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Mona Mårtenson
Monica Ingeborg Elisabeth "Mona" Mårtenson (4 May 1902 – 8 July 1956) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 28 films between 1923 and 1949. She was born and died in Stockholm, Sweden. Early career Mona grew up in Helsingborg and studied at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy. She made her first film appearance in ''Anderssonskans Kalle på nya upptåg'' (''Kalle Anderssonskan's New Pranks'', 1923) directed by Sigurd Wallén. That same year, Mona and her classmate Greta Gustafson (who would change her name to Greta Garbo that same year) were selected by the school to audition for noted Swedish film director Mauritz Stiller. Both actresses were cast in his upcoming film, the epic romance '' Gösta Berlings saga'' (''The Saga of Gosta Berling'') in 1924. The film was based on the 1892 debut novel by Selma Lagerlöf and featured Lars Hanson as the handsome young priest, Gösta Berling, who is fired over his drinking and improper lifestyle. Shamed, he is later hired by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Louis Lerch
Fred Louis Lerch (28 March 1902 – 26 August 1985) was an Austrian actor who was a star of German films. From 1951 till 1961 he worked again for German cinema as a production manager. Selected filmography * '' The Portrait'' (1923) * '' A Waltz by Strauss'' (1925) * ''Carmen'' (1926) * '' The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926) * '' Flirtation'' (1927) * '' The Family without Morals'' (1927) * ''The Prince's Child'' (1927) * '' Sealed Lips'' (1927) * ''Mariett Dances Today'' (1928) * '' Rutschbahn'' (1928) * ''The Little Slave'' (1928) * '' Parisiennes'' (1928) * '' Mary Lou'' (1928) * ''Fair Game'' (1928) * '' Black Forest Girl'' (1929) * '' The Crimson Circle'' (1929) * '' Play Around a Man'' (1929) * '' Der Walzerkönig'' (1930) * ''Student Life in Merry Springtime ''Student Life in Merry Springtime'' (German: ''Student sein, wenn die Veilchen blühen'') is a 1931 German musical film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Franz Baumann, Anita Dorris and Fritz Alberti.The Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Kantonnement
''I kantonnement'' is a 1932 Danish silent comedy film directed by Lau Lauritzen Sr. It features the acting debut of Poul Reichhardt. Cast *Carl Schenstrøm as Fyrtaarnet *Harald Madsen as Bivognen *Mona Mårtenson * Erling Schroeder *Olga Svendsen *Anton De Verdier *Christian Schrøder *Einar Juhl * Alex Suhr * Johannes Andresen *Christen Møller * Jørgen Lund *Poul Reichhardt Poul David Reichhardt (2 February 1913 – 31 October 1985) was a Danish actor, well known for his roles in Danish 1940s/1950s comedies. Later on, he also played more serious and varied roles; he has also starred in '' Huset på Christians ... External links * 1932 films 1930s Danish-language films 1932 comedy films Danish black-and-white films Films directed by Lau Lauritzen Sr. Danish silent films Danish comedy films 1930s buddy comedy films Danish-language comedy films {{1930s-Denmark-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gubernatorial seat of Västra Götaland County, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in Metropolitan Gothenburg, the metropolitan area. Gustavus Adolphus, King Gustavus Adolphus founded Gothenburg by royal charter in 1621 as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony. In addition to the generous privileges given to his Dutch allies during the ongoing Thirty Years' War, e.g. tax relaxation, he also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast; this trading status was furthered by the founding of the Swedish East India Company. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the , where Scandinavia's largest dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White God
''The White God'' (German: ''Der weiße Gott'') is a 1932 Cinema of Denmark, Danish-Cinema of Germany, German adventure film directed by George Schnéevoigt and starring Paul Richter, Mona Mårtenson, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge. It premiered on 14 May 1932.Grange p.387 It is the German-language version of George Schnéevoigt's Danish–Norwegian film ''Eskimo (1930 film), Eskimo'' (released 1930). There is also a French-language version. Cast * Paul Richter as Jack Norton * Mona Mårtenson as Ekalonk * Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Mariak * Ada Kramm as Anny * Henki Kolstad as the cabin boy * Knut Christian Langaard as the captain * Paul Rehkopf * Josef Dischner References Bibliography * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1932 films 1932 adventure films Danish adventure films German adventure films Films of the Weimar Republic 1930s German-language films Films directed by George Schnéevoigt German multili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Schwenzen
Harald Schwenzen (18 May 1895 – 16 April 1954) was a Norwegian actor and director. Born in Glücksberg, Germany, he relocated to Norway where he made his stage debut at Nationaltheatret in 1918, and played for this theatre for many years. Schwenzen was known for playing lead roles such as ''Don Carlos'' and ''Peer Gynt''. He made his debut as a film actor in 1920 in Victor Sjöström's film adaptation of Hjalmar Bergman's ''Mästerman''. Schwenzen was script writer and director for the 1922 film adaption of Knut Hamsun's '' Pan''. In 1929, he played a leading role as a lawyer Sadolin in the Norwegian film Laila. He chaired the Norwegian Actors' Equity Association during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, and was arrested and sent to Grini and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. After his release and the end of the war, he continued appearing on Norwegian stages and in films. In 1948, Schwenzen played the role of the German general von Falkenhorst in the '' Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Gleditsch
