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The Call Of The North (1929 Film)
''The Call of the North'' (german: Der Ruf des Nordens) is a 1929 German adventure film directed by Nunzio Malasomma and Mario Bonnard and starring Luis Trenker, Max Holzboer, and Eva von Berne. Originally produced as a silent film, it was subsequently released with an added soundtrack. The only survivor of a polar expedition returns to try to find out what happened to his colleagues. It is similar to the tradition of mountain films, with large amounts of location footage shot, but with the setting moved to the North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's rotation, Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distingu .... The film's sets were designed by Heinrich Richter. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1929 films 1929 adventure films German adventure films Films of the Weimar Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunzio Malasomma
Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 January 1974) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 41 films between 1923 and 1968. Selected filmography * '' Mister Radio'' (1924) * '' Orient'' (1924) * '' The Doll Queen'' (1925) * '' One Minute to Twelve'' (1925) * '' The King and the Girl'' (1925) * '' Hunted People'' (1926) * ''Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * ''The Son of the White Mountain'' (1930) * ''The Man with the Claw'' (1931) * ''The Opera Singer'' (1932) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * '' The Blind Woman of Sorrento'' (1934) * ''Territorial Militia'' (1935) * '' I Don't Know You Anymore'' (1936) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) *''The Secret Lie'' (1938) * '' Woman Without a Past'' (1939) * ''Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * ''Scampolo'' (1941) * '' Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * '' The White Devil'' (1947) * ''The Devil in the Convent ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Film
A mountain film is a film genre that focuses on mountaineering and especially the battle of human against nature. In addition to mere adventure, the protagonists who return from the mountain come back changed, usually gaining wisdom and enlightenment. ''Bergfilme'' Although the first mountain film, depicting the ascent of the Mont Blanc by the American climber Frank Ormiston-Smith, was released in 1903, the mountain film genre is most associated with the German ''Bergfilme'' (singular: ''Bergfilm'') released in the 1920s. Some critics describe the German mountain film as an indigenous national / cultural genre, comparable to the American western. The most important director of mountain films was Dr. Arnold Fanck. According to an essay by Doug Cummings in the DVD release of the landmark '' The Holy Mountain'' (1926), Fanck shot his first motion picture in 1913, and after serving in World War I, purchased a rare Ernemann slow-motion camera, taught himself to shoot on location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Falkenberg
Karl Falkenberg (born Karl Franz Josef Falkenberg, 6 April 1887 – died after 1936) was a German-Jewish film actor. Selected filmography * '' Clown Charly'' (1918) * '' Cain'' (1918) * '' Blackmailed'' (1920) * ''The Song of the Puszta'' (1920) * ''The Grand Babylon Hotel'' (1920) * ''Parisian Women'' (1921) * ''The Terror of the Red Mill'' (1921) * ''Evelyn's Love Adventures'' (1921) * ''The Passenger in the Straitjacket'' (1922) * ''The Testament of Joe Sivers'' (1922) * ''Your Bad Reputation'' (1922) * '' The Unwritten Law'' (1922) * '' His Wife, The Unknown'' (1923) * ''Resurrection'' (1923) * '' Maciste and Prisoner 51'' (1923) * ''Maciste and the Chinese Chest'' (1923) * ''Bob and Mary'' (1923) * ''The Tragedy of a Night of Passion'' (1924) * ''The Heart of Lilian Thorland'' (1924) * ''The Four Last Seconds of Quidam Uhl'' (1924) * ''Slaves of Love'' (1924) * ''Mrs Worrington's Perfume'' (1925) * ''Unmarried Daughters'' (1926) * '' Hunted People'' (1926) * ''The Last Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Lehner
Hugo Lehner (1902 – 14 October 1952) was a Swiss mountain guide and skier. He competed together with Fritz Kuhn, Otto Furrer and Anton Julen in military patrol at the second winter Olympics in St. Moritz in 1928, where the team placed third. , Bergparadies Zermatt. Rotten Verlag, Visp, 1996. Lehner also performed in famous movies such as '' Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928), in which he portrayed Charles Hudson, '' The Call of the North'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Von Rossi
Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. The historical Roland was military governor of the Breton March, responsible for defending Francia's frontier against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's ''Vita Karoli Magni'', which notes he was part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution by the Basques in Iberia at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The story of Roland's death at Roncevaux Pass was embellished in later medieval literature, medieval and Renaissance literature. The first and most famous of these epic treatments was the Old French ''Chanson de Roland'' of the 11th century. Two masterpieces of Italian Renaissance poetry, the ''Orlando Innamorato'' and ''Orlando Furioso'' (by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto respectiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Hanson
