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My Life For Maria Isabella
''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (German: ''Mein Leben für Maria Isabell'') is a 1935 German drama film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Viktor de Kowa, Maria Andergast and Peter Voß. It is a military drama, the Maria Isabella of the title being the name of a regiment. Heavy cuts were imposed by the censors because of fears the film's mutiny scenes were too attractively portrayed. Critics were not impressed by the casting of Viktor de Kowa, known for his light musical comedy roles, as the film's hero.Noack p.76 It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle. It was distributed by the Tobis subsidiary Rota-Film. Synopsis In Belgrade during the closing days of the First World War, the Austrian regiments are mostly composed of disgruntled minorities who mutiny rather than fight on. A young officer attempts to save the regimental colours from falling into enemy hands, and safely takes them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Waschneck
Erich John Waschneck (29 April 1887, in Grimma, Kingdom of Saxony – 22 September 1970, in Berlin) was a German cameraman, director, screenwriter, and film producer. Early life Erich was the son of Karl Hermann Waschneck, a blacksmith, and his wife Therese Emilie, née Schneider. Waschneck went to finishing school at the Leipzig Art Academy and studied painting. Career He came in contact with the film industry in 1907 when he began to paint posters for films. He then worked as a still photographer and later as a camera assistant to cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner . In 1921, he did his first work as a cameraman in the adaptation of the fairy tale ''The Little Muck'' by Wilhelm Hauff. From 1924 he worked as a director. His film ''Eight Girls in a boat'' (1932) won the Gold Medal at the Venice Film Festival. In 1932 he became managing director of Beacon-Film GmbH in Berlin and film producer. After the Nazi rise to power, into force on 4th Waschneck April 1933 the National Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Hardt
Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a military academy and serving during World War I. He later turned to acting, having a long career both in films and on television. Selected filmography * '' The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * '' The False Dimitri'' (1922) - Fürst Leschinsky * '' Frauenmoral'' (1923) * ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * '' The Comedian's Child'' (1923) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) * '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924) * '' Around a Million'' (1924) * '' Nanon'' (1924) - Bruder der Dame (Brother of the Dame) * '' The Wife of Forty Years'' (1925) * '' Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''Upstairs and Downstairs'' (1925) * ''The Dealer from Amsterdam'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * ''In the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Karchow
Ernst Karchow (1892–1953) was a German stage and film actor.Youngkin p.432 Selected filmography * '' Lotte'' (1928) * '' We Stick Together Through Thick and Thin'' (1929) * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) * ''Inge and the Millions'' (1933) * ''Gold'' (1934) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' One Too Many on Board'' (1935) * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * '' The Traitor'' (1936) * '' Patriots'' (1937) * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) * ''Fanny Elssler'' (1937) * '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * ''Front Theatre ''Front Theatre'' (German: ''Fronttheater'') is a 1942 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Heli Finkenzeller, René Deltgen and Lothar Firmans. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and the Cinetone Studio ...'' (1942) *'' The Master of the Estate'' (1943) * '' Back Then'' (1943) * '' Tonelli'' (1943) * '' The Noltenius Brothers'' (1945) * '' Night of the Twelve'' (1949) Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Minetti
Bernhard Theodor Henry Minetti (26 January 1905 – 12 October 1998) was a German actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1931 and 1996 but is mostly known for his distinguished stage career. Selected filmography *''The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' (1930) as Ivan Karamazov *'' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) as Reinhold *''Joan of Arc'' (1935) as a bailiff * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) as Von Hackenberg * '' Der Kaiser von Kalifornien'' (1936) as the stranger * ''Alarm in Peking'' (1937) as Tu-Hang * ''By a Silken Thread'' (1938) as Dr. Heinrich Breuer * '' Secret Code LB 17'' (1938) as Club Manager Bjelinski * ''Woman Without a Past'' (1939) as Igor Costa * ''Robert Koch'' (1939) as Göhrte the exorcist *''Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius'' (1940) as Franz Moor * ''The Eternal Spring'' (1940) as Wolfgang Lusinger *'' The Rothschilds'' (1940) as Fouché * '' Tiefland'' (1954) as Don Sebastian, Marquis de Roccabruna * '' It'' (1966) as Customer *''The Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Evans
Karin Evans (1907–2004) was a South African-born German stage and film actress. Evans was born in Johannesburg to one British and one German parent. In 1923 she moved to Berlin to study theatre, and began performing in the stage productions of Max Reinhardt. She made her film debut in the 1927 silent crime film ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) and then appeared intermittently in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. In 1964 she appeared in the comedy ''Fanny Hill''Frasier p.205 which proved to be her final screen appearance. She was married to the painter Wolf Hoffmann. Selected filmography * ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * ''Boycott'' (1930) * ''The Last Company'' (1930) * '' The Concert'' (1931) * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1934) * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * ''Pygmalion'' (1935) * ''Ich klage an'' (1941) * ''Blum Affair'' (1948) * '' Street Acquaintances'' (1948) * '' Such a Charade'' (1953) * '' The Perfect Couple'' (1954) * ''Lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Serda
Julia Serda (6 April 1875 – 3 December 1965) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Grange p.120 She was married to the actor Hans Junkermann. Biography Julia Serda was born on 6 April 1875 in Vienna. She became fascinated by the stage at an early age, taking singing lessons from Pauline Lucca and studying acting at the Vienna Conservatory. Serda made her debut in 1895 at the theater in Breslau, after which she went to Köningsberg for three years. In 1899 she followed a call to the Dresden Court Theater, to which she remained connected until 1908 and was awarded the title of "Royal Saxon Court Actress". During this time, she also made her Berlin debut in 1902, appeared at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1907, and in 1908 at the Meinhard-Bernauer-Bühnen. Serda was most successful for playing the naive and sentimental heroine, for example with the title role in Franz Grillparzer's tragedy ''The Jewess of Toledo'', as Oscar Wilde's '' Salome'', or as a cricket in ''Johannisfeuer' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Frick
Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Missouri, a town on the Missouri River in the United States ** Hermann AVA, Missouri wine region * The German SC1000 bomb of World War II was nicknamed the "Hermann" by the British, in reference to Hermann Göring * Herrmann Hall, the former Hotel Del Monte, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California * Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, a large health system in Southeast Texas * The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), a system to measure and describe thinking preferences in people * Hermann station (other), stations of the name * Hermann (crater), a small lunar impact crater in the western Oceanus Procellarum * Hermann Huppen, a Belgian comic book artist * Hermann 19, an American sailboat design built by Ted Herm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Joachim Büttner
Hans-Joachim Büttner (1900–1973) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.211 After the Second World War he appeared in East German films. Selected filmography * '' The White Demon'' (1932) * ''Tugboat M 17'' (1933) * '' Hitlerjunge Quex'' (1933) * '' A Door Opens'' (1933) * ''Gold'' (1934) * ''Pillars of Society'' (1935) * '' His Late Excellency'' (1935) * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * '' A Strange Guest'' (1936) * ''Commissioner Eyck'' (1940) * ''Das kleine und das große Glück'' (1953) * '' Stärker als die Nacht'' (1954) * ''Die Millionen der Yvette'' (1956) * '' The Mayor of Zalamea'' (1956) * ''Wo Du hin gehst ''Wo Du hin gehst'' is an East German film. It was released in 1957. Cast * Wolfgang Stumpf: Jakob Rhode * Gisela Trowe: Thea Ricci * Raimund Schelcher: Albert * Gerry Wolff: Samuel * Johannes Knittel: René * Josef Kamper: Lutzer * Alexander Pap ...'' (1957) References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf. '' Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Pfaudler
Franz Pfaudler (1893–1956) was an Austrian stage and film actor.Giesen p.200 Selected filmography * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * ''Renate in the Quartet'' (1939) * ''Der Postmeister'' (1940) * ''Heimkehr'' (1941) * '' Anuschka'' (1942) * ''Schrammeln'' (1944) * ''Melusine'' (1944) * '' The Millionaire'' (1947) * ''Maresi'' (1948) * '' Eroica'' (1949) * ''Archduke Johann's Great Love'' (1950) * ''Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...'' (1953) * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1956) References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf. '' Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2003. External links * 1893 births 1956 deaths Male actors from Vienna Austrian male film actors Austrian male stage actors Burials at Ottakring Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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