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The Black Abbot (1963 Film)
''The Black Abbot'' (german: Der Schwarze Abt) is a 1963 West German mystery film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Joachim Fuchsberger. It was part of a very successful series of German films based on the writings of Edgar Wallace and adapted from the 1926 novel of the same name. Plot The ruins of Fossoway Abbey are supposed to conceal the legendary treasure of the Chelford family, sought by Harry Chelford, last of his line, with fanatical zeal. Due to a hereditary disease, he is liable to fall victim to insanity at any time. His fiancee, Leslie Gine, is more attracted to Dick Alford, Harry's cousin and steward at Chelford Manor. Meanwhile, her brother Arthur, a London lawyer is being blackmailed by his chief clerk Gilder, who wants Leslie for himself. Gilder has purchased some bills of exchange on which Arthur forged the signature of Lord Chelford to pay for his own gambling debts. There is also the 'Black Abbot', a mysterious figure who is seen moving about in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Josef Gottlieb
Franz Josef Gottlieb (1 November 1930 – 23 July 2006) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1959 and 2005. He also directed the children's series ''Ravioli (TV series), Ravioli'' in 1983; it aired on ZDF in 1984. He was born in Semmering, Austria and died in Verden an der Aller, Germany of a brain tumor, at age 75. Selected filmography * ''Mikosch of the Secret Service'' (co-director Franz Marischka, 1959) * ''My Niece Doesn't Do That'' (1960) * ''Season in Salzburg (1961 film), Season in Salzburg'' (1961) * ''The Forester's Daughter (1962 film), The Forester's Daughter'' (1962) * ''The Curse of the Yellow Snake'' (1963) * ''The Black Abbot (1963 film), The Black Abbot'' (1963) * ''The Secret of the Black Widow'' (1963) * ''The Seventh Victim (1964 film), The Seventh Victim'' (1964) * ''The Curse of the Hidden Vault'' (1964) * ''The Phantom of Soho'' (1964) * ' (1965) * ' (1965) * ''A Holiday with Piroschka'' (1965) * ''Spy Today, Die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Ingeborg Scholz
Eva Ingeborg Scholz (16 February 1928 – 21 March 2022) was a German film and television actress. Biography Eva Ingeborg Scholz made her debut in the title role of the 1948 film ''1-2-3 Corona'' and appeared regularly in films over the following decade, including a performance as a young lodger in Peter Lorre's only directorial effort ''The Lost One'' (1951) and a supporting role in ''The Devil's General'' (1955) with Curd Jürgens. Among her later films are the Disney production ''Emil and the Detectives'' (1964), in which she played the mother of the title character, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's ''The American Soldier'' (1970). From the early 1960s she appeared increasingly in television, where she remained active until the age of 90 years in 2018. She appeared in popular television productions like ''Tatort'', ''Derrick'', ''The Old Fox'' and ''Stuttgart Homicide''. In 2018, she won the Deutscher Schauspielpreis (German Actors Award) for her supporting role in the ''Tator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schloss Herdringen
Herdringen Castle (German: ''Schloss Herdringen'') is a castle in the ''Ortsteil'' Herdringen of the town of Arnsberg, Germany. It is the seat of the Fürstenberg-Herdringen family and the present building (built from 1844 to 1853 to designs by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner) is one of the most notable secular Gothic revival buildings in Westphalia. History The Herdringen manor was first mentioned in a document in 1376. It belonged to the von Ketteler family until 1543, and then to the von Westrem family. In 1618, the Paderborn prince-bishop Dietrich von Fürstenberg bought it and inherited it from his nephew. Since then, the property has belonged to the Barons of Fürstenberg. The three-winged outer bailey was built between 1683 and 1723. The actual castle was built between 1844 and 1853 according to plans by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner. Zwirner also completed the Cologne Cathedral as master builder. The chapel of the castle is therefore a reminder of this important building. One of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Gothic Fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name is a reference to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel ''The Castle of Otranto'', later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Beckford (novelist), William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew Lewis. The Gothic influence continued into the early 19th century, works by the Romantic poetry, Romantic poets, and novelists such as Mary Shelley, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott and E. T. A. Hoffmann frequently drew upon gothic motifs in their works. The early Victorian literature, Victorian period continued the use of gothic, in novels by Charles Dickens and the Brontë family, Brontë sisters, as well as works by the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 in Łódź, Poland. His father was a timber wholesaler. Brauner attended a general education liceum in Łódź, where he took the ''matura'' final exam, and then studied at a local polytechnic technical school until the German attack on Poland in September 1939. With his parents and four siblings, he fled to the Soviet Union and survived the Holocaust. Following the war, he and his brother, Wolf Brauner emigrated to Berlin; his parents and three of his siblings emigrated to Israel. Twelve of his relatives were killed at Babi Yar, among forty-nine who died at the hands of the Nazis.Hans Schmid"Old Atze und der Schatz im Silbersee"''Heise'' Online. (23 August 2008) Retrieved 1 March 2012 Brauner married Theresa Albert, called Maria, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curse Of The Yellow Snake
