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Wolfgang Schleif
Wolfgang Schleif (14 May 1912 – 21 August 1984) was a German film director, screenwriter and film editor. Life and career Wolfgang Schleif studied philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Leipzig. In 1934 he passed the State Examination for teachers at the Volksschule. But then he took classes at the Acting School of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he was trained in directing. Schleif began working in film in 1935. By 1938, he was an assistant director. In 1939, he became a screenwriter and eventually an editor. Among his assignments, he was one of the editors of the propaganda films ''Jud Süß'' (1940) and '' Kolberg'' (1945). In 1947, Schleif was joined the DEFA film studio, making his directorial debut in 1948 with the anti-capitalist production '. This was followed by the 1949 film biography of Johann Friedrich Böttger, ''The Blue Swords''. After 17 June 1953, Schleif emigrated to West Germany. With ' 1955 he managed an extraordinary success, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddy Quinn
Freddy Quinn (born Franz Eugen Helmut Manfred Nidl; 27 September 1931) is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity in the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. As Hans Albers had done two generations before him, Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends. Quinn's Irish family name comes from his Irish-born salesman father, Johann Quinn. His mother, Edith Henriette Nidl, was an Austrian journalist. He is often associated with the Schlager scene. Biography Quinn was born in Niederfladnitz, Lower Austria, and grew up in Vienna. As a child he lived in Morgantown, West Virginia, with his father, but moved back to live with his mother in Vienna. Through his mother's second marriage to Rudolf Anatol Freiherr von Petz, Quinn adopted the name Nidl-Petz. At the end of World War II, as part of a refugee group, Quinn encountered American troops in Bohemia. Due to his fluent English, the 14-ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxhole In Cairo
''Foxhole in Cairo'' is a 1960 British war film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and based on a novel by Leonard Mosley itself based upon the real-life Operation Salaam. It starred James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Fenella Fielding and Henry Oscar. Future star Michael Caine makes a brief appearance as a German soldier, in one of his earlier screen roles. Synopsis During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has placed two spies in Cairo, at the headquarters of the British Eighth Army. They are able to monitor every move of the British. It falls to British intelligence to hunt down the spies before they do too much damage to the war effort. Cast * James Robertson Justice as Captain Robertson * Adrian Hoven as John Eppler * Niall MacGinnis as Radek * Peter van Eyck as Count Almassy * Robert Urquhart as Major Wilson * Neil McCallum as Sandy * Fenella Fielding as Yvette * Gloria Mestre as Amina * Albert Lieven as Erwin Rommel * John Westbrook as Roger * Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rommel Calls Cairo
''Rommel Calls Cairo'' (german: Rommel ruft Kairo) is a 1959 West German war thriller film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Adrian Hoven, Elisabeth Müller and Peter van Eyck.Davidson & Hake p. 54 It is based on a real incident from the North African Campaign during the Second World War. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ludwig Reiber and Hans Strobel. It was shot on location in Egypt. Van Eyck reprised his role as László Almásy in the British film '' Foxhole in Cairo'', which was released the following year. Cast * Adrian Hoven as Capt. Johannes Eppler, alias Hussein Gafaar * Elisabeth Müller as Lt. Kay Morrison * Peter van Eyck as Capt. Graf von Almassy * Paul Klinger as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel * Leila Iman as Amina * Herbert Tiede as Col. Robertson * Ernst Reinhold as Sandy * Wolf Ackva as Maj. Smith * Til Kiwe as Amis * Saliman as Achmed * Albert Hehn as Lüdinghausen * Horst Uhse as Schmitz * Siegfried Dornbusch as Schulze * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroism After Hours
''Heroism after Hours'' (German: ''Heldentum nach Ladenschluß'') is a 1955 West German anthology comedy film directed by Wolfgang Becker, Erik Ode, Wolfgang Schleif and Fritz Stapenhorst and featuring an ensemble cast. It is in four parts each portraying a different tale of German soldiers attempting to get home at the end of the Second World War. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location around West Berlin, Bavaria and the Rhineland. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Wilhelm Vorwerg and Hans Berthel. The production company made a documentary the same year that also celebrated the ordinary German soldier.Noack p.329 Cast * Josef Sieber as Richard Siewert (segment "Die schwaebische Eisenbahn") * Horst Uhse as Willi (segment "Die schwaebische Eisenbahn") * Herbert Weissbach as Der Sachse (segment "Die schwaebische Eisenbahn") * Johannes Buzalski as Der Berliner (segment "Die schwaebische Eisenbahn") * Charles Regnier as Zauberer Maro (segm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Children And I
''My Children and I'' (German: ''Meine Kinder und ich'') is a 1955 West German comedy drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Grethe Weiser, Doris Kirchner and Claus Biederstaedt.Bliersbach p.112 It was shot at the Templehof Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt. Synopsis When she is unexpectedly widowed, Mutz Hartmann needs to support her children and takes up a job as a taxi driver. Meanwhile, her two eldest children try to make their way in the world. Cast * Grethe Weiser as Mutz Hartmann * Doris Kirchner as Gabriele 'Gaby' Roecker * Claus Biederstaedt as Günther Hartmann * Hans Nielsen as Wilhelm Roecker * Paul Dahlke as Otto Baumann * Barbara Rost as Monika Hartmann * Roland Kaiser as Peter Hartmann * Karin Volquartz as Gisela * Alexander Engel as Herr Knirsch * Emil Suhrmann as Dr. Sibelius * Wolf Martini as Herr Strelow * Erna Sellmer as Frieda * Blandine Ebinger as Untermieteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Immenhof Girls
