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Harry Liedtke
Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and began a qualification in retail business. By the chance acquaintance of Hans Oberländer, a stage director at Berlin, he started to take stage classes and was first engaged at the municipal Theater of Freiberg, Saxony. In 1908 Liedtke worked at the New German Theatre in New York City and in 1909 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Career In 1912 Liedtke appeared for the first time in the silent movie ''Zu spät'' and from now on usually as a young "Charming Boy" and gentleman. With Ernst Lubitsch he made movies like ''Das fidele Gefängnis'' (1917), ''Die Augen der Mumie Ma'' (1918), ''Carmen'' (1918), '' Die Austernprinzessin'' (1919), ''Madame DuBarry'' (1919), '' Sumurun'' (1920) and '' Das Weib des Pharao'' (1921). He also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Königsberg
Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia. A Baltic port city, it successively became the capital of the Królewiec Voivodeship, the State of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia and the provinces of East Prussia and Prussia. Königsberg remained the coronation city of the Prussian monarchy, though the capital was moved to Berlin in 1701. Between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries, the inhabitants spoke predominantly German, but the multicultural city also had a profound influence upon the Lithuanian and Polish cultures. The city was a publishing center of Lutheran literature, including the first Polish translation of the New Testament, printed in the city in 1551, the first book in Lithuanian and the first Lutheran catechism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen (1918 Film)
''Carmen'' is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, and Leopold von Ledebur. It was based on the novella '' Carmen'' by Prosper Mérimée. Like Bizet's opera '' Carmen'', this film only adapts the third part of Mérimée's novella and transforms the character of Don José at the beginning of the story from bandit on the run to honest man in love with his childhood sweetheart. The film was released with English intertitles in the United States in 1921 under the alternative title An alternative title is a media sales device most prominently used in film distribution. Books and films are commonly released under a different title when they are screened or sold in a different country. This can vary from small change to the ... ''Gypsy Blood''. Plot The story is told by a man at a campfire who says that it took place many years before. Don José was a Dragoon Sergeant in Sevilla who fell madly in love with Carmen, a be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zu Spät (film)
Zu or ZU may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional elements * Zu, a mountain featured in the films ''Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain'' and ''The Legend of Zu'' * ''ZU'', a " furry" anthology published by MU Press * Zu, a large birdlike monster from the ''Final Fantasy'' series Other uses in arts and entertainment * Zu (band), an Italian hardcore/jazz band * ''zu'' and ''zun'', types of ancient Chinese ritual bronzes Language * There are two different kana (Japanese script) letters that are romanized as ''zu'': ** ず: Su (す) with dakuten (voicing marks) ** づ: Tsu (つ) with dakuten; in modern standard Japanese primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word, and can never begin a word * Zu (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing * Zulu language, ISO 639-2 code:zu Names * Zu (surname) (祖), a Chinese surname * Zu, a nobiliary particle, in German * Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer Places * Zu, Afghanistan, a village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established in January 1918. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Starting in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of "Soviet Army", until its dissolution in 1991. The Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grab Dorsch Liedke Pieskow
Grab or Grabs may refer to: Places Bosnia and Herzegovina * Grab, Ljubuški * Grab, Trebinje * Grab, Trnovo Croatia * Grab, Split-Dalmatia County, a settlement in Trilj * Grab, Zadar County Kosovo * Grab (peak) Montenegro * Grab, Bijelo Polje Poland * Grab, Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Grab, Pleszew County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Grab, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland Serbia * Grab, Lučani Switzerland * Grabs, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen United States * Grab, Kentucky People * Grab (surname), a list of people * Detlev Grabs (born 1960), East German retired swimmer Technology * Grab (software), a screenshot application * Grab (tool), a mechanical device * Galactic Radiation and Background, or GRAB, a series of electronic signals intelligence satellites operated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Other uses * Grab (company), a Singaporean multinational ridesharing company * Grab (ship), a two- o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commercial screening of short motion pictures using the technology, which took place in 1923. The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid-to-late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as "talking pictures", or "talkies", were exclusively shorts. The earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie (although it had only limited so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Kiss Your Hand, Madame
''I Kiss Your Hand, Madame'' (german: Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame) is a 1929 German drama film directed by Robert Land starring Harry Liedtke and Marlene Dietrich. It was released in the United States in 1932. It was produced by Super-Film. There is no dialogue in the original version of this film, which was silent, apart from the title-song by Ralph Erwin, writing by Fritz Rotter, that had been specially recorded by Richard Tauber to be played during the screening. Tauber himself does not actually appear in the film. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Neppach. Plot Madame Gerard is a divorcee living the high life in Paris. Her current lover is the overweight Percy Talandier but then she meets Count Lerski and sets her sights on him. Then she hears from her ex-husband Adolphe that Lerski is not a count, but works as a waiter. Cast * Harry Liedtke as Jacques/Count Lerski * Marlene Dietrich as Laurence Gerard * as Adolphe Gerard * Charles Puffy as Percy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: ''Morocco'' (1930) (her only Academy Award nomination), ''Dishonored'' (1931), '' Shanghai Express'' and ''Blonde Venus'' (both 1932), ''The Scarlet Empress'' (1934) and '' The Devil Is a Woman'' (1935), ''Desire'' (1936) and ''Destry Rides Again'' (1939). She successfully traded on her glamorous persona a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe May
Joe May (born Joseph Otto Mandl; 7 November 1880 – 29 April 1954) was an Austrian film director and film producer and one of the pioneers of German cinema. Biography After studying in Berlin and a variety of odd jobs, he began his career as a stage director of operettas in Hamburg. In 1902 he had married the actress Mia May (born Hermine Pfleger) and took his stage name from hers. Continental-Kunstfilm As Joe May, he made ten films for Continental-Kunstfilm GmbH in Berlin; the first, ''In der Tiefe des Schachtes (In the Depths of the Pit)'' was released in November 1912, followed by ''Vorglühen des Balkanbrandes (The Balkan Traitors)'' (starring Ernst Reicher). In the spring of 1914 May directed the first three of the ' Stuart Webbs' films, a popular series in which Reicher played a gentleman detective modelled on Sherlock Holmes: ''Die geheimnisvolle Villa (The Black Triangle)''; ''Der Mann im Keller (The Man in the Cellar)''; and ''Der Spuk im Haus des Professors (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Deebs
Joe Deebs was a fictional detective who appeared in a series of German films and serials during the silent era. Along with Stuart Webbs and a number of other fictional cinema detective characters with Anglo-Saxon names, he was modeled on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. In 2009, Ken Wlaschin wrote that "Joe Deebs was one of the most famous screen detectives of the German silent cinema, the suave crime-solving star of at least thirty films." Deebs was played by six different actors including Max Landa, Heinrich Schroth and Harry Liedtke. The films were produced by Joe May (Julius Mandl), who also directed several of the films. Some of the films were produced at Weissensee Studios. Deebs' first appearance was in 1915 during the First World War and the character continued to be featured in films through the early 1920s during the Weimar Republic. One example is "Der Onyxknopf," or The Onyx Head, a 1917 silent film starring Max Landa, Bruno Kastner and Leopoldine Konstanti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Webbs
Stuart Webbs was a fictional detective who appeared in a series of German films and serials during the silent era. Webbs was one of a number of detectives with English-sounding names to appear in German cinema of the era. Like his contemporaries such as Joe Deebs he was modeled on Sherlock Holmes. Webbs was the most popular of the group. His original film series ran from 1914 to 1926Abel p.426 and he continued to appear in other later films such as ''The Green Monocle'' (1929). Webbs was played by Ernst Reicher until 1926. A number of figures directed entries in the series including Joe May, Johannes Guter and Robert Wiene. The series was originally made by Continental-Kunstfilm 123 Chauseestraße, Berlin, Continental-Kunstfilm's first studioThe inscription ERBAUT MDCCCXCVI (built 1906) appears on the building. Remarkably it survived East_Berlin.html"_;"title="World_War_II,_and_ended_up_on_the_East_Berlin">World_War_II, ..., but following a dispute May and Reicher left to form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loves Of Pharaoh
''The Loves of Pharaoh'' (german: Das Weib des Pharao, aka ''The Wife of the Pharaoh'') is a 1922 German historical epic film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It starred Emil Jannings. A complete version of the film had been considered lost for years. A digitally restored and reconstructed version premièred on 17 September 2011. The restored film includes the original music by composer Eduard Künneke that had been commissioned for the film by Lubitsch. Lubitsch is thought to have made ''The Loves of Pharaoh'' to show Hollywood that he could make an epic. ''The Loves of Pharaoh'' was his last German feature before he migrated to Hollywood in 1923. Restoration The restoration was done by Thomas Bakels of Munich-based Alpha Omega GmbH, the company that did the digital 2001 and 2010 restorations on Fritz Lang's 1927 ''Metropolis.'' Bakels spent five years on the digital restoration; the Munich Film Museum did the reconstruction. The complete version of ''The Loves of Pharaoh'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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