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Hans Kuhnert
Hans Kuhnert (4 January 1901 – 29 July 1974) was a German actor, art director and production designer. Kuhnert began his career as an actor during the silent era. He played the lead alongside Olga Tschechowa in ''Violet''.Hardt p.225 From the mid-1930s Kuhnert switched to working on the visual design of film sets. He worked frequently at this into the 1960s. He was sometimes credited as ''Hanns H. Kuhnert''. Selected filmography Actor * ''The Feast of Rosella'' (1919) * ''The Peruvian'' (1919) * ''Intrigue'' (1920) * ''Violet'' (1921) * '' Der falsche Prinz'' (1922) * ''Tragedy of Love'' (1923) * ''Dreiklang der Nacht'' (1924) * '' The Third Watch'' (1924) Art Director * '' Holiday From Myself'' (1934) * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935) * ''The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935) * ''Frau Sixta'' (1938) * '' Storms in May'' (1938) * '' The Rothschilds'' (1940) * '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) * '' The Lost Face'' (1948) * ''Man on a Tightrope'' (1953) * '' Salto Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Third Watch
''The Third Watch'' (german: Dreiklang der Nacht) is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by and starring Carlo Aldini, Claire Rommer, and Kurt Brenkendorf. Its art director was Willi Herrmann Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director. Selected filmography * '' Madness'' (1919) * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * ''Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921) * ''The Maharaja .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1924 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Karl Gerhardt German silent feature films Films with screenplays by Franz Schulz German black-and-white films German drama films 1924 drama films Phoebus Film films Silent drama films 1920s German films {{Germany-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circus Of Love
''Circus of Love'' (german: link=no, Rummelplatz der Liebe) is a 1954 drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Eva Bartok, Curd Jürgens and Bernhard Wicki.Hayes p.152 It was made as a co-production between West Germany and the United States. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Kuhnert and Theo Zwierski. It was produced by King Brothers and released in West Germany by RKO Pictures. A separate English-language version ''Carnival Story'' was shot simultaneously. Cast * Eva Bartok as Lilli * Curd Jürgens as Toni * Bernhard Wicki as Franz * Robert Freitag as Richard * Willi Rose as Karl * Ady Berber as Groppo the Wildman * Helene Stanley as Lore * Jacob Möslacher as The Dwarf * Josef Schneider as The Sword-swallower * Amalie Lindinger as The Fat Lady * Ly Maria as The Snake Lady * Anni Trautner as The Bearded L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnival Story
''Carnival Story'' is a 1954 drama film directed by Kurt Neumann, produced by Frank King and Maurice King, starring Anne Baxter and Steve Cochran, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It was made as a co-production between West Germany and the United States. Sometimes this film is credited as a 3D feature, although it wasn't filmed or exhibited in a three-dimensional process. This idea in many sources may be based on a wrong note from ''Variety'' in 1953. Neumann simultaneously directed a German language version ''Circus of Love'' with Bernhard Wicki, Eva Bartok, and Curd Jürgens. The melodrama set in a circus was filmed at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in the city. The sets were designed by the art directors Hans Kuhnert and Theo Zwierski. The film was shot in Agfacolor with prints by Technicolor. Plot Grayson's traveling carnival comes to Munich with acts that include high-dive artist Frank Collini (Lyle Bettger) and silent strongman Groppo (Ady Berber). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night People (1954 Film)
''Night People'' is a 1954 American thriller film directed, produced and co-written by Nunnally Johnson and starring Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk and Buddy Ebsen. The story was co-written by Jed Harris, the theatrical producer. The story is set in Berlin during the Allied-occupied Germany, Allied occupation in the years following World War II. Peck plays a Military Police Corps (United States), Military Police lieutenant colonel of the United States Army. Plot Cpl. John Leatherby (Ted Avery), an American soldier stationed in West Berlin, is kidnapped after escorting his German girlfriend to her home. The Soviet Army, Soviets deny involvement in the kidnapping through their intermediary Col. Lodejinski, who is secretly an American and British intelligence asset. Charles Leatherby, the corporal's father and a Toledo, Ohio, Toledo industrialist, attempts to expedite his son's retrieval by leveraging his ties to the Eisenhower administration and prominent U.S. Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salto Mortale (1953 Film)
''Salto Mortale'' is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Margot Hielscher, Philip Dorn and Karlheinz Böhm.Singer p.567 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and at the city's Zirkus Crone. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Kuhnert and Theo Zwierski. Cast * Margot Hielscher as Verena * Philip Dorn as Cadenos * Karlheinz Böhm as Manfred * Paul Kemp as Willi * Nicolas Koline as Mischa * Christine Kaufmann as Dascha * Käthe Itter as Martha * Erika Remberg as Rita * Gunnar Möller as Kurt * Willy Rösner as Direktor Jansen * Gert Fröbe as Jan * Angela Cenery as Sekretärin * Viktor Afritsch * Peter Alexander as Singer * Annelise Benz * Circus Krone * Sybille Dochtermann * Werner Fuetterer * Hildegard Hornauer * Christl Lazarus * Leila Negra as Singer * Karl Schaidler * Treska Treska ( mk, Треска, ) is a river in the western part of North Macedonia, a right tributary to Vardar. It is long, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man On A Tightrope
