is to marry someone of suitable rank. But Rudolf has no interest...
Monika (1938)
Monika (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind, lit. 'A Mother Fights for Her Child') is a 1938 German melodrama film directed and written by...
The Hour of Temptation (1936)
Irene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac Norris slyly benefits from her depression and lures...
Love Can Lie (1937)
Dr. Ivar Andersson, introduced by his colleague, Sigrid Mall, is the new German teacher for the underclassmen in a girl’s high school. As is...
Mistress Moon (1941)
Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress...
Diesel (1943)
A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the...
Rembrandt (1942)
Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon completion of the picture, the men of...
Das schwarze Schaf (1944)
The young Eva Heldmann has inherited a publishing house, which she is running in an exemplary fashion. However, she still has a co-heir, Stefan...
My Heart Calls You (1934)
An opera company tries to get an engagement.
Music in the Blood (1934)
In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't...
The Counterfeit Bill (1935)
An honest German cashier gets stuck with a fake note, part of a scheme by two crooks to pass bad money.
Love (1927)
Based on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves of the countess.
Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! (1935)
In the depression era unemployed Susanne tries to break into movies by working as an extra. She is ‚hired' to be kidnapped in a PR stunt that...
Woman in the Moon (1929)
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a...