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Reaching For The Stars (film)
''Reaching for the Stars'' (german: Griff nach den Sternen) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Carl-Heinz Schroth and starring Erik Schumann, Liselotte Pulver and Gustav Knuth.Bock & Bergfelder p.252 The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Sohnle. It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. It was partly shot on location in Venice. Cast * Erik Schumann as Turell * Liselotte Pulver as Christine * Gustav Knuth as Carlo * Oliver Grimm as Christian * Ilse Werner as Carola * Anna-Maria Sandri as Kiki * Nadja Tiller as Daniela * Margarete Haagen as The Baroness * Paul Henckels as Turell's father * Sybil Werden as Elena * Carsta Löck as Mrs. Vermeeren * Michael Ande as Peppino * Rudolf Vogel * Paul Bildt Paul Hermann Bildt (19 May 1885 – 13 March 1957) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Devil in Silk'' (1956) * ''Ich suche Di ... R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-Heinz Schroth
Carl-Heinz Schroth (29 June 1902 – 19 July 1989) was a German actor and film director. He appeared in 60 films between 1931 and 1989. He also directed seven films between 1953 and 1963. He was born in Innsbruck, Austria, to Else Ruttersheim and film and stage actor Heinrich Schroth and died in Munich, Germany. His younger half-sister was actress Hannelore Schroth, from his father's marriage to actress Käthe Haack. He was married to the actress Karin Jacobsen. Selected filmography Director * ''Men at a Dangerous Age'' (1954) * ''The Telephone Operator (1954 film), The Telephone Operator'' (1954) * ''The Missing Miniature'' (1954) * ''Reaching for the Stars (film), Reaching for the Stars'' (1955) Actor * ''Der Kongreß tanzt'' (1931) * ''The Coral Princess'' (1937) * ''Crooks in Tails (1937 film), Crooks in Tails'' (1937) * ''Somewhere in Berlin'' (1946) * ''Morituri (1948 film), Morituri'' (1948) * ''Derby (1949 film), Derby'' (1949) * ''My Wife's Friends'' (1949) * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by population, third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 11th-largest city in the European Union. The Munich Metropolitan Region, city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Northern Limestone Alps, Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the population density, most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialects, Bavarian dialect area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bildt
Paul Hermann Bildt (19 May 1885 – 13 March 1957) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Devil in Silk'' (1956) * ''Ich suche Dich'' (1956) * ''The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'' (1955) * '' The Dark Star'' (1955) * '' Reaching for the Stars'' (1955) * ''Ludwig II'' (1955) * ''Sky Without Stars'' (1955) * ''Son Without a Home'' (1955) * ''Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben'' (1954) * ''The Missing Miniature'' (1954) * ''The Angel with the Flaming Sword'' (1954) * '' As Long as You're Near Me'' (1953) * ''The Stronger Woman'' (1953) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1953) * ''Toxi'' (1952) * '' No Greater Love'' (1952) * ''All Clues Lead to Berlin'' (1952) * ''The Great Temptation'' (1952) * ''Father Needs a Wife'' (1952) * '' Heart of Stone'' (1950) * ''The Council of the Gods'' (1950) * ''Don't Dream, Annette'' (1949) * ''The Beaver Coat'' (1949) * '' Blum Affair'' (1948) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Vogel
Rudolf Vogel (born 10 November 1900, Planegg – died 9 August 1967, Munich) was a German film and television actor. He was the father of Peter Vogel, the father-in-law of Austrian actress Gertraud Jesserer and the grandfather of actor-journalist Nikolas Vogel. Died from cancer. Selected filmography * ''Venus on Trial'' (1941) - Dr. Gerhard Hümmelmann * ''The Little Residence'' (1942) - Mierke * ''Einmal der liebe Herrgott sein'' (1942) - Fernandez * '' Between Yesterday and Tomorrow'' (1947) * ' (1948) - Kanzleirat * '' The Lost Face'' (1948) - Professor Kersten * '' The Original Sin'' (1948) * ''Hans im Glück'' (1949) * ''Zwei in einem Anzug'' (1950) - Gerichtsvollzieher * '' The Disturbed Wedding Night'' (1950) - Bürovorsteher * ''Czardas der Herzen'' (1951) * ''Maya of the Seven Veils'' (1951) * ''Decision Before Dawn'' (1951) - Volkssturmmann (uncredited) * ''Der blaue Stern des Südens'' (1951) * ''Monks, Girls and Hungarian Soldiers'' (1952) - Stops, Hofnarr * ''Fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ande
Michael Ande (born 5 October 1944, Bad Wiessee) is a German actor, best-known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the West German crime-drama television series ''The Old Fox'' which he played between 1977 and 2016. He was a well-known German film child star during the 1950s. A German reader reports, "Michael played in mostly melodramas--those films with nice people, love and mountains, etc (sentimental film in an idealized setting). Some would consider these rather schmaltz tear-jerkers. Two words come to mind in German. The first is "Heimatfilm". Heimat is home, where I came from This kind of film stands for: very sentimental, lots of love (and some ache but with Happy End), idealistic setting, Lederhosen, Mountains, Conservative ideals, etc. The second is "Heile-Welt-Film" meaning "intact-world-film" They were, however very popular films in Germany." He played a variety of roles in these films, including choir boys. One of these films was Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carsta Löck
