Paul Biensfeldt

  • Fritz Lang – Harakiri (1919)

    Drama1911-1920Fritz LangGermanySilentWeimar Republic cinema

    The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks if he were in Europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denounced and has to commit harakiri. She meets Olaf, a European officer, falls in love and marries him, but after a few months he has to return to Europe. She gives birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in Europe. When he comes back to Japan four years later, he is accompanied by his European wife…Read More »

  • Michael Curtiz – Fiaker Nr. 13 aka Cab Nr.13 (1926)

    1921-1930GermanyMichael CurtizSilentWeimar Republic cinema

    IMDB User Reviews
    20 April 2004 | by bullybyte (United Kingdom)

    *** This review may contain spoilers ***

    SPOILERS!! The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife.Read More »

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