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The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov
''The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' () is a 1931 German drama film directed by Erich Engels and Fedor Ozep, starring Fritz Kortner and Anna Sten. It tells the story of a lieutenant who is suspected of having murdered his father. The film is based on motifs from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel ''The Brothers Karamazov''. A separate French version ''The Brothers Karamazov'' was produced. Cast * Fritz Kortner as Dimitri Karamasoff * Anna Sten as Gruschenka * Fritz Rasp as Smerdjakoff * Bernhard Minetti as Iwan Karamasoff * Max Pohl as Fedor Karamasoff * Hanna Waag as Katja * Fritz Alberti as Gerichtspräsident * Werner Hollmann as Der Pole * Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Fenja Production The film was produced by Terra Film. Filming took place from 22 October to 24 November 1930. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Richter and Victor Trivas. Reception The British film critic Raymond Durgnat wrote in a 1993 article about Ozep for ''Film Dope'': "The Karamazov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Engels
Erich Engels (23 May 1889 – 25 April 1971) was a German screenwriter, film producer, producer and film director. He should not be confused with another contemporary German director Erich Engel.Bock & Bergfelder p.112 Selected filmography * ''Dear Homeland'' (1929) * ''Rooms to Let'' (1930) * ''The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' (1931) * ''Secret of the Blue Room (1932 film), Secret of the Blue Room'' (1932) * ''At Your Orders, Sergeant'' (1932) * ''Crime Reporter Holm'' (1932) * ''The Roberts Case'' (1933) * ''Peter, Paul and Nanette'' (1935) * ''Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden (1935 film), Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden'' (1935) * ''Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine'' (1936) * ''The Grey Lady (film), The Grey Lady'' (1937) * ''In the Name of the People (1939 film), In the Name of the People'' (1939) * ''Central Rio'' (1939) * ''Doctor Crippen (1942 film), Doctor Crippen'' (1942) * ''The Golden Spider'' (1943) * ''Friday the Thirteenth (1949 film), Friday the Thirteenth'' (1949) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Minetti
Bernhard Theodor Henry Minetti (26 January 1905 – 12 October 1998) was a German actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1931 and 1996 but is mostly known for his distinguished stage career. Selected filmography *''The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' (1930) as Ivan Karamazov *'' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) as Reinhold *''Joan of Arc'' (1935) as a bailiff * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) as Von Hackenberg * '' Der Kaiser von Kalifornien'' (1936) as the stranger * ''Alarm in Peking'' (1937) as Tu-Hang * ''By a Silken Thread'' (1938) as Dr. Heinrich Breuer * '' Secret Code LB 17'' (1938) as Club Manager Bjelinski * ''Woman Without a Past'' (1939) as Igor Costa * ''Robert Koch'' (1939) as Göhrte the exorcist *''Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius'' (1940) as Franz Moor * ''The Eternal Spring'' (1940) as Wolfgang Lusinger *'' The Rothschilds'' (1940) as Fouché * '' Tiefland'' (1954) as Don Sebastian, Marquis de Roccabruna * '' It'' (1966) as Customer *''The Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsches Filminstitut
The Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF ("German Film Institute") is an institute for the study of film, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. History The Deutsches Filminstitut was founded on 13 April 1949 as the Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (DIF). In 1952, the Deutsches Filmarchiv ("German Film Archive"; founded in Marburg in 1947 by Hanns Wilhelm Lavies as the Archiv für Filmwissenschaft) was set up as an autonomous department of the DIF, from which it separated again after a reorganisation in 1956. On 1 January 1959, Lavies left the DIF and was succeeded as director by Max Lippmann. Theo Fürstenau became director in 1966, and in 1981 Gerd Albrecht. The director from 1 February 1997 until September 2017 was Claudia Dillmann. On 30 October 1999, the name was officially changed to Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF. In January 2006 the organisation merged with the ("German Film Museum"), also based in Frankfurt am Main, to DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. Functions T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Montage Theory
Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing (''montage'' is French for "assembly" or "editing"). It is the principal contribution of Soviet film theorists to global cinema, and brought formalism to bear on filmmaking. Although Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s disagreed about how exactly to view montage, Sergei Eisenstein marked a note of accord in "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" when he noted that montage is "the nerve of cinema", and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema". Its influence is far reaching commercially, academically, and politically. Alfred Hitchcock cites editing (and montage indirectly) as the lynchpin of worthwhile filmmaking. In fact, montage is demonstrated in the majority of narrative fiction films available today. Post-Soviet film theories relied extensively on montage's redirection of film analysis toward language, a literal grammar of film. A sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leninism
Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the Dictatorship of the proletariat#Vladimir Lenin, dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary Vanguardism, vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism. The function of the Leninist vanguard party is to provide the working classes with the political consciousness (education and organisation) and revolutionary leadership necessary to depose capitalism in the Russian Empire (1721–1917). Leninist revolutionary leadership is based upon ''The Communist Manifesto'' (1848), identifying the communist party as "the most advanced and resolute section of the working class parties of every country; that section which pushes forward all others." As the vanguard party, the Bolsheviks viewed history through the theoretical framework of dialectical materialism, which sanctioned political commitment to the successful overthrow o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films ''Strike'' (1925), ''Battleship Potemkin'' (1925) and ''October'' (1928), as well as the historical epics ''Alexander Nevsky'' (1938) and ''Ivan the Terrible'' (1944, 1958). In its 2012 decennial poll, the magazine ''Sight & Sound'' named his ''Battleship Potemkin'' the 11th greatest film of all time. Early life Sergei Eisenstein was born on 22 January 1898 in Riga, Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire in the Governorate of Livonia), to a middle-class family. His family moved frequently in his early years, as Eisenstein continued to do throughout his life. His father, the architect Mikhail Osipov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Expressionism
German Expressionism () consisted of several related creative movements in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s. These developments were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central European culture in fields such as architecture, dance, painting, sculpture and cinema. This article deals primarily with developments in German Expressionist cinema before and immediately after World War I, approximately from 1910 to the 1930s. History The German Expressionist movement was initially confined to Germany due to the country's isolation during World War I. In 1916, the government banned foreign films, creating a sharp increase in the demand for domestic film production: from 24 films in 1914, to 130 films in 1918. With inflation also on the rise, Germans were attending films more freely because they knew that their money's value was constantly diminishing.Thompson, Kristin. Bordwell, David. ''Film History: An Intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Durgnat
Raymond Durgnat (1 September 1932 – 19 May 2002) was a British film critic, who was born in London to Swiss parents. During his life he wrote for virtually every major English language film publication. In 1965 he published the first major critical essay on Michael Powell, who had hitherto been "fashionably dismissed by critics as a 'technician’s director'", as Durgnat put it. His many books include ''Films and Feelings'' (1967), ''A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence'' (1970), and ''The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock'' (1974). He wrote principally for ''Films and Filming'' (in the 1960s), ''Film Comment'' (in the 1970s) and ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' (in the 1980s), and taught at various art schools and universities, notably St Martin's College and the Royal College of Art, where his students included Tony Scott. Towards the end of his life he was visiting professor at the University of East London. Biography Durgnat was born in London in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Richter
Heinrich Richter (1884–1981) was a German painter and art director.Soister p.122 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * ''The Confessions of the Green Mask'' (1916) * ''The Sensational Trial'' (1923) * ''Upstairs and Downstairs'' (1925) * '' Semi-Silk'' (1925) * '' Should We Be Silent?'' (1926) * '' A Crazy Night'' (1927) * ''One Plus One Equals Three'' (1927) * ''Children's Souls Accuse You'' (1927) * ''The Trousers'' (1927) * ''The Girl with the Five Zeros'' (1927) * ''When the Guard Marches'' (1928) * ''The Prince of Rogues'' (1928) * '' The House Without Men'' (1928) * '' Master and Mistress'' (1928) * ''Villa Falconieri'' (1928) * ''Sinful and Sweet'' (1929) * '' The Man Without Love '' (1929) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1929) * ''Come Back, All Is Forgiven'' (1929) * '' Mischievous Miss'' (1930) * '' Morals at Midnight'' (1930) * ''The Man Who Murdered'' (1931) * '' The Murdere ... [...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 industry, 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 visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, 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 col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (5 April 1900 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian actress who started her career in Germany during the 1920s. Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies. She later returned to Germany, where she worked with numerous successful theatres of Berlin, among them Fritz Kortner's Berliner Bühnen. Neumann-Viertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldom played a leading role there. She retired in the late 1980s after nearly 70 years of acting. Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was the second wife of film director Berthold Viertel. Partial filmography * '' Sister Veronika'' (1927) * ''Der fröhliche Weinberg'' (1927) - Frl. Stenz * '' Doña Juana'' (1927) * '' Doña Juana'' (1928) - Ines' Freundin Clara * '' M'' (1931) - (uncredited) * '' The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' (1931) - Fenja * ''Donogoo Tonka'' (1936) - Auswandererfrau * ''Boccaccio'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Hollmann
Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Raider'' series * Werner von Strucker, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe * Werner, a fictional character in '' Darwin's Soldiers'' * Werner Ziegler, a fictional character from tv show Better Call Saul Geography * Werner, West Virginia * Mount Werner, a mountain that includes the Steamboat Ski Resort, in the Park Range of Colorado * Werner (crater), a crater in the south-central highlands of the Moon * Werner projection, an equal-area map projection preserving distances along parallels, central meridian and from the North pole Companies * Carsey-Werner, an American television and film production studio * Werner Enterprises, a Nebraska-based trucking company * Werner Co., a manufacturer of ladders * Werner Motors, an early a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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