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Venus On Trial
''Venus on Trial'' (german: Venus vor Gericht) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Hans H. Zerlett and starring Hannes Stelzer, Hansi Knoteck, and Paul Dahlke. The film was part of the Nazis' campaign against 'degenerate art', and depicts the trial of a young artist who has resisted the trend towards it.Hake p. 59–60 The film was made by Bavaria Film at their Emelka Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Seefelder, Hans Sohnle and Wilhelm Vorwerg. Plot The film is set in the 1920s. Peter Brake, a sculptor, believes modern art to be decadent. He creates a neoclassical-style statue of Venus, which he then buries in a Bavarian field in order to protect the identity of Charlotte, the woman who modelled for it. When it is dug up, experts believe that ''Venus vom Acker ('Venus of the Fields')'' is an ancient statue made by Praxiteles Praxiteles (; el, Πραξιτέλης) of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most reno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans H
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 actor and singer, son of Hans Raj Hans * Hans clan, a tribal clan in Punjab, Pakistan Places * Hans, Marne, a commune in France * Hans Island, administrated by Greenland and Canada Arts and entertainment * ''Hans'' (film) a 2006 Italian film directed by Louis Nero * Hans (Frozen), the main antagonist of the 2013 Disney animated film ''Frozen'' * ''Hans'' (magazine), an Indian Hindi literary monthly * ''Hans'', a comic book drawn by Grzegorz Rosiński and later by Zbigniew Kasprzak Other uses * Clever Hans, the "wonder horse" * ''The Hans India'', an English language newspaper in India * HANS device, a racing car safety device *Hans, the ISO 15924 code for Simplified Chinese script See also *Han (other) *Hans im Glück, a Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Sohnle
Hans Sohnle (17 September 1895 – 24 March 1976) was a German art director.Chandler p.270 He frequently collaborated with Otto Erdmann on set designs. Selected filmography * ''The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' The Woman in Doctor's Garb'' (1920) * ''Kean'' (1921) * ''The Solemn Oath'' (1921) * '' Seafaring Is Necessary'' (1921) * ''The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * '' The Homecoming of Odysseus'' (1922) * '' Two Worlds'' (1922) * ''The Weather Station'' (1923) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''Prater'' (1924) * ''The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * '' The Woman in Flames'' (1924) * ''Joyless Street'' (1925) * ''Flight Around the World'' (1925) * '' The Golden Calf'' (1925) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * ''The Great Duchess'' (1926) * '' The Poacher'' (1926) * ''Professor Imhof '' (1926) * ''Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse'' (1926) * ''The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * '' The White Slave'' (1927) * ''The City of a Thousand Delights'' (1927) * ''Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Elsholtz
Peter Ludwig Wilhelm Elsholtz (20 October 1907 – 30 August 1977) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.193 Selected filmography * ''The Castle in Flanders'' (1936) * ''Truxa'' (1937) * '' The Ruler'' (1937) * ''Ride to Freedom'' (1937) * '' The Citadel of Warsaw'' (1937) * ''The Mountain Calls'' (1938) * '' The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1938) * ''By a Silken Thread'' (1938) * ''Shadows Over St. Pauli'' (1938) * ''Maria Ilona'' (1939) * ''Robert Koch'' (1939) * ''The Fox of Glenarvon'' (1940) * ''Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ''The Three Codonas'' (1940) * ''Venus on Trial'' (1941) * ''Above All Else in the World'' (1941) * ''Alarm'' (1941) * ''Riding for Germany'' (1941) * ''Andreas Schlüter'' (1942) * ''Attack on Baku'' (1942) * '' When the Young Wine Blossoms'' (1943) * ''Melody of a Great City'' (1943) * ''Titanic'' (1943) * '' Street Acquaintances'' (1948) * ''Cuba Cabana ''Cuba Cabana'' is a 1952 West German drama film directed by Fritz Peter Buch and starring Zarah L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Reiff
Fritz Reiff (1888–1953) was a German stage and film actor.Volker p. 354 Primarily a theatre actor, he appeared in a number of films made by the Munich-based company Bavaria Film Bavaria Film is a German film production and film distribution, distribution company. It is one of Europe's largest film production companies, with some 30 subsidiaries. History The studios were founded in 1919, when Munich-raised film produc ... in small, supporting parts. Filmography References Bibliography * Klaus Volker. ''Fritz Kortner''. Hentrich, 1987. External links * 1888 births 1953 deaths German male film actors German male stage actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justus Paris
Justus (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first Bishop of Rochester in 604, and attended a church council in Paris in 614. Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was forced to flee to Gaul, but was reinstated in his diocese the following year. In 624 Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury, overseeing the despatch of missionaries to Northumbria. After his death he was revered as a saint, and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Arrival in Britain Justus was a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England by Pope Gregory I. Almost everything known about Justus and his career is derived from the early 8th-century '' Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'' o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Von Meyerinck
Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858–1928), Hauptmann (Captain) in the Prussian Army. He grew up at his family's estates in the Province of Posen and attended the gymnasium secondary school in Godeberg. Having passed his Abitur exams, he was called up for military service as a cadet in World War I, but soon was dismissed due to a pulmonary disease. In 1917 he gave his debut as a theatre actor at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin and from 1918 to 1920 continued his career at the Hamburg Kammerspiele. Back in Berlin he performed in avant-garde plays by Carl Sternheim, as well as in several revue entertainments and kabarett venues. Later he returned to classical theatre with engagements at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, performing as '' The Imaginary Invalid'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Brausewetter