Lars Mauritz Hanson (26 July 1886 – 8 April 1965) was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era. Biography Born in Göteborg, Sweden, Hanson began his career on the stages of Sweden after studying drama in Helsinki and Stockholm as a Shakespearean actor, appearing in such classics as '' Othello'' and ''Hamlet''. Hanson made his film debut in the 1915 film ''Dolken'', directed by Mauritz Stiller, and his popularity as a leading man in his homeland grew with ensuing roles. He was a student of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy.Isak Thorsen, Lars Gustaf Andersson, Olof Hedling, Gunnar Iversen. ''Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema''. p. 192. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2012. While already a well established popular actor in Sweden and much of continental Europe, Lars Hanson gained greater international recognition for his role as the title character in the 1923 Stiller film '' G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rehkopf
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (21 May 1872 – 29 June 1949) was a German actor. He was born in Braunschweig and died in Braunschweig, Germany Selected filmography * '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918) * '' Film Kathi'' (1918) * '' Lorenzo Burghardt'' (1918) * '' Der Mädchenhirt'' (1919) * ''President Barrada'' (1920) * ''The Dancer of Jaipur'' (1920) * ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * ''Night and No Morning'' (1921) * '' The Red Masquerade Ball'' (1921) * ''The Man in the Background'' (1922) * ''The Circle of Death'' (1922) * '' The Sleeping Volcano'' (1922) * ''The Love Story of Cesare Ubaldi'' (1922) * '' Rose of the Asphalt Streets'' (1922) * '' Madame Golvery'' (1923) * '' Tatjana'' (1923) * '' I Had a Comrade'' (1923) * '' His Wife, The Unknown'' (1923) * '' The Secret of the Duchess'' (1923) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''Playing with Destiny'' (1924) * '' Man Against Man'' (1924) * ''Varieté'' (1925) * ''A Free People'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Walther Meyer
Carl Walther Meyer was a German stage and film actor and film editor. Meyer appeared in more than fifty productions during the silent and early sound eras.Giesen & Hobsch p.66 Selected filmography * '' Women Who Fall by the Wayside'' (1925) * ''The Royal Grenadiers'' (1925) * '' The Adventurous Wedding'' (1925) * '' The Heart of a German Mother'' (1926) * '' Little Inge and Her Three Fathers '' (1926) * '' The Seventh Son'' (1926) * '' Klettermaxe'' (1927) * ''Valencia'' (1927) * '' At Ruedesheimer Castle There Is a Lime Tree'' (1928) * '' Assassination'' (1927) * '' German Women - German Faithfulness'' (1927) * '' Leontine's Husbands'' (1928) * '' Eva in Silk'' (1928) * '' Suzy Saxophone'' (1928) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * '' The Caviar Princess'' (1930) * '' Paprika'' (1932) * '' The Ringer'' (1932) * ''The Love Hotel'' (1933) * ''Heinz in the Moon ''Heinz in the Moon'' (german: Heinz im Mond) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Rovenský
Josef Rovenský (17 April 1894 – 5 November 1937) was a Czech-Jewish Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 film actor and director. He appeared in 74 films between 1914 and 1936. He starred in the 1929 film '' Father Vojtech'', which was the directorial debut of Martin Frič. He died during filming of ''Virginity''. According to Otakar Vávra he died of a cocaine overdose. His last film '' Watchman No. 47'' was then completed by Jan Sviták. Selected filmography Director Actor * ''Little Red Riding Hood'' (1920) * '' Tu ten kámen'' (1923) * '' White Paradise'' (1924) * '' Schweik in Civilian Life'' (1927) * '' Kainovo znamení'' (1928) * '' Father Vojtech'' (1929) * ''Diary of a Lost Girl'' (1929) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * ''The Girl with the Whip'' (1929) * '' Sin of a Beautiful Woman'' (1929) * ''Když struny lkají'' (1930) * ''A Girl from the Reeperbahn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aribert Mog
Aribert Mog (3 August 1904 – 2 October 1941) was a German film actor who played in a mixture of leading and supporting roles during the 1930s. He was a member of the Militant League for German Culture and the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization. In May 1940 he was called up for military service and died fighting on the Eastern Front with the Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam the following year. Selected filmography * '' Fight of the Tertia'' (1929) * ''The Brandenburg Arch'' (1929) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * ''Scapa Flow'' (1930) * '' Farewell'' (1930) * '' Westfront 1918'' (1930) * ''Kinder vor Gericht'' (1931) * ''The Trunks of Mr. O.F.'' (1931) * '' Louise, Queen of Prussia'' (1931) * '' The Leap into the Void'' (1932) * ''Girls of Today'' (1933) * '' Ekstase'' (1933) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1933) * ''Regine'' (1935) * '' Fährmann Maria'' (1936) * '' The Unknown'' (1936) * ''Ewiger Wald'' (1936) * '' Der Etappenhase'' (1937) * ''Carousel'' (1937) * '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Turoff
Nico Turoff (Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...: Ніко Турофф; 6 December 1899 – 22 June 1978) was a Ukrainian boxer and actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1926 to 1979. Selected filmography References External links * 1899 births 1978 deaths Ukrainian male film actors Ukrainian male silent film actors People from Kremenchuk Soviet emigrants to Germany {{Ukraine-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
