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Friedrich Richter (actor)
Friedrich Richter (born ''Friedrich Rosenthal''; 5 June 1894 – 3 March 1984) was a German actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1943 to 1984. Selected filmography References External links * 1894 births 1984 deaths German male stage actors German male film actors German male television actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brünn
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 100 largest cities of the EU. The Brno metropolitan area has almost 700,000 inhabitants. Brno is the former capital city of Moravia and the political and cultural hub of the South Moravian Region. It is the centre of the Judiciary of the Czech Republic, Czech judiciary, with the seats of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Administrative Court, and the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, and a number of state auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War and was dissolved shortly after its defeat in the World War I, First World War. Austria-Hungary was ruled by the House of Habsburg and constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy. It was a multinational state and one of Europe's major powers at the time. Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire, at and the third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine building industry in the world, after the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom. Austria-Hungary also b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Berlin
East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as West Berlin. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall. The Western Allied powers did not recognize East Berlin as the GDR's capital, nor the GDR's authority to govern East Berlin. On 3 October 1990, the day Germany was officially German reunification, reunified, East and West Berlin formally reunited as the city of Berlin. Overview With the London Protocol (1944), London Protocol of 1944 signed on 12 September 1944, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union decided to divide Germany into three occupation zones and to establish a special area of Berlin, which was occupied by the three Allied Forces together. In May 1945, the Soviet Union installed a city gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warn That Man
''Warn That Man'' is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell and Finlay Currie. It was based on the 1941 play '' Warn That Man!'' by Vernon Sylvaine which had run for ten months on the West End stage, with Harker reprising his original role. The film was made at Welwyn Studios, with sets designed by the art director Charles Gilbert. The plot is noted for the similarity of the later '' The Eagle Has Landed'' which also concerns a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill from rural England. Premise At a country house during the Second World War, an impersonator takes the place of a peer as part of a German attempt to kidnap the Prime Minister Winston Churchill when he visits the estate. Unfortunately for their plans, the niece of a peer arrives unannounced along with three sailors she has recently met. Cast * Gordon Harker as George Hawkins * Raymond Lovell as Hausemann / Lord Buckley * Finlay Currie as Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoegler's Mission
''Der Auftrag Höglers'' (English-language title: ''Hoegler's Mission'') is a fantasy movie directed by Gustav von Wangenheim. It was released in 1950. Plot Högler, the former director of a steel plant now in East Germany, is a rich and ruthless capitalist residing in West Germany. He wishes to lay his hands on the new technical innovations that were developed by Dr. Thelen, who now runs the factory after it has been nationalized. Högler tries to besmirch Thelen by organizing sabotage in the factory, threatening to kill innocent workers to destroy the scientist's reputation. Two trade union activists - the West German Maria and the East German Fritz - who know each other since they have both fought in the wartime anti-Fascist resistance, unite to thwart the capitalist's plans. Cast * Inge von Wangenheim as Maria Steinitz * Fritz Tillmann as Fritz Rottmann * Gotthart Portloff as Dr. Thelen * August Momber as Högler * Axel Monjé as Dr. Kayser * Alice Treff as Dr. Alice Gies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Untertan (film)
''The Kaiser's Lackey''Der Untertan'. defa.de. (german: der Untertan; also known in English as ''Man of Straw'' and ''The Loyal Subject'') is a 1951 East German film directed by Wolfgang Staudte, based on Heinrich Mann's 1918 satirical novel by the same name. Plot Diederich Heßling is a typical Prussian subject of pre-World War I Germany: he is blindly loyal to Kaiser Wilhelm II and deeply admires him, supports extreme nationalist policies and his country's militaristic tradition and claims to be an honorable, just person. In spite of this, he evades military service and uses his connections with government officials to destroy his business rivals. Diederich's life, from his childhood, is characterized by being slavishly subservient to his superiors while tyrannizing those below him. When Heßling unveils a monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I before his city's dignitaries, he carries a speech in which he announces that Germany cannot prosper in peace, but can only achieve glory on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before The Lightning Strikes
