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The Black Chapel
''The Black Chapel'' (German: ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'') is a 1959 political thriller film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck and Ernst Schröder. It is based on the novel ''Die schwarze Kapelle'' by Olav Herfeldt. It is a co-production between West Germany, Italy (where the film is known as ''I sicari di Hitler'') and France (where it was released with the title ''R.P.Z. appelle Berlin''). It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin with location shooting in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Beni Montresor. Plot Europe, in the spring of 1940. After the lightning victory over Poland, Hitler's Wehrmacht drew up plans of attack for the overthrow of Western and Northern Europe. Several high-ranking officers fear that Hitler's excessive policy of conquest will ultimately plunge Germany into the abyss and therefore intend to contact Great Britain through diplomatic channels. After careful consideratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Habib
Ralph Habib (Paris, 29 June 1912 – Paris, 27 June 1969) was a French film director of Lebanese origin. He started his film career with Pathé. He later worked as assistant director notably Jean Dréville and Jean-Paul Le Chanois before directing his own films. Filmography *1951 : ''Rue des Saussaies'' *1952 : ''La Forêt de l'adieu'' *1953 : '' Les Compagnes de la nuit'' *1954 : '' La Rage au corps'' (English title ''Tempest in the Flesh'') *1954 : '' The Bed'' *1954 : ''Crainquebille'' *1955 : '' Men in White'' *1956 : '' La Loi des rues'' (English title ''Law of the Streets'') *1956 : ''Women's Club'' *1957 : '' Escapade'' *1959 : ''The Black Chapel'' based on the novel ''Die schwarze Kapelle'' by Olaf Herfeldt **French title - ''R.P.Z. appelle Berlin'' **German title - ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'' **Italian title - ''I sicari di Hitler'' *1960 : ''The Nabob Affair '' *1966 : Le Solitaire passe à l'attaque *1967 : ''Hotel Clausewitz ''Hotel Clausewitz'' (German: ' ... [...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] |
Günter Meisner
Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German film and television character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Arthur Slugworth in ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-language, German-language and French-language films. Career Born in Bremen, Meisner briefly worked at a steel foundry before training as a radio operator with the Luftwaffe's ''Fallschirmjäger'' (paratroopers). After the war, though he was interested in a career in sculpture and painting, in 1948 he switched to drama and studied under Gustaf Gründgens at Düsseldorf's State Conservatory, where he also got his first job at the local ''Schauspielhaus''. Film and TV Meisner often played stock character Nazi officers and other sinister characters. He portrayed Hitler in the 1982 Franco-German action comedy, ''L'as des as'' (Ace of Aces), and in the ABC television miniseri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Giese
Heinz Giese (June 5, 1919 – October 19, 2010) was a German film and television actor.Hoefert p.97 He was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign-language films for release in Germany. Selected filmography * ''All Clues Lead to Berlin'' (1952) * ''The Captain and His Hero'' (1955) * ''Love Without Illusions'' (1955) * ''Thomas Müntzer'' (1956) * ''The Black Chapel ''The Black Chapel'' (German: ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'') is a 1959 political thriller film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck and Ernst Schröder. It is based on the novel ''Die schwarze Kapelle'' by Olav H ...'' (1959) References Bibliography * Sigfrid Hoefert. ''Gerhart Hauptmann und der Film: Mit unveröffentlichten Filmentwürfen des Dichters''. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1996. External links * 1919 births 2010 deaths German male film actors German male television actors German male voice actors Actors from Szczecin {{Germany-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Wilk
Herbert Wilk (1905–1977) was a German stage, television and film actor. He emerged as a screen actor during the Nazi era, appearing in war films such as '' U-Boote westwärts'' (1941).Kreimeier p.312 However the bulk of his career came after the Second World War. After initially appearing in films made by the East German studio DEFA, he largely worked in West German television for the remainder of his career. Selected filmography * ''The Desert Song'' (1939) * ''Commissioner Eyck'' (1940) * '' The Rothschilds'' (1940) * '' U-Boote westwärts'' (1941) * ''Stukas'' (1941) * '' Free Land'' (1946) * '' The Beaver Coat'' (1949) * '' The Girl from the South Seas'' (1950) * '' Canaris'' (1954) * ''The Mosquito'' (1954) * '' Stresemann'' (1957) * ''The Black Chapel ''The Black Chapel'' (German: ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'') is a 1959 political thriller film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck and Ernst Schröder. It is based on the novel ''Die schwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosy Mazzacurati
Rosy Mazzacurati (born in 1938) is an Italian former film and stage actress. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Mazzacurati was the daughter of the sculptor and painter Renato Marino Mazzacurati. Eager to embark on an acting career, at young age she moved to Rome, where she enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1953. She had made her film debut one year earlier, in the Leonardo Cortese's drama '' Art. 519 codice penale''. During her career Mazzacurati was often cast in supporting roles, notably playing a role of weight in Michelangelo Antonioni's movie ''La Notte''. She was also active on stage. Mazzacurati retired in the mid-1960s. Selected filmography * ''Article 519, Penal Code'' (1952) * '' Cavalcade of Song '' (1953) * '' The Beach'' (1954) * '' Ore 10: lezione di canto'' (1955) * '' Red and Black'' (1955) * ''Young Husbands'' (1958) * ''The Black Chapel'' (1959) * ''La Notte ''La Notte'' (; en, "The Night") is a 1961 drama film directed by M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was of the (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust. As a member of a reserve battalion during World War I, Himmler did not see active service, and did not fight. He studied agriculture in university, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925. In 1929, he was appointed by Adolf Hitler. Over the next 16 years, he developed the SS from a 290-man battalion into a million-strong paramilitary group, and set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps. He was known for good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931. From 1943 onwards, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Peters
Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971. Biography Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany. His film career started with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's ''Der Untertan'', produced in the young German Democratic Republic. Peters then worked in West Germany, appearing mostly in supporting roles in popular movies. He also established himself in the European and international film industry by frequently playing sinister German or Nazi characters. Peters appeared in two episodes of the 1966 American television espionage drama ''Blue Light''. These were edited together with two other episodes to create the theatrical film ''I Deal in Danger'', released in December 1966, which included his role. Selected filmography * ''The Beaver Coat'' (1949), as Eberhard Schulz * ''Der Kahn der fröhlic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi (; 15 February 1916 – 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor. Life and career Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, Franco Fabrizi started his career as a model and an actor in fotoromanzi. Fabrizi also starred on several revues and stage works, then he debuted on the big screen with a supporting role in '' Chronicle of a Love'' (''Cronaca di un amore'') (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut. The role that made him known was as Fausto in Federico Fellini's ''I vitelloni''; from then he was inextricably linked to the character of a full-time seducer, a young wastrel, a young not-so-young man who refuses to grow up, a character that he reprised, with different facets, in a great number of films. Past the 1950s, Fabrizi was mainly relegated to character roles in Italian, French and Spanish minor productions; he still appeared on several major works of Italian cinema, and one of his last great roles was in Luchino Visconti's ''Death in Venice''. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Hinz
Werner Hinz (18 January 1903 – 10 February 1985) was a German film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1935 and 1984. Selected filmography * ''The Old and the Young King'' (1935) - Kronprinz Friedrich ('Fritz') * ''White Slaves'' (1937) - Boris - Diener beim Gouverneur * '' The Citadel of Warsaw'' (1937) - Konrad * ' (1938) - Kaplan von Schigorski * ''Der vierte kommt nicht'' (1939) - Kapitän Holm * ''The Fox of Glenarvon'' (1940) - Sir Tetbury * ' (194) - Ronny * '' Bismarck'' (1940) - Kronprinz Friedrich * ''My Life for Ireland'' (1941) - Michael O'Brien sen * ''Ohm Krüger'' (1941) - Jan Krüger * ''Destiny'' (1942) - Kosta Wasileff * '' Die Entlassung'' (1942) - Kaiser Wilhelm II. * ''Melody of a Great City'' (1943) - Dr. Rolf Bergmann, Berichterstatter * ''Wild Bird'' (1943) - Professor Losse * ''The Heart Must Be Silent'' (1944) - Freiherr von Bonin * ''Meine Herren Söhne'' (1945) - Kurt Redwitz, Gutsbesitzer * ''Der Fall Molander'' (1945) - Holk, Prosecutor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beni Montresor
Beni Montresor (31 March 1926 – 11 October 2001) was a versatile Italian artist, opera and film director, set designer, author and children's book illustrator. He won the 1965 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing '' May I Bring a Friend?''. The Italian government knighted him in 1966 for his contributions to the arts. Career Montresor was particularly known in the United States as a designer of sets, lighting and costumes for opera. He designed sets and costumes for the 1964 American premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera ''The Last Savage'' at the Metropolitan Opera. He also designed the evocative and ephemeral scenery and lighting for the Washington Opera/New York City Opera revival of the Montemezzi opera ''The Love of Three Kings'' in 1981. He was the Artistic Director of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in 1988–1989. He directed two films, ''Pilgrimage'' (1972), starring Cliff De Young and ' (1975), starring Lucia Bose. He was also a stage and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Erdmann (art Director)
Otto Erdmann (16 November 1898 – 23 January 1965) was a German art director.Chandler p. 270 During the 1920s and 1930s he often worked alongside Hans Sohnle. Filmography * ''The Weather Station'' (1923) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''The Girl from Capri'' (1924) * ''Mother and Child'' (1924) * ''The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * '' The Woman in Flames'' (1924) * ''Prater'' (1924) * ''Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' The Golden Calf'' (1925) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''Flight Around the World'' (1925) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' The Poacher'' (1926) * ''The Great Duchess'' (1926) * ''Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse'' (1926) * ''Professor Imhof'' (1926) * '' The Marriage Hotel'' (1926) * ''Circus Romanelli'' (1926) * ''The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * ''The Woman Who Couldn't Say No'' (1927) * '' The Impostor'' (1927) * ''The Bordello in Rio'' (1927) * ''The City of a Thousand Delights'' (1927) * ''Hello Caesar!'' (1927) * '' The White Slave'' (1927) * ''Queen of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
