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Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitskij; 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a Chinese-born actor of Russian descent. Early life Desny was born in Peking, China. Career Desny was a film actor. Bilingual in French and German, he acted in more than 150 films, both in Germany and France. Desny appeared in the 1950 film '' Madeleine'' by the English director David Lean, who was then the husband of star Ann Todd. Death Desny died in Ascona, Switzerland. Selected filmography * ''La fleur de l'âge'' (1947) * ''Bonheur en location'' (1949) - Gordon junior * '' Madeleine'' (1950) - Emile L'Anglier * ''Les mousquetaires du roi'' (1951) * ''La Putain respectueuse'' (1952) - Fred Clarke - le fils du sénateur * '' The Lady Without Camelias'' (''La signora senza camelie'', 1953) - Bernardo 'Nardo' Rusconi * ''Good Lord Without Confession'' (1953) - Maurice Fréjoul * '' No Way Back'' (''Weg ohne Umkehr'', 1953) - Michael Zorin aka Mischa * '' Act of Love'' (1953) - (uncredi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatort
''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-service broadcasting organisation ARD for their channel Das Erste, it is unique in its approach, in that it is jointly produced by all of the organisation's regional members as well as its partnering Austrian and Swiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes a number of episodes to a common pool. Therefore, the series is a collection of different police stories where different police teams each solve crimes in their respective city. Uniqueness in architecture, customs and dialects of the cities is therefore a distinctive part of the series and often the city, not the police force, is the real main character of an episode. The concept of local stations only producing a couple of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Act Of Love (1953 Film)
''Act of Love'' (French title: ''Un acte d'amour'') is a 1953 American romantic drama film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Kirk Douglas and Dany Robin. It is based on the 1949 novel ''The Girl on the Via Flaminia'' by Alfred Hayes. A Parisian falls in love with an American soldier near the end of World War II. Plot Robert Teller (Kirk Douglas) visits a seaport in the south of France in the early 1950s. He reflects back to his time in the army shortly after Paris has been liberated. Years earlier, to get away from the barracks and the other soldiers, Robert rents a room in a hotel-restaurant. Lise Guidayec (Dany Robin), an orphan without money or identity papers, seeks a way to escape from the authorities. She asks Robert to pass her off as his wife. Even though he does not inspire trust, she starts to fall in love. Lise tells of the time she was the most happy and secure—living in a little seaside village. When a black market dragnet lands Lise in jail, she is humiliate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Club (1956 Film)
''Women's Club'' (French: ''Club de femmes'') is a 1956 French-Italian drama film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Nicole Courcel, Dany Carrel and Ivan Desny.Bock & Bergfelder p.84 Cast * Nicole Courcel as Nicole Leroy * Dany Carrel as Sylvie * Ivan Desny as Laurent Gauthier * Jean-Louis Trintignant as Michel * Giorgia Moll as Gina * Vanja Orico * Guy Bertil as Daniel * Jean Martinelli as M. Mouss * Jean-Marc Tennberg as M. Morel * Noël Roquevert as Le notaire * Maurice Gardett as Le voisin * Béatrice Altariba as Dominique * Françoise Delbart as Chounette * Vega Vinci as Françoise * Chantal de Rieux as Françoise * Sophie Grimaldi as Jacqueline * Jacqueline Dorian as Geneviève * Claudine Bleuse as Mireille * Margaret Rung * Fédora as Fédora * Mijanou Bardot as Micheline * Pierre Repp as L'huissier * Agnès Laurent * Daniel Ceccaldi * Marie-José Nat * Dominique Boschero Dominique Boschero (born 27 April 1937) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleb Botkin
