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A Hopeless Case
''A Hopeless Case'' (german: Ein hoffnungsloser Fall) is a 1939 German comedy film directed by Erich Engel and starring Jenny Jugo, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Hannes Stelzer. The film's sets were designed by Karl Weber. Synopsis A determined female medical student at Berlin University resists the advances of her professor, single-mindedly concentrating on her chosen profession. She then sails to Argentina with her true love, fellow student who the Professor has arranged to be sent there to try and get out of the way. Cast * Jenny Jugo as Jenny * Karl Ludwig Diehl as Professor Dr. Bruchsal * Hannes Stelzer as Hans Faber * Leo Peukert as Jennys Vater * Axel von Ambesser as Verehrer * Heinz Salfner as Diener * Theodor Danegger as Gotthelf Matthias * Josefine Dora as Emma Matthias * Hans Richter as Student * Erik Ode as Student * Julia Serda * Frida Richard * Gustav Waldau * Werner Pledath Trivia On 14 March 1939, Adolf Hitler summoned Emil Hácha, President of Czechoslovakia to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Engel
Erich Gustav Otto Engel (14 February 1891 – 10 May 1966) was a German film and theatre director.He is often confused with another German film director called Erich Engels, who specialised in comedy, and crime films. Biography Engel was born in Hamburg, where later he studied at the School of Applied Arts. After finishing there he worked briefly as a journalist, then learnt acting at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, after which he spent several years with a touring theatre company. In 1917 and 1918 Engel was the dramaturgist in the ''Deutsches Schauspielhaus'', and later in the ''Hamburger Kammerspiele''. After a short engagement with the '' Bayerische Staatstheater'' in Munich he moved in 1924 to Berlin. At the '' Deutsche Theater'' he produced, among other pieces, Bertolt Brecht's '' Im Dickicht der Städte'' and soon became one of the foremost interpreters of Brecht's works on the German stage. His breakthrough came with Brecht's '' Dreigroschenoper'', the premiere of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Salfner
Heinz Salfner (31 December 1877 – 13 October 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Salfner appeared in more than sixty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1932 crime film '' A Shot at Dawn''.Youngkin p.465 Selected filmography * '' The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter'' (1920) * ''Youth'' (1922) * '' Judith'' (1923) * ''The Fifth Street'' (1923) * '' Time Is Money'' (1923) * '' The Beautiful Girl'' (1923) * ''Luther'' (1928) * ''Guilty'' (1928) * '' The Stranger'' (1931) * '' A Shot at Dawn'' (1932) * '' A Mad Idea'' (1932) * '' And the Plains Are Gleaming'' (1933) * ''Gold'' (1934) * ''I Was Jack Mortimer'' (1935) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' Victoria in Dover'' (1936) * ''Tomfoolery'' (1936) * ''A Wedding Dream'' (1936) * ''Scandal at the Fledermaus'' (1936) * '' A Hoax'' (1936) * ''Donogoo Tonka'' (1936) * '' Love's Awakening'' (1936) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' Five Million Look for an Heir'' (1938) * ''Marionette'' (1939) * ''Anton the Last'' (1939) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. Ribbentrop first came to Adolf Hitler's notice as a well-travelled businessman with more knowledge of the outside world than most senior Nazis and as a perceived authority on foreign affairs. He offered his house Schloss Fuschl for the secret meetings in January 1933 that resulted in Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany. He became a close confidant of Hitler, to the disgust of some party members, who thought him superficial and lacking in talent. He was appointed ambassador to the Court of St James's, the royal court of the United Kingdom, in 1936 and then Foreign Minister of Germany in February 1938. Before World War II, he played a key role in brokering the Pact of Steel (an alliance with Fascist Italy) and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (the Nazi–Soviet non-aggr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, Göring was a recipient of the ("The Blue Max"). He was the last commander of ''Jagdgeschwader'' 1 (Jasta 1), the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen. An early member of the Nazi Party, Göring was among those wounded in Adolf Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. While receiving treatment for his injuries, he developed an addiction to morphine which persisted until the last year of his life. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Göring was named as minister without portfolio in the new government. One of his first acts as a cabinet minister was to oversee the creation of the Gestapo, which he ceded to Heinrich Himmler in 1934. Following the establishment of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Hácha
Emil Dominik Josef Hácha (12 July 1872 – 27 June 1945) was a Czech lawyer, the president of Czechoslovakia from November 1938 to March 1939. In March 1939, after the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Hácha was the nominal president of the newly proclaimed German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Early life and legal career Emil Hácha was born on 12 July 1872 in the South Bohemian town of Trhové Sviny.Snyder "Hácha, Emil" ''Encyclopedia of the Third Reich'' p. 134 He graduated from a secondary school in Budweis and then applied for the law faculty at the University of Prague. After finishing his studies in 1896 (JUDr.) he worked for the Country Committee of the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague (a self-government body with quite limited power). In 1902, Hácha married Marie Háchová, née Klaus (born 17 April 1873 in Prague, died 6 February 1938 in Prague). They had a daughter, Milada. Marie died ten months before Hácha became president. Shortly after the outbreak of World Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the Chancellor of Germany, chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated European theatre of World War II, World War II in Europe by invasion of Poland, invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of Holocaust victims, about six million Jews and millions of other victims. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and was raised near Linz. He lived in Vienna later in the first decade of the 1900s and moved to Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his Military career of Adolf Hitler, service in the German Army in Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Pledath
