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Before God And Man
''Before God and Man'' (German: ''Vor Gott und den Menschen'') is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Viktor de Kowa, Antje Weisgerber and Hans Söhnker. Elsaesser & Wedel p.81 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz. Synopsis Shortly after the Second World War, Maria marries fellow lawyer Martin who had been severely wounded in action. She believes that her first husband Georg was killed in action, and married Martin to some degree out of pity. Several years later Georg resurfaces alive in Leipzig in East Germany and tries to resume their former relationship, but Maria comes to realise that it is Martin that she truly loves. Cast * Viktor de Kowa as Martin * Antje Weisgerber as Maria * Hans Söhnker as Georg * Käthe Braun as Katharina * Emmy Burg as Anna Mechala * Werner Peters as Anton Mechala * Hilde Sessak as Ida Jucharz * Trude Berliner as Frau ... [...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] |
Walter Kutz
Walter Kutz (1904 – 1983) was a German art director.Langford p.223 Selected filmography * ''Nora'' (1944) * '' Dreaming'' (1944) * ''The Silent Guest'' (1945) * ''And the Heavens Above Us'' (1947) * ''Nights on the Nile'' (1949) * ''The Chaste Libertine'' (1952) * ''When the Heath Dreams at Night'' (1952) * ''The Colourful Dream'' (1952) * '' You Only Live Once'' (1952) * ''The Prince of Pappenheim'' (1952) * ''The Stronger Woman'' (1953) * ''The Dancing Heart'' (1953) * ''The Uncle from America'' (1953) * ''A Life for Do'' (1954) * '' Bon Voyage'' (1954) * '' Consul Strotthoff'' (1954) * ''The Witch'' (1954) * ''Girl with a Future'' (1954) * ''Before God and Man'' (1955) * ''The Girl from Flanders'' (1956) * ''The Beautiful Master'' (1956) * ''Victor and Victoria'' (1957) * ''Voyage to Italy, Complete with Love'' (1958) * ''Here I Am, Here I Stay'' (1959) * ''The Death Ship'' (1959) * '' What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime'' (1959) * ''The Red Hand'' (1960) * '' Her Most Beaut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Hessling
Hans Oskar Richard Hessling (March 22, 1903 – February 24, 1995) was a German film and television actor. Selected filmography * ''Joan of Arc'' (1935) * ''Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * ''The Heart of a Queen'' (1940) * ''Corinna Schmidt'' (1951) * ''Have Sunshine in Your Heart'' (1953) * ''Before God and Man'' (1955) * '' Night of Decision'' (1956) * ''The Night of the Storm'' (1957) * '' The Buddenbrooks'' (1959) * ''Sacred Waters'' (1960) * ''The Last Pedestrian'' (1960) * ''Max the Pickpocket'' (1962) * ''The Priest of St. Pauli ''The Priest of St. Pauli'' (german: Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli) is a 1970 West German drama film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Curd Jürgens. Two years earlier they had made the similarly-themed ''The Doctor of St. Pauli'' together. Plot ...'' (1970) References External links * 1903 births 1995 deaths German male film actors German male television actors Male actors from Munich 20th-century German male actors {{Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Dunskus
Erich Adolf Dunskus (27 July 1890 – 25 November 1967) was a German film actor. He appeared in 170 films between 1927 and 1966. He was born in Pillkallen, East Prussia and died in Hagen, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * '' Bobby Gets Going'' (1931) * ''Girls to Marry'' (1932) * ''Secret Agent'' (1932) * ''Overnight Sensation'' (1932) * '' And Who Is Kissing Me?'' (1933) * ''So Ended a Great Love'' (1934) * '' Paganini'' (1934) * '' The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1935) * '' The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935) * ''Pygmalion'' (1935) * ''City of Anatol'' (1936) * ''Savoy Hotel 217'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * '' Love's Awakening'' (1936) * '' Der Kaiser von Kalifornien'' (1936) * ''Tomfoolery'' (1936) * ''Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering'' (1937) * '' Capers'' (1937) * ''Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (1937) * ''Seven Slaps'' (1937) * '' Serenade'' (1937) * ''Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maly Delschaft
Martha Amalia "Maly" Delschaft (4 December 1898 – 20 August 1995) was a German stage and film actress. After beginning in theatre, Delschaft switched to silent films. She appeared in mainly supporting roles during the Weimar and Nazi eras. After the Second World War she worked in East Germany for the state-controlled studio DEFA. Selected filmography * ''Danton'' (1921) * '' The Lady and Her Hairdresser'' (1922) * '' Dudu, a Human Destiny'' (1924) * '' The Last Laugh'' (1924) * ''When I Came Back'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''Jealousy'' (1925) * '' The Man on the Comet'' (1925) * ''The Iron Bride'' (1925) * ''Three Waiting Maids'' (1925) * '' Rags and Silk'' (1925) * ''Den of Iniquity'' (1925) * ''If You Have an Aunt'' (1925) * ''Anne-Liese of Dessau'' (1925) * ''When I Came Back'' (1926) * ''The Man Without Sleep'' (1926) * ''The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin'' (1926) * ''The White Horse Inn'' (1926) * '' The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * ''The Ones Down There'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Bienert
Gerhard Max Richard Bienert (8 January 1898 – 23 December 1986) was a German stage and film actor. Gerhard Bienert was born in Berlin, Germany and died in the same city in 1986 at age 88. Selected filmography * ''Duke Ferrante's End'' (1922) * ''Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * ''The Man with the Frog'' (1929) * '' Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness'' (1929) - Untermieter * ''Ludwig II, King of Bavaria'' (1930) - Hesselschwerdt * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) - Polizist / Policeman * ''Her Majesty the Barmaid'' (1931) - Werkmeister * ''The Man in Search of His Murderer'' (1931) - Policeman * '' Feind im Blut'' (1931) - Mechaniker * '' Inquest'' (1931) - Baumann, Kriminalkommissar * '' M'' (1931) - Criminal Secretary * ''Checkmate'' (1931) - 2. Kommissar * ''Panik in Chicago'' (1931) - Tom * '' The Battle of Bademunde'' (1931) - Feldwebel * '' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) - Klempner-Karl * '' Peace of Mind'' (1931) - Unteroffizier Krause * '' Kameradschaft'' (1931) - Deutscher Genda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trude Berliner