Gleb Yevgenyevich Botkin (russian: Глеб Евгеньевич Боткин; 30 July 1900 – 15 December 1969) was the son of Dr. Yevgeny Botkin, the Russian court physician who was murdered at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks with Tsar Nicholas II and his family on 17 July 1918. In later years, Botkin became a lifelong advocate of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the surviving Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. DNA results later proved that she was an impostor called Franziska Schanzkowska. In 1938 he founded his own goddess-worshipping, monotheistic church, The Church of Aphrodite. Early life Gleb was the youngest son of Russian physician Yevgeny Botkin and his wife, Olga Bykov Botkin. Gleb was born 29 July 1900 in Ollila, Hyrynsalmi Municipality, Kainuu, Finland (at the time a ducal province of Russia). His parents divorced in 1910, when Botkin was 10, due to his father's demanding position at court and his mother's affair with his German tutor, Friedrich Lich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Anastasia
''The Story of Anastasia'' and in the UK, ''Is Anna Anderson Anastasia?'' (German: ''Anastasia, die letzte Zarentochter''), is a German film directed by Falk Harnack. The 1956 film is based on the true story of Anna Anderson, who was pulled from the Landwehr Canal in Berlin in 1920 and later claimed to be Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The entire family was executed in the Russian Revolution, but this was not confirmed until their graves were discovered in 1991 and 2007. The American film ''Anastasia'', directed by Anatole Litvak and featuring Ingrid Bergman appeared the same year."The Problem of Anastasia: Two films on a single pitiful theme", ''The Times'' (February 20, 1957), p. 11 Cast * Lilli Palmer as Anna Anderson / Anastasia * Ivan Desny as Gleb Botkin * Rudolf Fernau as Serge Botkin * Tilla Durieux as the Tsar's mother * Dorothea Wieck as Grand Duchess Olga Romanov * Ellen Schwiers as ''Princess Katharina'' ( Xenia Leeds) * Käthe Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannequins Of Paris
''Mannequins of Paris'' (French: ''Mannequins de Paris'') is a 1956 French drama film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Madeleine Robinson, Ivan Desny and Mischa Auer.Bessy, p. 91 It is set in the world of high fashion. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. It was shot in Technicolor with location shooting in Paris, Cannes and Rome. Synopsis Promising artists Pierre gives up his career as a promising artist to help design styles for his wife Véronique's successful fashion house in Paris. Feeling neglected by her obsession with the business, he has an affair during a trip to Cannes to present the new collection and falls in love with an attractive singer. Cast * Madeleine Robinson as Véronique Lanier * Ivan Desny as Pierre Lanier * Mischa Auer as Yaschlik * Jacqueline Pierreux as Pearl * Max Révol as Max * Georges Chamarat as Boris Rabinowsky * Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Gabrielle * Marie-Hélène Arnaud as Josette * Ghislaine Arsac as Wand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballerina (1956 Film)
''Ballerina'' or ''Roses for Bettina'' (german: Rosen für Bettina) is a 1956 West German drama film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Willy Birgel, Elisabeth Müller and Ivan Desny. Rentschler p.234 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger. Cast * Willy Birgel as Professor Förster * Elisabeth Müller as Bettina Sanden * Ivan Desny as Kostja Tomkoff, Choreograph * Eva Kerbler as Irene Gerwig * Leonard Steckel as Opernintendant * Carl Wery as Dr. Brinkmann * Hermann Speelmans as Kalborn * Erich Ponto Erich Johannes Bruno Ponto (14 December 1884 – 14 February 1957) was a German film and stage actor. Career Erich Ponto was born in Lübeck as the son of a merchant. After his family had moved to Hamburg- Eimsbüttel, he attended the gymnasium ... as Schimanski, Pförtner * Art Blakey as Jazzmusiker References Bibliography * Rentschler, Eric. ''The Films of G.W. Pabst: An Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Montès
''Lola Montès'' is a 1955 historical romance film and the last completed film of German-born director Max Ophüls. Based on the novel ''La vie extraordinaire de Lola Montès'' by Cécil Saint-Laurent, the film depicts the life of Irish dancer and courtesan Lola Montez (1821–1861), portrayed by Martine Carol, and tells the story of the most famous of her many notorious affairs, those with Franz Liszt and Ludwig I of Bavaria. A co-production between France and West Germany, the dialogue is mostly in French and German, with a few English-language sequences. The most expensive European film produced up to its time, ''Lola Montès'' underperformed at the box office. However, it had an important artistic influence on the French New Wave cinema movement and continues to have many distinguished critical admirers. Heavily re-edited (multiple times) and shortened after its initial release for commercial reasons, it has been twice restored (1968, 2008). It was released on DVD and Blu-ray i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Girl Without Boundaries
