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Asew
''Asew'' or ''Double-Agent Asew'' or ''Asew the Agent Provocateur'' (german: Lockspitzel Asew) is a 1935 German-Austrian thriller film directed by Phil Jutzi and starring Fritz Rasp, Olga Tschechowa, and Hilde von Stolz. It was shot at the Sievering and Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Julius von Borsody. The film narrates the activities of Yevno Azef a Russian who had worked as an agent provocateur for the Tsarist Okhrana and infiltrated the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Asef had earned the trust of terrorist revolutionary comrades by assassinating top Russia's officials but betrayed many comrades, some of which were executing for involvement and planning of crimes and some by comrades themselves after Azef manipuled them into believing there were traitors to the anti-government cause, such as famous worker's resistance movement leader Gapon. After being ultimately proven traitor, Azef fled to Germany using fake ID provided by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Jutzi
Phil Jutzi (sometimes known as Piel Jutzi) (22 July 1896 – 1 May 1946) was a German cinematographer and film director. Born Philipp Jutzi in Altleiningen as the son of a tailor, Jutzi was self-educated. (He seems to have been generally known by the Palatinate dialect form of his given name, Piel, but a lawsuit by Harry Piel forced him to go by "Phil," though many journalists continued to use "Piel.") In 1916 he made posters for a small movie theater in the Black Forest, having been rejected by the military during World War I because of a physical disability. In 1919 he was an administrator of the Internationale Film-Industrie company in Heidelberg, which specialized in detective movies and westerns. In 1923 he married Emmy Philippine Zimmermann, the sister of the actor Holmes Zimmermann (born Johannes Zimmermann, 1900–1957), who acted in seven of his films; in May 1926 a daughter, Gisela, was born. In 1925 Jutzi moved to Berlin, where he worked as a documentary cameraman for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Chekhova
Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova (; russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980), known in Germany as Olga Tschechowa, was a Russian-German actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Mary'' (1931). Biography Olga Konstantinovna Knipper was born on 14 April 1897 (although some sources give 26 April or 13 April), the daughter of Konstantin Knipper (1868–1929), a railway engineer, and Yelena Luise "Lulu" Knipper (née Ried, 1874–1940), both Lutherans of ethnic German ancestry. Olga was the niece and namesake of Olga Knipper ( Anton Chekhov's wife). She went to school in Tsarskoye Selo but, after watching Eleonora Duse, joined the Moscow Art Theatre's studio. There she met the Russian-Jewish actor Mikhail Chekhov (Anton's nephew) in 1914 and married him the same year, taking his surname as her own. Their daughter, also named Olga, was born in 1916. She became an actress under the name of Ada Tsche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Rasp
Fritz Heinrich Rasp (13 May 1891 – 30 November 1976) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1916 and 1976. His obituary in '' Der Spiegel'' described Rasp as "the German film villain in service, for over 60 years." Life and career Fritz Heinrich Rasp was the thirteenth child of a county surveyor. He was educated from 1908–1909 at the Theaterschule Otto Königin in Munich. He made his stage debut in 1909, after he successfully overcame a speech impediment. During his long career, the character actor appeared in some of the most famous theatres in Germany, working with acclaimed directors such as Bertolt Brecht and Max Reinhardt and famous actors such as Albert Bassermann, Joseph Schildkraut and Werner Krauss. Rasp made an early film debut in 1916 and appeared in some early films by his friend, director Ernst Lubitsch. With his "gaunt, ascetic looks", Rasp played numerous scoundrels or shady characters during the Golden Age of German cinema in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Baum
