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Somnambul
''Somnambul'' is a 1929 Cinema of Germany, German silent film, silent horror film directed by Adolf Trotz and starring Fritz Kortner, Erna Morena and Veit Harlan. The film is set against the backdrop of spiritualism. The Berlin clairvoyant Elsbeth Guenther-Geffers appeared in the film.Noack p.49 The film's art director was August Rinaldi. Cast * Fritz Kortner as Fabrikant Bingen * Erna Morena as Helga, seine Frau * Veit Harlan as Kurt Bingen, beider Sohn * Jaro Fürth as Dr. Höchster * Eva von Berne as Amélie, seine Tochter * Fritz Kampers as Maxe, eine zweifelhafte Existenz * Uly Boutry as Myra, das Medium * Julius Falkenstein as Spinelli, der Hypnotiseur * Elsbeth Guenther-Geffers as Die Hellseherin * Georg John as Der Wirt References Bibliography * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. * Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933''. Berghahn Books, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950. Early life Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and attended a boarding school in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria. After completing secondary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in a textile shop in Munich and at the same time took acting classes with Richard Stury, who presided as president of the Munich experimental stage. After appearances at small suburbs in Munich, such as the Alhambratheater, he wandered through the province and finally found engagements in Alzey, Karlsruhe, Lucerne, Sondershausen, Helmstedt and Aachen. During the First World War he served as a cavalryman on the eastern front, was wounded, fired and joined the front theaters in Warsaw and Łódź. During a commitment begun in 1917 at the Munich Volkstheater Fritz Kampers got to know the director Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Juttke
Herbert Juttke (1897–1952) was a British-born German screenwriter who worked on around fifty film screenplays during his career. He frequently collaborated with Georg C. Klaren, working on a number of Expressonist screenplays during the silent and early sound eras. They worked on the scenario for Alfred Hitchcock's 1931 German film ''Mary''.McGilligan p.135 Following the Nazi rise to power, Juttke emigrated to France. Filmography * ''From Morn to Midnight'' (1920) * ''Department Store Princess'' (1926) * '' Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier'' (1926) * '' I Liked Kissing Women'' (1926) * '' Wie bleibe ich jung und schön - Ehegeheimnisse'' (1926) * ''Assassination'' (1927) * ''The Transformation of Dr. Bessel'' (1927) * '' Agitated Women'' (1927) * ''Small Town Sinners'' (1927) * ''Flirtation'' (1927) * '' A Murderous Girl'' (1927) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1927) * '' Odette'' (1928) *''Sex in Chains'' (1928) * ''The Lady and the Chauffeur'' (1928) * ''Casanova's Legacy'' (1928) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Von Berne
Eva von Berne (born Genofeva Plentzner von Scharneck, 8 July 1910 – 9 November 2010) was an Austrian film actress. Biography Eva von Berne was born Genofeva Plentzner von Scharneck in Sarajevo which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her parents were Karl Emil Angelo Plentzner von Scharneck (born 1878), originally from Komárom, and Franziska von Plentzner von Scharneck (née Silber, born 1886), who was born in Salzburg. She had three siblings. After the outbreak of World War I the Pentzner von Scharneck family fled to Vienna. She was working as a dance instructor and model when she was discovered in Vienna by the Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg who was there on his honeymoon with Norma Shearer.Forslund p.226 Convinced she had star potential, Thalberg signed her up for MGM. Considered as a "new Garbo" she was heavily promoted by the studio's publicity department. However, after making her debut in the 1928 silent ''The Masks of the Devil'' concerns grew at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn; 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director. Life and career Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn into a Jewish family. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. After his breakthrough performance in Ernst Toller's ''Transfiguration'' in 1919, he became one of Germany's best-known character actors and the nation's foremost performer of Expressionist works. He also appeared in over ninety films beginning in 1916. His specialty was in playing sinister and threatening roles, although he also appeared in the title role of '' Dreyfus'' (1930). He originally gained attention for his explosive energy on stage and his powerful voice, but as the 1920s progressed his work began to incorporate greater realism as he opted for a more controlled delivery and greater use of gestures. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Morena
Erna Morena (born Ernestine Maria Fuchs, 24 April 1885 – 20 July 1962) was a German film actress, film producer, and screenwriter of the silent era. She appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951. Biography Ernestine Maria Fuchs was born into the middle-class family of Eugenie Fuchs (née. Seyler, 1862–1951) and Friedrich Fuchs (1859–1895) on 24 April 1885. She had a younger brother, Friedrich Fuchs (1890–1948), who became a Brentano researcher. Fuchs went to Munich at age 17 to attend the school of applied arts. She later spent half a year in Paris before moving to Berlin in 1909, where she worked as a nurse. She took lessons at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin, and was hired by Max Reinhardt in 1910 as an actress. The following year she worked there in small roles, and began using the stage name Erna Morena. She made her film debut in 1913 in ''The Sphinx'' by Eugen Illés for the newly founded film production company Literaria Film by Alfred Duske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the highpoint of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film ''Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial. While viewed critically for his ideologies, a number of critics consider him a capable director on the grounds of such work as his ''Opfergang'' (1944). Life and career Harlan was born in Berlin, the son of the writer Walter Harlan and his wife Adele, nee Boothby. His elder brother Peter was a multi-instrumentalist and musical instrument maker. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1934 he starred in the Berlin premiere of Eugen Ortner's tragedy '' Meier Helmbrecht'', but it was a critical disaster and he later described it as his lowest point as an actor. Shortly afterwards he directed his first play, the comedy '' Marriage on the Panke'', at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaro Fürth
