Aruth Wartan

Aruth Wartan
Born	23 June 1880 Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan Russian Empire
Died	14 April 1945 (1945-04-15) (aged 64) Berlin Nazi Germany
Other names	Arutjun Wartanian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916 - 1945 (film)

Aruth Wartan (23 June 1880 – 14 April 1945) was an Azerbaijani-born German film actor who appeared in around ninety films during his career, generally in supporting roles.

Born Arutjun Wartanian in Nakhichevan in Azerbaijan (then part of the Russian Empire), he was of Georgian heritage. He graduated from high school in 1898 in Tbilisi, Georgia, and then briefly studied medicine in Kharkov (now in Ukraine). Around the turn of the century he briefly lived in Japan before relocating to St. Petersburg. During the Revolution of 1905 he moved to Saxony in Germany and studied at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. He also worked in Chile and Bolivia before returning to Germany and working as a mining engineer then moving into acting and performing on the stage and screen.

During the early years he often appeared in leading roles, but as time passed he increasing switched to character roles. In the Nazi era he played small roles, particularly Russians, in propaganda films such as Attack on Baku (1942). He died of natural causes in the last weeks of the Second World War.

Selected filmography

• Margot de Plaisance (1919)
• Evelyn's Love Adventures (1921)
• The Living Propeller (1921)
• Her Highness the Dancer (1922)
• Girl of the Berlin Streets (1922)
• The Moneylender's Daughter (1922)
• The Shadow of the Mosque (1923)
• Father Voss (1925)
• The Man on the Comet (1925)
• The Eleven Schill Officers (1926)
• The Red Mouse (1926)
• The Villa in Tiergarten Park (1927)
• Escape from Hell (1928)
• Luther (1928)
• Orient (1928)
• Volga Volga (1928)
• Taxi at Midnight (1929)
• Men Without Work (1929)
• His Best Friend (1929)
• The Ship of Lost Souls (1929)
• The Man in the Dark (1930)
• Busy Girls (1930)
• A Storm Over Zakopane (1931)
• Shadows of the Underworld (1931)
• Road to Rio (1931)
• The Adventurer of Tunis (1931)
• Tannenberg (1932)
• Death Over Shanghai (1932)
• Asew (1935)
• Across the Desert (1936)
• City of Anatol (1936)
• The Desert Song (1939)
• Carl Peters (1941)
• Geheimakte W.B.1 (1942)
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)

Bibliography

• Giesen, Rolf. Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography. McFarland & Company, 2003.
• Grange, William. Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

• Aruth Wartan at IMDb