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The White Demon
''The White Demon'' (German: ''Der weiße Dämon'') is a 1932 German drama film directed by Kurt Gerron and starring Hans Albers, Gerda Maurus and Peter Lorre.Kreimeier pp. 198–199 The film is also known by the alternative title of ''Dope''. The sets were designed by the art director Julius von Borsody Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods. His yo .... A separate French-language version '' Narcotics'' was also made. Synopsis A drug dealer gets a rising young female singer addicted to drugs. Her brother decides to hunt him down in revenge. Cast References Bibliography * Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945''. University of California Press, 1999. External links * 1932 films 1932 crime drama films German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German History of the Jews in Germany, Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust. Life Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he studied medicine before being called up for military service in World War I. After being seriously wounded, he was qualified as a military doctor in the German Army (German Empire), German Army, despite having been only in his second year at university. After the war Gerron turned to a stage career, becoming a theatre actor under director Max Reinhardt in 1920. He appeared in secondary roles in several silent films and began directing film shorts in 1926. Gerron's popular cinema breakthrough came with ''The Blue Angel'' (''Der Blaue Engel'', 1930) opposite Marlene Dietrich. Two years before, Gerron originated the role of "Tiger" Brown in the 1928 premiere production of ''The Threepenny Opera'' (''Die Dreigroschenoper'') at the Berlin Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Höflich
Lucie Höflich (born Helene Lucie von Holwede; 20 February 1883 – 9 October 1956) was a German actress, teacher and head of the Staatliche Schauspielschule (State Drama School) in Berlin. filmportal.deLucie Höflich , Biographies FemBio In 1937 she was named the ''Staats-Schauspielerin'' (''State Actress'') and in 1953 she was awarded the . Stage appearances [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl John (actor)
Karl John (24 March 1905 – 22 December 1977) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 50 films between 1933 and 1977. Early life John was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Danzig. But he soon discovered his love for the stage and moved to Berlin where he took acting lessons. Career At 26 he made his debut performance at a theater in Boleslawiec. John made his first film appearance in the 1932 thriller ''The White Demon'' which also starred Hans Albers in the lead role. Throughout the 1930s he played numerous roles at various theaters throughout Nazi Germany. In 1938, John came to the prestigious Deutsches Theater in Berlin. At the outbreak of World War II John appeared in many German propaganda films made by the Reichs Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under the auspices of Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels. He played soldiers and sailors, he also voiced information films on the role of dive bombers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Brody
Louis Brody (born Ludwig M'bebe Mpessa; 15 February 1896 – 11 February 1951) was a Cameroonian-born German film actor, musician and showfighter. Brody was born in Douala, in the German colony of Kamerun, now Cameroon. His career began in the 1920s after he moved to Germany and lasted uninterrupted throughout the Nazi regime till his death in 1951. Brody engaged also in political work in favour of Afro-Germans as part of the African Aid Organisation, established by and for Afro-Germans living in Germany. In 1938 he married a woman from Danzig. Brody remained active and successful as an artist during World War II. Selected filmography *' (1915) as the Black African (film debut) *''The Mistress of the World'' (1919) as Mallkalle the medicine man/Simba the Chinese servant *'' The Dagger of Malaya'' (1919) as Jack Johnson * '' Genuine'' (1920) as the Malay * ''Destiny'' (1921) as the Moor * ''The Pearl of the Orient'' (1921) as the Rajah's servant * '' The Conspiracy in Genoa'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Burg
Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers. Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was banished from the film industry when the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. He later died in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Selected filmography * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1915) * '' In the Castle by the Lake'' (1918) * '' The Secret of Wera Baranska'' (1919) * '' The Secret of the Scaffold'' (1919) * '' A Night in Paradise'' (1919) * '' Colonel Chabert'' (1920) * '' The Black Panther'' (1921) * ''Violet'' (1921) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''The Island of Tears'' (1923) * '' Old Heidelberg'' (1923) * ''The Wonderful Adventure'' (1924) * ''Gobseck'' (1924) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * ''Wrath of the Seas'' (1926) * '' Fadette'' (1926) * ''Eyes Open, Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Brandt
