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Frank Wisbar
Frank Wisbar (born Franz Wysbar 9 December 1899 – 17 March 1967) was a German film director and screenwriter. Born in Lithuania, Wisbar directed more than 20 films between 1932 and 1967 in Germany and the United States, as well as amassing many television credits. He created TV's ''Fireside Theatre'' and was the show's producer in addition to frequently directing and writing episodes. He was also a member of the jury at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Spell of the Looking Glass'' (1932) * ''Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933) * '' Rivalen der Luft'' (1934) * ''Hermine and the Seven Upright Men'' (1935) (awarded in the Third Reich, cf. Nazism and cinema) *'' The Unknown'' (1936) * '' Fährmann Maria'' (1936) * ''Secrets of a Sorority Girl'' (1945) * ''Strangler of the Swamp'' (1946) * ''Devil Bat's Daughter'' (1946) * ''Lighthouse'' (1947) * ' (1957) * ''Nasser Asphalt'' (1958) * '' Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?'' (1959) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilsit
Sovetsk (russian: Сове́тск; german: Tilsit; Old Prussian: ''Tilzi''; lt, Tilžė; pl, Tylża) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania. Geography Sovetsk lies in the historic region of Lithuania Minor at the confluence of the Tilse and Neman rivers. Panemunė in Lithuania was formerly a suburb of the town; after Germany's defeat in World War I, the trans-Neman suburb was detached from Tilsit (with the rest of the Klaipėda Region) in 1920. Climate Sovetsk has a borderline oceanic climate (''Cfb'' in the Köppen climate classification) using the boundary, or a humid continental climate (''Dfb'') using the boundary. History Tilsit, which received civic rights from Albert, Duke of Prussia in 1552,''Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XII'', p. 703 developed around a castle of the Teutonic Knights, known as the Schalauer Haus, founded in 128 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fährmann Maria
''Fährmann Maria'' ( ''Ferryman Maria'') is a 1936 German horror film directed by Frank Wisbar and starring Sybille Schmitz. Plot An elderly man operates a ferry in a small village. One evening, he weakens and dies while ferrying a silent stranger dressed in black. Some time later, a homeless woman arrives in the village seeking employment, and takes over the ferrying duties. The next evening, a wounded man boards her ferry. She hides him from pursuers and nurses him back to health in her hut. Gradually, she falls in love. Soon the silent stranger in black appears on the far shore, awaiting the ferry. As Maria conducts him across, he eventually breaks his silence to inquire about the wounded man. Maria realizes that the stranger is Death itself, and she seeks to outwit him by directing him away from her hut and into the village where a festival is in progress. The villagers at the festival recoil from the stranger, who dances with Maria until she escapes from him and runs to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From East Prussia
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Tilsit
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch '' Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species '' Kenyapithecus africanus''. ** American football: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Births
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commando (1962 Film)
''Marcia o Crepa'' (March or Die), known as ''The Legion's Last Patrol'' in the UK and ''Commando'' in the US, is a 1962 in film, 1962 European (Italian, German, Spanish) co-production (filmmaking), co-production war film about the Algerian War of Independence. It was released in 1964 in the US by American International Pictures on a double feature with ''Torpedo Bay''/''Beta Som''. In the UK this film was shown at Odeon cinemas as part of a double feature with ''The Day of the Triffids (film), The Day of the Triffids''. Plot French Foreign Legion Captain Le Blanc (Stewart Granger) leads a section of his Legion parachutists to capture an National Liberation Front (Algeria), FLN guerrilla leader. Along the way they are joined by a prostitute (Dorian Gray (actress), Dorian Gray) and an Arab child. Their mission is a success but when their escape helicopter is shot down they have to fight their way back to the French lines. Cast * Stewart Granger : capitaine Leblanc * Dorian Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara (1961 Film)
