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Clothes Make The Man (1940 Film)
''Clothes Make the Man'' (german: Kleider machen Leute) is a 1940 German historical comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler and Hilde Sessak. The film is based on the Novella '' Kleider machen Leute'', published by realist author Gottfried Keller in 1874. It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in German-occupied Prague as well as at the Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci .... Cast Release The film was released in the USA only in 1958, in German but with no subtitles. Reception Thomas Kramer of the ''Reclams Lexikon of the German Films'' References External links * Films of Nazi Germany Films directed by Helmut Käutner Films based on Swiss novels Films based on works by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Käutner
Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany. Käutner is relatively unknown outside of Germany, although he is considered one of the best filmmakers in German film history. He was one of the most influential film directors of German post-war cinema and became known for his sophisticated literary adaptations. He was born in Düsseldorf, German Empire, Germany. Käutner started out as a director in the Nazi era, but his films remained largely free of Nationalsocialist propaganda. One of his early successes was ''Romanze in Moll'' (1943), an adaptation of Guy du Maupassant’s short story “Les Bijoux". Other remarkable films were ''Große Freiheit Nr. 7'' and ''Under the Bridges''. His 1956 film ''The Captain from Köpenick (1956 film), Der Hauptmann von Köpenick'' was nominated for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial backing from the French company Pathé. The producer Paul Davidson's PAGU then took control and constructed a grander structure. The First World War propaganda drama '' The Yellow Passport'', the historical comedy ''Madame DuBarry'' and the expressionist 1920 silent film '' The Golem'' were made there by PAGU. During the 1920s the site came into the hands of the dominant German company UFA which also controlled the Babelsberg and Staaken Studios in the city. It was used for several of the company's major productions during the Weimar Republic including '' The Last Laugh''. It was partly used by Terra Film during the Nazi era. In 1945 the studios were captured by Soviet Army troops during the Battle of Berlin while the shooting of the comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Pohl (actor)
Klaus Pohl (1 November 1883 – 28 November 1958) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Hannele's Journey to Heaven'' (1922) * ''Spione'' (1928) - Burton Jason's Assistant (uncredited) * '' Under Suspicion'' (1928) - Otto * ''Woman in the Moon'' (1929) - Professor Georg Manfeldt * ''A Student's Song of Heidelberg'' (1930) * ''1000 Worte deutsch'' (1930) - Friseurgehilfe * ''The Emperor's Sweetheart'' (1931) - Friseur * ''Die Faschingsfee'' (1931) - Pappritz * '' The Wrong Husband'' (1931) * '' M'' (1931) - Witness / One-Eyed Man (uncredited) * '' The Squeaker'' (1931) - Ein Spieler * '' A Mad Idea'' (1932) - Schneider * ''The First Right of the Child'' (1932) * ''The White Demon'' (1932) - Theaterdiener * ''Sacred Waters'' (1932) * ''Das Abenteuer der Thea Roland'' (1932) * ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'' (1933) - Müller * ''Die Fahrt ins Grüne'' (1933) - Ein Agent * ''Johannisnacht'' (1933) - Regisseur * ''Du sollst nicht begehren...'' (1933) - Der Hän ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Limburg
Olga Limburg (5 April 1881 – 7 March 1970) was a German theater and film actress. She began her artistic career in 1901 with a commitment at the Municipal Theatre of Poznan. Since 1902, she played at several of Berlin's leading theaters including the Tribune, the Metropol Theatre, Berlin , the comedy and the Theater am . During the early part of her theater career, Limburg usually played supporting roles. Later she worked in the "comical oldies" plays. Career Limburg's film acting career started in 1907 with a minor role in the silent film ' and followed by ' (1910). She also starred in major productions including ' (1919), ''Kean'' (1921) and Rudolf Meinert-directed ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922). These films achieved her much acclaim as a supporting actress. She continued her acting career through the next decade and starred in talkies like '' Between Night and Dawn'' (1931), ', '' The Black Forest Girl'' (both 1933), '' The Girl Irene'' (1936) ''Madame Bovary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Von Ledebur
Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' The Gambler'' (1919) * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' All Souls'' (1919) * ''Devoted Artists'' (1919) * ''The Carousel of Life'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''The Last Sun Son'' (1919) * ''The Fairy of Saint Ménard'' (1919) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * '' Die Spieler'' (1920) * ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * ''In the Whirl of Life'' (1920) * '' World by the Throat'' (1920) * ''The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter'' (1920) * ''Waves of Life and Love'' (1921) * ''The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen'' (1921) * ''Count Varenne's Lover'' (1921) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' The House on the Moo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Ponto
Erich Johannes Bruno Ponto (14 December 1884 – 14 February 1957) was a German film and stage actor. Career Erich Ponto was born in Lübeck as the son of a merchant. After his family had moved to Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, he attended the gymnasium secondary school in Altona and upon his Abitur exam began a study of pharmacy at the University of Munich, where he went to lectures delivered by Nobel prize laureate Wilhelm Röntgen. He worked for a few years as a pharmacist, but was already passionate about acting during his university time – he started to take acting lessons and eventually became a full-time actor. Ponto gave his debut on stage at the Stadttheater Passau in 1908, followed by engagements in Nordhausen, Reichenberg (Liberec), and Düsseldorf. From 1914 to 1947 he was a member of the Hoftheater Dresden ensemble (Staatstheater Dresden from 1918), in the season 1946/47 also as intendant. On stage his most famous role was that of J.J. Peachum in the original production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Weber (actor)
Franz Weber (24 March 1888 – 10 August 1962) was a German actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during a lengthy screen career.Giesen p.208 He appeared in a diverse range of productions which encompassed the Weimar, Nazi and post-war (both East and West Germany) eras. Selected filmography * ''There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You'' (1930) * ''Panic in Chicago'' (1931) * '' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) * '' Weekend in Paradise'' (1931) * ''The Trunks of Mr. O.F.'' (1931) * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * ''Spell of the Looking Glass'' (1932) * ''Little Girl, Great Fortune'' (1933) * '' Paganini'' (1934) * ''The Two Seals'' (1934) * ''Such a Rascal'' (1934) * '' Gypsy Blood'' (1934) * '' The Island'' (1934) * ''The Brenken Case'' (1934) * '' The Double'' (1934) * ''Pillars of Society'' (1935) * ''A Strange Guest'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * ''Capers'' (1937) * ''Freight from Baltimore'' (1938) * '' Triad'' (1938) * ''Dance on the Volcano'' (1938) * ''Yvette'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Sternberg
Hans Sternberg (3 July 1878 – 13 May 1948) was a German-Jewish Siegbert 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 * '' Peer Gynt'' (1919) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * '' The Fateful Day'' (1921) * ''Tiefland'' (1923) * '' The Stone Rider'' (1923) * '' The Third Watch'' (1924) * '' Athletes'' (1925) * ''War in Peace'' (1925) * ''The Humble Man and the Chanteuse'' (1925) * '' A Murderous Girl'' (1927) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * '' Black Forest Girl'' (1929) * ''It's You I Have Loved'' (1929) * '' Yes, Yes, Women Are My Weakness'' (1929) * '' The Smuggler's Bride of Mallorca'' (1929) * ''Marriage in Name Only'' (1930) * '' Flachsmann the Educator'' (1930) * '' The Fate of Renate Langen'' (1931) * '' The Five Accursed Gentlemen'' (1932) * '' The Black Forest Girl'' (1933) * '' Pappi'' (1934) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1934) * '' The Schimeck Family'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aribert Wäscher
