List of the best Paul Czinner movies: The Royal Ballet(1960), Ariane(1931), Ariane(1931), As You Like It(1936), Escape Me Never(1935), Dreaming Lips(1937), Catherine the Great(1934) ... ...
Musical
UK
1960
90 Minutes
Director
Margot Fonteyn Michael Somes Julia Farren Rosemary Lindsay Alexander Grant Franklin White Bryan Ashbridge
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Filmed on the stage of London's Covent Garden. Includes extracts from Swan lake, Ondine & The Firebird.
Drama
Germany
1931
78 Minutes
Director
Elisabeth Bergner Rudolf Forster Annemarie Steinsieck Hertha Guthmar Theodor Loos N. Wassiljeff
An innocent Russian student in Paris has her first affair, with a mature man who comes to realize he truly loves her and it is not just one of his brief flings.
Drama
Germany
1931
78 Minutes
Director
Elisabeth Bergner Rudolf Forster Annemarie Steinsieck Hertha Guthmar Theodor Loos N. Wassiljeff
An innocent Russian student in Paris has her first affair, with a mature man who comes to realize he truly loves her and it is not just one of his brief flings.
Comedy
UK
1936
96 Minutes
Director
Elisabeth Bergner Laurence Olivier Sophie Stewart Henry Ainley Richard Ainley Leon Quartermaine Mackenzie Ward Felix Aylmer Aubrey Mather Austin Trevor
A Duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his entourage into the forest of Arden. The banished Duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1935
92 Minutes
Director
Elisabeth Bergner Hugh Sinclair Griffith Jones Penelope Dudley Ward Irene Vanbrugh Lyn Harding Leon Quartermaine Rosalinde Fuller
A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
Drama
UK
1937
94 Minutes
Director
Elisabeth Bergner Raymond Massey Romney Brent Joyce Bland Charles Carson Felix Aylmer
Tragic story of the wife of a violin player in a famous orchestra, who falls in love with her husband's friend, and finally drowns herself.
Drama, History
1934
94 Minutes
Director
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Elisabeth Bergner Flora Robson Gerald du Maurier Irene Vanbrugh Griffith Jones Joan Gardner Dorothy Hale Gibb McLaughlin Clifford Heatherley Lawrence Hanray
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Taken to Russia to marry Grand Duke Peter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), German Princess Catherine (Elisabeth Bergner) kicks him out and becomes empress.