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Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Arthur Maria Rabenalt (25 June 1905 – 26 February 1993) was an Austrian film director, writer, and author. He directed more than 90 films between 1934 and 1978. His 1958 film ''That Won't Keep a Sailor Down'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Two years later, his 1960 film ''Big Request Concert'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. His career encompassed both Nazi cinema and West German productions. He also wrote several books on the 1930s and 1940s wave of German cinema. Career In his early teens, Rabenalt began his stage career directing operas at theatres in Darmstadt, Berlin and Gera. From then on to the mid-1920s he worked (though uncredited) as a production assistant on several films such including G. W. Pabst's ''Joyless Street'' (1925). After Nazi's rise to power, Rabenalt made his feature film debut directing the musical comedy, ''What Am I Without You'' (1934), which was then shortly followed with the releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Midsummer Night's Fire
''Midsummer Night's Fire'' or ''St. John's Fire'' (german: Johannisfeuer) is a 1939 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Anna Dammann, Ernst von Klipstein, and Gertrud Meyen. The film is based on the play '' Fires of St. John'' by Hermann Sudermann. The title refers to Saint John's Eve. The film's art direction was by and Erich Czerwonski. Location shooting took place in Prenzlau and around Masuria in East Prussia. It was remade in 1954 as '' Love is Forever''. Plot After many years in Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ..., a man returns to his village in East Prussia to marry his intended bride. However, he finds himself drawn to another girl and contemplates running away with her. Cast References External links * Films o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything Will Be Better In The Morning
''Everything Will Be Better in the Morning'' (german: Morgen ist alles besser) is a 1948 German omedy [film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt">ilm.html" ;"title="omedy [film">omedy [film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Ellen Schwanneke, Jakob Tiedtke and Grethe Weiser.Rentschler p. 345 The film's sets were designed by Ernst H. Albrecht. Cast See also *''Tomorrow It Will Be Better'' (1939) References Bibliography * External links * 1948 films West German films 1948 comedy films German comedy films 1940s German-language films Films directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt Films based on Austrian novels Remakes of Dutch films German black-and-white films 1940s German films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Premiere
''Love Premiere'' (german: Liebespremiere) is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hans Söhnker, Kirsten Heiberg and Fritz Odemar. The film's sets were designed by Robert Herlth. The film based on the stage play "Axel an der Himmelstür", that was a great success for Zarah Leander and established her marvelous career in 1936. When Zarah Leander signed a film contract with UFA in Babelsberg in 1937, Kirsten Heiberg was invited to replace Leander on stage but refused to. In 1943 originally Zarah Leander was the first choice to recreate her role on the silver screen but she left Germany in the midst of 1943 to return to her native Sweden. Thus Kirsten Heiberg could return to the screen after a film interdiction of two years. Her husband Franz Grothe Franz Grothe (17 September 1908 – 12 September 1982) was a German composer, mainly for the cinema. His musicals were outstanding successes. He was required to be a member of the Nazi party (No. 2.5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circus Renz (1943 Film)
''Circus Renz'' (german: Zirkus Renz) is a 1943 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring René Deltgen, Paul Klinger and Angelika Hauff. It is a circus film, made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies. The film takes its title from the real Circus Renz and is loosely based on the career of its founder Ernst Renz. It premiered at Berlin's UFA-Palast am Zoo in September 1943. It was a major commercial success. It was made partly at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst H. Albrecht. Location shooting took place around Breslau in Silesia. Cast *René Deltgen as Ernst Renz *Paul Klinger as Harms *Angelika Hauff as Bettina Althoff *Alice Treff as Frau von Grunau *Fritz Odemar as Herr von Grunau *Herbert Hübner as Circus Master Déjean *Willi Rose as Schwenz *Ernst Waldow as Polizeirat Bastian *Werner Pledath as The King *R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Front Theatre
''Front Theatre'' (German: ''Fronttheater'') is a 1942 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Heli Finkenzeller, René Deltgen and Lothar Firmans. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam. Location shooting took place in occupied Bordeaux and Greece. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Carlo Böhm and Willi Herrmann. Plot A woman gives up her successful acting career to support her Doctor husband. Later she takes part in entertainment for German forces during the Second World War. Cast *Heli Finkenzeller as Lena Meinhardt-Andres *René Deltgen as Dr. Paul Meinhardt * Lothar Firmans as Langhammer, director * Wilhelm Strienz as chamber singer Herrmann * as Hilde Keller * as Monika Keller *Willi Rose as Alwin Sommer *Rudolf Schündler as Walter Hülsen * Bruni Löbel as Gerda Hoffmann *Hilde von Stolz as Edith Reiß *Gerhard Dammann as Pietsch * Adolf Fischer as Otto Zielke * as Kumme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Codonas
