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German Films Of 1961
This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany during the 1960s. For an alphabetical list of articles on West German films see :West German films. For East German films made during the decade see List of East German films. Missing films may be Austrian productions. 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 References Sources * External links German filmat the Internet Movie Database (maintains separate lists for West Germany and East Germany) {{DEFAULTSORT:German Films Films 1960s File:1960s montage.png, Clockwise from top left: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War; the Beatles led the British Invasion of the U.S. music market; a half-a-million people participate in the 1969 Woodstock Festival; Neil Armstrong and Buzz ... Lists of 1960s films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Rilla
Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1977. He was born in Neunkirchen, Germany and died in Rosenheim, Germany. Career Having debuted on the stage, Rilla began his film in career in Germany during the silent era. This included an early role for him in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's ''The Grand Duke's Finances'' in 1924. Following the rise of the Nazi Party to power in 1933, he emigrated to Britain and became a regular performer in British films often in villainous or aristocratic roles. Both during and after the Second World War he played Nazi officers or agents. From the 1950s onwards he returned to West Germany to appear in films and on television, alternating this with continued roles in British cinema. He was the father of film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerd Oswald
Gerd Oswald (June 9, 1919 – May 22, 1989) was a German director of American films and television. Biography Born in Berlin, Oswald was the son of German film director Richard Oswald and actress Käthe Oswald. He worked as a child actor before emigrating to the United States in 1938. Early production jobs at low-budget studios like Monogram Pictures prepared Oswald for a directorial career. Oswald's film credits include '' A Kiss Before Dying'' (1956), ''Valerie'' (1957), ''Crime of Passion'' (1957), '' Brainwashed'' (1960), and ''Bunny O'Hare'' (1971). His television credits include ''Perry Mason'', ''Blue Light'', '' Bonanza'', '' The Outer Limits'', '' The Fugitive'', '' Star Trek'', ''Gentle Ben'', '' It Takes a Thief'', '' Rawhide'', and ''The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)''. Fans of '' Mystery Science Theater 3000'' know Oswald as the director of the 1966 film '' Agent for H.A.R.M.'' He was an assistant director for 20 years, including on his father's film '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brainwashed (film)
''Brainwashed'' (original title ''Schachnovelle'', "Chess Novella") is a 1960 German drama film directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Curt Jürgens, Claire Bloom and Hansjörg Felmy. It is based on Stefan Zweig's novella ''The Royal Game''. Plot Chess world champion Centowic wants to travel by ship to an important chess tournament. The ship, however, starts behind schedule, because a mysterious and obviously anxious passenger, who is on his way to the port with Bishop Ambrosse, is expected. During the trip, passengers ask grumpy Centowic to play a chess game, which he reluctantly agrees to. Centowic's opponents are about to lose the match. However, the mysterious passenger, who accidentally joins the scene, intervenes and helps them to turn the match into a draw. Centowic is amazed to not have ever seen the stranger, who, as he says, has just had his first chess piece in his hands, at any important tournament. A flashback tells the stranger's story: He is Werner von Basil, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunther Philipp
Gunther Philipp (8 June 1918 – 2 October 2003) was an Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer. From 1949 to 2002 he appeared as an actor in 147 movies for cinema and television, mainly in comic roles. As an author, Philipp wrote 21 film scripts. Education During World War II, Philipp studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the University of Vienna philosophy, majoring in psychology and then medicine. In 1943 he received his doctorate in medicine ( Dr. med. univ.) He held the Austrian record in the 100-meter breaststroke for 14 years. He was also in the squad of the Austrian Olympic team in Berlin in 1936, but was not nominated for political reasons because he did not want to join the National Socialist-dominated “First Vienna Amateur Sports Club”. After the war, he ran a practice in Eberstalzell in Upper Austria and was active until in the 1990s at the Vienna University Clinic for Neurology and Psychiatry. Selected filmography * ''Love on Ice'' (1950) * ''Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Michael
Marion Michael (17 October 1940 – 13 October 2007) was a German film actress and singer. She was best known for her role in the 1956 film ''Liane, Jungle Goddess''. She was also the second German actress to appear nude on film, after Hildegard Knef who starred in the German film ''The Sinner'' in the 1950s. Michael was born Marion Ilonka Michaela Delonge in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). She was selected for the role of Liane in ''Liane, Jungle Goddess'' out of 12,000 prospective actresses. She was only 15 at the time of the filming, which took place on location in Africa, and she controversially appeared topless during the first half of the movie. The movie was a box office success. However, none of her following 10 films over the next six years were as successful. Michael suffered injuries in a car accident during this time period. She returned to acting, but stopped again in 1965. She suffered a bout of depression and, unusually, moved from West Germany to Communist East Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Constantine
