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Carlos And Elisabeth
''Carlos and Elisabeth'' (german: Carlos und Elisabeth) is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Eugen Klöpfer, and Aud Egede-Nissen. It is based on the play ''Don Carlos'' by Friedrich Schiller. Oswald modelled the film's visuals on a staging of the play by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater.Eisen p. 77 The film's sets were designed by the art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff Oscar Friedrich Werndorff (1880–1938) was an Austrian art director. After leaving Germany in the early 1930s he moved to Britain where he worked in the British film industry. He co-directed the 1931 film '' The Bells''.Bergfelder & Cargnel .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1924 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1920s historical drama films German historical drama films German epic films German silent feature films German black-and-white films Films directed by Richard Oswald Films set in Spain Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald. Early career Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began his career as an actor on the Viennese stage. He made his film directorial debut at age 34 with ''The Iron Cross'' (1914) and worked a number of times for Jules Greenbaum. In 1916, Oswald set up his own production company in Germany, writing and directing most of his films himself. His pre-1920 efforts include such literary adaptations as '' The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1917), '' Peer Gynt'' (1919), the once scandalous '' Different from the Others'' (1919) and ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1919). Oswald directed nearly 100 films. Some critics have suggested that Oswald was more prolific than talented, but such films as his horror film '' Unheimliche Geschichten'' (1932), produced by no less than Gabriel Pascal, would seem to refut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (; born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he is regarded as one of the most prominent directors of German-language theatre in the early 20th century. In 1920, he established the Salzburg Festival with the performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's '' Jedermann''. Life and career Reinhardt was born Maximilian Goldmann in the spa town of Baden near Vienna, the son of Wilhelm Goldmann (1846–1911), a Jewish merchant from Stupava, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and his wife Rachel Lea Rosi "Rosa" Goldmann (''née'' Wengraf; 1851–1924). Having finished school, he began an apprenticeship at a bank, but already took acting lessons. In 1890, he gave his debut on a private stage in Vienna with the stage name ''Max Reinhardt'' (possibly after the protagonist Reinhard Werner in Theodor Storm's novella '' Immensee''). In 1893 he pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Films
The following is an overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top eight 1924 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 10 – CBC Distributions corp. is renamed and incorporated as Columbia Pictures. * D. W. Griffith, co-founder of United Artists, leaves the company. *April 17 – Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gains control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) *November 15 – In Los Angeles, director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst. *Loews Theatres acquires the 4,000 seat Capitol Theatre in New York City becoming the flagship of the theatre chain and site of many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Herzberg
Martin Herzberg (1911-1972) was a German film actor. As a child actor he appeared in over thirty films during the silent and early sound eras. Herzberg was of Jewish heritage.Prawer p.213 He retired from films in 1930 at the age of nineteen and later settled in the Canary Islands. Selected filmography * ''David Copperfield'' (1922) * '' Paganini'' (1923) * '' The Hungarian Princess'' (1923) * ''Comedians of Life'' (1924) * '' Carlos and Elisabeth'' (1924) * '' A Free People'' (1925) * '' Students' Love'' (1927) * '' Mary Stuart'' (1927) * '' Band of Thieves'' (1928) * ''The Age of Seventeen'' (1929) * '' The Youths'' (1929) * '' Misled Youth'' (1929) * '' Youthful Indiscretion'' (1929) * ''The Last Company'' (1930) * ''Father and Son Father and Son or Fathers and Sons may refer to: Literature * ''Father and Son'' (book), a 1907 memoir by Edmund Gosse *Father and Son (comics), cartoon characters created by E. O. Plauen * ''Fathers and Sons'' (novel), an 1862 novel by Ivan Tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Biebrach
Rudolf Biebrach (24 November 1866 – 5 September 1938) was a German actor and film director. He directed over 70 films between 1909 and 1930; and he appeared as an actor in nearly 110 films between 1909 and 1938. In his youth, Biebrach had worked for some years as an engraver. He got his first engagement as an actor in Gießen during 1890/1891. After a long career as a stage actor, Biebrach managed to become a successful director and character actor in the German film during the 1910s. He directed many films with Henny Porten and Lotte Neumann. Selected filmography Actor * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915) * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * ''The Giant's Fist'' (1917) * '' Mountain Air'' (1917) * '' The Homecoming of Odysseus'' (1918) * '' The Blue Lantern'' (1918) * '' The Ringwall Family'' (1918) * '' The Salamander Ruby'' (1918) * '' The Lady, the Devil and the Model'' (1918) * '' Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918) * '' Put to the Test'' (1918) * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Taube
