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Peter Voss, Thief Of Millions (1932 Film)
''Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (German: ''Peter Voss, der Millionendieb'') is a 1932 German comedy crime film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Willi Forst, Alice Treff, and Paul Hörbiger. It was based on the 1913 novel of the same title by Ewald Gerhard Seeliger which has been adapted into a number of films including previously in 1921 and later in 1946. It was the second to last film made by Dupont in Germany before he was forced to flee to the United States following the rise of the Nazi Party.Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. ''Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950''. Berghahn Books, 2008. pp. 33-34. It was shot at the Emelka Studios in Munich with location shooting in Marseille. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ludwig Reiber and Willy Reiber. Cast *Willi Forst as Peter Voß *Alice Treff as Polly *Paul Hörbiger as Bobby Dodd *Ida Wüst as Madame Bianca *Otto Wernicke as Pitt *Hans Hermann Schaufu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewald André Dupont
Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891 – 12 December 1956) was a German film director, one of the pioneers of the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. He was often credited as E. A. Dupont. Early career A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California. One of his greatest successes was the silent film ''Varieté'' (1925). This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund. ''Varieté'' even did well in the United States, screening for 12 weeks at New York's Rialto Theatre. United States Dupont's success was noticed by Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios, Universal, who offered Dupont a lucrative contract. His first project was ''Love Me and the World Is Mine'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Voss, Thief Of Millions (1946 Film)
''Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (german: Peter Voss, der Millionendieb) is a 1946 German comedy crime film directed by Karl Anton and starring Viktor de Kowa, Else von Möllendorff and Karl Schönböck. It was filmed between 1943 and 1945. It was based on the novel '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' by E.G. Seeliger. Cast * Viktor de Kowa as Peter Voss * Else von Möllendorff as Polly Petterson * Karl Schönböck as Bobby Dodd * Hans Leibelt as Van Gelder * Kurt Seifert as Petterson * Fritz Kampers as Fritz Mohr * Georg Thomalla as Max Egon Flipp * Werner Stock as Dodds Sekretär * Gustav Bertram as Sam Parker See also * Überläufer In German film history, an Überläufer (literally '' defector'') is a film that was in production under the Third Reich but only completed and premiered after the end of the Second World War. The vast majority of such films are romantic comedies ... References External links * 1940s adventure comedy films 1940s crime comedy films Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Dohm
Will Dohm (8 April 1897 – 28 November 1948) was a German film actor. He is the father of the actress Gaby Dohm. Selected filmography * '' Waterloo'' (1929) * ''Cruiser Emden'' (1932) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1932) * ''The Tunnel'' (1933) * ''The King's Prisoner'' (1935) * ''Tomfoolery'' (1936) * '' If We All Were Angels'' (1936) * ''Maria the Maid'' (1936) * ''Donogoo Tonka'' (1936) * ''Fridericus'' (1937) * '' Dangerous Game'' (1937) * ''Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''A Prussian Love Story'' (1938) * ''Dance on the Volcano'' (1938) * ''So You Don't Know Korff Yet?'' (1938) * '' Opera Ball'' (1939) * ''Kora Terry'' (1940) * ''Between Hamburg and Haiti'' (1940) * ''The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Her Other Self'' (1941) * '' Mein Leben für Irland'' (1941) * ''The Thing About Styx'' (1942) * ''Melody of a Great City'' (1943) * '' The Bath in the Barn'' (1943) * ''A Man for My Wife'' (1943) * '' The Song of the Nightingale'' (1944) * ''The Master Detective'' (1944) * ... [...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] |
Johannes Roth (actor)
Johannes Rudolf Roth (September 4, 1815 – June 26, 1858) was a German zoologist and traveler. Biography Roth was born in Nuremberg to Karl Johann Friedrich von Roth, president of the Bavarian Supreme Consistory (''Oberkonsistorialpräsident''). The younger Roth studied medicine and natural sciences, and in 1836–37 accompanied Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert on his expedition to Egypt and Palestine. Beginning in 1839 he traveled to the East Indies and the northwest coast of Africa. In 1843 he became Professor of Zoology at the University of Munich. He undertook two more journeys to Palestine, starting in 1852 and 1856 respectively. The 1856 expedition was supported by the Prussian government and was intended for research of the structure and formation of the Jordan Rift Valley. He published a book about the topography of the area in Germany. In 1858, while on an expedition in the Anti-Lebanon The Anti-Lebanon Mountains ( ar, جبال لبنان الشرقية, Jibāl Lub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Hermann Schaufuß