''Barbara'' (German: ''Barbara - Wild wie das Meer'') is a 1961 West German drama film directed by Frank Wisbar and starring Harriet Andersson, Maria Sebaldt and Carl Lange (actor), Carl Lange. Parish & R. Pitts p.422 The film is adapted from the 1939 novel of the same title by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen. It was shot at studios in Copenhagen while location shooting took place in the Faroe Islands where the film is set. Cast * Harriet Andersson as Barbara * Maria Sebaldt as Vupsen * Carl Lange (actor), Carl Lange as Amtmann Heyde * Helmut Griem as Paul * Hans Nielsen (actor), Hans Nielsen as Mikkelsen * Josef Albrecht as Henry * Erika Dannhoff as Sophie * Jens Due as Tanzender Gast * Erich Dunskus as Harpunen-Olaf * Tilla Durieux as Armgart * Hans Elwenspoek as Pastor * Herbert Fleischmann as Gabriel * Günter Lüdke as Tanfloh * Nora Minor as Barbara's Mutter * Hans Paetsch as Inselvogt Harme * Xenia Pörtner as Susanne * Renate Rolfs as Angelika * Erik Schumann as Dr. Nielsson * Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkness Fell On Gotenhafen
''Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen'' (german: Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen) is a 1960 German drama film directed by Frank Wisbar. It dramatizes the sinking of , which was sunk while carrying German servicemen and around 6,000 civilian evacuees. Heinz Schön presents the combined death toll as 9,343.Pipes, Jason. In A Memorial to the Wilhelm Gustloff' Pipes cites Heinz Schön as reporting in ''Die Gustloff Katastrophe'' that the loss of life was 9,343. Sinking of MV ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' was a German cruise liner laid down on 4 August 1936. Intended to be christened Adolf Hitler, she was eventually named after Wilhelm Gustloff, the assassinated leader of Nazi Party Foreign Organisation in Switzerland. She was launched into the Elbe on 5 May 1937. The liner was constructed by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg as part of the ''Kraft durch Freude'' (Strength through Joy) program to endorse low-cost voyages for the German working class, with the belief that happy workers work harder. Up to 30 luxury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasser Asphalt
''Nasser Asphalt'' (''Wet Asphalt'') is a 1958 West-German thriller starring Horst Buchholz and featuring Gert Fröbe, written by Will Tremper and directed by Frank Wisbar. Plot The young journalist Bachmann (Horst Buchholz) is released from prison by the intervention of Cesar Boyd (Martin Held), a respected and prosperous journalist who hires him as his assistant. Bachmann had been in jail for his attempt to interview war criminals at Spandau prison. Bachmann works for Boyd who acts as his mentor, however, Bachmann’s stories are published under Boyd’s name. Bettina (Maria Perschy), the daughter of a friend comes to study in Berlin and will stay at Boyd. Both Bachmann who picks her up at the airport and Boyd develop an interest in the young woman. In the commotion, a story that has to go out to a Paris newspaper is not prepared, and Boyd, after listening to a tale from his chauffeur Jupp (Gert Fröbe), in the last minute makes up a story of five German soldiers who have lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil Bat's Daughter
''Devil Bat's Daughter'' is a 1946 American horror film directed by Frank Wisbar. It stars Rosemary La Planche, who was crowned Miss America 1941. It is a sequel to the 1941 film ''The Devil Bat'', with no returning cast members. It marked the film debut of Michael Hale, a former ad man for the ''Los Angeles Times'', who was married to one of Hedda Hopper's assistants. Plot A beautiful young woman is found in a trance. A taxi driver claims to have taken her to "the Carruthers place", so a police officer and neighbor Dr. Eliot take her there. They learn, with help from psychiatrist Cliff Morris, that the woman is a Nina MacCarron, and that her father, Dr. Paul Carruthers, once conducted experiments on bats that led people to calling him a vampire and who died from his own creation in the events of the previous film. As strange events occur leading to suspicion that Nina is mad, Ellen Morris, unhappy wife of Cliff, takes an interest in her, as does Ted Masters, who returns fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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