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Alexander Allerson
Alexander Allerson is a German film and television actor.Watson p.299 Partial filmography * '' Man and Beast'' (1963), as SS-Man Goldap * ''Encounter in Salzburg'' (1964), as Mahlke * ''The Upper Hand'' (1966) * ''The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight'' (1966), as Husky * '' The Alley Cats'' (1966) * ''I Deal in Danger'' (1966), as Draus * '' Vengeance'' (1968) * ''Assignment K'' (1968) * ''Battle of Britain'' (1969), as Major Brandt * ''The McKenzie Break'' (1970), as Lieutenant Wolff * ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' (1972) * ''Tears of Blood'' (1972) * '' Temptation in the Summer Wind'' (1972) * '' ... All the Way, Boys!'' (1973), as Saluds brother * '' Ludwig'' (1973), as Secretary of State * ''My Name Is Nobody'' (1973), as Rex * '' Who?'' (1974), as Dr. Korthu * ''The Odessa File'' (1974), as Dr. Ratinger * ''The Secret Carrier'' (1975) * '' I Only Want You to Love Me'' (1976), as Peter’s father * ''Satan's Brew'' (1976), as Publisher * '' Chinese Roulette'' (1976), as Gerhard Christ * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostróda
Ostróda (; Old Prussian: ''Austrāti'') is a town in northern Poland, in the historic region of Masuria. It is the seat of the Ostróda County within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and has approximately 33,191 inhabitants (2009). Ostróda is the largest town in the western part of Masuria, and the second largest in all of Masuria after Ełk. Geography The town lies in the west of the historic Masuria region on the Drwęca river, a right tributary of the Vistula. Lake Drwęca west of the town is part of the Masurian Lake District. Ostróda has become a growing tourist site owing to its relaxing natural surroundings. The National road 7 from Gdańsk to Warsaw, part of European route E77, passes through Ostróda. The Elbląg Canal connects Ostróda with the Baltic coast. History Middle Ages At the site of an original settlement of Old Prussians on an island at the river delta where the Drwęca river flows into Lake Drwęca the town of Ostróda evolved. In 1270 the Teutonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temptation In The Summer Wind
''Temptation in the Summer Wind'' (german: Versuchung im Sommerwind) is a 1972 West German romantic comedy film directed by Rolf Thiele and starring Helmut Käutner, Yvonne Furneaux, and Paul Hubschmid Paul Hubschmid (; 20 July 1917 – 31 December 2001) was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1972 films West German films 1972 romantic comedy films German romantic comedy films 1970s German-language films Films directed by Rolf Thiele 1970s German films {{1970s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Marleen (film)
''Lili Marleen'' is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that stars Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, and Mel Ferrer. Set in the time of the Third Reich, the film recounts the love affair between a German singer who becomes the darling of the nation, based on Lale Andersen, and a Swiss conductor, based on Rolf Liebermann, who is active in saving his fellow Jews. Though the screenplay uses the autobiographical novel ''Der Himmel hat viele Farben'' (''The Heavens Have Many Colors'') by Lale Andersen, her last husband, Arthur Beul, said the film bears little relation to her real life. Plot In Switzerland, an aspiring German singer called Willie is in love with Robert, a trainee conductor who is Jewish. His family are part of a network enabling Jews and their money to find safety in neutral Switzerland. Fearing that the network could be endangered by Robert's involvement with a German woman, his wealthy father has her deported. Back in Germany, Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despair (film)
''Despair'' is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic. The plot is mostly similar to the novel, although one of the key characters is significantly altered in the adaptation. Plot Hermann Hermann lives in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. A refugee from Soviet Russia, with a Baltic German father and a wealthy Jewish mother, he has inherited a business making chocolates. His Jewish wife Lydia, voluptuous but not intelligent, has an over-close relationship with her bachelor cousin, a painter called Ardalion. As the Great Depression bites and Nazi thugs start targeting Jewish businesses, with his firm becoming less profitable and Germany less hospitable, Hermann starts dreaming of escape. He already has moments of leaving his body ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Of Angels
''Shadow of Angels'' (german: Schatten der Engel) is a 1976 Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid. It was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based upon the play ''Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod'' by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast * Ingrid Caven - Lily Brest * Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Raoul * Klaus Löwitsch - Jude / Broker * Annemarie Düringer - Luise Müller * Adrian Hoven - Herr Müller, ihr Mann * Boy Gobert - Chief of Police: Müller II * Ulli Lommel - Der kleine Prinz / Little Prince * Jean-Claude Dreyfus - Zwerg / Dwarf (as Jean-Claude Dreyfuss) * Irm Hermann - Emma * Alexander Allerson - Hans von Gluck * Harry Baer Harry Baer (born Harry Zöttl on 27 September 1947) is a German actor, producer and author, best known for his work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also been credited as Harry Bär. Life Harry Baer began his career in Munich when ... - Helfritz References External links * 1976 films 1976 drama films 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Roulette
