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Hermann Asmus
Hermann Asmus (1887–1968) was a German art director.Giesen p.200 Selected filmography * ''When Women Keep Silent'' (1937) *'' Lady Killer'' (1937) * '' Kora Terry'' (1940) * ''Twilight'' (1940) * ''Andreas Schlüter'' (1942) * '' Sky Hounds'' (1942) * ''Melody of a Great City ''Melody of a Great City'' (German: ''Großstadtmelodie'') is a 1943 musical drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Hilde Krahl, Werner Hinz and Karl John. A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer. Cast ...'' (1943) * '' The Black Robe'' (1944) * ''Das Mädchen Christine'' (1949) * '' The Marriage of Figaro'' (1949) * '' Heart of Stone'' (1950) * '' The Sailor's Song'' (1958) References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf. ''Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2003. External links * 1887 births 1968 deaths German art directors Film people from Berlin {{Germany-film-bio-stub ... [...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] |
Sky Hounds
''Sky Hounds'' (german: Himmelhunde) is a 1942 German war drama film directed by Roger von Norman and starring Malte Jaeger, Waldemar Leitgeb and Albert Florath.Richards p. 375 The film's sets were designed by the art director Hermann Asmus. It was made at Babelsberg Studios with location shooting taking place at the Hornberg airfield. Synopsis The film portrays Hitler Youth learning to build and fly gliders in preparation for their joining the Luftwaffe when they are older. Cast * Malte Jaeger as Obertruppführer Kilian * Waldemar Leitgeb as Standartenführer Hauff * Albert Florath as Werkmeister Grundler * Lutz Götz as Truppführer Schäfer * Josef Kamper as Sturmführer Wagner * Toni von Bukovics as Frau Grundler * Klaus Pohl as Lagerkoch * Erik Schumann as Werner Gundler, Himmelshund * Volkmar Geiszer as Paul, Himmelshund * Hermann Pack as Schulze, Himmelshund * Horst Neutze as Petersen, Himmelshund * Bernhard Schramm as Isemann, Himmelshund * Hermann Dodel as Nägel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Deaths
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. ** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 Births
Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. ** British emigrant ship ''Kapunda'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors. * January 21 ** The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ** Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of (a record for any Australian capital city). * January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. * January 28 ** In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are wide and thick. ** Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. * February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. * February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sailor's Song
''The Sailor's Song'' (german: Das Lied der Matrosen) is an East German black-and-white film directed by Kurt Maetzig and Günter Reisch. It was released in 1958. Plot As the news of the October Revolution sweep through the world, the German High Seas Fleet's command, wary of a mutiny, decides to send all its ships to a suicide mission in the English Channel. Sailors Albin Köbis and Max Reichpietsch are sentenced to death for political activity. When the socialist sailor Steigert, a member of the firing detail, cannot bring himself to shoot them, he is arrested. On the cruiser ''Prince Heinrich'', Steigert's friends Lenz, Lobke, Kasten and Bartuschek receive Vladimir Lenin's transmit to all of mankind calling for peace. Slowly, the sailors in Kiel — all members of different socialist parties: the Social Democrats, the Independent Socialists and the Spartakists — begin to realize the need for a revolution. The workers and the shipmates rebel against the officers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Of Stone (1950 Film)
''Heart of Stone'' (german: Das kalte Herz) is an East German fantasy film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The first East German film made in Agfacolor, it was released in 1950. The film is based on the fairy tale of the same name originally published by Wilhelm Hauff in 1826. Plot Peter, a woodsman and his mother live in the Black Forest where he exists by selling charcoal. Stung by the ridicule of the wealthier inhabitants of the village and desiring to marry the beautiful Lisbeth, he sees his only chance for prosperity by locating a good forest spirit, the small Glasmännlein who grants him two wishes at first, then a third wish later. Peter wishes for wealth that he purchases a glassworks but due to his inexperience the glassworks fails and he gambles his money away. Unable to marry Lisbeth due to his being pursued by creditors, Peter locates a dark forest spirit, Holländer-Michel, to make more wishes for wealth. Holländer-Michel agrees to grant him wealth, but only in ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marriage Of Figaro (1949 Film)
