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Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff
''The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' () is a 1931 German drama film directed by Erich Engels and Fedor Ozep, starring Fritz Kortner and Anna Sten. It tells the story of a lieutenant who is suspected of having murdered his father. The film is based on motifs from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel ''The Brothers Karamazov''. A French version ''The Brothers Karamazov'' was produced separately. Cast * Fritz Kortner as Dimitri Karamasoff * Anna Sten as Gruschenka * Fritz Rasp as Smerdjakoff * Bernhard Minetti as Iwan Karamasoff * Max Pohl as Fedor Karamasoff * Hanna Waag as Katja * Fritz Alberti as Gerichtspräsident * Werner Hollmann as Der Pole * Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Fenja Production The film was produced by Terra Film and shot at the company's Marienfelde Studios in Berlin. Filming took place from 22 October to 24 November 1930. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Richter and Victor Trivas. Reception The British film critic Raymond Durgnat wrote in a 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Engels
Erich Engels (23 May 1889 – 25 April 1971) was a German screenwriter, film producer, producer and film director.Bock & Bergfelder p.112 Selected filmography * ''Dear Homeland'' (1929) * ''Rooms to Let'' (1930) * ''The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' (1931) * ''The Secret of the Red Cat (1931 film), The Secret of the Red Cat'' (1931) * ''Secret of the Blue Room (1932 film), Secret of the Blue Room'' (1932) * ''At Your Orders, Sergeant'' (1932) * ''Crime Reporter Holm'' (1932) * ''The Roberts Case'' (1933) * ''Peter, Paul and Nanette'' (1935) * ''Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden (1935 film), Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden'' (1935) * ''Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine'' (1936) * ''The Grey Lady (film), The Grey Lady'' (1937) * ''In the Name of the People (1939 film), In the Name of the People'' (1939) * ''Central Rio'' (1939) * ''Doctor Crippen (1942 film), Doctor Crippen'' (1942) * ''The Golden Spider'' (1943) * ''Friday the Thirteenth (1949 film), Friday the Thirteenth'' (1949) * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers Karamazov (1931 Film)
''The Brothers Karamazov'' (French: ''Les frères Karamazoff'') is a 1931 French drama film directed by Fedor Ozep and starring Fritz Kortner, Anna Sten and Hanna Waag. It was produced by Pathé-Natan as the French-language version of the German film '' The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov''. It is based on the novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.Goble p.131 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Perrier. Cast * Fritz Kortner as Dimitri Karamazoff * Anna Sten as Grouschenka * Hanna Waag as Katia * Fritz Rasp as Smerdiakoff * Max Pohl as Le père Karamazoff * Héléna Manson as Fénia * Aimé Clariond Aimé Clariond (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1959) was a French stage and film actor. Clariond was born in Périgueux, Dordogne, France and died in Paris. Selected filmography * '' The Brothers Karamazov'' (1931) - Ivan Karamazoff * '' Amourous ... as Ivan Karamazoff * André Dubosc as Le procureur References Bibliography * Goble, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein; (11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films '' Strike'' (1925), '' Battleship Potemkin'' (1925) and ''October'' (1928), as well as the historical epics '' Alexander Nevsky'' (1938) and ''Ivan the Terrible'' (1945/1958). In its 2012 decennial poll, the magazine '' Sight & Sound'' named his ''Battleship Potemkin'' the 11th-greatest film of all time. Early life Sergei Eisenstein was born on in Riga, in the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (present-day Latvia), to a middle-class family. His family moved frequently in his early years, as Eisenstein continued to do throughout his life. His father, the architect Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein, was born in the Kiev Governorate, to a Jewish merchant father, Osip, and a Swedish mother. Sergei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaningVictorino Tejera, 1966, pages 85,140, Art and Human Intelligence, Vision Press Limited, London of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. It remained popular during the Weimar Republic,Bruce Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruzlecture on Weimar culture/Kafka'a Prague particularly in Berlin. The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music. Paris became a gathering place for a group of Expressionist artists, many of Jewish origin, dubbed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Durgnat
Raymond Durgnat (1 September 1932 – 19 May 2002) was a British film critic, who was born in London to Swiss parents. During his life he wrote for virtually every major English language film publication. In 1965 he published the first major critical essay on Michael Powell, who had hitherto been "fashionably dismissed by critics as a 'technician's director'", as Durgnat put it. His many books include ''Films and Feelings'' (1967), ''A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence'' (1970), and ''The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock'' (1974). He wrote principally for '' Films and Filming'' (in the 1960s), ''Film Comment'' (in the 1970s) and ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' (in the 1980s), and taught at various art schools and universities, notably St Martin's College and the Royal College of Art, where his students included Tony Scott. Towards the end of his life he was visiting professor at the University of East London. Biography Durgnat was born in London in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Richter
