Sadjah Gezza

Sadjah Gezza (born March 3, 1900 in Berlin , † after 1922) was a German-Turkish silent film actress and dancer .

Live and act

Born in Charlottenburg, she began her stage career at the age of 16 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under the direction of Louise Dumont . Shortly before the end of the First World War , she met the director Paul von Woringen in Berlin , who brought her to the film and arranged a commitment through the production company Deutsche Mutoscope . Sadjah Gezza made her debut in front of the camera in the same year 1918 in Woringen's production The Drawn .

Sadjah Gezza subsequently played under a number of well-known directors, including Carl Boese , Urban Gad , Rudolf Biebrach and Dimitri Buchowetzki . In 1919, novice directors Fritz Lang and FW Murnau also gave her leading roles . In Murnau's early work by Satana , the attractive dark-haired woman played her most important and best-known role: Nouri playing the harp. Despite their temporary considerable popularity, none of their films are of above-average artistic significance. Gezza's most important film partners included such well-known colleagues as Ernst Deutsch , Fritz Kortner and Hans Albers . After only four years of film activity, Sadjah Gezza disappeared from the public eye in 1922.

Filmography (selection)

• 1918: The marked man
• 1918: The Curse of Nuri
• 1919: Deported
• 1919: Whipped
• 1919: The Lord of Love
• 1920: Satanas
• 1920: Yoshiwara, the love city of the Japanese
• 1920: The mortal enemy
• 1920: the last hour
• 1920: The demon of Kolno
• 1920: The fountain of madness
• 1920: world fire
• 1921: hands up, two parts
• 1921: The harbor lorry, two parts
• 1921: The minstrel
• 1921/22: The old Gospodar
• 1922: Dolores
• 1922: Kaschemmengräfin

literature

• Movie star. Richter's Handbook of Actors, Directors and Writers of Film. Vol. 4, 1921/1922, ZDB -ID 1342234-0 , p. 32.

Web links

• Sadjah Gezza in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sadjah Gezza at google.books.de.