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The Grehn Case
''The Grehn Case'' (German: ''Der Fall Grehn'') is a 1916 German silent crime film directed by William Kahn and starring Reinhold Schünzel and Ernst Pittschau.Bock & Bergfelder p.433 A detective investigates the murder of a painter. Cast * Reinhold Schünzel as Kriminalrat Rat Anheim * Ernst Pittschau Ernst Pittschau (5 October 1883 – 2 June 1951) was a German stage and film actor. Biography Pittschau, whose father's name was also named Ernst Pittschau, a stage actor, received an education in business and had a brief career selling dental p ... as Professor Herkdal * Conrad Barden as Mahler Jan Grehn * Gernot Bock-Stieber as Globetrotter Diaz Ramson * Otto Collet * August Rotter as van Gylhem * Lo Vallis as Cläre Pontda References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1916 films Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kahn
William Kahn (1882–1959) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director of the silent era.Elsaesser & Wedel p.144 Selected filmography * '' The Grehn Case'' (1916) * ''The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * '' The Girl Without a Conscience'' (1922) * '' The Salvation Army Girl'' (1927) * ''Girls, Beware! ''Girls, Beware!'' (German: ''Mädchen, hütet Euch!'') is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Valy Arnheim and starring Gritta Ley, Egon von Jordan and Hanni Weisse.Lange p.105 The film's sets were designed by the art director August ...'' (1928) References Bibliography * Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel. ''A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades''. Amsterdam University Press, 1996. External links * 1882 births 1959 deaths Film people from Berlin {{Germany-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Rotter
August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. Its zodiac sign is Leo and was originally named ''Sextilis'' in Latin because it was the 6th month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, with March being the first month of the year. About 700 BC, it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC (708 AUC), giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC, it was renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus. According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt. Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
