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Vadim Glowna
Vadim Glowna (; 26 September 1941 – 24 January 2012) was a German actor and film director. Since 1964 he appeared in more than 150 films and television shows. He directed the 1983 film '' Dies rigorose Leben'', which won an Honourable Mention at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Three years later, his film '' Rising to the Bait'' was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography Actor * '' Immensee'' (1943), as Baby (uncredited) * ''Im Schatten einer Großstadt'' (1965, TV film), as Johnny * ''Frühlings Erwachen'' (1966, TV film), as Melchior Gabor * ''Zuchthaus'' (1967, TV film), as Robert Labitzke * ''Verbrechen mit Vorbedacht'' (1967, TV film), as Anton Katz * ''Liebe und so weiter'' (1968), as Rob Studebecker * ''Tramp oder Der einzige und unvergleichliche Lenny Jacobson'' (1968, TV film), as Guido * ''Horror'' (1969, TV film), as Alex * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eutin
Eutin () is the district capital of Ostholstein, Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants. History The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. Its meaning is not quite clear; it is probably derived from the personal name "Uta". The Slavic Obotrites tribe settled eastern Holstein in the 7th/8th centuries A.D. and built a Utin (castle), castle on Pheasant Island (Eutin), Pheasant Island in the lake now called the Großer Eutiner See. The originally Slavonic settlement of ''Utin'' was populated in the twelfth century by Dutch settlers. In 1156 Eutin became a market town. Town rights were granted in the year 1257. It later became the seat of the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, as Lübeck itself was an imperial free city. When the bishopric was secularized in 1803, Eutin became part of the Duchy of Oldenburg. As a result of the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937, Eutin passed from the Free State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Of Iron
''Cross of Iron'' (German: ''Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz'', lit. "Steiner – The Iron Cross") is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. Set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviets' Caucasus operations against the German Kuban bridgehead on the Taman Peninsula in late 1943, the film focuses on the class conflict between a newly arrived, aristocratic Prussian officer who covets winning the Iron Cross and a cynical, battle-hardened infantry NCO. An international co-production between British and West German financiers, the film's exteriors were shot on location in Yugoslavia. Plot Corporal Rolf Steiner is a veteran soldier of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front of World War II. During a successful raid on an enemy mortar position, his reconnaissance platoon captures a Russian boy soldier. As the platoon returns to friendly lines, Captain Stransky arrives to take command of Stei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarot (1986 Film)
''Tarot'' is a 1986 West German drama film directed by Rudolf Thome. It is loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1809 novel ''Elective Affinities''. It was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Vera Tschechowa as Charlotte * Rüdiger Vogler as Otto * Hanns Zischler as Eduard * Katharina Böhm as Ottilie * William Berger as Mittler * Kerstin Eiblmeier as Nanni * Martin Kern as Baby * George Tabori George Tabori ( György Tábori; 24 May 1914 – 23 July 2007) was a Hungarian writer and theatre director. Life and career Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father Kornél (Cornelius) was m ... as Theaterregisseur * Willem Menne as Schauspieler (as Wilhelm Menne) References External links * 1986 films 1986 drama films 1980s German-language films Films based on German novels Films based on works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German drama films West German films 1980s German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Year Of The Quiet Sun
''A Year of the Quiet Sun'' ( pl, Rok spokojnego słońca) is a 1984 Polish film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi and starring Maja Komorowska and Scott Wilson. It tells the story of a romance between a Polish woman and an American soldier in Poland, shortly after WWII. The film was nominated for 1986's Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. At the Venice Film Festival, the film was awarded the Golden Lion and Pasinetti Awards. Cast * Maja Komorowska as Emilia * Scott Wilson as Norman * Hanna Skarżanka as Emilia's Mother * Ewa Dałkowska as Stella * Vadim Glowna as Herman * Daniel Webb as David * Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as Szary * Zofia Rysiówna as Interpreter * Janusz Gajos as Moonlighter * Jerzy Stuhr as Adzio * Gustaw Lutkiewicz as Bakery Owner * Marek Kondrat as Malutki * Jerzy Nowak as English Doctor * Lee Michael Walczuk as US Captain Michael See also *Cinema of Poland *List of Polish language films There are two lists of Polish language film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society Limited
''High Society Limited'' (german: Feine Gesellschaft - beschränkte Haftung) is a 1982 West German comedy film directed by Ottokar Runze and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Lilli Palmer and Hardy Krüger.Bock & Bergfelder p.357 Cast * Elisabeth Bergner as Else * Lilli Palmer as Hilde * Heinz Schubert as Kolbe * Hardy Krüger as Harms * Wolf Roth as Moll * Hans Caninenberg as Petersen * Vadim Glowna as Raimund * Gerhard Olschewski as Hinrich * Marianne Klein-Benrath as Bröse * Uwe Dallmeier as Chef der Demolierer *Hans Irle Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ... as Kassierer References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * ''Feine Gesellschaft - Beschr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desperado City
''Desperado City'' is a 1981 West German drama film written and directed by Vadim Glowna. It won the Caméra d'Or at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. The film takes place in Hamburg. Skoda ( Siemen Rühaak) is a former student from a rich family. His father is a banker. Skoda is looking for an alternative life, away from the capitalist opulence of his childhood home. He stays with Eva Buchholz, with whom he begins a love story after she buys him a taxi. The film follows Skoda on his nightly rides through the city, and though different characters come and go. He takes his taxi to St. Pauli. Here Skoda meets the girl Liane, a kindred spirit in the form of a teenage woman who finds her own home life equally difficult to shoulder, who is just as fed up with her life as he is. She just quit her hairdressing training. The two now spend the days together and dream of emigrating to America. The two outsiders are gradually attracted to each other, and they end up one night in Skoda's room t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exil (miniseries)
