Movies by Karl Platen
Der junge Graf
A young woman poses as a boy to ingratiate herself better with her strict aristocratic grandfather and to get him to better accept the new freer ways of the younger generation.
Wie werde ich reich und glücklich?
The permanent lack of money is giving Kibis a real headache. The rent has been overdue for seven months and now he is threatened with eviction. Then one day he comes across the brochure "How to become rich and happy"...
Luther
German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
Husbands or Lovers
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
Salon der Meerungeheuer
A show booth owner presents "Udine" the mermaid and animals of the sea.
Express Train of Love
Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
Emerald of Death
A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor.
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
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