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Das Grosse Spiel
''The Big Game'' (german: Das große Spiel) is a 1942 German sports film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring René Deltgen, Gustav Knuth and Heinz Engelmann. It featured famous German footballers of the era. National coach Sepp Herberger arranged for many German international footballers to be recalled from fighting in the Second World War, ostensibly to improve the quality of the film, but actually to try to protect them from the horrors of war.Hesse-Lichtenbeger p. 91–92 Some sequences of the film are in Agfacolor. The sets were designed by art directors Gerbert Hochreiter and Walter Schlick. Partial cast Bibliography * See also * List of association football films The following is a list of films featuring association football. List See also *List of sports films *List of highest-grossing sports films References {{Sports films Association football Association football, more commonly known as ... References External links * 1942 films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert A
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agfacolor
An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from café in Oslo, Norway. An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from Paris, France. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Hungary. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Zakopane in Poland. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Sweden. Budapest in Hungary, 1939. An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves have held up well, damage visible includes dust and Newton's rings. Swedish battleship HM Pansarskepp Gustaf V (An Agfacolor slide dated until 1957). Agfacolor was the name of a series of color film products made by Agfa of Germany. The first Agfacolor, introduced in 1932, was a film-based version of their Agfa-Farbenplatte (Agfa color plate), a "screen plate" product similar to the French Autochrome. In late 1936, Agfa introduced Agfacolor Neu (New Agfacolor), a pioneering color film of the general type still in use today. The new Agfacolor was originally a reversal film used for making "slides", home movies and short do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Lehner
Ernst Lehner (7 November 1912 – 10 January 1986) was a German footballer. He was born in Augsburg and died in Aschaffenburg. International He played for the Germany national football team in the 1934 FIFA World Cup and the 1938 FIFA World Cup. In total, he made 65 appearances and scored 31 goals for the national team. Lehner was a member of the Breslau Eleven that beat Denmark 8–0 in Breslau in 1937 and went on to win 10 out of 11 games played during that year. His position was that of an outside right. He was also part of Germany's squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Career Ernst Lehner was one of the paciest and most skilled outside rights of the mid-/late-1930s. His specialty was corner kicks; gaining a reputation for often trying (and succeeding) to convert them directly. In a 1937 World Cup qualifier against Estonia, with Germany one goal behind at half-time, Germany collected 18 corner kicks in the second half, two of which Lehner converted directly and two other corners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Kupfer
Andreas Kupfer (7 May 1914, in Schweinfurt – 30 April 2001, in Marktbreit) was a German football player. Career Kupfer played for VfR 07 Schweinfurt until 1933 and then joined 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 for the rest of his career. On the national level he played for Germany national team (44 matches/1 goal), and was a participant at the 1938 FIFA World Cup. Kupfer was one of two FC Schweinfurt 05 players featured in the Breslau Elf that beat Denmark 8:0 in Breslau in 1937 and went on to win 10 out 11 games played during that year. 'Ander' Kupfer was one of the best half backs in the history of German football and is the only player to have played Germany's last international game before the end of World War II (played in 1942) and the first one after the war (in 1950). Kupfer became famous in German football as a left-footed right half and together with his Schweinfurt club colleague Albin Kitzinger formed the best half back duo in German football. Playing between the two- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Balogh
Fritz Balogh (16 December 1920 – 14 January 1951) was a German footballer who played as a forward. His first club was ''DSK Preßburg'' (Bratislava). In 1941, he joined Hertha BSC as a wartime guest player. After the Second World War, Balogh played for VfL Neckarau. On 22 November 1950 he participated in his first and only international in the Germany national team, a 1–0 victory against Switzerland. This became the only national-level appearance from a player playing for VfL Neckarau. Balogh fell from a train when returning from a match against Bayern Munich on 14 January 1951. He succumbed to his injuries a day later. Selected filmography * ''Das große Spiel ''The Big Game'' (german: Das große Spiel) is a 1942 German sports film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring René Deltgen, Gustav Knuth and Heinz Engelmann. It featured famous German footballers of the era. National coach Sepp Herberger ...'' (1942) References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Balogh, Fritz 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Appel
Hans Appel (8 June 1911 – 27 July 1973) was a German footballer who played as a defender who played as a defender for Hertha BSC, Berliner SV 92, Dresdner SC and FC St. Pauli Fußball-Club St Pauli von 1910 e.V., commonly known as simply FC St Pauli (), is a German professional football club based in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg, that competes in the 2. Bundesliga. The football department is part of a larger sp .... He also represented the Germany national team, and was capped five times between 1933 and 1938. External links * * 1911 births 1973 deaths Footballers from Berlin German footballers Association football defenders Germany international footballers Hertha BSC players Dresdner SC players FC St. Pauli players German football managers FC St. Pauli managers 20th-century German people {{Germany-footy-defender-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Millowitsch
