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The Trial Of Donald Westhof
''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (German: ''Der Kampf des Donald Westhof'') is a 1927 German silent crime film directed by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Oskar Homolka, Karin Evans and Imre Ráday.Nichols p.89 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Neppach. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. Produced by UFA, it was distributed as part of the Parufamet agreement. Cast * Oskar Homolka as Justizrat Lessing * Karin Evans as Olga Wolgast * Imre Ráday as Donald Westhof * Paul Henckels as Professor Westhof, Donalds Vater * Hermann Vallentin as Spieß, ein Gastwirt * Paul Otto as Gerichtsvorsitzender * Erna Morena as Thea Lessing, seine Frau * Lina Lossen as Leni Westhof * Nikolai Malikoff as Kußmaul, ein Schieber * Emilie Kurz as Frau Spieß * Elizza La Porta as Bertha Spieß, beider Tochter * Max Gülstorff as Defense lawyer * Erich Kaiser-Titz as Prosecutor * Valeska Stock a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Wendhausen
Fritz Wendhausen(7 August 1890, Wendhausen – 5 January 1962, Königstein im Taunus) was a German actor, screenwriter and film director. He is also credited as Frederick Wendhausen and F.R. Wendhausen. In 1938 he emigrated to Britain from Nazi Germany. Selected filmography Screenwriter * ''The Grand Duke's Finances'' (1924) * ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * '' Dreyfus'' (1930) * ''1914'' (1931) * '' The Marriage Swindler'' (1938) Actor * '' Old Heidelberg'' (1923) * ''Secret Mission'' (1942) * '' Tomorrow We Live'' (1943) * ''Beware of Pity'' (1946) * '' Odette'' (1950) * ''Desperate Moment'' (1953) * ''Orders to Kill'' (1958) Director * '' The Eternal Curse'' (1921) * ''Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues'' (1922) * ''The Stone Rider'' (1923) * '' The Director General'' (1925) * ''His Toughest Case'' (1926) * ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * '' Out of the Mist'' (1927) * ''A Woman with Style'' (1928) * ''The Runaway Princess'' (1929) * '' Queen of the Night'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Neppach
Robert Neppach (2 March 1890 – 18 August 1939) was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director. Neppach worked from 1919 in the German film industry. He oversaw the art direction of over 80 films during his career, including F.W. Murnau's '' Desire'' (1921) and Richard Oswald's '' Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922). Neppach was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training.Bergfelder, Harris & Street p.35-36 In 1932, he switched to concentrate on film production. In May 1933, his first wife Nelly, a successful tennis player, took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. He married Grete Walter, daughter of the composer Bruno Walter in Autumn 1933. With his Jewish wife, life grew increasingly difficult for him under the Nazis. He began to work as an architect again, and the couple emigrated to Switzerland. In 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, he shot himself and his wife. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Films
The following is an overview of 1927 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1927 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 10 – Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy ''Metropolis'' premieres in Germany. The film receives its American premiere in New York City on March 6. *March 11 – World's largest movie theatre, the Roxy Theatre, opens in New York City. *April 7 – Abel Gance's ''Napoleon'' often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premieres (in a shortened version) at the Paris Opéra and demonstrates techniques and equipment that will not be revived for years to come, such as hand-held cameras, and what is often considered the first widescreen projection format Polyvision. It will be more than three decades before films with a widescreen format would again be attempted. *May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Heyse
Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detectives'' (1929), a children's novel *"Emil", nickname of the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration (1982–1999) *''Emil i Lönneberga'', a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren Military *Emil (tank), a Swedish tank developed in the 1950s * Sturer Emil, a German tank destroyer People *Emil (given name), including a list of people with the given name ''Emil'' or ''Emile'' *Aquila Emil (died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer Other * ''Emile'' (film), a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai *Emil (river), in China and Kazakhstan See also * * *Aemilius (other) *Emilio (other) *Emílio (other) *Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Stock
Valeska Stock (1887–1966) was a German actress who appeared in around thirty films in supporting roles. Stock originally trained as a ballet dancer in her native Breslau, before moving into theatre and then into the film industry. She played the wife of Paul Wegener's Fabrikant Dreißiger in the 1927 film ''The Weavers''.Eisner p.354 Her final appearance was a small role in the 1949 East German production '' Rotation''. Partial filmography * ''Der Bekannte Unbekannte'' (1922) - Magd * '' Semi-Silk'' (1925) - Frau Weber * ''Upstairs and Downstairs'' (1925) - Frau Brenneis * '' The Mill at Sanssouci'' (1926) - seine Frau * '' Cab No. 13'' (1926) - Mme Coco * ''Der Prinz und die Tänzerin'' (1926) * '' The Captain from Koepenick'' (1926) * '' The Prince and the Dancer'' (1926) * '' Poor Little Colombine'' (1927) - Frau Rabe * ''Der Sieg der Jugend'' (1927) - Jesus Kümmelbackes Frau * ''The Weavers'' (1927) - Frau Dreißiger * ''Männer vor der Ehe'' (1927) - Ihre Mutter, Vermiete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Kaiser-Titz
Heinrich Felix Erich Kaiser-Titz (7 October 1875 – 22 November 1928) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Tales of Hoffmann'' (1916) * '' His Coquettish Wife'' (1916) * ''The Knitting Needles'' (1916) * '' The Night Talk'' (1917) * '' The Lost Paradise'' (1917) * ''Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * ''The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Waves of Fate'' (1918) * '' Cain'' (1918) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1920) * ''Man Overboard'' (1921) * '' The Devil's Chains'' (1921) * ''Miss Beryll'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''The Island of the Lost'' (1921) * ''The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * ''The Riddle of the Sphinx'' (1921) * '' The Golden Bullet'' (1921) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''Insulted and Humiliated'' (1922) * ''Black Monday'' (1922) * '' Shadows of the Past'' (1922) * ''Tania, the Woman in Chains'' (1922) * ''The Favourite of the Queen'' (1922) * ''Sins of Yesterday'' (1922) * '' The Love Nest'' (1922) * '' Yvett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Gülstorff
Max Walter Gülstorff (23 March 1882 – 6 February 1947) was a German actor and stage director. Biography Gülstorff was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. He first appeared in 1900 at the Rudolstadt municipal Theater and moved to Cottbus in 1908. In 1911 Gülstorff went to the ''Schillertheater'' Berlin and became a member of the ensemble of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in 1915. He also acted at the Großes Schauspielhaus and the Volksbühne Berlin. In 1923 Gülstorff moved to Vienna, where he worked as a stage director at the Theater in der Josefstadt The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna in the eighth district of Josefstadt. It was founded in 1788 and is the oldest still performing theater in Vienna. It is often referred to colloquially as simply ''Die Josefstadt''. Following .... Gülstorff died in Berlin and was buried at the Lichtenrade cemetery. Filmography External links * Biography with picture (German) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizza La Porta
Elizza La Porta (born Eliza Streinu; 1 March 1902 – 15 November 1997) was a Romanian-born film actress.Goble p.515 La Porta was born in Craiova into a Jewish family. She appeared in a number of German films during the silent film era. She retired from acting at the onset of the sound film. She later emigrated to the United States where she died in Los Angeles in 1997, aged 95. Selected filmography * '' The Student of Prague'' (1926) * '' Light Cavalry'' (1927) * '' The Bordellos of Algiers'' (1927) * '' The Sporck Battalion'' (1927) * ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * ''The Vice of Humanity ''The Vice of Humanity'' (German: ''Laster der Menschheit'') is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauss and Alfred Abel. It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. Plot Opera singer T ...'' (1927) * '' The Right to Live'' (1927) * '' Casanova's Legacy'' (1928) * '' Give Me Life'' (1928) * '' Anastasia, the False Czar's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Malikoff
Nikolai Malikoff (Russian: Николай Петрович Маликов; 1874 – 20 April 1931) was a Russian-Ukrainian film director and actor who worked mainly as a film director in Russia, and later as an actor in Germany.Goble p.673 Selected filmography * ''Insulted and Humiliated'' (1922) * ''The Island of Dreams'' (1925) * '' Superfluous People'' (1926) * '' The Son of Hannibal'' (1926) * ''His Toughest Case'' (1926) * '' Fedora'' (1926) * ''The Ones Down There'' (1926) * ''Fräulein Mama'' (1926) * ''Heads Up, Charley'' (1927) * '' The Girl from Abroad'' (1927) * ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * ''Apaches of Paris'' (1927) * ''Rasputin, the Holy Sinner'' (1928) * ''Spy of Madame Pompadour'' (1928) * '' The President'' (1928) * ''The Woman in the Advocate's Gown'' (1929) * ''Storm of Love'' (1929) * '' Rustle of Spring'' (1929) * ''The Ring of the Empress'' (1930) * ''Police Spy 77 ''Police Spy 77'' (German: ''Polizeispionin 77'') is a 1930 German crime film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Lossen
Lina Lossen (born Caroline Elisabeth Lossen; 7 October 1878 – 30 January 1959) was a German stage and film actress.Soister p.55 Selected filmography * '' Peer Gynt'' (1919) * '' The Forbidden Way'' (1920) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * '' Love's Finale'' (1925) * ''Tragedy'' (1925) * ''The Trial of Donald Westhof ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (German: ''Der Kampf des Donald Westhof'') is a 1927 German silent crime film directed by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Oskar Homolka, Karin Evans and Imre Ráday.Nichols p.89 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studio ...'' (1927) * '' To New Shores'' (1937) * '' Serenade'' (1937) * '' Friedemann Bach'' (1941) References Bibliography * Soister, John T. ''Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography''. McFarland, 2002. External links * 1878 births 1959 deaths German stage actresses German film actresses German silent film actresses 20th-century German actresses Actors from Dresden {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Morena
Erna Morena (born Ernestine Maria Fuchs, 24 April 1885 – 20 July 1962) was a German film actress, film producer, and screenwriter of the silent era. She appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951. Biography Ernestine Maria Fuchs was born into the middle-class family of Eugenie Fuchs (née. Seyler, 1862–1951) and Friedrich Fuchs (1859–1895) on 24 April 1885. She had a younger brother, Friedrich Fuchs (1890–1948), who became a Brentano researcher. Fuchs went to Munich at age 17 to attend the school of applied arts. She later spent half a year in Paris before moving to Berlin in 1909, where she worked as a nurse. She took lessons at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin, and was hired by Max Reinhardt in 1910 as an actress. The following year she worked there in small roles, and began using the stage name Erna Morena. She made her film debut in 1913 in ''The Sphinx'' by Eugen Illés for the newly founded film production company Literaria Film by Alfred Duske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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