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Love Is Duty Free
''Love is Duty Free'' (german: Liebe ist zollfrei) is a 1941 comedy film directed by E. W. Emo and starring Hans Moser, Susi Peter, and Theodor Danegger. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938 Anschluss. The film was intended to mock the First Austrian Republic The First Austrian Republic (german: Erste Österreichische Republik), officially the Republic of Austria, was created after the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 10 September 1919—the settlement after the end of World War I w ... and its democratic system of government as incompetent. Synopsis The financially hard-pressed Austrian government have arranged a secret deal with the Swiss, but an officious Austrian customs officer is unaware of this and arrests the Swiss representatives in the belief that they are wanted criminals. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1941 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Koselka
Fritz Koselka (24 July 1905 Graz in Austria Hungary - 1978) was an Austrian screenwriter and writer. He was involved in writing of about 15 films between 1936 and 1952. He is possibly best known for his writing of the major Austrian film comedy Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn released in 1936 Selected filmography * ''Land Without Music'' (1936) * ''Anton the Last'' (1939) * '' My Daughter Lives in Vienna'' (1940) * '' Love is Duty Free'' (1941) * '' Dance Into Happiness'' (1951) * ''Irene in Trouble ''Irene in Trouble'' (german: Wirbel um Irene) is a 1953 Austrian-Yugoslav romantic comedy film directed by E. W. Emo and starring Bruni Löbel, Friedl Czepa, and Walter Giller Walter Giller (23 August 1927 – 15 December 2011) was a Germ ...'' (1953) Filmography External links * Film people from Graz 1905 births 1978 deaths Place of death missing Austrian male screenwriters 20th-century Austrian screenwriters 20th-century Austrian male writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high school in Vienna. After a brief tour in the army during World War I, he began acting in various theatrical productions in Berlin, Vienna, and other cities in Central Europe. He began his film career in 1921, and appeared in a number of German silent films early on. Sima was frequently cast as the comic villain whose machinations get everyone into trouble, although often his villainous stature was used to more chilling effect. In 1929, Sima married actress Lina Woiwode. The couple remained married until Sima's death. Along with Friedl Czepa, Fred Hennings and Leni Riefenstahl he was identified as being an active supporter of the Nazi Party. After World War II, Sima was a frequent character actor, causing one biographer to write, "... there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Comedy Films
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Films Of Nazi Germany
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Films
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, '' Citizen Kane''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1941 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 17 ''Gone with the Wind'' goes into general release after touring in a roadshow version during 1940. Becoming a cultural phenomenon, it sells an estimated 60 million tickets this year alone. Adjusted for inflation with numerous rereleases, it remains the highest grossing domestic film of all time with $1.8 billion. *March 24 - Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie '' Sun Valley Serenade'' for Twentieth Century Fox *May 1 – '' Citizen Kane'', consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, is released. *July 2 – '' Sergeant York'', the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud Wolle
Gertrud Wolle (11 March 1891 – 6 July 1952) was a German film actress. Selected filmography * '' Die Insel der Glücklichen'' (1919) * ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921) * '' A Glass of Water'' (1923) * ''Burglars'' (1930) * '' The Three from the Filling Station'' (1930) * '' Bombs on Monte Carlo'' (1931) * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * ''The Little Escapade'' (1931) * '' The True Jacob'' (1931) * ''Two Hearts Beat as One'' (1932) * ''When Love Sets the Fashion'' (1932) * ''Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932) * ''Girls to Marry'' (1932) * '' The Beautiful Adventure'' (1932) * ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1932) * ''Viktor und Viktoria'' (1933) * '' And Who Is Kissing Me?'' (1933) * '' Tell Me Who You Are'' (1933) * '' The English Marriage'' (1934) * ''Enjoy Yourselves'' (1934) * '' Music in the Blood'' (1934) * ''Decoy'' (1934) * ''A Night of Change ''A Night of Change'' (german: Nacht der Verwandlung) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Eichheim
