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    Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s...
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    Asta Nielsen (German:Die falsche Asta Nielsen) is a 1915 German silent film directed by Urban Gad and starring Asta Nielsen and Victor Arnold. Asta Nielsen...
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    screenwriter, and author. He directed 40 films between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films, also in his début film Afgrunden (The Abyss)...
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    Shakespeare play Hamlet starring and produced by Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen. It was directed by Svend Gade and Heinz Schall. The film was shot at...
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  • German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst starring Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen and Werner Krauss. It is based on a novel by Hugo Bettauer and widely...
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    performance and natural acting by Asta Nielsen led to her international stardom. Because of the overt eroticism of Nielsen's performance, the film was censored...
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    management; in 1989, the Nielsen heirs sold the house to the municipality. In 2015, a permanent exhibition about Asta Nielsen opened. The house was located...
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  • dermatologist Asta Mollerup (1881–1945), Danish dance teacher Asta Nielsen (1881–1972), Danish actress, star of German silent films Asta Nørregaard (1853–1933)...
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  • contributed other new subjects. The most important of these finds was Asta Nielsen in Afgrunden (The Abyss), directed by Urban Gad for Kosmorama, This combined...
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    Street of Sorrow, 1925), directed by G. W. Pabst and co-starring Asta Nielsen. She praised Asta and said: "In terms of expression and versatility, I am nothing...
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  • Arthur Nielsen (1897–1980), American market analyst Asta Nielsen (1881–1972), Danish actress August Nielsen (1877–1956), Norwegian architect Axel Nielsen (chess...
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  • 1924 German silent film directed by Fritz Kaufmann [de] and starring Asta Nielsen, Gregori Chmara and Albert Steinrück. The film is adapted from the play...
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  • starring Asta Nielsen and Georgine Sobjeska. It was inspired by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Georgine Sobjeska as Widow Waler Asta Nielsen as Sonja...
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  • film directed and written by Urban Gad. It was the second film that Asta Nielsen made in Germany. The film is considered lost. Sisters Olga and Martha...
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    "discovering" and developing the talents of actresses, including Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen, Louise Brooks, and Leni Riefenstahl. Pabst's best known films concern...
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  • is a 1920 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Asta Nielsen, Conrad Veidt and Eduard von Winterstein. It was adapted from the 1897...
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    1921 German silent drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, and Walter Janssen. It was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's...
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  • system of Thelema The Abyss (1910 film), a Danish silent film starring Asta Nielsen The Abyss (1988 film) (L'Œuvre au noir), a French-Belgian film The Abyss...
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  • and written by Urban Gad and starring Asta Nielsen, Georg Schrader [de], and Leo Peukert. It was Asta Nielsen’s first film in Germany following the success...
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  • comedy film directed by Willy Grunwald and starring Asta Nielsen. Curt Goetz as Graf Sylvain Asta Nielsen as Madelaine Ernst Hofmann as Vicomte Emile Karl...
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  • directed by Urban Gad and starring Asta Nielsen and Max Landa. It is based on the fairytale of the same name. Asta Nielsen as Lotte Max Landa as von Harten...
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  • Brandes is a 1916 German silent film directed by Magnus Stifter, starring Asta Nielsen, with a screenplay by Martin Jørgensen, and Louis Levy. Dora is an actress...
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  • and starring Gad's wife Asta Nielsen. It was one of the first films made at the new Babelsberg Studio in Berlin. Asta Nielsen as Bella Burk Oskar Fuchs...
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  • silent comedy film directed by Heinz Schall and starring Asta Nielsen and Freddy Wingardh. Asta Nielsen as Eskimo Ivigtut Freddy Wingardh as Knud Prätorius...
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    comedy film directed by Urban Gad and starring Asta Nielsen, Max Landa and Fred Immler. Asta Nielsen as Jesta Alfred Kühne as Redakteur Schneider Max...
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  • film directed by Walter Schmidthässler and starring Asta Nielsen and Curt Goetz. Curt Goetz Asta Nielsen as Wanda Joseph Schröder Magnus Stifter Lloyd p.89...
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    Abel began working towards a film career. In 1913, he caught the eye of Asta Nielsen, who helped him break into the film industry. That same year, he made...
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  • German silent film directed by Edmund Edel and starring Asta Nielsen and Aruth Wartan. Asta Nielsen as Helene Netzler Aruth Wartan as Lindholm, Bergwerksdirektor...
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    there were over 1000 cinemas operating in Germany. Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen (the latter originally from Denmark) were the first major film stars...
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  • starring Asta Nielsen,Theodor Loos and Paul Wegener. In alphabetical order Theodor Loos as Jacon Siebensee Hans Marr as Steuermann Timm Asta Nielsen as Lulu...
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