The Sinister Monk
''The Sinister Monk'' (german: Der unheimliche Mönch) is a 1965 West German thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Karin Dor, Harald Leipnitz and Siegfried Lowitz. It is based on the 1927 play ''The Terror'' by Edgar Wallace and was part of a very successful series of German films inspired by his works.A New History of German Cinema p. 380 It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin with location shooting in London, Hamburg and Hamelin in Lower Saxony. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Walter Kutz and Wilhelm Vorwerg. Cast * Karin Dor as Gwendolin * Harald Leipnitz as Inspector Bratt * Siegfried Lowitz as Sir Richard * Siegfried Schürenberg as Sir John * Ilse Steppat as Lady Patricia * Dieter Eppler as William * Hartmut Reck as Ronny * Kurt Waitzmann as Cunning * Rudolf Schündler as Mr. Short * as Monsieur d'Arol * Uta Levka as Lola * as Dolores * as Mai Ling * Uschi Glas as Mary * Eddi Arent as Pedell Smith * Walter Echtz as Mr. Smith / Mon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harald Reinl
Harald Reinl (8 July 1908 in Bad Ischl, Austria – 9 October 1986 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) was an Austrian film director. He is known for the films he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books (see Karl May movies and Edgar Wallace movies) and also made mountain films, Heimatfilms, German war films and entries in such popular German film series as ''Dr. Mabuse'', ''Jerry Cotton'' and ''Kommissar X''. Reinl began his career as an extra in the mountain films of Arnold Fanck. He worked as screenwriter on the film '' Tiefland'' directed by and starring Leni Riefenstahl. Reinl's first movie as director was the mountain film ''Mountain Crystal'' (1949). He was Oscar nominated for his documentary feature '' Chariots of the Gods'' (1970). By the 1970s, he had semi-retired to the Canary Islands. In 1986, in his Tenerife retirement home, he was stabbed to death by Daniela Maria Delis, his alcoholic wife and a former actress from Czechoslovakia. Filmography Director * '' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spandau Studios
The Spandau Studios or CCC Studios were film and television studios located in Spandau, a suburb of Berlin. They were established in 1949 following the Second World War by the producer Artur Brauner Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner; 1 August 1918 – 7 July 2019) was a German film producer and entrepreneur of Polish origin. He produced more than 300 films from 1946. Life and career He was born the oldest son of a Jewish family ... controller of CCC Films, on the site of a former factory.Bergfelder p.106 Following the Occupation of Germany, Soviet occupation of East Germany, most of the major film studios in the capital had fallen into the East Berlin with the exception of the Tempelhof Studios until Brauner opened his own studios. Brauner produced a number of popular genre films over the following decades, including several remakes of Weimar era hits. Space was also rented out to other firms, and the 1960s saw the series of Edgar Wallace films made at Spandau by ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kurt Waitzmann
Kurt Waitzmann (30 January 1905 – 21 May 1985) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1937 and 1969. Selected filmography * ''Unternehmen Michael'' (1937) - Oblt. Weber * '' Urlaub auf Ehrenwort'' (1938) - Gefreiter Dr. Wegener * '' The Marriage Swindler'' (1938) - Mathias Schröder * ''Mordsache Holm'' (1938) - Dr. Bernd Körner, Assessor * ''Eine Frau kommt in die Tropen'' (1938) - Kurt v. Köllinghausen * '' By a Silken Thread'' (1938) - Junger Rechtsanwalt * ''Die Stimme aus dem Äther'' (1939) - Dr. Hannes Bolshausen * ''Mann für Mann'' (1939) - Arzt * ''My Daughter Doesn't Do That'' (1940) - Willy Dahlmann * '' Between Hamburg and Haiti'' (1940) - Gustav Petersen * ''Krach im Vorderhaus'' (1941) - Kuhlmann, Architekt * '' Somewhere in Berlin'' (1946) * '' The Time with You'' (1948) - Ein junger Mann * ''Tragödie einer Leidenschaft'' (1949) - Sergey * ''Verspieltes Leben'' (1949) - Friedrich von Siebenmühlen * ''The Murder Trial of Docto ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hartmut Reck
Hartmut Reck (17 November 1932 – 30 January 2001) was a German television and film actor. He also appeared in the American-produced epic film, '' The Longest Day''. He also acted in the German film dubbing industry, dubbing into German the voices of Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Peter Graves, Patrick Stewart, Franco Nero, Terence Hill and others. Life and career Reck was born in Berlin. He made his debut working in theater with the Berliner Ensemble, working under Bertolt Brecht. In 1956, he began working in film and with DEFA in the former German Democratic Republic. He moved to West Germany in 1959, where he played the title role in a television film, ''Raskolhikoff'' alongside Paul Verhoeven, Uwe Friedrichsen and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer. The film was based on the novel ''Crime and Punishment'' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In 1962, he played in '' Jeder stirbt für sich allein'', Falk Harnack's 1962 television film adaptation of t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dieter Eppler
