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A Night In May
''A Night in May'' (german: Eine Nacht im Mai) is a 1938 German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Viktor Staal, and Karl Schönböck. It was made by UFA the leading German company at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Grave and Max Mellin. Some location filming took place around Wannsee. Cast * Marika Rökk as Inge Fleming *Viktor Staal as Willy Prinz *Karl Schönböck as Waldemar Becker *Gisela Schlüter as Alma * Oskar Sima as Direktor Fleming Jr. * Albert Florath as Direktor Fleming Sr. *Ingeborg von Kusserow as Friedl *Mady Rahl as Mimi *Franz Arzdorf as Berghoff *Ursula Herking as Johanna *Ludwig Schmitz Ludwig Schmitz (January 28, 1884 – June 28, 1954) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career including the 1951 comedy '' The Heath Is Green''. He was part of the popular comedy duo Tran and Helle along with ... as Schupo Emil References Bib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter. , bfi.org.uk; accessed 11 December 2016. Biography Jacoby was born in Mainz, Germany, the son of Wilhelm Jacoby (1855-1925), a German comedic playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces, such as '' The Duchess of Athens'' (1883) and '' Pension Schöller'' (1890), wh ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Mellin
Max Mellin (1904–1977) was a German art director.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.275 Selected filmography * ''Happy Days in Aranjuez'' (1933) * ''The Girlfriend of a Big Man'' (1934) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1934) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) * ''Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935) * '' Winter in the Woods'' (1936) *'' Lady Killer'' (1937) * ''Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * '' The Governor'' (1939) * ''Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ''Music in Salzburg'' (1944) * ''Hello, Fraulein!'' (1949) * ''The Blue Straw Hat'' (1949) * '' Everything for the Company'' (1950) * ''Love on Ice'' (1950) * ''Love and Blood'' (1951) * '' The Lady in Black'' (1951) * ''Captive Soul'' (1952) * ''Towers of Silence'' (1952) * ''The Imaginary Invalid'' (1952) * '' Roses Bloom on the Moorland'' (1952) * ''The Last Waltz'' (1953) * ''The Angel with the Flaming Sword'' (1954) * '' The Sinful Village'' (1954) * ''Request Concert'' (1955) * ''Lost Child 312'' (1955) * '' Doctor Bertram'' (1957) * ''Do Not Send Your ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Berlin
Berlin is a major center in the European and German film industry. It is home to more than 1000 film and television production companies and 270 movie theaters. Three hundred national and international co-productions are filmed in the region every year. Babelsberg Studios and the production company UFA are located outside Berlin in Potsdam. The city is also home of the European Film Academy and the German Film Academy, and hosts the annual Berlin International Film Festival which is considered to be the largest publicly attended film festival in the world. www.europeanfilmacademy.org, Accessed 19 December 2006. See also Berlin Film Festival www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 12 November 2006. This is a list of films whose |
German Comedy Films
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Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books is a New York and Oxford-based publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ... of scholarly books and academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on Social anthropology, social & cultural anthropology, European history, politics, and Film studies, film & media studies. It was founded in 1994 by Marion Berghahn. Books division Berghahn Books publishes ca 140 new titles and some 80 paperback editions each year and has a backlist of nearly 2,500 titles in print. New titles are published in both print and online, with the select digitization of the backlist currently being undertaken as part of the Berghahn Books Online platform. Many Berghahn titles have been reviewed on ''Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Schmitz
Ludwig Schmitz (January 28, 1884 – June 28, 1954) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career including the 1951 comedy '' The Heath Is Green''. He was part of the popular comedy duo Tran and Helle along with Joseph Hussels. Schmitz was a member of the SS from 1 March 1934 and a member of the Nazi Party from May 1937, however he was barred from the German film industry from 1941 "due to unworthy behavior". It was only in the 1950s that the popular comedian was seen again in the West German cinema. He died of a heart attack in 1954. Selected filmography * ''The Unsuspecting Angel'' (1936) * '' A Night in May'' (1938) * '' The Muzzle'' (1938) * ''Hurrah! I'm a Father'' (1939) * '' Wibbel the Tailor'' (1939) * '' The Comedians'' (1941) * '' The Heath Is Green'' (1951) * '' Pension Schöller'' (1952) * ''The Land of Smiles'' (1952) * ''At the Well in Front of the Gate'' (1952) * ''Rose of the Mountain'' (1952) * ''A Thousand Red Roses Bloom'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Herking
