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Hans Christian Blech
Hans Christian Blech (20 February 19155 March 1993) was a German film, stage and television character actor who found success in both Germany and Hollywood. He made his English film debut in the 1951 picture ''Decision Before Dawn''. In this and many of his other Hollywood films, he played a German soldier. He had a prominent role in the 1962 World War 2 blockbuster film, '' The Longest Day''. He served in the German Army and fought on the Eastern Front in World War II, where he may have acquired his facial scars. Another possible origin of his scars was a car accident on the Darmstadt Luisenplatz when Blech was 14 years old. Partial filmography *'' Blum Affair'' (1948), as Karlheinz Gabler *''The Orplid Mystery'' (1950), as Martin Jarzombeck, Bräutigam *''Decision Before Dawn'' (1951), as Sgt. Rudolf Barth aka Tiger *''Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben'' (1954), as Brauer * ''Confession Under Four Eyes'' (1954), as Tscheche *'' 08/15'' (1954), as Wachtmeister Platzek *'' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse after Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, and Kassel. Darmstadt holds the official title "City of Science" (german: link=no, Wissenschaftsstadt) as it is a major centre of scientific institutions, universities, and high-technology companies. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are located in Darmstadt, as well as Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research, where several chemical elements such as bohrium (1981), meitnerium (1982), hassium (1984), darmstadtium (1994), roentgenium (1994), and copernicium (1996) were discovered. The existence of the following elements were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children, Mother, And The General
''Children, Mother, and the General'' (german: Kinder, Mütter und ein General, and also released as ''Sons, Mothers, and a General'') is a 1955 West German war film directed by László Benedek and starring Hilde Krahl, Therese Giehse and Ewald Balser. The film was not a popular success, possibly because its anti-war perspective clashed with support for German Wiederbewaffnung, rearmament and membership in NATO.Hake .105 The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut and Johannes Ott. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. Location filming took place on Lüneburg Heath. Cast * Hilde Krahl as Helene Asmussen * Ewald Balser as General * Therese Giehse as Elfriede Bergmann * Ursula Herking as Dr. Behrens, Ärztin * Alice Treff as Pastorin * Beate Koepnick as Inge * Marianne Sinclair as Näherin * Adi Lödel as Harald Asmussen * Dieter Straub as Leo Bergmann * Holger Hildmann as Sohn der Ärztin * Karl-Michael Kuntz as E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giordano Bruno (film)
''Giordano Bruno'' is a 1973 Italian biographical-drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo. It was produced by Carlo Ponti. The film, which does not shy from presenting libidinous aspects of his behaviour, chronicles the last years of life of the philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), from the year 1592, when his ideas drew the attention of guardians of Roman Catholic doctrines, to his execution in 1600. Cast *Gian Maria Volonté: Giordano Bruno *Charlotte Rampling: Fosca *Renato Scarpa: Fra' Tragagliolo *Mathieu Carrière: Orsini *Hans Christian Blech: Sartori *Giuseppe Maffioli: Arsenalotto * Mark Burns: Bellarmino *Massimo Foschi: Fra Celestino *Paolo Bonacelli *José Quaglio *Corrado Gaipa Corrado Gaipa (13 March 1925 – 21 September 1989) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Gaipa was a well known actor of Italian cinema as well as dubbing voices. However, he was widely known for his role as Don Tommasino in ''The Godfather''. ... References External links * *A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Letter (1973 Film)
''The Scarlet Letter'' (german: Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe) is a 1973 period drama film directed by Wim Wenders, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel of the same name. The West German-Spanish co-production stars Senta Berger as Hester Prynne, Lou Castel as Reverend Dimmesdale, and Hans Christian Blech as Chillingworth. Cast Production Filming took place at a studio in Cologne, with exteriors shot in Galicia, Spain. The look of the evening shots outdoors utilized the existing day for night techniques of exposure. According to the director's commentary, Wim Wenders explained that the experience of directing this, his second film, was the usual one which occurs with a new director. It is much more difficult and much less successful. In the interior shots, the windows were covered with a variant of rice paper seen in traditional Japanese homes. There are a few brief shots in which one sees a three-masted ship on the ocean in the background. This was not a real ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Customer Of The Off Season
''The Customer of the Off Season'' ( he, אורח בעונה מתה Ore'ach B'Onah Metah) is a 1970 Israeli drama film directed by Moshé Mizrahi. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Claude Rich as Customer * Henya Sucar-Ziv as Wife * Hans Christian Blech as Hotel Manager * Amos Kenan Amos Kenan ( he, עמוס קינן), also Amos Keinan, (May 2, 1927 – August 4, 2009) was an Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist. Biography Amos Levine (later Kenan) was born in south Tel Aviv. His parents were ... * Uzi Weinberg References External links * 1970 films 1970 drama films Films directed by Moshé Mizrahi 1970s Hebrew-language films Israeli drama films {{Israel-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardillac (film)
''Cardillac'' is a 1969 West German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz, starring Hans-Christian Blech and Catana Cayetano. It tells the story of a goldsmith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers. The film is a modern adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella ''Mademoiselle de Scuderi''. (Composer Paul Hindemith also used the novella as the basis of his 1926 opera ''Cardillac''.) Cast * Hans Christian Blech as Cardillac * Catana Cayetano as Madelon * Rolf Becker as Olivier * Liane Hielscher as Liane S. * Werner Leschhorn as Albert von Boysen * Gunter Sachs as Kunstsammler Release The film premiered on 28 August 1969 at the 30th Venice International Film Festival The 30th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 23 August to 5 September 1969. There was no jury because from 1969 to 1979 the festival was not competitive. Films premiered * ''Fellini Satyricon'' by Federico Fellini (Italy) * '' .... It was released in West Germany on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bridge At Remagen