''The Immenhof Girls'' (German: ''Die Mädels vom Immenhof'') is a 1955 West German comedy drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Heidi Brühl, Margarete Haagen and Paul Henckels.Hake p.119 It was filmed using Eastmancolor. The film's sets were designed by the art director Karl Weber. Location shooting took place around Schleswig-Holstein. Cast * Angelika Meissner as Dick * Heidi Brühl as Dalli * Christiane König as Angela * Margarete Haagen as Oma Jantzen * Paul Henckels as Dr. Pudlich * Paul Klinger as Jochen von Roth * Josef Sieber as Hein Daddel * Matthias Fuchs as Ethelbert * Tilo von Berlepsch Tilo von Berlepsch (30 December 1913 – 8 April 1991) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 90 films and television shows between 1949 and 1977. He came from the Berlepsch family and was a grandson of the ornithologist Hans Hermann C ... as Gerichtsvollzieher * Dirk Dautzenberg as Herr Pötz, Feriengast * Ruth Lommel as Esther Brandt, Ferien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriage Of Affection
''Marriage of Affection'' (german: Neigungsehe) is a 1944 German historical drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Henny Porten, Elisabeth Flickenschildt and Käthe Dyckhoff.Bock & Bergfelder p. 518 It was released as a direct sequel to '' The Buchholz Family''. The film was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci .... Cast References Bibliography * Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1944 films 1940s historical drama films German historical drama films Films of Nazi Germany 1940s German-language films Films directed by Carl Froelich UFA GmbH films German sequel films Films based on German novels F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Froelich
Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin. Biography Apparatus builder and cameraman From 1903 Froelich was a colleague of Oskar Messter, one of the advance guard of German cinema, for whom initially he worked on the construction of cinematographic equipment. As cameraman for Messter's weekly newsreels he filmed among many other things the aftermath of a train accident on the Berlin elevated railway on 28 September 1908, one of the worst transport disasters of the time. Film director and producer Between 1912 and 1951 he made 77 films. In 1913 Froelich made his directorial debut with ''Richard Wagner (film), Richard Wagner''. In 1920 he founded his own production company, Froelich-Film GmbH, among the productions of which were ''Kabale und Liebe'' (1921), ''Die Brüder Karamasoff'' (1922), and ''Mutter und Kind'' (1924). During these years he often filmed with the actress Henny Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Buchholz Family
''The Buchholz Family'' (german: Familie Buchholz) is a 1944 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Henny Porten, Paul Westermeier, and Käthe Dyckhoff. It is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Berlin. It is based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde. It was followed by a second part ''Marriage of Affection'', released the same year.Noack p.195 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag Walter Haag (1898–1978) was a German art director. He worked on more than sixty films during his career including the 1940 historical melodrama ''The Heart of a Queen''.Hull p.179-80 Selected filmography * ''The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (19 .... Cast References Bibliography * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. External links * Films of Nazi Germany German historical drama films German black-and-white films 1940s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the highpoint of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film ''Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial. While viewed critically for his ideologies, a number of critics consider him a capable director on the grounds of such work as his ''Opfergang'' (1944). Life and career Harlan was born in Berlin, the son of the writer Walter Harlan and his wife Adele, nee Boothby. His elder brother Peter was a multi-instrumentalist and musical instrument maker. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1934 he starred in the Berlin premiere of Eugen Ortner's tragedy '' Meier Helmbrecht'', but it was a critical disaster and he later described it as his lowest point as an actor. Shortly afterwards he directed his first play, the comedy '' Marriage on the Panke'', at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Journey To Tilsit
''The Journey to Tilsit'' (German: ''Die Reise nach Tilsit'') is a 1939 German drama film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn and Anna Dammann. Synopsis Elske faithfully loves her husband Endrik as he is seduced by a foreign schemer, Madlyn. Madlyn persuades him to murder Elske and run off with her. He lures Elske into the boat as a prelude to drowning her. Though he is unable to carry it out, she realizes his intent. When they reach the shore, she flees to the city of Tilsit, and he follows to plead for forgiveness. They return, and a storm blows up while they are in the boat. Endrik gets ashore, but believes Elske to have drowned. He reacts with anger to Madlyn, but learns that Elske did survive. Cast * Kristina Söderbaum as Elske Settegast * Philip Dorn as Endrik Settegast * Anna Dammann as Madlyn Sapierska * Albert Florath as Lehrer * Ernst Legal as Herr Wittkuhn * Manny Ziener as Frau Papendieck * Charlotte Schultz as Frau Wittkuhn * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
