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The Second Track
''The Second Track'' (german: Das zweite Gleis) is a 1962 East German drama film directed by Joachim Kunert. It is the only DEFA film looking at the Nazi Germany history in East Germany. Cast * Albert Hetterle - Walter Brock * Annekathrin Bürger - Vera Brock - seine Tochter * - Frank * - Erwin Runge * Helga Göring Helga Göring (1922–2010) was a German stage, television and film actress.Brockmann p.247 Selected filmography * ''Castles and Cottages'' (1957) * '' Two Mothers'' (1957) * '' Sheriff Teddy'' (1957) * '' Erich Kubak'' (1959) * '' The Second T ... - Frau Gertrud Runge * - Heinz Gericke * - Frau Anneliese Merkel * Brigitte Lindenberg - Angestellte im Kdh. * - Kriminalbeamter * - Lokführer References External links * * 1962 films 1962 drama films East German films 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Kunert
Joachim Kunert (24 September 1929 – 18 September 2020) was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 20 films between 1954 and 1989. His 1965 film '' The Adventures of Werner Holt'' was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Ein Strom fließt durch Deutschland'' (1954, documentary) * '' Die Dresdner Philharmoniker'' (1955, documentary) * '' Besondere Kennzeichen: keine'' (1956) * ''Tatort Berlin'' (1958) * ''Der Lotterieschwede'' (1958) * '' Ehesache Lorenz'' (1959) * '' Seilergasse 8'' (1960) * ''The Second Track ''The Second Track'' (german: Das zweite Gleis) is a 1962 East German drama film directed by Joachim Kunert. It is the only DEFA film looking at the Nazi Germany history in East Germany. Cast * Albert Hetterle - Walter Brock * Annekathrin Bürg ...'' (1962) * '' The Adventures of Werner Holt'' (1965) References External links * 1929 births 2020 deaths Film people from Berlin {{Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Hetterle
Albert Hetterle (31 October 1918 – 17 December 2006) was a German actor who also became intendant at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Early years Albert Hetterle was born in Petersthal a few weeks after the First World War had ended. His father was a farmer. Petersthal was a small village near Odesa. It had been settled by Black Sea Germans a century or so earlier. Hetterle studied pedagogy and was also trained in acting by Ilse Fogarasi. In 1936 he became a trainee-actor with the Odesa Theatre Collective. This was a German-language traveling theatre company in the Odesa region. In 1937 he joined the same company as an actor. During the early 1940s Ukraine was occupied by Germany, and although fighting across much of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine region was savage, in Odesa, which in 1941 was administratively transferred to Transnistria, Hetterle was able to continue working in the German-language theatre. In 1944, however, as the tide of World War II turned against Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annekathrin Bürger
Annekathrin Bürger (born 1937) is a German stage, film and television actress. Bürger was a prominent actress in East Germany appearing in a number of films made by the state-run DEFA film studios as well as in television series such as ''Wolf Among Wolves'' (1965) set in 1920s Berlin.Campbell p.88-89 In 1972 she played the female lead in the Red Western ''Tecumseh''. Personal life She was married to actor Rolf Römer. Selected filmography Film * ''A Berlin Romance'' (1956) * '' Reportage 57'' (1959) * ''Love's Confusion'' (1959) * '' Five Days, Five Nights'' (1960) * ''September Love'' (1961) * ''Star-Crossed Lovers'' (1962) * ''The Second Track'' (1962) * ''Tecumseh Tecumseh ( ; October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and ...'' (1972) References Bibliography * Campbell, Russell. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmmuseum Potsdam
Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Its predecessor was the Dutch Historical Film Archive, founded in 1946 by David van Staveren, Felix Halverstad, and directors of Filmtheater Kriterion Piet Meerburg and Paul Kijzer. Following the accession of the archives of the Filmtheater de Uitkijk, the archive was renamed the Netherlands Filmmuseum under the leadership of its first director, film collector Jan de Vaal. The Filmmuseum was located in Kriterion and Stedelijk Museum until 1975, when de Vaal succeeded in acquiring a discrete space for the Filmmuseum in the Vondelpark Pavilion. In 2009, Nederlands Filmmuseum merged with Holland Film, the Netherlands Institute for Film Education and the Filmbank and plans were announced for a new home on the north bank o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DEFA
DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PROGRESS archive platform. History DEFA was founded in Spring 1946 in the Soviet Occupied Zone in eastern Germany; it was the first film production company in post-World War II Germany. While the other Allies, in their zones of occupation, viewed a rapid revival of a German film industry with suspicion, the Soviets valued the medium as a primary means of re-educating the German populace as it emerged from twelve years of Nazi rule. Headquartered in Berlin, the company was formally authorized by the Soviet Military Administration to produce films on 13 May 1946, although Wolfgang Staudte had already begun work on DEFA's first film, ''Die Mörder sind unter uns'' (''The Murderers Are Among Us'') nine days earlier. The original board of di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which Hitler and the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945 after just 12 years when the Allies defeated Germany, ending World War II in Europe. On 30 January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the head of gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga Göring
Helga Göring (1922–2010) was a German stage, television and film actress.Brockmann p.247 Selected filmography * ''Castles and Cottages'' (1957) * '' Two Mothers'' (1957) * ''Sheriff Teddy'' (1957) * '' Erich Kubak'' (1959) * ''The Second Track'' (1962) * ''Minna von Barnhelm'' (1962) * ''Follow Me, Scoundrels'' (1964) * ''Trace of Stones ''Trace of Stones'' (german: Spur der Steine, ) is a 1966 East German film by Frank Beyer. It was based on the eponymous novel by Erik Neutsch and starred Manfred Krug in the main role. After its release, the film was shown only for a few days, b ...'' (1966) * '' No Place to Go'' (2000), as Hanna's mother Series * Geschichten uebern Gartenzaun (1982-1985) References Bibliography * Stephen Brockmann. ''A Critical History of German Film''. Camden House, 2010. External links * 1922 births 2010 deaths German film actresses German stage actresses German television actresses East German actors East German women 20th-century Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Films
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with ''Lawrence of Arabia'' winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February – Warner Bros. buy the film rights for ''My Fair Lady'' for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million. * May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government. * June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal. * July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board. * August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose. * September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's ''War and Peace'' begins and will continue for another 5 years. * October 5 – '' Dr. No'' launch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Drama Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 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 attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...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] |
