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Die Fledermaus (1962 Film)
''Die Fledermaus'' is a 1962 Austrian musical film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Peter Alexander (Austrian actor and singer), Peter Alexander, Marianne Koch and Marika Rökk.Elsaesser & Wedel p.119 It is an adaptation of the operetta ''Die Fledermaus'' by Johann Strauss II, Karl Haffner and Richard Genée. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and Alexander Sawczynski. Cast * Peter Alexander (Austrian actor and singer), Peter Alexander as Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein * Marianne Koch as Rosalinde * Marika Rökk as Adele, the Maid * Willy Millowitsch as Frank * Gunther Philipp as Pista von Bundassy * Boy Gobert as Prinz Orlofsky * Hans Moser (actor), Hans Moser as Frosch the Jailer * Oskar Sima as Basil Arabayam * Susi Nicoletti as Baroness Martens * Rolf Kutschera as Alfred * Rudolf Carl as Joseph References Bibliography * Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel. ''The BFI companion to German cinema''. British Film Institute, 1999. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Von Cziffra
Géza von Cziffra (; 19 December 1900 – 28 April 1989) was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter. Life Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary, now in Romania. Cziffra made films from the 1930s onwards, at first in Hungary, and from 1936 in Germany as well, where he was initially more active as a screenwriter. In 1945, in Prague, then occupied by the Germans, he made the film ''Leuchtende Schatten'' ("Glowing Shadows"). As adviser for the criminal police, he was assigned SS-Sturmbannführer Eweler, a member of the SD and brother of the actress Ruth Eweler. After some time, Cziffra banned Eweler from the studios for excessive and obstructive criticism. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested and taken to the Prague Gestapo Headquarters in the Pecec Palace, where he was accused of having eaten several times in the Czech restaurant "Neumann" without using ration stamps. He was event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Fledermaus
' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874. Background The original literary source for ' was ' (''The Prison''), a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix that premiered in Berlin in 1851. On 10 September 1872, a three-act French vaudeville play by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, ', loosely based on the Benedix farce, opened at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. Meilhac and Halévy had provided several successful libretti for Offenbach and ''Le Réveillon'' later formed the basis for the 1926 silent film '' So This Is Paris'', directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Meilhac and Halévy's play was soon translated into German by Karl Haffner (1804–1876), at the instigation of Max Steiner, as a non-musical play for production in Vienna. The French custom of a New Year's Eve ''réveillon'', or supper party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Carl
Rudolf Carl (19 June 189915 January 1987) was an Austrian actor who appeared in more than 150 German language films between 1934 and 1969. He also directed two films '' Der Leberfleck'' and '' Dort in der Wachau''. Selected filmography * '' Polish Blood'' (1934) * '' Frasquita'' (1934) * '' A Star Fell from Heaven'' (1934) * '' The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' Little Mother'' (1935) * '' Suburban Cabaret'' (1935) * '' Heaven on Earth'' (1935) * ''Dance Music'' (1935) * '' The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) * '' Hannerl and Her Lovers'' (1936) * '' Where the Lark Sings'' (1936) * '' The Postman from Longjumeau'' (1936) * '' The Love of the Maharaja'' (1936) * ''Adventure in Warsaw'' (1937) * '' The Vagabonds'' (1937) * ''Little County Court'' (1938) * '' Woman in the River'' (1939) * '' Immortal Waltz'' (1939) * '' Linen from Ireland'' (1939) * '' Roses in Tyrol'' (1940) * '' The White Dream'' (1943) * '' Scandal at the Embassy'' (1950) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pasture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Kutschera
Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. An alternative but less common variation of ''Rolf'' in Norway is ''Rolv''. The oldest evidence of the use of the name Rolf in Sweden is an inscription from the 11th century on a runestone in Forsheda, Småland. The name also appears twice in the Orkneyinga sagas, where a scion of the jarls of Orkney, Gånge-Rolf, is said to be identical to the Viking Rollo who captured Normandy in 911. This Saga of the Norse begins with the abduction of Gói daughter by a certain Hrolf of Berg, (the Mountain). She is the daughter of Thorri, a Jotun of Gandvik, and sister of Gór and Nór. The latter is regarded as a first king and eponymous anchestor of Nórway. After a fierce duell (Holmgang) where none is able to overcome the other, Hrolf and Nór bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susi Nicoletti
Susi Nicoletti (3 September 1918 – 5 June 2005) was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films. She was born as Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich, but spent most of her childhood with her parents in Amsterdam. Back in Munich, she made her stage debut at age 13. Two years later she became a ballerina. In the early 1930s she turned to cabaret. In 1939, she was offered her first film role. In 1940 she moved to Vienna, where she became a member of the Burgtheater. After her retirement in 1992 she continued her stage career at the Theater in der Josefstadt. For decades, Nicoletti taught acting and dance at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Her husband, Ernst Haeussermann, was a theatre director. Death Nicoletti died in Vienna of complications after heart surgery, aged 86. Her son, daughter and grandchildren live in the United States. Selected filmography * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Franzi P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high school in Vienna. After a brief tour in the army during World War I, he began acting in various theatrical productions in Berlin, Vienna, and other cities in Central Europe. He began his film career in 1921, and appeared in a number of German silent films early on. Sima was frequently cast as the comic villain whose machinations get everyone into trouble, although often his villainous stature was used to more chilling effect. In 1929, Sima married actress Lina Woiwode. The couple remained married until Sima's death. Along with Friedl Czepa, Fred Hennings and Leni Riefenstahl he was identified as being an active supporter of the Nazi Party. After World War II, Sima was a frequent character actor, causing one biographer to write, "... there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Moser (actor)