''Man on a Tightrope'' is a 1953 American drama directed by Elia Kazan, starring Fredric March and Terry Moore and Gloria Grahame. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood was based on a 1952 novel of the same title by Neil Paterson. Paterson based his true story, which first appeared as the magazine novelette ''International Incident'', on the escape of the Circus Brumbach from East Germany in 1950. Members of the Circus Brumbach appeared in the film version in both character roles and as extras. The film has was entered into the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In 1952 Czechoslovakia, circus man Karel Černík struggles to keep his beloved Cirkus Černík together, which belonged to his family before being nationalized by the Communist government. The government allows Černík to manage the circus, but he grapples with its deteriorating conditions, loss of his workers to the state, tension with his willful daughter Tereza, and his young second wife Zama, whom everyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Face
''The Lost Face'' (German: ''Das verlorene Gesicht'') is a 1948 German drama film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Marianne Hoppe, Gustav Fröhlich and Richard Häussler. The plot of a woman with two divided personalities caused by a recent trauma drew inspiration from the Gainsborough Melodrama ''Madonna of the Seven Moons'' which had been extremely popular on its release in Germany.Bergfelder p.31 It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich with Location shooting taking place in Heidelberg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Kuhnert. Synopsis In Stuttgart a lost and disorientated young woman is found. It is assumed she is from Tibet. She receives care from a doctor and falls in love with a lawyer. Yet suddenly her face and voice change and she emerges as a completely different woman. Cast * Marianne Hoppe as Johanna Stegen * Gustav Fröhlich as Dr. Thomas Martin * Richard Häussler as Robert Lorm * Paul Dahlke as Axel Witt * Hermine Körner as F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Of The Isar, Right Of The Spree (1940 Film)
''Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (german: Links der Isar – rechts der Spree) is a 1940 German comedy film directed by Paul May and starring Fritz Kampers, Leo Peukert and Charlotte Schellhorn.Waldman p. 16 It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by Hans Kuhnert. Cast * Fritz Kampers as Xaver Spöckmeier * Leo Peukert as Georg Oberhauser * Charlotte Schellhorn as Anni Spöckmeier * Fritz Genschow as Alfred Schulze * Grethe Weiser as Erna * Hilde Sessak as Lotte * Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Baron Wickinger * Oscar Sabo as Vater Schulze * Hermine Ziegler as Sophie Spöckmeier * Martin Schmidhofer as Pepperl Spöckmeier * Lotte Spira as Mutter Schulze * Vera Complojer as Tante Berta * Margarete Haagen as Tante Rosa * Wilhelmine Fröhlich as Theres * Josef Eichheim as 1. Stammtischfreund * Ernst Sattler as 2. Stammtischfreund * Franz Fröhlich as 3. Stammtischfreund * Erika Glässner Erika Glässner (28 February 1890 – 21 July 1959 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rothschilds (film)
''The Rothschilds'' () is a 1940 Nazi German historical propaganda film directed by Erich Waschneck. The film is also known as ''The Rothschilds' Shares in Waterloo'' (International recut version, English title). It portrays the role of the Rothschild family in the Napoleonic wars. The Jewish Rothschilds are depicted in a negative manner, consistent with the anti-Semitic policy of Nazi Germany. The 1940 film has a similar title and a similar plot to a 1934 American film, ''The House of Rothschild'', starring George Arliss and Boris Karloff, that presented the Rothschilds in a more positive light. It is one of three Nazi-era German films that provide an antisemitic retelling of an earlier film. The others, both released in 1940, bore titles similar to films released in 1934: ''The Eternal Jew'' was a documentary-format film with the same title as the 1934 film and ''Jud Süss'' was a drama based on a 1934 film adaptation of a 1925 novel. Plot summary As William I, Elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storms In May (1938 Film)
''Storms in May'' (German: ''Gewitter im Mai'') is a 1938 German drama film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Viktor Staal, Hansi Knoteck and Ludwig Schmid-Wildy.Waldman p.163 It was based on the 1904 novel of the same title by Ludwig Ganghofer which had previously been made into a 1920 silent film of the same title. It was shot on location in Hamburg, Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Dürnhöfer and Hans Kuhnert. Cast * Viktor Staal as Poldi Sonnleitner * Hansi Knoteck as Dorle Weber * Ludwig Schmid-Wildy Ludwig Schmid-Wildy (3 May 1896 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' Um das Menschenrecht'' (1934) * '' Shock Troop'' (1934) * '' Storms in May'' (1938) * '' Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * '' Uproar in Damascus'' (193 ... as Domini, Dorfschmied * Anny Seitz as Vroni * Hans Richter (actor), Hans Richter as Hein Andresen * Hermine Ziegler as Dorles Mutter * Rolf Pinegger as F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frau Sixta
''Frau Sixta'' is a 1938 German historical drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Franziska Kinz and Ilse Werner. It is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by the Swiss writer Ernst Zahn. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Koehn and Hans Kuhnert. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location at the winter sports resort of Kühtai in the Austrian Tyrol. Plot In the 1860s a widow runs an estate, close to the Italian border. One day a former army officer arrives on his way to Italy. She persuades him to stay and work for her, and before long they begin a relationship. However, complications ensue when her daughter returns home from boarding school and develops an attachment to her mother's lover. Cast *Gustav Fröhlich as Markus *Franziska Kinz as Frau Sixta *Ilse Werner as Otti, their daughter *Josefine Dora as Dora, Beschließerin *Josef Eichheim as Hannes *Beppo Brem as Korbinian *Gustav Waldau as Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