Julius Brandt (5 March 1873, in Olmütz – 26 December 1949, in Vienna) was an Austrian stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915) * ''Pogrom'' (1919) * ''The Prisoner'' (1920) * ''Diamonds'' (1920) * '' Weib und Palette'' (1921) * ''About the Son'' (1921) * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1921) * ''La Boheme'' (1923) * ''The Ancient Law'' (1923) * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1925) * ''Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs'' (1927) * ''The Weavers'' (1927) * ''Behind the Altar'' (1927) * '' Autumn on the Rhine'' (1928) * '' Rustle of Spring'' (1929) * '' Two Worlds'' (1930) * ''The Virtuous Sinner'' (1931) * ''Mary'' (1931) * ''One Hour of Happiness'' (1931) * ''My Wife, the Impostor'' (1931) * ''Cruiser Emden'' (1932) * ''The White Demon'' (1932) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1932) * ''Three from the Unemployment Office'' (1932) * ''The Gentleman from Maxim's'' (1933) * ''The Young Baron Neuhaus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Biensfeldt
Paul Biensfeldt (4 March 1869 – 2 April 1933) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Canned Bride'' (1915) * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * ''Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918) * '' The Blue Lantern'' (1918) * ''The Adventure of a Ball Night'' (1918) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Victors'' (1918) * '' My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' The Spies'' (1919) * ''Harakiri'' (1919) * ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Mascotte'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * '' Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' Sumurun'' (1920) * '' The Hunchback and the Dancer'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * '' The Wild Cat'' (1921) * '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Behmer
Ernst Behmer (22 December 1875 – 26 February 1938) was a prolific German stage and film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras. Behmer was born in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and died in Berlin at age 62. Selected filmography * ''Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * ''The Commandment of Love'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''Kri-Kri, the Duchess of Tarabac'' (1920) * ''Kean'' (1921) * ''The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * '' The Golden Bullet'' (1921) * '' The Homecoming of Odysseus'' (1922) * ''A Woman, an Animal, a Diamond'' (1923) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * ''The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * ''Children of No Importance'' (1926) * '' The Armoured Vault'' (1926) * ''Watch on the Rhine'' (1926) * ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * ''The Violet Eater'' (1926) * '' Roses from the South'' (1926) * ''Sister Veronika'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Beierle
Alfred Beierle (4 June 1885 – 16 March 1950) was a German stage and film actor.Alpi p.346 Selected filmography * '' The League of Three'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1930) * '' The Duke of Reichstadt'' (1931) * '' My Leopold'' (1931) * '' Bobby Gets Going'' (1931) * '' In the Employ of the Secret Service'' (1931) * '' Gloria'' (1931) * '' Crime Reporter Holm'' (1932) * ''The Daredevil'' (1931) * '' Express 13'' (1931) * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) * '' The Stranger'' (1931) * ''Gypsies of the Night'' (1932) * '' The Heath Is Green'' (1932) * '' Man Without a Name'' (1932) * '' The Victor'' (1932) * '' The White Demon'' (1932) * ''The Big Bluff'' (1933) * '' The Burning Secret'' (1933) * '' Life Begins Tomorrow'' (1933) * '' The Flower Girl from the Grand Hotel'' (1934) * '' A Woman with Power of Attorney'' (1934) * ''The Violet of Potsdamer Platz'' (1936) * ''Under Bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Von Meyerinck
Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858–1928), Hauptmann (Captain) in the Prussian Army. He grew up at his family's estates in the Province of Posen and attended the gymnasium secondary school in Godeberg. Having passed his Abitur exams, he was called up for military service as a cadet in World War I, but soon was dismissed due to a pulmonary disease. In 1917 he gave his debut as a theatre actor at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin and from 1918 to 1920 continued his career at the Hamburg Kammerspiele. Back in Berlin he performed in avant-garde plays by Carl Sternheim, as well as in several revue entertainments and kabarett venues. Later he returned to classical theatre with engagements at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, performing as '' The Imaginary Invalid'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Aslan
Raoul Aslan ( hy, Ռաուլ Ասլան, born Tigran Aslanyan, Armenian: Տիգրան Ասլանյան; 16 October 1886 – 17 June 1958) was an Austrian theater actor of Greek-Armenian ancestry. Life Born in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (now in Greece), Aslan lived in Vienna from 1897 until his death. In 1917 he joined the "Deutsche Volkstheater" in Vienna and was active at the Vienna Burgtheater from 1920 to 1958, where he mainly played classical heroes and complex characters such as Hamlet, Mephisto, Marquis Posa, and Nathan. Aslan was the director of the Vienna Burgtheater from 1945 to 1948. In 1929 he was the first actor to be awarded the title "Kammerschauspieler". Raoul Aslan was listed on the Gottbegnadeten list of Joseph Goebbels as an important artist. Quotes Aslan once said to fellow actor Gustaf Gründgens: "Mr. Gründgens, you're the greatest German actor, I am the greatest German actor. But one thing you should never forget: My family comes from Konstantinopel via T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