Dieter Eppler (11 February 1927, in Stuttgart – 12 April 2008, in Stuttgart) was a German television actor and director of radio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...s. He was an actor, known for ''Jonas'' (1957), ''The Country Doctor'' (1987) and '' The Last Winter'' (1960). He was married to Magdalene Schnaitmann and they had five children. He was a prolific German character actor, seen in many TV crime series like ''Tatort'', ''Derrick (TV series), Derrick'' and ''The Old Fox''. In the 1950s and 1960s, he had leading roles in several Edgar Wallace adaptations. Often portraying military types, he was noted for his starring role in ''U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien'' (1957). He also did horror as in the character of the evil vampire in the 1962 film ''Slaughter of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Siegfried Schürenberg
Siegfried Schürenberg (12 January 1900 – 31 August 1993) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1933 and 1974. He was born in Detmold, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany in 1993, at age 93. Although he never played leading roles, he was a well-known supporting actor who played the role of Sir John in numerous Edgar Wallace films during the 1960s. He was also a busy dubbing actor, for example as the German voice for Clark Gable in most of his films, including Rhett Butler in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind''. Selected filmography * ''Master of the World (1934 film), Master of the World'' (1934) * ''Forget Me Not (1935 film), Forget Me Not'' (1935) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * ''Asew'' (1935) * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) * ''To New Shores'' (1937) * ''The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (1937) * ''Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) * ''Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * ''Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * ''Madame Butte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wilhelm Vorwerg
Wilhelm Vorwerg (1899–1990) was a German art director who designed the sets for over fifty films including a number of Rialto Film's series of Edgar Wallace adaptations in the 1960s.Bergfelder p.256 Selected filmography * '' In the Name of the People'' (1939) * ''Target in the Clouds'' (1939) * ''The Leghorn Hat'' (1939) * ''Venus on Trial'' (1941) * ''Love Letters'' (1944) * '' Summer Nights'' (1944) * ''1-2-3 Corona'' (1948) * '' The Cuckoos'' (1949) * ''How Do We Tell Our Children?'' (1949) * ''Life Begins at Seventeen'' (1953) * ''Anna Susanna'' (1953) * ''Annie from Tharau'' (1954) * '' The Perfect Couple'' (1954) * ''Heroism after Hours'' (1955) * '' Urlaub auf Ehrenwort'' (1955) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1955) * '' My Father, the Actor'' (1956) * '' Stresemann'' (1957) * '' The Fox of Paris'' (1957) * '' Two Hearts in May'' (1958) * ''The Shadows Grow Longer'' (1961) * '' World in My Pocket'' (1961) * ''Café Oriental'' (1962) * ''The Indian Scarf'' (1963) * '' The Curse ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Walter Kutz
Walter Kutz (1904 – 1983) was a German art director.Langford p.223 Selected filmography * ''Nora'' (1944) * '' Dreaming'' (1944) * ''The Silent Guest'' (1945) * ''And the Heavens Above Us'' (1947) * ''Nights on the Nile'' (1949) * ''The Chaste Libertine'' (1952) * ''When the Heath Dreams at Night'' (1952) * ''The Colourful Dream'' (1952) * '' You Only Live Once'' (1952) * ''The Prince of Pappenheim'' (1952) * ''The Stronger Woman'' (1953) * ''The Dancing Heart'' (1953) * ''The Uncle from America'' (1953) * ''A Life for Do'' (1954) * '' Bon Voyage'' (1954) * '' Consul Strotthoff'' (1954) * ''The Witch'' (1954) * ''Girl with a Future'' (1954) * ''Before God and Man'' (1955) * ''The Girl from Flanders'' (1956) * ''The Beautiful Master'' (1956) * ''Victor and Victoria'' (1957) * ''Voyage to Italy, Complete with Love'' (1958) * ''Here I Am, Here I Stay'' (1959) * ''The Death Ship'' (1959) * '' What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime'' (1959) * ''The Red Hand'' (1960) * '' Her Most Beaut ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' federated as the Federal Republic of Germany. In rural areas, Northern Low Saxon and Saterland Frisian are still spoken, albeit in declining numbers. Lower Saxony borders on (from north and clockwise) the North Sea, the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, , Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Netherlands. Furthermore, the state of Bremen forms two enclaves within Lower Saxony, one being the city of Bremen, the other its seaport, Bremerhaven (which is a semi-enclave, as it has a coastline). Lower Saxony thus borders more neighbours than any other single '. The state's largest cities are state capital Hanover, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lüneburg, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Hildesheim, Salzgitt ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hamelin
Hamelin ( ; german: Hameln ) is a town on the river Weser in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Hamelin-Pyrmont and has a population of roughly 57,000. Hamelin is best known for the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. History Hamelin started with a monastery, which was founded as early as 851 AD. A village grew in the neighbourhood and had become a town by the 12th century. The incident with the "Pied Piper" (see below) is said to have happened in 1284 and may be based on a true event, although somewhat different from the tale. In the 15th and 16th centuries Hamelin was a minor member of the Hanseatic League. In June 1634, during the Thirty Years' War, Lothar Dietrich, Freiherr of Bönninghausen, a General with the Imperial Army, lost the Battle of Oldendorf to the Swedish General Kniphausen, after Hamelin had been besieged by the Swedish army. The era of the town's greatest prosperity began in 1664, when Hamelin became a fortified border town of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hamburg
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