''The Marriage of Figaro'' (german: Figaros Hochzeit) is a 1949 East German musical film directed by Georg Wildhagen and starring Angelika Hauff, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters. It was based on the opera ''The Marriage of Figaro'' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, which was itself based on the play ''The Marriage of Figaro'' by Pierre Beaumarchais. The film was made by DEFA, the state production company of East Germany, in their Babelsberg Studio and the nearby Babelsberg Park. It sold 5,479,427 tickets. The production used not the original Italian but a German text. The recitatives were replaced with dialogue spoken by the actors. Except for Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro and Mathieu Ahlersmeyer as Count Almaviva, the singing parts were supplied by opera singers. ''Lex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Robe
''The Black Robe'' is an 1881 partially-epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book, which relates the misadventures of one "Lewis Romayne", is noted for its anti-Catholic lens. Plot summary As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne's aunt, who is dying. While there, Romayne attends a card game, where he has an argument with a corrupt card sharp, the General, who challenges him to a duel. However, the general doesn't turn up himself but nominates his son, an accurate shot, who should win the duel. Romayne absolutely does not want to fight but is goaded into doing so. Against the odds, he accidentally kills his opponent, and the screams of the man's brother after the death come to haunt Romayne for the rest of his life. Romayne returns to his Yorkshire home, called Vange Abbey. Even in his own home, the Frenchman's younger brother's awful cries follow him. He finally leaves for London, to visit his old fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Of A Great City
''Melody of a Great City'' (German: ''Großstadtmelodie'') is a 1943 musical drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Hilde Krahl, Werner Hinz and Karl John. A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer. Cast * Hilde Krahl as Renate Heiberg *Werner Hinz as Dr. Rolf Bergmann, Berichterstatter * Karl John as Klaus Nolte *Paul Henckels as Direktor Heinze, Verlagsleiter *Will Dohm as Dr. Pauske, Bildredakteur vom Dienst * Curt Ackermann as Der Direktor der Revue *Günther Ballier as Ein Berliner an der Strassenbahnhaltestelle *Heinz Baur as Velten, Mitarbeiter Dr. Werners *Fritz Berghof as Eine unnahbare ausländische Persönlichkeit *Elfie Beyer as Vroni Huber, Renates Cousine * Erwin Biegel as Der Intendant der Revue *Marlies Bieneck as Lotti Brandt, Dr. Pauskes Sekretärin *Käte Bierkowsky as Frau Stirner * Beppo Brem as Geldbriefträger *Heinz Brilloff as Ein Reporter, der im See baden geht * Vera Complojer as Frau Moo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Schlüter (film)
''Andreas Schlüter'' is a 1942 German historical drama film directed by Herbert Maisch and starring Heinrich George, Mila Kopp and Olga Tschechowa. It portrays the life of the eighteenth century German architect Andreas Schlüter.Aldgate p. 157–158 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hermann Asmus, Kurt Herlth and Robert Herlth. Cast * Heinrich George as Andreas Schlüter * Mila Kopp as Elisabeth Schlüter * Olga Tschechowa as Countess Vera Orlewska * Theodor Loos as Prince Friedrich III. * Dorothea Wieck as Princess Charlotte * Marianne Simson as Leonore Schlüter * Karl John as Bildhauer Martin Böhme, ihr Bräutigam * Herbert Hübner as Minister Johann von Wartenberg * Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe * Eduard von Winterstein as Naumann, ein Freund Schlüters * Emil Heß as Counsellor Dankelmann * Max Gülstorff as Geheimrat Kraut * Robert Taube as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz * Paul Dahlke as Ore Caster Johann Jacobi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary empire led by an emperor, although has been used in German to denote the Roman Empire because it had a weak hereditary tradition. In the case of the German Empire, the official name was , which is properly translated as "German Empire" because the official position of head of state in the constitution of the German Empire was officially a "presidency" of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia who would assume "the title of German Emperor" as referring to the German people, but was not emperor of Germany as in an emperor of a state. –The German Empire" ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''. vol. 63, issue 376, pp. 591–603; here p. 593. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich, as well as simply Germany, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight (1940 Film)
''Twilight'' (german: Zwielicht) is a 1940 German drama film directed by Rudolf van der Noss and starring Viktor Staal, Ruth Hellberg and Carl Raddatz.Bock & Bergfelder p. 382 The film's art direction was by Hermann Asmus and Carl Ludwig Kirmse. Cast * Viktor Staal as Walter Gruber * Ruth Hellberg as Grete Kuhnert * Carl Raddatz as Robert Thiele * Ursula Grabley as Renate Gutzeit * Fritz Genschow as Forstmeister Jürgens * Paul Wegener as Förster Kuhnert * Hans Stiebner as Schankwirt Gutzeit * Wilhelm König as Alfred Gruber * Willi Rose as Kriminalassistent Sievers * Wilhelm Althaus as Kriminalrat Malzahn * Gerhard Dammann as Dornkaat * Erich Dunskus as Gendarmeriewachtmeister Weber * Albert Lippert as Kriminalkommissar Hagenbach * Ernst Rotmund as Zirkusdirektor Mansfeld * Kate Kühl as Emilie * Walter Lieck as Schulze * Lotte Rausch as Amanda * Willi Schur as Köppke * Paul Westermeier as Paul Borchert * Otto Matthies * Bob Bolander * Otto Braml * Kurt Cramer * Kurt Dreml * Eri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
