The Beautiful Adventure (1959 Film)
''The Beautiful Adventure'' (german: Das schöne Abenteuer) is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Liselotte Pulver, Robert Graf and Bruni Löbel.Bock & Bergfelder p.11 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. Cast * Liselotte Pulver as Dorothee Durand * Robert Graf as Marius Bridot * Bruni Löbel as Françoise * Eva Maria Meineke as Cathérine * Oliver Grimm as Pierre Bridot * Heinrich Schweiger as César * Horst Tappert as Frécon * Edith Teichmann as Angelique * Paul Esser as Olivon * Alexander Hunzinger as Labise * Karl Lieffen as Fotograf Fortuné Tallon * Heinz-Leo Fischer as Pinatel * Ernst Brasch as Esperandier * Ralf Wolter as Taschendieb * Karl Hanft as Gendarm Bombeau * Max Wittmann * Rudolf Rhomberg as Jules Tardy * Otto Storr as Pfarrer * Marie Ferron as Haushälterin des Pfarrers * Edith Schollwer as Mutter von César * Hans Clarin as Busfahrer Polyte * Klaus Hav ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer. His 1958 film ''Wir Wunderkinder'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival and his 1960 film '' The Haunted Castle'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1961 film ''The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi ''The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi'' (german: Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi) is a 1961 Swiss-West German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring O.E. Hasse, Johanna von Koczian and Martin Held. It is based on the 1952 play with the ...'' was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmann, Kurt 1910 births 2001 deaths Film people from Freiburg im Breisgau People from the Gran ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robert Herlth
Robert Herlth (2 May 1893 – 6 January 1962) was a German art director. He was one of the leading designers of German film sets during the 1920s and 1930s.Reimer & Reimer p.146 Filmography * ''Masks'' (1920) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * '' The Secret of Bombay'' (1921) * ''The Devil's Chains'' (1921) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * ''Parisian Women'' (1921) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * ''Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues'' (1922) * '' Luise Millerin'' (1922) * '' The Earl of Essex'' (1922) * '' The Treasure'' (1923) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * '' The Last Laugh'' (1924) * '' The Chronicles of the Gray House'' (1925) * ''Tartuffe'' (1926) * ''Faust'' (1926) * ''Luther'' (1928) * ''Looping the Loop'' (1928) * ''Whirl of Youth'' (1928) * '' Four Devils'' (1928) * ''Asphalt'' (1929) * ''The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * '' Manolescu'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * ''The Temporary Widow ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Max Wittmann
Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1971–2004), a western lowland gorilla at the Johannesburg Zoo who was shot by a criminal in 1997 Brands and enterprises * Australian Max Beer * Max Hamburgers, a fast-food corporation * MAX Index, a Hungarian domestic government bond index * Max Fashion, an Indian clothing brand Computing * MAX (operating system), a Spanish-language Linux version * Max (software), a music programming language * Commodore MAX Machine * Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions, extensions for HP PA-RISC Films * ''Max'' (1994 film), a Canadian film by Charles Wilkinson * ''Max'' (2002 film), a film about Adolf Hitler * ''Max'' (2015 film), an American war drama film Games * '' Dancing Stage Max'', a 2005 game in the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' series * ''DD ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karl Hanft
Karl Hanft (25 July 1904 – 2 February 1982) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * ''Shock Troop (film), Shock Troop'' (1934) * ''Enemies (1940 film), Enemies'' (1940) * ''The Endless Road'' (1943) * ''Tonelli (film), Tonelli'' (1943) * ''Orient Express (1944 film), Orient Express'' (1944) * ''Hubertus Castle (1954 film), Hubertus Castle'' (1954) * ''Salzburg Stories'' (1957) * ''The Beautiful Adventure (1959 film), The Beautiful Adventure'' (1959) * ''The Haunted Castle (1960 film), The Haunted Castle'' (1960) References External links * 1904 births 1982 deaths Austrian male film actors Male actors from Vienna 20th-century Austrian male actors {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ralf Wolter
Ralf Wolter (26 November 1926 – 14 October 2022) was a German stage and screen actor. Wolter appeared in nearly 220 films and television series in his over 60 years as a character actor. Life and career Wolter began his long career on the Berlin stage and in cabaret during the late 1940s. He made his first film appearance in ''Die Frauen des Herrn S.'' and quickly achieved prominence as an actor for comedic supporting roles. In 1961, he appeared as the baldheaded Soviet agent Borodenko in Billy Wilder's comedy ''One, Two, Three'' with James Cagney and Horst Buchholz. Another Hollywood film with Wolter in a supporting role was ''Cabaret'' (1972), where he played, alongside Liza Minnelli, the role of the neighbour Herr Ludwig, a publisher of pornographic books who later turns out to be a Nazi. In Germany, Wolter achieved his greatest fame as the eccentric but friendly trapper Sam Hawkens and as Hadschi Halef Omar in a number of highly successful Karl May film adaptations durin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ernst Brasch
