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The Punch Bowl (1959 Film)
''Maibowle'' ('' May Wine''; English-language title: ''The Punch Bowl'') is an East German musical comedy film, released in 1959. It was directed by Günter Reisch. Plot Wilhelm Lehmann is informed that he will receive the Order of the Banner of Labor on his sixty-fifth birthday, for being the best worker in the most successful chemical plant in the country. However, it is soon made clear that all his grown up children have other plans for the day, and none of them can arrive to honor their father and their mother Auguste. But, after a series of comical mistakes that lead to utter pandemonium, all the sons and daughters eventually appear to greet Wilhelm as he is awarded the Order. The whole family drinks the traditional May wine, as they have done in every year. Cast *Erich Franz as Wilhelm Lehmann *Albert Hetterle as Gustav Lehmann * Erika Dunkelmann as Marion Lehmann * Christel Bodenstein as Suse Lehmann *Friedel Nowack as Auguste Lehmann *Heinz Draehn as Franz Lehmann * Ekke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Reisch
Günter Reisch (24 November 1927 – 24 February 2014) was a German film director and screenwriter. He served in the German Army during the last stage of World War II. On 20 April 1944 he became a member of the Nazi Party. After his release from an American POW camp, he returned to Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone and joined the Free German Youth and later the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He started working with theater and film and became one of East Germany's most prominent film makers. He made 20 films, including the two '' Karl Liebknecht films''. His 1978 film ''Anton the Magician'' was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' The Sailor's Song'' (1958) * ''New Year's Eve Punch'' (1960) * '' Ach du fröhliche...'' (1962) * ''Anton the Magician ''Anton the Magician'' (german: Anton der Zauberer) is a 1978 East German comedy film directed by Günter Reisch. It was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Kube
Horst Kube (1920–1976) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse'' (1955) * ''A Berlin Romance'' (1956) * ''Der Fackelträger'' (1957) * '' Schlösser und Katen'' (1957) * ''Don't Forget My Little Traudel'' (1957) * ''Zwei Mütter'' (1957) * '' The Sailor's Song'' (1958) * '' Sun Seekers'' (1958/1972) * '' The Punch Bowl'' (1959) * '' Special Mission'' (1959) * '' Always on Duty'' (1960) * '' No Trouble with Cleopatra'' (1960) * ''The Sons of Great Bear'' (1966) * '' Schwarze Panther'' (1966) * '' The Banner of Krivoy Rog'' (1967) * ''The Heathens of Kummerow'' (1967) * ''Bread and Roses'' (1967) * ''Spur des Falken'' (1968) * ''Husaren in Berlin ''Husaren in Berlin'' is a 1971 East German film directed by Erwin Stranka. Plot summary Cast *Manfred Krug as Andreas Hatik von Futak * Evelyn Opoczynski as Andrea *István Iglódi *Rolf Herricht as Augustin *Gábor Agárdi * Antol Farka ...'' (1971) External links * 1920 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s German-language Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East German Films
This is a list, in year order, of the most notable films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany and the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) from 1945 until German Reunification in October 1990. The state owned East German film company DEFA produced about 800 feature films between 1946 and 1992. Besides DEFA, the state broadcaster DFF and the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (now the Filmuniversität Babelsberg) were the only other organizations in the GDR that produced feature films for cinematic release, although far fewer than DEFA. DEFA also produced about 750 animated movies and more than 2500 documentaries and short films. DEFA feature films are accessible and licensable as part of DEFA's entire film heritage on the PROGRESS archive platform. For an alphabetical list of articles on East German films see :East German films. 1945–1949 (the Soviet Sector of Germany) Note that the German Democratic Republic formally came into existence in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Films
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with '' Ben-Hur'' winning a record 11 Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, ''Plunderers of Painted Flats''. *January 29 – Walt Disney's ''Sleeping Beauty'' premieres, their most expensive film to date and the first animated film to be shot in Super Technirama 70. It initially ends up losing money for the studio due to its high production costs. However, it would eventually gain a cult following and is now considered one of Disney's great classics. *April 30 – François Truffaut's ''The 400 Blows'' opens the 1959 Cannes Film Festival bringing international attention to the French New Wave. * June 4 – The Three Stooges release their 190th and last short film, ''Sappy Bull Fighters''. * June 7 – A contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Year's Eve Punch
