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Rainer Kaufmann
Rainer Kaufmann (born 6 June 1959) is a German film director. He directed more than thirty films including ''The Pharmacist (1997 film), The Pharmacist'' and ', a film about human trafficking. Selected filmography *''Dann eben mit Gewalt'' (1993, TV film) — (based on a novel by ) *' (1994, TV film) *''One of My Oldest Friends'' (1995) — (based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald) *''Talk of the Town (1995 film), Talk of the Town'' (1995) *''The Pharmacist (1997 film), The Pharmacist'' (1997) — (based on a novel by Ingrid Noll) *''Long Hello and Short Goodbye'' (1999) — (screenplay by Jeff Vintar) *''Cold Is the Evening Breeze'' (2000) — (based on a novel by Ingrid Noll) *' (2004, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Justus Pfaue) *' (2005, TV film) *''Four Daughters'' (2006, TV film) — (based on a novel by Inger Alfvén) *''Runaway Horse'' (2007) — (based on a novella by Martin Walser) *''A Grand Exit'' (2008, TV film) *' (2009, TV film) — (based on a novel by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt
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] |
Long Hello And Short Goodbye
''Long Hello and Short Goodbye'' is a 1999 German crime film produced by Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion and co-authored by Jeff Vintar and . Plot summary The film presents a recently released safe-cracker named Ben, and an undercover police agent named Melody. Melody's job is to dupe Ben into another job so that he can be put away once more by her sinister and ambitious boss Kahnitz. But complications arise when the talkative cop falls for the taciturn gangster. The film features a complex neo-noir flashback structure that centers on seemingly dead characters littering the bloody floor of a fancy apartment. As the story progresses, we find out that some of these dead people are not dead at all, more are hiding in the closet, and slowly the pieces of the puzzle come together in classic film noir fashion, but with a distinctly modern edge. Production history Based in an original English-language screenplay by ''I, Robot'' writer Jeff Vintar, the English-language vers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
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Martin Walser
Martin Walser (; born 24 March 1927) is a German writer. Life Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance. His parents were coal merchants, and they also kept an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He described the environment in which he grew up in his novel ''Ein springender Brunnen'' (English: A Gushing Fountain). From 1938 to 1943 he was a pupil at the secondary school in Lindau and served in an anti-aircraft unit. According to documents released in June 2007, at the age of 17 he became a member of the Nazi Party on 20 April 1944, though Walser denied that he knowingly entered the party, a claim disputed by historian Juliane Wetzel._By_the_end_of_the_Second_World_War.html" ;"title="nbsp; .... By the end of the Second World War">nbsp; .... By the end of the Second World War, he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht. After the war he returned to his studies and completed his ''Abitur'' in 1946. He then studied literature, history, and philosophy at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runaway Horse
''Runaway Horse'' (german: Ein fliehendes Pferd) is a 1978 novella by the German writer Martin Walser. Plot Two men facing midlife crisis, Klaus Buch and Helmut Halm, are old school friends and meet by chance during vacation with their wives at Lake Constance. Their socialising during the vacation turns into a power struggle. Klaus boasts about his manliness whereas Helmut has come to terms with his ordinary and uneventful life. Reception ''Runaway Horse'' was an immediate bestseller in Germany. It was published in an English translation by Leila Vennewitz in 1987. Adaptation The novella is the basis for the 2007 film ''Runaway Horse ''Runaway Horse'' (german: Ein fliehendes Pferd) is a 1978 novella by the German writer Martin Walser. Plot Two men facing midlife crisis, Klaus Buch and Helmut Halm, are old school friends and meet by chance during vacation with their wives at ...''. References Further reading * * * {{cite journal , last=Wilkinson , first=Jane , year=2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inger Alfvén
