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Rudderless (1924 Film)
''Rudderless'' (German: ''Steuerlos'') is a 1924 German silent film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Maria Jacobini, Rosa Valetti and Charles Willy Kayser.Bock & Bergfelder, p. 154. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Kraenke. Cast * Maria Jacobini * Rosa Valetti * Charles Willy Kayser * Heinrich George * Olga Engl * Karl Platen * Philipp Manning * Joseph Kustendi * Viktor Senger * Clementine Plessner Clementine Plessner (7 December 1855 – 27 February 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. Plessner featured in Richard Oswald's ... References Bibliography * Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books. External links * 1924 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Gennaro Righelli German silent feature films German black-and-whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennaro Righelli
Gennaro Righelli (12 December 1886 – 6 January 1949) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed more than 110 films in Italy and Germany between 1910 and 1947. In 1930, he directed the first Italian sound film, ''The Song of Love''. He was married to the film star Maria Jacobini, whom he frequently cast in his films. Selected filmography *'' Red Love'' (1921) * '' The Voyage'' (1921) * ''La Boheme'' (1923) * '' Orient'' (1924) * '' The Doll Queen'' (1925) * ''Svengali'' (1927) * '' Homesick'' (1927) * '' The Prisoners of Shanghai'' (1927, writer) * '' The Champion of the World'' (1927) * '' Five Anxious Days'' (1928) * '' The President'' (1928) * '' The Secret Courier'' (1928) * '' Orient'' (1928) * ''Their Son'' (1929) * '' The Night of Terror'' (1929) * ''The Song of Love'' (1930) * ''The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * ''Together in the Dark'' (1933) * '' Stadium'' (1934) * ''The Last of the Bergeracs'' (1934) * '' Mr. Desire'' (1934) * ''Those Two'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich George
Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor. Career Weimar Republic George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first directing job, a production of Arnolt Bronnen's ''Parricide'' (1922), when he refused to continue working with the director. He appeared in Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' (1927) and '' Dreyfus'' (1930), as well as starring in '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' (1931). George was an active member of the Communist party during the Weimar Republic. He worked with theatre director Erwin Piscator and playwright Bertolt Brecht, both of whom identified with the political left. On 12 October 1932, he changed his legal name to his stage name ''George''. (NB. This document documents ''Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz''s birthday on 1893-10-09, as well as the change of his legal name from ''Schulz'' to ''George'' on 12 October 1932.) Nazi era After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Gennaro Righelli
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Of The Weimar Republic
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Films
The following is an overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top eight 1924 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 10 – CBC Distributions corp. is renamed and incorporated as Columbia Pictures. * D. W. Griffith, co-founder of United Artists, leaves the company. *April 17 – Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gains control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) *November 15 – In Los Angeles, director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst. *Loews Theatres acquires the 4,000 seat Capitol Theatre in New York City becoming the flagship of the theatre chain and site of many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clementine Plessner
Clementine Plessner (7 December 1855 – 27 February 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. Plessner featured in Richard Oswald's enlightenment film ''Different from the Others'' and F.W. Murnau's ''Journey into the Night''.Eisner p.275 Following the Nazi rise to power, the Jewish actress left Germany for neighbouring Austria. Later, after the Anchluss, she was arrested by the Nazi authorities and died in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Selected filmography * '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918) * ''The Story of Dida Ibsen'' (1918) * '' Henriette Jacoby'' (1918) * ''Different from the Others'' (1919) * '' Nocturne of Love'' (1919) * '' The Tragedy of a Great'' (1920) * '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * ''Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * ''Journey into the Night'' (1921) * '' The Shadow of Gaby Leed'' (1921) * ''The Circle of Death'' (1922) * ''Bigamy'' (1922) * '' Lucrezia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Senger
Viktor Senger (1870–1942) was a German stage and film actor.Kester p. 293 Selected filmography * '' Frank Hansen's Fortune'' (1917) * '' Cain'' (1918) * '' Europe, General Delivery'' (1918) * ''Madame Récamier'' (1920) * '' Johann Baptiste Lingg'' (1920) * ''Dancer of Death'' (1920) * ''Mignon'' (1922) * '' Rudderless'' (1924) * '' Women You Rarely Greet'' (1925) * '' Bismarck'' (1925) * ''Bismarck 1862–1898'' (1927) * '' The Marriage Nest'' (1927) * '' The Old Fritz'' (1928) * ''The Fate of Renate Langen'' (1931) * ''The Last Waltz ''The Last Waltz'' was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. ''The Last Waltz'' was advertised as The Band's "farewell concert a ...'' (1934) References Bibliography * External links * 1870 births 1942 deaths German male film actors German male silent film actors 20th-century German male actors German male stage a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kustendi
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Manning
Philipp Manning (23 November 1869 – 9 April 1951) was a British-born German actor. He was born in Lewisham to a British father and a German mother. He was sent to Germany for his education and settled there. He often played British characters in German films, including in Nazi propaganda ones. He died in Waldshut-Tiengen. Selected filmography * ''Circus of Life'' (1921) * '' The Inheritance'' (1922) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * '' Rose of the Asphalt Streets'' (1922) * ''The Ancient Law'' (1923) * ''Friedrich Schiller'' (1923) * '' The Comedian's Child'' (1923) * '' Time Is Money'' (1923) * '' Heart of Stone'' (1924) * '' Dudu, a Human Destiny'' (1924) * ''Darling of the King'' (1924) * '' Bismarck'' (1925) * ''Express Train of Love'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''Frisian Blood'' (1925) * '' Superfluous People'' (1926) * '' The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * ''Professor Imhof '' (1926) * ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * '' Mayti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Platen
Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer known for '' Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and '' M'' (1931). Biography Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He died on July 4, 1952 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic at the age of 75. Selected filmography * ''Ein Ausgestoßener'' (1913, part 1) * ''Der Katzensteg'' (1915) - Pfarrer * ''Die Erben des Geizhalses'' (1915) - Pflegesohn von Riedel Hermann * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''Hängezöpfchen'' (1919) - Prof. Hahnensporn * ''Das rosa Strumpfbändchen'' (1919) * '' The Boy in Blue'' (1919) - Alter Diener / Old servant * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919, Short) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' Madame Du Barry'' (1919) - Guillaume Dubarry * ''Der rote Sarafan'' (1919) * ''Seine Beichte (Bekenntnisse eines Lebemannes)'' (1919) - Diener Franz * '' Irrlicht'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * ''Die fremde Frau'' (1919) * ''Der Mitter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Engl
Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films. Biography Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague Conservatory. In August 1887 she made her stage début as Bertha in the play ''Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua'' in her home town. In 1888, she moved to the city of Danzig and performed in the theatre from 1889 to 1892 then briefly moved to Berlin. From 1892 to 1895 she performed with the court theatre in Munich and from 1895 to 1897 in Hamburg at the Thalia Theater, and from 1897 in Hanover. Engl made her film debut in the 1911 British silent film ''The Adoptive Child'' then returned to Germany and began appearing in German film productions. Her first major role was in the 1913 Carl Froelich-directed biopic ''Richard Wagner''. She would work continually throughout the 1910s and appear in a variety of roles for such directors as Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Kraenke
Fritz Kraenke (1890–1947) was a German art director.Bleckman p.456 He worked on the sets of more than thirty films during the silent era. Selected filmography * ''Miss Piccolo'' (1914) * ''The Yellow Death'' (1920) * ''The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter'' (1920) * ''The Railway King (film), The Railway King'' (1921) * ''The Tiger of Circus Farini'' (1923) * ''Maciste and the Chinese Chest'' (1923) * ''The Great Industrialist'' (1923) * ''Rudderless (1924 film), Rudderless'' (1924) * ''Adventure on the Night Express'' (1925) * ''Swifter Than Death'' (1925) * ''Ash Wednesday (1925 film), Ash Wednesday'' (1925) * ''The Captain from Koepenick (1926 film), The Captain from Koepenick'' (1926) * ''The Woman in Gold (film), The Woman in Gold'' (1926) * ''We'll Meet Again in the Heimat'' (1926) References Bibliography * Matias Bleckman. ''Harry Piel: ein Kino-Mythos und seine Zeit''. Filminstitut der Landeshaupstadt Düsseldorf, 1992. External links * 1890 births 1947 deaths Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
