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The Big Number
''The Big Number'' or ''The Big Act'' (German: ''Die große Nummer'') is a 1943 German drama film directed by Karl Anton and starring Leny Marenbach, Maly Delschaft and Paul Hoffmann. A circus film, it was originally intended to star Harry Piel but due to delays on ''Panic'' he withdrew from the project, although he had contributed to the screenplay. Location shooting took place at the Circus Sarrasani in Dresden. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Schiller. It was one of three entertainment-focused films playing in Berlin at the time of the Sportpalast speech by Joseph Goebbels calling for total war.Echternkamp p.109 Cast * Leny Marenbach as Helga Wallner * Maly Delschaft as Marion Wallner * Paul Hoffmann as Heinrich Wallner * Rudolf Prack as Peter Stoll * Paul Kemp as Otto Gellert * Charlott Daudert as Mariettchen * Marina Ried as Bianca * Karl Günther as Direktor Kroll * Maria Horstweg as Frau Roselli * Walter Janssen as Zeller * Heinz Kling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Anton
Karl Anton or Karel Anton (25 October 1898 12 April 1979) was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter and film producer. Biography He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician. Anton studied medicine, but left the school after his father's death. He started as a stage actor and director in Vienna, Linz and Prague. During the World War I Anton made amateur documentaries with his friends Karel Lamač and Otto Heller. He directed his first movie, a lyrical drama ''Gypsies'', in 1921. Anton is considered an early proponent of Czech lyrical cinema tradition. He founded his own production companies Antonfilm (1923–30) and Sonorfilm (1930–32). After the international success of ''Tonka of the Gallows'' he worked in Paris for Paramount Pictures from 1932 to 1935. After leaving Paramount he moved to Germany in 1935. He died in Berlin, Germany in 1979. Czech actor Raoul Schránil was his cousin. Selected filmography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film ''The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films ''Amadeus'' and '' The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Most films feature a combination of location and studio shoots; often, interior scenes will be shot on a soundstage while exterior scenes will be shot on location. Second unit photography is not generally considered a location shoot. Before filming, the locations are generally surveyed in pre-production, a process known as location scouting and recce. Pros and cons Location shooting has several advantages over filming on a studio set. First and foremost, the expense can often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Günther
Karl Günther (25 November 1885 – 27 June 1951) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Masked Ones'' (1920) * ''The Riddle of the Sphinx'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Call of Destiny'' (1922) * '' Your Valet'' (1922) * '' Modern Vices'' (1924) * ''The Queen of Moulin Rouge'' (1926) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' Court Theatre'' (1936) * ''Alarm in Peking'' (1937) * ''Premiere'' (1937) * ''The Charm of La Boheme'' (1937) * '' A Prussian Love Story'' (1938) * ''The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl'' (1938) * '' Triad'' (1938) * '' Secret Code LB 17'' (1938) * ''Maria Ilona'' (1939) * ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939) * '' Stern von Rio'' (1940) * ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (1941) * ''Der große König'' (1942) * ''Andreas Schlüter'' (1942) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * '' The Big Number'' (1943) * ''Romance in a Minor Key'' (1943) * '' The Second Shot'' (1943) * '' The War of the Oxen'' (1943) * ''Nora'' (1944) * ''The Roede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Ried
Marina Ried ( Rsjevskaja; 1921–1989) was a Russian-born German stage and film actress.Cowie & Elley p.167 The niece of the film star Olga Chekhova, she was born in Moscow but moved to Germany as a child. She was married to actor Rudolf Platte Rudolf Antonius Heinrich Platte (12 February 1904 – 18 December 1984) was a German actor. Biography Born in Hörde, Westphalia (today part of Dortmund) the son of a merchant, his family moved to Hildesheim three years later. Rudolf left scho ... between 1942 and 1953. Filmography References Bibliography * Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. External links * 1921 births 1989 deaths Soviet emigrants to Germany German television actresses German stage actresses German film actresses {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlott Daudert
Charlott Daudert (27 December 1913 – 19 January 1961) was a German film actress.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.275 Filmography * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934) * ''Frasquita'' (1934) * '' Da stimmt was nicht'' (1934) * '' Old Comrades'' (1934) * '' April, April!'' (1935) * '' Die klugen Frauen'' (1936) * '' The Bashful Casanova'' (1936) * ''Angels with Minor Faults'' (1936) * '' Crooks in Tails''(1937) * '' Der Etappenhase'' (1937) * '' Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''Diamonds'' (1937) * '' The Man Who Couldn't Say No'' (1938) * '' Heimat'' (1938) * ''Das Ehesanatorium'' (1938) * '' Love Letters from the Engadine'' (1938) * ''Shoulder Arms'' (1939) * '' Her First Experience'' (1939) * '' Der vierte kommt nicht'' (1939) * '' Die kluge Schwiegermutter'' (1939) * ''Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * '' Men Are That Way'' (1939) * '' We Danced Around the World'' (1939) * '' Midsummer Night's Fire'' (1939) * '' Seitensprünge'' (1940) * '' Liebesschule'' (1940) * '' Die letzt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kemp (actor)
