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By Order Of Pompadour
''By Order of Pompadour'' (german: Auf Befehl der Pompadour) is a 1924 German silent historical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Alwin Neuß, Lya Mara, and Frida Richard. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director. Selected filmography * '' Madness'' (1919) * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921) * '' The Mahar .... Cast References External links * Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Frederic Zelnik German silent feature films Films set in the 18th century Films set in Paris German historical films 1920s historical films Cultural depictions of Louis XV Cultural depictions of Madame de Pompadour German black-and-white films Phoebus Film films 1920s German films {{Historic-film-stub ...
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Frederic Zelnik
Frederic Zelnik (born Friedrich Zelnik, 17 May 1885 – 29 November 1950) was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period operetta films in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Friedrich Zelnik was born into a Jews, Jewish family in Czernowitz, today in Ukraine, at the time the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After studying in Vienna, Friedrich Zelnik worked as an actor in theaters in Nürnberg, Theater Aachen, Aachen, Worms, Germany, Worms, Prague and finally Berlin - in the theaters Theater an der Königsgrätzer Straße, Berliner Theater, and Komödienhaus. In 1914 Friedrich Zelnik began acting in films, and after 1915 producing and directing movies while still appearing in roles as an actor in other director'films. In 1918 he married a young Polish ballet dancer turned film actress named Lya Mara and promoted ...
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Sophie Pagay
Sophie Berg Pagay (22 April 1860 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian stage and film actress, born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. She began acting as a child, and went to Berlin to perform on stage in 1887. She married actor Hans Pagay. Selected filmography * ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1917) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''Intoxication'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Mascotte'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''The Forbidden Way'' (1920) * '' Nobody Knows'' (1920) * ''Lotte Lore'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' The House on the Moon'' (1921) * ''The Blood'' (1922) * ''Shame'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Tania, the Woman in Chains'' (1922) * '' The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * ''Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * ''Darling of the King'' (1924) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''The Adventures o ...
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Films Set In The 18th Century
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 through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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German Silent Feature Films
German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman times) * German language **any of the Germanic languages * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (other) * Germ ...
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Films Directed By Frederic Zelnik
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 through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensit ...
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Films Of The Weimar Republic
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 through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ...
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Adolphe Engers
Adolphe Engers (1884–1945) was a Dutch writer and actor on stage and in the movies, who appeared in more than fifty films during his career, a number of them in Weimar Germany. Biography Before his career in film, he was an actor on the stage and a writer. In 1920, he published ''Peccavi...???'', a then-scandalous novel with a gay protagonist, co-written with fellow actor Ernst Winar. A performer of considerable talent, he was to be honored for his achievements on the stage in the 1930s by an honorary committee that included Simon Carmiggelt, who related that, when the committee members understood that Engers himself was gay, withdrew from the committee one after the other. Other works were a screenplay about the closing of the Zuiderzee The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (; old spelling ''Zuyderzee'' or ''Zuyder Zee'') was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands, extending about 100 km (60 miles) inland and at most 50 km (30 miles) wide, wit ...
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Ernst Behmer
Ernst Behmer (22 December 1875 – 26 February 1938) was a prolific German stage and film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras. Behmer was born in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and died in Berlin at age 62. Selected filmography * ''Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * ''The Commandment of Love'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''Kri-Kri, the Duchess of Tarabac'' (1920) * ''Kean'' (1921) * ''The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * '' The Golden Bullet'' (1921) * '' The Homecoming of Odysseus'' (1922) * ''A Woman, an Animal, a Diamond'' (1923) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * ''The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * ''Children of No Importance'' (1926) * '' The Armoured Vault'' (1926) * ''Watch on the Rhine'' (1926) * ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * ''The Violet Eater'' (1926) * '' Roses from the South'' (1926) * ''Sister Veronika'' (19 ...
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Karl Harbacher
Karl Harbacher (1879–1943) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915) * ''Fanny Elssler'' (1920) * '' Das blaue Duell'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Dance of Love and Happiness'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * '' Yvette, the Fashion Princesss'' (1922) * '' The Blonde Geisha'' (1923) * '' Old Heidelberg'' (1923) * '' The Woman on the Panther'' (1923) * ''Debit and Credit'' (1924) * ''New Year's Eve'' (1924) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * '' The Venus of Montmartre'' (1925) * ''The Old Ballroom'' (1925) * ''The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * '' Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * '' Golden Boy'' (1925) * ''The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * ''Darling, Count the Cash'' (1926) * ''The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * ' ...
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Friedrich Kühne
Friedrich Kühne (24 April 1870 – 13 October 1959), born Franz Michna, was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1913 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''The Iron Cross'' (1914) * ''Detektiv Braun'' (1914) * ''Der Hund von Baskerville'' (''The Hound of the Baskervilles'') (1914) as Stapleton * '' The Silent Mill'' (1914) * ''Tales of Hoffmann'' (1916) * '' Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Prisoner of Dahomey'' (1918) * ''Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne'' (1918) * '' Opium'' (1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * '' The Spiders'' (1919-1920, 2 parts) * '' Judith Trachtenberg'' (1920) * ''The Song of the Puszta'' (1920) * ''Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * ''The Terror of the Red Mill'' (1921) * '' The Black Panther'' (1921) * ''Danton'' (1921) * ''Children of Darkness'' (1921) * ''Hashish, the Paradise of Hell'' (1921) * '' Treasure of the Aztecs'' (1921) * ''Die Gezeichneten'' (1922) * ''The False Dimitri'' (1922) ...
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Paul Biensfeldt
Paul Biensfeldt (4 March 1869 – 2 April 1933) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Canned Bride'' (1915) * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * ''Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918) * '' The Blue Lantern'' (1918) * ''The Adventure of a Ball Night'' (1918) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Victors'' (1918) * '' My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' The Spies'' (1919) * ''Harakiri'' (1919) * ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Mascotte'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * '' Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' Sumurun'' (1920) * '' The Hunchback and the Dancer'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * '' The Wild Cat'' (1921) * '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * ...
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Alfons Fryland
Alfons Fryland (1 May 1888 – 29 November 1953) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1921 and 1933. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and died in Graz, Austria. Selected filmography * '' Labyrinth des Grauens'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * ''Kean'' (1921) * '' Frau Dorothys Bekenntnis'' (1921) * '' Herzogin Satanella'' (1921) * '' Mrs. Tutti Frutti'' (1921) * '' The Marriage of Princess Demidoff'' (1922) * ''Prashna's Secret'' (1922) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * '' Between Evening and Morning'' (1923) * ''Carousel'' (1923) * '' Daisy'' (1923) * ''The Chain Clinks'' (1923) * '' Victim of Love'' (1923) * ''Quo Vadis'' (1924) * ''Arabella'' (1924) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * '' The Creature'' (1924) * ''Women You Rarely Greet'' (1925) * ''The Island of Dreams'' (1925) * '' The Woman without Money'' (1925) * '' I Love You'' (1925) * ''Fire of Love'' (1925) * '' Hidden Fires'' (1925) * ''The Ones Down There'' (1926) ...
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