Heinrich Richter (1884–1981) was a German painter and art director.Soister p.122 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The Confessions of the Green Mask'' (1916) * '' The Sensational Trial'' (1923) * '' Upstairs and Downstairs'' (1925) * '' Semi-Silk'' (1925) * '' Should We Be Silent?'' (1926) * '' A Crazy Night'' (1927) * '' One Plus One Equals Three'' (1927) * ''Children's Souls Accuse You'' (1927) * '' The Trousers'' (1927) * ''The Girl with the Five Zeros'' (1927) * '' When the Guard Marches'' (1928) * ''The Prince of Rogues'' (1928) * '' The House Without Men'' (1928) * '' Master and Mistress'' (1928) * ''Villa Falconieri'' (1928) * '' Sinful and Sweet'' (1929) * '' The Man Without Love '' (1929) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1929) * '' Come Back, All Is Forgiven'' (1929) * '' Mischievous Miss'' (1930) * '' Morals at Midnight'' (1930) * ''The Man Who Murdered'' (1931) * '' The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marienfelde Studios
The Terra Studios or Marienfelde Studios were film studios located in the Berlin suburb of Marienfelde. The studios were originally a Greenhouse, glasshouse constructed in 1913 by the early company Eiko Film, controlled by the film producer, producer Franz Vogel who had previously been using the Sellerstrasse Studios of Rex Film. In the early 1920s Terra Film was founded and took over the studios from the defunct Eiko. It was known as the Terra-Glashaus during these years.Jung & Schatzberg p.220 In 1930 the studio underwent major rebuilding following the acquisition of Terra by Eugen Scotoni, and was fitted for sound film, sound production using the Tobis-Klangfilm system. During the consolidation of the German film industry in the 1930s under the Nazi era, Terra rose to become one of the four major companies alongside UFA GmbH, UFA, Bavaria Film, Bavaria and Tobis Film, Tobis. It continued producing at Marienfelde until the late 1930s when the further centralisation of German fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (5 April 1900 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian actress who started her career in Germany during the 1920s. Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies. She later returned to Germany, where she worked with numerous successful theatres of Berlin, among them Fritz Kortner's Berliner Bühnen. Neumann-Viertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldom played a leading role there. She retired in the late 1980s after nearly 70 years of acting. Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was the third wife of film director Berthold Viertel. Partial filmography * '' Sister Veronika'' (1927) * '' The Merry Vineyard'' (1927) - Frl. Stenz * '' Doña Juana'' (1927) - Ines' Freundin Clara * '' M'' (1931) - (uncredited) * '' The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' (1931) - Fenja * '' Donogoo Tonka'' (1936) - Auswandererfrau * ''Boccaccio'' (1936) - Junge Frau aus Ferrar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Hollmann
Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Raider'' series * Werner von Strucker, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe * Werner, a fictional character in '' Darwin's Soldiers'' * Werner Ziegler, a fictional character from tv show Better Call Saul Geography * Werner, West Virginia * Mount Werner, a mountain that includes the Steamboat Ski Resort, in the Park Range of Colorado * Werner (crater), a crater in the south-central highlands of the Moon * Werner projection, an equal-area map projection preserving distances along parallels, central meridian and from the North pole Companies * Carsey-Werner, an American television and film production studio * Werner Enterprises, a Nebraska-based trucking company * Werner Co., a manufacturer of ladders * Werner Motors, an early a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Alberti
Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921) * ''The Other Woman (1924 film), The Other Woman'' (1924) * ''The Blackguard'' (1925) * ''Ship in Distress (1925 film), Ship in Distress'' (1925) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * ''Frisian Blood'' (1925) * ''I Love You (1925 film), I Love You'' (1925) * ''If Only It Weren't Love'' (1925) * ''Vienna - Berlin'' (1926) * ''The Sea Cadet'' (1926) * ''Battle of the Sexes (1926 film), Battle of the Sexes'' (1926) * ''The Student of Prague (1926 film), The Student of Prague'' (1926) * ''White Slave Traffic (film), White Slave Traffic'' (1926) * ''The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * ''Café Elektric'' (1927) * ''U-9 Weddigen'' (1927) * ''The Impostor (1927 film), The Impostor'' (1927) * ''Aftermath (1927 film), Aftermath'' (1927) * ''The Sporck Battalion (1927 film), The Sporck Battalion'' (1927) * ''That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
