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The Maharaja's Favourite Wife
''The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (german: Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha) is a silent adventure film directed by Max Mack and starring Gunnar Tolnæs, Fritz Kortner, and Erna Morena. Originally produced in Denmark by Nordisk Film, whose German branch was taken over during the First World War. It was released in three parts, the first two in 1917 and the third in 1921. The third part was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin, and released by the leading German company UFA. Its sets were designed by the Hungarian art director István Szirontai Lhotka. Cast (Part III) *Gunnar Tolnæs as Maharadschah Narada *Erna Morena as Dienerin von Maharadscha Sangia *Aud Egede-Nissen as Tänzerin Ellen *Fritz Kortner as Bruder von Maharadscha Bhima *Albert Paulig as Hotelportier *Adolf Klein as Ein Maharadscha *Emil Rameau as Vater des Maharadscha *Eduard Rothauser as Theater agent Martini *Leopold von Ledebur Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dinesen
Robert Theodor Camillo Dinesen (23 October 1874 – 8 March 1972) was a Danish film actor and director. He was first married to actress Laura Johanne Winter (1882-1930) and secondly to Christine Marie Christensen (1877-1935). He is buried with his third wife, German actress Margarete Schön, at the Friedhof Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend. Selected filmography * '' The Abyss'' (1910) * ''Four Devils'' (1911) * '' Dr. X'' (1915) * ''The Secret of the Desert'' (1918) * '' Ilona'' (1921) * '' The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * '' The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * '' The Inheritance of Tordis'' (1921) * '' Tabitha, Stand Up'' (1922) * '' Tatjana'' (1923) * '' Claire'' (1924) * '' In the Name of the Kaisers'' (1925) * '' If Only It Weren't Love'' (1925) * '' The Fire Dancer'' (1925) * ''Ariadne in Hoppegarten ''Ariadne in Hoppegarten'' is a 1928 German silent film, silent sports film directed by Robert Dinesen and starring Alfred Abel, Maria Jacobini and Paul Henckel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, animation, comedy, drama, fantasy, science fiction, family, horror, or war. Overview Setting plays an important role in an adventure film, sometimes itself acting as a character in the narrative. They are typically set in far away lands, such as lost continents or other exotic locations. They may also be set in a period background and may include adapted stories of historical or fictional adventure heroes within the historical context. Such struggles and situations that confront the main characters include things like battles, piracy, rebellion, and the creation of empires and kingdoms. A common theme of adventure films is of characters leaving their home or place of comfort and going to fulfill a goal, embarking on travels, quests, tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Films
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood". __TOC__ Events *January – ''Panthea'' is released, the first film from the company that Joseph Schenck formed with his wife, Norma Talmadge, after leaving Loew's Consolidated Enterprises. *February – Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man. *April 9 – Supreme Court of the United States rule in Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co. which ends the Motion Picture Patents Company appeal and results in the end of the company. *April 23 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Von Ledebur
Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' The Gambler'' (1919) * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' All Souls'' (1919) * ''Devoted Artists'' (1919) * ''The Carousel of Life'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''The Last Sun Son'' (1919) * ''The Fairy of Saint Ménard'' (1919) * ''The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * ''Die Spieler'' (1920) * '' Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * ''In the Whirl of Life'' (1920) * ''World by the Throat'' (1920) * ''The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter'' (1920) * ''Waves of Life and Love'' (1921) * ''The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen'' (1921) * ''Count Varenne's Lover'' (1921) * ''The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * ''The House on the Moon'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Rothauser
Eduard Rothauser (1876–1956) was an Austrian-born German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914) * ''The Princess of Urbino'' (1919) * '' Nobody Knows'' (1920) * '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' The Romance of a Poor Sinner'' (1922) * '' Esterella'' (1923) * '' And Yet Luck Came'' (1923) * '' The Chain Clinks'' (1923) * '' Garragan'' (1924) *''In den Krallen der Schuld'' (1924) * ''Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * '' Living Buddhas'' (1925) * ''People to Each Other'' (1926) *''Manon Lescaut'' (1926) * ''Children of No Importance'' (1926) *''Mata Hari'' (1927) *''Schwester Veronica'' (1927) * ''Assassination'' (1927) *''The Holy Lie'' (1927) * '' Queen Louise'' (1928) *'' Bobby, the Petrol Boy'' (1929) *'' Dreyfus'' (1930) * '' The Trunks of Mr. O.F.'' (1931) * '' A Tremendously Rich Man'' (1932) *''Marschall Vorwärts'' (1932) *'' Herthas Erwachen'' (1933) * ''What Men Know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Rameau