Hans Brausewetter (27 May 1899 – 29 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1945. He appeared in the 1923 film '' The Treasure'', which was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. He was killed by a bomb blast in Berlin during the final days of the Second World War. Selected filmography * '' Lumpaci the Vagabond'' (1922) * ''The Game with Women'' (1922) * ''The Marquis of Bolibar'' (1922) * ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1923) * '' The Treasure'' (1923) * ''The Weather Station'' (1923) * '' A Glass of Water'' (1923) * '' Tragedy in the House of Habsburg'' (1924) * '' The Sailor Perugino'' (1924) * '' The Voice of the Heart'' (1924) * '' Leap Into Life'' (1924) * ''Debit and Credit'' (1924) * ''The Girl on the Road'' (1925) * '' Den of Iniquity'' (1925) * '' The Dice Game of Life'' (1925) * '' Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand'' (1925) * '' The Elegant Bunch'' (1925) * ''A Waltz Dream'' (1925) * '' Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Wery
Carl Sebastian Martin Wery (born Wery de Lemans; 7 August 1897 in Trostberg, Upper Bavaria – 14 March 1975 in Munich) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''No Day Without You'' (1933) * ''Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933) - Annas Vater * ''Drei Kaiserjäger'' (1933) - Berghofer, Wirt * '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935) - Brandmeyer * ' (1937, Short) - Commodore Hardt (the film project had started in 1937; titled "''Weltraumschiff 1''8") * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) - Westbrook * ''Fasching'' (1939) - Bildhauer Balthasar Huber * ''Gold in New Frisco'' (1939) - McKinley * ''The Eternal Spring'' (1940) - Sprecher der Bauern * ''Enemies'' (1940) - Martin * ''What Does Brigitte Want?'' (1941) - Generaldirektor Boller * ''Venus on Trial'' (1941) - Der Oberstaatsanwalt * ''Kameraden'' (1941) - General von York * ''Alarmstufe V'' (1941) * '' The Sold Grandfather'' (1942) - Vater Kreithofer * ''The Little Residence'' (1942) - Dr. Werner * ''A Salzburg Comedy'' (1943) - Der Tourist mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erhard Siedel
Erhard Siedel (1 November 1895 – 16 November 1979) was a German actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1970. Selected filmography References External links * 1895 births 1979 deaths German male film actors German male silent film actors 20th-century German male actors People from Meissen (district) {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Eichheim
Josef Theodor Ludwig Eichheim (23 February 1888 – 13 November 1945) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (1926) * '' The Women's War'' (1928) * '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1932) * '' Kiki'' (1932) * '' Night of Temptation'' (1932) * ''S.A.-Mann Brand'' (1933) * '' A Woman Like You'' (1933) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1933) * ''The Love Hotel'' (1933) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * '' The Legacy of Pretoria'' (1934) * '' The Switched Bride'' (1934) * '' Between Heaven and Earth'' (1934) * ''Little Dorrit'' (1934) * ''The Tannhof Women'' (1934) * '' The Double'' (1934) * '' Knockout'' (1935) * '' The Blonde Carmen'' (1935) * ''The King's Prisoner'' (1935) * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935) * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1936) * '' Street Music'' (1936) * '' The Unsuspecting Angel'' (1936) * '' The Voice of the Heart'' (1937) * ''Meiseken'' (1937) * '' Gordian the Tyrant'' (1937) * '' Serenade' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (27 July 1900 – 30 October 1988) was a German film actor. He appeared in 130 films between 1933 and 1983. He was born in Brunswick, Germany and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Die große und die kleine Welt'' (1936) * '' Street Music'' (1936) - Geschäftsführer im Café 'Dorado' * '' Dinner Is Served'' (1936) - Charles * ''Du bist mein Glück'' (1936) * ''Truxa'' (1937) - Garvin * ''Ein Volksfeind'' (1937) - Ministerialrat * '' The Stars Shine'' (1938) - Hans Holger * ''Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone'' (1938) * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) - Sheriff von Canitoga * ''Fasching'' (1939) - Direktor Peter Wendland * ''Der singende Tor'' (1939) - Defense lawyer * ' (1939) - Lorenzo Perelli * '' The Fire Devil'' (1940) - Prince von Metternich * ''The Girl from Barnhelm'' (1940) - Von Schornow * ''Carl Peters'' (1941) - Count Wehr-Bandelin * ''Venus on Trial'' (1941) - Paul Dreysing, Zeichner * ''Kameraden'' (1941) -Count Saint Marsan * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlott Daudert
Charlott Daudert (27 December 1913 – 19 January 1961) was a German film actress.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.275 Filmography * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934) * ''Frasquita'' (1934) * '' Da stimmt was nicht'' (1934) * '' Old Comrades'' (1934) * '' April, April!'' (1935) * '' Die klugen Frauen'' (1936) * '' The Bashful Casanova'' (1936) * ''Angels with Minor Faults'' (1936) * '' Crooks in Tails''(1937) * '' Der Etappenhase'' (1937) * '' Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''Diamonds'' (1937) * '' The Man Who Couldn't Say No'' (1938) * '' Heimat'' (1938) * ''Das Ehesanatorium'' (1938) * '' Love Letters from the Engadine'' (1938) * ''Shoulder Arms'' (1939) * '' Her First Experience'' (1939) * '' Der vierte kommt nicht'' (1939) * '' Die kluge Schwiegermutter'' (1939) * ''Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * '' Men Are That Way'' (1939) * '' We Danced Around the World'' (1939) * '' Midsummer Night's Fire'' (1939) * '' Seitensprünge'' (1940) * '' Liebesschule'' (1940) * '' Die letzt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
