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Štěpán Kopecký
Štěpán Kopecký (1901–1956) was a Czech art director.Bergfelder, Harris & Street p.214 He designed the sets for more than eighty films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The Inspector General'' (1933) * ''Annette in Paradise'' (1934) * ''Polish Blood'' (1934) * ''Volga in Flames'' (1934) * '' Grand Hotel Nevada'' (1935) * ''Delightful Story'' (1936) * '' Three Men in the Snow'' (1936) * ''Cause for Divorce'' (1937) * '' Sign of the Anchor '' (1947) * ''Border Street ''Border Street'' (Polish:''Ulica Graniczna'') is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński, Jerzy Złotnicki and Władysław Godik. The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsa ...'' (1948) References Bibliography * Bergfelder, Tim & Harris, Sue & Street, Sarah. ''Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema''. Amsterdam University Press, 2007. External links * 1901 births 1956 dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delightful Story
''Delightful Story'' (Czech:''Rozkosný príbeh'') is a 1936 Czech operetta film directed by Vladimír Slavínský and starring Věra Ferbasová, Zita Kabátová and Frantisek Kristof-Veselý.Opěla p.296 The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký. Cast * Věra Ferbasová as Helena Veselá * Zita Kabátová as Miluska Kovárová * František Kristof-Veselý as JUDr. Jára Nerad * Oldřich Nový as Jaroslav Nerad * Růžena Šlemrová as Ema Neradová * Jan Pivec as Karel Dobes * Theodor Pištěk (actor), Theodor Pistek as Ferdinand Nerad * Ladislav Pešek as Ferdinand Nerad * Stanislav Neumann as Fred Penkava * Adina Mandlová as Eva Randová * Baletni Soubor Tylova Divadla as Dancers * Julius Batha as Bookkeeper * Josef Fuksa as Dancer * Milada Gampeová as Eva's Mother * Jiří Hron as Customer * Iska Kostalova as Dancer * Oldřich Kovár as Singer * František Krejci as Porter * Ota Motycka as Nerad's Servant * Alois Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Births
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Border Street
''Border Street'' (Polish:''Ulica Graniczna'') is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński, Jerzy Złotnicki and Władysław Godik. The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsaw Jews by following the fates of five families, representative of the various social, political, and ethnic strata in Warsaw, through the war, and culminates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Ford did not provide viewers a happy ending because he wanted "the viewer who watches it to realize that the issue of fascism and racial oppression is not over." It won the Gran Prix at the 1948 Venice Film Festival. The film's sets were designed by the art director Stepán Kopecký. Plot In Poland in the summer of 1939 there was the deepest peace. The place of action is initially an ordinary Warsaw apartment building. The tenants are of different nature and social background. There is, for example, the enterprising Bronek, then young Władek, son o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sign Of The Anchor
''Sign of the Anchor'' (Czech:''Znamení kotvy'') is a 1947 Czech drama film directed by František Čáp and starring Hana Vítová, Zdeňka Baldová and Vlasta Fabianová. The film's art direction was by Štěpán Kopecký. Cast * Hana Vítová as Pavla Marková aka Miss Camilla * Zdeňka Baldová as Pavla's mother * Vlasta Fabianová as Prostitute Černá Fanka * Eduard Kohout as Maestro Lascari * Zdeněk Štěpánek as Captain Troska * Július Pántik as Wheelsman Franta Hojdar * Ladislav H. Struna as Wheelsman Hojdar * Jarmila Smejkalová as Seamstress Růža * Vladimír Salač as Cabin boy Lojza Brůha * Josef Maršálek as Greaser Toník Truneček * Jan W. Speerger as Boatman * Jaroslav Zrotal as Vojta * Karel Effa as Cabin boy Pobříslo * Ota Motyčka as Innkeeper Krůta * František Dibarbora František () is a masculine given name of Czech origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francisco, François, and Franz. People with the name include: *Frank Daniel (Franti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cause For Divorce
''Cause for Divorce'' (german: Der Scheidungsgrund) is a 1937 Czech-German comedy drama film directed by Karel Lamač and starring Anny Ondra, Jack Trevor and Robert Dorsay Robert Dorsay (16 August 1904 – 29 October 1943) was a German actor, dancer, and singer who was executed in October 1943 for defeatism and defamation of National Socialism. Life The only son of the opera singer Paul Stampa and the soprano D .... It was Ondra's last film to be directed by Lamač.Bock & Bergfelder p. 347 Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1937 films Czech comedy-drama films Films of Nazi Germany German comedy-drama films 1937 comedy-drama films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Karel Lamač German films based on plays German black-and-white films Czechoslovak black-and-white films Czechoslovak comedy-drama films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Men In The Snow (1936 Film)