Emil Rameau (born Emil Pulvermacher; 13 August 1878 – 9 September 1957) was a German film and theatre actor, and for many years the deputy artistic director at the Schiller Theater. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1915 and 1949. Life and career After his graduation from Realschule Rameau got an actor. His first role was Marcellus in '' Julius Caesar'' in Bromberg (today Bydgoszcz in Poland). In 1906 he went to the Schiller Theater in Berlin, where Rameau worked with Leopold Jessner. From 1923 until 1931 he was the vicarious intendant at the Schiller theater. He directed some plays at the Volksbühne. Emil Rameau worked also with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. Rameau made his film debut in 1915 and appeared regularly in German silent films, mostly in character roles. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Rameau escaped through Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, and Great Britain to the United States. During the Second World War, he had small appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Klein
Adolf Klein (15 August 1847 – 11 March 1931) was an Austrian actor and theatre director. Klein appeared in around sixty films, mainly during the silent era. He appeared in a number of the epics made by the German film industry during the early 1920s such as his role as Cardinal Wolsey in Ernst Lubitsch's '' Anna Boleyn'' (1920).Fletcher p. 191 Selected filmography * '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * ''The Mirror of the World'' (1918) * '' The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * '' The Panther Bride'' (1919) * '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * '' The Secret of the Mummy'' (1921) * '' Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * '' Ilona'' (1921) * '' The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' The Amazon'' (1921) * '' The Inheritance of Tordis'' (1921) * ''The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * '' The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * '' The Three Aunts'' (1921) * '' Phantom'' (1922) * '' Fridericus Rex'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Paulig
Albert Paulig (14 January 1873 – 19 March 1933) was a German film actor who was popular during the silent era. Paulig made his first film in 1914. The following year he appeared in one of Ernst Lubitsch's first directorial attempts, ''A Trip on the Ice'' (1915). Paulig was in a number of Harry Piel, thrillers including '' The Man Without Nerves'' (1924).Grange p. 184 Selected filmography * '' The Firm Gets Married'' (1914) * ''The Platonic Marriage'' (1919) * ''The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * '' The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) *'' The Lost House'' (1922) * '' The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * '' Only One Night'' (1922) * '' Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''Rivals'' (1923) * '' The Weather Station'' (1923) * '' Man Against Man'' (1924) * '' The Man Without Nerves'' (1924) * ''The Brigantine of New York'' (1924) * '' The Creature'' (1924) * ''Zig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aud Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen (30 May 1893 – 15 November 1974) was a Norwegian actress, director and producer. She appeared in many early 20th-century German silent films. Early life Born in Bergen, Norway in 1893, Egede-Nissen was a daughter of Norwegian postmaster and politician Adam Hjalmar Egede-Nissen (1868–1953) and his wife Georga "Goggi" Wilhelma Ellertsen (1871–1959); she had ten siblings. Four younger sisters and two younger brothers all became actors as well: Gerd Grieg (1895–1988), Ada Kramm (1899–1981), Oscar Egede-Nissen (1903–1976), Stig Egede-Nissen (1907–1988), Lill Egede-Nissen (1909–1962) and Gøril Havrevold (1914–1992). German film career Aud made her acting debut on the Norwegian stage in 1911, appearing next in Norwegian director Bjørn Bjørnson's 1913 film ''Scenens børn''. In 1913 she moved to Denmark and started working for Dania Biofilm Kompagni in Copenhagen. In 1914, Bjørn Bjørnson invited her to Berlin, where there were opportunities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, 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 communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use 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 collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas and inconsistenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, Brexit, departure from the European Union. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany, and is the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country in terms of area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.5 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial backing from the French company Pathé. The producer Paul Davidson's PAGU then took control and constructed a grander structure. The First World War propaganda drama '' The Yellow Passport'', the historical comedy '' Madame DuBarry'' and the expressionist 1920 silent film '' The Golem'' were made there by PAGU. During the 1920s the site came into the hands of the dominant German company UFA which also controlled the Babelsberg and Staaken Studios in the city. It was used for several of the company's major productions during the Weimar Republic including '' The Last Laugh''. It was partly used by Terra Film during the Nazi era. In 1945 the studios were captured by Soviet Army troops during the Battle of Berlin while the shooting of the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