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) South African Film Producer * Alice Henson Ernst (1880-1980), American writer and historian * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst, German politician * Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine * Emil Ernst, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician * Fabian Ernst, German soccer player * Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer * Jim Ernst, Canadian politician * Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst * Joni Ernst, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst, U.S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Heinz-Leo Fischer
Heinz-Leo Fischer (1902–1977) was an Austrian stage actor, stage, television actor, television and film actor. During the Weimar Republic of the 1920s he appeared in plays such as ''Marlborough Goes to War''.Youngkin p.459 Filmography References Bibliography * Youngkin, Stephen. ''The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre''. University Press of Kentucky, 2005. External links * 1902 births 1977 deaths Austrian male television actors Austrian male stage actors Austrian male film actors Male actors from Vienna 20th-century Austrian male actors Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karl Lieffen
Karl Lieffen (17 May 1926 – 13 January 1999), born Karel František Lifka, was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films on screen and television between 1949 and 1998. He was born in Ossegg (Osek), Czechoslovakia and attended drama classes at Brunswick and the Heer School of Music in Bückeburg. In 1946 he started his theatre career in Freiburg followed by engagements at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, the Munich Kammerspiele and the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt. In 1975 he joined the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theatre (Residenz Theatre) in Munich. From the 1950s on Lieffen became known to a wider public for his film appearances, like the role of the brisk chauffeur Fritz in Billy Wilder's ''One, Two, Three''. He died in Starnberg, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Encounter with Werther'' (1949) - Bediensteter Bursche * '' Sensation in Savoy'' (1950) * ''The Beggar Student'' (1956) - Major Wangenheim * ''Haie und kleine Fische'' (19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexander Hunzinger
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander and Aleksandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paul Esser
Paul Esser (24 April 1913 – 20 January 1988) was a German stage and television actor and voice actor. He is remembered for playing the lead role in the Sender Freies Berlin version of the detective series ''Tatort''. Esser was born in Geldern-Kapellen and died in Tenerife. Selected filmography * '' The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Liebesgeschichten'' (1943) - Oskar - 20 Jahre * ''Rotation'' (1949) - Hans Behnke * ''Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute'' (1950) - Heinrich, Musiker * ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1950) - Sir John Falstaff (Johannes Spenser) * '' Heart of Stone'' (1950) - Ezechiel * '' Man of Straw'' (1951) - Regierungspräsident von Wulckow * ''Homesick for You'' (1952) - Otto Klemke * '' Christina'' (1953) - Fritz Ohlsen, Knecht * '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1953) - Florian * ''A Life for Do'' (1954) - Onkel Karl * '' Prisoners of Love'' (1954) - Max * ''Hoheit lassen bitten'' (1954) - Bauunternehmer Kehlbach * '' Island of the Dead'' (1955) - Fritz Kahlmayer * ''Son Wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edith Teichmann
Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English words ēad, meaning 'riches or blessed', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and variations of this name include Ditte, Dita, and Edie. It was a common first name prior to the 16th century, when it fell out of favour. It became popular again at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 2016 it was ranked at 488th most popular female name in the United States, according to the Social Security online database. It became far less common as a name for children by the late 20th century. The name Edith has five name days: May 14 in Estonia, January 13 in the Czech Republic, October 31 in Sweden, July 5 in Latvia, and September 16 in France, Hungary, Poland and Lithuania. Edith *Edith of Polesworth (died c. 960), abbess * Edith of Wessex (1025–1075), Queen of England *Edith of Wilton (961–984), English nun *Edith the F ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Horst Tappert
Horst Tappert (26 May 1923 – 13 December 2008) was a German film and television actor best known for the role of Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama ''Derrick''. Biography Horst Tappert was born on 26 May 1923 in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), Germany. His father, Julius Tappert (1892–1957), was a civil servant; his mother was Ewaldine Röll Tappert (1892–1981). Following high school and at the age of 17, Tappert was drafted into the German Army during World War II. Aged 19, he was, according to his widow against his will, transferred from the Army to the ''Waffen-SS'', where the author of the Derrick series, Herbert Reinecker, had also served. Initially a member of a reserve antiaircraft unit in Arolsen, he was listed as a grenadier with the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf in March 1943. In 1945, he was briefly a prisoner of war in Seehausen, Altmark. Following the war, he was hired as a bookkeeper at a theatre in Stendal, Germany, and became interested in acting ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |