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Der Stern Von Afrika
''Der Stern von Afrika'' () is a 1957 black-and-white German war film portraying the combat career of a World War II Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille. The film stars Joachim Hansen and Marianne Koch and was directed by Alfred Weidenmann, whose film career began in the Nazi era. ''Der Stern von Afrika'' was premièred on 13 August 1957 in Berlin and was popular at the German box office. The film was criticised for hewing closely to wartime propaganda in its portrayal of the German war effort and for avoiding an honest confrontation with the past. Plot The film begins shortly before the outbreak of World War II with Jochen Marseille ( Joachim Hansen) attending a Luftwaffe (Air Force) school in Berlin. His squadron is transferred to the Africa Corps in North Africa. Marseille quickly becomes the most successful fighter pilot. His unit loses more and more pilots to the Desert Air Force, and Marseille begins to doubt the usefulness of his operations. He travels to B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Weidenmann
Alfred Weidenmann (10 May 1916 – 9 June 2000) was a German film director, screenwriter, and author of children's books. He directed more than 30 films between 1942 and 1984. Selected filmography * '' Hände hoch (1942) * ' (1944) * ''I and You'' (1953) * '' Canaris'' (1954) * ' (1955) * ''Alibi'' (1955) * '' Kitty and the Great Big World'' (1956) * ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (1957) * ''Scampolo'' (1958) * ' (1958) * '' The Buddenbrooks'' (1959) * ' (''Bumerang'') (1960) * ''Sacred Waters'' (1960) * ''Adorable Julia'' (1962) * '' Only a Woman'' (1962) * ' (1963) * ''Condemned to Sin'' (1964) * '' Shots in Threequarter Time'' (1965) * '' The Gentlemen'' (1965) * ''Who Wants to Sleep?'' (1965) * ''I Am Looking for a Man'' (1966) * ''Maigret and His Greatest Case'' (1966) * ''Pistolen-Jenny'' (1969, TV film) * '' Under the Roofs of St. Pauli'' (1970) * ''The Bordello'' (1971) * ''Sonderdezernat K1'' (1972–1981, TV series, 7 episodes) * ' (1973) * ''Derrick A derrick is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Air Force
The Desert Air Force (DAF), also known chronologically as Air Headquarters Western Desert, Air Headquarters Libya, the Western Desert Air Force, and the First Tactical Air Force (1TAF), was an Allied tactical air force created from No. 204 Group RAF under RAF Middle East Command in North Africa in 1941 to provide close air support to the British Eighth Army against Axis forces. Throughout the Second World War, the DAF was made up of squadrons from the Royal Air Force (RAF), the South African Air Force (SAAF), the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and other Allied air forces. In October 1941, the Western Desert Air Forces had 16 squadrons of aircraft (nine fighter, six medium bomber and one tactical reconnaissance) and fielded approximately 1,000 combat aircraft by late 1941.Dear & Foot (2005), p. 992 By the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein, the DAF fielded 29 squadrons (including nine South African and three USAAF units) f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Blanco
Roberto Blanco (legal name: Roberto Zerquera Blanco), was born 7 June 1937 in Tunis, Tunisia. Of Afro-Cuban origin, Blanco is a German Schlager singer, actor, and entertainer. Early life Blanco is the son of Cuban folklorist and artist Alfonso Zerquera and his wife Mercedes Blanco. He grew up in Beirut and Madrid. When Roberto was two, his mother died. After finishing school he began to study medicine in Madrid, but quit after two semesters. Career In 1957, Blanco played a role in the movie ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (The Star of Africa). His singing career began with Josephine Baker. In the 1960s, he became a hit star in his own right and appeared in various films – among them Johannes Mario Simmel penned ''All People Will Be Brothers'' and the Erich Kästner adaptation '' Three Men in the Snow''. In 1969, Blanco won the German "Schlager-Festspiele" with his song "Heute so, morgen so" (Today like this, tomorrow like that). Following that, Blanco recorded a number of hit album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Lange (actor)
Carl (or Karl) Lange (30 October 1909 – 23 June 1999) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1954 and 1985. He was born in Flensburg, Germany and died in Ostfildern, Germany. Partial filmography * ''Ernst Thälmann'' (1954) - Zweiter Arbeiter * ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (1957) - Hauptmann Krusenberg * ''The Devil Strikes at Night'' (1957) - Major Thomas Wollenberg * ''Doctor Crippen Lives'' (1958) - Aristide Coq * ' (1958) - Harald Flint * ''Der Schinderhannes'' (1958) - Priester * ''Christine'' (1958) - (uncredited) * '' Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?'' (1959) - General von Seydlitz * ''Der Frosch mit der Maske'' (1959) - John Bennet * ''The Forests Sing Forever'' (1959) - Mr. von Gall * ''Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen'' (1960) - Kapitän Zahn * ''Mistress of the World'' (1960) - Berakov * ''Soldatensender Calais'' (1960) - Hauptmann Reßler, Abwehr-Offizier * ''The Inheritance of Bjorndal'' (1960) - Mr. von Gall * ''Die Brücke ... [...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] |
Albert Hehn
Albert Hehn (17 December 1908 – 29 July 1983) was a German actor. Hehn appeared in a large number of films between 1938 and 1970. One of his most notable roles was in the 1941 war film ''Stukas''.Welch p.279 He was married to the actress Jeanette Schultze. Selected filmography * '' Comrades at Sea'' (1938) * ''Drei Unteroffiziere'' (1939) * ''Legion Condor'' (1939) * ''Stukas'' (1941) * '' Tonelli'' (1943) * '' The Buchholz Family'' (1944) * '' Marriage of Affection'' (1944) * '' Martina'' (1949) * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (1949) * ''Monks, Girls and Hungarian Soldiers'' (1952) * '' The Mill in the Black Forest'' (1953) * '' The Hunter's Cross'' (1954) * ''The Forest House in Tyrol'' (1955) * ''We're All Necessary'' (1956) * '' The Star of Africa'' (1957) * ''The Battalion in the Shadows'' (1957) * ''Two Bavarians in the Harem'' (1957) * ''The Green Devils of Monte Cassino'' (1958) * ''Rommel Calls Cairo'' (1959) * ''The Scarlet Baroness ''The Scarlet Baroness'' (German: ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Hermann Schaufuß