Hans Hermann Schaufuß (13 July 1893 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1922 to 1969. His sons were actors Hans Joachim Schaufuß Hans Joachim Schaufuß (transliterated: Schaufuss) (28 December 1918 – 27 October 1941) was a German actor. Schaufuß began as a child actor, appearing in '' Emil and the Detectives'' (1931) and '' The White Demon'' (1932). From the mid-1930s he ... and Peter-Timm Schaufuß. Selected filmography References External links * 1893 births 1982 deaths German male film actors German male silent film actors 20th-century German male actors Male actors from Berlin {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Wernicke
Otto Karl Robert Wernicke (30 September 1893, Osterode am Harz – 7 November 1965) was a German actor. He is best known for his role as police inspector Karl Lohmann in the two Fritz Lang films '' M'' and ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''. Married to a Jewish woman, he was only able to continue working in Germany after the Nazi Party took power in 1933 because he received a special dispensation from the Reich Chamber of Culture. In 1943, he portrayed Captain Smith in ''Titanic'', the first film on the subject which was simply titled ''Titanic'', and the first to combine various fictional characters and subplots with the true events of the sinking; both conventions went on to become a staple of ''Titanic'' films. After being cast in 1944 in the propaganda epic '' Kolberg'', he was added to the '' Gottbegnadeten-Liste'', a list of artists considered crucial to Nazi culture which Joseph Goebbels compiled for Adolf Hitler's approval. Selected filmography * ''Girls You Don't Marry' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Reiber
Willy Reiber (20 February 1895 – 27 November 1980) was a German film director, producer and set designer.Giesen p.223 For many years he worked for the forerunners of Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich. Selected filmography * '' The Drums of Asia'' (1921) * ''Monna Vanna'' (1922) * ''The Favourite of the Queen'' (1922) * '' Trutzi from Trutzberg'' (1922) * ''The Way to the Light'' (1923) * ''Maciste and the Chinese Chest'' (1923) * ''The Tragedy of a Night of Passion'' (1924) * ''Taras Bulba'' (1924) * ''Love of Life'' (1924) * '' The Lion of Venice'' (1924) * ''A Song from Days of Youth'' (1925) * '' Written in the Stars'' (1925) * '' Little Inge and Her Three Fathers '' (1926) * ''Storm Tide'' (1927) * '' Klettermaxe'' (1927) * '' Spy of Madame Pompadour'' (1928) * '' The Gambling Den of Montmartre'' (1928) * ''The Sun Rises ''The Sun Rises'' (Romanian: ''Răsare soarele'') is a 1954 Romanian drama film directed by Dinu Negreanu.Liehm & Liehm p.143 It was made at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Reiber
Ludwig Reiber (1904–1979) was a German art director.Capua p.159 The veteran Reiber worked on film and television set design from the silent era to the early 1970s. He was employed by the Munich-based Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios. He worked on two Alfred Hitchcock films during the 1920s that were shot at Emekla. Following the Second World War he was employed on several European-made Hollywood productions such as ''Decision Before Dawn'' and ''Paths of Glory''. Selected filmography * '' The Shot in the Pavilion'' (1925) * ''Mrs Worrington's Perfume'' (1925) * '' The Adventurous Wedding'' (1925) * '' The Pleasure Garden'' (1925) * ''Our Emden'' (1926) * '' Little Inge and Her Three Fathers '' (1926) * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1926) * ''The Mountain Eagle'' (1926) * ''Valencia'' (1927) * '' Did You Fall in Love Along the Beautiful Rhine?'' (1927) * ''Storm Tide'' (1927) * ''My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You'' (1927) * ''Restless Hearts'' (1928) * '' Behind Monastery Walls'' ( ... [...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] |
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film ''The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films ''Amadeus'' and '' The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Most films feature a combination of location and studio shoots; often, interior scenes will be shot on a soundstage while exterior scenes will be shot on location. Second unit photography is not generally considered a location shoot. Before filming, the locations are generally surveyed in pre-production, a process known as location scouting and recce. Pros and cons Location shooting has several advantages over filming on a studio set. First and foremost, the expense can often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
