Camilla Horn Movies

In this comedy, Peter Benjamin (Klaus Wennemann) is fairly contented with life, though he is tired of his job on-camera as a talk-show host. Then one day, he receives an inheritance he couldn't have imagined: a magical cap that makes him invisible when he puts it on. What he sees taking place among his family and friends shocks him Though the unimaginative man attempts to confront his misbehaving fellows about their deeds and attitudes, this film's short run in movie theaters is evidence that these confrontations failed to provoke much mirth. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Broken Love was the English-language title of the Italian musical Cuore Infrantro. The film is a showcase for the splendid singing of Beniamino Gigli, who in 1946 was endeavoring to prove to the world that he hadn't been a WW2 fascist collaborator. Accordingly, the film's storyline is completely apolitical, dealing with a world-famous tenor (Gigli) whose daughter (Camilla Horn) is suffering from a rare heart ailment. The tenor exacerbates his daughter's medical condition when he tries to meddle in her romance with a young bank clerk (Herbert Wilk). Everybody suffers operatically against a lavish backdrop of Venetian canals and Riviera gambling houses. The lachrymose musical climax, lifted from Puccini's La Boheme, is calculated to make sure that there won't be a dry eye in the audience. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Ein Walzer Fuer Dich (A Waltz For You) once again combines the talents of singer Louis Graveure and the ethereally beautiful Camilla Horn. Graveure plays Antonio, a prince-in-exile who gains success as a tenor on the concert stage. Comes the revolution, and Antonio returns to the throne, marrying the equally musical Princess Stefanie (Horn), whose regime has been overthrown. Much to the surprise of their subjects, Antonio and Stefanie both give up their royal raiments to resume their singing careers! Ein Walzer Fuer Dich is so typical of its genre that it borders on self-parody. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this comedy of errors, set during a dark and stormy night, the trouble begins when a married woman suddenly appears at her neighbor's doorstep after having accidentally locked herself out of her house. Naturally, the neighborly fellow allows her to innocently stay the night. The trouble is, he is to be married the following day, and the situation sure looks fishy from a distance. Complications and misunderstandings ensue until the truth is at last revealed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this crime drama, a suave, sophisticated jewel thief's attempts to steal valuable gems are thwarted when another thief beats him to the punch. Later he learns that his intended victim is an old lover of his and he vows to do all he can to bring the emeralds back to her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

The "great yearning" of the title refers to the desire of heroine Camilla Horn to become a famous movie star. Fortunately, director Theodor Loos happens to be combing the countryside, searching for "something new" to put before the cameras. He discovers Horn, and the rest can be filled in by the audience blindfolded. The charm of this picture lies not in its corny plotline, but in its handling by young director Stefan Szekely, who refuses to sugar-coat his depiction of movie-studio life but instead offers something very close to the truth. Die Grosse Sehnsucht features cameo appearances by such German film faves as Lil Dagover, Liane Haid, Anny Ondra, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Luis Trenker, Conrad Veidt, and many, many more. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Eternal Love was the last silent film of star John Barrymore and director Ernst Lubitsch; thereafter, both men would concentrate exclusively on talkies. Based on Der Konig der Bernina, a novel by Jakob Christopher Beer, the story is set in the Swiss Alps in 1812. Both forced into loveless marriages, sweethearts Marcus (John Barrymore) and Ciglia (Camilla Horn) continue to carry on a clandestine romance. When Marcus is falsely accused of murdering Ciglia's husband, the two lovers escape into the Alps, with the angry villagers close at their heels. With no other recourse, Marcus and Ciglia elect to commit suicide, walking hand in hand into the path of an avalanche. Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, Eternal Love was a most uncharacteristic venture into doom-and-gloom for director Lubitsch, who was never quite so dour again. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

One of John Barrymore's best-remembered silent films (mainly because it is one of the few that has remained in constant circulation), The Tempest is set before, during and after the Russian Revolution. Barrymore plays a Czarist military officer who is haughtily rejected by aristocratic Camilla Horn. She goes so far as to strip Barrymore of his rank and toss him into prison (allowing him the opportunity for a wholly irrelevant, but fascinating, "mad" scene). Comes the Revolution, and Barrymore is freed. Put in charge of the Red army, Barrymore now wields the power of life and death over the aristocrats. When a humbled Camilla is brought before him, he refuses to sign her death warrant, but instead kills his hateful superior officer and escapes with his new-found love to the safety of Europe. Barrymore's leading lady Camilla Horn has previously made an excellent impression as Gretchen in F. W. Murnau's production of Faust (1926); her casting in Tempest, however, is due less to her histrionic talents that to the fact that she was the girlfriend of United Artists executive Joseph M. Schenck. Originally, the film was to have been directed by Russian expatriate Victor Tourjanksy, but his working methods were too slow for Hollywood tastes; he was replaced by American journeyman Sam Taylor, who was swift, efficient and (in this instance at least) surprisingly imaginative. The principal artistic value in Tempest lies in the performance by John Barrymore and the cinematography of Charles Rosher, whose Rosher Kino Portrait Lens enabled the 46-year-old Barrymore to appear at least two decades younger on screen. An uncredited Lewis Milestone also was among those at work on the production. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide