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Philipp Kadelbach
Philipp Kadelbach (born 9 September 1974, Frankfurt am Main) is a German film and television director. In discussing Kadelbach, actor Jürgen Schornagel stated "He's in the top five of the 116 directors I've worked with. He helps young people and experienced actors - and he lets us make mistakes". Career Philipp Kadelbach attended the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Photography, and Digital Media and at the same time worked for the German local television channel WQED. From 1995 onwards he worked as the head of Avid Digital Editing at Neue Sentimental Film, a Frankfurt advertising agency, followed by the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. His directing debut was the short film ''Platonische Liebe'' ( FBW-Prädikat: Wertvoll) in 1998/99, for which he was also screenwriter and film editor. Its music is by his younger brother, the film composer Michael Kadelbach and Herbert Grönemeyer. It won the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis 2000. It also appeared a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt Am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhine Franconian dialect area. Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevrolet
Chevrolet ( ), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941) and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant (1861–1947) started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918, and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose", would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929 with the Chevrolet International. Chevrolet-branded vehicles are sold in most autom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindenburg Disaster
The ''Hindenburg'' disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The German passenger airship LZ 129 ''Hindenburg'' caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground. The disaster was the subject of newsreel coverage, photographs and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness reports from the landing field, which were broadcast the next day. A variety of theories have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The publicity shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the abrupt end of the airship era. Flight Background The ''Hindenburg'' made 10 trips to the United States in 1936. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTL Television
RTL (from ''''), formerly RTL plus and RTL Television, is a German-language free-to-air television channel owned by the RTL Group, headquartered in Cologne. Founded as an offshoot of the German-language radio programme '' ,'' RTL is considered a full-service broadcaster under the ' (Interstate Media Treaty) and is the largest private television network in Germany. As of August 2010, RTL employs some 500 permanent staff, having outsourced its news and technical departments. In September 2021, '''' (RTL Germany Media Group) was renamed . As part of the rebrand, both the group and the channel received new logos and branding. History RTL plus was famous in its early years for showing low-budget films and American programmes. In 1988, it was the second most-viewed channel. After reunification in 1990, broadcasting was extended to the entire country. RTL moved to Cologne and received the right to broadcast on free-to-air frequencies. That same year, RTL acquired the first-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Flight
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Last Flight may refer to: * ''Last Flight'' (album), a 2000 live album by Jefferson Airplane * ''Last Flight'' (book), a 1937 book by Amelia Earhart * "The Last Flight" (''The Twilight Zone''), a 1960 episode of the American television series ''The Twilight Zone'' * ''The Last Flight'' (1931 film), a 1931 film starring Richard Barthelmess * ''The Last Flight'' (2009 film), a 2009 French film starring Marion Cotillard * ''Last Flight'' (film), a 2014 Chinese film starring Ed Westwick * ''Last Flight'', a cancelled Wii game by Bloober Team Bloober Team S.A. is a Polish video game developer based in Kraków. Founded in November 2008 by Peter Babieno and Peter Bielatowicz, the company is best known for developing ''Layers of Fear'' (2016), ''Observer'' (2017), ''Blair Witch'' (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Ferres
Veronica Maria Cäcilia Ferres (; born 10 June 1965) is a German film, television, and stage actress. Her 2007 portrayal of Sara Bender in ''Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie'', based on the true story of Jutta Fleck, earned her the award for Best Actress at the ''Deutscher Fernsehpreis'' (German Television Awards). Early life Ferres was born in Solingen. She grew up as the youngest child and only daughter of Peter Ferres, a coal and potato merchant, and his wife Katharina. She completed her '' Abitur'' at the Gymnasium Schwertstrasse in Solingen, and then completed a German, theatre studies and psychology degree at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Career In Germany, Ferres's breakthrough came with the title role in the 1996 comedy film '' The Superwife'', followed by starring roles in films such as the ''Schtonk!'', ', '' Klimt'' (alongside John Malkovich) and ', making her a household name in Germany. Her TV productions include '' The Manns'', ', ', ', ', and ', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Adorf
Mario Adorf (; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film ''The Tin Drum''. He is also the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books. Biography Adorf was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the illegitimate child of Matteo Menniti, an Italian surgeon and Alice Adorf, a German medical assistant. He grew up in his maternal grandfather's hometown, Mayen, where he was raised by his unmarried mother. He rose to fame in Europe, and particularly Germany, and also made appearances in international films, including ''Ten Little Indians'' and '' Smilla's Sense of Snow''. He also played a small role in the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's ''Smiley's People'' as a German club owner. In Italy he also played in a number of movies. In the 1960s, he married Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Lambert
Christophe Guy Denis "Christopher" Lambert (; ; born March 29, 1957) is a French-American actor, producer, and novelist. He started his career playing supporting parts in several French films, and became internationally famous for portraying Tarzan in '' Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes'' (1984). For his performance in the film '' Subway'' (1985), he received the César Award for Best Actor. His most famous role is Connor MacLeod in the adventure-fantasy film '' Highlander'' (1986) and the subsequent franchise of the same name. Lambert's other notable film roles include '' I Love You'' (1986), '' The Sicilian'' (1987), '' Knight Moves'' (1992), ''Fortress'' (1992) and its sequel '' Fortress 2: Re-Entry'' (2000), '' Mortal Kombat'' (1995), ''Druids'' (2001), '' Absolon'' (2003), '' White Material'' (2009), '' Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'' (2011), and '' Kickboxer: Retaliation'' (2018). He also produced the films ''Don't Forget You're Going to Die'' (1995), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Geheimnis Der Wale
''Das Geheimnis der Wale'' () is a German 2010 two-part TV film directed by Philipp Kadelbach. Plot Anna Waldmann flies to New Zealand with her 14-year-old daughter Charlotte to join Charlotte's father Professor Johannes Waldmann, who is working as a respected whale researcher on a report commissioned by a local authority. He is about to decide whether or not a large gas company can prospect for oil off the New Zealand coast when he is killed in a boat accident. Anna becomes suspicious and joins forces with Chris (an opponent of the company) to uncover an environmental scandal. Cast * Christopher Lambert as Chris Cassell * Veronica Ferres as Anna Waldmann * Mario Adorf as Johannes Waldmann * Alicia von Rittberg as Charlotte Waldmann * Rawiri Paratene as Amiri Mamoe * Fritz Karl as Steven Thompson * Clemens Schick as Eric Cluster * Sean Cameron Michael as Journalist * Pavlína Němcová as Dr. Karuna * Jo-Ann Strauss Jo-Ann Cindy Strauss (born 3 February 1981 in Cape Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TeamWorx
UFA Fiction is a company founded in August 2013 for fiction film and television productions of the UFA based in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The company was created through the merger of the UFA subsidiaries ', ''Phoenix Film'' and ''UFA Fernsehproduktion'' in the context of a restructuring of UFA and the strategic goal to bundle all companies under one brand in the future. With UFA Fiction, all production activities of the UFA in the branch of series, TV movies, events and feature films are bundled in one company. Managing directors of UFA Fiction are Benjamin Benedict, Joachim Kosack, Markus Brunnemann, Sebastian Werninger and Joerg Winger Joerg Winger (born 1969 in Cologne) is an Executive producer, Executive Producer and Managing Director at Big Window Productions and a co-creator of the television drama ''Deutschland 83''. Early life and education Winger was born in Cologne. He s .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unschuldig
''Unschuldig'' is a German television series. See also *List of German television series The following is a list of television series produced in Germany: Current Drama * ''4 Blocks'' (TNT Serie, 2017–2019) * ''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' ( RTL, 1996–present) * ''Babylon Berlin'' (Sky 1 & ARD, 2017–presen ... External links * 2008 German television series debuts 2008 German television series endings German crime television series German-language television shows ProSieben original programming German legal television series {{Germany-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dirnhofer
Thomas C. "Thomy" Dirnhofer (born 1975 in St. Gallen, Switzerland) is an Austrian cinematographer and director. Life Thomas Dirnhofer was born in St. Gallen. He is a passionate climber.Thomas Dirnhofer'. In: cerrotorre-movie.com, access date May 16, 2019. Since the 1990s he was cinematographer of various advertising spots and music videos, mostly in cooperation with director Philipp Kadelbach. Under the moniker "Begbie" Kadelbach and Dirnhofer realised nearly 300 advertising spots. Dirnhofer accompanied the climbers David Lama and Peter Ortner for Red Bull Media House from 2010 to 2013 during two attempts to climb the Cerro Torre. Based on the film material Dirnhofer produced the movie '' Cerro Torre: A snowball's chance in Hell'', who was recognised at Banff Mountain Film Festival 2014 as best film in the category "Climbing". The film also received the Public's Choice Award at Filmfest St. Anton 2014."Cerro Torre – Nicht den Hauch einer Chance” gewinnt den Publikumspreis b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