Trude Berliner (28 February 1903 – 26 February 1977) was a German actress. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Biography Berliner was born Gertrude Berliner in Berlin, Germany. She became a famous cabaret performer in Berlin. In 1925, she appeared in her first movie, a silent film called '' Krieg im Frieden''. Berliner would wait four years before her second movie, but her film career would then take off. In 1929, she appeared in '' Dich hab ich geliebt'', which would become the first German talkie released in the United States. Berliner appeared in a number of well known movies in Germany during the 1930s, including '' Masken'', ''The Invisible Front'', ' and ''Kaiserwalzer''. ''Es war einmal ein Musikus'' (1933) was her last movie in Germany; it also featured S.Z. Sakall, in the fourth German movie that the two appeared in together. Being Jewish, she left Germany when Hitler and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Sessak
Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeared in more than ninety film and television series during her career. She appeared in a number of films during the Nazi era including ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941).Reimer p. 97 Selected filmography * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) * ''City of Anatol'' (1936) * '' Orders Are Orders'' (1936) * '' The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1936) * ''When Women Keep Silent'' (1937) * '' The Coral Princess'' (1937) * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) * ''The Curtain Falls'' (1939) * '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) * '' Kleider machen Leute'' (1940) * '' A Man Astray'' (1940) * ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * ''Alarm'' (1941) * ''Happiness is the Main Thing'' (1941) * ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * ''Paracelsus'' (1943) * ''A Salzburg Comedy'' (1943) * ''Orient Express'' (1944) * ''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944) * ''Who Drove the Grey Ford?'' (1950) * ''The Woman from Last Night'' (1950) * ''Not Without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Peters
Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971. Biography Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany. His film career started with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's ''Der Untertan'', produced in the young German Democratic Republic. Peters then worked in West Germany, appearing mostly in supporting roles in popular movies. He also established himself in the European and international film industry by frequently playing sinister German or Nazi characters. Peters appeared in two episodes of the 1966 American television espionage drama ''Blue Light''. These were edited together with two other episodes to create the theatrical film ''I Deal in Danger'', released in December 1966, which included his role. Selected filmography * ''The Beaver Coat'' (1949), as Eberhard Schulz * ''Der Kahn der fröhlic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmy Burg
Emmy Burg (1903–1982) was a German film and television actress.Rentschler p.326 Selected filmography * '' The Beaver Coat'' (1949) * ''Homesick for You'' (1952) * '' Bon Voyage'' (1954) * ''The Witch'' (1954) * ''Before God and Man'' (1955) * ''The Story of Anastasia'' (1956) * '' It Happened Only Once'' (1958) * '' Confess, Doctor Corda'' (1958) * ''Adorable Arabella ''Adorable Arabella'' (German: ''Bezaubernde Arabella'') is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Axel von Ambesser and starring Johanna von Koczian, Carlos Thompson and Hilde Hildebrand. It is an adaptation of the 1949 novel '' Arabella'' b ...'' (1959) References Bibliography * Rentschler, Eric. ''German Film & Literature''. Routledge, 2013. External links * 1903 births 1982 deaths German film actresses German television actresses People from Wiesbaden {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käthe Braun
Käthe Braun (11 November 1913 – 9 September 1994) was a German stage and film actress. She was married to director Falk Harnack and acted in several of his films. Career Katharina Braun was born in Wasserburg am Inn. After studying acting privately with Magda Lena in Munich, she had her first theater engagement at the Bavarian state theater, Cuvilliés-Theater. In 1938, she began working at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and in 1941, at the city theater in Strasbourg, staying there until Goebbels closed all the theaters in August 1944. After World War II, she returned to Munich and, from 1947 to 1951, worked periodically at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. She also played major roles in East German DEFA productions, such as Stine Teetjen, the wife in '' Das Beil von Wandsbek'', adapted from the book by Arnold Zweig and directed by her husband.Falk Harnack was a former member of the German Resistance who had been involved with the White Rose and the Red Orchestra. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, ''The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71'', Manchester University Press, 2002, Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR. Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship. The GDR was establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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