Der Raub Der Mona Lisa
''The Theft of the Mona Lisa'' (german: Der Raub der Mona Lisa) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Trude von Molo, Willi Forst, and Gustaf Gründgens. It is based on a true story. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.238 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Robert A. Dietrich. Plot In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia is a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with Mathilde, a French hotel maid. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo da Vinci's ''Mona Lisa'', Vicenzo steals the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing her. When she proves to be fickle, the crestfallen hero confesses and is arrested. Unwilling to admit that he had been led astray by a woman, Vicenzo claims that he stole the painting in order to restore it to his native Italy and is hailed as a national hero. Cast See also * ''The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen ''The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen'' (french: ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as ''Wiener Filme''. From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG. Biography His first major role was opposite Marlene Dietrich in the silent film '' Café Elektric'' in 1927. However, he was best known for his characters in light musicals, which rapidly made him a star. He developed the genre of the Viennese Film with writer Walter Reisch in the 1930s, beginning with the Franz Schubert melodrama '' Leise flehen meine Lieder'' (1933) which became an iconic role for the actor Hans Jaray and ''Maskerade'' (1934), which launched his fame as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vincenzo Peruggia
Vincenzo Peruggia (8 October 1881 8 October 1925) was an Italian museum worker, artist, and thief, most famous for stealing the ''Mona Lisa'' from the Louvre museum in Paris on 21 August 1911.Mio padre, il ladro della Gioconda Theft ![]() [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fritz Greiner
Fritz Greiner (1879–1933) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * ''Der Einäugige'' (1916) * ''Der Klub der Einäugigen'' (1917) - Nick Carter * ''Der schwarze Jack'' (1918) - Cowboy Schwarzer Jack * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1918) - Blasi * ''Der Herrgott am Wege'' (1918) * ''Der Schattenspieler'' (1919) * ''Sodoms Töchter'' (1919) * '' Storms in May'' (1919) - Domimi * ''Doktor Steffens seltsamster Fall'' (1919) * ''Der Edelweisskönig'' (1919) - Jörg Finkenbauer * ''Das Ende des Abenteurers Paolo de Caspado'' (1920) * ''Panic in the House of Ardon'' (1920) - Stuart Webbs * ''Das ganze Sein ist flammend Leid'' (1920) - Bankkassier Jürgen * ''Der Mann auf der Flasche'' (1920) - Emir Mohamed Darasche-Koh * '' The War of the Oxen'' (1920) - Richtmann Runotter * ''Der Kopf des Gonzalez'' (1920) * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1920) - Wolfrat Polzer * ''Der Einäugige'' (1921) - Der Einäugige * ''Der Brand im Varieté Mascotte'' (1921) * ''Der Überfall auf den Eur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fritz Alberti
Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921) * '' The Other Woman'' (1924) * ''The Blackguard'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * ''Frisian Blood'' (1925) * '' I Love You'' (1925) * ''If Only It Weren't Love'' (1925) * ''Vienna - Berlin'' (1926) * ''The Sea Cadet'' (1926) * '' Battle of the Sexes'' (1926) * '' The Student of Prague'' (1926) * '' White Slave Traffic'' (1926) * '' The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * '' Café Elektric'' (1927) * ''U-9 Weddigen'' (1927) * '' The Impostor'' (1927) * ''Aftermath'' (1927) * '' The Sporck Battalion'' (1927) * ''That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights'' (1927) * '' Docks of Hamburg'' (1928) * '' Because I Love You'' (1928) * ''The Gallant Hussar'' (1928) * ''Rasputin'' (1928) * '' Escape from Hell'' (1928) * '' Five Anxious Days'' (1928) * ''The Lady and the Chauffeur'' (1928) * ''Circumstantial Evidenc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gerti Klemm
1382 Gerti, provisional designation , is a Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 21 January 1925, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. The asteroid was named after a secretary of the Astronomical Calculation Institute, Gertrud Höhne. Orbit and classification ''Gerti'' has been dynamically classified as a member of the Flora family (), a giant asteroid family and the largest family of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It is, however, a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the Hierarchical Clustering Method to its proper orbital elements (both by Nesvorný as well as by Novakovic, Knežević and Milani). It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,208 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 2 ° with ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fritz Grünbaum
Franz Friedrich 'Fritz' Grünbaum (7 April 1880 in Brünn (Brno), Moravia – 14 January 1941 at the Dachau concentration camp, Germany) was an Austrian Jewish cabaret artist, operetta and popular song writer, actor, and master of ceremonies whose art collection was looted by Nazis before he was murdered in the Holocaust. Early life and education Grünbaum was born and grew up in Brünn, then the capital of the Margraviate of Moravia (now Brno, Czech Republic). He later stated his father's occupation as "art dealer". From 4 October 1899 to 31 July 1903, he studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna, lodging in the 2nd district like the majority of Jewish migrants to Vienna. He did not complete a doctorate in law, so could not practise, but left with the equivalent of a master's degree. While still a student, he worked as a journalist and as a legal advisor to the finance department and the police in Brünn and began a literary association there, the Neue Akademisc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexander Granach
