Ferdinand von Alten Movies

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

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

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 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 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 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...

The young Crown Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz grows up sheltered in the North German countryside in the late 18th century and develops into...

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

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...

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

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

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.

A aristocratic lieutenant is forced to resign his commission and give up his career in the cavalry after having defended himself against deliberate...

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.