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Rolf Zehetbauer
Rolf Zehetbauer (13 February 1929 – 23 January 2022) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Zehetbauer won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''Cabaret''. He died on 23 January 2022, at the age of 92. Selected filmography * ''Love and Blood'' (1951) * '' The Imaginary Invalid'' (1952) * ''Knall and Fall as Detectives'' (1953) * '' The Charming Young Lady'' (1953) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1954) * ''The Mosquito'' (1954) * ''Love Without Illusions'' (1955) * ''Alibi'' (1955) * ''Love'' (1956) * '' Adorable Arabella'' (1959) * ''My Schoolfriend'' (1960) * '' The Bird Seller'' (1962) * '' My Daughter and I'' (1963) * ''A Man in His Prime'' (1964) * '' Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion'' (1965) * '' The Last Escape'' (1970) * ''Cabaret'' (1972) * '' Cry of the Black Wolves'' (1972) * ''Twilight's Last Gleaming'' (1977) * '' The Serpent's Egg'' (1977) * ''Das Boot'' (1981) * ''Querell ...
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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, ...
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Love Without Illusions
''Love Without Illusions'' (German: ''Liebe ohne Illusion'') is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Sonja Ziemann, Curd Jürgens and Heidemarie Hatheyer.Hake p.114 It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin with location shooting around the city including at Tempelhof Airport. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer. Synopsis While her husband is held as a prisoner of war, a woman has become a doctor. When he is finally released he is unable to resume his former career, putting a strain on their marriage. Cast * Sonja Ziemann as Ursula * Curd Jürgens as Walter * Heidemarie Hatheyer as Christa * Ernst Schröder as Jellinek * Leonard Steckel as Professor Dürkheim * Maria Sebaldt as Nelli * Gert Günther Hoffmann as Fritz * Hans Emons * Karin Evans * Lou Seitz * Edelweiß Malchin * Erich Fiedler Erich Fiedler (15 March 1901 – 19 May 1981) was a German film actor. He was the German dubbing voice of Rob ...
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Das Boot
''Das Boot'' (, English: "The Boat") is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and a TV miniseries (1985). There are also several different home video versions as well as a director's cut supervised by Petersen in 1997. An adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 German novel of the same name based on his experiences aboard , the film is set during World War II and follows ''U-96'' and its crew, as they set out on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country. Development began in 1979. Several American directors were considered three years earlier before the film was shelved. D ...
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The Serpent's Egg (film)
''The Serpent's Egg'' is a 1977 American-West German drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann. The story is set in 1920s Berlin and features English and German dialogue. It was Bergman's only Hollywood film. The title is taken from a line spoken by Brutus in Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'': "And therefore think him as a serpent's egg / Which hatch'd, would as his kind grow mischievous; / And kill him in the shell". Even though the film was a critical and commercial failure upon its initial release, Bergman was reported to be happy with the film. Plot The scene is Berlin in late 1923. Abel Rosenberg, an American-born Jew, is an unemployed alcoholic and former trapeze artist who uses alcohol to help him deal with the horrific nature and uncertainties of life in post-war Germany, poverty and inflation having crippled the German economy at the time. He returns home one night to discover that his brother Max has committed sui ...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
''Twilight's Last Gleaming'' is a 1977 thriller film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. The film was a West German/American co-production, shot mainly at the Bavaria Studios. Loosely based on a 1971 novel, ''Viper Three'' by Walter Wager, it tells the story of Lawrence Dell, a renegade USAF general who escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo in Montana, threatening to launch the missiles and start World War III unless the President reveals a top secret document to the American people about the Vietnam War. A split screen technique is used at several points in the movie to give the audience insight into the simultaneously occurring strands of the storyline. The film's title, which functions on several levels, is taken from "The Star-Spangled Banner", the national anthem of the United States: :''O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, / What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?'' Plot After escapi ...
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Cry Of The Black Wolves
''The Cry of the Black Wolves'' (german: Der Schrei der schwarzen Wölfe) is a 1972 West German western adventure film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Ron Ely, Raimund Harmstorf, and Gila von Weitershausen. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer. Location shooting took place in Austrian Tyrol Tyrol (; german: Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a state (''Land'') in western Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical Princely County of Tyrol. It is a constituent part of the present-day Euroregion Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino ( .... Cast References External links * 1972 Western (genre) films German Western (genre) films West German films Films directed by Harald Reinl Films based on works by Jack London Films scored by Gerhard Heinz Northern (genre) films Constantin Film films 1970s German-language films 1970s German films {{1970s-Germany-film-stub ...