''The Curse of the Yellow Snake'' (German: ''Der Fluch der gelben Schlange'') is a 1963 West German crime thriller film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum and Pinkas Braun.Bergfelder p.254 It is based on the 1926 novel '' The Yellow Snake'' by Edgar Wallace. It was made as part of a series of films based on Wallace's work, made either by CCC Film or the rival Rialto. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in London. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Jürgen Kiebach and Ernst Schomer. Cast * Joachim Fuchsberger as Clifford Lynn * Brigitte Grothum as Joan Bray * Pinkas Braun as Fing-Su / St. Clay * Doris Kirchner as Mabel Narth * Werner Peters as Stephan Narth * Charles Regnier as Major Spedwell * Claus Holm as Inspektor Frazer * Fritz Tillmann as Joe Bray * Eddi Arent as Samuel Carter * Zeev Berlinsky Ze'ev ( he, זאב \ זְאֵב ''zeév''), also spelled Zeev or Zev, is a name of He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Wendlandt
Horst Otto Gregor Wendlandt (15 March 1922 – 30 August 2002) was a German film producer. He produced more than 100 films between 1956 and 2002. In the 1960s Horst Wendlandt's production company Rialto Film produced films based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May, mostly directed by Alfred Vohrer or Harald Reinl. In 1971 Horst Wendlandt founded the film distribution company Tobis Film (named after the old Tobis Film). Tobis was very successful in the 1970s with European films with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Louis de Funès, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, also with Dino De Laurentiis-productions like ''Death Wish (1974 film), Death Wish'', ''Mandingo (film), Mandingo'' and ''King Kong (1976 film), King Kong''. Selected filmography * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) * ''Love (1956 film), Love'' (1956) *''Kindermädchen für Papa gesucht'' (1957) * ''The Night of the Storm'' (1957) * ''Precocious Youth'' (1957) * ''Confess, Doctor Corda'' (1958) * ''La Paloma (film), La Paloma'' (1959) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schloss Herdringen 20080510
''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate word ''slot''/''slott'' is normally used for what in English could be either a palace or a castle (instead of words in rarer use such as ''palats''/''palæ'', ''kastell'', or ''borg''). In Dutch, the word ''slot'' is considered to be more archaic. Nowadays, one commonly uses ''paleis'' or ''kasteel''. But in English, the term does not appear, for instance, in the United Kingdom, this type of structure would be known as a stately home or country house. Most ''Schlösser'' were built after the Middle Ages as residences for the nobility, not as true fortresses, although originally, they often were fortified. The usual German term for a true castle is ''burg'', that for a fortress is ''festung'', and — the slightly more archaic term — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor, equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality. He appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988. He played leading parts in five films directed by Werner Herzog (''Aguirre, the Wrath of God'', 1972; ''Nosferatu the Vampyre'', 1979; ''Woyzeck'', also 1979; ''Fitzcarraldo'', 1982; ''Cobra Verde'', 1987), who later chronicled their tumultuous relationship in the documentary ''My Best Fiend'' (1999). Kinski's roles spanned multiple genres, languages, and nationalities, including many Spaghetti Westerns (such as '' For a Few Dollars More'', 1965; '' A Bullet for the General'', 1966; ''The Great Silence'', 1968; ''And God Said to Cain'', 1970), horror films, war movies, dramas, and Edgar Wallace ''krimi'' pictures. His infamy was elevated by a number of eccentric creative endeavors, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddi Arent
Gebhardt Georg Arendt (5 May 1925 – 28 May 2013) was a German actor, cabaret artist and comedian. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1956 and 2002. He was born in Danzig, Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland) and died in Munich, Germany, aged 88 from Alzheimer's disease. Partial filmography * '' It Was Always So Nice With You'' (1954) - Peters Begleiter in Hafenbar (uncredited) * '' The Model Husband'' (1956) * ''The Doctor of Stalingrad'' (1958) - Lagerinsasse * ''Das haut einen Seemann doch nicht um'' (1958) * ''Der Sündenbock von Spatzenhausen'' (1958) - Leopold Lugauer * ''Kleine Leute mal ganz groß'' (1958) - Alois Knopf * ''Mikosch of the Secret Service'' (1959) - Major Claus Dieter Graf Schnackewitz * ''Paprika'' (1959) * ''Der Frosch mit der Maske'' (1959) - James * ''A Summer You Will Never Forget'' (1959) - Ruprecht * '' The Crimson Circle'' (1960) - Sgt. Haggett * ''Schlagerparade 1960'' (1960) - Dixi Dolant * '' The Terrible People'' (1960) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Schoenfelder
Friedrich Schoenfelder (17 October 1916 – 14 August 2011) was a German actor and voice artist. Schoenfelder was born in Sorau/Lower Lusatia and died in Berlin. He was 94. He was the German dubbing voice of David Niven and Vincent Price. In the German version of Star Wars (film) he voiced Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin, a role that Schoenfelder would reprise in the 2008 German radio play ''Dark Lord'' (based on James Lucenos novel Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader) - . Selected filmography * ''Tragödie einer Leidenschaft'' (1949) - Dodja * ''Royal Children'' (1950) - Prinz Alexander 'Sascha' von Thessalien * ''Five Suspects'' (1950) - Dr. Sven Berling * ''Love on Ice'' (1950) - Birger Sörensen * '' Victoria and Her Hussar'' (1954) - Sandor Koltay * ''Von der Liebe besiegt'' (1956) - Versicherungsdirektor * '' Escape from Sahara'' (1958) - Commander Goullon * '' Der eiserne Gustav'' (1958) - Deutscher Botschafter * ''Peter Shoots Down the Bird'' (1959) - Toni Hartwig * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
