Helene Weigel
Know for: Acting
Born: 1900-05-12
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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Metropolis (1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a...
Mother Courage and Her Children (1961)
During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered...
The Wind Rose (1957)
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....
A Man's a Man (1931)
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
Leben des Galilei (1947)
Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel...