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Waterloo (1929 Film)
''Waterloo'' is a 1929 German silent war film directed by Karl Grune and starring Charles Willy Kayser, Charles Vanel and Otto Gebühr. It depicts the victory of the Allied Forces over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. It was made at the Emelka Studios of Bavaria Film in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ludwig Reiber. The film was inspired by Abel Gance's epic ''Napoléon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...'' and made use of similar filming techniques.Bock & Bergfelder p.175 Cast References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1929 films 1920s historical films 1929 war films Cultural depictions of Arthur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Grune
Karl Grune (22 January 1890 – 2 October 1962) was an Austrian film director and writer who made many silent films in the 1920s. Grune was born into a Jewish familySiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211 in Vienna, where he later attended drama school. He volunteered in the First World War, where an injury temporarily deprived him of the ability to speak in 1918. After the war he made his directing debut in 1919 with ''Menschen in Ketten'' ("People in Chains"). In 1923 he made ''Schlagende Wetter'' with Liane Haid and Eugen Klöpfer in the leading roles. The film is a notable early example of naturalism in film making, at a time when expressionism was the norm. Also that year he made ''Die Straße'' ("The Street"), which is considered Grune's most notable film. In 1926 he made ''Die Brüder Schellenberg'' ("The Brothers Schellenberg") with Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover. Many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium). A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition. One of these was a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Kingdom of Hanover, Hanover, Duchy of Brunswick, Brunswick, and Duchy of Nassau, Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington (referred to by many authors as ''the Anglo-allied army'' or ''Wellington's army''). The other was composed of three corps of the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, von Blücher (the fourth corps of this army fought at the Battle of Wavre on the same day). The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was contemporaneously known as the Battle of Mont Saint-J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humberston Wright
Humbertson Wright (1876 in London, England, UK – 1953), sometimes credited as Humberstone Wright or Humberston H. Wright, was a British film actor. Filmography * '' Trapped by the London Sharks'' (1916) * ''Thelma'' (1918) * '' The Secret Woman'' (1918) * ''The Romance of Lady Hamilton'' (1919) * '' The Rocks of Valpre'' (1919) * '' The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton'' (1919) * '' God's Clay'' (1919) * '' The Garden of Resurrection'' (1919) * ''The Little Welsh Girl'' (1920) * ''Walls of Prejudice'' (1920) * ''The Way of the World'' (1920) * '' Uncle Dick's Darling'' (1920) * ''The English Rose'' (1920) * ''The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's'' (1921) * '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922) * '' The Peacemaker'' (1922) * ''A Sporting Double'' (1922) * ''Creation'' (1922) * ''Fu Manchu'' (1923) * ''The Sign of Four'' (1923) * '' Sally Bishop'' (1924) * '' In the Blood'' (1923) * ''Henry, King of Navarre'' (1924) * ''Slaves of Destiny'' (1924) * ''The Gay Corinthian'' (1924) * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Henrich
Georg Henrich (9 September 1878 – 30 March 1934) was a German stage and film actor.Grange p.202 Selected filmography * '' The Fountain of Madness'' (1921) * ''The Way to the Light'' (1923) * ''Girls You Don't Marry'' (1924) * '' The Shot in the Pavilion'' (1925) * ''Women Who Fall by the Wayside'' (1925) * '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928) * '' Love on Skis'' (1928) * '' Waterloo'' (1929) * '' When the White Lilacs Bloom Again'' (1929) * '' Brother Bernhard'' (1929) * '' A Man with Heart'' (1932) * ''Cruiser Emden'' (1932) * ''The Tunnel ''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite ...'' (1933) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1933) References Bibliography * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1878 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Ulmer
Friedrich Ulmer (1877–1952) was a German film actor. Partial filmography * ''Das schwarze Amulett'' (1920) * ''Der Totenkopf'' (1920) * ''Die Hexe von Lolaruh'' (1920) as Waldläufer * ''A Dying Nation'' (1922, part 1, 2) * '' Helena'' (1924) as Menelaos * '' Waterloo'' (1929) as Gneisenau * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934) as Prince Weylersheim * '' Hubertus Castle'' (1934) as Count Egge * ''The Old and the Young King'' (1935) as Von Reichmann * ''The Red Rider'' (1935) as Generaldirektor Livius * ''Joan of Arc'' (1935) as the capitain * ''The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935) as Prince Georg of Brauneck * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935) as Heinrich von Inzing * ''Home Guardsman Bruggler'' (1936) as Hans Oberwexer * '' Silence in the Forest'' (1937) as Conrad Kersten * ''The Mountain Calls'' (1938) as Favre * ''Stärker als die Liebe'' (1938) * '' The Right to Love'' (1939) as Niederegger, Gemeindevorsteher * '' A Man Astray'' (1940) as Der Kommissar * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg (22 August 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a German stage and film actress. She was born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany and died in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany in 1945 at age 91. Selected filmography * ''The Plague of Florence'' (1919) * '' During My Apprenticeship'' (1919) * '' Countess Walewska'' (1920) * '' A Woman's Revenge'' (1921) * ''Your Brother's Wife'' (1921) * ''The Thirteen of Steel'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' Rose of the Asphalt Streets'' (1922) * '' Lust for Life'' (1922) * '' Two Worlds'' (1922) * '' Die Buddenbrooks'' (1923) * ''Prater'' (1924) * '' The Assmanns'' (1925) * '' Pique Dame'' (1927) * '' Out of the Mist'' (1927) * '' The Queen of Spades'' (1927) * '' Homesick'' (1927) * '' Queen Louise'' (1927–28) * ''The Saint and Her Fool'' (1928) * ''The Old Fritz'' (1928) * '' Waterloo'' (1929) * ''The Immortal Heart ''The Immortal Heart'' (german: Das Unsterbliche Herz) is a 1939 German drama film directed by Veit Harlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gebhard Leberecht Von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (; 21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), ''Graf'' (count), later elevated to ''Fürst'' (sovereign prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian ''Generalfeldmarschall'' (field marshal). He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Blücher was born in Rostock, the son of a retired army captain. His military career began in 1758 as a hussar in the Swedish Army. He was captured by the Prussians in 1760 during the Pomeranian Campaign and thereafter joined the Prussian Army, serving as a hussar officer for Prussia during the remainder of the Seven Years' War. In 1773, Blücher was forced to resign by Frederick the Great for insubordination. He worked as a farmer until the death of Frederick in 1786, when Blücher was reinstated and promoted to colonel. For his success in the French Revolutionary Wars, Blücher became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Wilhelm III
Frederick William III (german: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the Empire was dissolved. Frederick William III ruled Prussia during the difficult times of the Napoleonic Wars. The king reluctantly joined the coalition against Napoleon in the . Following Napoleon's defeat, he took part in the Congress of Vienna, which assembled to settle the political questions arising from the new, post-Napoleonic order in Europe. His primary interests were internal – the reform of Prussia's Protestant churches. He was determined to unify the Protestant churches to homogenize their liturgy, organization, and architecture. The long-term goal was to have fully centralized royal control of all the Protestant churches in the Prussian Union of Churches. The king was said to be extremely shy and indecisive. His wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoléon (1927 Film)
''Napoléon'' is a 1927 French Silent film, silent Epic film, epic historical film, produced, and directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon's early years. On screen, the title is ''Napoléon vu par Abel Gance'', meaning "Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance". The film is recognised as a masterwork of fluid camera motion, produced in a time when most camera shots were static. Many innovative techniques were used to make the film, including fast cutting, extensive close-ups, a wide variety of hand-held camera shots, location shooting, point of view shots, multiple-camera setups, multiple exposure, superimposition, underwater camera, kaleidoscopic images, film tinting, Split screen (filmmaking), split screen and mosaic shots, multi-screen projection, and other visual effects. A revival of ''Napoléon'' in the mid-1950s influenced the filmmakers of the French New Wave. The film used the Keller-Dorian cinematography for its color sequences. The film begins in Brienne-le-Chât ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Film
Epic films are a style of filmmaking with large-scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle. The usage of the term has shifted over time, sometimes designating a film genre and at other times simply synonymous with big-budget filmmaking. Like epics in the classical literary sense it is often focused on a heroic character. An epic's ambitious nature helps to set it apart from other types of film such as the period piece or adventure film. Epic historical films would usually take a historical or a mythical event and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by an expansive musical score with an ensemble cast, which would make them among the most expensive of films to produce. The most common subjects of epic films are royalty, and important figures from various periods in world history. Characteristics The term "epic" originally came from the poetic genre exemplified by such works as the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' and the works of the Trojan War Cycle. In classical litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Gance
Abel Gance (; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: ''J'accuse'' (1919), ''La Roue'' (1923), and ''Napoléon'' (1927). Early life Born in Paris in 1889, Abel Gance was the illegitimate son of a prosperous doctor, Abel Flamant, and a working-class mother, Françoise Péréthon (or Perthon). Initially taking his mother's name, he was brought up until the age of eight by his maternal grandparents in the coal-mining town of Commentry in central France. He then returned to Paris to rejoin his mother, who had by then married Adolphe Gance, a chauffeur and mechanic, whose name Abel then adopted. Although he later fabricated the history of a brilliant school career and middle-class background, Gance left school at the age of 14, and the love of literature and art which sustained him throughout his l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Reiber
Ludwig Reiber (1904–1979) was a German art director.Capua p.159 The veteran Reiber worked on film and television set design from the silent era to the early 1970s. He was employed by the Munich-based Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios. He worked on two Alfred Hitchcock films during the 1920s that were shot at Emekla. Following the Second World War he was employed on several European-made Hollywood productions such as ''Decision Before Dawn'' and ''Paths of Glory''. Selected filmography * '' The Shot in the Pavilion'' (1925) * ''Mrs Worrington's Perfume'' (1925) * '' The Adventurous Wedding'' (1925) * '' The Pleasure Garden'' (1925) * ''Our Emden'' (1926) * '' Little Inge and Her Three Fathers '' (1926) * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1926) * ''The Mountain Eagle'' (1926) * ''Valencia'' (1927) * '' Did You Fall in Love Along the Beautiful Rhine?'' (1927) * ''Storm Tide'' (1927) * ''My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You'' (1927) * ''Restless Hearts'' (1928) * '' Behind Monastery Walls'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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