Operation Sleeping Bag
''Operation Sleeping Bag'' (German: ''Unternehmen Schlafsack'') is a 1955 West German comedy war film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Paul Klinger and Karlheinz Böhm. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. It was distributed by the German branch of the Rank Organisation. Plot During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit. Cast *Eva Ingeborg Scholz as Käthe Forbach *Paul Klinger as Captain Brack *Karlheinz Böhm as artillerist Gravenhorst *Kurt Meisel as first lieutenant Taut *Renate Mannhardt as Renate Kern *Bum Krüger as Oberwachtmeister Kern *Gisela Tantau as young Tänzerin Nica *Oskar Sima as Oberstleutnant Quent *Dorothea Wieck as Frau Gravenhorst *Ursula Herking as Ulla *Beppo Brem as Un ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Arthur Maria Rabenalt (25 June 1905 – 26 February 1993) was an Austrian film director, writer, and author. He directed more than 90 films between 1934 and 1978. His 1958 film ''That Won't Keep a Sailor Down'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Two years later, his 1960 film ''Big Request Concert'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. His career encompassed both Nazi cinema and West German productions. He also wrote several books on the 1930s and 1940s wave of German cinema. Career In his early teens, Rabenalt began his stage career directing operas at theatres in Darmstadt, Berlin and Gera. From then on to the mid-1920s he worked (though uncredited) as a production assistant on several films such including G. W. Pabst's ''Joyless Street'' (1925). After Nazi's rise to power, Rabenalt made his feature film debut directing the musical comedy, ''What Am I Without You'' (1934), which was then shortly followed with the releas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rank Organisation
The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in April 1937. It quickly became the largest and most vertically integrated film company in the United Kingdom, owning production, distribution and exhibition facilities. It also diversified into the manufacture of radios, TVs and photocopiers (as one of the owners of Rank Xerox). The company name lasted until February 1996, when the name and some of the remaining assets were absorbed into the newly structured Rank Group plc. The company itself became a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox and was renamed XRO Limited in 1997. The company logo, the Gongman, first used in 1935 by the group's distribution company General Film DistributorsThe Independent July 16, 19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kai Fischer
Kai Fischer (born 18 March 1934) is a German film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1955 and 1999. Selected filmography * ''Operation Sleeping Bag'' (1955) * '' The Bath in the Barn'' (1956) * '' Sand, Love and Salt'' (1957) * ''Für zwei Groschen Zärtlichkeit'' (Call Girls) (1957) * ''The Spessart Inn'' (1958) * '' Heart Without Mercy '' (1958) * ''I Was All His'' (1958) * ''Girls of the Night'' (1958) * ' (1958) * ' (1958) * ' (1958) * ''Girls for the Mambo-Bar'' (1959) * ''Uncle Was a Vampire'' (1959) * ''Freddy and the Melody of the Night'' (1960) * ''The Hellfire Club'' (1960) * '' Too Hot to Handle'' (1960) * '' The Bashful Elephant'' (1961) * ''Escape from East Berlin'' (1962) * ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color : '' (1963) * '' Room 13'' (1964) * ''Bullets Don't Argue'' (1964) * ' (1966, TV miniseries) * ''The Strangler of the Tower'' (1966) * '' Man on the Spying Trapeze'' (Anónima de asesinos) (1966) * ''Maneater of Hydra'' (1967) * ' (1968) * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ernst Waldow
Ernst Waldow (22 August 1893 – 5 June 1964) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films during his career. Selected filmography * ''Rübezahl's Wedding'' (1916) * '' Sin of a Beautiful Woman'' (1929) *''The Green Domino'' (1935) * '' Inkognito'' (1936) * ''Boccaccio'' (1936) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * ''When the Cock Crows'' (1936) * ''Game on Board'' (1936) * '' If We All Were Angels'' (1936) * '' The Dreamer'' (1936) * ''The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (1937) * ''Signal in the Night'' (1937) * ''The Beaver Coat'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) * ''When Women Keep Silent'' (1937) * '' Beate's Mystery'' (1938) * '' The Girl of Last Night'' (1938) * '' The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1938) * ''Women for Golden Hill'' (1938) * ''Who's Kissing Madeleine?'' (1939) * '' The Scoundrel'' (1939) * ''Wedding in Barenhof'' (1942) * ''Doctor Crippen'' (1942) * ''Circus Renz'' (1943) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * ''Beloved Darling'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Regnier
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beppo Brem
