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The Doctor Of Stalingrad
''The Doctor of Stalingrad'' (german: Der Arzt von Stalingrad also known as ''Battle Inferno'') is a 1958 German drama film directed by Géza von Radványi and starring O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok and Hannes Messemer. It is an adaptation of the 1956 novel '' The Doctor of Stalingrad'' by Heinz G. Konsalik.Davidson & Hake p. 140 The film addresses the issue of German Prisoners of War held by the Soviet Union in camps well into the 1950s. The principal character Doctor Fritz Böhler was loosely modelled on Ottmar Kohler, known as the "Angel of Stalingrad". The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willy Schatz and Robert Stratil. Main cast * O.E. Hasse as Doctor Fritz Böhler * Eva Bartok as Captain Alexandra Kasalinskaja * Hannes Messemer as Oberleutnant Pjotr Markow * Mario Adorf as Pelz, Sanitäter * Walter Reyer as Doctor Sellnow * Vera Tschechowa as Tamara * Paul Bösiger as Fähnrich Peter Schultheiß * Leonard Steckel as Major Dr. Kresin, Distriktarzt * Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géza Von Radványi
Géza von Radványi (born Géza Grosschmid; 26 September 1907 – 27 November 1986) was a Hungarian film director, cinematographer, producer and writer. Biography Born Géza Grosschmid, he took the name Radványi from his paternal grandmother. His brother was the writer Sándor Márai. Géza von Radványi made his debut in journalism before moving to cinema in 1941. He aimed to create a popular cinema in the 1950s and 1960s that would rival Hollywood studios, due to European coproductions. He began at the end of the 1940s, with '' Somewhere in Europe'' and ''Women Without Names'', neorealist dramas with no concession to the ravages of war and the postwar period. During the 1950s, Radványi changed his style: '' L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard'', with Michel Simon and Geneviève Page (1953), and, above all, the success of his remake of ''Mädchen in Uniform'' with Lilli Palmer and the young rising star Romy Schneider (1958). He also made in the same decade ', a thriller based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Prisoners Of War In The Soviet Union
Approximately three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, most of them during the great advances of the Red Army in the last year of the war. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post-war reconstruction. By 1950 almost all surviving POWs had been released, with the last prisoner returning from the USSR in 1956. According to Soviet records 381,067 German Wehrmacht POWs died in NKVD camps (356,700 German nationals and 24,367 from other nations).G. I. Krivosheev. ''Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses''. Greenhill 1997 Pages 276-278. A commission set up by the West German government found that 3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955). According to German historian Rüdiger Overmans ca. 3,000,000 POWs were taken by the USSR; he put the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Til Kiwe
Jan Heinrich Tilman Kiwe (born Eduard Heinrich Kiefer),knerger.de/ref> also known as ''Til Kiver'' or ''Till Kiwe'', (b. 7 June 1910 in Aachen; d. 30 November 1995 in Munich) was a German actor, voice actor and screenwriter. He famously played Frick a German guard in The Great Escape in 1963 Life Kiefer received singing instruction at the Conservatory in Aachen and did his ''Abitur'' in 1934. From 1934 to 1937 he studied ethnology in Cologne and Baltimore. With Adolf Manz in Cologne, and at the Studio of Dramatic Art in Baltimore, he had himself trained as an actor. Before the Second World War broke out, he took several trips to faraway lands, among them an expedition to the Tibesti Mountains in Chad in 1938. He took part in the war in the ''Deutsches Afrikakorps'', and on 18 May 1943, while he held the rank of captain, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. By this time, though, he had already become a prisoner of war after his ''Afrikakorps'' unit had been force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Lowitz
Siegfried Lowitz (22 September 1914 – 27 June 1999) was a German actor. Born in Berlin, he played the Hauptkommissar ''Erwin Köster'' in the German television drama '' Der Alte''. Prior to his tenure as Hauptkommissar, he played a killer in the popular German police series ''Derrick''. He died at Munich in 1999. Filmography Film * ''Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau'' (1954) - Zeisig, Bursche des Oberleutnant Michael Godeysen (uncredited) * ''The Angel with the Flaming Sword'' (1954) - Krüger * '' Hello, My Name is Cox'' (1955) - Gauner Anton Kraczyk * ''Jackboot Mutiny'' (1955) * ''Solang' es hübsche Mädchen gibt'' (1955) * '' Hanussen'' (1955) - Prosecutor * ''The Fisherman from Heiligensee'' (1955) - Gilchert * ''Sky Without Stars'' (1955) - Hüske * ''Regine'' (1956) - Direktor Gisevius * ''Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben'' (1956) - Arzt des Krankenhauses * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1956) - Stadtkämmerer Rosenkranz * '' My Father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ande
Michael Ande (born 5 October 1944, Bad Wiessee) is a German actor, best-known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the West German crime-drama television series ''The Old Fox'' which he played between 1977 and 2016. He was a well-known German film child star during the 1950s. A German reader reports, "Michael played in mostly melodramas--those films with nice people, love and mountains, etc (sentimental film in an idealized setting). Some would consider these rather schmaltz tear-jerkers. Two words come to mind in German. The first is "Heimatfilm". Heimat is home, where I came from This kind of film stands for: very sentimental, lots of love (and some ache but with Happy End), idealistic setting, Lederhosen, Mountains, Conservative ideals, etc. The second is "Heile-Welt-Film" meaning "intact-world-film" They were, however very popular films in Germany." He played a variety of roles in these films, including choir boys. One of these films was Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valéry Inkijinoff
