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Willy Prager is a Actor Allemand born on 22 may 1877
Willy Prager (né le 23 mai 1877 à Kattowitz, mort le 4 mars 1956 à Berlin) est un acteur et scénariste allemand.
Il commence sa carrière au cinéma avec Max Reinhardt. Au début du cinéma parlant, il participe aux scénarios de quelques comédies.
Quand les nazis prennent le pouvoir, Prager est écarté à cause de rumeurs sur son appartenance politique puis interdit de jouer. D'origine juive, il vit dans la clandestinité. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il revient au théâtre et au cinéma.
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Il commence sa carrière en 1898 dans le théâtre berlinois de variétés Quargs. En 1909, il a des cachets dans des cabarets comme ceux de Rudolf Nelson et des théâtres plus prestigieux comme le Deutsches Theater de Berlin sous la direction de Max Reinhardt. En 1925, il vient à un registre comique dans le cabaret Schall und Rauch.Il commence sa carrière au cinéma avec Max Reinhardt. Au début du cinéma parlant, il participe aux scénarios de quelques comédies.
Quand les nazis prennent le pouvoir, Prager est écarté à cause de rumeurs sur son appartenance politique puis interdit de jouer. D'origine juive, il vit dans la clandestinité. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il revient au théâtre et au cinéma.
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Heart of Stone (1950)
, 1h46Directed by Paul Verhoeven (réalisateur allemand)
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Lutz Moik, Paul Bildt, Alexander Engel, Karl Hellmer, Herbert Kiper, Erwin Geschonneck
Rating72%
Peter, a woodsman and his mother live in the Black Forest where he exists by selling charcoal. Stung by the ridicule of the wealthier inhabitants of the village and desiring to marry the beautiful Lisbeth, he sees his only chance for prosperity by locating a good forest spirit, the small Glasmännlein who grants him two wishes at first, then a third wish later. Peter wishes for wealth that he purchases a glassworks but due to his inexperience the glassworks fails and he gambles his money away.
Morituri (1948)
, 1h28Directed by Eugen York
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Winnie Markus, Hilde Körber, Lotte Koch, Josef Sieber, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Erich Dunskus
Roles Vater Simon
Rating68%
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low. The Polish doctor blows up a bridge, attracting the German troops' attention to the forest. The soldiers come perilously close to the hidden fugitives, but in the last moment have to retreat before the approaching Red Army units.
Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
, 1h44Directed by Kurt Maetzig
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Ilse Steppat, Claus Holm, Hans Leibelt, Karl Hellmer, Willy Prager
Rating71%
Actor Hans Wieland refuses to divorce his actress wife, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, even as extreme pressure is applied on him by the Nazi authorities. He even takes her to a premiere of one of his films where she is unwittingly introduced to a high Nazi Party official. Upon later discovering that the charming woman at the premiere was in fact Jewish, he orders her arrest. Hans Wieland is given an ultimatum by his former friend Herbert Blohm, now a Nazi official at the Reichskulturministerium (culture ministry), to save himself by divorcing his wife. Knowing that his wife will die in a concentration camp, Hans Wieland returns home and they drink poison in coffee whilst reciting the closing scene of Friedrich Schiller's tragic play Kabale und Liebe together.
Morris Makes His Fortune (1931)
, 1h25Directed by Jaap Speyer
Genres Comedy
Actors Sig Arno, Viktor Schwanneke, Willy Prager, Igo Sym, Leo Peukert
Roles Max Meier
Rating60%
King Fu's yellow house (1931)
, 1h30Origin German
Genres Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gustav Diessl, Charlotte Susa, Karl Günther, Willy Prager, Paul Graetz, Charles Puffy
Roles Theaterdirektor
Un mystérieux tueur est en liberté dans la ville, il a assassiné plusieurs femmes. De nombreux indices mènent vers un certain King-Fu que la police suspecte fortement. Par ailleurs, une petite compagnie de théâtre en assez mauvaise situation financière, invite un spectateur. Le directeur de la petite troupe est ravi quand un certain Cyrill Scalpa offre ses services pour la pièce. La pièce colle à l'actualité, le public vient. Scalpa veut absolument le premier rôle, mais il appartient à l'acteur Smell. Smell sait que Scalpa se rapproche d'Anita, une danseuse, sa partenaire sur scène ; la compétition devient aussi amoureuse.
Darling of the Gods (1930)
, 1h52Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Emil Jannings, Renate Müller, Olga Tschechowa, Hans Moser, Max Gülstorff, Eduard von Winterstein
Roles Maurus Colwyn
Rating64%
A selfish opera singer leaves his wife and home in Germany to travel the world's great cities. Eventually he is drawn back to his Bavarian homeland.
Love waltz (1930)
, 1h38Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Georg Alexander, Julia Serda, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Lotte Spira
Rating26%
The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari (1930)
, 1h18Genres Comedy
Actors Erik Ode, Paul Morgan, Gerhard Dammann, Karl Harbacher, Willy Prager, Franz Waxman
Roles Patient
Rating63%
Old Heidelberg (1923)
, 1h33Directed by Hans Behrendt
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Paul Hartmann, Eva May, Werner Krauss, Eugen Burg, Eugen Rex, Willy Prager
Rating62%
Le prince héritier Karl Heinz von Sachsen-Karlsburg veut profiter de sa vie d'étudiant à Heidelberg. Il a avec lui le triste Dr. Jüttner qui doit veiller à ce qu'il doit digne de son rang et se concentre sur ses études. Karlheinz rejoint la Studentenverbindung Corps Saxonia et fait la connaissance de Kätchen, la nièce de l'aubergiste chez qui il réside. Ils tombent amoureux l'un de l'autre.
Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920)
, 1h3Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin German
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Gustav von Wangenheim, Jakob Tiedtke, Willy Prager
Roles Händler
Rating64%
In Bavaria, a sweet-natured young woman Gretel wants to get married but her father refuses to allow the match until her elder sister Liesel has married first. As Liesel is notorious for her bad-tempered personality this is no easy challenge.