Erra Bognar
Biography
Toward the end of World War I, Erra Bognar began working as an actress in silent films. She made her debut with a supporting role in Rudolf Meinert's crime drama *Die sterbenden Perlen. Over the next few years, she played mainly minor and medium-sized roles in productions by a wide variety of directors and studios. By 1926, her film career was largely over; she returned to the big screen only once more in 1937 for a small role in Fred Sauer's final film, *Der Lachdoktor: the tiny, uncredited part of a blonde spa client with wild hair would remain her only appearance in a sound film.
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Movie - 1919, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
While no content description of the film could be found, it is clear the plot of Der Fürst der Diebe und seine Liebe/The King of Thieves and His Love (Viggo Larsen, 1919) deals with a gentleman criminal, played by Larsen himself. In 1920, critic Friedrich Sieburg wrote about a terrifying experience he had when viewing this very film when suddenly the musicians stopped playing while the film went on. "In act 3, as Der Fürst der Diebe was roaring along in his car (his shawl fluttering like a flag, wind blowing briskly through the high grass of the passing landscape), the musicians in the small orchestra - violin and piano for lively scenes, organ for deathly scenes - suddenly decided to break for dinner. The music stopped. Silence. The reels whirred. The light hissed. The action sped ahead. I tell you, it was frightening. I felt as if I was six feet under."