Hans Hermann Schaufuß (13 July 1893 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1922 to 1969. His sons were actors Hans Joachim Schaufuß Hans Joachim Schaufuß (transliterated: Schaufuss) (28 December 1918 – 27 October 1941) was a German actor. Schaufuß began as a child actor, appearing in '' Emil and the Detectives'' (1931) and '' The White Demon'' (1932). From the mid-1930s he ... and Peter-Timm Schaufuß. Selected filmography References External links * 1893 births 1982 deaths German male film actors German male silent film actors 20th-century German male actors Male actors from Berlin {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Doermer
Christian Doermer (5 July 1935 – 14 July 2022) was a German actor and director. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1954 to 2022. He starred in the 1966 film '' No Shooting Time for Foxes''. The film was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. In 1969, Doermer appeared as a German soldier attending the Christmas truce in Sir Richard Attenborough's satirical World War I musical film ''Oh! What a Lovely War''. Doermer himself has also directed a fair number of films including documentaries and television films. In 1962, he was one of the 26 authors of the famous Oberhausen Manifesto, demanding a change in German film. Selected filmography * ''The Forest House in Tyrol'' (1955) as Alfons Attinger * ' (1956), as Jochen * ''Teenage Wolfpack'' (1956), as Jan Borchert * '' All Roads Lead Home'' (1957), as Michael * ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (1957), as Unteroffizier Klein * '' Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Schürenberg
Siegfried Schürenberg (12 January 1900 – 31 August 1993) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1933 and 1974. He was born in Detmold, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany in 1993, at age 93. Although he never played leading roles, he was a well-known supporting actor who played the role of Sir John in numerous Edgar Wallace films during the 1960s. He was also a busy dubbing actor, for example as the German voice for Clark Gable in most of his films, including Rhett Butler in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind''. Selected filmography * ''Master of the World (1934 film), Master of the World'' (1934) * ''Forget Me Not (1935 film), Forget Me Not'' (1935) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * ''Asew'' (1935) * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) * ''To New Shores'' (1937) * ''The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (1937) * ''Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) * ''Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * ''Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * ''Madame Butte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arno Paulsen
Arno Paulsen (1900–1969) was a German actor who appeared in around sixty films in the post-Second World War years. He also appeared frequently on stage and was also a voice actor dubbing foreign films for release in Germany. He appeared in a mixture of West German and East German films. He made his film debut in the 1946 rubble film ''Murderers Among Us''.Brockmann p.197 Selected filmography * ''Murderers Among Us'' (1946) * ''Wozzeck'' (1947) * ''Raid'' (1947) * '' Blum Affair'' (1948) * ''Chemistry and Love'' (1948) * ''The Adventures of Fridolin'' (1948) * '' Street Acquaintances'' (1948) * ''Girls Behind Bars'' (1949) * '' Martina'' (1949) * '' The Bridge'' (1949) * ''Hoegler's Mission'' (1950) * ''Third from the Right'' (1950) * '' Bürgermeister Anna'' (1950) * ''Five Suspects'' (1950) * ''The Orplid Mystery'' (1950) * ''Torreani'' (1951) * ''Bluebeard'' (1951) * ''When the Heath Dreams at Night'' (1952) * ''The Uncle from America'' (1953) * '' We'll Talk About Love Later'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Von Collande
Gisela von Collande (5 February 1915 – 22 October 1960) was a German film actress. She was killed in 1960 during a traffic accident. Gisela came from an acting family. She was the sister of the actor and director Volker von Collande. She married the actor Josef Dahmen, with whom she had a daughter Andrea Dahmen. The granddaughter Julia Dahmen also became an actress. Selected filmography * ''Maria the Maid'' (1936) * '' The Traitor'' (1936) * ''The Broken Jug'' (1937) * ''The False Step'' (1939) * ''Target in the Clouds'' (1939) * '' The Bath in the Barn'' (1943) * ''The Sinful Border'' (1951) * '' Roses Bloom on the Moorland'' (1952) * ''Prosecutor Corda'' (1953) * ''Alibi'' (1955) * ''Stopover in Orly'' (1955) * ''Heaven, Love and Twine'' (1960) * ''Sacred Waters Sacred waters are sacred natural sites characterized by tangible topographical land formations such as rivers, lakes, springs, reservoirs, and oceans, as opposed to holy water which is water elevated with the sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kerst
Alexander Kerst (23 February 1924 – 9 December 2010) was an Austrian television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ... actor. He was born in Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czechoslovakia and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography References External links *Erna Baumbauer Management 1924 births 2010 deaths Austrian male television actors 20th-century Austrian male actors German Bohemian people Naturalised citizens of Austria People from Kralupy nad Vltavou {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
