Rina Marsa

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Rina Marsa (born January 5 . Jul / 18th January  1904 greg. In the Caucasus , Russian Empire ; † in the 20th century) was a Russian-born actress in the German film.

Live and act

Rina Marsa's family fled from Tbilisi to Constantinople ( Istanbul ) during the Russian Revolution . There Rina Marsa worked as a silent film pianist in a small suburban cinema. Then she went to Paris, where she found work as a mannequin. After a fashion show, she approached the American director Monta Bell , who offered her to go to Hollywood. When she declined his proposal because she didn't speak English, he arranged for her to meet UFA producer Erich Pommer , who was currently in Paris.

In 1928 she was hired by the UFA and initially played supporting roles alongside female stars such as Brigitte Helm and Jenny Jugo . The following year her career took off when Deutsche Universal, under the direction of Joe Pasternak and Wilhelm Dieterle, hired Marsa in his role as director and leading actor. She took on leading film roles in Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria , where she played the Duchess Sophie, and as Baroness Prankha in "The Silence in the Forest" .

Representatives of Austrian film became aware of her and offered her film projects. In 1929 Rina Marsa traveled to Vienna for roles in silent films , where she stood in front of the camera for two productions of Listo-Film, both times alongside Julius Szöreghi , Wolf Albach-Retty , Mary Kid and Mizzi Griebl .

Like many other silent film actors, Rina Marsa did not make the transition to talkies. After only three films between 1931 and 1932, the Russian exiled woman disappeared from the public eye. She was last seen in the supporting role as Miss de la Roche in Robert Siodmak's 1932 film adaptation of the Stefan Zweig novella Burning Secret .

Presumably, Marsa was banned from performing in the Third Reich. Nothing is currently known about her further life.

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rina Marsa: A good film school, in: Mein Film, No. 180, p. 5f.

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 593.

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personal data
SURNAME Marsa, Rina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marson, Rina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-born actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Caucasus , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 20th century