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Kameradschaft
''Kameradschaft'' ( en, Comradeship, known in France as ''La Tragédie de la mine'') is a 1931 dramatic film directed by Austrian director G. W. Pabst. The French-German co-production drama is noted for combining expressionism and realism.Butler, Crai"Review"on Allmovie.com. Quote: "Pabst brings a sense of realism to the proceedings, aided enormously by Robert Baberske and Fritz Arno Wagner's cinematography, which manages to be both starkly naturalistic and emotionally subjective at the same time." The film concerns a mine disaster where German miners rescue French miners from an underground fire and explosion. The story takes place in the Lorraine–Saar regions, along the border between France and Germany. It is based on one of the worst industrial accidents in history, the Courrières mine disaster in 1906 in Courrières, France, where rescue efforts after a coal dust explosion were hampered by the lack of trained mine rescuers. Expert teams from Paris and miners from the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Wendt
Elisabeth Wendt (11 January 1906 – 24 March 1980) was a German film actress. After making her debut in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's '' Comradeship'' (1931),Eisner p.351 she appeared mostly in supporting roles during the Nazi era and immediate post-Second World War years. Partial filmography * '' Comradeship'' (1931) - Frau Anna Wittkopp * ''Theodor Körner'' (1932) * ''The First Right of the Child'' (1932) * ''Sacred Waters'' (1932) * '' Impossible Love'' (1932) - Katharina Steinkampp, seine Frau * ''Die vom Niederrhein'' (1933) - Bettina Wittelsbach * ''Mother and Child'' (1934) - Frau Petersen * '' Hanneles Himmelfahrt (film), Hanneles Himmelfahrt'' (1934) - Hete * ''Stradivárius'' (1935) * ''Ein seltsamer Gast'' (1936) - Lou * '' The Hour of Temptation'' (1936) - Alice - seine Frau * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) - Lola * '' On Leave but Still on Duty'' (1938) - Lulu Frey * ''Frau Sylvelin'' (1938) - Fräulein Brunner * '' The Stars Shine'' (1938) - Lisa Marwen * ''Mordsache Holm'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Granach
Alexander Granach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a German-Austrian actor in the 1920s and 1930s who emigrated to the United States in 1938. Life and career Granach was born Schaje Granoch in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Austrian Galicia then, now ''Verbivtsi'', Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Granach entered films in 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was ''Nosferatu'' (1922), F.W. Murnau’s loose adaptation of ''Dracula'', in which the actor was cast as Knock, the film's counterpart to Renfield. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as '' Kameradschaft'' (1931). The Jewish Granach fled to the Soviet Union when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. When the Soviet Union also proved inhospitable, he settled in Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski in ''Ninotchka'' (1939) starring Greta Garbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nero-Film
Nero-Film AG was a German film production company founded in 1925 and based in Berlin during the Weimar era. History The company's name was derived from the names of its two founders: the letters "NE" stood for the name of the entrepreneur Heinrich Nebenzahl, and the letters "RO" for the initials of director Richard Oswald. It was founded as ''Nero-Film GmbH'', a limited liability company, and was converted into an ''Aktiengesellschaft'', ''Nero-Film AG'', in 1927. Under the influence of Nebenzahl's son Seymour Nebenzal, Nero-Film was one of the most artistically ambitious production companies in Germany, and with directors like G.W. Pabst and Fritz Lang it produced a number of major films of the Weimar era, such as ''Pandora's Box'', '' Westfront 1918'', ''The Threepenny Opera'', '' M'', '' Kameradschaft'', '' L'Atlantide'' and ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''. In the film industry, the bourgeois-democratic Nero-Film and the proletarian Prometheus Film were the last bulwark a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Arno Wagner
Fritz Arno Wagner (5 December 1889 – 18 August 1958) is considered one of the most acclaimed German cinematographers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He played a key role in the Expressionist film movement during the Weimar period and is perhaps best known for excelling "in the portrayal of horror" according to noted film critic Lotte H. Eisner. Background Born in Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig, Germany, Wagner received his training at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1910, while still attending the University of Leipzig, he managed to secure a job as a clerk at the Pathé film company. In 1912, he became both secretary and chef at the Pathé offices in Vienna and later in Berlin. Career as cinematographer Interested in cinematography he became a newsreel cameraman in 1913 and was stationed in New York for Pathé Weekly where he reported on the Mexican Revolution. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he returned to Germany to enlist in his country's elite Hussar caval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Nebenzal
Seymour Nebenzal (22 July 1899 – 23 September 1961) was an American-born Jewish-German film producer. He produced 46 films between 1927 and 1961. Biography Germany He got into film production through his father Heinrich Nebenzahl (1870–1938), who, in the early 1920s, worked with German action star Harry Piel. In 1926, Heinrich Nebenzahl and director-producer Richard Oswald founded the company Nero-Film. As head of this company Seymour Nebenzal became one of the most important producers of the transition period from silent to sound film in Germany. He worked with the directors Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Arthur Ripley, Douglas Sirk, Harold S. Bucquet, Edgar G. Ulmer, Léonide Moguy, Paul Czinner and Fritz Lang among others. In 1933, he was forced into exile, fleeing the Nazis."Seymour Nebenzal Dead at 63, Produced 'M' and Other Films", ''New York Times'', 28 September 1961: 41. France In Paris he produced films by other exiles from Germany such as his cousin Robert Siodmak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comradeship