Else Baum was an Austrian film editor active from 1930 to 1940. Selected filmography * ''Zwielicht'' (1940) * ''Ein Mädchen geht an Land'' (1938) * ''Schatten der Vergangenheit'' (1936) * ''Der König lächelt – Paris lacht'' (1936) * ''The White Horse Inn'' (1935) * ''...nur ein Komödiant'' (1935) * ''Die ewige Maske'' (1935) * ''Lockspitzel Asew'' (1935) * ''The Cousin from Nowhere'' (1934) * ''Shock Troop'' (1934) * ''Gruß und Kuß – Veronika'' (1933) * ''Two Good Comrades ''Two Good Comrades'' (german: Zwei gute Kameraden) is a 1933 German war comedy film directed by Max Obal and starring Paul Hörbiger, Fritz Kampers, and Jessie Vihrog. The film's art direction was by Robert A. Dietrich Robert A. Dietrich ...'' (1933) * '' There Is Only One Love'' (1933) * '' Sehnsucht 202'' (1932) * '' The Company's in Love'' (1932) * '' Reserve hat Ruh'' (1931) * ''Victoria and Her Hussar'' (1931) * ''Geld auf der Straße'' (1930) * ''Die Lindenw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aruth Wartan
Aruth Wartan (or ''Haruth Vartan'', hy, Հարութ Վարդան, 23 June 1880 – 14 April 1945) was a German film actor of Armenian origin who appeared in around ninety films during his career, generally in supporting roles. Life and career Born Arutjun Wartanian in Nakhichevan in the Russian Empire, he was of Armenian heritage. He graduated from high school in 1898 in Tbilisi, Georgia, and then briefly studied medicine in Kharkov (now in Ukraine). Around the turn of the century he briefly lived in Japan before relocating to St. Petersburg. During the Revolution of 1905 he moved to Saxony in Germany and studied at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. He also worked in Chile and Bolivia before returning to Germany and working as a mining engineer then moving into acting and performing on the stage and screen (since 1916). During the early years he often appeared in leading roles, but as time passed he increasing switched to character roles. In the Nazi era he pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Hübner
Herbert Hübner (6 February 1889 – 27 January 1972) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1921 and 1966. He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * '' The Prince of Arcadia'' (1932) * '' Ripening Youth'' (1933) * ''A Precocious Girl'' (1934) * ''Tales from the Vienna Woods'' (1934) * '' A Star Fell from Heaven'' (1934) * ''Asew'' (1935) * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * '' The Czar's Courier'' (1936) * '' The Dreamer'' (1936) * ''Savoy Hotel 217'' (1936) * '' The Accusing Song'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * ''Romance'' (1936) * '' Victoria in Dover'' (1936) * '' Alarm in Peking'' (1937) * ''To New Shores'' (1937) * '' The Ruler'' (1937) * '' Dangerous Game'' (1937) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) *''The Secret Lie'' (1938) * '' Travelling People'' (1938) * ''We Danced Around the World'' (1939) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Schürenberg
Siegfried Schürenberg (12 January 1900 – 31 August 1993) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1933 and 1974. He was born in Detmold, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany in 1993, at age 93. Although he never played leading roles, he was a well-known supporting actor who played the role of Sir John in numerous Edgar Wallace films during the 1960s. He was also a busy dubbing actor, for example as the German voice for Clark Gable in most of his films, including Rhett Butler in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind''. Selected filmography * ''Master of the World (1934 film), Master of the World'' (1934) * ''Forget Me Not (1935 film), Forget Me Not'' (1935) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * ''Asew'' (1935) * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) * ''To New Shores'' (1937) * ''The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (1937) * ''Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) * ''Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * ''Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * ''Madame Butte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Schafheitlin
Franz Schafheitlin (9 August 1895 – 6 February 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1927 and 1974. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Pullach, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Bordellos of Algiers'' (1927) * ''Mariett Dances Today'' (1928) * ''The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) as Bornhausen * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) as Prosecutor * '' The Ringer'' (1932) as Sergeant Carter * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1933) as Major * ''Sonnenstrahl'' (1933) as Ein Arzt im Unfallkrankenhaus * ''Frasquita'' (1934) as Juan * '' The Secret of Cavelli'' (1934) * ''Asew'' (1935) as Urzoff * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) as R12 * ''Eva'' (135) as Stefan, ein Arbeiter * ''The Eternal Mask'' (1935) as Monsieur Negar * ''Leutnant Bobby, der Teufelskerl'' (1935) * '' ...nur ein Komödiant'' (1935) as Blanchet, court painter * ''Die Pompadour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traudl Stark
