''Nora'' is a 1944 German
drama film
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directed by
Harald Braun
Harald Braun (26 April 1901 – 24 September 1960) was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 21 films between 1942 and 1960.
Selected filmography
* ''The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl'' (dir. Carl Froelich, 193 ...
and starring
Luise Ullrich
Luise Ullrich (31 October 1910 – 21 January 1985) was an Austrian actress.
She was born in Vienna. While still a teenager, she got a stage contract. In late 1932, Ullrich played opposite Werner Krauss in "Rauhnacht" in Berlin. In 1933, sh ...
,
Viktor Staal
Viktor Staal (17 February 1909 – 4 June 1982) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Everything for the Company'' (1935)
* '' Eva, the Factory Girl'' (1935)
* '' Das Einmaleins der Liebe'' (1935)
* '' The World's in Love'' (1935 ...
and
Franziska Kinz. The film is an adaptation of
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...
's play ''
A Doll's House
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''. The film uses Ibsen's alternate ending where the unhappy couple are reconciled at the end.
[Hull p. 252] Location shooting
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took place around
Park Glienicke in
Berlin
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and along the
North Sea
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coast, particularly around
Husum
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. The sets were designed by
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
s
Emil Hasler
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and
Walter Kutz
Walter Kutz (1904 – 1983) was a German art director.Langford p.223
Selected filmography
* ''Nora'' (1944)
* '' Dreaming'' (1944)
* ''The Silent Guest'' (1945)
* '' And the Heavens Above Us'' (1947)
* ''Nights on the Nile'' (1949)
* '' The Cha ...
.
Cast
*
Luise Ullrich
Luise Ullrich (31 October 1910 – 21 January 1985) was an Austrian actress.
She was born in Vienna. While still a teenager, she got a stage contract. In late 1932, Ullrich played opposite Werner Krauss in "Rauhnacht" in Berlin. In 1933, sh ...
as Nora Helmer
*
Viktor Staal
Viktor Staal (17 February 1909 – 4 June 1982) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Everything for the Company'' (1935)
* '' Eva, the Factory Girl'' (1935)
* '' Das Einmaleins der Liebe'' (1935)
* '' The World's in Love'' (1935 ...
as Dr. Robert Helmer
*
Franziska Kinz as Helene Helmer
*
Gustav Diessl
Gustav Diessl (30 December 1899 – 20 March 1948) was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor.
Biography
Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar Diessl in Vienna. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruited ...
as Dr. Rank
*
Carl Kuhlmann
Carl Kuhlmann (25 April 1899 – 18 July 1962) was a German stage and film actor. He played the role of Nathan Mayer Rothschild in the antisemitic historical film '' The Rothschilds'' (1940) which was made as an anti-Jewish, anti-British propaga ...
as John Brack
*
Ursula Herking
Ursula Herking (28 January 1912 – 17 November 1974) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Susanne ...
as Alvine Tönnesen
*
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People
First name
*Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire
* Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian
*Eberhard I, D ...
as Fritz Tönnesen
*
Albert Florath
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Early life and education
Born to Joseph Florath, a locksmith, and his wife Matilda, née Burkart, he attended school in Brakel ...
as Diener im Elternhause Noras
*
Karl Günther
Karl Günther (25 November 1885 – 27 June 1951) was an Austrian film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The Masked Ones'' (1920)
* ''The Riddle of the Sphinx'' (1921)
* ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921)
* ''The Call of Destiny'' (1922)
* ' ...
as Landrat von Schwartze
*
Ernst Waldow
Ernst Waldow (22 August 1893 – 5 June 1964) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''Rübezahl's Wedding'' (1916)
* '' Sin of a Beautiful Woman'' (1929)
*''The Green Domino'' (1935 ...
as Bürgermeister Krüger
*
Sonja Kuska
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:* Sonia (actress), Indian film actress in Malayalam and Tamil films
:* Sonia ...
as Frau Krüger
*
Erwin Biegel
Erwin Friedrich Richard Biegel (25 March 1896 – 24 May 1954) was a German stage and film actor who appeared in over eighty feature films in a variety of supporting roles.
Selected filmography
* '' The Young Count'' (1935)
* '' His Late Excell ...
as Sanitätsrat Roselius
*
Bruno Hübner as Labsaal, Faktotum bei Brack
*
Maria Litto Maria Litto (1919–1996) was a German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress. In 1970, she pioneered dance programming on German television.
Early life
Born in Ovenhausen, Höxter, on 9 September 1919, Litto attended the town's primary and ...
as Fanny, Dienstmädchen
*
Karl Hellmer
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Selected filmography
* ''I by Day, You by Night'' (1932)
* ...
as Kruse, Bankdiener
*
Clemens Hasse
Clemens Hasse (13 April 1908 – 28 July 1959) was a German actor and synchroniser.
Biography
Hasse was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a public official and attended his stage education at the ''Preussisches Staatstheater'' in Berlin. B ...
as Sekretär Dr. Helmers
*
Georg H. Schnell
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as Bankpräsident
*
Fanny Cotta
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...
as Frau von Schwartze
*
Irene Fischer
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*
Walter Pentzlin
*
Harald Sawade
*
Georg Thomalla
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Thomalla was well k ...
References
Bibliography
* Hull, David Stewart. ''Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945''. University of California Press, 1969.
External links
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1944 films
Films of Nazi Germany
German historical drama films
1940s historical drama films
1940s German-language films
Films directed by Harald Braun
Films set in the 1870s
Films based on A Doll's House
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
1944 drama films
1940s German films
Films shot in Berlin
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