Otto Rippert

Otto Rippert was a German film director during the silent film era.

Rippert was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany, and began his career as a stage actor, working in theatres in BadenBaden, Forst , Bamberg and in Berlin. In 1906, he acted his first film in BadenBaden for the French Gaumont Film Company. In 1912 he appeared as the millionaire Isidor Straus in In Nacht und Eis, one of the first films about the sinking of the Titanic. The film was made by ContinentalKunstfilm of Berlin, where Rippert continued to work as a director, making some ten motion pictures between 1912 and 1914. However, his reputation as one of the pioneers of German silent film rests on some of his later achievements, for example Homunculus and Die Pest in Florenz.

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