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The Big Chance (1957 German Film)
''The Big Chance '' (german: Die große Chance) is a 1957 West German romantic comedy film directed by Hans Quest and starring Walter Giller, Gardy Granass and Michael Cramer. Shot and set in Heidelberg, it was one of a series of Schlager music films made around the time.Koepnick p. 76 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Dieter Bartels and Helmut Nentwig. It was shot in Agfacolor. Main cast * Walter Giller as Walter Gerber * Gardy Granass as Ruth Degner * Michael Cramer as Manfred Hallersperg * Wera Frydtberg as Erika Hallersperg * Robert Freitag as Kaplan Sommer * Loni Heuser as Henriette 'Henny' Hallersperg * Käthe Haack as Anna Gerber * Ernst Waldow as Tankstellenbesitzer Oskar Magenau * Friedrich Domin as Bischof * Peter Lühr as Studienrat Heinrich Gerber * Bruno Fritz as Fabrikant Otto Hallersperg * Johanna Hofer as Großmutter Degner * Erna Sellmer as Wirtschafterin Luise * Gisela Schlüter as Susi Viereck * Harald Martens as Eugen Gerber * Renate Danz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Quest
Hans Quest (1915–1997) was a German actor and film director. Selected filmography Director *''Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne'' (1955) *''The Happy Wanderer'' (1955) *''Charley's Aunt'' (1956) *'' Wenn Poldi ins Manöver zieht'' (1956) *'' Ein Mann muß nicht immer schön sein'' (1956) *''The Girl Without Pyjamas'' (1957) *''Kindermädchen für Papa gesucht'' (1957) *'' The Big Chance'' (1957) *'' Die Lindenwirtin vom Donaustrand'' (1957) *' (1958) *'' Mein Schatz ist aus Tirol'' (1958) *''Nick Knatterton’s Adventure'' (1959) *''Twelve Girls and One Man'' (1959) *'' Bei der blonden Kathrein'' (1960) *'' The Time Has Come'' (1960, TV series) *' (1961) *' (1962, TV miniseries) *' (1963, TV miniseries) *' (1964, TV miniseries) *' (1968, TV miniseries) *''Father Brown'' (1970-1972, TV series) *''Manolescu – Die fast wahre Biographie eines Gauners'' (1972, TV film) Actor * ''The Immortal Heart'' (1939) - Henner * ''Der dunkle Punkt'' (1940) * ''Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agfacolor
An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from café in Oslo, Norway. An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from Paris, France. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Hungary. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Zakopane in Poland. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Sweden. Budapest in Hungary, 1939. An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves have held up well, damage visible includes dust and Newton's rings. Swedish battleship HM Pansarskepp Gustaf V (An Agfacolor slide dated until 1957). Agfacolor was the name of a series of color film products made by Agfa of Germany. The first Agfacolor, introduced in 1932, was a film-based version of their Agfa-Farbenplatte (Agfa color plate), a "screen plate" product similar to the French Autochrome. In late 1936, Agfa introduced Agfacolor Neu (New Agfacolor), a pioneering color film of the general type still in use today. The new Agfacolor was originally a reversal film used for making "slides", home movies and short do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Danz
Renatus is a first name of Latin origin which means "born again" (natus = born). In Italian, Portuguese and Spanish it exists in masculine and feminine forms: Renato and Renata. In French they have been translated to René and Renée. Renata is a common female name in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. The feminine Renate is common in German, Dutch and Norwegian. In Russia the names Renat (russian: Ренат, links=no) (usually as Rinat) and Renata (russian: Рената, links=no) are widespread among the Tatar population. The name has a spiritual meaning, i.e., to be born again with baptism, i.e., from water and the Holy Spirit. It was extensively adopted by early Christians in ancient Rome, due to the importance of baptism. The onomastic is Saint Renatus, a martyr, Bishop of Sorrento in the 5th century, which is celebrated on 6 October. In Persian Mithraism, which spread widely in the West as a religion of the soldiers and officials under the Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Martens
Harald or Haraldr is the Old Norse form of the given name Harold. It may refer to: Medieval Kings of Denmark * Harald Bluetooth (935–985/986) Kings of Norway * Harald Fairhair (c. 850–c. 933) * Harald Greycloak (died 970) * Harald Hardrada (1015–1066) * Harald Gille (reigned 1130–1136) Grand Dukes of Kiev * Mstislav the Great (1076–1132), known as Harald in Norse sagas King of Mann and the Isles * Haraldr Óláfsson (died 1248) Earls of Orkney * Harald Haakonsson (died 1131) * Harald Maddadsson (–1206) * Harald Eiriksson Others * Hagrold (fl. 944–954), also known as Harald, Scandinavian chieftain in Normandy * Harald Grenske (10th century), petty king in Vestfold in Norway * Harald Klak (–), king in Jutland * Harald Wartooth, legendary king of Sweden, Denmark and Norway * Harald the Younger, 9th-century Viking leader Modern name Royalty * Harald V of Norway (born 1937), present King of Norway * Prince Harald of Denmark (1876–1949) Arts and enterta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Schlüter
Gisela Schlüter (6 June 1914 – 28 October 1995) was a German cabaret performer and actress. Early life Gisela Schlüter was born in Berlin and grew up in Dresden. Her father was an army officer and mother came from Czechoslovakia. She felt drawn to the stage at an early age. At first, she wanted to become a dancer and completed a corresponding training. At 1.76 m, however, she was too tall for such a stage career. Therefore, she took lessons from the Dresden actor Erich Ponto. Career She began her acting career at the age of 19. In her first year of work, she was already involved in four film productions. After further films, she found her field of activity mainly in cabaret, so that she only had a few film appearances in the years that followed. After training and the first professional steps, she had her first stage appearance in Berlin with Günther Lüders as a partner in the tabloid play ''Caution Brigitte'', in which she showed her talent as a quick speaker. A year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Sellmer
