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Quax The Crash Pilot
''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (german: Quax, der Bruchpilot) is a 1941 German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt and Lothar Firmans. It is also sometimes translated as ''Quax the Test Pilot''.Chapman p. 192 It features the popular song " Homeland, Your Stars". The film set in the 1930s before the outbreak of the Second World War. It is based on an aviation story by Hermann Grote about an everyday man who wins a newspaper competition that offers free flying lessons. Despite initial struggles, he gradually shows himself to be a good pilot. Much of the film was shot on location in Bavaria. Interiors were shot at the Tempelhof and Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and the Bavaria Studios in Munich. It was followed by a sequel ''Quax in Africa'' which was also made during the Nazi era, but not released until 1947. Main cast *Heinz Rühmann as Otto "Quax" Groschenbügel *Karin Himboldt as Marianne Bredow *Lothar Firmans as Hansen, Fluglehrer *Harr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer. His 1958 film ''Wir Wunderkinder'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival and his 1960 film '' The Haunted Castle'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1961 film ''The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi ''The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi'' (german: Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi) is a 1961 Swiss-West German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring O.E. Hasse, Johanna von Koczian and Martin Held. It is based on the 1952 play with the ...'' was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmann, Kurt 1910 births 2001 deaths Film people from Freiburg im Breisgau People from the Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is Europe's largest film studio. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include ''V for Vendetta'', '' Captain America: Civil War'', ''Æon Flux'', '' The Bourne Ultimatum'', ''Valkyrie'', ''Inglourious Basterds'', ''Cloud Atlas'', ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'', ''The Hunger Games'', ''Isle of Dogs'' and ''The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also acts as producer on German productions and co-producer on international high-budget productions. Since January 2022 it has been owned by TPG Real Estate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Schröder
Arthur Schröder (20 February 1892 – 4 February 1986) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * '' Cain'' (1918) * '' Mania'' (1918) * '' Just Once a Great Lady'' (1934) * '' Hubertus Castle'' (1934) * '' His Late Excellency'' (1935) * '' Der Etappenhase'' (1937) * '' The Beaver Coat'' (1937) * '' The Stars Shine'' (1938) * '' Marriage in Small Doses'' (1939) * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1939) * '' The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * '' Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * '' Happiness is the Main Thing'' (1941) * '' Diesel'' (1942) * '' I Entrust My Wife to You'' (1943) *'' The Master of the Estate'' (1943) * ''The Green Salon ''The Green Salon'' (german: Der grüne Salon) is a 1944 German drama film directed by Boleslaw Barlog and starring Paul Klinger, Margarete Haagen and Dorothea Wieck. Partial cast * as Wilma *Walter Bluhm as Oswin, handyman *Hans Brausewetter as ...'' (1944) * '' The Noltenius Brothers'' (1945) * '' The Axe of Wandsbek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutz Götz
Lutz Götz (1891 – 1958) was a German stage and film actor.Richards p.375 Selected filmography * '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1930) * '' Patriots'' (1937) * ''Legion Condor'' (1939) * ''Congo Express'' (1939) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ''Above All Else in the World'' (1941) * ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * '' Sky Hounds'' (1942) * '' Tonelli'' (1943) * ''A Salzburg Comedy'' (1943) * ''The Golden Spider'' (1943) * ''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944) * '' Tell the Truth'' (1946) * ''Quax in Africa'' (1947) * ''The Last Year'' (1951) * ''Prosecutor Corda'' (1953) * ''The Wishing-Table ''The Wishing-Table'' (german: Tischlein, deck dich) is a 1956 West German family film directed by Fritz Genschow and starring Werner Stock, Wolfgang Draeger and Harald Dietl.Nelmes & Selbo It is based on the '' story of the same name'' by the Br ...'' (1956) References Bibliography * Richards, Jeffrey. ''Visions of Yesterday''. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. External links * 1891 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Georg Vogelsang
Georg Vogelsang (1883–1952) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.216 He specialised in Bavarian character parts. Selected filmography * '' The Secret of Castle Elmshoh'' (1925) * '' Three Fathers for Anna'' (1939) * ''The Eternal Spring'' (1940) * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1940) * ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * '' Sky Hounds'' (1942) * '' The War of the Oxen'' (1943) * '' Gabriele Dambrone'' (1943) * ''The Eternal Tone'' (1943) * ''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944) * ''The Wedding Hotel'' (1944) * ''Orient Express'' (1944) * ''Via Mala'' (1945) * ''Quax in Africa'' (1947) * ''Royal Children'' (1950) * ''King for One Night'' (1950) * ''Who Is This That I Love?'' (1950) * ''The Last Shot'' (1951) * ''One Night's Intoxication'' (1951) * ''Border Post 58'' (1951) * ''Heimat Bells ''Heimat Bells'' (german: Heimatglocken) is a 1952 West German drama film directed by Hermann Kugelstadt and starring Hansi Knoteck, Armin Dahlen and Ernst Waldow.Pugh p.120 It was shot at the Bavaria S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Peukert
Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role in his early years, such as the comedy '' The Happy Journey'' (1924),Grange p.164 he mostly appeared as a character actor. Peukert was also a film director, making eleven short and feature films during the silent era. He was married to the actress Sabine Impekoven who appeared with him in several silent films. Selected filmography * '' Poor Jenny'' (1912) * '' My Leopold'' (1914) * '' My Leopold'' (1919) * '' The Love of Marion Bach'' (1919) * '' King Krause'' (1919) * '' Hasemann's Daughters'' (1920) * '' My Leopold'' (1924) * '' The Happy Journey'' (1924) * '' The Second Mother'' (1925) * ''Radio Magic'' (1927) * ''Two Under the Stars'' (1927) * ''I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1928) * '' Autumn on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Sessak
Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeared in more than ninety film and television series during her career. She appeared in a number of films during the Nazi era including ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941).Reimer p. 97 Selected filmography * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) * ''City of Anatol'' (1936) * '' Orders Are Orders'' (1936) * '' The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1936) * ''When Women Keep Silent'' (1937) * '' The Coral Princess'' (1937) * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) * ''The Curtain Falls'' (1939) * '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) * '' Kleider machen Leute'' (1940) * '' A Man Astray'' (1940) * ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * ''Alarm'' (1941) * ''Happiness is the Main Thing'' (1941) * ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * ''Paracelsus'' (1943) * ''A Salzburg Comedy'' (1943) * ''Orient Express'' (1944) * ''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944) * ''Who Drove the Grey Ford?'' (1950) * ''The Woman from Last Night'' (1950) * ''Not Without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elga Brink
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (née Brink, born Frey; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known professionally as Elga Brink, was a German film actress. Brink rose to prominence in the early 1920s, when she starred in many silent films. Her last silent film was '' Marriage in Trouble'' in 1928. After silent films, Brink continued acting in sound films until her retirement in 1951. Her last role was in the 1951 movie ''Das fremde Leben.'' After her retirement, Brink remarried and worked as a clerk in Hamburg until her death in 1985. Life Elga Brink was born Elisabeth Margarete Frey in Berlin on 2 April 1905, the daughter of a banker in Berlin-Waidmannslust. Shortly after her birth, her surname was changed to Brink. Brink attended a business school before being introduced to silent films by Albert Pommer, the brother of Erich Pommer. Her first role was in a romantic comedy ''Lebenshunger'', where she played a supporting role alongside Ressel Orla. After several more films, Brink ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Liedtke
Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and began a qualification in retail business. By the chance acquaintance of Hans Oberländer, a stage director at Berlin, he started to take stage classes and was first engaged at the municipal Theater of Freiberg, Saxony. In 1908 Liedtke worked at the New German Theatre in New York City and in 1909 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Career In 1912 Liedtke appeared for the first time in the silent movie ''Zu spät'' and from now on usually as a young "Charming Boy" and gentleman. With Ernst Lubitsch he made movies like ''Das fidele Gefängnis'' (1917), ''Die Augen der Mumie Ma'' (1918), ''Carmen'' (1918), '' Die Austernprinzessin'' (1919), ''Madame DuBarry'' (1919), '' Sumurun'' (1920) and '' Das Weib des Pharao'' (1921). He also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Era
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which Hitler and the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945 after just 12 years when the Allies defeated Germany, ending World War II in Europe. On 30 January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the head of government, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quax In Africa
''Quax in Africa'' (german: Quax in Afrika) is a German comedy adventure film produced from 1943–1944 and released in 1947, directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, and Lothar Firmans. It is a sequel to the 1941 film ''Quax the Crash Pilot''. Plot The year is ''circa'' 1932, and the initial setting is Bavaria, Germany. The novice aviator Otto Groschenbügel, nicknamed Quax (see the previous film ''Quax the Crash Pilot''), has advanced to become a professional flying instructor at the Flying School of Bergried. Although by nature a congenial fellow, he decides to adopt an authoritarian manner when learning of his pupils' unruly womanising. However his stern lectures that women have no place on an aerodrome are undermined when his friend Marianne unexpectedly visits him, and even more so when two female trainee pilots are assigned to him. Soon, the flying school's chief instructor announces that the ''Europaflug'' contest (an air rallye from Germany v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
