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The Merciful Lie
''The Merciful Lie'' (German: ''Die barmherzige Lüge'') is a 1939 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Hilde Krahl, Elisabeth Flickenschildt and Ernst von Klipstein.Waldman p.266 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Böhm and Erich Czerwonski. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin and on location in Bremen. Synopsis In a frontier town on the border between Manchuria and Mongolia Anja, the niece of the owner of a rough local entertainment venue, waits for the return of her lover Doctor Thomas Clausen with whom she has had a child. Clausen is part of an expedition planning to explore into the wild lands on the Soviet side of the border. To Anja's dismay, however, he returns with a new wife. When the new wife dies of food poisoning and Clausen away on his expedition, Anja goes to Bremen to stay with his wealthy family and masquerades as his wife. They welcome her as has a child who will carry on the family line. Cast * Hilde K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Klingler
Karl Adolf Kurt Werner Klingler (23 October 1903 – 23 June 1972) was a German film director and actor. He directed 29 films between 1936 and 1968. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Berlin, Germany. Early life Klingler acquired his first theatre experience in minor acting roles. He immigrated to the United States, where he played at a German-American German Americans (german: Deutschamerikaner, ) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 43 million in 2019, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the Unite ... theater in Milwaukee in 1925. Klingler starred in films, such as Howard Hughes' ''Hell's Angels (film), Hell's Angels'' and Wilhelm Dieterle's ''The Dance Goes On (1930 film), The Dance Goes On'' (a German-language version of ''Those Who Dance''). Career Klingler met Luis Trenker to film ''Mountains on Fire''. Klingler was assistant director at ''SOS Eisberg'' (1933) and ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. With about 570,000 inhabitants, the Hanseatic city is the 11th largest city of Germany and the second largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg. Bremen is the largest city on the River Weser, the longest river flowing entirely in Germany, lying some upstream from its mouth into the North Sea, and is surrounded by the state of Lower Saxony. A commercial and industrial city, Bremen is, together with Oldenburg and Bremerhaven, part of the Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region, with 2.5 million people. Bremen is contiguous with the Lower Saxon towns of Delmenhorst, Stuhr, Achim, Weyhe, Schwanewede and Lilienthal. There is an exclave of Bremen in Bremerhaven, the "Citybremian Overseas Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekkehard Stibbe
Ekkehard (and Eckardt, Eckard, Eckart, Eckhardt, Ekkehart) is a German given name. It is composed of the elements ''ekke'' "edge, blade; sword" and ''hart'' "brave; hardy". Variant forms include Eckard, Eckhard, Eckhart, Eckart. The Anglo-Saxon form of the name was ''Ecgheard'', possibly attested in the toponym Eggerton. Middle Ages It was the name of five monks of the Abbey of Saint Gall from the tenth to the thirteenth century: *Ekkehard I (died 973) *Ekkehard II (died 990) *Ekkehard III *Ekkehard IV (died c. 1056) *Ekkehard V (died c. 1220) It was also the name of two Margraves of Meissen: * Eckard I (died 1002) * Eckard II (died 1046) Other notable people with that given name include: * Ekkehard of Huysburg (died 1084), abbot of Huysburg Abbey * Ekkehard of Aura (died 1126), chronicler and abbot of Aura Abbey *Meister Eckhart Eckhart von Hochheim ( – ), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaspar Von Oertzen
Jaspar von Oertzen (1912–2008) was a German stage, film and television actor.Giesen p.207 Selected filmography * ''Trouble with Jolanthe'' (1934) * ''Comrades at Sea'' (1938) * ''The Merciful Lie'' (1939) * ''Police Report'' (1939) * '' Bismarck'' (1940) * ''Riding for Germany'' (1941) * '' Münchhausen'' (1943) * ''The Golden Spider'' (1943) * '' Young Hearts'' (1944) * '' The Silent Guest'' (1945) * '' Kolberg'' (1945) * ''The Magic Face'' (1951) * ''Monks, Girls and Hungarian Soldiers'' (1952) * ''The Last Waltz ''The Last Waltz'' was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. ''The Last Waltz'' was advertised as The Band's "farewell concert a ...'' (1953) * '' A Song Goes Round the World'' (1958) References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf. '' Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2003. External links * 1912 births 2008 dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud Meyen
Gertrud Meyen (1919–2012) was a German stage and film actress. She was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign-language films for release in Germany. She was married to the actor Heinz Engelmann. Selected filmography * ''The Merciful Lie'' (1939) * ''Midsummer Night's Fire'' (1939) * ''Doctor Crippen Hawley Harvey Crippen (September 11, 1862 – November 23, 1910), usually known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser. He was hanged in Pentonville Prison in London for the murder of his wife Co ...'' (1942) * '' Geheimakten Solvay'' (1953) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1919 births 2012 deaths German film actresses German stage actresses Actors from Dortmund {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dahlke (actor)
Paul Victor Ernst Dahlke (12 April 1904 – 23 November 1984) was a German stage and film actor. Career Dahlke was born in Gross Streitz (today Strzezenice, Poland) near Köslin in Farther Pomerania. He visited school in Köslin, Stargard and passed his Abitur in Dortmund in 1922. Dahlke started to study at the Clausthal University of Technology and the Technical University of Berlin but also attended some lectures in German philology and dramatics. In 1927, Dahlke was a scholar of Max Reinhardt's drama school and appeared at different stages in Berlin and Munich in 1929. He became a member of the Deutsches Theater ensemble in 1934 until its closedown in 1944 and was awarded a ''Staatsschauspieler'' in 1937. Throughout the 1930s he worked with popular actors like Emil Jannings, Zarah Leander, Lil Dagover or Lída Baarová. After World War II Dahlke worked at the ''Staatsschauspiel Munich'' and embodied characters like Carl Zuckmayer's ''Des Teufels General'' or Professor H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr (29 May 1877 – 13 March 1954) was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 films released between 1917 and 1954. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films. Early life Born in Kettwig (today part of Essen) in the Rhine Province, the son of a merchant, Gebühr attended the '' gymnasium'' secondary school in Cologne and completed a commercial training. Alongside he took drama lessons and began his acting career at the Görlitz city theatre. In 1898 he joined the ensemble of the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden and from 1908 performed at the Lessing Theater in Berlin. As a World War I volunteer he achieved the rank of a Lieutenant in the German Army. He died 13th March, 1954 in Wiesbaden. Film career After the war, he worked with director Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. At the same time, he obtained his first film performances with the help of his colleague Paul Wegener. He found the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Windeck
Agnes Windeck (; 27 March 1888 – 28 September 1975) was a German theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1939 and 1973. She was born in Hamburg and started her career at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in 1904. She later worked as a teacher at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in 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 constitue .... In the 1930s she began to play minor roles in several films but it was not until she was in her seventies when she became a popular character actress of West German cinema and television. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Windeck, Agnes 1888 births 1975 deaths German film actresses German stage actresses German television actresses Actresses from Hamburg 20th-century Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Schroth
Heinrich August Franz Schroth (23 March 1871 – 14 January 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Career Schroth was born in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He made his acting debut at the Sigmaringen Royal Theatre in 1890. In 1894 he went to the Municipal Theatre in Augsburg, in 1896 to Mainz and in 1897 to the Royal Court Theatre in Hanover. From 1899 to 1905, he spent six years as a part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and from 1905 onwards at various Berlin theatres. Schroth made his film debut in the 1916 Walter Schmidthässler-directed drama ''Welker Lorbeer''. He spent the 1910s in numerous German silent film productions, working with such directors as George Jacoby, Robert Wiene and Harry Piel. His career in the 1920s was prolific, and he appeared opposite such silent film actors as Lil Dagover, Emil Jannings, Paul Wegener and Brigitte Helm and transitioned to sound film with ease. During World War II Heinrich Schroth participated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Von Klipstein
Ernst von Klipstein (3 February 1908 – 22 November 1993) was a German film and television actor. von Klipstein became a prominent actor during the Nazi era, appearing in a large number of action films. Partial filmography * ''Uproar in Damascus'' (1939) - Gefreiter von Elmendonck * ''The Governor'' (1939) - Leutnant Robert Runeberg * ''Escape in the Dark'' (1939) - Chemiker Dr. Paul Gildemeister * ''The Merciful Lie'' (1939) - Dr.Thomas Clausen * ''Midsummer Night's Fire'' (1939) - Georg * '' Legion Condor'' (1939) * ''The Three Codonas'' (1940) - Lalo Codona * ''Blutsbrüderschaft'' (1941) - Fliegerleutnant Jochen Wendler * ''Unser kleiner Junge'' (1941) - Janke * '' Stukas'' (1941) - Oberleutnant "Patzer" von Bomberg * ''Alarmstufe V'' (1941) - Richard Haller * ''Wedding in Barenhof'' (1942) - Ulanenoffizier Lothar von Pütz * ''Stimme des Herzens'' (1942) - Paul Ohlsen * ''5 June'' (1942) - Oberleutnant Lebsten * '' The Second Shot'' (1943) - Franz von Gerlach * ''The Crew o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