''New Year's Eve Punch'' (german: Silvesterpunsch) is a 1960 East German musical film directed by Günter Reisch and starring Erich Franz, Friedel Nowack and Erika Dunkelmann.Koepnick p.72 It was made by the state-owned DEFA company. It is a sequel to the 1959 film '' The Punch Bowl''. Cast * Erich Franz as Wilhelm Lehmann * Friedel Nowack as Auguste Lehmann * Erika Dunkelmann as Marion Lehmann * Christel Bodenstein as Suse Lehmann * Heinz Draehn as Franz Lehmann * Achim Schmidtchen as Michel Lehmann * Ernst-Georg Schwill as Knispel * Karin Schröder as Ruth * Wolfgang Roeder as Wolfgang * Eberhard Keyn as Eberhard * Erich Weber as Erich * Johannes Frenzel as Hannes * Albert Zahn as Otto * Otto Busse as Karl * Herbert Sturm as Herbert * Edward Selz as Siggi * Hubert Hoelzke as Egon Scheibe * Gustav Müller as Erwin Lüttger * Günter Rüger as Willibald Schmal * Kurt Rackelmann as Briefträger Pätsch * Rudolf Christoph as Werkleiter * Heinz Quermann as Reporter * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kino Babylon
The Kino Babylon is a cinema in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin and part of a listed building complex at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz opposite the Volksbühne theatre. The building was erected 1928–29. It was designed by the architect Hans Poelzig in the ''Neue Sachlichkeit'' style. In 1948 the theatre was heavily renovated and served afterward as a speciality cinema for the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). After the auditorium was closed because of the danger of collapse, it was restored from 1999 to 2001 in accordance with conservation guidelines. In 2002 the restoration was awarded the "German Award for Monument Protection". Since 2001 the Babylon has been used primarily as an arthouse cinema, as well as a venue for film festivals and musical and literary cultural events. It was a Berlin International Film Festival venue from 2008 to 2010. Originally the cinema held an audience of 1200 in one auditorium, but now it is divided into two auditoriums with 450 seats and 70 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Unity Party Of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, ; SED, ), often known in English as the East German Communist Party, was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany) from the country's foundation in October 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. It was a Marxist–Leninist communist party, established in April 1946 as a merger between the East German branches of the Communist Party of Germany and Social Democratic Party of Germany. Although the GDR was a one-party state, some other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED; these parties included the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers' Party, and the National Democratic Party. In the 1980s, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as '' perestroika'' and '' glasnost'', which would le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karla Runkehl
Karla Runkehl (7 November 1930 - 24 December 1986) was an East German actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1950 to 1986. Selected filmography References External links * 1930 births 1986 deaths German film actresses Actors from Szczecin {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Diez
Fritz Diez (27 February 1901 – 19 October 1979) was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager. Biography Early life Diez's mother was a servant, and raised her three children alone. To support his family, the child began working at the age of nine. While on the 7th grade, he appeared in his class' production of ''William Tell''. In 1920, after joining the Meiningen Ducal Theater in the role of a supernumerary actor, Diez left his work as an electrician's apprentice and began taking acting classes in the Meiningen School of Dramatic Arts. He devoted himself to professional acting ever since, appearing on the stages of theaters in Flensburg, Hanau, Baden-Baden, Würzburg and Eger.''Theater der Zeit''. Verband der Theaterschaffenden der DDR (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekkehard Schall
Ekkehard Schall (29 May 1930 in Magdeburg – 3 September 2005 in Berlin) was a German stage and screen actor/director. He was one of the best-known interpreters of Brecht's works and together with Helene Weigel a member of the Berliner Ensemble. Life Schall's first went on stage in 1947 in Magdeburg. After engagements in Frankfurt (Oder) ( Stadttheater Frankfurt (Oder)) and on the Neuen Bühne in Berlin, Bertolt Brecht hired him in 1952 as part of the Berliner Ensemble. Schall played here till 1995, for 14 years as intendant. He played more than 60 roles, for example, ''Ui'' in Brecht's ''Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui'' more than 500 times. Schall was honored in 1959 with the Kunstpreis der DDR, in 1962 and 1979 with the Nationalpreis der DDR. He was married to Brecht's daughter Barbara Brecht-Schall and is the father of actress Johanna Schall. Selected Roles * Ui in ''Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui'' (Brecht) * Galilei in '' Leben des Galil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Franz
Erich Franz (5 November 1903 – 10 February 1961) was a German actor. He appeared in more than thirty East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ... films from 1953 to 1972. Selected filmography References External links * 1903 births 1961 deaths German male film actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
