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Eduard Bornträger
Eduard Bornträger (22 June 1888 – 9 March 1958) was a German film actor.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.276 Selected filmography * ''The Hunter from Kurpfalz'' (1933) * '' Police Report'' (1934) * '' Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1936) * '' The Castle in Flanders'' (1936) * '' Winter in the Woods'' (1936) * '' The Impossible Woman'' (1936) * ''Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' Talking About Jacqueline'' (1937) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * '' By a Silken Thread'' (1938) * '' The Girl of Last Night'' (1938) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) * '' Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * '' We Danced Around the World'' (1939) * '' The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' (1939) * '' Falstaff in Vienna'' (1940) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ''Alarm ALARM (Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile) is a British anti-radiation missile designed primarily to destroy enemy radars for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden (; ) is the capital of the German state of Hesse, and the second-largest Hessian city after Frankfurt am Main. With around 283,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 24th-largest city. Wiesbaden forms a conurbation with a population of around 500,000 with the neighbouring city of Mainz. This conurbation is in turn embedded in the Rhine-Main, Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region—Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after Rhine-Ruhr—which also includes the nearby cities of Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, Offenbach am Main, and Hanau, and has a combined population exceeding 5.8 million. The city is located on the Rhine (Upper Rhine), at the foothills of the Taunus, opposite the Rhineland-Palatine capital of Mainz, and the city centre is located in the wide valley of the small Salzbach (Wiesbaden), Salzbach stream. Wiesbaden lies in the Rheingau (wine region), Rheingau wine-growing region, one of Germany's List of German wine regions, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chief Witness (film)
''The Chief Witness'' (German: ''Die Kronzeugin'') is a 1937 German crime drama film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Iván Petrovich, Sybille Schmitz and Sabine Peters. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin.Bock & Töteberg p.350 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. Location shooting took place in the Krkonose Mountains in Czechoslovakia and Zugspitze in Bavaria. Synopsis Elise, the former wife of composer Stefan Laurin, begs him to recover some letters from a man who has been blackmailing her. When he gets to the man's apartment, he finds him murdered and becomes the main suspect. Cast * Iván Petrovich as Stefan Laurin * Sybille Schmitz as Jelena Rakowska * Sabine Peters as Nina Rakowska * Gustav Waldau as Georg Radloff * Elga Brink as Elise Laurin * Ursula Grabley as Rose Bonnet * Ursula Herking as Babett * Rudolf Platte as Kriminalassistent Malapert * Just Scheu as Dr. Sanders * Georg H. Schnell as Gerichts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1888 Births
Events January * January 3 – The great telescope (with an objective lens of diameter) at Lick Observatory in California is first used. * January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory and the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school. * January 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. * January 19 – The Battle of the Grapevine Creek, the last major conflict of the Hatfield–McCoy feud in the Southeastern United States. * January 21 – The Amateur Athletic Union is founded by William Buckingham Curtis in the United States. * January 26 – The Lawn Tennis Association is founded in England. February * February 27 – In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film. March * March 8 – The Agriculture College of Utah (later Utah State University) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thank You, I'm Fine
''Thank You, I'm Fine'' () is a 1948 German comedy film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Ernst von Klipstein, Karin Hardt, and Sonja Ziemann. It is also known by the title ''A Lovely Family'' (). It was produced towards the end of the Second World War by the independent company Berlin Film. Left unfinished, it was finally completed by the Communist-controlled DEFA studio in the Soviet Zone and put on general release across Germany. It was one of a number of films of the Nazi era that had delayed releases in the years after the fall of the regime. The film's sets were designed by the 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 supe ...s Heinrich Beisenherz and Alfred Bütow. Synopsis After their father's death his seven sons and daughters try to scar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven, We Inherit A Castle
''Heaven, We Inherit a Castle'' () is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Peter Paul Brauer and starring Anny Ondra, Hans Brausewetter, and Carla Rust. The film was shot in German-occupied Prague, Ondra's hometown, by the Prag-Film company using the Hostivar Studios. It was Ondra's last starring role.Bock & Bergfelder p. 347 The film is based on Hans Fallada Hans Fallada (; born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 21 July 18935 February 1947) was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include '' Little Man, What Now?'' (1932) and '' Every Man Dies Alone'' ...'s novel ''Kleiner Mann - großer Mann, alles vertauscht''. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1943 films Films of Nazi Germany German comedy films 1943 comedy films 1940s German-language films Films directed by Peter Paul Brauer Films based on German novels German black-and-white films 1940s German films Films based on works by Hans Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diesel (1942 Film)
''Diesel'' is a 1942 German biographical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, and Paul Wegener. It portrays the life of Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor of the diesel engine. It was one of a series of prestigious biopics made in Nazi Germany portraying genius inventors or artists struggling against the societies in which they live. The film was based on a biography by Eugen Diesel, one of Diesel's children. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by art director Erich Kettelhut Erich Karl Heinrich Kettelhut (1 November 1893 – 13 March 1979) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Kettelhut is considered one of the most important artists in the history of early German cinema, mainly for his s .... Made on a large budget of , the film was a popular box office success and recouped its production costs. Cast References Bibliography * External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alarm (1941 Film)
''Alarm'' is a 1941 German crime film directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and starring Karl Martell, Maria von Tasnady and Paul Klinger.Davidson & Hake p. 59 The production was made by the independent Aco-Film rather than one of Germany's major film companies. It was shot at the Althoff Studios and various locations around Berlin including Tempelhof Airport and the Karstadt Department Store. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bruno Lutz. Cast * Karl Martell as Kriminalkommissar Petersen * Maria von Tasnady as Sekretärin Vera Kaufmann * Paul Klinger as Herbert Flügger * Rolf Weih as Werkpilot Werner Blennemann * Hilde Sessak as Platzanweiserin Helene Hoesch * Hilde Hildebrand as Pensionsinhaberin Frau Anders * Lotte Rausch as Dienstmädchen Meta * Theodor Loos as Rentner Ophagen * Fritz Rasp as Feinmechaniker Stülken * Alexander Engel as Barpianist Ölkers * Gerhard Bienert as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Dittmann * Albert Venohr as Kriminaloberassistent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counterfeiters (1940 Film)
''Counterfeiters'' () is a 1940 German crime film directed by Hermann Pfeiffer (actor), Hermann Pfeiffer and starring Kirsten Heiberg, Rudolf Fernau and Karin Himboldt.Giesen p. 193 The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Mellin. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios, Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin, and location shooting, on location in Tirol (state), Tirol. Cast * Kirsten Heiberg as Juliette Balouet, Betrügerin * Rudolf Fernau as Gaston de Frossard, Kopf der Fälscherbande * Karin Himboldt as Hanna, Kunstschülerin * Hermann Brix as Herbert Engelke, Grafiker * Theodor Loos as Professor Bassi * Hermann Speelmans as Karl Bergmann aka Harry Gernreich * Leo Peukert as Johann Weidling * Lutz Götz as Poppinger, Viehhändler * Axel Monjé as Obersturmführer Dr. Bradt, Kriminalkommissar * Max Gülstorff as Zeltlin, Kriminalinspektor aus Zürich * Ingeborg von Kusserow as Else Bornemann * Peter Elsholtz as Fälscher * Jakob Tiedtke as Papa Schmidt, Toilettenm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falstaff In Vienna
''Falstaff in Vienna'' () is a 1940 German musical comedy film directed by Leopold Hainisch and starring Hans Nielsen (actor), Hans Nielsen, Gusti Wolf and Paul Hörbiger.Fawkes p. 110 It portrays the life of the nineteenth century composer Otto Nicolai, known for works such as ''The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera), The Merry Wives of Windsor''. Cast In alphabetical order * Wolf Albach-Retty as Robert von Weitenegg * Ernst Benzinger as Prompter at the premiere * Erna Berger as Soprano * Helmut Berndsen as Falstaff actor * Luise Bethke-Zitzmann as Gardenfrau Mizzi's in Berlin * Eduard Bornträger as Theatre box attendant * Julius Brandt as Clerk Pokorny * Theo Brandt * Gaston Briese as Stage manager of the Berlin Royal Opera, Royal Opera House Berlin * Curt Cappi as Organ grinder * Michele Danton as Italian street hawker * Karl Etlinger as Senior clark Mödlinger * Hugo Flink * Senta Foltin as Demoiselle Leonie * Charles Francois as Guest in the theatre box * Hans Göbel as Singer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life And Loves Of Tschaikovsky
''The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' or ''It Was a Lovely Night at the Ball'' () is a 1939 German historical drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Zarah Leander, Aribert Wäscher and Hans Stüwe.Reimer & Reimer p. 119 It premiered on 13 August 1939 at the Venice Film Festival. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter Franz Schroedter (9 May 1897 – 14 November 1968) was a German art director.Giesen p.212 Selected filmography * '' The Black Count'' (1920) * ''The Dance of Love and Happiness'' (1921) * '' The New Paradise'' (1921) * '' The Queen of Whitechapel .... Synopsis The film portrays a fictional relationship between the Russian composer Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky and an aristocratic woman who, unhappily married, falls in love with him and decides to secretly support his work financially. Cast References Bibliography * * External links * 1939 films Films of Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Danced Around The World
''We Danced Around the World'' () is a 1939 German musical film directed by Karl Anton and starring Charlotte Thiele, Irene von Meyendorff, and Carola Höhn. It is a backstage musical. The film's sets were designed by Paul Markwitz and Fritz Maurischat Fritz Maurischat (April 27, 1893 in Berlin – December 11, 1986) was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany. He earned an Oscar nominatio .... Cast References External links * 1939 musical films German musical films Films of Nazi Germany Films directed by Karl Anton Tobis Film films German black-and-white films 1930s German films {{Musical-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitty And The World Conference
''Kitty and the World Conference'' () is a 1939 German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hannelore Schroth, Fritz Odemar and Christian Gollong. It is a screwball comedy set against the backdrop of an international peace conference. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ordered it withdrawn from cinemas as it he felt it presented too favourable a view of Britain.Reimer & Reimer pp. 168–169 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by art director Max Mellin Max Mellin (30 January 1904 – 17 March 1977) was a German art director.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.275 Selected filmography * '' Goodbye, Beautiful Days'' (1933) * '' Happy Days in Aranjuez'' (1933) * ''The Girlfriend of a Big Man'' (1934) * '' Playi .... The story was based on a play, which served as the basis for the 1956 remake '' Kitty and the Great Big World''. Cast References Bibliography * External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