'' Chinese Roulette '' (german: Chinesisches Roulette) is a 1976 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Margit Carstensen, Ulli Lommel, and Anna Karina. The film, a bleak psychological drama, climaxes with a truth-guessing game, which gives the film its title. The plot follows a bourgeois married couple whose infidelities are exposed by their disabled child. Plot Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, are packing before going off for the weekend, which each intends to spend abroad. While they are away their twelve-year-old daughter Angela, who is disabled and walks with crutches, has to remain home under the care of her mute governess, Traunitz. Actually, the couple have lied about their travel intentions. Convinced that his wife and daughter will be elsewhere, Gerhard takes his longtime mistress Irene Cartis — a French hairdresser — on a weekend tryst to the family's country house. The Christ family's rural estate is run by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satan's Brew
''Satan's Brew'' (german: Satansbraten) is a 1976 German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Plot The poet Walter Kranz and his practical wife Luise live with Walter's mentally disabled brother Ernst. They have money problems, as the formerly successful "poet of the revolution" has not written anything in two years. His bank account is overdrawn, his publisher refuses to give him an advance, and he has already accumulated too many debts with his friends Lisa and Rolf. One of Walter's mistresses, Irmgard von Witzleben, writes him a check, but he accidentally shoots her while roleplaying with a gun. Walter gets the idea to write about a prostitute and begins to interview Lana von Meyerbeer, but finds it easier to sleep with her than to ask good questions. His wife watches and complains that he has not slept with her in 17 days. Meanwhile his brother Ernst is busy increasing his collection of dead flies. While a policeman comes to ask for Walter's alibi for the murder, som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Carrier
''The Secret Carrier'' (German: ''Der Geheimnisträger'') is a 1975 West German comedy film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Willy Millowitsch, Brigitte Mira and Sybil Danning.Bock & Bergfelder p.291 Location shooting took place in Rhodes. Synopsis A mild-manner Cologne accountant is recruited to take part in a secret mission. Cast * Willy Millowitsch as Buchhalter Kuno Hopfen * Gunther Philipp as Drusus Malz * Brigitte Mira as Betty Hopfen * Sybil Danning as Tanja * Jürgen Scheller as Mann mit den zehn Gesichtern * Hansi Kraus as Curd Bergmann * Jutta Speidel as Lisa Hopfen * Peter Millowitsch as Ferdinand Platz * Alexander Allerson as Dr. Dregger * Walter Ullrich as Dr. Herms * Barbara Assmann as Luise Platz * Gernot Duda as Agent ZZ * Theo Lingen as Dr. Thoms * Eddi Arent as Wiesbach * Heinz Reincke Karl-Heinz Reincke (28 May 1925 – 13 July 2011) was a German-born actor, long-based in Vienna. Selected filmography Films *'' A Heart Returns Home'' (1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Odessa File (film)
''The Odessa File'' is an 1974 thriller film, adapted from the 1972 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, about a reporter's investigation of a neo-Nazi political-industrial network in post-Second World War West Germany. The film stars Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell and was directed by Ronald Neame, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It was the only film that the Schell siblings made together. Plot On 22 November 1963, the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dallas, Peter Miller (Jon Voight), a young freelance reporter in Hamburg, West Germany, pulls his car over to the kerb to listen to a radio report of the event. As a result, he happens to be stopped at a traffic signal as an ambulance passes by on a highway. He follows the ambulance and discovers it is en route to pick up the body of an elderly man who has committed suicide, leaving behind no family. Peter obtains the man's diary and learns the man was Salomon Tauber ( Towje Kl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who? (film)
''Who?'' is a 1974 British science fiction film based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Algis Budrys. It was directed by Jack Gold and stars Elliott Gould, Trevor Howard and Joseph Bova. Some video releases were retitled ''The Man in the Steel Mask'' or ''Roboman''. Synopsis An enigmatic individual with a metal face is returned from East Germany and claims to be Lucas Martino, an American scientist who was working on a top-secret project but was severely injured and scarred in a car crash. American authorities hold him in custody while they try to establish whether the man is the real Martino or an impostor looking for secret information about the ultimate rocket project developed in the West. Cast * Elliott Gould as Sean Rogers * Trevor Howard as Colonel Azarin * Joseph Bova Joseph Bova (May 25, 1924 – March 12, 2006) was an American actor. He worked in early television, having a children's show on WABC-TV in New York, and played Prince Dauntless in the Broadway mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