''The Three Codonas'' (german: Die drei Codonas) is a 1940 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring René Deltgen, Ernst von Klipstein and Josef Sieber. It is based on the life of the circus performer Alfredo Codona. It was made by Tobis Film, one of the largest German production companies. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler. It premiered in Hamburg, twelve days before its first Berlin screening at the UFA-Palast am Zoo The Ufa-Palast am Zoo, located near Berlin Zoological Garden in the New West area of Charlottenburg, was a major Berlin cinema owned by Universum Film AG, or Ufa. Opened in 1919 and enlarged in 1925, it was the largest cinema in Germany until 19 .... Cast References Bibliography * Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1940''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988. External links * 1940s biographical drama films German biographical drama films Films of Nazi Germany Films directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape In The Dark
''Escape in the Dark'' or ''Flight into Darkness'' (german: Flucht ins Dunkel) is a 1939 German crime film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hertha Feiler, Joachim Gottschalk and Ernst von Klipstein. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios outside Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann. The film is about two veterans of the First World War employed in a chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ... works laboratory. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1939 crime films German crime films Films of Nazi Germany Films directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt German black-and-white films Terra Film films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios 1930s German films 1930s German-language films {{1930s-Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Von Stroheim
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film ''Greed'' (an adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel ''McTeague'') is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights problems, Stroheim found it difficult to find work as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. For his early innovations as a director, Stroheim is still celebrated as one of the first of the auteur directors.Obituary ''Variety'', May 15, 1957, page 75. He helped introduce more sophisticated plots and noirish sexual and psychological undercurrents into cinema. He died of prostate cancer in France in 1957, at the age of 71. Beloved by Parisian neo-Surrealists kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (; 28 December 19251 February 2002) was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff. Early years Hildegard Knef was born in Ulm in 1925. Her parents were Hans Theodor and Friede Augustine Knef. Her father, a decorated First World War veteran, died when she was only six months old, and her mother moved to Berlin and worked in a factory. Knef began studying acting at age 14 in 1940. She left school at 15 to become an apprentice animator with Universum Film AG. After she had a successful screen test, she went to the State Film School at Babelsberg, Berlin, where she studied acting, ballet, and elocution. Joseph Goebbels, who was Hitler's propaganda minister, wrote to her and asked to meet her, but Knef's friends wanted her to stay away from him. German film career Knef appeared in several films before the fall of Nazi Germany, but most were released only a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alraune (1952 Film)
''Alraune'', later renamed ''Unnatural: The Fruit of Evil'', is a 1952 black and white West German science fiction film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, based on the 1911 novel ''Alraune'' by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers, starring Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim. The film involves a scientist (von Stroheim) who creates a woman (Knef) who is beautiful and yet soulless, lacking any sense of morality. Plot Medical student Frank Braun (Karlheinz Böhm) arrives at his uncle's estate, Professor Jacob ten Brinken (Erich von Stroheim), to ask for a loan in order to continue his studies to become a doctor. Instead he comes across a beautiful woman Alraune (Hildegard Knef) gazing outside on the second story of the house. Upon asking the maid ( Gardy Brombacher), she claims to not know of any guests staying at the moment and to return the next day to see his uncle. He meets with his friends Wolf Gontram (Rolf Henniger) and Count "Gerald" Geroldingen (Harry Meyen). Despera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DEFA
DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PROGRESS archive platform. History DEFA was founded in Spring 1946 in the Soviet Occupied Zone in eastern Germany; it was the first film production company in post-World War II Germany. While the other Allies, in their zones of occupation, viewed a rapid revival of a German film industry with suspicion, the Soviets valued the medium as a primary means of re-educating the German populace as it emerged from twelve years of Nazi rule. Headquartered in Berlin, the company was formally authorized by the Soviet Military Administration to produce films on 13 May 1946, although Wolfgang Staudte had already begun work on DEFA's first film, ''Die Mörder sind unter uns'' (''The Murderers Are Among Us'') nine days earlier. The original board of di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