''Three Men in the Snow'' (Czech: ''Tri muzi ve snehu'') is a 1936 Czech comedy film directed by Vladimír Slavínský and starring Hugo Haas, Věra Ferbasová and Jindřich Plachta. It is based on the novel of the same title by Erich Kästner.Goble p.252 The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký. Cast * Hugo Haas as Továrník Eduard Bárta * Věra Ferbasová as Vera Bártová * Jindřich Plachta as Jan Náprstek * Zdeňka Baldová as Julie Hubácková * Vladimír Borský as Dr. Obch. véd. Jaroslav Hájek * Ella Nollová as Jeho matka * František Paul as Reditel hotelu * Theodor Pistek as Vrátný v Imperialu * Míla Reymonová as Pani Kasperová * Vlasta Hrubá as Paní Severová * Jaroslav Marvan as Director of Barta's Works See also * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * ''Paradise for Three ''Paradise for Three'', titled ''Romance for Three'' in the United Kingdom, is a 1938 romantic comedy film starring Frank Morgan as a wealthy industrial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Hotel Nevada
''Grand Hotel Nevada'' ( cs, Grandhotel Nevada) is a 1935 comedy film directed by Jan Sviták and starring Lída Baarová, Otomar Korbelář, and Karel Dostal. It was made in Prague by the Czech subsidiary of the Germany company UFA. The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký Štěpán Kopecký (1901–1956) was a Czech art director.Bergfelder, Harris & Street p.214 He designed the sets for more than eighty films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The Inspector General'' (1933) * ''Annette in Paradise'' (1934 .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1935 films Films directed by Jan Sviták 1930s Czech-language films Films of Nazi Germany German comedy films 1935 comedy films UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohemia
Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, in which case the smaller region is referred to as Bohemia proper as a means of distinction. Bohemia was a duchy of Great Moravia, later an independent principality, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire, and subsequently a part of the Habsburg monarchy and the Austrian Empire. After World War I and the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak state, the whole of Bohemia became a part of Czechoslovakia, defying claims of the German-speaking inhabitants that regions with German-speaking majority should be included in the Republic of German-Austria. Between 1938 and 1945, these border regions were joined to Nazi Germany as the Sudetenland. The remainder of Czech territory became the Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volga In Flames
''Volga in Flames'' (French: ''Volga en flammes'') is a 1934 historical adventure film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Albert Prejean, Valéry Inkijinoff and Danielle Darrieux.Driskell p.209 It was made as a co-production between France and Czechoslovakia and is an adaptation of the 1836 novel ''The Captain's Daughter'' by Alexander Pushkin, set during the Cossack Rebellion against Catherine the Great. The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew and Stepán Kopecký. It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate .... Cast References Bibliography * Jonathan Driskell. ''The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France''. I.B.Tauris, 2015. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Blood
''Polish Blood'' (German: ''Polenblut'') is a 1934 musical film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Anny Ondra, Hans Moser and Iván Petrovich.Bock & Bergfelder p.272 It is an operetta film, based on a work by the Polish-born writer Leo Stein. The film's sets were designed by art directors Bohumil Hes and Stepán Kopecký. A separate Czech language version was also released. Cast * Anny Ondra as Helena Zaremba * Hans Moser as Jan Zaremba * Iván Petrovich as Graf Bolko Baransky * Margarete Kupfer as Jadwiga Kwasinskaja * Hilde Hildebrand as Wanda Kwasinskaja * Rudolf Carl as Bronio von Popiel * Paul Rehkopf as Dymscha, Gutsverwalter * Karl Platen as Constanty * Helmut Heyne Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth. From old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood"). Helmut may refer ... * Franz Marner * Alfred Frey Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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