Gertraud Marianne South ( Münzel, 17 March 1930 – 14 October 2021), better known as Traudl Stark, was an Austrian child actor in German cinema. Stark was born in Vienna on 17 March 1930, to secretary Siegfried Stark and Margarete Münzel. Her parents married later. She started her career in German cinema in 1934, and became known as "The Shirley Temple of Austria". During World War II, she appeared in a number of Nazi propaganda films. Between 1945 and 1947 she also acted on stage in Vienna. In 1948 she married Jack Elliot from Alabama and went to live with him in the United States, where they had two children together. She later married her second husband, Thomas South. From 1973, she lived in Tampa, Florida, where she died on 14 October 2021, at the age of 91. Filmography * ''Asew'' (1935) * ''Manja Valewska'' or ''Maria Walewska'' (1936) * '' His Daughter is Called Peter'' (1936) * ''Darling of the Sailors'' (1937) * ''Peter im Schnee'', English title: ''Peter in the Snow' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Hartmann (actor)
Otto Hartmann (1904–1994) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Following Austria's incorporation into Nazi Germany, Hartmann acted as an informer for the authorities (Gestapo). In punishment for this he was imprisoned after the Second World War had ended. Selected filmography * '' Bright Eyes'' (1929) * ''Father Radetzky'' (1929) * '' Madame Bluebeard '' (1931) * ''The Case of Colonel Redl'' (1931) * ''The Hymn of Leuthen'' (1933) * ''Our Emperor'' (1933) * '' Suburban Cabaret'' (1935) * ''Asew'' (1935) * '' Court Theatre'' (1936) * ''The White Dream'' (1943) During the war Hartmann was a member of the ''Österreichische Freiheitsbewegung (Austrian freedom movement'', a nonviolent conservative catholic resistance group), whose goal was the liberation from National Socialism and the detachment of Austria from the German Reich. He collected Information about this group and other resistance groups and assembled lists of their members. He gave this information to the Gestapo, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Forest
Karl Forest (1874–1944) was an Austrian actor. He was married to the actress Traute Carlsen. Selected filmography * ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (1923) * '' The Money Devil'' (1923) * '' Boarding House Groonen'' (1925) * ''The Guardsman'' (1925) * ''Der Rosenkavalier'' (1925) * ''The Queen of Moulin Rouge'' (1926) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1926) * '' Father Radetzky'' (1929) * '' Little Veronica'' (1929) * '' The Squeaker'' (1931) * ''Die Fledermaus'' (1931) * '' The Ringer'' (1932) * '' Mamsell Nitouche'' (1932) * ''Wehe, wenn er losgelassen'' (1932) * ''Gently My Songs Entreat'' (1933) * ''Asew'' (1935) * '' Lumpaci the Vagabond'' (1936) * ''Woman in the River'' (1939) * ''Immortal Waltz ''Immortal Waltz'' () is a 1939 historical drama film directed by E. W. Emo and starring Paul Hörbiger, Dagny Servaes, and Maria Andergast. It was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna. The film's art direction was by Julius von Borsody. ...'' (1939) Bibliography * Jung, Ul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Hoesch
Eduard Hoesch (15 March 1890 – 5 November 1983) was an Austrian cinematographer and film producer. Selected filmography * '' The Grinning Face'' (1921) * ''Meriota the Dancer'' (1922) * '' The Separating Bridge'' (1922) * '' The Little Sin'' (1923) * ''Hotel Potemkin'' (1924) * ''Colonel Redl'' (1925) * '' A Waltz by Strauss'' (1925) * ''The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926) * '' Her Highness Dances the Waltz'' (1926) * '' The Arsonists of Europe'' (1926) * ''The Orlov'' (1927) * ''Flirtation'' (1927) * ''The Prince's Child'' (1927) * ''German Women - German Faithfulness'' (1927) * '' The Merry Farmer'' (1927) * ''The Gallant Hussar'' (1928) * ''The Little Slave'' (1928) * ''The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris'' (1928) * '' Dyckerpotts' Heirs'' (1928) * ''The Weekend Bride'' (1928) * '' Number 17'' (1928) * '' Spring Awakening'' (1929) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1929) * '' Lieutenant of His Majesty'' (1929) * '' The Tsarevich'' (1929) * '' Black Forest Girl'' (1929) * '' Rendezvous' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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