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Madame Lu
''Madame Lu'' or ''Madame Lu, the Woman for Discreet Advice'' (German: ''Madame Lu, die Frau für diskrete Beratung'') is a 1929 German silent film directed by Franz Hofer and starring Ida Wüst, Gerdi Gerdt and Hans Mierendorff.Bock & Bergfelder p.204 The film's art direction was by Leopold Blonder. Cast * Ida Wüst as Madame Lu * Gerdi Gerdt as The girl * Hans Mierendorff * Eva Speyer * Robert Thiem * Rudolf Lettinger * Sybill Morel * Karl Platen * Leo Peukert * Antonie Jaeckel * Sophie Pagay * Maria Forescu as Abortionist * Trude Lehmann Trude Lehmann (1892–1987) was a German film actress.Grange p.307 Selected filmography * ''Children of No Importance'' (1926) * ''We'll Meet Again in the Heimat'' (1926) * ''Unmarried Daughters ''Unmarried Daughters'' (German: ''Ledige Töcht ... Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. References External links * 1929 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Hofer (director)
Franz Hofer (born '' Franz Wygand Wuestenhoefer''; 31 August 1882 – 5 May 1945) was a German film director. He directed more than eighty films from 1913 to 1933. Selected filmography References External links * 1882 births 1945 deaths Film directors from Saarland People from Saarbrücken {{Germany-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybill Morel
Sybill Morel (February 16, 1899 – ?) was a German stage and film actress of the silent era. Selected filmography * '' The Geisha and the Samurai'' (1919) * ''Opium'' (1919) * ''The Tragedy of a Great'' (1920) * '' Three Nights'' (1920) * ''The Story of Christine von Herre'' (1921) * ''On the Red Cliff'' (1922) * ''Only One Night'' (1922) * '' The Violin King'' (1923) * ''The Affair of Baroness Orlovska'' (1923) * ''Maciste and the Chinese Chest'' (1923) * ''The Vice of Gambling'' (1923) * '' Harry Hill's Deadly Hunt'' (1925) * ''Ash Wednesday'' (1925) * ''The Old Ballroom'' (1925) * '' The Fallen'' (1926) * ''The Awakening of Woman'' (1927) * ''The Holy Lie'' (1927) * ''When the Mother and the Daughter'' (1928) * ''Under the Lantern'' (1928) * ''The Old Fritz'' (1928) * '' Madame Lu'' (1929) * '' Angel in Séparée'' (1929) * ''Storm of Love ''Sturm der Liebe'' (, "Storm of Love") is a German television soap opera created by Bea Schmidt for Das Erste. It premiered on 26 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Franz Hofer
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 sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Of The Weimar Republic
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 sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Films
The following is an overview of 1929 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1929 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on. * February 1 – ''The Broadway Melody'' is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of ''Broadway Melody'' films that will run until 1940. * February 18 – The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are announced for the year ended August 1, 1928. * March 3 – William Fox announces that he has taken control of Loews Inc., including its subsidiary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, buying shares from Marcus Loew's widow and sons and Nicholas Schenck for $50 million. The acquisition eventually falls through. * May 16 – The first Academy Awards are distributed at The Hollyw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trude Lehmann
Trude Lehmann (1892–1987) was a German film actress.Grange p.307 Selected filmography * ''Children of No Importance'' (1926) * ''We'll Meet Again in the Heimat'' (1926) * ''Unmarried Daughters ''Unmarried Daughters'' (German: ''Ledige Töchter'') is a 1926 German silent film directed by Carl Boese and starring Jenny Jugo, Charlotte Ander and Ida Wüst.Parish p.297 The film's sets were designed by the art director Oscar Werndorff. C ...'' (1926) * ''Nanette Makes Everything'' (1926) * ''The False Prince (film), The False Prince'' (1927) * ''Miss Chauffeur'' (1928) * ''The House Without Men'' (1928) * ''Adam and Eve (1928 film), Adam and Eve'' (1928) * ''What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime'' (1929) * ''Youth of the Big City'' (1929) * ''Painted Youth'' (1929) * ''The Lord of the Tax Office'' (1929) * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) * ''That's All That Matters (film), That's All That Matters'' (1931) * ''Shadows Over St. Pauli'' (1938) * ''Shoulder Arms (1939 film), Shoulder Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Forescu
Maria Forescu (15 January 1875 28 October 1947) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. During the silent and talkies era of the German cinema, she appeared in several movies as a supporting actress. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Forescu, like other Jews of that period, was barred from her profession. Living undercover during the later years of World War II, she survived the Holocaust and died in 1947 in East Berlin. Biography Forescu was born Maria Füllenbaum on 15 January 1875, in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary. She attended a boarding school in Paris. She studied singing, music and drama at the Prague Conservatory. Around the turn of the century, she debuted as an operetta singer and soon became a well known member of the renowned Viennese Carl Theater. She also performed in several of the tours organized by the theater throughout Europe. Then she went to Berlin, where she appeared at the theater of the West, at the Operetta Theater, and the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Pagay
Sophie Berg Pagay (22 April 1860 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian stage and film actress, born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. She began acting as a child, and went to Berlin to perform on stage in 1887. She married actor Hans Pagay. Selected filmography * ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1917) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''Intoxication'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Mascotte'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''The Forbidden Way'' (1920) * '' Nobody Knows'' (1920) * ''Lotte Lore'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' The House on the Moon'' (1921) * ''The Blood'' (1922) * ''Shame'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Tania, the Woman in Chains'' (1922) * '' The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * ''Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * ''Darling of the King'' (1924) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''The Adventures o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Jaeckel
Antonie Jaeckel (5 September 1876 – 26 December 1960) was a German actress. Selected filmography * ''Madeleine (1919 film), Madeleine'' (1919) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * ''The Unknown Tomorrow'' (1923) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''If Only It Weren't Love'' (1925) * ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * ''That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights'' (1927) * ''Queen Louise (1927 film), Queen Louise'' (1927–28) * ''Lord of the Night'' (1927) * ''Potsdam (film), Potsdam'' (1927) * ''Regine (1927 film), Regine'' (1927) * ''The Harbour Baron'' (1928) * ''Give Me Life'' (1928) * ''Strauss Is Playing Today'' (1928) * '' Painted Youth'' (1929) * ''Fräulein Else (1929 film), Fräulein Else'' (1929) * ''We Stick Together Through Thick and Thin'' (1929) * ''Delicatessen (1930 film), Delicatessen'' (1930) * ''The Squeaker (1931 film), The Squeaker'' (1931) * ''Three from the Unemployment Office'' (1932) * ''The Mad Bomberg (1932 film), The Mad Bomberg'' (1932) * ''Little Dorrit (1934 film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Peukert
Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role in his early years, such as the comedy '' The Happy Journey'' (1924),Grange p.164 he mostly appeared as a character actor. Peukert was also a film director, making eleven short and feature films during the silent era. He was married to the actress Sabine Impekoven who appeared with him in several silent films. Selected filmography * '' Poor Jenny'' (1912) * '' My Leopold'' (1914) * '' My Leopold'' (1919) * '' The Love of Marion Bach'' (1919) * '' King Krause'' (1919) * '' Hasemann's Daughters'' (1920) * '' My Leopold'' (1924) * '' The Happy Journey'' (1924) * '' The Second Mother'' (1925) * ''Radio Magic'' (1927) * ''Two Under the Stars'' (1927) * ''I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1928) * '' Autumn on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Platen
Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer known for '' Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and '' M'' (1931). Biography Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He died on July 4, 1952 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic at the age of 75. Selected filmography * ''Ein Ausgestoßener'' (1913, part 1) * ''Der Katzensteg'' (1915) - Pfarrer * ''Die Erben des Geizhalses'' (1915) - Pflegesohn von Riedel Hermann * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''Hängezöpfchen'' (1919) - Prof. Hahnensporn * ''Das rosa Strumpfbändchen'' (1919) * '' The Boy in Blue'' (1919) - Alter Diener / Old servant * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919, Short) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' Madame Du Barry'' (1919) - Guillaume Dubarry * ''Der rote Sarafan'' (1919) * ''Seine Beichte (Bekenntnisse eines Lebemannes)'' (1919) - Diener Franz * '' Irrlicht'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * ''Die fremde Frau'' (1919) * ''Der Mitter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Lettinger
Rudolf Lettinger (26 October 1865 in Hamburg – 21 March 1937 in Berlin-Schöneberg) was a German stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1883 when he played the role of Kosinsky in Friedrich Schiller's drama ''The Robbers''. Some of his more prominent roles in his prestigious stage career were ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' and Gessler in ''William Tell''. He also worked with acclaimed stage director Max Reinhardt. In 1912, Lettinger played his first film role in ''Das Geheimnis von Monte Carlo''. Lettinger appeared in over 90 films until 1931, mostly as a supporting actor. His best-known film is perhaps '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920), where Lettinger portrayed Dr. Olsen. Selected filmography * ''Das Geheimnis von Monte Carlo'' (1912) * ''Ein Gruss aus der Tiefe'' (1915) - Vareno Ziehtochter Rawalla * ''Das goldene Friedelchen'' (1916) - Hermann Strecker * ''Irrende Liebe'' (1917) - Carl Coster, ehemaliger Bankdirektor * ''Das Legat'' (1917) - Geldverleiher Rosen * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
