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Karel Štěpánek
Karel Štěpánek (29 October 189925 December 1980) was a Czech actor who spent many years in Austria and generally played German roles onscreen. In 1940 he moved to Britain and spent much of the rest of his career acting there. Partial filmography * '' A Love, A Thief, A Department Store'' (1928) * '' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) * ''Here's Berlin'' (1932) as Max * '' Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932) as Jean * ''Spione im Savoy-Hotel'' (1932) as Jackson * '' A Song for You'' (1933) as Theo Bruckner * ''Waltz War'' (1933) as Kellner Leopold * ''Hermine and the Seven Upright Men'' (1935) as Ruckstuhl, Grundstückspekulant * ''Die Werft zum Grauner Hecht'' (1935) as Ladewig * ''Der Auβenseiter'' (1935) as Otto Burian * '' Stronger Than Regulations'' (1936) as Robert Wendland *'' The Unknown'' (1936) as Manager at Regina's * ''Signal in the Night'' (1937) as Korporal Tschepski * ' (1937) as Attaché / Orlovsky * ''Klatovsti dragouni'' (1937) as Dance Master * '' The Stars Shine' ...
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Secret Mission
''Secret Mission'' is a 1942 British war film directed by Harold French and starring Hugh Williams, James Mason, Nancy Price, Carla Lehmann and Roland Culver. Plot During the Second World War, British Army Major Peter Garnett assembles a team consisting of Captain ‘Red’ Gowan; Private ‘Nobby’ Clark, and Raoul de Carnot, a member of the Free French forces. A small boat takes them across the Channel, through the minefield near to the coast of occupied France. Sub-Lieutenant Jackson ( Stewart Granger) watches their dinghy pull away and remarks that he does not envy them their jobs, which are to collect intelligence on German military strength in the area, prior to an air raid. Ashore, Gowan kills a sentry. They set a time and place for a rendezvous in two days, and the code for bringing the aircraft. They split up, Gowan and Nobby to the village, Raoul and Garnett to the chateau that is Raoul's ancestral home. Nobby knows the area well: He used to live in Saint Antoine, ...
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The Unknown (1936 Film)
''The Unknown'' (german: Die Unbekannte) is a 1936 German drama film directed by Frank Wisbar and starring Sybille Schmitz, Jean Galland and Ilse Abel.Nicolella p. 85 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Benno von Arent and Artur Günther. Location shooting took place around Berlin, Stuttgart and Dinkelsbühl in Bavaria. It was inspired by the L'Inconnue de la Seine, Unknown Woman of the Seine and based on a novel by Reinhold Conrad Muschler. Cast * Sybille Schmitz as Madeleine * Jean Galland as Thomas Bentick * Ilse Abel as Evelyn – seine Braut * Edwin Jürgensen as Ministerialrat van Altendorf * F.W. Schröder-Schrom as Gieseking – Großindustrieller * Aribert Mog as Gerhard – sein Sohn * Lotte Spira as Hausdame bei Bentick * Karl Platen as Diener bei Platen * Karel Stepanek as Manager at Regina's * Karin Luesebrink as Tanzmädchen * Herbert Spalke as Radio Mann * Charlie Kracker as Ein Dieb * Günther Polensen as Polizeioffizier * Hellmuth Passarge as Wachth ...
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Broken Journey
''Broken Journey'' (also known as ''Rescue'') is a 1948 British drama film directed by Ken Annakin and featuring Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Margot Grahame, Raymond Huntley and Guy Rolfe. ''Broken Journey'' deals with people struggling to survive after their airliner crashes on top of a mountain, and is based on a true-life accident in the Swiss Alps. Plot In postwar Europe, while flying over the Swiss Alps, a Fox Airways Douglas DC-3 airliner experiences engine trouble and sends out a distress call. Pilot Captain Fox (Guy Rolfe) and co-pilot Bill Haverton (James Donald) set the aircraft down on a glacier with a minimum of damage, but know that they will not be able to radio for help with run-down batteries and a storm setting in. Taking stock of their situation, Haverton knows he can rely on stewardess Mary Johnstone (Phyllis Calvert), who is in love with him, but some of the passengers present problems. Film star Joanna Dane (Margot Grahame), opera tenor Perami (Francis L. ...
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Counterblast
''Counterblast'' is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam. It was made by British National Films at Elstree Studios. Plot A Nazi scientist escapes from prison, murders a leading professor and takes his place at a research laboratory, where he experiments with biological warfare with which he intends to wage the next war against Britain. Cast * Robert Beatty as Doctor Paul Rankin * Mervyn Johns as Doctor Bruckner * Nova Pilbeam as Tracy Hart * Margaretta Scott as Sister Johnson * Sybille Binder as Martha Lert, Bruckner's housekeeper * Marie Lohr as Mrs Coles * Karel Stepanek as Professor Inman * Alan Wheatley as M.W. Kennedy * Gladys Henson as Mrs Plum * John Salew as Padre Latham * Anthony Eustrel as Doctor Richard Forrester * Carl Jaffe as Heinz * Ronald Adam as Colonel Ingram * Martin Miller as Van Hessian * Aubrey Mallalieu as Major Walsh * Olive Sloane Olive Sloane (16 December 1896 – 28 June ...
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The Captive Heart
''The Captive Heart'' is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Michael Redgrave. It is about a Czechoslovak Army officer who is captured in the Fall of France and spends five years as a prisoner of war, during which time he forms a long-distance relationship with the widow of a British Army officer. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. The film is partly based on the true story of a Czechoslovak officer in the RAF Volunteer Reserve, Josef Bryks MBE, and his relationship with a British WAAF, Gertrude Dellar, who was the widow of an RAF pilot. Plot In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hašek of the Czechoslovak Army escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell. When he is caught, he joins thousands of British prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of France, on a march to a prison camp in western Germany. He is suspected of being a spy by his fellow s ...