Henry Cochrane Williamsen Gleditsch (9 November 1902 – 6 October 1942) was a Norwegian stage and film actor and theatre director. He was born in Kristiania. In his young days he participated in skiing for SFK Lyn. He married Synnøve Tanvik in 1932. He made his acting debut in 1923, and in 1937 he established and took charge of Trøndelag Teater in Trondheim. He had a satirical style, provoking the authorities of the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. People warned him and advised him to flee to Sweden, but he did not do so. Following skirmishes in Majavatn and sabotages in Glomfjord and Malm, conducted by the Norwegian resistance movement, martial law was declared on 6 October 1942 in and around Trondheim, in Nord-Trøndelag county and in Grane Municipality. In a speech held in the main square in the city center of Trondheim, Josef Terboven Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (23 May 1898 – 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Malberg
Peter Malberg (21 September 1887 – 23 June 1965) was a Danish actor best known for his role as Onkel Anders in the '' Far Til Fire'' movies. Peter was originally educated as a painter, but his job at Aarhus Theatre as a scenic painter along with the fact that his older brother Henrik was an actor, eventually led to him being in theater- and later filmindustry. Biography Peter Malberg was born in Aarhus, Denmark. He was 15 years younger than his brother, the actor Henrik Malberg, who cared for Peter throughout his life. Their father was a haulage contractor, while their mother was of fragile health and was ill during long periods of Malberg's childhood. In 1904, when Malberg was 14 years old, his parents agreed that he was to be a painter's apprentice with master C. Christian Nielsen. Peter had talent as a painter and desired a formal education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. However, after serving his two-year apprenticeship, he was hired at Aarhus Theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Schnéevoigt
George Schnéevoigt (born Fritz Ernst Georg Fischer; 23 December 1893 – 6 February 1961) was a Denmark, Danish film director, cinematographer, and actor of the 1910s to early 1940s. Schnéevoigt was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 23 December 1893 to the Finland, Finnish-born photographer and actress Siri Schnéevoigt, and Hermann Friedrich Fischer. He was the father of photographer Alf Schnéevoigt. Early life When Schnéevoigt was 14 years old he traveled with his mother to Berlin as a result of his parents divorce, there he took his mothers last name. Already in his school years Schnéevoigt had developed an interest in acting. He trained as a photographer and studied with actress Tilla Durieux and actor Ludwig Hartau, Ludvig Hartau. Career Schnéevoigt made his debut as an actor at the age of 19 at the Metropol (Berlin), Neues Schauspilhaus in Berlin, where he met his future wife, the painter Tilly von Kaulbach. In 1914 he returned home to Denmark from Berlin with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laila (1929 Film)
''Laila'' is a 1929 Norwegian black and white silent drama film. The film was written, directed, and edited by George Schnéevoigt. Mona Mårtenson, Tryggve Larssen, and Harald Schwenzen played the leading roles. Plot Shopkeeper Lind is taking his daughter on a long journey to a distant church to be baptized. His daughter is with a servant in the last sled, which trails behind out of sight and comes under attack by a wolf pack. In the confusion that arises as they flee, the baby falls out of the sled. Jåmpa, a Sámi people, Sámi man, finds the baby and takes her to his Sámi employer, the rich Aslag Laagje, who adopts her to be his daughter. Laagje baptizes the child as Laila. A year later, Laagje visits Lind and his bereaved wife, and realizes that Laila is their daughter. He returns Laila to them, but not long afterwards the plague decimates the village and kills her parents. Jåmpa goes to the village and finds Laila in the care of an elderly couple. He takes Laila back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Richter
Paul Richter (1 April 1895 – 30 December 1961) was an Austrian film actor. He owed his great popularity in German films of the silent era largely to the directors Joe May and Fritz Lang. Biography Richter made his film debut right before World War I in ''Der Sterbewalzer'' (1914), directed by Fritz Freund. With the outbreak of the war, his film activity ceased temporarily, and he joined the Austrian Kaiserjäger, serving as an infantryman in the Carpathian Mountains, from which he was later detached to a mountain guide course. His strong feeling for nature, acquired at that time, became a feature of his life, and later, of his movies. With Joe May's '' The Indian Tomb'' (1921) Richter became famous to a wide public for the first time, but it was only with the advent of '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922), and especially with ''Die Nibelungen'' (1924) – both directed by Fritz Lang – that he became a sex symbol for the 1920s: Germany's answer to male stars of American film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aud Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen (30 May 1893 – 15 November 1974) was a Norwegians, Norwegian actress, director and producer. She appeared in many early 20th-century German silent films. Early life Born in Bergen, Norway in 1893, Egede-Nissen was a daughter of Norwegian postmaster and politician Adam Egede-Nissen, Adam Hjalmar Egede-Nissen (1868–1953) and his wife Goggi Egede-Nissen, Georga "Goggi" Wilhelma Ellertsen (1871–1959); she had ten siblings. Four of her younger sisters and two younger brothers also became actors: Gerd Grieg (1895–1988), Ada Kramm (1899–1981), Oscar Egede-Nissen (1903–1976), Stig Egede-Nissen (1907–1988), Lill Egede-Nissen (1909–1962) and Gøril Havrevold (1914–1992). German film career Aud made her acting debut on the Norwegian stage in 1911, appearing next in Norwegian director Bjørn Bjørnson's 1913 film ''Scenens børn''. In 1913 she moved to Denmark and started working for Dania Biofilm Kompagni in Copenhagen. In 1914, Bjørn Bjørnson invited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
