Maria Forescu

Maria Forescu

1875-01-15
72 (1947-10-28)
Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]

Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. Killed in the Holocaust.

Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]

Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. Killed in the Holocaust.

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The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi 1921 (5.923)

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
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Husbands or Lovers 1924 (5.3)

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
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In the Slums of Berlin 1925 (5)

It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.