Eddie Constantine (born Edward Israël Constantinowsky; October 29, 1917 – February 25, 1993) was an American singer, actor and entertainer who spent most of his career in France. He became well-known to film audiences for his portrayal of secret agent Lemmy Caution and other, similar pulp heroes in French B-movies of the 1950s and '60s. His celebrity and status as something of a pop icon saw him work with prominent arthouse directors like Jean-Luc Godard (as Caution in '' Alphaville'' and ''Germany Year 90 Nine Zero''), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (as himself in ''Beware of a Holy Whore'' 1971), Agnès Varda, Rosa von Praunheim, Lars von Trier, William Klein and Mika Kaurismäki. Early life Constantine was born Edward Israël Constantinowsky in Los Angeles, California to Jewish immigrant parents, a Russian father and Polish mother; his father was a jeweler. In pursuit of a singing career, he went to Vienna for voice training. However, when he returned to the United States, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombs On Monte Carlo (1960 Film)
''Bombs on Monte Carlo'' (german: Bomben auf Monte Carlo) is a 1960 German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Eddie Constantine, Marion Michael and Gunther Philipp. The film was based on a novel by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen which had already between adapted as a film in 1931 as '' Bombs on Monte Carlo''. Location shooting took place in Monaco, Nice and at the Schleissheim Palace in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Niko Matul. Cast *Eddie Constantine as Captain Eddie Cronen *Marion Michael as Princess Marina *Gunther Philipp as Dr. Swaart *Gunnar Möller as Burg *Barbara Laage as Olga *Dominique Wilms as Giuletta *Denise Grey as Contesse Tamm * Albert Préjean as ward *Viktor de Kowa Viktor de Kowa (also spelled Victor de Kowa, born Victor Paul Karl Kowalczyk; 8 March 1904 – 8 April 1973) was a German stage and film actor, chanson singer, director, narrator, and comic poet. Life He was born the son of a farmer an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Carstens
Lina Carstens (6 December 1892 in Wiesbaden – 22 September 1978 in Munich) was a German film and theater actress. On stage she appeared in plays by Gerhart Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, and August Strindberg, and in her old age she starred in the film ''Lina Braake'' directed by Bernhard Sinkel. Career Carstens began her career as an actress before the First World War at the Court Theatre in Karlsruhe. It belonged to during the First World War and shortly thereafter the cabaret retort to the writer Ringelnatz to. She was married to the author Otto Ernst Sutter until his death in 1970. In 1939 she was named a state actor by Joseph Goebbels. She played in Konstanz the first Mother Courage in the eponymous play by Bertolt Brecht on a German stage. She began her film career 1922. The director Douglas Sirk gave her various leading roles. After the Second World War she continued her career as a character actress. She also managed to get roles in the New German Cinema. In the ZDF t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Sebaldt
Maria Katharina Helene Sebaldt (26 April 1930 in Berlin-Steglitz) is a German actress. Life The daughter of a department head of the Paramount film distribution company took private acting lessons from 1946 to 1949 and passed an acting examination in 1951. As early as 1947 she made her stage debut in Sondershausen as ''Edeltraud Panse'' in Maximilian Böttcher's ''Krach im Hinterhaus''. Numerous theater engagements followed, among others in Sondershausen, Berlin (Renaissance Theater, Theater Club British Center) and Munich. From 1965 until his death in 2010, Maria Sebaldt was married to her colleague Robert Freitag. Together with Freitag's first wife, the actress Maria Becker, she created the cookbook ''Eat and Drink and Be Happy'' in 1997, ''Favorite dishes from Maria Becker & Maria Sebaldt''. Maria Sebaldt has a daughter, Katharina Freitag, and a grandson. Film In 1953, Sebaldt made her film debut alongside Rudolf Prack in ''When Village Music Plays on Sunday Evening''. S ... [...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] |
Siegfried Lowitz
Siegfried Lowitz (22 September 1914 – 27 June 1999) was a German actor. Born in Berlin, he played the Hauptkommissar ''Erwin Köster'' in the German television drama '' Der Alte''. Prior to his tenure as Hauptkommissar, he played a killer in the popular German police series ''Derrick''. He died at Munich in 1999. Filmography Film * ''Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau'' (1954) - Zeisig, Bursche des Oberleutnant Michael Godeysen (uncredited) * ''The Angel with the Flaming Sword'' (1954) - Krüger * '' Hello, My Name is Cox'' (1955) - Gauner Anton Kraczyk * ''Jackboot Mutiny'' (1955) * ''Solang' es hübsche Mädchen gibt'' (1955) * '' Hanussen'' (1955) - Prosecutor * ''The Fisherman from Heiligensee'' (1955) - Gilchert * ''Sky Without Stars'' (1955) - Hüske * ''Regine'' (1956) - Direktor Gisevius * ''Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben'' (1956) - Arzt des Krankenhauses * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1956) - Stadtkämmerer Rosenkranz * '' My Father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