Jaro Fürth (born Edwin Fürth-Jaro; 21 April 1871 – 12 November 1945) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Early life Fürth was born to Jewish parents in Prague.Profile Cyranos.ch; accessed 16 March 2015. Initially he studied law, but began his acting career under the tutelage of Alexander Römpler before taking stage engagements in Scandinavia, performing in roles created by . In 1905 he travelled to Vienna, where he received an engagement at the Deutschen Volkstheater. Film career In the late 1910s he went to Berlin and began appearing in silent films. Under the direction of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lach
Robert Lach (1901–1971) was an Austrian cinematographer.Kreimeier p.113 Selected filmography * ''Joyless Street'' (1925) * ''Secrets of a Soul'' (1926) * ''Unmarried Daughters'' (1926) * ''Sex in Chains'' (1928) * ''The Insurmountable'' (1928) * ''The Woman in the Advocate's Gown'' (1929) * ''Tragedy of Youth'' (1929) * '' The Right of the Unborn'' (1929) * ''Somnambul'' (1929) * '' Eros in Chains'' (1929) * ''Three Days Confined to Barracks'' (1930) * ''Poor as a Church Mouse'' (1931) * '' Weekend in Paradise'' (1931) * ''A Thousand for One Night ''A Thousand for One Night'' (German: ''Tausend für eine Nacht'') is a 1933 Czech-German comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Claire Rommer, Trude Berliner and Harald Paulsen. A separate Czech-language version was also produced. The fi ...'' (1933) References Bibliography * Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918–1945''. University of California Press, 1999. External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Rinaldi
August Rinaldi (1883–1962) was a German art director. He worked on around fifty films during the silent era. Rinaldi was of Jewish descent.Prawer p.212 Selected filmography * ''Let There Be Light'' (1917) * '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918) * '' The Face Removed'' (1920) * '' Blackmailed'' (1920) * ''Waves of Life and Love'' (1921) * '' The Railway King'' (1921) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * '' The Game of Love'' (1924) * ''The Circus of Life'' (1926) * '' The Tales of Hermann'' (1926) * ''The Field Marshal'' (1927) * '' A Girl of the People'' (1927) * ''Girls, Beware!'' (1928) * ''Sixteen Daughters and No Father'' (1928) * '' The Women's War'' (1928) * ''Somnambul'' (1929) * '' Sin and Morality'' (1929) * ''Crucified Girl ''Crucified Girl'' (German: ''Mädchen am Kreuz'') is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise FleckPrawer p.85 and starring Valerie Boothby, Gertrud de Lalsky and Evelyn Holt. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios ...'' (1929 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Falkenstein
Julius Falkenstein (25 February 1879 – 9 December 1933) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1914 and 1933. Falkenstein was Jewish, but secured a special permit to continue making films following the Nazi rise to power in 1933. He died of natural causes the same year, having made only one further film. Selected filmography * ''Die geheimnisvolle Villa'' (1914) * '' The Princess of Neutralia'' (1917) *'' The Toboggan Cavalier'' (1918) * ''The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * ''The Dancer Barberina'' (1920) * ''The Love of a Thief'' (1920) * ''The Princess of the Nile'' (1920) * '' Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1921) * ''The Story of Christine von Herre'' (1921) * '' The Convict of Cayenne'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Don Juan'' (1922) * ''Das Milliardensouper'' (1923) * '' Earth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg John
Georg John (born Georg Jacobsohn; 23 July 1879 – 18 November 1941) was a German stage and film actor. Early life Georg Jacobsohn was born into a Jewish household in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany. Career John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres. In 1904, he was engaged at the Theater of Wilhelmshaven, followed by appearances at Stolp in 1905, Altona, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bochum and Göttingen. In 1914, John worked as an actor and producer for Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna. In 1917, John first appeared in silent movies, playing a Tibetan monk in ''Die Fremde'' (''The Stranger''), and Death in ''Hilde Warren und der Tod'' (''Hilde Warren and Death''). These roles were typical of the kinds of parts he would become known for, even if, at first, he was more often seen as a father, husband or dignitary. Beginning in the 1920s, John appeared in the films of notable German filmmakers, where he often played bizarre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Meyer (producer)
Leo Meyer (29 August 1873, in Karlino – 11 February 1944) was a German film producer. He is sometimes also credited as Leo Meijer. Following the Nazi rise to power Meyer, who was Jewish, went into exile and emigrated to the Netherlands where he continued to produce films. Amongst the films that Meyer worked on in Weimar Germany The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is als ... was the war film ''Westfront 1918'' Ashkenazi p.199 Selected filmography * ''Rinaldo Rinaldini (film), Rinaldo Rinaldini'' (1927) * ''Circle of Lovers'' (1927) * ''Sex in Chains'' (1928) * ''Somnambul'' (1929) * ''Marriage in Trouble'' (1929) * ''Westfront 1918'' (1930) * ''Panic in Chicago'' (1931) * ''The First Right of the Child'' (1932) References Bibliography * Ashkenazi, Ofer. ''Weimar Film and Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