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The Last Escape (1970 Film)
''The Last Escape'', also known as ''O.S.S.'', is a 1970 American-West German international co-production war film directed by Walter Grauman and starring Stuart Whitman, John Collin and Martin Jarvis. It was filmed by Oakmont Productions for Mirisch Productions near Munich in 1968 but not released until 1970. Interiors were shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer. Plot During the Second World War, American Captain Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a group of British commandos attempt to locate and kidnap the leading German rocket scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun). Along the way they are chased by SS and Soviet forces who were also after him. Cast Novelization A paperback novelization of the screenplay was written by the ubiquitous and popular pulpsmith, Michael Avallone, under the publisher's "house" (shared) pseudonym, "Max Walker." (Contrary to any other assertion, this is the ''only'' time Avallo ...
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A Man In His Prime
''A Man in His Prime'' (German: ''Ein Mann im schönsten Alter'') is a 1964 West German drama film directed by Franz Peter Wirth and starring Karl Michael Vogler, Pascale Audret and Françoise Prévost. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer. Cast *Karl Michael Vogler as Richard Mertens *Pascale Audret as Eva *Françoise Prévost as Lucy * Marisa Mell as Brigitte *Hellmut Lange as Ferrow *Hans Caninenberg as Alfred von Xanten *Sigfrit Steiner as Kriminalinspektor Scherbl *Rosemarie Fendel Rosemarie Fendel (1927-2013) was a German actress and director, who worked on the stage, in film, and in television. She was also a voice actress, and was the voice of notable actresses for German dubs of their work, including Elizabeth Taylor, Je ... as Margot References External links * 1964 drama films German drama films West German films Films directed by Franz Peter Wirth 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub ...
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My Daughter And I
''My Daughter and I'' (German: ''Meine Tochter und ich'') is a 1963 West German comedy film directed by Thomas Engel and starring Heinz Rühmann, Gustav Knuth and Gertraud Jesserer.Körner p.227 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Rolf Zehetbauer and Herbert Strabel. Cast * Heinz Rühmann as Dr. Robert Stegemann * Gustav Knuth as Dr. Walther * Gertraud Jesserer as Biggi * Eckart Dux as Jochen * Agnes Windeck as Frau Winkler * Herta Saal as Frau Brenner * Christiane Nielsen Christiane Nielsen (10 September 1936 – 8 April 2007) was a German film actress. She appeared in 24 films between 1957 and 1967. She was born in Würzburg, Germany and died in Frankfurt, Germany. Selected filmography * ' (1959) * ''The Mo ... as Marion * Heinz Schubert as Detektiv References Bibliography * Körner, Torsten. ''Der kleine Mann als Star: Heinz Rühmann und seine Filme der 50er Jahre''. Campus Verlag, 2001. External ...
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The Bird Seller (1962 Film)
''The Bird Seller'' (german: Der Vogelhändler) is a 1962 West German historical musical comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Cornelia Froboess, Peter Weck and Albert Rueprecht. It is an operetta film, based on the stage work of the same title by Carl Zeller. Several other film adaptations have also been made. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and at Linderhof Palace in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer. Cast *Cornelia Froboess as Christel *Peter Weck as Count Stanislaus *Albert Rueprecht as Vogelhändler Adam *Maria Sebaldt as Kurfürstin Marie-Luise *Ruth Stephan as Kammerzofe Melanie *Anita Höfer as Jette Speck *Rudolf Vogel as Count Weps *Georg Thomalla as Kurfürst August *Oskar Sima as Bürgermeister Speck *Rudolf Platte as Baron von Weckerli *Alice Kessler as Colin Sisters *Ellen Kessler as Colin Sisters *Franz-Otto Krüger as Commissar *Bruno W. Pantel as Bruno *Ewald Wenck as Josef See also * ''The ...
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My Schoolfriend
''My Schoolfriend'' (german: Mein Schulfreund) is a 1960 German comedy drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Heinz Rühmann, Loni von Friedl, and Hertha Feiler. It is based on the play ''Der Schulfreund'' by Johannes Mario Simmel. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gottfried Will and Rolf Zehetbauer. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in 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 popu .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1960 films 1960 drama films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Robert Siodmak Films shot at Bavaria Studios Gloria Film films West German films Films about psychiatry Films about miscarriage of justice Films about Nazi Germany German films based on plays 1960s German films
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