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Jürgen Schornagel
Jürgen Schornagel (born 1939) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1966. Selected filmography References External links * 1939 births Living people German male film actors Male actors from Essen {{Germany-film-actor-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sternstein Manor
''The Sternstein Manor'' () is a 1976 West German drama film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * as Leni Zinshofer * Tilo Prückner as Nepomuk Kleebinder aka Muckerl * Gustl Bayrhammer as Sternsteinhofbauer sen. * Peter Kern as Toni Stadlhofer - Sternsteinhofbauer jr. * as Zinshoferin * Elfriede Kuzmany as Kleebinderin * Ulrike Luderer as Sepherl * Irm Hermann as Sali * Maria Stadler as Katel * Horst Richter as Käsbiermartel * Helmut Alimonta as Farm Hand * Jürgen Schornagel Jürgen Schornagel (born 1939) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1966. Selected filmography References External links * 1939 births Living people German male film actors Male actors from Essen ... as Priest * as Dr. Swoboda References External links * 1976 films 1976 drama films German drama films West German films 1970s German-language films Films based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manta, Manta
''Manta, Manta'' is a 1991 German action comedy film directed by Wolfgang Büld. The film features Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland, Stefan Gebelhoff, Lena Sabine Berg and Michael Kessler in the lead roles. Singer/songwriter Sylkie Monoff makes a small appearance. It was released in Germany on 3 October 1991 and in Hungary on 17 April 1992. The English title of the film was ''Racin' in the Street''. Four weeks before the film was released ''Manta – Der Film'' was shown in theaters, which also focused on Opel Manta in a comedic way, see "Manta jokes". Actors Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland and Michael Kessler started their film acting careers with ''Manta, Manta''. Plot In the Ruhr area: Bertie (Til Schweiger) is the proud owner of a well-tuned Opel Manta. Together with his friends Gerd (Stefan Gebelhoff), Klausi (Michael Kessler) and Hakan (Ömer Simsek) he enjoys driving in his Opel Manta as a hobby. One day, while Bertie is driving his car in a race against a VW Golf GTI, a Mercedes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brother Of Sleep
''Brother of Sleep'' () is a 1995 German film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and based on the novel ''Schlafes Bruder'' by Austrian writer Robert Schneider. It was chosen as Germany's official submission to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Cast * as Elias * Dana Vávrová as Elsbeth *Ben Becker as Peter * Jochen Nickel as Köhler Michel *Jürgen Schornagel as Kurat Benzer *Paulus Manker as Lehrer Oskar *Michaela Rosen as Seffin *Peter Franke as Seff * Detlef Bothe as Lukas *Michael Mendl as Nulf Reception It was the fourth most popular German film of the year with a gross of 9.9 million Deutsche Mark ($6 million). See also *List of submissions to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film *List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film References External links *Reviewsat Rotten Tomatoes Rotte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedian Harmonists (film)
''Comedian Harmonists'' (English title: ''The Harmonists'') is a 1997 German film, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier, about the popular German vocal group of the 1920s and '30s, the Comedian Harmonists. The film was supported by the German and Austrian film fund. Plot In 1927, unemployed German-Jewish actor Harry Frommermann is inspired by the American group The Revelers to create a German group of the same format. He holds auditions and signs on four additional singers and a pianist. Naming themselves the "Comedian Harmonists", they meet international fame and popularity. However, they eventually run into trouble when the Nazis come to power, as half the group is Jewish. Cast * Ben Becker as Robert Biberti * Heino Ferch as Roman Cycowski * Ulrich Noethen as Harry Frommermann * Heinrich Schafmeister as Erich A. Collin * Max Tidof as Ari Leschnikoff * Kai Wiesinger as Erwin Bootz * Meret Becker as Erna Eggstein * Katja Riemann as Mary Cycowski * Noemi Fischer as Chantal, Collin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14 Days To Life
''14 Days to Life'' () is a 1997 German thriller film directed by Roland Suso Richter. Plot Young lawyer Konrad von Seidlitz is celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, the daughter of justice minister Friedemann Volkerts. He hasn't paid his parking fines for two years, and as a publicity stunt to boost his career, he insists on being sentenced to jail for two weeks as punishment. While inside, he behaves arrogantly, believing that his knowledge of the system will protect him. He manages to make a few enemies, however, and one day prior to his release, two hundred grams of cocaine are found in his cell during a search. Instead of being released after two weeks as planned, he is sentenced to two years without parole for drug trafficking as a result of a plot by his law firm partner Axel Häring, who is having an affair with Seidlitz's fiancée. Seidlitz now discovers the harsh reality of everyday prison life. He is humiliated and his reputation destroyed. As he gradually learns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Shooter (1999 Film)
''Straight Shooter'' is a 1999 German film directed by Thomas Bohn and starring Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint, Hannelore Hoger, Ulrich Mühe, and Errol A. C. Trotman Harewood. Synopsis An ex-member of the French Foreign Legion holds the German government responsible for the death of his family and goes on a killing spree to stop the operation of a nuclear plant. The police The police are Law enforcement organization, a constituted body of Law enforcement officer, people empowered by a State (polity), state with the aim of Law enforcement, enforcing the law and protecting the Public order policing, public order ... are helpless and so the ex-instructor of the killer is brought to Germany to hunt the killer down. External links * * 1999 films 1999 action thriller films German action thriller films German crime thriller films English-language German films 1990s German-language films Films shot in Cologne Films about snipers 1990s German films 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goebbels Und Geduldig
''Goebbels und Geduldig'' is a 2002 German war comedy television film about Joseph Goebbels and Nazi Germany, directed by Kai Wessel, written by , and starring Ulrich Mühe in the two titular roles. Plot Harry Geduldig is a Jewish lookalike of Goebbels, who has been held captive and a secret by Heinrich Himmler ever since the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. In 1944, Goebbels finds out about this and intends to liquidate his double. When the two men meet in person, Geduldig manages to escape and is from now on considered the real Goebbels by his entourage. Meanwhile the real Goebbels is held captive by Geduldig's prison wards and thought to be his own Jewish double. Cast *Ulrich Mühe: Joseph Goebbels / Harry Geduldig *Eva Mattes: Magda Goebbels * Götz Otto: Brenneisen *Dagmar Manzel: Grete Zipfel *Dieter Pfaff: Eugen Haase *Katharina Thalbach: Hertha Haase * Katja Riemann: Eva Braun *Jürgen Schornagel: Adolf Hitler *Tilo Prückner: Heinrich Hoffmann *Tobias Schenke: Prisoner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Stunde Der Offiziere
''Die Stunde der Offiziere'' () is a German semi-documentary movie of 2003 telling in chronological order about the German resistance attempts to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany in the 20 July plot of 1944. Produced by German TV ZDF, it parallels '' Stauffenberg'' of Jo Baier produced by German TV ARD in 2004 for the 60th anniversary of the coup. Historian Guido Knopp oversaw the production of ''Stunde der Offiziere''. Plot On 13 March 1943, Henning von Tresckow puts a bomb on Hitler's plane, but the bomb fails to explode. On 21 March 1943, Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff intends a suicide bombing attack on Hitler in an exhibition, yet Hitler leaves prematurely. A similar attempt by Axel von dem Bussche fails as the event is canceled due to allied air raid on Berlin. Last hope is on Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg who, being in charge of Operation Walküre, has access to Hitler for reports. The bomb detonates on 20 July 1944 in Hitler Headquarter Wolfsschanz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Beck
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (; 29 June 1880 – 20 July 1944) was a German general who served as Chief of the German General Staff from 1933 to 1938. Beck was one of the main conspirators of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Beck was a staff officer in the '' Truppenamt'' of the '' Reichswehr'' and became a fellow traveller of the Nazis during the Weimar Republic. Beck was appointed Chief of Staff of the German Army shortly after the Nazi rise to power, supporting Hitler's rearmament of Germany and forceful denunciation of the Treaty of Versailles, although he believed Germany needed more time to prepare for another war. Beck was increasingly disillusioned with Hitler's aggressive foreign policy, the rising totalitarianism of the Nazi regime, and the influence of the SS over the army in military affairs. Beck became a leader of resistance to Nazism in military circles after retiring in 1938 due to public disagreements with Hitler on foreign policy, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antibodies (film)
''Antibodies'' () is a 2005 German crime thriller film written and directed by Christian Alvart, and starring Wotan Wilke Möhring, André Hennicke André Hennicke (born 21 September 1958) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1984. Hennicke was born in Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony. He was awarded a German television award for best actor for ''Something to ... and Heinz Hoenig. It was released in Germany on 7 July 2005. Plot In Berlin, the pederast serial killer Gabriel Engel, who later admitted to brutally killing 13 boys and painted impressive religious works of art with their blood, is accidentally taken during an overnight operation. Commissioner Seiler is charged with the interrogation of the murderer. In the small village of Herzbach, memories of the unsolved murder of 12-year-old Lucy are still alive and the crime is attributed to Engel. Michael Martens, a police officer from Herzbach, decides to travel to Berlin to talk with En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2030 – Aufstand Der Alten
''2030 – Aufstand der Alten'' (''2030 – Rise of the Elderly'') is a three-part German television miniseries which aired in January 2007. The docudrama, about demographics Demography () is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration. Demographic analysis examin ... or "demographic crime", is written and directed by . The first part is titled "Die Geiselnahme (Taking a Hostage)", the second is titled "Das Leben im Untergrund (Living in the Underground)", and the third is titled "Das Geheimnis in der Wüste (Tower of the Firstborn)". Cast * Bettina Zimmermann: Lena Bach * Jürgen Schornagel: Sven Darow External links * 2000s German television miniseries 2000s German-language films German-language television shows 2007 German television series debuts 2007 German television series endings German science fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Births
This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Coming into effect in Nazi Germany of: *** The Protection of Young Persons Act (Germany), Protection of Young Persons Act, passed on April 30, 1938, the Working Hours Regulations. *** The small businesses obligation to maintain adequate accounting. *** The Jews name change decree. ** With his traditional call to the New Year in Nazi Germany, Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). ** The Hewlett-Packard technology and scientific instruments manufacturing company is founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. ** Philipp Etter takes over as President of the Swiss Confederation. ** The Third Soviet Five Year P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
