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Werner Klingler
Karl Adolf Kurt Werner Klingler (23 October 1903 – 23 June 1972) was a German film director and actor. He directed 29 films between 1936 and 1968. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Berlin, Germany. Early life Klingler acquired his first theatre experience in minor acting roles. He immigrated to the United States, where he played at a German-American German Americans (german: Deutschamerikaner, ) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 43 million in 2019, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the Unite ... theater in Milwaukee in 1925. Klingler starred in films, such as Howard Hughes' ''Hell's Angels (film), Hell's Angels'' and Wilhelm Dieterle's ''The Dance Goes On (1930 film), The Dance Goes On'' (a German-language version of ''Those Who Dance''). Career Klingler met Luis Trenker to film ''Mountains on Fire''. Klingler was assistant director at ''SOS Eisberg'' (1933) and ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart has a population of 635,911, making it the sixth largest city in Germany. 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and 5.3 million people in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the top 20 European metropolitan areas by GDP; Mercer listed Stuttgart as 21st on its 2015 list of cities by quality of living; innovation agency 2thinknow ranked the city 24th globally out of 442 cities in its Innovation Cities Index; and the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked the city as a Beta-status global city in their 2020 survey. Stuttgart was one of the host cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Condottieri (1937 Film)
''Condottieri'' is a 1937 Italian historical drama film directed by Luis Trenker and starring Trenker, Loris Gizzi and Laura Nucci. It portrays the life of Giovanni de' Medici, a celebrated condottiere of the sixteenth century. A separate German-language version was also made. The film received 9.6 million lire of funding from the Italian government, as part as a major drive by the Fascist authorities to develop the Italian film industry (which also involved the construction of the large Cinecittà complex in Rome). Along with '' Scipio Africanus'', the film was an attempt to harness history to support the Fascist regime's current policies. ''Condottieri'' drew parallels between the dictator Benito Mussolini and the historical figure of de' Medici, portraying both as unifying Italy. The film's elaborate sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi and Erich Grave, while Herbert Ploberger produced the costumes. Cast * Luis Trenker as Giovanni de' Medici *Loris Gizzi as Malatesta * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spy For Germany
''Spy for Germany'' (german: Spion für Deutschland) is a 1956 West German thriller film directed by Werner Klingler that stars Martin Held, Nadja Tiller and Walter Giller. Based on a book by Will Berthold, the film depicts the mission of a German spy Erich Gimpel during the Second World War to discover how far the American nuclear programme had progressed. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin and on location in Boston and New York in America. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Kuhnert and Paul Markwitz. Plot In 1944, with defeat imminent, German counter-intelligence is desperate to know how soon the US will have nuclear bombs. Experienced agent Erich Gimpel is assigned the mission, but he says he cannot pass for an American. He is given an immature American defector, Billy Cole, as colleague and the two are dropped from a submarine on the coast. Hiding out in a seedy New York hotel, Gimpel tries to find leads to scientists working on the nuclea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of The United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known as Hollywood) along with some independent film, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1913 to 1969 and is still typical of most films made there to this day. While Frenchmen Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, American cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. , it produced the third-largest number of films of any national cinema, after India and China, with more than 600 English-language films released on average every year. While the national cinemas of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not part of the Hollywood system. That said, Hollywood has also been considered a transnational cinema, and has produced multiple lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora's Ark
''Nora's Ark'' (german: Arche Nora) is a 1948 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler that stars Willy Maertens, Claus Hofer and Harry Meyen.Davidson & Hake p. 236 It was produced by Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg in the British Zone of Occupation. The film's sets were designed by art director Herbert Kirchhoff. Cast * Willy Maertens as Willi Lüdecke * Claus Hofer as Klaus Schriewer * Harry Meyen as Peter Stoll * Edith Schneider as Nora Wendler * Peter Schütte as Jochen Wendler * Johannes Billiam as Monteur * Hans Billian * Karl Kramer Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ... as Besitzer des Autofriedhofes * Lieselotte Lütje as Sekretärin * Marga Maasberg as Frau Jansen * Kurt Meister as Radtke * Ludwig Röger as Ein dicker Mann * Sylvia Schwarz as Kind * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid (1947 Film)
''Raid'' (german: Razzia) is a 1947 German crime film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Paul Bildt, Agathe Poschmann, and Claus Holm. It was made as a cautionary tale about the black market in postwar Berlin. It was made in the Soviet Zone, which would later become East Germany. It was produced by the state-controlled DEFA and shot at the Johannisthal Studios and on location around Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Bruno Monden. The picture sold more than 8,090,000 tickets. Plot The film takes place in Berlin, in the direct aftermath of Germany's defeat in the Second World War. The black market is rife in the ruined city. Chief Inspector Friedrich Naumann (Paul Bildt) organizes a raid on the "Ali Baba Club", a suspected center of a black market gang, but the raid fails due to the gang having an informer in the police ranks. Later, Naumann investigates alone, discovers a secret tunnel in the club, and gets murdered. The plot the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. After the Vistula–Oder Offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line east of Berlin. On 9 March, Germany established its defence plan for the city with Operation Clausewitz. The first defensive preparations at the outskirts of Berlin were made on 20 March, under the newly appointed commander of Army Group Vistula, General Gotthard Heinrici. When the Soviet offensive resumed on 16 April, two Soviet fronts (army groups) attacked Berlin from the east and south, while a third overran German forces positioned north of Berlin. Before the main battle in Berlin commenced, the Red Army encircled the city after successful battles of the Seelow Heights and Halbe. On 20 April 1945, Hitler's birthday, the 1st Belorussian Front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man In The Saddle (1945 Film)
''The Man in the Saddle'' (german: Der Mann im Sattel) is a 1945 German film directed by and starring Harry Piel.Rentschler p. 284 The film's sets were designed by the art director Gabriel Pellon. The film was previously thought to have been lost since 1945. However, in the 1990s, the film was found in an East German archive and had a premiere in 2000 in Berlin. Cast In alphabetical order * Valy Arnheim as Ganove * Ellen Bang as Steffi * Paul Bildt as Kommissar Hentschke * Eduard Bornträger * Egon Brosig * Charlott Daudert as Ossi la Planta * Erich Dunskus * Herbert Gernot as Kommissar * Otto Graf as Fritz Thermälen * Walter Gross as Arzt * Kurt Hagen * Clemens Hasse as Otto Bruck * Karl Hellmer as Wilhelm * Irmgard Krohn * Alwin Lippisch * Edgar Pauly * Harry Piel as Trainer Roberts * Karl Platen as Gastwirt * Josef Reithofer * Walter Ruesta * Just Scheu * Kurt Seifert as Paul, Futtermeister * Ute Sielisch * Michael von Newlinsky * Genia von Unruh * Elsa Wagner as Haushä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Degenhardts
''The Degenhardts'' (german: Die Degenhardts) is a 1944 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Heinrich George, Ernst Schröder and Gunnar Möller. Karl Degenhardt, the patriarch of a family in Lübeck, leads his wife and five children through the opening stages of Second World War culminating in the Bombing of Lübeck on 28 March 1942 by the Royal Air Force. The film was part of a cycle of home front films produced in Germany during the war. The film was intended to fan anti-British sentiment and prepare Germans psychologically for the destruction of their cities by Allied bombing raids and invasions.O'Brien p. 145 It premiered in Lübeck on 6 July 1944. Cast * Heinrich George as Karl Degenhardt * Ernst Schröder as Jochem Degenhardt * Gunnar Möller * Ernst Legal * Renée Stobrawa * Wolfgang Lukschy * Heinz Klingenberg * Knut Hartwig * Günther Körner * Walter Bechmann * Robert Forsch * Herwart Grosse * William Huch * Hilde Jansen * Karl Kemper * Wern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titanic (1943 Film)
''Titanic'' is a 1943 German propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA, depicting the catastrophic sinking of in 1912. Despite the fact that there already was a German silent film produced in 1912 just four weeks after the sinking and a British company had released a German-language film about the disaster in 1929, the film was commissioned by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels with the intent of showing not only the superiority of German filmmaking, but also as a propaganda vehicle which would depict British and American capitalism as being responsible for the disaster. The addition of an entirely fictional heroic German officer to the ship's crew was intended to demonstrate the superior bravery and selflessness of German men as compared to the British officers. The film's original director, Herbert Selpin, was arrested during production after making disparaging comments about the German army and the war in the east. He was found h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director and screenwriter of light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. He is best known for his final film, the partly suppressed ''Titanic (1943 film), Titanic'', during the production of which he was arrested by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. He was later found dead in his prison cell. Life and career Herbert Selpin was born on 29 May 1904 in Berlin. After his medical studies in the same city, Selpin worked as a dancer, boxer, librarian, and art seller before he obtained, in the mid-1920s, an internship at the prestigious Universum Film AG, UFA film studios. Among other assignments at UFA, he worked on the set of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's ''Faust (1926 film), Faust'' (1926). Selpin was subsequently employed by the European subsidiary of the Fox Film Corporation, where he held several positions, including – in 1927 – that of director's assistant to Walther Ruttmann on the set of ''Berlin: Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