Ursula Herking (28 January 1912 – 17 November 1974) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany. Selected filmography * '' Susanne in the Bath'' (1936) * '' Stronger Than Regulations'' (1936) * '' Uncle Bräsig'' (1936) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) * ''The Four Companions'' (1938) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) * '' Goodbye, Franziska'' (1941) * ''A Gust of Wind'' (1942) * '' Love Me'' (1942) * ''Bravo Acrobat!'' (1943) * ''Beloved Darling'' (1943) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * ''Nora'' (1944) * ''The Roedern Affair'' (1944) * ''A Wife for Three Days'' (1944) * ''Thank You, I'm Fine'' (1948) * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1949) * '' Shadows in the Night'' (1950) * ''Who Drove the Grey Ford?'' (1950) * ''Furioso'' (1950) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) * '' When a Woman Loves'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Arzdorf
Franz Arzdorf (5 May 1904 – 24 April 1974) was a German stage, film and television actor.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.276 Selected filmography * ''Love Can Lie'' (1937) * '' Dangerous Game'' (1937) * ''Talking About Jacqueline'' (1937) * '' A Night in May'' (1938) * '' Men, Animals and Sensations'' (1938) * ''A Girl Goes Ashore'' (1938) * '' People Who Travel'' (1938) * '' Kitty and the World Conference '' (1939) * '' Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * '' The Merciful Lie'' (1939) * '' The Governor'' (1939) * ''The Three Codonas'' (1940) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * '' Friedemann Bach'' (1941) * '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941) * ''The Golden Spider'' (1943) * '' Dark Eyes'' (1951) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1952) * ''Mailman Mueller ''Mailman Mueller'' (german: Briefträger Müller) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by John Reinhardt and starring Heinz Rühmann, Heli Finkenzeller and Wolfgang Condrus.Körner p.367 It was shot in Agfacolor at the Tempelhof Studios ...'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mady Rahl
Mady Rahl (3 January 1915 – 29 August 2009) was a German stage and film actress. Born Edith Gertrud Meta Raschke in Neukölln, now part of Berlin, Rahl trained as an actress and dancer. In 1935 she made her stage debut in Leipzig under the direction of Douglas Sirk and started her film career in 1936 with the movie ''The Mysterious Mister X''. With her role in the circus drama ''Truxa'' ( 1937), Rahl became known to a wider audience. After the war, she sang with her friend Elfreide Datzig for the USO. She ultimately appeared in approximately 90 movies, several of them for UFA. In later years, she appeared frequently on television, while also pursuing her career in the theatre. She was also the German voice of many cartoon characters and of Lucille Ball. Rahl's first marriage was to financier Theodor Reimers, her second was to producer Wilhem Sperber, and her third was to architect Werner Bürkle. All three marriages ended in divorce, and she had no children. Late in life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg Von Kusserow
Ingeborg von Kusserow (28 January 1919 – 14 April 2014) was a German film actress. Biography Kusserow was born in Wollstein, Province of Posen, Germany (today Wolsztyn, Poland). She starred in Nazi propaganda films during the Third Reich, which she wrote about in a 1949 memoir ''I Was Hitler's Mickey Mouse''. Kusserow married Percy Graf Welsburg in November 1941; they hoped to get away to Switzerland and Italy but in fact had to remain in Berlin throughout the war, which she describes in a 1948 memoir ''Enough, no More''. They finally emigrated to Britain in 1947 and lived in St John's Wood, London and she restarted her acting career, usually appearing as Ingeborg Wells. Kusserow retired in 1960 and divorced Welsburg, but married again in 1968 to Kenneth Slingsby-Fahn (1913–2007), a retired RAF officer. Their life together in their garden flat in Abercorn Place has been recounted in a memoir by a neighbour. In 1979 she and her husband relocated to a cottage in Houghton, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Florath
Albert Peter Adam Florath (7 December 1888, Bielefeld – 11 March 1957, Gaildorf) was a German stage and film actor. Early life and education Born to Joseph Florath, a locksmith, and his wife Matilda, née Burkart, he attended school in Brakel and the Realgymnasium in Paderborn. He was bailiff candidate in Delbrück, where he was active in the welfare, church and school department and the police administration. Acting career Florath gained first stage experience in amateur dramatic groups of local clubs in Delbrück. In 1908, Florath gave up his career in office and went to Munich-Schwabing, to devote himself entirely to acting. He debuted in 1908 as a stage actor at the court theater in Munich. He took acting lessons with Alois Wohlmut and, as a sideline, wrote feuilleton contributions. When the First World War began, Florath interrupted his artistic career, volunteering as a reserve lieutenant and serving as an instructor of recruits. His wartime experiences caused him t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high school in Vienna. After a brief tour in the army during World War I, he began acting in various theatrical productions in Berlin, Vienna, and other cities in Central Europe. He began his film career in 1921, and appeared in a number of German silent films early on. Sima was frequently cast as the comic villain whose machinations get everyone into trouble, although often his villainous stature was used to more chilling effect. In 1929, Sima married actress Lina Woiwode. The couple remained married until Sima's death. Along with Friedl Czepa, Fred Hennings and Leni Riefenstahl he was identified as being an active supporter of the Nazi Party. After World War II, Sima was a frequent character actor, causing one biographer to write, "... there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