''The Bridge at Remagen'' is a 1969 DeLuxe Color war film in Panavision starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn. The film, which was directed by John Guillermin, was shot in Czechoslovakia. It is based on the nonfiction book ''The Bridge at Remagen: The Amazing Story of March 7, 1945'' by writer and U.S. Representative Ken Hechler. The screenplay was adapted by Richard Yates and William Roberts. The film is a highly fictionalized version of actual events during the last months of World War II when the U.S. 9th Armored Division approached Remagen and captured the intact Ludendorff Bridge. While the real battle ran for a week and involved several artillery duels between the U.S. troops and German defenders, the film focuses more specifically on the heroism and human cost in gaining the bridgehead across the Rhine before the Allies' final advance into Germany. The Remagen bridge was never rebuilt; the towers on each bank were converted into a museum and arts studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Voleuse
''La Voleuse'', meaning 'the thief', is a 1966 Franco-German film directed by Jean Chapot, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras. In German, the film was titled ''Schornstein Nr. 4'' ("Chimney No. 4"). Set in Germany, it tells the story of a childless couple where the wife (Romy Schneider) steals back a little boy she gave away in her teens and the husband (Michel Piccoli) gradually persuades her that the childless couple who lovingly raised the child have the better claim. Plot Werner and Julia, a childless middle-class couple in Berlin, face a crisis. Unable to conceive, Julia wants to reclaim a child she gave away at birth when she was single in her teens. The little boy is now six and lives happily in Essen with a childless working-class couple, a Polish immigrant called Radek and his wife. Despite Werner's efforts to dissuade her, she starts stalking the child. As there was no formal adoption, she feels she has a legal as well as a moral right to the boy and one day at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Bulge (1965 Film)
''Battle of the Bulge'' is a 1965 American widescreen epic war film produced in Spain, directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, and Charles Bronson. The feature was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and exhibited in 70 mm Cinerama. ''Battle of the Bulge'' had its world premiere on December 16, 1965, the 21st anniversary of the titular battle, at the Pacific Cinerama Dome Theatre in Hollywood, California. The film is a highly fictionalized account of the battle. The filmmakers attempted to condense the Ardennes Counteroffensive, a World War II battle that stretched across parts of Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg and lasted nearly a month, into under three hours, and shot parts of the film on terrain, and in weather, that did not remotely resemble the actual battle conditions. That left them open to criticism for lack of historical accuracy, but they claimed in the end credits that they had "re-organized" the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morituri (1965 Film)
''Morituri'' (also known as ''The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri'') is a 1965 war film about the Allied sabotage during World War II of a German merchant ship carrying rubber, a critical product during the war. The film stars Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Martin Benrath, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard and Wally Cox. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki. The filming occurred almost exclusively on an old German freighter. Plot Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) is a wealthy German engineer and pacifist who fled to India under a fabricated Swiss identity after being conscripted into the ''Wehrmacht'' at the start of World War II. He is blackmailed by English Colonel Statter (Trevor Howard) and the Allies of World War II, Allies into participating in a plan to seize a shipment of rubber, which is in short supply and essential for both sides' war efforts, that will soon be carried by the German merchant ship ''Ingo'' from Japan to Nazi-occupied Bordeaux. As all German merchant ships are under order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Visit (1964 Film)
''The Visit'' is a 1964 French, Italian, German and American international co-production film distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Julien Derode. The film's stars Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn also served as coproducers. The screenplay was written by Ben Barzman and adapted by Maurice Valency based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 play ''Der Besuch der alten Dame'' (literally, ''The Visit of the Old Lady''). At the film's end, protagonist Serge Miller's life is spared, but in the original play, the character (named Alfred Ill) is killed. Along with Bergman and Quinn, the cast includes Irina Demick, Paolo Stoppa, Hans Christian Blech, Romolo Valli, Valentina Cortese, Claude Dauphin and Eduardo Ciannelli. Bergman and Quinn would later costar again in the 1970 romantic melodrama ''A Walk in the Spring Rain''. Plot Karla Zachanassian, a fabulously wealthy woman, returns to a decaying village that she had been fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Pluskat
Werner Pluskat (1912 11 June 2002) was a major, commanding the 1st Battalion of the 352nd Artillery Regiment of the German 352nd Infantry Division during the Allied invasion in Normandy. He was credited in the movie '' The Longest Day'', a film about the D-Day invasion, with being the first German officer who saw the Allied invasion fleet on 6 June 1944, heading toward their landing zone at Omaha Beach. In an interview to the French news broadcast "Cinq Colonnes à la Une" aired on June 6, 1964 for the 20th anniversary of the Allied invasion in Normandy, Pluskat confirms this depiction: "Fourscore years ago, I was on this very place, as the first German officer to have witnessed the approaching of the Allied flottilla". However, Heinrich "Hein" Severloh, a German machine gunner on Omaha Beach that day, wrote in his book ''WN62: A German Soldier's Memories of the Defence of Omaha Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944'' that Pluskat was not with his unit the day of the invasion an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