''Before the Lightning Strikes'' (german: Bevor der Blitz einschlägt) is an East German comedy film directed by Richard Groschopp. It was released in 1959. Plot Heinz, an ambitious reporter of the ''Berlin am Morgen'' newspaper, had made a fatal error when he prepared an article about a locomotive's factory, confusing the successful and motivated Schneider Workers' Brigade with the negligent Schindler Brigade. He also presented the tyrannical manager as a paragon of virtue. Heinz's editor, Christine, decides to send him to the factory for another mission, and this time he should mingle with workers by joining them. Heinz, who takes the new assignment with little enthusiasm, becomes a highly motivated laborer and even manages to influence the Brigades' members to stop quarrelling. He also helps the manager to reconnect with his subordinates. Heinz's second article is welcomed as brilliant. Cast * Christine Laszar as Christine Koch * Horst Drinda as Heinz Engelhardt * Johannes A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gleiwitz Case
''The Gleiwitz Case'' (german: Der Fall Gleiwitz) is an East German war film directed by Gerhard Klein. It was released in 1961. The plot was reconstructed exactly according to the statements of SS-Man Alfred Naujocks before British authorities at the Nuremberg trials. Landesmediendienste Bayern Plot The film depicts the Gleiwitz incident from 31st August, 1939, a attack on a German radio station staged by the SS. The fake attack was carried out to justify the |
Der Frühling Braucht Zeit
''Der Frühling braucht Zeit'' is an East German drama film directed by Günter Stahnke. It was released in 1966. Cast * Eberhard Mellies as Heinz Solter * Günther Simon as Erhard Faber * Doris Abeßer as Inge Solter * Karla Runkehl as Luise Faber * Rolf Hoppe as Rudi Wiesen * Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as Kuhlmey * Erik S. Klein as Prosecutor Burger * Friedrich Richter as Dr. Kranz * Elfriede Née as Ruth Solter * Agnes Kraus as Ursula Schmitz * Heinz Scholz as Meermann * Horst Schön as Schellhorn * Kurt Barthel as Jensen * Hans Flössel as Lehmann See also * Film censorship in East Germany Film censorship in East Germany was common at a politically sensitive time in history. Despite the three consecutive constitutions of the German Democratic Republic proclaiming freedom from censorship, in practice certain films were regulated. The ... External links * 1966 films 1966 drama films German drama films East German films 1960s German-language films German black- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Kepler (film)
''Johannes Kepler'' is a 1974 East German historical drama film directed by Frank Vogel and starring Reimar J. Baur, Trude Bechmann and Kurt Böwe. It is a biopic of the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.Ivanova p.187 Cast * Reimar J. Baur as Johannes Kepler * Trude Bechmann as Katharina Kepler – Mutter * Kurt Böwe as Tycho Brahe * Karin Gregorek as Margarete Kepler – Schwester * Katharina Thalbach as Ursula Haller * Arno Wyzniewski as Vogt Aulber * Martin Trettau as Pater Paul Guldin * Günther Grabbert as Oswald Gabelkofer * Dieter Franke as Pfarrer Binder * Rolf Hoppe as Emperor Rudolf II. * Manfred Zetzsche as Ernst von Köln * Friedo Solter as Lucas Leyser * Friedrich Richter as Michael Maestlin * Käthe Reichel as Frau Haller * Eva-Maria Hagen as Ursula Reinbold 'Reinboldin' * Barbara Dittus as Stadtwächterfrau * Günter Schubert as Stadtwächter * Gerd Ehlers as Verteidiger Rueff * Fred Delmare as Beutelsbacher * Erik S. Klein as Vogt Einhorn * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob The Liar (1975 Film)
''Jacob the Liar'' (german: Jakob der Lügner) is a 1975 war drama film directed by Frank Beyer, adapted by Beyer and Jurek Becker from the latter's novel of the same title. Set in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Holocaust, the film centers on Jakob Heym (played by Vlastimil Brodský), a Polish Jew who attempts to raise the morale inside the ghetto by sharing encouraging rumors that he claims he has heard on an (imaginary) radio. The film was a co-production between East Germany and Czechoslovakia. It premiered on East German television on 22 December 1974, and was released theatrically on 18 April 1975. Work on the picture began in 1965, but production was halted in summer 1966. Becker, who had originally planned ''Jacob the Liar'' as a screenplay, decided to make it a novel instead. In 1972, after the book garnered considerable success, work on the picture resumed. ''Jacob the Liar'' was both a critical and commercial success, earning multiple international accolades and becomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston. The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census. The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans, and was firs .... * February 12 ** French anarchist Émile Henry (anarchist), Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. ** The barque ''Elisabeth Rickmers'' of Bremerhaven is wrecked at Haurvig, Denmark, but all crew and passengers are saved. * February 15 ** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