Hans Moser (6 August 1880 – 19 June 1964) was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the ''Wiener Film''. Moser appeared in over 150 films. Biography Born Johann Julier in Vienna, Moser very often portrayed the man in the street, typically someone else's subordinate – servant, waiter, porter, shopkeeper, coachman, petty bureaucrat, etc. Also always he played honest, moral and well-intentioned people who, unable to keep cool and think clearly in crucial situations, get themselves and everyone around them into trouble. As the father of a beautiful daughter – often widowed – he was the stubborn one who realizes only at the end of the movie, when all cases of mistaken identity have been cleared up and all secrets are revealed, that he has been terribly wrong all the time. Moser was particularly known for mumbling indistinctly for comic effect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy Gobert
Boy Gobert (5 June 1925 – 30 May 1986) was a German film and television actor. Partial filmography * '' Island of the Dead'' (1955) – Schiffs-Steward * ''A Heart Full of Music'' (1955) – Granito Bubiblanca * ''Meine Kinder und ich'' (1955) – Charlie Scheller – Manager * ''Pulverschnee nach Übersee'' (1956) – Bob Webster * '' The Model Husband'' (1956) – Freddy Evans * ''Uns gefällt die Welt'' (1956) – Regisseur im Revuetheater * '' Imperial and Royal Field Marshal'' (1956) – Manfred von Pisewitz * '' Victor and Victoria'' (1957) – Lacoste * ''Tolle Nacht'' (1957) – Hotelbesitzer Ernst Castell * ''Dort in der Wachau'' (1957) – Emil Bayerl * '' Love From Paris'' (1957) – Monpti (old) * '' The Daring Swimmer'' (1957) – Fritz Hohebirke * ' (1957) – Rombach, Kunsthändler * ''Europas neue Musikparade 1958'' (1957) – Karl * ''A Piece of Heaven'' (1957) – Sir Jackie Taft-Holery * ''Schwarzwälder Kirsch'' (1958) – Freddy Weller * ' (1958) – Carl v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunther Philipp
Gunther Philipp (8 June 1918 – 2 October 2003) was an Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer. From 1949 to 2002 he appeared as an actor in 147 movies for cinema and television, mainly in comic roles. As an author, Philipp wrote 21 film scripts. Education During World War II, Philipp studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the University of Vienna philosophy, majoring in psychology and then medicine. In 1943 he received his doctorate in medicine ( Dr. med. univ.) He held the Austrian record in the 100-meter breaststroke for 14 years. He was also in the squad of the Austrian Olympic team in Berlin in 1936, but was not nominated for political reasons because he did not want to join the National Socialist-dominated “First Vienna Amateur Sports Club”. After the war, he ran a practice in Eberstalzell in Upper Austria and was active until in the 1990s at the Vienna University Clinic for Neurology and Psychiatry. Selected filmography * ''Love on Ice'' (1950) * ''Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Millowitsch
Willy Millowitsch (, ; 8 January 1909 – 20 September 1999) was a German stage and TV actor and the director of the ''Volkstheater Millowitsch'' in Cologne. Early life Millowitsch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province. His parents were Peter and Käthe Millowitsch and came from a long family tradition of engagement with the theater which can be traced back to 1792. It was not until 1895 however, that Millowitsch's grandfather stopped using puppets and resorted to real actors instead. Millowitsch was interested in theater at an early age and took to the stage for the first time in 1922 at just 13. He quit school without a degree to pursue his acting career full-time. At first he worked under the auspices of his father who had to give up his theater after the inflation hit. This forced them to go on tour in and around Cologne until they got a permanent theater in 1936, the now famous ''Volkstheater Millowitsch'', which Willy took over from his father in 1940. In 1939 he married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Sawczynski
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander and Aleksandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/ Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff
Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff (1908–1993) was an Austrian art directorDassanowsky p.130 who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. Jüptner-Jonstorff was one of the leading figures in his field in Europe, designing sets for films such as '' Victoria in Dover'' (1954) and '' Sissi'' (1955). Selected filmography * ''The Heart Must Be Silent'' (1944) * ''The Immortal Face'' (1947) * '' Anni'' (1948) * '' Fregola'' (1948) * ''Ulli and Marei'' (1948) * '' Queen of the Landstrasse'' (1948) * ''The Heavenly Waltz'' (1948) * ''Mountain Crystal'' (1949) * ''Lambert Feels Threatened'' (1949) * ''Theodore the Goalkeeper'' (1950) * ''A Tale of Five Cities'' (1951) * ''Call Over the Air'' (1951) * '' Gateway to Peace'' (1951) * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) * ''Knall and Fall as Imposters '' (1952) * ''Anna Louise and Anton'' (1953) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1953) * ''To Be Without Worries'' (1953) * '' Victoria in Dover'' (1954) * '' Sissi'' (1955) * ''Marriage Sanitari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