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They Met In The Dark
''They Met in the Dark'' is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Karel Lamač and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby. The screenplay concerns a cashiered Royal Naval officer and a young woman who join forces to solve a murder and hunt down a German spy ring. The film features a single song sung by Phyllis Stanley, "Toddle Along" (Ben Frankel, Moira Heath). The film is very loosely based on the 1941 novel ''The Vanishing Corpse'' by Anthony Gilbert. It was shot at Teddington Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Norman G. Arnold. Plot Commander R. F. Heritage is dismissed from the Royal Navy during the Second World War after being found guilty of losing some top secret documents. He revisits his places of the previous few days - mainly involving a string of women. He starts with Mary, a manicurist, in Blackpool. They originally meet in the Hotel Monopole. She has something to impart but then arranges to reconvene in ...
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Escape To Danger
''Escape to Danger'' is a 1943 British thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and Victor Hanbury and starring Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak and Karel Stepanek. Plot During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade. Cast * Eric Portman as Arthur Lawrence * Ann Dvorak as Joan Grahame * Karel Stepanek as Franz von Brinkman * Ronald Ward as Rupert Chessman * Ronald Adam as George Merrick * Felix Aylmer as Sir Alfred Horton * Brefni O'Rorke as Security Officer * A. E. Matthews as Sir Thomas Leighton * Ivor Barnard as Henry Waud * David Peel as Lt. Peter Leighton * Charles Victor as Petty Officer Flanagan * George Merritt as Works Manager * Marjorie Rhodes as Mrs. Pickles * John Ruddock as Jim * Frederick Cooper as Gösta Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. ...
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Tomorrow We Live (1943 Film)
''Tomorrow We Live'' (released as ''At Dawn We Die'' in the US), is a 1943 British film directed by George King and starring John Clements, Godfrey Tearle, Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair and Yvonne Arnaud. The film was made during the Second World War, and the action is set in a small town in German-occupied France. It portrays the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Germans' tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". Dorothy Hope is credited with "original story". Plot A young French idealist (John Clements), who gives his name as Jean Baptiste, arrives in "St Pierre-le-Port", a small town near Saint-Nazaire, a major port and base of operations for the German Navy, particularly their U-boats, on the Atlantic coast. Baptiste tells a member of the French Resistance that "I come from Saint-Nazaire. I've details o ...
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Women Are Better Diplomats
''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (german: Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten) is a 1941 German musical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Willy Fritsch and Aribert Wäscher. It was based on a novel by Hans Flemming. The film was the first German feature film to be made in colour, and was one of the most expensive films produced during the Third Reich. The film met with a positive public response and was among the most popular German films of the early war years. Plot A dancer named Marie-Luise Pally is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Frankfurt Parliament in an attempt to stop her uncle's casino in Homburg shutting down. The film is set in the German revolutions of 1848–1849. Cast Production The production period for ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' was both long and expensive, as the production team encountered various difficulties during the making of the film. It took longer to produce than any other Universum Film AG (Ufa) production,Bruns, ...
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Drei Väter Un Anna
Drei may refer to: * Drei (Glashaus album), ''Drei'' (Glashaus album), a 2005 album by pop band Glashaus * Drei (Emika album), ''Drei'' (Emika album) (stylised form: ''DREI''), a 2015 album by electronic artist Emika * Three (2010 film), ''Three'' (2010 film), a German film called ''Drei'' in German * Drei Oesterreich, Austrian mobile phone provider People with the surname

* Alisa Drei (born 1978), Finnish figure skater * José Luis Drei (born 1973), Brazilian football player * Umberto Drei (1925–1996), Italian racing cyclist {{Disambiguation ...
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The Leghorn Hat
''The Leghorn Hat'' (german: Der Florentiner Hut) is a 1939 German period comedy film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Herti Kirchner and Christl Mardayn. It is based on the 1851 play '' The Italian Straw Hat'' written by Eugène Labiche, which has been adapted for the screen on several occasions.Waldman p.251 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Sohnle and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. It premiered in Magdeburg on 4 April before opening at the Gloria-Palast in the capital on 18 April. Cast * Heinz Rühmann as Theo Farina * Herti Kirchner as Helene Barbock, seine Braut * Christl Mardayn as Baronin Pamela v. Sarabant * Paul Henckels as Baron Bubi v. Sarabant * Victor Janson as Barbock * Hannsgeorg Laubenthal as Leutnant Emil v. Parade * Karel Štěpánek as Felix * Gerda Maria Terno as Virginia * Helmut Weiss as Bobby * Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Onkel Florian * Hubert von Meyerinck as Rosalba * El ...
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Three Fathers For Anna
''Three Fathers for Anna'' (german: Drei Väter um Anna) is a 1939 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Ilse Werner, Hans Stüwe and Theodor Danegger.Kreimeier p. 313 It was made by the German company UFA at the firm's Berlin studios, with some location shooting taking place around Passau in Bavaria. Synopsis A ship's doctor has a young woman placed in his care when her mother dies at sea. Her real father may be one of three men living in a rural Bavarian village. Cast * Ilse Werner as Anna * Hans Stüwe as Dr. Bruck * Theodor Danegger as Herr Ameiser * Josefine Dora as Frau Ameiser * Beppo Brem as Herr Fenzl * Karel Stepanek as Matschek * Roma Bahn as Donka * Irmgard Hoffmann as Frau Fenzl * Georg Vogelsang as Gsodmair * Tonio Riedl as Martl * Josefine Berger as Mareile * Anneliese von Eschstruth as Gräfin Weißenfels * Lothar Glathe Lothar is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine give ...
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