Carsta Löck (28 December 1902 – 9 October 1993) was a German film actress. Selected filmography * ''Refugees'' (1933) * '' Ripening Youth'' (1933) * '' The Double Fiance'' (1934) * ''Trouble with Jolanthe'' (1934) * ''Police Report'' (1934) * '' The Four Musketeers'' (1934) * ''The Valiant Navigator'' (1935) * ''Everything for a Woman'' (1935) * ''Uncle Bräsig'' (1936) * ''Game on Board'' (1936) * ''When the Cock Crows'' (1936) * '' Heimweh'' (1937) * '' Autobus S'' (1937) * ' (1937) * ''The Four Companions'' (1938) * ''Shoulder Arms'' (1939) * '' Cadets'' (1939) * '' D III 88'' (1939) * ''Legion Condor'' (1939) * ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * ' (1941) * ''Above All Else in the World'' (1941) * ' (1941) * ''The Crew of the Dora'' (1943) * '' Between Yesterday and Tomorrow'' (1947) * ''Film Without a Title'' (1948) * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (1949) * ''Derby'' (1949) * ''Girls in Gingham'' (1949) * ''The Great Mandarin'' (1949) * '' The Cuckoos'' (1949) * ''Wedding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Werden
Sybil Werden (3 September 1924 – 27 July 2007) was a German dancer and actress during the 1950s. Life and career Born on 3 September 1924, Sybil Barbara Astrid Werden was the daughter of actress Margit Barnay and architect Hans Schmidt-Werden. Following training with Tatjana Gsovsky, she began her career as a dance soloist in 1946 at the Berlin State Opera, and then made her film debut in ''Das Letzte Rezept'' (''The Last Recipe'') in 1952. Married to fellow German actor Harald Juhnke (1929–2005) during the early part of that same decade,Harald Juhnke (obituary). London, United Kingdom: ''The Times'', April 16, 2005. she and her husband welcomed the birth of daughter, Barbara, in 1953. Their daughter died two years later. After her son, Peter, was born in 1956, she retired from acting. She and her husband then divorced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Henckels
Paul Henckels (9 September 1885 – 27 May 1967) was a German film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1921 and 1965. Paul Henckels had started his acting career on the stage in the 1900s. He was well known for his eccentric, colourful roles and his trademark Rhineland accent. Among his most popular roles were the school teacher Professor Bömmel in ''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944) and the veterinarian Dr. Pudlich in the "Immenhof film series" during the 1950s. He was also notable as a stage actor and appeared at the Schauspielhaus Berlin for many years. His most popular stage role was '' Wibbel the Tailor'', which he played more than 1000 times. Henckel's father was Jewish, and he was thus a "half-Jew" by the rules of the Nazis. As a rare exception, Henckels was nonetheless allowed to work during the Third Reich. He apparently owed this exception to the intervention of his friend Gustaf Gründgens and to his continuing popularity as a character actor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarete Haagen
Margarete Haagen (29 November 1889 – 19 November 1966) was a German stage and film actress. Haagen appeared in over a hundred films during her career, generally in character roles. She specialised in playing good-natured elderly ladies. Following the Second World War, she appeared in several rubble films, such as ''In Those Days'' (1947).Ó Dochartaigh & Schönfeld p.121 During the 1950s, she often appeared in heimatfilm and costume film A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and sw ...s. Partial filmography References Bibliography * Ó Dochartaigh, Pól & Schönfeld, Christiane. ''Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture After 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity''. Camden House, 2013. * Shandley, Robert. ''Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadja Tiller
Nadja Tiller (born 16 March 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s. Biography Nadja Tiller, daughter of actor Anton Tiller of Vienna and his wife Erika Tiller (1902-1979) (formerly Erika Körner), an opera singer and actress from Danzig, attended a Realgymnasium secondary school in Vienna. In 1945 she began her studies at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar, which she later continued until 1949 at the Musik- und Schauspielakademie. In the same year she became an ensemble member at the Theater in der Josefstadt. She won the Miss Austria competition in 1949, a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Austria. She had her major film debut in 1952 in ''Märchen vom Glück'' (Good Luck Fairytale). In 1955, she acted opposite O. W. Fischer in the film ''Ich suche Dich'', based on a play by A. J. Cronin. Her international breakthrough role was that of Rosemarie Nitribitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Werner
Ilse Werner (; born Ilse Charlotte Still, 11 July 1921 – 8 August 2005) was a Dutch-German actress, singer, and musical whistler. Life She was born in Batavia (present-day Jakarta, Indonesia) to a Dutch father, merchant and plantation owner, and a German mother. Werner was Dutch by birth; although she lived most of her life and spent her career with great successes in Austria and Germany, mainly during the time of the Third Reich. She did not assume German citizenship until 1955. Arriving in Frankfurt, Germany at the age of 10, Werner's family in 1934 moved to Vienna, where she attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar drama school and gave her debut at the Theater in der Josefstadt in 1937. She later made her name at the legendary UFA Studios near Berlin. She starred in popular wartime films including '' Die schwedische Nachtigall'' ("The Swedish Nightingale"), ''Wir machen Musik'' ("We're Making Music"), the musical drama ''Große Freiheit Nr. 7'' and '' Münchhausen''. She was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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