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Scampolo
''Scampolo'' is a 1958 German film directed by Alfred Weidenmann and starring Romy Schneider, Paul Hubschmid, and Georg Thomalla. Schneider plays the title role. Plot Scampolo is a young, poor girl who lives on the island of Ischia. She falls in love with a young architect who hopes to win a design competition. Scampolo intercedes on his behalf with the minister and helps him to make his dream come true. Cast *Romy Schneider as Scampolo *Paul Hubschmid as Roberto Costa, architect *Georg Thomalla as Andreas Michaels, fashion photographer *Eva Maria Meineke as Sabina *Franca Parisi as Franca *Peter Carsten as Cesare *Wolfgang Wahl as Baptiste *Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Marietta *Willy Millowitsch as Mayor * Stanislav Ledinek as Flavio *Walter Rilla as Lombardo *Viktor de Kowa as Minister Production The film's sets were designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer. Partly shot on location around Naples, the film was made in Agfacolor An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Weidenmann
Alfred Weidenmann (10 May 1916 – 9 June 2000) was a German film director, screenwriter, and author of children's books. He directed more than 30 films between 1942 and 1984. Selected filmography * '' Hände hoch (1942) * ' (1944) * ''I and You'' (1953) * '' Canaris'' (1954) * ' (1955) * ''Alibi'' (1955) * '' Kitty and the Great Big World'' (1956) * ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (1957) * ''Scampolo'' (1958) * ' (1958) * '' The Buddenbrooks'' (1959) * ' (''Bumerang'') (1960) * ''Sacred Waters'' (1960) * ''Adorable Julia'' (1962) * '' Only a Woman'' (1962) * ' (1963) * ''Condemned to Sin'' (1964) * '' Shots in Threequarter Time'' (1965) * '' The Gentlemen'' (1965) * ''Who Wants to Sleep?'' (1965) * ''I Am Looking for a Man'' (1966) * ''Maigret and His Greatest Case'' (1966) * ''Pistolen-Jenny'' (1969, TV film) * '' Under the Roofs of St. Pauli'' (1970) * ''The Bordello'' (1971) * ''Sonderdezernat K1'' (1972–1981, TV series, 7 episodes) * ' (1973) * ''Derrick A derrick is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Mondi
Bruno Mondi (30 September 1903, Schwetz, West Prussia – 18 July 1991, Berlin) was a German cameraman and director of photography. Biography Mondi graduated from training in 1918 at the School of Cinema and Technology at the School of Photography in Berlin. Soon after, he worked as an assistant cameraman in numerous silent film productions, including Fritz Lang's ''Destiny'' (''Der müde Tod'', 1921). From 1925 he worked as co-cinematographer with Heinrich Gärtner, and in the comedy film ''Die tolle Lola''. In 1927, he served as executive director of photography. Mondi initially worked primarily with director Richard Eichberg. In 1935, he joined the permanent staff Veit Harlan. In addition to numerous comedies and entertainment films, Mondi also shot some propaganda films, including the anti-Semitic production ''Jud Süß'' (1940). Despite this, Mondi was hired in 1946 by DEFA, the East German state-owned film studio, as one of its chief cameramen. In this capacity he made in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor De Kowa
Viktor de Kowa (also spelled Victor de Kowa, born Victor Paul Karl Kowalczyk; 8 March 1904 – 8 April 1973) was a German stage and film actor, chanson singer, director, narrator, and comic poet. Life He was born the son of a farmer and engineer in Hohkirch near Görlitz (present-day Przesieczany in Poland), from where his family moved to Seifersdorf near Dippoldiswalde in Saxony in 1908 and to Chemnitz in 1913. De Kowa joined a cadet corps before he began occupational training as a graphic designer. Having attended drama classes with Erich Ponto, he gave his acting debut at the Staatstheater Dresden in 1922. After appearances in Lübeck, Frankfurt and Hamburg, de Kowa entered the stages of the Volksbühne and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, as well as of the Prussian State Theatre under Gustaf Gründgens. He had a first small film appearance in Nils Olaf Chrisander's ''The Heart Thief'' in 1927 and subsequently became one of the leading comic actors of the UFA film industry. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Rilla
Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1977. He was born in Neunkirchen, Germany and died in Rosenheim, Germany. Career Having debuted on the stage, Rilla began his film in career in Germany during the silent era. This included an early role for him in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's ''The Grand Duke's Finances'' in 1924. Following the rise of the Nazi Party to power in 1933, he emigrated to Britain and became a regular performer in British films often in villainous or aristocratic roles. Both during and after the Second World War he played Nazi officers or agents. From the 1950s onwards he returned to West Germany to appear in films and on television, alternating this with continued roles in British cinema. He was the father of film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Elisabeth Ida Marie Flickenschildt (16 March 1905 – 26 October 1977) was a German actress, producer and author. She appeared in dozens of German language films and television productions between 1935–1976. Flickenschildt was born in Hamburg, and died in Guderhandviertel. A street, Elisabeth-Flickenschildt-Straße, was named for her in Spandau, Berlin. Selected filmography * ''Großreinemachen'' (1935) - Frau Paulsen * ''The Unsuspecting Angel'' (1936) - Lotte Grün * ''Du kannst nicht treu sein'' (1936) - Miss Nelly * ''Strife Over the Boy Jo'' (1937) - Hafenmädchen * ''The Broken Jug'' (1937) - Frau Brigitte * ''Tango Notturno'' (1937) - Bessie Godfrey * ''Starke Herzen'' (1937) - Ilse * '' The Muzzle'' (1938) - Dame beim Verhör * '' The Marriage Swindler'' (1938) - Frau Buschko * ' (1938) - Maruschka * ''A Girl Goes Ashore'' (1938) - Erna Quandt * ''Unsere kleine Frau'' (1938) * ''Mia moglie si diverte'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''The False Step'' (1939) - Marietta Trip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Wahl
Wolfgang Wahl (3 December 1925 – 15 September 2006) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1953 to 1996. Filmography References External links * 1925 births 2006 deaths German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Carsten
Peter Carsten (30 April 1928 – 20 April 2012) was a German actor and film producer. He appeared in 90 films between 1953 and 1999, including in supporting roles, ''Dark of the Sun'' (1968), '' Hannibal Brooks'' (1969), ''Madame Bovary'' (1969), ''And God Said to Cain'' (1970) and ''Zeppelin'' (1971). Selected filmography * '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1953) * ''The Beginning Was Sin'' (1954) - Marko, Knecht * '' 08/15'' (1954) - Stabsgefreiter Kowalski * ''The Song of Kaprun'' (1955) - Bertl * ' (1955) - Stabsgefreiter Kowalski * ''The Happy Village'' (1955) - Gerd Bunje, Müller * ' (1955) - Stabsgefreiter Kowalski * ''Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben'' (1956) - Erich Klein * '' Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden'' (1956) - Briefträger * ''Nina'' (1956) - Major Tubaljow * ''Like Once Lili Marleen'' (1956) - Toni Knoll * ''Love'' (1956) - Jan Hopper * ''The Story of Anastasia'' (1956) - Soldat Tschaikowski * '' Sand, Love and Salt'' (1957) - Alberto * ''Song of Nap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Maria Meineke
Eva Maria Meineke (8 October 1923 - 7 May 2018) was a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 2008, including ''Yesterday Girl'' and ''Something for Everyone ''Something for Everyone'' is a 1970 American black comedy film starring Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, and Jane Carr. The film was based on the novel ''The Cook'' by Harry Kressing, with a screenplay by Hugh Wheeler. The pl ...''. Selected filmography References External links * 1923 births 2018 deaths German film actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Parisi
Franca Parisi (born 28 September 1933) is an Italian actress. Biography Parisi graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome in 1955, and made her screen debut that same year in Raffaello Matarazzo's film '' The White Angel''. She then acted in a number of films of the peplum or drama genre, sometimes under the pseudonym ''Margaret Taylor''. In 1959, she married the Austrian actor Erwin Strahl. In the '60s, Parisi came to television, where she starred in many television dramas : memorably, she played Jane in Anton Giulio Majano's ''The black arrow''. She retired to private life in the second half of the 1970s. Selected filmography Cinema * 1954: ''The Shadow on the Hill'' * 1955: '' The White Angel'' * 1958: ''Scampolo'' * 1960: ''Atom Age Vampire'' * 1962: ''Julius Caesar Against the Pirates'' * 1962: ''The Old Testament'' * 1963: ''The Ten Gladiators'' Television * 1963: ''Ritorna il tenente Sheridan'' * 1965: ''Le avventure di Laura Storm ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hubschmid
Paul Hubschmid (; 20 July 1917 – 31 December 2001) was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens of films and television series between 1938 and 1991. Many of these were German and International productions. Selected filmography * ''Fusilier Wipf'' (1938, Swiss) - Reinhold Wipf * ''Maria Ilona'' (1939, German) - Imre von Hontos, Maria Ilonas Bruder * ''Der letzte Appell'' (1939, German) * ''Mir lönd nüd lugg'' (1940, Swiss) - Hans Landolt * ''Mein Traum'' (1940, Swiss) - Bob Ellis * ''Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe'' (1940, Swiss) - Wilhelm * '' The Rainer Case'' (1942, German) - Franz Rainer * ''Meine Freundin Josefine'' (1942, German) - Herr Milander * ''Altes Herz wird wieder jung'' (1943, German) - Willibald Mack * ''Wilder Urlaub'' (1943, Swiss) - Fritz Hablützel * '' Love Letters'' (1944, German) - Robert Wieland * ''Der ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Thomalla
Georg Thomalla (14 February 1915 – 25 August 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in about one hundred fifty film and television productions between 1939 and 2000 and was widely known in Germany for his comedic roles. Thomalla was well known in Germany as a voiceover artist, dubbing particularly comedians, such as Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in the ''Pink Panther'' movies, and he was the standard German dubbing voice of Jack Lemmon from 1955 to 1998. Thomalla dubbed Lemmon as the second musician in ''Some Like It Hot'', after having himself played the same role in the German comedy ''Fanfares of Love'' (1951), the direct predecessor to ''Some Like It Hot''. Thomalla met Lemmon at the 1996 Berlin International Film Festival, where he gave a speech in Lemmon's honor. He was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit in 1985. Selected filmography * ''Her First Experience'' (1939) - Otto * '' Der Kleinstadtpoet'' (1941) - Siegfried, Angestellter bei Emil * ''Above Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dario Niccodemi
Dario Niccodemi (Livorno, Italy, 27 January 1874 – Rome, Italy, 24 September 1934) was a novelist and a playwright who was born in Italy. Life and career He spent his youth in Buenos Aires; he met the French actress ''Rejane'' in 1900, became her secretary and translated and adapted for her several Italian works. In this way, he learned techniques which he used later on, beginning with ''L'aigrette'' (comedy in three acts, 1912). His comedies represent the bourgeois drama in an ironic and sentimental way, in which his characters are modelled on the society of the beginning of the century. He founded a theater company in 1921, wrote novels (''Il romanzo di scampolo'') and two opera librettos, a ''scampolo'' with music by Camussi, and another, ''La ghibellina'', with music by Bianchi. He has written several plays and screenplays, including ''Scampolo'' (film, 1928)'', La nemica'', '' L'alba, il giorno, la notte'', ''La maestrina'' (film, 1942). About ''La nemica'' he said: "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
