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Wolfgang Zeller
Wolfgang Zeller (12 September 1893 – 11 January 1967) was a German composer noted for his complex film music. Life Born in Biesenrode (now part of Mansfeld), Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, Zeller was the son of a vicar. As a child, he studied violin and showed an aptitude for composition. After graduating from high school in Potsdam, Zeller continued studies with violinist Felix Berger in Munich, and with composer Jean Paul Ertel, in Berlin. Zeller fought in the First World War. After being discharged from duty due to an injury, he made a living as a violinist with the Deutsches Opernhaus. Between 1921 and 1929 he was violinist and in-house composer for the Berlin Volksbühne orchestra. Wolfgang Zeller died in Berlin in 1967. Film music His film music career was launched with the orchestral score he composed for ''The Adventures of Prince Achmed''. The animated film created by Lotte Reiniger premiered in Berlin in 1926. The score for Walter Ruttman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansfeld
Mansfeld, sometimes also unofficially Mansfeld-Lutherstadt, is a town in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Protestant reformator Martin Luther grew up in Mansfeld, and in 1993 the town became one of sixteen places in Germany to be designated a ''Lutherstadt'' for this reason. Geography It is situated east of the Harz mountain range on the river Wipper, a left tributary of the Saale, about northwest of Halle. Together with neighbouring Eisleben, it is part of the historic Mansfeld Land region, roughly corresponding to the former district of Mansfelder Land which in 2007 merged into present Mansfeld-Südharz district. Mansfeld station is a stop on the Mansfeldbahn railway line (''Wipperliese''), a branch of the Berlin-Blankenheim railway, running from Klostermansfeld to Wippra. Town districts The township currently comprises 15 districts (''Ortschaften''): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Without Women
''Land Without Women'' (german: Das Land ohne Frauen) is a 1929 German drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Conrad Veidt, Elga Brink and Clifford McLaglen. It was based on the novel ''Die Braut Nr. 68'' by Peter Bolt. The film is set amongst a community of gold diggers in Western Australia. It was shot at the Staaken and Templehof Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Hans Sohnle and Otto Erdmann. It was made by the small independent production company Felsom Film as a Part-talkie film, the first German-speaking sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ... to be released.Hardt p. 127 It was followed a month later by the first all-taking film '' Atlantik'', which had been made in Britain. Cast References Bibliography * * E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You And I (1938 Film)
''You and I'' (German: ''Du und ich'') is a 1938 German romance film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk and Paul Bildt Paul Hermann Bildt (19 May 1885 – 13 March 1957) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Devil in Silk'' (1956) * ''Ich suche Di ....Hake p.215 Cast References Bibliography * Hake, Sabine. ''Popular Cinema of the Third Reich''. University of Texas Press, 2001. External links * 1938 films German romance films 1930s romance films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner Films of Nazi Germany Terra Film films German black-and-white films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Who Travel (1938 French-language Film)
''People Who Travel'' (French: ''Les Gens du voyage'') is a 1938 French-German film directed by Jacques Feyder. The film was a co-production with a separate German version '' Travelling People'' also released. It is a circus film. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean D'Eaubonne. Plot Due to an accident at the Barlay Circus, animal trainer Flora finds Fernand, a former prison escapee, and refers him to manager, Edouard Barlay. The son of Flora (and Fernand), Marcel, does the acrobatics with the manager's daughters, Suzanne and Yvonne. In love with the latter, Suzanne becomes jealous. Squire Pepita is also interested in the young man. Cast *Françoise Rosay: ''La dompteuse Flora'' * André Brulé: ''Fernand'' *Marie Glory: ''Pepita'' *Guillaume de Sax: ''Le directeur Edouard Barlay'' *Sylvia Bataille: ''Yvonne Barlay'' *Louise Carletti: ''Suzanne Barlay'' *Fabien Loris: ''Marcel'' *André Roanne: ''Le lieutenant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride To Freedom
''Ride to Freedom'' (german: Ritt in die Freiheit) is a 1937 German historical war film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal and Hansi Knoteck. The film is set in the 1830s during Poland's November Uprising against the Russian Empire. It portrays the rehabilitation of a Polish cavalry officer whose initial reluctance to engage the enemy leads to the death of his comrades, but later dies fighting bravely. The film was made by German's leading studio UFA, with interiors shot at the Babelsberg Studios. UFA received co-operation from the Polish War Ministry who supplied 5th Regiment of Zaslaw Uhlans for the filming of battles scenes that took place around Ostroleka in Poland. The Polish ambassador to Germany Józef Lipski attended the film's premiere at the Palast-am-Zoo in Berlin on 14 January 1937. Around the same time Germany and Poland, future enemies in the Second World War, co-produced two films together ''Augustus the Strong'' and ''Adventure in Warsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broken Jug (film)
''The Broken Jug'' (german: Der zerbrochene Krug) is a 1937 German historical comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Emil Jannings, Friedrich Kayßler and Max Gülstorff. It is an adaptation of the play ''The Broken Jug'' by Heinrich von Kleist. The film was popular with Adolf Hitler. It was shot partly at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo. Plot A village judge is trying a case to determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the judge himself is the guilty one. Cast *Emil Jannings as Adam *Friedrich Kayßler as Walter *Max Gülstorff as Licht *Lina Carstens as Marthe Rull * Angela Salloker as Eva Rull *Bruno Hübner as Veit Tümpel * Paul Dahlke as Ruprecht Tümpel *Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Frau Brigitte *Walter Werner as operator *Erich Dunskus as beadle *Gisela von Collande Gisela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ruler
''The Ruler'' (German: ''Der Herrscher'') is a 1937 German drama film directed by Veit Harlan. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann. Erwin Leiser calls it a propagandistic demonstration of the Führerprinzip of Nazi Germany. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. Location shooting took place around Oberhausen and Pompeii near Naples. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. Plot Matthias Clausen (Emil Jannings) is the head of Clausen Works, an old and prosperous munitions firm. He falls in love with a secretary in the office (Marianne Hoppe), and his children conspire against him in order to protect their inheritance. Clausen disowns them and bestows the firm on the state, confident that one of his workers capable of carrying on his work will arise. Sources The movie was based on the play ''Before Sunset'' by Nobel Prize recipient Gerhart Hauptmann, but the themes have been utterly altered. A mild-mannered art co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Herrscher
''The Ruler'' (German: ''Der Herrscher'') is a 1937 German drama film directed by Veit Harlan. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann. Erwin Leiser calls it a propagandistic demonstration of the Führerprinzip of Nazi Germany. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. Location shooting took place around Oberhausen and Pompeii near Naples. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. Plot Matthias Clausen (Emil Jannings) is the head of Clausen Works, an old and prosperous munitions firm. He falls in love with a secretary in the office (Marianne Hoppe), and his children conspire against him in order to protect their inheritance. Clausen disowns them and bestows the firm on the state, confident that one of his workers capable of carrying on his work will arise. Sources The movie was based on the play ''Before Sunset'' by Nobel Prize recipient Gerhart Hauptmann, but the themes have been utterly altered. A mild-mannered art co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewiger Wald
''Ewiger Wald'' is a 1936 German film directed by Hanns Springer and Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski. The film's international English title was ''Enchanted Forest''. Commissioned by Alfred Rosenberg's cultural organization Militant League for German Culture in 1934 under the working title ''Deutscher Wald–Deutsches Schicksal'' (''German Forest – German Destiny''), the feature-length movie premiered in Munich in 1936. Intended as a cinematic proof for the shared destiny of the German woods and the German people beyond the vicissitudes of history, it portrayed a perfect symbiosis of an eternal forest and a likewise eternal people firmly rooted in it between Neolithic and National Socialist times. Plot summary In accordance with Rosenberg's anti-Christian beliefs, the first section on prehistory displayed various customs and rituals of an asserted pagan forest religion like a maypole dance or funerals in treetrunk coffins. Further, it depicted the forest sheltering ancient Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old And The Young King
''The Old and the Young King'' (German: ''Der alte und der junge König'') is a 1935 German historical drama film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Werner Hinz and Leopoldine Konstantin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Maurischat and Karl Weber. It was produced by a subsidiary of Tobis Film. Location shooting took place around Potsdam, including at the Garrison Church. Interiors were shot at the Grunewald and Johannisthal Studios. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo. Part of the tradition of Prussian films of the Weimar and Nazi eras, the film ostensibly deals with the intense conflict between Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I and his son and heir, Crown Prince Friedrich – the future King Friedrich II "The Great". This is a well-known incident of 18th century German history, which had drawn much public attention in the time itself, and been artistically treated before. However, in its specific presentation of this hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King's Prisoner
''The King's Prisoner'' (german: Der Gefangene des Königs) is a 1935 German historical comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Michael Bohnen, Paul Kemp, and Susi Lanner. It is based around the development of Meissen porcelain during the eighteenth century, particularly the role of the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Seefelder. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. Cast See also *''Augustus the Strong'' (1936), another film with Michael Bohnen as King Augustus *''The Blue Swords ''The Blue Swords'' (german: Die blauen Schwerter) is a 1949 East German historical drama film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Hans Quest, Ilse Steppat and Alexander Engel. It sold more than 3,299,432 tickets. The film portrays the life ...'' (1949), East German film about Johann Friedrich Böttger References External links * 1930s historical comedy films German historical comedy films Films of Nazi Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Herrin Von Atlantis
''L'Atlantide'' is a 1932 German-French adventure and fantasy film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Brigitte Helm. It is based on the novel '' L'Atlantide'' by Pierre Benoît. Production The film is a remake of the 1921 film of the same name directed by Jacques Feyder. After Feyder refused to create a sound remake of ''L'Atlantide'', Pabst took to directing the film.Frey, 2005. p. 292 Both Pabst and Feyder's film adaptations were shot in the Sahara Desert , photo = Sahara real color.jpg , photo_caption = The Sahara taken by Apollo 17 astronauts, 1972 , map = , map_image = , location = , country = , country1 = , .... To compete with American films, the film was shot in three languages: English, French and German. Cast References Notes * External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Atlantide 1932 films 1932 adventure films 1930s English-language films 1930s German-language films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
