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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Lehmann's Honeymoon
Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man,...
The Minister's Daughter
Problematische Naturen
Mr. Mericke is a simple-minded, small-town man from the German provinces at the end of the imperial era. He arrives in the big city and can’t...
Mericke aus Neu-Ruppin kommt nach Berlin
A power plant worker (Garrison) eagerly joins a strike for higher wages. When his young daughter falls severely ill and needs emergency surgery, the...
Tragödie eines Streiks
An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.
Mrs. Eva
One of Oskar Messter’s earliest films. An outing with several horse-drawn sleighs and a snowball fight in the Grunewald forest. Also a pair of...
Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald
Footage of spectators at the Friedenau velodrome in Berlin, dating from 1904. Several spectators, including a woman, are standing in front of a...
Auf der Radrennbahn in Friedenau
The two daughters of the fisherman find husbands.
Kämpfende Herzen
A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the...
Living Sculptures: Film Study for Screen Artist
First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter
Andreas Hofer
We see the drunkard's wife, whose home has been destroyed by alcohol. They have two children, a girl of 5 years and an infant at the mother's breast,...
Mütter, verzaget nicht
A Tonbild (sound picture), recorded using the Messter Biophon system.
Der Graf von Luxemburg: Mädel klein, Mädel fein
a silent movie by Rober Wiene
Der wandernde Blumentopf
Outlawed
Only 3 minutes of this Oskar Messter short film survive.
Ein Matrosenabenteuer in Hamburg
An inventor leaves his family after finding success with the financial help of his wife; in despair, the wife walks into the water with their child.
Forget About Luck
Photage of people at Praterstern square in Vienna, Austria.
At the Praterstern in Vienna
A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering them – through the mail as puppets in...
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song
Alexander Girardi Sings the Fiakerlied