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Comradeship may refer to: * ''Comradeship'' (1919 film), a British silent film drama directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Kameradschaft'', or ''Comradeship'', a 1931 film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst See also * Comrade The term ''comrade'' (russian: товарищ, tovarisch) generally means 'mate', 'colleague', or 'ally', and derives from the Spanish and Portuguese, term , literally meaning 'chamber mate', from Latin , meaning 'chamber' or 'room'. It may also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courrières Mine Disaster
The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners in Northern France on 10 March 1906. This disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on 26 April 1942, which killed 1,549 miners. A coaldust explosion, the cause of which is not known with certainty, devastated a coal mine operated by the ''Compagnie des mines de houille de Courrières''. Victims lived nearby in the villages of Méricourt (404 people killed), Sallaumines (304 killed), Billy-Montigny (114 people killed), and Noyelles-sous-Lens (102 people killed). The mine was 2 km (1 mi) to the east of Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais département'' (about 220 km, or 140 miles, north of Paris). A large explosion was heard shortly after 06:30 on the morning of Saturday 10 March 1906. An elevator cage at Shaft 3 was thrown to the surface, damaging the pit-head; windows and roofs were blown out on the surface at Shaft 4; an elevator cage rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héléna Manson
Elena Eugenia Manson (18 August 1898 – 15 September 1994) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1925 and 1989. Selected filmography * ''La vocation d'André Carel'' (1925) – L'amoureuse de Cardan * ''The Mystery of the Villa Rose'' (1930) – Hélène Vauquier * ''The Brothers Karamazov (1931 film), The Brothers Karamazov'' (1931) – Fénia * ''The Indictment (film), The Indictment'' (1931) – Annette Evans * ''Monsieur le duc'' (1931) – La secrétaire * ''Kameradschaft'' (1931) – Rose, la femme du mineur blessé * ''Narcotics (film), Narcotics'' (1932) – L'infirmière (uncredited) * ''Le cas du docteur Brenner'' (1933) – L'infirmière * ''Madame Bovary (1934 film), Madame Bovary'' (1934) – Héloïse Bovary * ''Fedora'' (1934) – La femme de chambre * ''Coralie et Cie'' (1934) – L'infirmière * ''Un train dans la nuit'' (1934) – La folle * ''Pension Mimosas'' (1935) – La petite rentière * ''Helene (film), Helene'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Busch (actor)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Busch (22 January 1900 – 8 June 1980) was a German singer and actor. Biography Busch originated from a Kiel worker family. He started in life as a shipyard worker before he decided to make use of his acting and singing talent. Busch first rose to prominence as an interpreter of political songs, particularly those of Kurt Tucholsky, in the Berlin Kabarett scene of the 1920s. He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's ''Threepenny Opera'', as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. He also appeared in the movie ''Kuhle Wampe''. A lifelong communist, Busch fled Nazi Germany in 1933, accompanied by his wife, Eva Busch, and with the Gestapo on his heels, initially settling in the Netherlands. By 1938 they had divorced, without acrimony, as their lives diverged. Eva settled in Paris while Ernst initially made his home in the Soviet Union where he worked with Gustav von Wangenheim on the 1935 film "Kämpfer" (''"Fighte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mendaille
Daniel Mendaille (27 November 1885 – 17 May 1963) was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly sixty years. Early life Born Daniel Henri Elie Mendaille in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Mendaille studied architecture at the Académie royale d'architecture, Institut de France in Paris. At age twenty, he abandoned his studies in architecture and enrolled in the Conservatoire de Paris and studied acting under Paul Mounet. After graduating, he was engaged at the Théâtre des Variétés, Cirque d'Hiver, Théâtre Antoine and the l’Œuvre et de la Renaissance. Film career During the early 1900s, he began appearing in small roles in film. One of his first roles was in the 1909 Albert Capellani-directed short ''La mort du duc d'Enghien en 1804'' (English release title: ''The Death of the Duc d'Enghien'') for the Société Cinématographique des Auteurs et Gens de Lettres (SCAGL), affiliated with Pathé-Frères Mendaille continued to work in theater and film throughou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950. Early life Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and attended a boarding school in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria. After completing secondary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in a textile shop in Munich and at the same time took acting classes with Richard Stury, who presided as president of the Munich experimental stage. After appearances at small suburbs in Munich, such as the Alhambratheater, he wandered through the province and finally found engagements in Alzey, Karlsruhe, Lucerne, Sondershausen, Helmstedt and Aachen. During the First World War he served as a cavalryman on the eastern front, was wounded, fired and joined the front theaters in Warsaw and Łódź. During a commitment begun in 1917 at the Munich Volkstheater Fritz Kampers got to know the director Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Otten
Karl Otten (29 July 1889 Oberkrüchten – 20 March 1963, Minusio) was a German expressionist writer and broadcaster. Karl was an anti-militarist activist during the First World War, but was arrested for his actions. On 16 November 1918 he signed the ''Appeal'' published by the Antinational Socialist Party. In 1919 he co-founded ''Der Gegner'' with Julius Guomperz. In 1930 he met Ellen Kroner with whom he worked closely and married her in 1939. Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Otten first went to Spain and fought in the Spanish Revolution. Following its defeat he went to London, where he wrote 120 radio broadcasts for the BBC. He went blind in 1944 and later moved to Switzerland. Works * 1913, ''Die Reise nach Albanien'', Berlin: Heinrich F. S. Bachmair-Verlag * 1919, ''Lona'', novel * 1918, ''Der Erhebung des Herzens'' Der Rote Hahn No. 4, Berlin: Verlag Die Aktion * 1927, ''Prüfung zur Reife'', novel, List Verlag * 1931, ''Der schwarze Napoleon'', biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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