Walter Ladengast

Walter Ladengast

Acting

July 4, 1899 — July 3, 1980
Vienna, Austria
31 movies

Biography

Walter Ladengast (July 4, 1899 – July 3, 1980) was an Austrian actor born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He worked extensively in film and theatre and appeared in more than 70 productions during a career spanning several decades. He is particularly remembered for his collaborations with director Werner Herzog, including The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), in which he played Dr. Abraham Van Helsing.

🎬 Walter Ladengast's Filmography

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I Love You, I Kill You
4.9

German movie set in the future where there is a village existing only to maintain a game preserve for the ruling class and whose inhabitants are kept happy by popping pills. Written and directed by Uwe Brandner, the movie operates on many levels of love-hate relationships, but it is primarily a political parable about fascism and freedom. A young teacher comes to a remote village , which rich gentlemen have chosen as their hunting ground. The residents are happy and nice to each other. Any dissatisfaction that arises is wiped away with freely available drugs or with the clubs of the village police. A gamekeeper who makes sure that the high lords' hunting parties are not endangered becomes the new teacher in the village's first friend. They fall in love, and the gamekeepers gift of love is a gun, which will eventually break their relationship as a confrontation ensues as the teacher starts poaching with his new gun.

I Love You, I Kill You

1971
Berlinger
3.7

A fictional, non-chronological account of the life of the scientist, adventurer and industrialist Lukas Berlinger. The key dates and central events include Berlinger's birth in 1914, his friendship with Johannes Roeder, who was the same age, his marriage to Marlit in the early 1930s and Roeder's joining the NSDAP in 1936. As a chemist and "scientist important to the war effort", Berlinger was not required to go to the front during the Second World War, but it was slowly discovered that he was helping persecuted people to escape to Switzerland. Pressure from the Gestapo cost Marlit her life, and Berlinger fled to South America. It was not until 1968 that he returned to the western part of Germany. He meets Roeder again, who is now a senator and has become rich as a "building tycoon", and meets Maria, a teacher almost 30 years his junior, who looks strikingly similar to Marlit.

Berlinger

1975
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