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Spies At Work
''Spies at Work'' (german: Spione am Werk) is a 1933 German thriller film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht Gerhard Lamprecht (6 October 1897 – 4 May 1974) was a German film director, screenwriter and film historian. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958. Life and career Lamprecht was fasci ... and starring Karl Ludwig Diehl, Brigitte Helm, and Eduard von Winterstein.Bock & Bergfelder p. 29 A spy film, it is set during the First World War conflict between Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria and Kingdom of Italy, Italy. The film's sets were designed by the art director Karl Weber (art director), Karl Weber and Erich Zander (art director), Erich Zander. The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. A British version ''On Secret Service'' was also made. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1933 films 1930s spy thriller films German spy thriller films Films of the Weimar Republic Films of Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht (6 October 1897 – 4 May 1974) was a German film director, screenwriter and film historian. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958. Life and career Lamprecht was fascinated by cinema since his childhood and started to work as a film projectionist at age twelve. He studied theatre and art history in Berlin. He also took drama lessons with Paul Bildt and appeared as a stage actor under the name of "Gerhard Otto" in some minor productions.Gerhard Lamprecht at the Deutsches Filmportal Lamprecht got drafted by the German army in 1917 and was wounded in 1918. Lamprecht had sold his first film manuscript as early as 1914. With the end of |
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Homolka
Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and America. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for which he was in regular demand. By the age of 30, he had appeared in more than 400 plays; his film career covered at least 100 films and TV shows. Career After serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War, Homolka attended the Imperial Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, the city of his birth, and began his career on the Austrian stage. In 1924 he played Mortimer in the premiere of Brecht's play ''The Life of Edward II of England'' at the Munich Kammerspiele, and from 1925 in Berlin where he worked under Max Reinhardt. Other stage plays in which Homolka performed during this period include: The first German performance of Eugene O'Neill's ''The Emperor Jones'', 1924, ''Anna Christie'', 1924, ', 1925, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Otto
Paul Otto Schlesinger (8 February 1878 – 25 or 30 November 1943) was a German film actor and director. Born in Berlin, he began a qualification as a retail merchant and made his actor's debut at the age of 17. Otto worked at Theaters in Halle, Wiesbaden and Hanover before he returned to Berlin about 1906. He first appeared in the silent film ''Ringkampf Konkurrenz'' in 1910 and in ''Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes'' (1910-11, five episode film serial) next to Viggo Larsen. In 1912 Otto directed his first own film ''Selbstgerichtet''. In the beginning of the 1930s he also appeared in successful Sound movies like '' Der Hauptmann von Köpenick''. After 1933, Otto returned to theaterstages and worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the ''Kammerspiele'' Berlin. In 1937 he was awarded a ''Staatsschauspieler'' - title and in 1942 Joseph Goebbels promoted him to the head of the stagecouncil at the Reichskulturkammer. In September 1943 his Jewish descent was discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Loos
Theodor August Konrad Loos (18 May 1883 – 27 June 1954) was a German actor. The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer, he left secondary school prematurely and worked for three years at an export firm for music instruments in Leipzig, and after that for his uncle, an art dealer in Berlin. He decided though to become an actor. His theater engagements led him to Leipzig, Danzig and Frankfurt am Main, then to Berlin where he acted from 1912 to 1945 at different theaters. In the 1930s he could be seen performing in classic theater, on over 400 occasions in Peer Gynt alone. From 1913 he performed in more than 170 feature films, initially silent films. He remains perhaps best-known for his numerous roles in the films of Fritz Lang. During the Third Reich Loos was a member of the Advisory Council (Präsidialrat) of the president of the Reichsfilmkammer. After the end of the war, Loos returned to the theater. From August 1949 he was a member of the Staatstheater Stut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Dumcke
Ernst Dumcke (13 November 1887 – 21 June 1940) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * ''Panik in Chicago'' (1931) * ''Madame Makes Her Exit'' (1932) * '' Under False Flag'' (1932) * ''My Friend the Millionaire'' (1932) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1932) * '' The Countess of Monte Cristo'' (1932) * ''The Burning Secret'' (1933) * '' Song of the Black Mountains'' (1933) * ''The Fugitive From Chicago'' (1933) * '' Spies at Work'' (1933) * ''Happy Days in Aranjuez'' (1933) * ''The Last Waltz'' (1934) * '' A Woman With Power of Attorney'' (1934) * ''Hangmen, Women and Soldiers'' (1935) * ''The King's Prisoner'' (1935) * '' Girls in White'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * ''The Glass Ball'' (1937) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) * ''Hello Janine!'' (1939) * ''The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky ''The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' or ''It Was a Lovely Night at the Ball'' (german: Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht) is a 1939 Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Hadank
Günther Hadank (20 October 1892, Berlin – 23 August 1973) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''Grand Hotel'' (1927) * '' Fair Game'' (1928) * ''Rasputin'' (1928) * '' Napoleon at St. Helena'' (1929) * '' M'' (1931) * ''Yorck'' (1931) * ''Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932) * '' The Black Hussar'' (1932) * '' Spies at Work'' (1933) * '' Ein Mann will nach Deutschland'' (1934) * ''Augustus the Strong'' (1936) * ''Tango Notturno'' (1937) * ''Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * '' You and I'' (1938) * '' The Great and the Little Love'' (1938) * ''The Immortal Heart'' (1939) * '' Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies'' (1940) * '' Bismarck'' (1940) * ''Comrades'' (1941) * ''Doctor Crippen'' (1942) * '' The Endless Road'' (1943) * ''Dir zuliebe'' (1944) * '' Man of Straw'' (1951) * ''Hanna Amon'' (1951) * ''King in Shadow ''King in Shadow'' (german: Herrscher ohne Krone) is a 1957 Western German historical drama film directed by Harald Braun and starring O. W. Fisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Secret Service
''On Secret Service'' is a 1933 British thriller film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Greta Nissen, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Don Alvarado, and Austin Trevor. It was produced by British International Pictures. It is based on the 1933 German film '' Spies at Work'' with Karl Ludwig Diehl repeating his role from that film. ''On Secret Service'' premiered in London on 15 December 1933 and was theatrically released on 21 May 1934. In the United States, the film was released on 9 February 1936 as ''Spy 77''. The film was shot at Elstree Studios with sets designed by the art director Duncan Sutherland. Plot summary In 1912, the Evidenzbureau, the directorate of military intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, identifies Marchesa Marcella Galdi, an Italian noblewoman who is visiting Vienna, as an Italian spy. To avoid diplomatic confusion, she is kidnapped while dancing with Austro-Hungarian General Staff Captain Michael von Homberg at a ball held at the famous Hotel Sacher in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is Europe's largest film studio. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include ''V for Vendetta'', '' Captain America: Civil War'', ''Æon Flux'', '' The Bourne Ultimatum'', ''Valkyrie'', ''Inglourious Basterds'', ''Cloud Atlas'', ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'', ''The Hunger Games'', ''Isle of Dogs'' and ''The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also acts as producer on German productions and co-producer on international high-budget productions. Since January 2022 it has been owned by TPG Real Estate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Zander (art Director)
Erich Zander (1889–1965) was a German art director.Giesen p.230 Selected filmography * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1926) * ''Derby'' (1926) * '' Students' Love'' (1927) * ''Alpine Tragedy'' (1927) * ''The Little Slave'' (1928) * '' Mariett Dances Today'' (1928) * '' Volga Volga'' (1928) * '' Rooms to Let'' (1930) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1930) * '' I'll Stay with You'' (1931) * '' Ariane'' (1931) * '' A Thousand for One Night'' (1933) * ''The Marathon Runner'' (1933) * '' Spies at Work'' (1933) * ''The Love Hotel'' (1933) * '' The Double'' (1934) * ''Little Dorrit'' (1934) * '' Knockout'' (1935) * '' The Blonde Carmen'' (1935) * '' She and the Three'' (1935) * '' The Young Count'' (1935) * ''The Red Rider'' (1935) * ''Love Can Lie'' (1937) * '' His Best Friend'' (1937) * '' Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * '' I Love You'' (1938) * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1939) * '' Quartet of Five'' (1949) * ''The Blue Swords ''The Blue Swords'' (german: Die blauen Schwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Weber (art Director)
Karl Weber (1897-1965) was a German art director.Giesen p.230 He frequently worked alongside Erich Zander designing film sets. Filmography * ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * ''The Opera Ball'' (1931) * '' Ariane'' (1931) * '' Abenteuer im Engadin'' (1932) * '' Der Diamant des Zaren'' (1932) * '' Melo'' (1932) * '' The Dreamy Mouth'' (1932) * '' Spies at Work'' (1933) * '' The Old and the Young King'' (1935) * ''Forget Me Not'' (1935) * ''If It Were Not for Music'' (1935) * ''A Night of Change'' (1935) * ''Martha'' (1936) * ' (1936) * '' Three Girls Around Schubert'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * ''The Beggar Student'' (1936) * '' His Best Friend'' (1937) * '' Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''To New Shores'' (1937) * '' Zwei Frauen'' (1938) * '' Verliebtes Abenteuer'' (1938) * '' Die kleine und die große Liebe'' (1938) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' Der Tag nach der Scheidung'' (1938) * '' I Love You'' (1938) * '' Yvette'' (1938) * '' A Hopeless Case'' (1939) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
