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Browse 16 movies from Messter Film
Dec 1914
Sally Katz begins a new job as a supervisor in the workshop of a garment maker where the boss's nasty daughter makes him advances. But the girl's father forbids him to flirt back.
Nov 1917
A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
Sep 1917
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...
Mar 1920
A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.
A German drama
Sep 1913
Aug 1917
Alessandra, illegitimate daughter of a count, is raised in a circus. Everyone would like her to marry Anton, a rough gamekeeper, but she escapes helped by Count Erwin. The young girl falls in love with her savior but he has no serious intentions.
Feb 1915
This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are the Emperor and some military and civil dignitaries, who walk on the landing stage of the factory site on the occasion of the launch of the transatlantic speed steamer "Kaiser Wilhelm the Great" a group of spectators. In his memoirs Messter has described the motion picture as "the first good close-up of the Emperor."
Jun 1897
On 2 December 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte succeed in the glorious "Three Emperors" at Austerlitz, the Austrian Empire to defeat. Condition of the peace treaty is the surrender of the country Tyrol to the French...
Aug 1914
Short film produced by Messter-Film for the Seventh War Bond drive.
A short early sound film of soldiers following the orders of their commander.
Jan 1905
A man with a walking stick and a large black hat is walking along a narrow path in a garden or park. A large Great Dane is running around him. The hat largely obscures his face, which is only visible for a brief moment. It is possible that this is Otto von Bismarck and his Great Dane, the imperial bitch Rebecca "Beckchen." Since the bitch died in 1897, the photograph must have been taken in 1896 or 1897.
Jan 1897
Jan 1912
Dec 1906
Jan 1896