Exile is either an entity who is, or the state of being, away from one's home while being explicitly refused permission to return. Exile, exiled, exiles, The Exile, or The Exiles may also refer to: Exiles * Babylonian captivity, or Babylonian exile of the 6th century B.C., during which a number of people were deported from the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon * Cuban exile, the large exodus of Cubans since the 1959 Cuban Revolution * Francoism, or the exile of Republicans in Spain, the large number of people who fled from Spain to other countries (France, Mexico, the United States) during the regime of Francisco Franco * Malta exiles, men of politics, high rank soldiers, administrators and intellectuals of the Ottoman Empire who were sent to exile in Malta * Marian exiles, more than 800 English Protestants who mostly fled to Germany, Switzerland, and France and joined with reformed churches * Project Exile, a controversial federal program started in Richmond, Virginia in 1997 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Watch
''Death Watch'' (french: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel ''The Unsleeping Eye'' by David G. Compton. The film was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. The film had 1,013,842 admissions in France and was the 35th most attended film of the year. Plot The film is set in a near-future where death from illness has become rare. When Katherine Mortenhoe is diagnosed as having an incurable disease, she becomes a celebrity and is besieged by journalists. Vincent Ferriman, top executive at the television company NTV, offers her a large sum of money if she will allow her last days to be filmed and made into a reality television show called “Death Watch”. They have already secretly recorded her being told her diagnosis, as her doctor is colluding with them and has given her what are allegedly painkillers but will in fact make her increasingly ill. She accepts 300,000 pounds cash up fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Martian Chronicles (miniseries)
''The Martian Chronicles'' is a 1980 television three-episode miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's 1950 book ''The Martian Chronicles'' and dealing with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there. The series starred Rock Hudson, Darren McGavin, Bernadette Peters, Roddy McDowall, Fritz Weaver, Barry Morse, and Maria Schell. It was aired on NBC in January 1980 in three episodes with a total running time of just over four hours (nearly five hours on the DVD version). The series depicts Mars as having a "thin atmosphere" which humans can breathe, with water-filled canals and desert-like vegetation. The miniseries was directed by Michael Anderson and written by Richard Matheson. Episodes The Expeditions ''Episode 1, 27 January 1980'' The first episode starts at the scene of ''Viking 1'' uncrewed probe landing on the surface of the planet Mars in July 1976. A narrator explains that the purpose of the probe is to determine whether Mars is inhabited. As the narrator is speaking, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales From The Vienna Woods (1979 Film)
''Tales from the Vienna Woods'' (german: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald) is a 1979 Austrian-German drama film directed by Maximilian Schell. The film was adapted from the play by Ödön von Horvath. It was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences It was the final film for veteran actress Lil Dagover who started her film career in the 1910s. Plot In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins. Cast * Birgit Doll as Marianne * Hanno Pöschl as Alfred * Helmut Qualtinger as Zauberkönig * Jane Tilden as Valerie * Adrienne Gessner as Alfred's Grandmother * Götz Kauffmann as Oskar * André Heller as Hierlinger * Norbert Schiller as Rittmeiste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Associate (1979 Film)
''The Associate'' (French:''L'associé'') is a 1979 comedy film directed by René Gainville and starring Michel Serrault, Claudine Auger and Catherine Alric.Goble p.376 A co-production between France, Hungary and West Germany it is an adaptation of the 1928 novel '' The Partner'' by Jenaro Prieto. The film served as the inspiration for a 1996 American remake '' The Associate''. The film's sets were designed by the art director Sydney Bettex. Cast * Michel Serrault as Julien Pardot * Claudine Auger as Agnès Pardot * Catherine Alric as Alice Duphorin * Judith Magre as Mme. Brezol * Bernard Haller as Hellzer * Marco Perrin as Vauban * Jean Martin as Bastias * Fabrice Josso as Thierry Pardot * Henri Virlojeux as Urioste * Mathieu Carrière as Louis * Vadim Glowna as Marc Duphorin * Astrid Frank as Marie-Claude Hellzer * Daniel Prévost as Zephir * Jacques Legras as Inspector Pernais * Dominique Zardi as Le portier du ministère * Nathalie Courval as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloodline (1979 Film)
''Bloodline'' (also known as ''Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline'') is a 1979 thriller film directed by Terence Young (director), Terence Young from a screenplay by Laird Koenig, based on the 1977 Bloodline (Sheldon novel), novel of the same name by Sidney Sheldon. It was the only Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, R-rated film ever made by its star, Audrey Hepburn.Canby, Vincent (June 29, 1979)"Film: Audrey Hepburn in 'Bloodline'".''The New York Times''. C8. Plot Sam Roffe, President of Roffe & Sons Pharmaceuticals, dies in what appears to be a climbing accident, leaving his daughter Elizabeth (Audrey Hepburn) a billion-dollar empire. Roffe's board members see an opportunity to settle old scores, jockey for higher position, and reap lucrative profits. However, an investigation into Sam's death discloses that it was a murder and that a power struggle is going on within the company. Lead investigator Max Hornung (Gert Fröbe) informs Elizabeth of his list of suspec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
