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Charles Decroix
Charles Decroix (born late 19th century; died after 1919) was a French Film director, director, film producer and screenwriter whose career reached a peak in Germany in the period before World War I, one of the forgotten pioneers from the early days of European cinema. Biography Early successes The son of an Alsace, Alsatian shoemaker,Richard Abel, ''Encyclopedia of Early Cinema'', Routledge, New York, 2005, p. 241 he joined cinematography in 1899, a field that had barely developed until then. Subsequently, Decroix initially wrote scripts for various companies. In 1907, Decroix was hired by Pathé, for whom he directed, among other films, Children's Reformatory, a Honoré de Balzac, Balzac adaptation of ''Les paysans'' and a short film grotesque with Max Linder, ''Une conquête''. In the spring of 1910, he came to Berlin and spent the next four years shooting for German production companies. Until the outbreak of World War I, Decroix was one of the leading filmmakers in the ...
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Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common ...
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Bernd Aldor
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Sabine Impekoven
Sabine Impekoven (16 June 1889 – 25 April 1970) was a German film actress of the silent era.Elsaesser & Wedel p.306 She was married to the actor Leo Peukert and appeared alongside him in several films. She was the sister of Toni Impekoven. Selected filmography * ''Die geheimnisvolle Villa ''Die geheimnisvolle Villa'' (lit. 'The Secret-Filled Villa') is a 1914 silent German detective film directed by Joe May and starring Ernst Reicher. It is the first in the series starring the fictional gentleman detective Stuart Webbs, modelle ...'' (1914) * '' My Leopold'' (1919) * '' King Krause'' (1919) * '' Hasemann's Daughters'' (1920) * '' Doctor Klaus'' (1920) References Bibliography Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel. ''A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades''. Amsterdam University Press, 1996. External links * 1889 births 1970 deaths German film actresses German silent film actresses 20th-century German actresses Actors from Cologne Burials at Munich Wal ...
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Leo Peukert
Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role in his early years, such as the comedy '' The Happy Journey'' (1924),Grange p.164 he mostly appeared as a character actor. Peukert was also a film director, making eleven short and feature films during the silent era. He was married to the actress Sabine Impekoven who appeared with him in several silent films. Selected filmography * '' Poor Jenny'' (1912) * '' My Leopold'' (1914) * '' My Leopold'' (1919) * '' The Love of Marion Bach'' (1919) * '' King Krause'' (1919) * '' Hasemann's Daughters'' (1920) * '' My Leopold'' (1924) * '' The Happy Journey'' (1924) * '' The Second Mother'' (1925) * ''Radio Magic'' (1927) * ''Two Under the Stars'' (1927) * ''I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1928) * '' Autumn on the ...
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Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers (1871–1938) was a German playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer. He worked on a number of films during the silent era. Towards the end of his film career he directed comedies for UFA such as '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' and '' The Second Mother''.Kreimeier p.101 Selected filmography Director * '' My Leopold'' (1914) * '' My Leopold'' (1919) * '' King Krause'' (1919) * ''The Love of Marion Bach ''The Love of Marion Bach'' (German: ''Die Liebe der Marion Bach'') is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers and starring Margarete Neff and Leo Peukert.Töteberg p.56 Cast * Lisa Kehm as Sabine Winkelmann * Marga ...'' (1919) * '' Doctor Klaus'' (1920) * '' Hasemann's Daughters'' (1920) * '' My Leopold'' (1924) * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1925) * '' The Second Mother'' (1925) References Bibliography * Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The UFA Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company''. Unive ...
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Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 434,335 inhabitants, the Urban agglomeration, urban area 1.315 million (2009), and the Zürich metropolitan area 1.83 million (2011). Zürich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Zürich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zürich was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans, who called it '. However, early settlements have been found dating back more than 6,400 years (although this only indicates human presence in the area and not the presence of a town that early). During the Middle Ages, Zürich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519, became a primary centre of the Protestant ...
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Frutigen
Frutigen is a municipality in the Bernese Oberland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district. History The area around Frutigen may have been settled since possibly the Bronze Age or Roman times. It is first mentioned in 1234 as ''Frutingen''. During the Middle Ages there were three castles in the modern municipal border; Halten, Tellenburg and Bürg. By 1260 the scattered farmers of the valley floor had formed a political and business association. The association had its own seal in 1263 and in 1340 it negotiated a peace with an association in the Obersimmental. In 1391, the village of Frutigen gained the right to hold the low court in the village. In 1400, the expanding city-state of Bern annexed the entire valley. However, the association was powerful enough to force Bern to make concessions. The residents of the valley were freed from the obligation to pay taxes or provide labor for local lord ...
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Carl Wilhelm (director)
Carl Wilhelm (born 1872 in Vienna; died in London 1936), was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity. Life After his first work, the short documentary film ''Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald'', made for the producer Oskar Messter in 1909, Wilhelm worked for many other Berlin production companies. For example, in the years before World War I, he filmed for ''Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH'' in Lankwitz and ''BB-Film-Fabrikation Bolten-Baeckers'' in Steglitz a series of comedies starring the silent film star Leo Peukert. The two comedies he shot in 1913 and 1914 with Ernst Lubitsch - ''Die Firma heiratet'' and ''Der Stolz der Firma'' - were very successful. As late as 1919 a critic could write: "''Die Firma heiratet'' and '' Meyer aus Berlin'' are still our best films."Bobby E. Lüthge im ''Film-Kurier'', Nr. 15, ...
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Fern Andra
Fern Andra, Dowager Baroness von Weichs (born Vernal Edna Andrews, November 24, 1893 – February 8, 1974) was an American actress, film director, script writer, and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen, she was one of the most popular and well-known actresses in German silent film. Biography Vernal Edna Andrews was born in Watseka, Illinois, on November 24, 1893, the daughter of William P. Andrews and Sarah Emily Evett, also known as Sadie. Vernal was of English and Scottish descent on her father's side, while she was of English and German on her mother's. When William died in 1898, Sadie remarried Frank St. Clair, a vaudeville actor, circus performer and tight-rope walker. Andra was already appearing in public in a tightrope act by the age of four. She later trained in song and dance. As early as 1899, in New York, she made her first film, a version of '' Uncle Tom's Cabin''. However, she remained with the circus, with which she embarked on an extensive tour ...
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Milano Films
Milano Films was an Italian film production company of the silent era. Founded in Milan in 1908, it was one of the leading Italian film companies of the 1910s employing directors such as Baldassarre Negroni and Augusto Genina and actors including Lina Millefleurs, Mercedes Brignone and Pina Menichelli. Milano was unusual in refusing to join the conglomerate Unione Cinematografica Italiana in 1919. It continued its own production programme until the late 1920s, but slowly declined in importance. By the time the company closed, the Italian film industry was in a general crisis. In 1909 the company constructed the Bovisa Studios, at the time amongst the best in Europe.Moliterno p.207 The studios continued to be used sporadically by other companies after Milano's demise, although filmmaking was increasingly centralised in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comun ...
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Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ...
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