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The Five Frankfurters
''The Five Frankfurters'' (german: Die fünf Frankfurter) is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Erich Schönfelder. It was based on a 1912 play of the same title about the rise of the Rothschild family. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Rudi Feld and Robert Neppach Robert Neppach (2 March 1890 – 18 August 1939) was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director. Neppach worked from 1919 in the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. He oversaw the art direction of over 80 films during his career, i .... Cast References External links * 1920s historical films German historical films German silent feature films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Erich Schönfelder Films set in the 19th century Films set in Frankfurt Rothschild family German black-and-white films Films about Jews and Judaism 1920s German films {{Historic-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Schönfelder
Erich Schönfelder (1885–1933) was a German screenwriter, actor, and film director of the silent film, silent and early sound film, sound eras. Early in his career he worked frequently with Ernst Lubitsch. Selected filmography Writer * ''Shoe Palace Pinkus'' (1916) * ''When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''Meyer from Berlin'' (1919) * ''Love at the Wheel'' (1921) Actor * ''The Golem and the Dancing Girl'' (1917) *''The Toboggan Cavalier'' (1918) * ''Ruth's Two Husbands'' (1919) * ''Hunted Men'' (1924) * ''Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * ''Fight of the Tertia (1929 film), Fight of the Tertia'' (1929) * ''The Copper (1930 film), The Copper'' (1930) Director * ''The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''In the Name of the King (1924 film), In the Name of the King'' (1924) * ''Women of Luxury'' (1925) * ''The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * ''Princess Trulala'' (1926) * ''Grandstand for General Staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Hartau
Ludwig Hartau (19 February 1877 – 24 November 1922) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Dancer'' (1915) * '' Hungernde Millionäre'' (1919) * ''Baccarat'' (1919) * '' The Three Dances of Mary Wilford'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter'' (1922) * ''Napoleon's Daughter'' (1922) * '' Two Worlds'' (1922) * ''Today's Children'' (1922) * ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen'' (German: ''Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen'') is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Marija Leiko, Paul Wegener and Reinhold Schünzel. It premiered in Berlin Be ...'' (1923) * '' The Beautiful Girl'' (1923) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. External links * 1877 births 1922 deaths People from Żmigród ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Rameau
Emil Rameau (born Emil Pulvermacher; 13 August 1878 – 9 September 1957) was a German film and theatre actor, and for many years the deputy artistic director at the Schiller Theater. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1915 and 1949. Life and career After his graduation from Realschule Rameau got an actor. His first role was Marcellus in ''Julius Caesar'' in Bromberg (today Bydgoszcz in Poland). In 1906 he went to the Schiller Theater in Berlin, where Rameau worked with Leopold Jessner. From 1923 until 1931 he was the vicarious intendant at the Schiller theater. He directed some plays at the Volksbühne. Emil Rameau worked also with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. Rameau made his film debut in 1915 and appeared regularly in German silent films, mostly in character roles. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Rameau escaped through Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, and Great Britain to the United States. During the Second World War, he had small appearances i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Platen
Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer known for '' Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and '' M'' (1931). Biography Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He died on July 4, 1952 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic at the age of 75. Selected filmography * ''Ein Ausgestoßener'' (1913, part 1) * ''Der Katzensteg'' (1915) - Pfarrer * ''Die Erben des Geizhalses'' (1915) - Pflegesohn von Riedel Hermann * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''Hängezöpfchen'' (1919) - Prof. Hahnensporn * ''Das rosa Strumpfbändchen'' (1919) * '' The Boy in Blue'' (1919) - Alter Diener / Old servant * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919, Short) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' Madame Du Barry'' (1919) - Guillaume Dubarry * ''Der rote Sarafan'' (1919) * ''Seine Beichte (Bekenntnisse eines Lebemannes)'' (1919) - Diener Franz * '' Irrlicht'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * ''Die fremde Frau'' (1919) * ''Der Mitter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom. He is among the commanders who won and ended the Napoleonic Wars when the coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Wellesley was born in Dublin into the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. He was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1787, serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive lords lieutenant of Ireland. He was also elected as a member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. He was a colonel by 1796 and saw action in the Netherlands and in India, where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799 and, as a newly appointed major-general, won a decisive victory over the Maratha Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Pittschau
Ernst Pittschau (5 October 1883 – 2 June 1951) was a German stage and film actor. Biography Pittschau, whose father's name was also named Ernst Pittschau, a stage actor, received an education in business and had a brief career selling dental products. However, he then chose his father's profession and had his first theatrical engagement at the end of 1905 in Koblenz. In 1910, he appeared in New York City, and in 1911, he was a stage actor in Berlin. A year later, he took roles in the still undervalued cinema. Pittschau personified elegant lovers and was a partner of Hanni Weisse and Henny Porten, among others. In the 20s, his film roles became smaller; after that, he barely received work. He now mostly played at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, at the Komödie and at the Tribüne. In the 1940s, he lived in poverty and had to rely on the support of the Goebbels-supported foundation for people who worked in the arts, "Künstlerdank." After World War II, the Italian direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Paulig
