Friedrich Gnaß
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1892-11-13
Place of Birth:Langendreer, Bochum, Germany
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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...

Raid in St. Pauli (1932)
Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the...

Fra Diavolo (1931)
A sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.

Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness (1929)
Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. Along with them lives "the...

Harbour Drift (1929)
A sordid tale of poverty and greed set within a quayside milieu of crime and prostitution, the narrative centres on the quest for a sparkling pearl...

I by Day, You by Night (1932)
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each...

The Beaver Coat (1949)
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...

Once is Never (1955)
A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local...

The Kaiser's Lackey (1951)
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the...

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the...

Rasputin, Demon of the Women (1932)
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.

Blood Brothers (1935)
An enhanced and sentimentalized story of love, honor, rivalry, and retreat. The traditional laws of the patriarchal environment and severe conflicts...

Capriccio (1938)
Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune...

Kautschuk (1938)
About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest...

Die Schönste (1957)
13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman....

Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957)
Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.

The Beacon (1954)
On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during...

The Story of Little Mook (1954)
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much...

Destinies of Women (1952)
Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected...

Story of a Young Couple (1952)
A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young woman, is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen,...

The Condemned Village (1952)
East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.

Girls in Gingham (1949)
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period...

Dawn (1933)
Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the...

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...

Our Daily Bread (1949)
A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst...