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Heinz Goldberg
Heinz Goldberg (1891–1969) was a German screenwriter. He also directed two silent films.Mitchell p.170 Following the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1933, the Jewish Goldberg went into exile in several countries including Austria and the Soviet Union before settling in Britain. He returned to Germany in the 1950s. Filmography * '' Paganini'' (dir. Heinz Goldberg, 1923) * ''The Money Devil'' (dir. Heinz Goldberg, 1923) * '' Rags and Silk'' (dir. Richard Oswald, 1925) * '' The Director General'' (dir. Fritz Wendhausen, 1925) * '' The Elegant Bunch'' (dir. Jaap Speyer, 1925) * ''A Woman with Style'' (dir. Fritz Wendhausen, 1928) * ''The Little Slave'' (dir. Luise Fleck and Jacob Fleck, 1928) * ''Children of the Street'' (dir. Carl Boese, 1929) * ''The Last Company'' (dir. Curtis Bernhardt, 1930) * '' Dreyfus'' (dir. Richard Oswald, 1930) *' (dir. Curtis Bernhardt and Jean Tarride, 1931) ** ''The Man Who Murdered'' (dir. Curtis Bernhardt, 1931) ** '' Stamboul'' (dir. Dimitri Buchow ... [...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] |
A Woman With Style
''A Woman with Style'' (german: Eine Frau von Format) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Mady Christians, Peter C. Leska and Hans Thimig. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ... Hans Jacoby. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Fritz Wendhausen German silent feature films Terra Film films Films with screenplays by Fritz Wendhausen German black-and-white films Films shot at Terra Studios {{Germany-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 (film)
''1914'' (german: 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Albert Bassermann, Hermann Wlach and Wolfgang von Schwindt. The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, culminating in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Gavrilo Princip.Prawer p. 151–152 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and premiered in the city at the Tauentzien-Palast on 20 January 1931. At the request of the German Foreign Office , logo = DEgov-AA-Logo en.svg , logo_width = 260 px , image = Auswaertiges Amt Berlin Eingang.jpg , picture_width = 300px , image_caption = Entrance to the Foreign Office building , headquarters = Werderscher Mark ... an introduction by was filmed and presented at the start of the film. A special screening was held at the Reichstag on 3 March 1931. Cast Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitri Buchowetzki
Dimitri Buchowetzki (1885–1932) born Dmitry Savelyevych Bukhovecky was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor in Germany, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom, and France. Life and career Initially Buchowetzki studied law. Later he starred in a number of silent films, mostly playing antagonistic characters, including Yakov Protazanov’s melodramas ''Giant of the Spirit'' (1918) and ''Maidservant Jenny'' (1918). He played the hussar officer Minski in Aleksandr Ivanovski’s Pushkin adaptation ''The Stationmaster'' (1918) and appeared in the title role of Aleksandr Razumnyi’s pro-Bolshevik film ''Comrade Abram'' (1919). In 1919, Buchowetzki immigrated to Germany, via Poland, where he directed his most artistic works: the expressionistic Fedor Dostoevsky adaptation ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1921), the historical drama ''Danton'' (1921, based on Georg Büchner’s play), and '' Othello'' (1922), all starring Emil Jannings. Bukhovetski also made high-budget period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamboul (film)
''Stamboul'' is a 1932 British drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Warwick Ward, Rosita Moreno, Margot Grahame, and Garry Marsh. It was shot at the Elstree Studios outside London. It was released by the British division of Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter, Hermann Warm and R. Holmes Paul. The film is based on the novel ''L'homme qui assasina'' (1906) by Claude Farrère and on a play by Pierre Frondaie. Buchowetski also co-directed ''El hombre que asesino'' with Fernando Gomis, the Spanish-language version of the film, also released by Paramount. Premise In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul (the central part of Constantinople, now known in entirety as Istanbul) in the Ottoman Empire. Cast * Warwick Ward as Col André de Sevigne * Rosita Moreno as Baroness von Strick * Margot Grahame as Countess Elsa Talven * Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Murdered
''The Man Who Murdered'' (german: Der Mann, der den Mord beging) is a 1931 German crime drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo and Heinrich George.Grange p. 357 It is adapted from the play by Pierre Frondaie. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Richter and Hermann Warm. Location filming took place in Istanbul. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. The following year a separate English version, '' Stamboul'', was made. Cast * Conrad Veidt as Marquis de Sévigné * Trude von Molo as Lady Falkland * Heinrich George as Lord Falkland * Friedl Haerlin as Lady Edith * Frida Richard as Lady Foult * Friedrich Kayßler as Mehmed Pascha * Gregori Chmara as Prince Cernuwicz * Erich Ponto as Boucher - franz. Gesandter * Hans-Joachim Möbis as Terrail * Yvette Rodin as Mme. Terrail * Rolf Drucker as George Falkland - Sohn * Bruno Ziener Bruno Ziener (11 June 1870 – 9 February 1941) was a German stage and film ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Tarride