''A Girl Without Boundaries'' (German: ''Mädchen ohne Grenzen'') is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Géza von Radványi and starring starring Sonja Ziemann, Ivan Desny and Barbara Rütting. https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/madchen-ohne-grenzen_ea43d4a7782b5006e03053d50b37753d It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Athens, Fürstenfeldbruck and Munich-Riem Airport. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Sohnle and Gottfried Will. Synopsis A stewardess falls in love with a passenger, an industrialist, while on a trip to Athens. He proposes to her but she discovers that he already has a wife and child. Cast * Sonja Ziemann as Helga Gruber * Ivan Desny as Eric Johnson * Barbara Rütting as Maria Johnson * Claus Biederstaedt as Georg Hartman * Maria Sebaldt as Lissy Wedekind * Michael Janisch as Olaf Haagerlund * Ginette Pigeon as Marion * Louis de Funès * Gabrielle Steffan * Rolf von Nauckhoff * Wolf Petersen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunja (film)
''Dunja'' is a 1955 Austrian historical drama film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Eva Bartok, Karlheinz Böhm, Ivan Desny and Walter Richter.Fritsche p.254 It is an adaptation of the shorty story '' The Station Master'' by Alexander Pushkin, which had previously been made into the 1940 film ''Der Postmeister'' by Gustav Ucicky. It was shot at the Sievering and Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna and on location in Burgenland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Maurischat. Cast * Eva Bartok as Dunja * Ivan Desny as Minski * Karlheinz Böhm as Mitja * Walter Richter as Postmeister * Maria Litto as Mascha * Eva Zilcher as Elisabeth * Otto Wögerer as Serjej * Ernst Jäger as Oseip * Lotte Medelsky as alte Frau * Waldemar Leitgeb as Fürst Wlow * Hannes Schiel as Alexej * Bruno Dallansky as Pjotr * Otto Schenk as Sascha * Ernst Meister as 1. Fähnrich * Jörg Liebenfels as 2. Fähnrich * Georg Hartmann Georg Hartmann (sometimes spelled Hartman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André And Ursula
''André and Ursula'' is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Ivan Desny, Elisabeth Müller and Ina Peters.Bock & Bergfelder p.84 It was based on the 1937 novel of the same title by Polly Maria Höfler. The film updates the book's storyline from the First to the Second World War. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Bi and Bruno Monden. Cast * Ivan Desny as André Duval * Elisabeth Müller as Ursula Hartmann * Walter Clemens as Gaston Duval / Andrés Bruder * Ina Peters as Mimi Duval – Andrés Schwester * Mária Tasnádi Fekete as Angéle Senard – Andrés Tante * Denise Cormand as Jeanne Boulier * Ulrich Bettac as Père Dominique – Pater * Hans Henn as Henri * Hans von Morhart as Pächter Boulier – Jeannes Vater * Ernst Stankovski as Wendelin * Dieter Wieland as Georg * Ingmar Zeisberg Ingmar Zeisberg (born 17 February 1933) is a German actress. She appeared in more than th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frou-Frou
''Frou-Frou'', is a French comedy film from 1955, directed by Augusto Genina, written by A. E. Carr, starring Dany Robin and Louis de Funès. The film is also known as "A Girl from Paris". Plot Frou-Frou is a 16-year-old peddler. She comes to the attention of four gentlemen who, Pygmalion-like, agree on helping her to improve her situation. They teach her to behave like a lady and introduce her to the upper class. But she falls in love with an unsuccessful artist who commits suicide after he has befathered her with a daughter... Cast * Dany Robin as Antoinette Dubois called "Frou-Frou" * Louis de Funès as Colonel Cousinet-Duval, one of Frou-Frou's mentors * Gino Cervi as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky, one of Frou-Frou's mentors * Philippe Lemaire as Michel Arthus, the young painter * Ivan Desny as Henri de Gaspard, Frou-Frou's first lover * Mischa Auer as Grand duke Alexis * Jean Wall as Jean Sabatier, one of Frou-Frou's mentors * Umberto Menalti as Count Sigismond Meursault, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |