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Austrian Films Of The 1980s ...
A list of films produced in the Cinema of Austria in the 1980s ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Austrian films see :Austrian films. 1980s External links Austrian filmat the Internet Movie Database *http://www.austrianfilm.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Austrian Films Of The 1980s 1980s Austrian Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Austria
Cinema of Austria refers to the film industry based in Austria. Austria has had an active film, cinema industry since the early 20th century when it was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and that has continued to the present day. Producer Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky, producer-director-writer Luise Kolm and the Austro-Hungarian directors Michael Curtiz and Alexander Korda were among the pioneers of early Austrian cinema. Several Austrian directors pursued careers in Weimar Germany and later in the United States, among them Fritz Lang, G. W. Pabst, Josef von Sternberg, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, and Otto Preminger. Between the two World Wars, directors like E. W. Emo and Henry Koster - the latter of whom had emigrated from Austria, provided examples of Austrian film comedies. At the same time, Willi Forst and Walter Reisch founded the ''Wiener Film'' genre. After Austria had become a part of Nazi Germany in 1938, Vienna's Wien-Film production company became an important studio for seeming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 In Film
The following is an overview of events in 1981 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten films released in 1981 by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * May 16 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie ''Heaven's Gate (film), Heaven's Gate'', a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica Corporation, Transamerica to sell it. * March 30 - The 53rd Academy Awards are postponed due to the Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan earlier that day. They are held the following day with a message from the President recorded for the ceremony prior to the assassination attempt. * June 8 - Marvin Davis acquires 20th Century Fox for $720 million. * June 12 – ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Hoppe
Rolf Hoppe (6 December 1930 – 14 November 2018) was a prolific German stage, cinema, and television actor, who played in more than 400 films in a career which spanned over six decades. To international audiences Hoppe is perhaps best known for his roles as ''the General'' in the Oscar-winning ''Mephisto'' (1981) and as ''the King'' in the East-German–Czechoslovakian Holiday classic '' Three Gifts for Cinderella'' (1973). Early life Hoppe was born the son of a master baker in Ellrich, Thuringia, Germany. After his apprenticeship as a baker, he worked from 1945 to 1948 as a coach driver. Career Hoppe moved to Erfurt where he began formal training as an actor at the Staatliches Konservatorium from 1949 to 1951, during which time he supported himself by working as an animal handler at the Zirkus Aeros. He later performed at ''Thalia Theater'' in Halle (Saale) and at the ''Theater der jungen Welt'' (children's and youth theatre) in Leipzig. His stage perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krystyna Janda
Krystyna Jolanta Janda (born 18 December 1952) is a Polish film and theater actress best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including ''Man of Marble'' (''Człowiek z marmuru'', 1976) and ''Man of Iron'' (''Człowiek z żelaza'', 1981). In 1981, Janda played in the Academy Award-winning movie ''Mephisto''. In 1982, she played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajski's film '' Przesłuchanie (Interrogation)'', which first premiered seven years later in 1989, following the collapse of communism. Despite the film's late release, she garnered international acclaim for her performance, including winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and Polish Film Festival in 1990. In 1993, she was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Janda is also known for her leading role in the second episode of ''Dekalog'' series of Krzysztof Kieślowski. Life and work She was born on 18 December 1952 in St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer (; born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in ''The Russia House'' (1990), ''Mephisto'' (1981), '' Never Say Never Again'' (1983), ''Out of Africa'' (1985), '' Hanussen'' (1988), '' Burning Secret'' (1988), and ''White Fang'' (1991). For his supporting role as Bror von Blixen-Finecke in the drama film ''Out of Africa'' (1985), Brandauer was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award. Brandauer has a working knowledge of at least five languages: German, Italian, Hungarian, English and French and has acted in each. Personal life Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee, Austria. He is the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng (or Stenj), a civil servant. He subsequently took his mother's first name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer. His first wife was Karin Katharina M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
István Szabó
István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director. Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the late 1960s. István Szabó's films are based on the tradition of the European auteurism that represent many aspects of the political and psychological conflicts of Central Europe's recent history often inspired by his own personal biography. He made his debut as a student in 1959, creating a short film at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, and his first feature film was released in 1964. He achieved his greatest international success with ''Mephisto'' (1981) for which he was awarded an Oscar in the best foreign language film category. Since then, most of Szabó's films have been international co-productions made in a variety of languages. His films are shot in European locations. However, he continues to make films in Hungarian, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mephisto (1981 Film)
