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Max Mack
Max Mack (1884–1973) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director during the silent era. He is particularly known for his 1913 film ''The Other''. He directed, and co-starred in, an early film adaptation of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' in 1914, called ''Ein Seltsamer Fall'', written by Richard Oswald. During the 1910s, he directed nearly a hundred films in a variety of different genres.Elsaesser & Wedel p.205 Born as Moritz Myrthenzweig in Halberstadt, the Jewish Mack was later forced to emigrate to escape Nazism, and settled in the United Kingdom. His final film was the 1935 quota quickie '' Be Careful, Mr. Smith''. Selected filmography Director * ''The Other'' (1913) * '' The Blue Mouse'' (1913) * ''Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) * ''A World Without Men'' (1914) * ''Ein Seltsamer Fall'' (1914) A film adaptation of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1915) * ''The Confessions of the Green Mask'' (1916) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * ''Quaran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halberstadt
Halberstadt ( Eastphalian: ''Halverstidde'') is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town center that was greatly destroyed by Allied bombings in late stages of World War II after local Nazi leaders refused to surrender. The town was rebuilt in the following decades. In World War I, Halberstadt was the site of a German military airbase and aircraft manufacturing facilities. In World War II, Halberstadt was a regional production center for Junkers aircraft, which also housed an SS forced labor camp. Halberstadt now encompasses the area where the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp existed. Geography Halberstadt is situated between the Harz in the south and the Huy hills in the north on the Holtemme and Goldbach rivers, both left tributaries of the Bode. Halberstadt is the base of the Department of Public Management of the Hochschule Harz University of Applied Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical History of ancient Israel and Judah, Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Uninvited Guest (1925 Film)
''The Uninvited Guest'' (German: ''Der ungebetene Gast'') is a 1925 Austrian silent film directed by Max Mack.Bock & Bergfelder p.303 Cast In alphabetical order * Eugen Jensen * Dora Kaiser * Paul Kronegg * Rudi Merstallinger * Oskar Sachs * Julius Strobl * Hermann Thimig * Hugo Werner-Kahle Hugo Werner-Kahle (5 August 1882 – 1 May 1961) was a German stage and film actor (and sporadically, a movie director). He appeared in around a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * ''Midnight'' (1918) * '' The Bracelet'' (1918 ... References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1925 films Austrian silent feature films Films directed by Max Mack Austrian black-and-white films {{Austria-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Voss
''Father Voss'' (German:''Vater Voss'') is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Stewart Rome, Mary Odette and Lotte Stein. It was one of a number of popular comedies released by UFA alongside its more prestigious art films.Kreimeier p.101 In common with German practice at the time, two British stars were imported to add international appeal. The film's art direction was by Robert A. Dietrich. Cast * Stewart Rome as William Voß * Mary Odette as Gerti * Lotte Stein as Mutter des William Voß * Robert Garrison as Prosecutor * Rudolf Esk as Prokurist * Albert Paul as Senatspräsident * Hermann Picha as Zuverlässiger Herr * Arthur Pusey as Robert * Otto Reinwald as Bob * Berthold Rose as Blinder * F.W. Schröder-Schrom as Bankrier Holson * Franz Schönfeld as Untersuchungsrichter * Jenny Steiner as Frau von Welt * Aruth Wartan Aruth Wartan (or ''Haruth Vartan'', hy, Հարութ Վարդան, 23 June 1880 – 14 April 1945) was a Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beautiful Girl (1923 Film)
''The Beautiful Girl'' (german: Das schöne Mädel) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Max Mack and starring Hella Moja, Fritz Richard and Ilka Grüning. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse. Cast *Hella Moja as Gött's daughter *Fritz Richard as old Gött *Ilka Grüning as Frau Gött *Walter Rilla as Franz, Gött's son *Margit Barnay as Gött's daughter *Rudolf Klein-Rhoden as Wyslicenus *Ernst Pröckl as Student Kunze *Heinz Salfner as Prof. Wessely * Alfred Haase as Baron von Riemer *Ludwig Hartau as Rubiner, department store owner *Dora Bergner as Frau Rubiner, his wife *Hermann Blaß as Balduin, photograph *Fred Immler as gentleman *Ludwig Rex as doctor *Hermann Picha Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting r ... as antiquearian Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarantäne
''Quarantine'' (German: ''Quarantäne'') is a 1923 German silent film directed by Max Mack and starring Rudolf Lettinger, Helena Makowska and Loni Nest.Bock & Bergfelder p.303 Cast * Rudolf Lettinger as Professor Hudson * Helena Makowska as Sein Frau * Loni Nest as Kind * Oskar Marion as Burns * Robert Leffler as Hausarzt * Robert Garrison as Matrose * Hans Karl Georg as Hafeninspektor * Kurt Katch as Hafenarzt * Alfred Schmasow as Stellenvermittler * Robert Scholz as Prinz * Marga Lindt as Zofe * Frau Wanna as Children's overseer * Marian Alma as Servant * Heinrich George Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor. Career Weimar Republic George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first ... References Bibliography * Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maharaja's Favourite Wife