Aribert Wäscher (1 December 1895 – 14 December 1961) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Black Tulip Festival'' (1920) * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * ''Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * '' The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * ''People to Each Other'' (1926) * ''Princess Olala'' (1928) * '' The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1928) * ''The Lady and the Chauffeur'' (1928) * '' Katharina Knie'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' Different Morals'' (1931) * '' Under False Flag'' (1932) * ''A City Upside Down'' (1933) * ''Viktor und Viktoria'' (1933) * '' Love, Death and the Devil'' (1934) * '' The Island'' (1934) * '' Paganini'' (1934) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1934) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * ''Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935) * ''Stradivari'' (1935) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * ''The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * ''City of Anatol'' (1936) * ''Under Blazing Heavens'' (1936) * '' Stronger Than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Weiss
Helmut Weiss (January 25, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was a German actor, screenwriter, and film director. He was notable for directing '' Tell the Truth'' the first film produced in what was to become the future West Germany after the Second World War. It was made in Hamburg in the British Zone of Occupation. Much of the film had already been made at the UFA studios in Berlin shortly before the arrival of the Red Army, but Weiss dramatically re-shot it. The film was significant in its use of outdoor locations in common with other post-war rubble films. Selected filmography Actor * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) * ''Scandal at the Fledermaus'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * '' Nanon'' (1938) * ''Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * ''The Leghorn Hat'' (1939) * ''The Girl from Fano'' (1941) * ''The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Rembrandt'' (1942) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1954) * ''Oasis'' (1955) * ''Fanny Hill'' (1964) Screenwriter * ''I Entrust My Wife to You'' (1943) * ''Hello, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Stiebner
Hans Stiebner (19 November 1898 – 27 March 1958) was a German actor. Steibner was born in Vetschau, Germany as Hans Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Paul Stiebner. He died in 1958 in Baden-Baden, West Germany. Selected filmography * ''The Grand Duke's Finances'' (1934) * '' Holiday From Myself'' (1934) * ''Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) * ''Land of Love'' (1937) * '' The Ruler'' (1937) * '' White Slaves'' (1937) * ''Sergeant Berry'' (1938) * ''The Impossible Mister Pitt'' (1938) * ''We Danced Around the World'' (1939) * ''Police Report'' (1939) * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1939) * '' A Regular Fellow'' (1939) * ''Men Are That Way'' (1939) * ''Alarm at Station III'' (1939) * '' Nanette'' (1940) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * '' The Unfaithful Eckehart'' (1940) * ''Twilight'' (1940) * '' The Rothschilds'' (1940) * '' Mein Leben für Irland'' (1941) * ''Uncle Kruger'' (1941) * '' The Red Terror'' (1942) * '' The Thing About Styx'' (1942) * ''Romance in a Minor Key'' (1943) * '' The Bath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Stein
Franz Stein (1880–1958) was a German cinematographer and film actor.Giesen p.221 During the silent era he shot a number of films, many of them for National Film. After 1925 his film appearances were exclusively as an actor. Selected filmography Cinematographer * ''Lotte Lore'' (1921) * ''Your Brother's Wife'' (1921) * ''Your Bad Reputation'' (1922) * ''La Boheme'' (1923) * ''The Red Rider'' (1923) * ''Maud Rockefeller's Bet'' (1924) * ''The Doomed'' (1924) * '' Set Me Free'' (1924) * '' Za La Mort'' (1924) * ''The Proud Silence'' (1925) * ''Hedda Gabler'' (1925) * ''Lena Warnstetten'' (1925) * ''Battle of the Butterflies'' (1924) Actor * ''The Catwalk'' (1927) - Landrat von Krotkeim * ''The Old Fritz'' (1928) - Lordmarschall Keith * ''Luther'' (1928) * '' Fair Game'' (1928) - Regisseur Finke * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1928) - 2. Vagabund * ''Die von der Scholle sind'' (1928) * ''The Lord of the Tax Office'' (1929) - Udo von Langwitzs Vater * ''Andreas Hofer'' (1929) - Pater H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