Valery Ivanovich Inkizhinov (russian: Валерий Иванович Инкижинов; 25 March 1895 – 26 September 1973), known as Valéry Inkijinoff, was a Russian actor, director and acting teacher. Born to a Buryat family in Irkutsk, he began his career in the Soviet Union, playing the lead role in Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1928 film '' Storm Over Asia.'' He immigrated to France in the 1930s, where his strong facial features made him a favorite villain for exotic adventure and crime films. Early life Inkijinoff was born in Irkutsk gubernia to a Christian Buryat father and an ethnic Russian mother. He studied at the Polytechnical Institute of Saint Petersburg, and for a time one of the resident actors of an imperial theater of the city. He studied acting under Vsevolod Meyerhold, where he helped develop the rehearsal technique of biomechanics. He joined Meyerhold's troupe in Moscow, where he also studied with Lev Kuleshov. Career At the beginning of his career in Russia, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Steckel
Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 actor and director of stage and screen. Steckel was born as Leonhard Steckel in Knihinin, a Galician town that is today a district of the city Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He began his career as a stage actor and spent the duration of World War II in exile in Zürich, Switzerland, where he had gone to work at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. It was during this time that he began to direct. Steckel was killed in a major rail accident on 9 February 1971 in Aitrang, Germany. Partial filmography * ''Phantoms of Happiness'' (1930) - Gefängnisarzt * '' M'' (1931) - Man (uncredited) * ''The Adventurer of Tunis'' (1931) - Ferrero * ''The Daredevil'' (1931) - Barini, Inhaber American Hippodrom * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) - Krakauer, ein Trödler * ''Secret Agent'' (1932) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bösiger
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals * Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people * Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Tschechowa
Vera Wilhelmowna Rust (born 22 July 1940), known as Vera Tschechowa, is a German producer, director, screenwriter, and retired actress, of Russian descent. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1957 and 1996. She was widely known as Elvis Presley's companion, particularly in connection with his Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccine (OPV) public booster-advocacy and which they both undertook during Presley's first year in Germany with the U.S. Army (1959). Her mother, Ada Tschechowa, was the daughter of Michael Chekhov and Olga Chekhova. Vera herself appeared, on 6 June 1971, as one of 28 women under the banner "We've had abortions!" ("Wir haben abgetrieben!") on the cover page of the West German magazine, ''Stern''. In that issue, 374 women publicly stated that they had had pregnancies terminated, which at that time was illegal. Selected filmography * ''Widower with Five Daughters'' (1957) * ''The Doctor of Stalingrad'' (1958), as Tamara * ''Angel in a Taxi'' (1958), as Camilla * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Reyer
Walther Reyer (4 September 1922 – 5 September 1999) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1954 and 1997. Filmography References External links * 1922 births 1999 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian male television actors People from Tyrol (state) 20th-century Austrian male actors {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stratil
Robert Stratil (1919 – 1976) was a German art director.Greco p.205 Born in Ostrava of Sudeten German heritage, he fled Czechoslovakia following World War II and settled in Munich where he worked at the Bavaria Studios. Selected filmography * ''Sky Without Stars'' (1955) * ''Once a Greek'' (1956) * ''Rose Bernd'' (1957) * ''The Doctor of Stalingrad'' (1957) * ''The Crammer'' (1958) * ''Dorothea Angermann'' (1959) * ''You Don't Shoot at Angels'' (1960) * '' The Black Sheep'' (1960) * ''A Woman for Life'' (1960) * ''One, Two, Three'' (1961) * ''A Mission for Mr. Dodd'' (1964) * ''Love Nights in the Taiga ''Love Nights in the Taiga'' (German: ''Liebesnächte in der Taiga'') is a 1967 West German thriller film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Thomas Hunter, Marie Versini and Stanislav Ledinek.Cowie & Elley p.148 It is also known by the alte ...'' (1967) References Bibliography * Greco, Joseph. ''The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood, 1941-1951''. Universal-Publishers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Schatz
Willy Schatz (1903–1976) was a German art director of Baltic German origin. He designed the sets for numerous film productions in post-war West Germany including Fritz Lang's '' The Tiger of Eschnapur'' and '' The Indian Tomb'' in 1959.Langford p.83 Selected filmography * ''Two Times Lotte'' (1950) * ''Love on Ice'' (1950) * ''Das Riesenrad'' (1951) * ''The White Horse Inn'' (1952) * '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1953) * '' The Postponed Wedding Night'' (1953) * ''Cabaret'' (1954) * ''Marianne of My Youth'' (1955) * ''The Mistress of Solderhof'' (1955) * '' Love, Summer and Music'' (1956) * ''The Doctor of Stalingrad'' (1958) * ''The Domestic Tyrant'' (1959) * '' The Tiger of Eschnapur'' (1959) * '' The Indian Tomb'' (1959) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1960) * ''Axel Munthe, The Doctor of San Michele'' (1962) * ''A Mission for Mr. Dodd'' (1964) * ''Living It Up ''Living It Up'' is a 1954 American comedy film starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis which was released by Paramount Pictu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