Erna Elisabeth Dorothea Sellmer (19 June 1905 – 13 May 1983) was a German film actress. She was best known in the English-speaking world for her role as housekeeper Frau Gerber in the 1970s Swiss-Canadian television series ''George'' about a St. Bernard dog and its owners. In 1939 Sellmer provided the German language voiceover for Hattie McDaniel in her Academy award-winning role in ''Gone with the Wind''. Selected filmography * ''Liberated Hands'' (1939) * ''The Girl from Barnhelm'' (1940) * '' The Great Love'' (1942) * '' Two in a Big City'' (1942) * '' The Bath in the Barn'' (1943) * '' Port of Freedom'' (1944) * '' I Need You'' (1944) * ''Murderers Among Us'' (1946) * ''Thank You, I'm Fine'' (1948) * ''Insolent and in Love'' (1948) * ''The Girl from the South Seas'' (1950) * ''The Beautiful Galatea'' (1950) * ''Corinna Schmidt'' (1951) * '' Torreani'' (1951) * '' Holiday From Myself'' (1952) * '' Klettermaxe'' (1952) * ''Fritz and Friederike'' (1952) * ''Captain Bay-Bay'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Hofer
Johanna Hofer (born Johanna Therese Stern; 30 July 1896 – 30 June 1988) was a German film actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1926 and 1982. Biography Hofer was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of engineer and later director of AEG Georg Stern and his wife Lisbeth (''née'' Schmidt), who was the younger sister of artist Käthe Kollwitz. Hofer's younger sisters were dancer Katta Sterna and actress Maria Matray. Hofer's father was Jewish and her mother was Lutheran. In 1932, Hofer and her husband, Austrian actor 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 A ..., left Germany and lived in Switzerland, then Austria and the United Kingdom, before settling in the United States in 1938. In 1941, the couple moved from New York City to Los Angeles. Filmogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Fritz
Bruno Fritz (4 March 1900 – 12 June 1984) was a German actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1934 to 1971. Selected filmography References External links * 1900 births 1984 deaths German male film actors Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor people {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lühr
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Friedrich Domin
Friedrich Domin (15 May 1902 – 18 December 1961) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1939 and 1961. He was born in Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland) and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Das Lied der Wüste'' (1939) - Sir Collins, ihr Stiefvater * ''Der siebente Junge'' (1941) - Baron Florian von Roeckel * '' The Comedians'' (1941) - Johann Neuber * ''Alarmstufe V'' (1941) - Prof. Crusius * ''The Little Residence'' (1942) - Waldemar Prinz von Lauffenberg * ''Fünftausend Mark Belohnung'' (1942) - Joachim Wengraf * ''The Endless Road'' (1943) - Fürst Metternich * ''Man rede mir nicht von Liebe'' (1943) - Van Italy * ''Melusine'' (1944) - Professor von Hardegg * ''Wo ist Herr Belling?'' (1945) - Dr. Fiedler * ''In the Temple of Venus'' (1948) - Richard Doysen * ''The Last Illusion'' (1949) - Prof. Helfert * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1949) - Justizrat Dr. Horn, sein Vater * '' Regimental Music'' (1950) - Herr von Wahl * ''Nach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Waldow
Ernst Waldow (22 August 1893 – 5 June 1964) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films during his career. Selected filmography * ''Rübezahl's Wedding'' (1916) * '' Sin of a Beautiful Woman'' (1929) *''The Green Domino'' (1935) * '' Inkognito'' (1936) * ''Boccaccio'' (1936) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * ''When the Cock Crows'' (1936) * ''Game on Board'' (1936) * '' If We All Were Angels'' (1936) * '' The Dreamer'' (1936) * ''The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (1937) * ''Signal in the Night'' (1937) * ''The Beaver Coat'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) * ''When Women Keep Silent'' (1937) * '' Beate's Mystery'' (1938) * '' The Girl of Last Night'' (1938) * '' The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1938) * ''Women for Golden Hill'' (1938) * ''Who's Kissing Madeleine?'' (1939) * '' The Scoundrel'' (1939) * ''Wedding in Barenhof'' (1942) * ''Doctor Crippen'' (1942) * ''Circus Renz'' (1943) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * ''Beloved Darling'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käthe Haack
Käthe Haack (born Käte Lisbeth Minna Sophie Isolde Haack; 11 August 1897 – 5 May 1986) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 200 films and 30 television productions between 1915 and 1985. Life and career Käte Lisbeth Minna Sophie Isolde Haack was born in Berlin on 11 August 1897. After finishing school education, Haack had her first engagement as an actress in Göttingen. Since 1915, she regularly appeared in Berlin theatres like Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Volksbühne and Deutsches Theater. Between 1934 and 1945, she worked at the Konzerthaus Berlin under direction of Gustaf Gründgens. She also appeared in the original production of '' The Captain of Köpenick''. Haack remained in demand as a stage actress for the rest of her life, for example as Mrs. Higgins in ''My Fair Lady'' during the 1960s. Haack started her film career as early as 1915 with the Max Mack's silent film ''Der Katzensteg''. She was initially cast as Lola-Lola in the film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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