Inger Maria Alfvén (24 February 1940 – 26 July 2022) was a Swedish author and sociologist from Solna in Stockholm County. Biography Alfvén became a sociologist in 1964 and worked as a counselor. Her books depict existential and moral conflicts such as inherited gender roles, love, lifelong friendship, and loneliness. She had her big breakthrough with the novel ''S/Y Glädjen'' in 1979. In 2002, Alfvén made her debut as a playwright with the play The ''Rainbow's Root'' (''Regnbågens rot''), which is about three sisters' lives and development during the last decades of the last century. Her books consisted often of what moves through human consciousness. Family Alfvén was married for the first time in 1962–1980 to medical licentiate Mikael von Heijne (born 1941), the second time from 1985 to 1991 to the author Lars-Olof Franzén (born 1936), and the third time from 1993 to the psychiatrist Johan Cullberg (born 1934). She was the daughter of physics professor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justus Pfaue
Justus Pfaue (25 September 1942 – 8 March 2014) t-online.de, retrieved 15 March 2014 was a German and . Biography Pfaue was born in as Norbert Sellmann. He studied law and . In 1965, he published his first novel, and later specialized in books on youth. He li ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Vintar
Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jefferson or Jeffrey, which comes from a medieval variant of Geoffrey. Music * DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes * Excision (musician), Canadian dubstep producer and DJ Jeff Abel * Jeff Abercrombie, bassist for American rock band Fuel * Jeff Allen, English session drummer * Jeff Baxter, American guitarist for rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers * Jeff Beal (born 1963), American composer of music for various media * Jeff Beck, electric guitarist * Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter * Jeff Coffin, saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator * Jeff Current, lead singer of American alternative rock band Against All Will * Jeff Fatt, Australian musician and actor, formerly with the children's band The Wiggles * Jeff Gillan, an American journalist * Jeff Graham, Canadian radio DJ * Jeff Hanneman (1964–2013), American guitarist, foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll (married name Ingrid Gullatz, born 29 September 1935 in Shanghai) is a German thriller writer. She has written several novels, including ''Head Count'' (''Die Häupter meiner Lieben''), ''Hell Hath No Fury'' (''Der Hahn ist tot'') and ''The Pharmacist'' (''Die Apothekerin''), as well as one television drama, ''Bommels Billigflüge''. Several of her novels have been subsequently adapted as films, including ''Die Apothekerin'', which was released in the United States as ''The Pharmacist'' and was nominated for the German Film Award in Gold for outstanding feature film. She published her first novel, which became a great success, at the age of 55. Today she is one of the most popular German female authors. Filmography *'' The Pharmacist'', directed by Rainer Kaufmann (1997, based on ''Die Apothekerin'') *', directed by Hans-Günther Bücking (1999, based on ''Die Häupter meiner Lieben'') *''Der Hahn ist tot'', directed by Hermine Huntgeburth (2000, TV film, based on ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dann Eben Mit Gewalt
Dann eben mit Gewalt (also known as ''Violence: The Last Resort'') is a 1993 Germany, German television film. It is based on a novel by . Cast In alphabetical order (surname): * Wilhelm Beck (actor), Wilhelm Beck * Christine Buchegger * Suavi Eren as Aysche's father * Ulrich Frank (actor), Ulrich Frank * Regula Grauwiller as Anne * Michael Greiling as Headmaster * Thomas Heinze as Alex * Charles Korvin * Silvan-Pierre Leirich * Thomas Luft * Michael Mendl as Schwarz * Adele Neuhauser as Teacher * Götz Otto * Claudia Pielmann * Krista Posch as Aysche's mother * :de:Herbert Schäfer Schauspieler, Herbert Schäfer as Didi * Heinrich Schafmeister as Inspector (as Hinrich Schafmeister) * Jürgen Schmidt (actor), Jürgen Schmidt as Martin's father * as Hassan * Jasmin Tabatabai as Aysche * Jürgen Vogel as Martin External links * 1993 films 1993 television films German drama television films 1990s German-language films Films based on Dutch novels Television shows based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