Paul Kemp (20 May 1896 – 13 August 1953) was a German stage and film actor. Kemp worked as a piano accompaniest for silent films, and then served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War. Post-war he moved into acting on the stage in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. His career really took off when he moved to Berlin in 1929, appearing in the hit stage version of the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' by Vicki Baum. He made his film debut in 1930, shortly after the introduction of sound film. He appeared prolifically in German and Austrian films until his death in 1953. Selected filmography * ''Cyanide'' (1930) - Kuckuck * ' (1930) - Aufnahmeleiter * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) - Priem * ''The Great Longing'' (1930) - Regieassistent Mopp * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) - Jack * ''The Blonde Nightingale'' (1930) - Hirschfield * ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1931) - Mackie Messers Platte * ''Seitensprünge'' (1931) - Anton Schiller * '' M'' (1931) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack (2 August 1905 – 2 December 1981) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * ''Florentine'' (1937) * ''Prinzessin Sissy'' (1939) - Prince Luitpold * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Felix Pirlinger - 1922 * ''Krambambuli'' (1940) - Thomas Werndl * ''Ein Leben lang'' (1940) - Franz Hofbauer * '' Beloved Augustin'' (1940) - Podl Schauerhuber, Musikant * ''Spähtrupp Hallgarten'' (1941) - Oberjäger Unterkirchner * ''Die heimlichen Bräute'' (1942) - Peter Leidinger * '' The Golden City'' (1942) - Großknecht Thomas - Annas Verlobte * '' The Big Number'' (1943) - Peter Stoll * ''The Eternal Tone'' (1943) - Berthold Buchner * ''Die unheimliche Wandlung des Axel Roscher'' (1943) - Zollassistent Alex Roscher * ''Reise in die Vergangenheit'' (1943) - Michael BrantnerLehrer * ''Aufruhr der Herzen'' (1944) - Franz Atzinger * ''Orient Express'' (1944) - Franz Schulz * ''Leuchtende Schatten'' (1945) * ''Der weite Weg'' (1946) - Franz Manhardt * ''Glaube an mich'' (1946) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Total War
Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs. The term has been defined as "A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded." In the mid-19th century, scholars identified total war as a separate class of warfare. In a total war, the differentiation between combatants and non-combatants diminishes due to the capacity of opposing sides to consider nearly every human, including non-combatants, as resources that are used in the war effort. Characteristics According to an analysis by Tiziano Peccia of Stig Förster's works, total war is characterized on four dimensions: # Total purposes (aim of continuous growth of the power of the parties involved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted acolytes, known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philology degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch. He was appointed ''Gauleiter'' of Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry quickly gained a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportpalast Speech
The ''Sportpalast'' speech (german: link=no, Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies. The speech is particularly notable as Goebbels almost mentions the Holocaust, when he begins saying "Ausrotten" (using the German word for extermination), but quickly changes it to Ausschaltung (i.e. exclusion). This was the same word Heinrich Himmler used on 18 December 1941, when he recorded the outcome of his discussion with Adolf Hitler on the Final Solution, wherein he wrote "''als Partisanen auszurotten''" ("exterminate them as partisans"). It is considered the most famous of Joseph Goebbels's speeches. The speech was the first public admission by the Nazi leadership that Germany faced serious dangers. Goebbels called for a total war (German: ''totalen Krie ... [...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] |
Willy Schiller
Willy Schiller (11 August 1899 – 17 July 1973) was a German art director.Allan & Sandford p.3 In the later part of his career he worked for DEFA, the East German state-controlled film studio. Selected filmography * ''Radio Magic'' (1927) * ''The Green Alley'' (1928) * ''Don Juan in a Girls' School'' (1928) * ''The Lady from Argentina'' (1928) * ''Love in the Cowshed'' (1928) * ''Only a Viennese Woman Kisses Like That'' (1928) * '' The Night of Terror'' (1929) * ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1929) * '' The Youths'' (1929) * ''Distinguishing Features'' (1929) * ''Yes, Yes, Women Are My Weakness'' (1929) * ''Youthful Indiscretion'' (1929) * ''Beware of Loose Women'' (1929) * ''Secret Police'' (1929) * ''The Woman Everyone Loves Is You'' (1929) * '' The Daredevil Reporter'' (1929) * ''From a Bachelor's Diary'' (1929) * ''German Wine'' (1929) * '' A Mother's Love'' (1929) * '' Busy Girls'' (1930) * '' Witnesses Wanted'' (1930) * ''Man schenkt sich Rosen, wenn man verliebt ist'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