Beppo Brem (11 March 1906 in Munich, German Empire – September 5, 1990 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor, who was in over 200 film and television productions between 1932 and 1990. He often played stereotypically Bavarian characters, but managed to find respect as a character actor in later years. Selected filmography * ''The Bartered Bride'' (1932) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1933) * '' Um das Menschenrecht'' (1934) * ''The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' The Switched Bride'' (1934) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) * ''Knockout'' (1935) * ''The King's Prisoner'' (1935) * '' The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935) * ''Donogoo Tonka'' (1936) * '' The Three Around Christine'' (1936) * ''Home Guardsman Bruggler'' (1936) * ''The Last Four on Santa Cruz'' (1936) * ''Unternehmen Michael'' (1937) * ''Meiseken'' (1937) * ''Anna Favetti'' (1938) * ''Frau Sixta'' (1938) * '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) * '' Three Fathers for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ursula Herking
Ursula Herking (28 January 1912 – 17 November 1974) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany. Selected filmography * '' Susanne in the Bath'' (1936) * '' Stronger Than Regulations'' (1936) * '' Uncle Bräsig'' (1936) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) * ''The Four Companions'' (1938) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) * '' Goodbye, Franziska'' (1941) * ''A Gust of Wind'' (1942) * '' Love Me'' (1942) * ''Bravo Acrobat!'' (1943) * ''Beloved Darling'' (1943) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * ''Nora'' (1944) * ''The Roedern Affair'' (1944) * ''A Wife for Three Days'' (1944) * ''Thank You, I'm Fine'' (1948) * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1949) * '' Shadows in the Night'' (1950) * ''Who Drove the Grey Ford?'' (1950) * ''Furioso'' (1950) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) * '' When a Woman Loves'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dorothea Wieck
Dorothea Wieck, born Dora Bertha Olavia Wieck (3 January 1908 in Davos, Switzerland – 20 February 1986 in Berlin, West Germany), was a German theatre and film actress. Early years Dorothea Wieck was born Dora Bertha Olavia Wieck and grew up in southern Germany and Sweden. She was descended from musician Clara Schumann. By the time Wieck was six years old, her father (an artist) and her mother (a musician) felt that she should be an actress. She imitated people who visited their home, and she wrote short plays for her friends and herself. She attended an academy that trained her in music, dancing, and art, but not in acting. When she was 15 years old, she began studying under Max Reinhardt and went to the Josephstaedter Theatre in Vienna, where she began to act. Career Wieck launched her acting career on stage in 1924 and made her screen debut in German films in 1926, appearing in several silent films. She became widely known through her leading role in the 1931 film ''Mädc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Bum Krüger
Bum Krüger (born ''Willy Krüger''; 13 March 1906 - 15 March 1971) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1969. Filmography References External links * 1906 births 1971 deaths German male film actors German male television actors Male actors from Berlin 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Renate Mannhardt
Renate Mannhardt (1920–2013) was a German actress. She starred in Peter Lorre Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, first in Europe and later in the United States. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before movin ...'s 1951 film '' The Lost One''. Filmography References External links * Bibliography * 1920 births 2013 deaths German film actresses 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kurt Meisel
Kurt Meisel (18 August 1912 – 4 April 1994) was an Austrian actor and film director. He appeared in 65 films between 1934 and 1994. He also directed 21 films between 1949 and 1984. Meisel was married to the actress Ursula Lingen. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria, and is buried on the Vienna Zentralfriedhof. Selected filmography * ''Little Dorrit (1934 film), Little Dorrit'' (1934) - Pit, sein Sohn * ''Marriage Strike (1935 film), Marriage Strike'' (1935) - Loisl * ''Schlußakkord'' (1936) - Baron Salviany * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) - Leutnant Florian Schwälble * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) - Graf Eugen Opalla * ''Such Great Foolishness'' (1937) - Specht - Rundfunkansager * ''Love Can Lie'' (1937) - August Halfgreen * ''Spiel auf der Tenne'' (1937) - Andreas 'Anderl' Rössmaier * ''Another World (1937 film), Another World'' (1937) - 2. Journalist * ''Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau'' (1937) - Thomas, Bräubursch * ''Frau Sylvelin'' (1938) - Herr von Roedern * ''Na ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |