Asta Nielsen Movies

Naive 16 year old Rosi paints butterfly pictures and day-dreams of a better world, abhorring the conducts of Else, Laura, Max and and an immoral...

Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large...

The dancer Navarro has lost her husband and son. With her daughter at her side, she returns to her homeland and comes under suspicion of spying when...

A loose adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. The daughter of a count witnesses her mother's increasing mental instability after being...

Silent adaptation of the famous play by Henrik Ibsen. This film is believed to be lost.

Comedy about the lieutenant who marries poor Jesta. As a wealthy neighbor wants his own daughter to wed the officer, Jesta has to disguise herself as...

A doppelganger comedy made at the height of Asta Nielsen's fame in which she plays dual roles. This film is considered lost.

The Devil decides to go and visit Kurfürstendamm, where all his clients seem to come from. He settles at "Pension Elvira", where everybody...

The ballet pupil Camilla Favier makes for a quick success and falls for the author Jean Mayol. She discovers a love letter to him from a rich married...

Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer, is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.

A short documentary about Asta Nielsen, the first international film star and an icon of modernity, who significantly shaped cinema in its beginnings.

Wanda marries a Count but falls in love with his son. When their relationship is discovered by the Dowager Countess, she locks them in the garden...

Mia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre director. While she is in the grips of despair, she...

In this film, Nielsen plays the role of a mannequin, using her body as a clotheshorse. She makes a striking entrance on a flight of stairs, which...

A sequel to 1914's Engelein, recounting the wedding of the titular protagonist. This film is considered lost.

Wanda runs away from her Gypsy camp, trying to live as a dancer. In a dream sequence she meets Ruprecht and Curt, who both fall in love with her....

Documentary feature about film diva Asta Nielsen based in part on previously unseen material from private archives of Frede Smith.

The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men.