Josef Theodor Ludwig Eichheim (23 February 1888 – 13 November 1945) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (1926) * '' The Women's War'' (1928) * '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1932) * '' Kiki'' (1932) * '' Night of Temptation'' (1932) * ''S.A.-Mann Brand'' (1933) * '' A Woman Like You'' (1933) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1933) * ''The Love Hotel'' (1933) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * '' The Legacy of Pretoria'' (1934) * '' The Switched Bride'' (1934) * '' Between Heaven and Earth'' (1934) * ''Little Dorrit'' (1934) * ''The Tannhof Women'' (1934) * '' The Double'' (1934) * '' Knockout'' (1935) * '' The Blonde Carmen'' (1935) * ''The King's Prisoner'' (1935) * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935) * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1936) * '' Street Music'' (1936) * '' The Unsuspecting Angel'' (1936) * '' The Voice of the Heart'' (1937) * ''Meiseken'' (1937) * '' Gordian the Tyrant'' (1937) * '' Serenade' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Erhardt
Hermann Erhardt (January 9, 1903 in Landshut - November 30, 1958 in Vienna) was a German actor who played in more than 50 movies, among them '' Heimkehr'' and '' A Devil of a Woman''. Selected filmography * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) * ''The Cabbie's Song'' (1936) * '' Der Etappenhase'' (1937) * '' Love is Duty Free'' (1941) * '' Whom the Gods Love'' (1942) *''Der Hofrat Geiger'' (1947) * ''The Queen of the Landstrasse'' (1948) * '' Ulli and Marei'' (1948) * '' The Angel with the Trumpet'' (1948) * ''White Gold'' (1949) * '' Lambert Feels Threatened'' (1949) * ''Vagabonds'' (1949) * ''Cordula'' (1950) * '' Bonus on Death'' (1950) * ''Call Over the Air'' (1951) * '' White Shadows'' (1951) * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) * ''Anna Louise and Anton'' (1953) * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1953) * '' The Forester of the Silver Wood'' (1954) * '' You Can No Longer Remain Silent'' (1955) * ''Espionage'' (1955) * ''Ich suche Dich ''Ich such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Freitag
Robert Peter Freytag (7 April 1916 in Vienna – 8 July 2010 in Munich), known professionally as Robert Freitag, was an Austrian-Swiss stage and screen actor and film director. Life Freitag was the son of the Swiss opera singer Otto Freitag (Otto Freytag). He was trained as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. During the Nazi era, he went to Switzerland, where he was active as an actor at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (Zürich playhouse). In 1945, he married the German actress Maria Becker, who had studied acting in Vienna and who since had been at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, which had benefitted from the presence of German émigrés during the Second World War. Becker became a Swiss citizen by marrying Freitag. In 1949, Freitag began participating in the Salzburg Festival. Later he performed, among other places, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Hamburger Kammerspiele, both in Hamburg. With his wife Maria Becker and the German stage actor Will Quadflieg, he foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisa Wurm
Gisa Wurm (8 October 1885 – 10 August 1957) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Giesen p.208 Selected filmography * '' Grand Duchess Alexandra'' (1933) * '' Harvest'' (1936) * ''Mirror of Life'' (1938) * '' My Daughter Lives in Vienna'' (1940) * '' Operetta'' (1940) * '' Love Is Duty Free'' (1941) * ''Violanta'' (1942) * '' Two Happy People'' (1943) * '' Gateway to Peace'' (1951) * ''Franz Schubert'' (1953) * ''Lavender ''Lavandula'' (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found in Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, and from Europe across to northern and easte ...'' (1953) References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf. '' Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2003. External links * 1885 births 1957 deaths Austrian stage actresses Austrian film actresses {{Austria-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Skraup
Karl Skraup (31 July 1898 – 2 October 1958) was an Austrian stage and film actor. From 1947 until his death in 1958 he worked at the Volkstheater in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST .... Selected filmography References External links * 1898 births 1958 deaths Austrian male film actors {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Neugebauer
Alfred Neugebauer (24 December 1888 – 14 September 1957) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * ''Money in the Streets'' (1922) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) * ''Madame Bluebeard'' (1931) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * '' The Prince of Arcadia'' (1932) * ''Our Emperor'' (1933) * '' The Secret of Cavelli'' (1934) * ''Spring Parade'' (1934) * ''A Precocious Girl'' (1934) * '' A Star Fell from Heaven'' (1934) * ''… nur ein Komödiant'' (1935) * '' The World's in Love'' (1935) * '' Everything for the Company'' (1935) * '' Heaven on Earth'' (1935) * ''Harvest'' (1936) * ''The Postman from Longjumeau'' (1936) * ''Flowers from Nice'' (1936) * '' Where the Lark Sings'' (1936) * '' Konzert in Tirol'' (1938) * ''Mirror of Life'' (1938) * ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939) * ''Madame Butterfly'' (1939) * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) * ''Vienna Tales'' (1940) * ''Operetta'' (1940) * ''Seven Years Hard Luck'' (1940) * '' Love is Duty Free'' (1941) * '' Whom the Gods Love'' (1942) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