Jean Tarride (1901–1980) was a French actor and film director. He was the brother of the actor Jacques Tarride. Selected filmography Director * ' (1931) * ' (1932) * '' The Yellow Dog'' (1932) * ''Étienne Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne. Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to: People Scientists and inventors ...'' (1933) * '' The Voyage of Mr. Perrichon'' (1934) * '' Tovaritch'' (1935) Bibliography * Conway, Kelley. ''Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film''. University of California Press, 2004. * Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1901 births 1980 deaths Film directors from Paris {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreyfus (1930 Film)
''Dreyfus'' is a 1930 German drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Fritz Kortner, Grete Mosheim, and Heinrich George. It portrays the Dreyfus affair and is based on a novel by Bruno Weil. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Schroedter and Hermann Warm. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. In the United States the film was released under the alternative title ''The Dreyfus Case''. The film was remade the following year in Britain with Cedric Hardwicke in the title role. Synopsis In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island. His family take up the case of the wronged officer, as does the writer Emile Zola who believes the original investigation was marred by anti-Semitism. Eventually the true culprit Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (16 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt (15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a Jewish film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt. He trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1924, with ''Nameless Heroes (film), Nameless Heroes''. Other films include ''A Stolen Life (1946 film), A Stolen Life'' (1946) and ''Sirocco (film), Sirocco'' (1951). Bernhardt made films in Germany from 1925 until 1933, when he was forced to flee the Third Reich — who briefly had him arrested — because he was Jews, Jewish. Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Cinema of the United States, Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940. He produced and directed his last Hollywood picture, ''Kisses for My President'' (1964), about the nation's first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray. He is interred at Glendale, California, Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Forest Lawn Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Company
''The Last Company'' (german: Die letzte Kompagnie) is a 1930 German war film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Conrad Veidt, Karin Evans and Erwin Kalser.Bock & Bergfelder p. 315 It was part of the popular cycle of Prussian films which portrayed patriotic scenes from Prussian history. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios of UFA in Berlin. The film's art direction was overseen by Andrej Andrejew who designed the film's sets. It was shot on location around Havelland in Brandenburg. It is also known by the alternative title ''Thirteen Men and a Girl''. It was later remade in 1967 as ''A Handful of Heroes''. Synopsis Following the Battle of Jena in 1806 as the French armies commanded by Napoleon overrun Prussia, a small detachment of Prussian troops take up position in a windmill A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called windmill sail, sails or blades, specifically to mill (grinding), mill grain (gristmills), but the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Boese
Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917) * ''Donna Lucia'' (1918) * ''The Stolen Sole'' (1918) - Director * ''Nuri's Curse / Nissami's Song'' (1918) - Director * ''The Geisha and the Samurai'' (1919) * ''The Devil and the Madonna'' (1919) * ''Nocturne of Love (1919 film), Nocturne of Love'' (1919)-Direct. * ''The Golem: How He Came into the World'' (1920) * ''The Dancer Barberina'' (1920) * ''Three Nights'' (1920) * ''The Song of the Puszta'' (1920) * ''Blackmailed (1920 film), Blackmailed'' (1920) * ''The Raft of the Dead'' (1921) * ''The Shadow of Gaby Leed'' (1921) * ''The Terror of the Red Mill'' (1921) * Dolores (1922) - Director * ''The Unwritten Law (1922 film), The Unwritten Law'' (1922) * ''Slave for Life'', director, producer * ''Count Cohn'' (1923) * ''Maciste and the Chinese Chest'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of The Street
''Children of the Street'' (German: ''Kinder der Straße'') is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Carl Boese and starring Lissy Arna, Heinrich George and Rudolf Biebrach.Parish & Canham p.26 The film's art direction was by Karl Machus. Cast In alphabetical order * Lissy Arna * Hannelore Benzinger * Rudolf Biebrach * Gerhard Dammann * Karl Falkenberg * Lilly Flohr * Heinrich George * Erika Glässner * John Mylong * Martha Seemann * Sylvia Torf * Maria West Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ... References Bibliography * James Robert Parish & Kingsley Canham. ''Film Directors Guide: Western Europe''. Scarecrow Press, 1976. External links * 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Carl Boese German silent feature films Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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