''Mephisto'' is a 1981 political drama film co-written and directed by István Szabó, and based on the novel of the same title by Klaus Mann. It stars Klaus Maria Brandauer as a German stage actor (modeled on Gustaf Gründgens) who finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi regime, the popularity of his character ends up superseding his own existence, until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons. The film was a co-production of Hungarian, Austrian, and West German studios; starring a mix of German and Hungarian-speaking actors. It premiered in Budapest on 11 February 1981, and received widespread acclaim from critics, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, the first Hungarian picture to do so. Brandauer's performance earned him multiple accolades, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th Moscow International Film Festival
The 12th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1981. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Brazilian film ''O Homem que Virou Suco'' directed by João Batista de Andrade, the Vietnamese film '' The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone'' directed by Nguyen Hong Shen and the Soviet-French-Swiss film ''Teheran 43'' directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov. Jury * Stanislav Rostotsky (USSR – President of the Jury) * Juan Antonio Bardem (Spain) * Basu Bhattacharya (India) * Jerzy Hoffman (Poland) * Jacques Duqeau-Rupp (France) * Bata Živojinović (Yugoslavia) * Komaki Kurihara (Japan) * Jay Leyda (USA) * Miguel Littín (Chile) * László Lugossy (Hungary) * Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Brazil) * Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy) * Olzhas Suleimenov (USSR) * Med Hondo (Mauritania) * Lyudmila Chursina (USSR) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Golden Prizes: ** ''O Homem que Virou Suco'' by João Batista de Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Merkatz
Karl Merkatz (17 November 1930 – 4 December 2022) was an Austrian actor. Merkatz was born on 17 November 1930 in Wiener Neustadt, the son of a firefighter. He first wanted to become a carpenter. After World War II he was an active Boy Scout in Wiener Neustadt. However, later he started to enroll in acting lessons in Salzburg, Vienna and Zurich. Then he found employment in theatres, most notably in Munich, Salzburg, Hamburg and Vienna (Theater in der Josefstadt). During his later career he starred in several roles in television and motion pictures. In the role of Edmund Sackbauer (Mundl) in the 1970s, he became famous as the typical Viennese ('' Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter''). Another big success came with the films "Bockerer" starring as a naive Viennese during the Second World War in Vienna (the later films are set in the subsequent years to 1945). From 1999, Merkatz was chairman of the human rights group ''SOS Mitmensch''. Merkatz died in Straßwalchen on 4 Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Antel
Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies ( romantic, slapstick, and/or musical) and K.u.k. films' all of which, for Austrian and German TV stations alike, have been a staple of weekend afternoon programming ever since. In between there is quite a sober film about the Oberst (Colonel) Redl affair that shook the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the eve of World War I. Antel himself later commented on this period, "I always wanted to provide good entertainment for the people at the cinema. After the screening, people should say: Well now, I am in a good mood, I will go out and have a glass of wine." (German original: "Ich wollte die Leute im Kino immer gut unterhalten. Die Besucher sollten nach der Filmvorführung sagen: So, jetzt b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Bockerer
''Der Bockerer'' is a 1981 Austrian drama film directed by Franz Antel. It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival where Karl Merkatz won the award for Best Actor. The film was also selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Karl Merkatz as Karl Bockerer * Alfred Böhm as Hatzinger * Hans Holt as Herr Hofrat * Marte Harell * Ida Krottendorf as Sabine (Binerl) Bockerer * Rolf Kutschera * Erni Mangold as Besitzerin des Café Tosca * Heinz Marecek as Dr. Rosenblatt * Marianne Nentwich as Anna Hermann * Thaddäus Podgorski as Pfalzner (as Teddy Podgorsky) * Sieghardt Rupp as Herr Hermann * Regina Sattler as Elisabeth (as Regine Sattler) * Franz Stoss as Herr General (as Franz Stoß) * Klausjürgen Wussow as Dr. Lamm See also * List of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Cannes Film Festival
The 34th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 27 May 1981. The Palme d'Or went to the ''Człowiek z żelaza'' by Andrzej Wajda. The festival opened with '' Three Brothers'' (''Tre fratelli'') by Francesco Rosi and closed with '' Honeysuckle Rose'', directed by Jerry Schatzberg. Jury The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1981 feature film competition: Feature films *Jacques Deray (France) Jury President *Ellen Burstyn (USA) * Jean-Claude Carrière (France) *Robert Chazal (France) *Attilio d'Onofrio (Italy) *Christian Defaye (Switzerland) (journalist) *Carlos Diegues (Brazil) *Antonio Gala (Spain) *Andrey Petrov (Soviet Union) *Douglas Slocombe (UK) Official selection In competition - Feature film The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: *'' Angels of Iron'' by Thomas Brasch *''Beau-père'' by Bertrand Blier *''Chariots of Fire'' by Hugh Hudson *'' Cserepek'' by István Gaál *''Excalibur'' by John Boorman *'' Faktas'' by Almantas Grikevi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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