Albert Paulig (14 January 1873 – 19 March 1933) was a German film actor who was popular during the silent era. Paulig made his first film in 1914. The following year he appeared in one of Ernst Lubitsch's first directorial attempts, '' A Trip on the Ice'' (1915). Paulig was in a number of Harry Piel, thrillers including '' The Man Without Nerves'' (1924).Grange p. 184 Selected filmography * '' The Firm Gets Married'' (1914) * '' The Platonic Marriage'' (1919) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) *''The Lost House'' (1922) * ''The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * ''Only One Night'' (1922) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''Rivals'' (1923) * ''The Weather Station'' (1923) * '' Man Against Man'' (1924) * '' The Man Without Nerves'' (1924) * '' The Brigantine of New York'' (1924) * '' The Creature'' (1924) * ''Zigano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Pagay
Sophie Berg Pagay (22 April 1860 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian stage and film actress, born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. She began acting as a child, and went to Berlin to perform on stage in 1887. She married actor Hans Pagay. Selected filmography * ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1917) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''Intoxication'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Mascotte'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''The Forbidden Way'' (1920) * '' Nobody Knows'' (1920) * ''Lotte Lore'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' The House on the Moon'' (1921) * ''The Blood'' (1922) * ''Shame'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Tania, the Woman in Chains'' (1922) * '' The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * ''Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * ''Darling of the King'' (1924) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''The Adventures o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mayer De Rothschild
James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (born Jakob Mayer Rothschild; 15 May 1792 – 15 November 1868) was a German- French banker and the founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family. Early life James de Rothschild was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. He was the fifth son and youngest child of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) and Guttle Schnapper (1753–1849). Career In 1812, he moved to Paris to co-ordinate the purchase of specie and bullion for his brother Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), and in 1814 and 1815 he was the linchpin in Nathan's plan to furnish Wellington's armies with funds. In 1817 he expanded the family banking empire to the city, opening De Rothschild Frères. By 1823 the Paris House was firmly established as banker to the French government. An adviser of ministers and kings, he became the most powerful banker in the country and following the Napoleonic Wars, played a major role in financing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (23 February 1744 – 19 September 1812; also spelled ''Anschel'') was a German-Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. Referred to as a "founding father of international finance", Rothschild was ranked seventh on the ''Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also re ...'' magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen of All Time" in 2005. Early life Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in 1744 to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, in the ''Frankfurter Judengasse, Judengasse'', the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany), one of eight children of Amschel Moses Rothschild (d. 1755) and his wife, Schönche Rothschild (née Lechnich; d. 1756). The ancestry of the Rothschilds can be traced back to 1577 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Hirsch (actor)
Fritz Hirsch (21 April 1871 – 18 July 1938) was a German art historian, architect, and pioneer of state-sponsored historical preservation. Early life Fritz Hirsh was born on 21 April 1871 in Konstanz, in the German Empire, to parents of Jewish descent. Education Hirsch graduated from a Konstanz gymnasium in 1889 and then began studying art and architecture in Karlsruhe and Munich. Also in 1889, while in Karlsruhe, he joined the fraternity. From 1895, he worked as an apprentice architect at the inspection offices of the Konstanz and Heidelberg districts. He received his doctorate in 1897 while in Heidelberg with a thesis on the Baroque sculptor . In the same year, he took a teaching position at an architecture school in Lübeck. Career In 1900, Hirsch became an assessor specializing in architecture for the government Heidelberg. Five years later, he was the district inspector for Bruchsal. From 1900 to 1909, he directed a restoration of Schloss Bruchsal and the nearby , a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salomon Mayer Von Rothschild
Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (9 September 1774 – 28 July 1855) was a German-born banker in the Austrian Empire and the founder of the Austrian branch of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family. Family He was born at Frankfurt am Main the third child and second son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) and Gutlé Schnapper (1753–1849). In 1800, he married Caroline Stern (1782–1854). They had the following children: # Anselm Salomon (1803–1874) - married his cousin Charlotte Nathan Rothschild in 1826. # Betty von Rothschild (1805–1886) - married her uncle James Mayer de Rothschild in 1824. His father had built a hugely prosperous banking business in Germany. Wanting to expand the family business across Europe, the eldest Rothschild son remained in Frankfurt, while each of the other four sons were sent to different European cities to establish a banking branch. Salomon von Rothschild was made a shareholder of the de Rothschild Frères bank when it was opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