''The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (german: Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha) is a silent adventure film directed by Max Mack and starring Gunnar Tolnæs, Fritz Kortner, and Erna Morena. Originally produced in Denmark by Nordisk Film, whose German branch was taken over during the First World War. It was released in three parts, the first two in 1917 and the third in 1921. The third part was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin, and released by the leading German company UFA. Its sets were designed by the Hungarian art director István Szirontai Lhotka. Cast (Part III) *Gunnar Tolnæs as Maharadschah Narada *Erna Morena as Dienerin von Maharadscha Sangia *Aud Egede-Nissen as Tänzerin Ellen *Fritz Kortner as Bruder von Maharadscha Bhima *Albert Paulig as Hotelportier *Adolf Klein as Ein Maharadscha *Emil Rameau as Vater des Maharadscha *Eduard Rothauser as Theater agent Martini *Leopold von Ledebur Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Confessions Of The Green Mask
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert And Bertram (1915 Film)
''Robert and Bertram'' (German: ''Robert und Bertram, die lustigen Vagabunden'') is a 1915 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Eugen Burg, Ferdinand Bonn and Ernst Lubitsch. It is based on the 1856 Gustav Räder play '' Robert and Bertram'' about the adventures of two wandering vagrants, which has been turned into films on several occasions. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. Cast *Eugen Burg as Robert *Ferdinand Bonn as Bertram *Wilhelm Diegelmann as Gefängniswärter *Ernst Lubitsch as Kommis Max Edelstein Bibliography *Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009. *O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. ''Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich''. Camden House Camden House, Inc. was founded in 1979 by professors James Hardin and Gunther Holst with the purpose of publishing scholarly books in the field of German literature, Austrian Literature, and G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A World Without Men
''A World Without Men'' (''Die Welt ohne Männer'') is a 1914 silent film made in Germany just before the start of World War IJames Lyon''Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War'' Bloomsbury (2015) - Google Books and directed by Max Mack. A comedy, it was written by Alexander Engel and Julius Horst. The popular British entertainer Madge Lessing appeared at the Berlin Metropol in Berlin for four years before the start of World War I and during that period she made a number of films for Max Mack including ''The Blue Mouse'' (1913), ''Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) and ''A World Without Men'' (1914). - database Synopsis A comed ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Is Coletti?
''Where Is Coletti?'' (german: Wo ist Coletti?) is a 1913 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Hans Junkermann, Madge Lessing, and Heinrich Peer. It was a major commercial hit on its release. The film's sets were designed by Hermann Warm. Cast *Hans Junkermann as Jean Coletti *Madge Lessing as Lolotte *Heinrich Peer as Anton *Anna Müller-Lincke as Resolute Dame *Hans Stock as Count Edgar *Max Laurence Friedrich Rudolf Max Laurence (5 August 1852 – 26 May 1926) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) * '' The Dancer'' (1915) * '' Hans und Hanni'' (1915) * '' Mountain Air'' (1917) * '' Diary of a ... as old Count *Axel Breidahl References External links * Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Max Mack 1910s chase films German black-and-white films German comedy films 1913 comedy films Silent comedy films Silent thriller films 1910s German films Silent cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Mouse (1913 Film)
''The Blue Mouse'' (german: Die blaue Maus) is a 1913 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Madge Lessing, Otto Treptow and Heinrich Peer. It was a major commercial success in Germany, and was also distributed in the United States. The film's sets were designed by Hermann Warm. Cast *Madge Lessing as Fritzi Lustig *Otto Treptow as Cäsar Meier *Heinrich Peer as Director Bock *Else Wannovius as Clara Brummer *Herbert Paulmüller *Willy Lengling *Martha Hoffmann *Willi Schaeffers Willi Schaeffers (1884–1962) was a German film actor and cabaret performer.Jelavich p.246 Selected filmography * '' The Blue Mouse'' (1913) * '' A Blackmailer's Trick'' (1921) * '' Nameless Woman'' (1927) * ''The Street Song'' (1931) * '' Kiki' ... References External links * Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Max Mack German films based on plays German black-and-white films German comedy films 1913 comedy films Silent comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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