Robert Taube (1880–1961) was a Russian-born German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' I.N.R.I.'' (1923) * '' Carlos and Elisabeth'' (1924) * '' The Woman Who Did'' (1925) * '' Das leichte Mädchen'' (1941) * ''Andreas Schlüter'' (1942) * ''The Blue Swords ''The Blue Swords'' (german: Die blauen Schwerter) is a 1949 East German historical drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat and Alexander Engel. It sold more than 3,299,432 tickets. The film portrays the li ...'' (1949) Bibliography * Eisner, Lotte H. ''The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt''. University of California Press, 2008. External links * 1880 births 1961 deaths German male film actors German male stage actors German male silent film actors Actors from Riga Baltic-German people 20th-century German male actors Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Klein
Adolf Klein (15 August 1847 – 11 March 1931) was an Austrian actor and theatre director. Klein appeared in around sixty films, mainly during the silent era. He appeared in a number of the epics made by the German film industry during the early 1920s such as his role as Cardinal Wolsey in Ernst Lubitsch's '' Anna Boleyn'' (1920).Fletcher p. 191 Selected filmography * '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * ''The Mirror of the World'' (1918) * ''The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * '' The Panther Bride'' (1919) * '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * '' The Secret of the Mummy'' (1921) * ''Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * ''Ilona'' (1921) * '' The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' The Amazon'' (1921) * ''The Inheritance of Tordis'' (1921) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * ''The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * ''The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * ''The Three Aunts'' (1921) * '' Phantom'' (1922) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dieterle
William Dieterle (July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German-born actor and film director who emigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation. He worked in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood primarily as a director for much of his career, becoming a United States citizen in 1937. He moved back to Germany in the late 1950s. His best-known films include ''The Story of Louis Pasteur'' (1936), ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film), The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1939) and ''The Devil and Daniel Webster (film), The Devil and Daniel Webster'' (1941). His film ''The Life of Emile Zola'' (1937) won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the second biographical feature to do so. Early life and career He was born Wilhelm Dieterle in Ludwigshafen, the youngest child of nine, to factory worker Jacob and Berthe (Doerr) Dieterle. As a child, he lived in considerable poverty and earned money by various means, including carpentry and as a scrap dealer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip II Of Spain
Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He was '' jure uxoris'' King of England and Ireland from his marriage to Queen Mary I in 1554 until her death in 1558. He was also Duke of Milan from 1540. From 1555, he was Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. The son of Emperor Charles V and Isabella of Portugal, Philip inherited his father's Spanish Empire in 1556 and succeeded to the Portuguese throne in 1580 following a dynastic crisis. The Spanish conquests of the Inca Empire and of the Philippines, named in his honor by Ruy López de Villalobos, were completed during his reign. Under Philip II, Spain reached the height of its influence and power, sometimes called the Spanish Golden Age, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos, Prince Of Asturias
Carlos, Prince of Asturias, also known as Don Carlos (8 July 154524 July 1568), was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Philip II of Spain. His mother was Maria Manuela of Portugal, daughter of John III of Portugal. Carlos was mentally unstable and was imprisoned by his father in early 1568, dying after half a year of solitary confinement. His fate was a theme in Spain's Black Legend, and inspired a play by Friedrich Schiller and an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. Life Carlos was born at Valladolid on 8 July 1545, the son of the double first cousins Philip of Spain and María Manuela of Portugal. His paternal grandfather, Emperor Charles V, was the reigning king of Spain. Carlos's mother Maria died four days after the birth of her son from a haemorrhage she had following the birth. The young Infante Carlos was delicate and deformed. He grew up proud and willful and, as a young adult, began to show signs of mental instability. Many of his physical and psychological disabil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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