Jeffrey Hartmann

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Esther Carena (1898-1972)

Alias:
Franziska Lucia Pfeiffer

Birthplace:
Hannover

Born:
August 24, 1898

Died:
January 26, 1972

Biography from TheMovieDB

The daughter of a German father and Spanish mother, she studied medicine for one semester and trained in an Italian acrobat troupe. Until 1916 she lived mostly in Italy and performed there in stage sketches. In 1916 she came to Germany and was discovered by Swedish film actor and director Nils Olaf Chrisander. She was presented as a heroine in thrillers, dramas, and melodramas that were staged by Harry Piel at the end of the First World War. She designed many of her own costumes. In 1924 she married the set designer Franz Schroedter and retired from films.

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Film Performances

1916 Die Peitsche
Bert
1917 Zur Strecke gebracht
1917 Der stumme Zeuge
1918 Das Gift der Odawara
1918 Die Geschichte eines Spitzentuches
1918 Die sprechende Hand
1918 Ikarus, the Flying Man
Clemence de Montignon
1919 Ich klage an
1919 Die von der Liebe leben
1919 Women Who Shouldn't Get Married
Ada Haller
1920 The Vampire
1920 Der Schrei des Gewissens
1920 Wenn Colombine winkt
1921 Die Diktatur der Liebe. 1. Die böse Lust
1921 Die Diktatur der Liebe. 2. Die Welt ohne Liebe
1921 Das neue Paradies
1923 Der Frauenkönig

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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.