Werner Pledath (26 April 1898 – 6 December 1965) was a German actor who appeared in many films during a lengthy career. He generally played supporting roles such as in '' Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932).Youngkin p.465 Pledath specialized in playing powerful, authority figures. Following the Second World War he appeared in several films made in East Germany. Selected filmography * ''Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * ''The Street Song'' (1931) * ''Who Takes Love Seriously?'' (1931) * '' Dreaming Lips'' (1932) * ''I by Day, You by Night'' (1932) * ''Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932) * '' Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932) * ''The Invisible Front'' (1932) * ''Scandal in Budapest'' (1933) * '' Today Is the Day'' (1933) * '' Mother and Child'' (1934) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * ''The Valiant Navigator'' (1935) * ''Pygmalion'' (1935) * ''The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935) * '' Port Arthur'' (1936) * ''Savoy Hotel 217'' (1936) * '' Victoria in Dover'' (1936) * '' White Slaves'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Waldau
Gustav Waldau (27 February 1871 – 25 May 1958) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1955. Selected filmography * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915) * ''In Thrall to the Claw'' (1921) * '' The Wrong Husband'' (1931) * '' A Man with Heart'' (1932) * '' A Mad Idea'' (1932) * ''Season in Cairo'' (1933) * ''Little Dorrit'' (1934) * '' Just Once a Great Lady'' (1934) * ''So Ended a Great Love'' (1934) * '' Farewell Waltz'' (1934) * '' Winter Night's Dream'' (1935) * ''A Night on the Danube'' (1935) * '' She and the Three'' (1935) * '' The Three Around Christine'' (1936) * '' Victoria in Dover'' (1936) * ''Such Great Foolishness'' (1937) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * '' The Voice of the Heart'' (1937) * ''The Great and the Little Love'' (1938) * ''Frau Sixta'' (1938) * '' Three Wonderful Days'' (1939) * ''A Hopeless Case'' (1939) * ''Gold in New Frisco'' (1939) * ''The Girl from Barnhelm'' (1940) * ''Falstaff in Vienna'' (1940) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Richard
Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress. Selected filmography * ''The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916) * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * '' The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach'' (1917) * ''The Diamond Foundation'' (1917) * ''The Ringwall Family'' (1918) * ''Waves of Fate'' (1918) * ''The Ghost Hunt'' (1918) * ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918) * ''Intoxication'' (1919) * ''Baccarat'' (1919) * '' The Dancer'' (1919) * ''Superstition'' (1919) * '' The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * '' Temperamental Artist'' (1920) * '' The Black Count'' (1920) * ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * '' Judith Trachtenberg'' (1920) * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' The Last Witness'' (1921) * ''The Hunt for the Truth'' (1921) * ''The New Paradise'' (1921) * ''The Stranger from Alster Street'' (1921) * ''About the Son'' (1921) * ''Alfred von Ingelheim's Dramatic Life'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' The Shado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Serda
Julia Serda (6 April 1875 – 3 December 1965) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Grange p.120 She was married to the actor Hans Junkermann. Biography Julia Serda was born on 6 April 1875 in Vienna. She became fascinated by the stage at an early age, taking singing lessons from Pauline Lucca and studying acting at the Vienna Conservatory. Serda made her debut in 1895 at the theater in Breslau, after which she went to Köningsberg for three years. In 1899 she followed a call to the Dresden Court Theater, to which she remained connected until 1908 and was awarded the title of "Royal Saxon Court Actress". During this time, she also made her Berlin debut in 1902, appeared at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1907, and in 1908 at the Meinhard-Bernauer-Bühnen. Serda was most successful for playing the naive and sentimental heroine, for example with the title role in Franz Grillparzer's tragedy ''The Jewess of Toledo'', as Oscar Wilde's '' Salome'', or as a cricket in ''Johannisfeuer' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Ode
Erik Ode (born Fritz Erik Signy Odemar, 6 November 1910 – 19 July 1983) was a German director and actor who was most famous for playing Kommissar ''Herbert Keller'' in the German television drama '' Der Kommissar'' (The Police Inspector). He married actress Hilde Volk in 1942. Many years later they co-starred together in the TV series ''Sun, Wine and Hard Nuts''. Selected filmography Actor * '' I.N.R.I.'' (1923) - Jesus als Kind * ''The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari'' (1930) - Wolfgang Anglert, Chefredakteur * ''A Student's Song of Heidelberg'' (1930) * ''Sein Scheidungsgrund'' (1931) - Rudi * ''Der Hochtourist'' (1931) * ''Kadetten'' (1931) - Kadett von Brenken * ''He Is Charming'' (1932) - (uncredited) * ''Kavaliere vom Kurfürstendamm'' (1932) - Niske * ''Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe'' (1932) - Krause * '' FP 1 antwortet nicht'' (1932) - Konrad Lennartz * ''What Women Dream'' (1933) * ''Season in Cairo'' (1933) - 3. Gigolo * ''Glück im Schloß'' (1933) - Georg * '' The Castle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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