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Fridericus
''Fridericus'' is a 1937 German historical film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Otto Gebühr, Hilde Körber and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Frederick II of Prussia.Waldman p. 208 It was part of the popular cycle of Prussian films. It was shot at the Halensee Studios in Berlin and on location in Brandenburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle. Main cast * Otto Gebühr as Friedrich II., König von Preußen * Hilde Körber as Wilhelmine – seine Schwester * Lil Dagover as Marquise de Pompadour * Agnes Straub as Czarina Elisabeth * Käthe Haack as Maria Theresia * Bernhard Minetti as Count Wallis, alias Marquis DuVal * Paul Klinger as von Bonin * Carola Höhn as Louise – seine Frau * Paul Dahlke as Field Marshal von Dessau * Lucie Höflich as Frau Büttner * Wilhelm König as Hans – ihr Sohn – Student * Will Dohm as Baron Warkotsch * Paul Westermeier as Musketeer Mampe * Heinrich Schroth as Capt. von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr (29 May 1877 – 13 March 1954) was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 films released between 1917 and 1954. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films. Early life Born in Kettwig (today part of Essen) in the Rhine Province, the son of a merchant, Gebühr attended the '' gymnasium'' secondary school in Cologne and completed a commercial training. Alongside he took drama lessons and began his acting career at the Görlitz city theatre. In 1898 he joined the ensemble of the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden and from 1908 performed at the Lessing Theater in Berlin. As a World War I volunteer he achieved the rank of a Lieutenant in the German Army. Film career After the war he worked with director Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. At the same time he obtained his first film performances with the help of his colleague Paul Wegener. He found the role of his lifetime in 1919, acting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prussian Films
Prussian films were a cycle of historical films made in Germany during the Weimar (1918–1933) and Nazi (1933–1945) eras noted for their general glorification of Prussian history and its military. The films are set during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They particularly focused on Frederick the Great, who ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786 greatly expanding its territory (hence known widely as ''Fridericus-Rex-Filme''). The films were extremely popular with German audiences and an estimated forty four were produced by the end of the Second World War (twenty-seven of them during the Weimar era). Origins While there were Prussian-themed films as far back as 1912–1913, the breakthrough came with the release in 1922 of the first two parts of the ''Fridericus Rex'' series featuring Otto Gebühr as Frederick the Great. Two further parts were released in 1923.Kreimeier p.93-94 The success of ''Fridericus Rex'' cemented the popularity of the genre and many similar films were pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Von Molo
Walter Ritter/Reichsritter von Molo (14 June 1880, Šternberk, Moravia, Austria-Hungary – 27 October 1958, Hechendorf (now Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria, West Germany), was an Austrian writer in the German language. Life Walter von Molo was born on 14 June 1880 in Šternberk, Moravia – then in Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic. He spent his youth in Vienna, the capital. At the Technical University of Vienna he studied mechanical and electrical engineering; he married his first wife, Rosa Richter, in 1906, had a son and daughter, and worked until 1913 as an engineer in the Viennese Patent Office. Shortly before the outbreak of the World War I he moved to Berlin to be with his Bavarian parents and rediscover his German roots, just as Berlin was transforming itself into a cultural capital. It was there that he embarked upon his career as a writer. His first works, published during and shortly after the war, were bestsellers, and he quickly became one of the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Meyer (director)
Johannes Meyer (13 August 1888 – 25 January 1976) was a German screenwriter and film director. He directed a number of films during the Weimar, Nazi and post-War eras, most notably ''Fridericus'' (1936), one in a series of epics about Frederick the Great.Richards p.316 Selected filmography * '' Horrido'' (1924) * '' The Poacher'' (1926) * '' Guilty'' (1928) * ''High Treason'' (1929) * ''The Blonde Nightingale'' (1930) * '' The Rhineland Girl'' (1930) * ''The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * ''Ash Wednesday'' (1931) * ''Alarm at Midnight'' (1931) * '' I'll Stay with You'' (1931) * ''Two Heavenly Blue Eyes'' (1932) * '' Under False Flag'' (1932) * ''Happy Days in Aranjuez'' (1933) * ''Die kleine Schwindlerin'' (1933) * ''There Is Only One Love'' (1933) * ''Black Fighter Johanna'' (1934) * ''The Fugitive from Chicago'' (1934) * ''The Legacy of Pretoria'' (1934) * ''Fridericus'' (1937) * '' Beate's Mystery'' (1938) * ''Der singende Tor'' (1939) * ''Marriage in Small Doses'' (1939) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Straub
Agnes Josephine Straub (2 April 1890 – 8 July 1941) was a German film actress. Biography Agnes Josephine Straub was born on 2 April 1890 in Munich. She made her stage debut in Dachau at the age of 13. She began attending acting lessons and, in 1908, acted as Sappho in Grillparzer's play. After acting in Bonn, Köningsberg, and Vienna, Straub traveled to Berlin and acted alongside actresses such as Elisabeth Bergner and Grete Mosheim. From 1925 onwards Straub mainly worked with her husband, the actor and director Lionel Royce. In 1930, Royce created his own theater company called the Agnes-Straub-Ensemble. In 1934, Royce was banned from working due to being a Jew, and left for Vienna, where he changed his name and achieved great success and very favorable reviews in the nationalist press. When his identity was revealed, a scandal broke out and Royce had to leave Austria and emigrate to America. Meanwhile, Straub remained in Germany and, in 1938, was involved in a serious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Mondi
