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Sword And Shield (film)
''Sword and Shield'' (German: ''Zopf und Schwert - Eine tolle Prinzessin'') is a 1926 German silent film, silent historical film, historical romance film directed by Victor Janson and Rudolf Dworsky and starring Mady Christians, William Dieterle and Albert Steinrück.Grange p.232 It is in the Prussian films tradition. The film's sets were designed by Ernst Stern. Cast * Mady Christians as Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Prinzessin Wilhelmine * William Dieterle as Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Erbprinz von Bayreuth * Albert Steinrück as Frederick William I of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm I, König von Preußen * Hanni Weisse as Von Sonnsfeld, Hofdame der Prinzessin * Julia Serda as Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Sophie Dorothea, Königin von Preußen * Walter Janssen as Frederick the Great, Kronprinz Friedrich * Harry Hardt as Graf Kayserlingk * Robert Scholz as Hotham, englischer Gesandter * Julius Falkenstein as Graf Seckendorf, kais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Janson
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson ( lv, Viktors Artūrs Eduards Jansons; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvians, Latvian ethnicity. Selected filmography Actor * ''Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916) * ''When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''Carmen (1918 film), Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Ballet Girl'' (1918) * ''The Seeds of Life (film), The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * ''Ferdinand Lassalle (film), Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * ''Der Gelbe Schein, The Yellow Ticket'' (1918) * ''My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''The Dagger of Malaya'' (1919) * ''One or the Other (film), One or the Other'' (1919) * ''Superstition (1919 film), Superstition'' (1919) * ''The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * ''Countess Doddy'' (1919) * ''The Howling Wolf'' (1919) * ''The Merry Husband'' (1919) * ''The Panther Bride'' (1919) * ''The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * ''The Woman at the Crossroads (1919 film), The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1919) * ''The Housing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through dating, courtship or marriage is featured. These films make the search for romantic love the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints or family resistance. As in all quite strong, deep and close romantic relationships, the tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, a ... [...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] |
Robert Scholz
Robert Scholz (23 April 1886 – 10 October 1927) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 76 films between 1919 and 1928. He was born in Germany and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1919) * '' Die Fluch der Menschheit'' (1920) * '' Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan'' (1920) * ''The White Peacock'' (1920) * '' Der Im Rausche der Milliarden'' (1920) * ''About the Son'' (1921) * ''Count Varenne's Lover'' (1921) * ''Sons of the Night'' (1921) * '' The Experiment of Professor Mithrany'' (1921) * ''Danton'' (1921) * '' The Buried Self'' (1921) * '' Symphony of Death'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * ''Bigamy'' (1922) * ''Barmaid'' (1922) * ''Only One Night'' (1922) * ''Fratricide'' (1922) * '' Yvette, the Fashion Princesss'' (1922) * '' Yellow Star'' (1922) * ''Shame'' (1922) * '' She and the Three'' (1922) * '' Ihre Hoheit die Tänzerin'' (1922) * ''The Ancient Law'' (1923) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Hardt
Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a military academy and serving during World War I. He later turned to acting, having a long career both in films and on television. Selected filmography * '' The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * '' The False Dimitri'' (1922) - Fürst Leschinsky * '' Frauenmoral'' (1923) * ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * '' The Comedian's Child'' (1923) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) * '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924) * '' Around a Million'' (1924) * '' Nanon'' (1924) - Bruder der Dame (Brother of the Dame) * '' The Wife of Forty Years'' (1925) * '' Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''Upstairs and Downstairs'' (1925) * ''The Dealer from Amsterdam'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * ''In the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick The Great
Frederick II (german: Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King in Prussia from 1740 until 1772, and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death in 1786. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the Silesian wars, his re-organisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. Frederick was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Polish Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a major military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great (german: links=no, Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed "Old Fritz" (german: links=no, "Der Alte Fritz"). In his youth, Frederick was more interested in music and philosophy than in the art of war, which led to clashes with his authoritarian father, Frederick William I of Prussia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Janssen
Walter Janssen (7 February 1887 – 1 January 1976) was a German film actor and director. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1917 and 1970. Selected filmography * '' The Dancer'' (1919) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * ''Peter the Great'' (1922) * ''What Belongs to Darkness'' (1922) * '' Lust for Life'' (1922) * ''Carousel'' (1923) * ''La Boheme'' (1923) * '' The Love of a Queen'' (1923) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''Tragedy'' (1925) * ''The Great Duchess'' (1926) * ''Fräulein Mama'' (1926) * ''Only a Dancing Girl'' (1926) * '' Sword and Shield'' (1926) * ''Women of Passion'' (1926) * '' The House of Lies'' (1926) * '' The Queen of Spades'' (1927) * ''The Little Slave'' (1928) * ''It's You I Have Loved'' (1929) * ''The Night Belongs to Us'' (1929) * '' Black Forest Girl'' (1929) * '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * ''The Singing City'' (1930) * ''Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Dorothea Of Hanover
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ( – 28 June 1757) was Queen in Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg during the reign of her husband, King Frederick William I, from 25 February 1713 to 31 May 1740. She was the daughter of King George I of Great Britain and his wife Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the sister of King George II of Great Britain, and the mother of Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia). Life Sophia Dorothea was born on 16 March 1687 ( O.S.), in Hanover. She was the only daughter of George Louis of Hanover, later King George I of Great Britain, and his wife, Sophia Dorothea of Celle. She was detested by her elder brother, King George II of Great Britain.John David Griffith Davies: ''A King in Toils'', L. Drummond, Ltd., 1938 After the divorce and imprisonment of her mother, she was raised in Hanover under the supervision of her paternal grandmother, Sophia of Hanover, and educated by her Huguenot teacher Madame de Sacetot.Atkinson, Emma Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Serda
Julia Serda (6 April 1875 – 3 December 1965) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Grange p.120 She was married to the actor Hans Junkermann. Biography Julia Serda was born on 6 April 1875 in Vienna. She became fascinated by the stage at an early age, taking singing lessons from Pauline Lucca and studying acting at the Vienna Conservatory. Serda made her debut in 1895 at the theater in Breslau, after which she went to Köningsberg for three years. In 1899 she followed a call to the Dresden Court Theater, to which she remained connected until 1908 and was awarded the title of "Royal Saxon Court Actress". During this time, she also made her Berlin debut in 1902, appeared at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1907, and in 1908 at the Meinhard-Bernauer-Bühnen. Serda was most successful for playing the naive and sentimental heroine, for example with the title role in Franz Grillparzer's tragedy ''The Jewess of Toledo'', as Oscar Wilde's '' Salome'', or as a cricket in ''Johannisfeuer' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanni Weisse
Hanni Weisse (16 October 1892 – 13 December 1967) was a German stage and film actress.Sutton, Katie. The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany', pp. 68-69. New York, New York: Bergahn, 2011. She appeared in 146 films between 1912 and 1942. Biography Hanni Weisse was born on 16 October 1892 in Chemnitz. In 1910, she received an apprenticeship in cello playing and first appeared in small roles with choral engagement at the Berlin Thalia Theater in 1910. In 1912, Weisse became a member of the Royal Belvedere Dresden, with whom she toured all of Germany. The film director Max Mack discovered her that same year, and Weisse signed a contract with the Vitascope film company. She made her film debut in the short ''Whims of Fate'' (1912) with Erwin Fichtner and Lotte Neumann. Weisse's most popular film role was that of an alcoholic mother in E.A. Dupont's ''Alcohol'' (1919). In 1922, she starred alongside Albert Steinrück in The Blood. Weisse's first husband, Bobby E. Lüthge, wrote the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William I Of Prussia
Frederick William I (german: Friedrich Wilhelm I.; 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740), known as the "Soldier King" (german: Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neuchâtel. He was succeeded by his son, Frederick the Great. Early years He was born in Berlin to King Frederick I of Prussia and Princess Sophia Charlotte of Hanover. During his first years, he was raised by the Huguenot governess Marthe de Roucoulle. When Great Northern War plague outbreak devastated Prussia, the inefficiency and corruption of the king's favorite ministers and senior officials were highlighted. Frederick William with a party that formed at the court brought down the leading minister Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg and his cronies following an official investigation that exposed Wartenberg's huge-scale misappropriation and embezzlement. His close associate August David zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein was imprisoned at Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick, Margrave Of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (May 10, 1711 in Weferlingen – February 26, 1763 in Bayreuth), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He was the eldest son of Georg Frederick Karl, nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, by his wife Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. Life Born a minor member of the house of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Frederick's fate changed in 1726, when his father inherited the principality of Bayreuth after a long dispute with the kingdom of Prussia over his rights of succession. The sixteen-year-old Frederick became the Hereditary Margrave of Bayreuth. In 1735, on his father's death, Frederick became the new Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Frederick has the reputation of being an enlightened monarch. In Bayreuth, Frederick is referred to as "the Beloved." In his residence of Bayreuth, he promoted the sciences and arts and owned numerous buildings. Frederick received a good educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