Lucy Millowitsch (8 November 1905 – 21 June 1990) was a German stage-actress, screen star, stage director/producer, theatre co-owner/manager and dramatist. Later she teamed up with her brother to run the Cologne Millowitsch Theatre, which became known at the time as a venue for "popular, low-brow comedies". Life Lucy Millowitsch was born in Chemnitz. She was born into a long-established theatrical dynasty. Michael Millowitsch, her great-great-great grandfather, had created a successful puppet theatre in Cologne as far back as the late eighteenth century. Her father was the stage actor and theatre impresario Peter Wilhelm Millowitsch (1880–1945). Her mother, born Käthe Planck, came originally from Vienna. Her father's younger sister was the stage and screen performer Cordy Millowitsch. Lucy and her younger brother Willy Millowitsch were appearing on the stage with their father from an early age. In 1936, as the German economy recovered, and after several years w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Staudte
Wolfgang Staudte (9 October 1906 – 19 January 1984), born Georg Friedrich Staudte, was a German film director, script writer and actor. He was born in Saarbrücken. After 1945, Staudte also looked at German guilt in the cinema. Alongside Helmut Käutner, he was considered the only German post-war director of any standing who, after 1945, could look back on continuous artistic filmmaking far removed from Heimatfilm and the suppression of history. Staudte's films stood for politically committed cinema as well as for professional craftsmanship, for film art and (good) entertainment with a social claim. His most important work came in the ten years following World War II, in which he worked with the DEFA in East Germany. The main focus of his work was to highlight the limits of German national pride. His work in anti-Nazi films, such as ''Murderers Among Us'' (1946), was also a personal working-through of his film career under the Nazis (he acted in the anti-Semitic film ''Jud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Lommel
Ruth Lommel (1918–2012) was a German stage and film actress.Giesen p. 185 She was the daughter of the actor Ludwig Manfred Lommel. Her brother Ulli Lommel also became an actor, while another brother Manuel Lommel is a cinematographer. She was married to the racing driver Emil Vorster. Selected filmography * '' The Unfaithful Eckehart'' (1940) * '' Riding for Germany'' (1941) * '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941) * '' The Big Game'' (1942) * '' When Men Cheat'' (1950) * ''Harbour Melody'' (1950) * '' The Mill in the Black Forest'' (1953) * '' Hooray, It's a Boy!'' (1953) * ''The Immenhof Girls ''The Immenhof Girls'' (German: ''Die Mädels vom Immenhof'') is a 1955 West German comedy drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Heidi Brühl, Margarete Haagen and Paul Henckels.Hake p.119 It was filmed using Eastmancolor. The film' ...'' (1955) * '' Two Bavarians in St. Pauli'' (1956) * '' Between Munich and St. Pauli'' (1957) * '' The Muzzle'' (1958) References B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Sieber
Josef Sieber (28 April 1900 – 3 December 1962) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * ''Pappi'' (1934) * ''Punks Arrives from America'' (1935) * ''Joan of Arc'' (1935) * ''The Gypsy Baron'' (1935) * ''The Last Four on Santa Cruz'' (1936) * ''Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) * ''The Mystery of Betty Bonn'' (1938) * ''Comrades at Sea'' (1938) * ''Robert Koch'' (1939) * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) * ''Bachelor's Paradise'' (1939) * ''Kora Terry'' (1940) * ''The Three Codonas'' (1940) * ''The Heart of a Queen'' (1940) * ''Diesel'' (1942) * '' The Big Game'' (1942) * ''The Golden Spider'' (1943) * '' Tonelli'' (1943) * ''Artists' Blood'' (1949) * '' The Last Night'' (1949) * ''Five Suspects'' (1950) * ''Harbour Melody'' (1950) * ''Furioso'' (1950) * ''Good Fortune in Ohio'' (1950) * '' Shadows in the Night'' (1950) * '' The Heath is Green'' (1951) * ''Dreaming Days'' (1951) * '' Shooting Stars'' (1952) * ''A Thousand Red Roses Bloom'' (1952) * '' Klettermaxe'' (1952) * ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Schönböck
Karl Schönböck (4 February 1909 in Vienna – 24 March 2001 in Munich) was an Austrian actor. bfi.org.uk Selected filmography * '' Flowers from Nice'' (1936) as Count Ulrich von Traunstein * '' The Girl Irene'' (1936) as Sir John Corbett * '''' (1937) as Bentley * '''' (1938) as Kingston ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Andergast
Maria Andergast (4 June 1912 – 14 February 1995) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1934 and 1974. Selected filmography * '' The Prodigal Son'' (1934) * '' Last Stop'' (1935) * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * '' The Bird Seller'' (1935) * ''Scandal at the Fledermaus'' (1936) * '' His Daughter is Called Peter'' (1936) * ''The Three Around Christine'' (1936) * ''Three Girls for Schubert'' (1936) * '' The Czar's Courier'' (1936) * ''The Mystery of Betty Bonn'' (1938) * '' Monika'' (1938) * ''Immortal Waltz'' (1939) * ''Der Herr im Haus'' (1940) * '' The Big Game'' (1942) * ''Der Hofrat Geiger'' (1947) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1950) * '' The Midnight Venus'' (1951) * '' The Spendthrift'' (1953) * ''The Bachelor Trap'' (1953) * ''The Crazy Clinic'' (1954) * ''When the Alpine Roses Bloom'' (1955) * ''Emperor's Ball'' (1956) * ''Engagement at Wolfgangsee ''Engagement at Wolfgangsee'' (German: ''Verlobung am Wolfgangsee'') is a 1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