Bruno Mondi (30 September 1903, Schwetz, West Prussia – 18 July 1991, Berlin) was a German cameraman and director of photography. Biography Mondi graduated from training in 1918 at the School of Cinema and Technology at the School of Photography in Berlin. Soon after, he worked as an assistant cameraman in numerous silent film productions, including Fritz Lang's ''Destiny'' (''Der müde Tod'', 1921). From 1925 he worked as co-cinematographer with Heinrich Gärtner, and in the comedy film ''Die tolle Lola''. In 1927, he served as executive director of photography. Mondi initially worked primarily with director Richard Eichberg. In 1935, he joined the permanent staff Veit Harlan. In addition to numerous comedies and entertainment films, Mondi also shot some propaganda films, including the anti-Semitic production ''Jud Süß'' (1940). Despite this, Mondi was hired in 1946 by DEFA, the East German state-owned film studio, as one of its chief cameramen. In this capacity he made in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Sohnle
Hans Sohnle (17 September 1895 – 24 March 1976) was a German art director.Chandler p.270 He frequently collaborated with Otto Erdmann on set designs. Selected filmography * '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * ''The Woman in Doctor's Garb'' (1920) * '' Kean'' (1921) * ''The Solemn Oath'' (1921) * ''Seafaring Is Necessary'' (1921) * ''The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * '' The Homecoming of Odysseus'' (1922) * '' Two Worlds'' (1922) * ''The Weather Station'' (1923) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''Prater'' (1924) * ''The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * '' The Woman in Flames'' (1924) * ''Joyless Street'' (1925) * ''Flight Around the World'' (1925) * '' The Golden Calf'' (1925) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * ''The Great Duchess'' (1926) * '' The Poacher'' (1926) * '' Professor Imhof '' (1926) * '' Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse'' (1926) * ''The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * '' The White Slave'' (1927) * ''The City of a Thousand Delights'' (1927) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Erdmann (art Director)
Otto Erdmann (16 November 1898 – 23 January 1965) was a German art director.Chandler p. 270 During the 1920s and 1930s he often worked alongside Hans Sohnle. Filmography * ''The Weather Station'' (1923) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''The Girl from Capri'' (1924) * ''Mother and Child'' (1924) * ''The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * '' The Woman in Flames'' (1924) * ''Prater'' (1924) * ''Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' The Golden Calf'' (1925) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''Flight Around the World'' (1925) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' The Poacher'' (1926) * ''The Great Duchess'' (1926) * '' Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse'' (1926) * '' Professor Imhof'' (1926) * '' The Marriage Hotel'' (1926) * ''Circus Romanelli'' (1926) * ''The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * ''The Woman Who Couldn't Say No'' (1927) * '' The Impostor'' (1927) * '' The Bordello in Rio'' (1927) * ''The City of a Thousand Delights'' (1927) * ''Hello Caesar!'' (1927) * '' The White Slave'' (1927) * ''Queen of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Klinger
Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik (14 June 1907, Essen – 14 November 1971, Munich) was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack dubbing. Family life His father, a civil engineer, was Karl Heinrich Klinksik; his mother was Gertrud Emma Mathilde (née) Uhlendahl. He was first married from 1936 to 1945 to the actress Hildegard Wolf with whom he had one child. There were two more children from his second marriage in 1950 to Karin Anderson, another actress. Paul Klinger and Karin Andersen, twenty years his junior, met during the filming of a crime thriller in 1950 when she was working on the set as a stills photographer. They would later appear together in two of the Immenhof films, ''Hochzeit auf Immenhof'', 1956 and ''Ferien auf Immenhof'', 1957. Education and career Klinger's secondary education was at the Helmholtz-Realgymnasium, which he attended to Abitur level taking part in amateur dramatic productions with his friend, Helmut Käutner. Howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover (; born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 September 1887 – 23 January 1980) was a German actress whose film career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar Republic. Early life Lil Dagover was born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert in Madiun, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to German parents. Some sources inaccurately give her birth name as Marta Maria Lillits. Her father, Adolf Karl Ludwig Moritz Seubert, born in Karlsruhe/Baden Germany, was a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. She had two siblings. Her mother died in 1897, after which she returned to Germany, where she lived with relatives in Tübingen. She was educated at boarding schools in Baden-Baden, Weimar, and Geneva, Switzerland. Orphaned at the age of 13, she spent the rest of her adolescence with friends and relatives. After completing her education she began pursuing a career as a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (german: Maria Theresia; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position '' suo jure'' (in her own right). She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress. Maria Theresa started her 40-year reign when her father, Emperor Charles VI, died on 20 October 1740. Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and spent his entire reign securing it. He neglected the advice of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who believed that a strong military and a rich treasury were more important than mere signatures. Eventually, Charles VI left behind a weakened and impoverished state, particularly due to the War of the Polish Succession a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas and inconsistencies be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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