Alexander Granach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a German-Austrian actor in the 1920s and 1930s who emigrated to the United States in 1938. Life and career Granach was born Schaje Granoch in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Austrian Galicia then, now ''Verbivtsi'', Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Granach entered films in 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was ''Nosferatu'' (1922), F.W. Murnau’s loose adaptation of ''Dracula'', in which the actor was cast as Knock, the film's counterpart to Renfield. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as '' Kameradschaft'' (1931). The Jewish Granach fled to the Soviet Union when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. When the Soviet Union also proved inhospitable, he settled in Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski in ''Ninotchka'' (1939) starring Greta Garbo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hubert Von Meyerinck
Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858–1928), Hauptmann (Captain) in the Prussian Army. He grew up at his family's estates in the Province of Posen and attended the gymnasium secondary school in Godeberg. Having passed his Abitur exams, he was called up for military service as a cadet in World War I, but soon was dismissed due to a pulmonary disease. In 1917 he gave his debut as a theatre actor at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin and from 1918 to 1920 continued his career at the Hamburg Kammerspiele. Back in Berlin he performed in avant-garde plays by Carl Sternheim, as well as in several revue entertainments and kabarett venues. Later he returned to classical theatre with engagements at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, performing as '' The Imaginary Invalid'', ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Angelo Ferrari
Angelo Ferrari (14 August 1897 – 15 June 1945) was an Italian actor known for his work in German cinema. Selected filmography * ''The Nude Woman'' (1922) * ''The Green Manuela'' (1923) * ''Samson'' (1923) * '' The Faces of Love'' (1924) * ''Prater'' (1924) * ''The Circus Princess'' (1925) * ''Jealousy'' (1925) * '' The Golden Calf'' (1925) * ''The Motorist Bride'' (1925) * ''The Clever Fox'' (1926) * '' Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse'' (1926) * '' Battle of the Sexes'' (1926) * ''When She Starts, Look Out'' (1926) * ''The Flight in the Night'' (1926) * '' Roses from the South'' (1926) * '' Young Blood'' (1926) * ''Heads Up, Charley'' (1927) * ''Circus Renz'' (1927) * '' My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1927) * '' Naples is a Song'' (1927) * ''The Transformation of Dr. Bessel'' (1927) * ''Orient Express'' (1927) * ''Folly of Love'' (1928) * ''The Lady and the Chauffeur'' (1928) * '' Odette'' (1928) * ''Pawns of Passion'' (1928) * '' Five Anxious Days'' (1928) * '' The Sinner'' (1928) * ''The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rosa Valetti
Rosa Valetti (25 January 1876, Berlin, Germany – 10 December 1937, Vienna, Austria), born Rosa Alice Vallentin, was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer. Biography Rosa Valetti was born in Berlin, the daughter of industrialist Felix Vallentin and sister of actor Hermann Vallentin. She played her first roles in the theatres of suburban Berlin. Inspired by the November Revolution and her meeting with political satirist Kurt Tucholsky, Valetti began performing in cabarets. In 1920, she founded the ''Café Grössenwahn'' ("Café Megalomania"), which has been recognized as one of the most important literary and political cabarets in 1920s Berlin. Café Megalomania was frequented by Expressionist writers, and the program of sketch comedy and political songs reflected Valetti's belief in the cabaret as an instrument of political and social criticism. The inflation of 1919 to 1923 and the subsequent collapse of the German economy forced Valetti to close Cafe Megalomania. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anton Pointner
Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as well as in Germany and the United States. Selected filmography * ''Martyr of His Heart'' (1918) * ''Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * ''The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''Frauenmoral'' (1923) * '' The Second Shot'' (1923) * '' Earth Spirit'' (1923) * '' The Curse'' (1924) * '' The Sailor Perugino'' (1924) * '' Nelly, the Bride Without a Husband'' (1924) * ''Marionettes of the Princess'' (1924) * ''Flight Around the World'' (1925) * ''Old Mamsell's Secret'' (1925) * ''The Dealer from Amsterdam'' (1925) * ''A Free People'' (1925) * ''Circus Romanelli'' (1926) * ''When I Came Back'' (1926) * ''The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * ''The Three Mannequins'' (19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paul Kemp (actor)
Paul Kemp (20 May 1896 – 13 August 1953) was a German stage and film actor. Kemp worked as a piano accompaniest for silent films, and then served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War. Post-war he moved into acting on the stage in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. His career really took off when he moved to Berlin in 1929, appearing in the hit stage version of the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' by Vicki Baum. He made his film debut in 1930, shortly after the introduction of sound film. He appeared prolifically in German and Austrian films until his death in 1953. Selected filmography * ''Cyanide'' (1930) - Kuckuck * ' (1930) - Aufnahmeleiter * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) - Priem * ''The Great Longing'' (1930) - Regieassistent Mopp * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) - Jack * ''The Blonde Nightingale'' (1930) - Hirschfield * ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1931) - Mackie Messers Platte * ''Seitensprünge'' (1931) - Anton Schiller * '' M'' (1931) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |