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The Captain From Köpenick (1956 Film)
''The Captain from Köpenick'' () is a 1956 West German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and based upon the 1931 play '' The Captain of Köpenick'' by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt, a German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian military officer in 1906 and became famous as the Captain from Köpenick. It was nominated for the 29th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film. It was shot by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. Plot A young mechanic is jailed for the forgery of low-value postal orders and is sentenced to 15 years. Upon release, after successfully working abroad, he returns to Germany due to homesickness. However, he receives a further sentence of 10 years for forging false identity documentation in an attempt to escape his past. Now, without a job, he cannot obtain a residence permit, and without a resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Jung
Thomas Jung is an American Art director#In advertising, art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and storyboard artist.The Star Wars Poster Book, Stephen J. Sansweet, Chronicle Books (October 13, 2005)The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film, J. W. Rinzler, LucasBooks (April 24, 2007) He is known for his movie poster art. Biography Early life and career Jung, a Chinese American, was raised and educated in Boston, Massachusetts. After finishing high school, he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. During his second year he was drafted into the Army. While stationed at Fort Jackson (South Carolina), Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, Jung contributed to the newspaper ''Fort Jackson Leader'' as an editorial cartoonist, designing and illustrating primarily public service communications.Fort Jackson Leader newspaper December 31, 1953, U.S. Army Basic Combat Training Museum archives, Columbia, South Carolina Following his discharge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wandsbek Studios
The Wandsbek Studios are film production and television studios located in Wandsbek, a district of the German city of Hamburg. The complex was established in 1948 when Real Film, set up the previous year, acquired a site in Wandsbek for construction of a studio. Real Film was one of the first German companies to receive a production licence in the wake of the Second World War. The studios were located in the British Zone of Occupation which in 1949 became part of West Germany. Historically the film industry had been centered in Berlin, but as much of this was now under Communist East German control, West German production shifted to Hamburg and the Bavaria Studios in Munich. While Wandsbek was primarily the base of Real Film, it also rented out space to other companies for their productions, such as the 1952 hit ''Toxi'' (1952). Real Film was a leading film producer of popular cinema during the 1950s producing films such as '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1956). However, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Sebaldt
Maria Katharina Helene Sebaldt (26 April 1930 – 4 April 2023) was a German actress. Life The daughter of a department head of the Paramount film distribution company took private acting lessons from 1946 to 1949 and passed an acting examination in 1951. As early as 1947 she made her stage debut in Sondershausen as ''Edeltraud Panse'' in Maximilian Böttcher's ''Krach im Hinterhaus''. Numerous theater engagements followed, among others in Sondershausen, Berlin (Renaissance Theater, Theater Club British Center) and Munich. From 1965 until his death in 2010, Maria Sebaldt was married to her colleague Robert Freitag. Together with Freitag's first wife, the actress Maria Becker, she created the cookbook ''Eat and Drink and Be Happy'' in 1997, ''Favorite dishes from Maria Becker & Maria Sebaldt''. Maria Sebaldt had a daughter, Katharina Freitag, and a grandson. She died in Munich on 4 April 2023, at the age of 92. She was buried next to her husband in the Grünwald forest cemete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Fürstenberg
Ilse Fürstenberg (12 December 1907, in Berlin – 16 December 1976, in Basel) was a German actress, working on stage, screen, television and as voice actress. Selected filmography * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) - Raths Wirtschafterin / Maid * '' M'' (1931) - (uncredited) * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) - Marie Hoprecht * ''Girls to Marry'' (1932) * '' The Beautiful Adventure'' (1932) * '' Unheimliche Geschichten'' (1932) - Frau in der Irrenanstalt * '' The Testament of Cornelius Gulden'' (1932) - Frau Giesicke * '' Hanneles Himmelfahrt'' (1934) - Wirtin * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934) - Mädi vom Chantant * ''Jede Frau hat ein Geheimnis'' (1934) * ''Glückspilze'' (1935) - Frau Roeder * '' Hermine and the Seven Upright Men'' (1935) - Frau Kuser * '' Forget Me Not'' (1935) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) - Duchess of Barwick * '' Artist Love'' (1935) - Frau Heller * ''Frisians in Peril'' (1935) - Dörte Niegebüll * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) - Frau Irma Schulze * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Offenbach
Joseph Offenbach (born ''Joseph Ziegler''; 28 December 1904 – 15 October 1971) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 1969. Selected filmography References External links * * 1904 births 1971 deaths German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors People from Offenbach am Main Male actors from Hesse {{Germany-film-actor-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bum Krüger
Bum Krüger (born ''Willy Krüger''; 13 March 1906 - 15 March 1971) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1969. Filmography References External links * 1906 births 1971 deaths German male film actors German male television actors Male actors from Berlin 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-film-actor-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Neuss
Wolfgang Neuss (3 December 1923 – 5 May 1989) was a German actor and Kabarett artist. Wolfgang Neuss and (1922–1960) were a popular double act. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Neuss also became famous for his political engagement, first for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD, then for the Außerparlamentarische Opposition, extra-parliamentary opposition, ''APO''. He died in 1989 from a longtime cancer. At the age of 15 he went to Berlin to become a clown but was dismissed. When Germany entered into the World War II, Second World War Neuss was drafted, first to the Reichsarbeitsdienst, Reich Labour Service where he was occupied with road construction. Later he was sent to the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front where he became injured and was rewarded with the Iron Cross. It was during his stays in military hospitals and, after the war during military detention that Neuss began to discover his interest in acting and for Kabarett. Filmography * (The man in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Giller
Walter Giller (23 August 1927 – 15 December 2011) was a German actor. He was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was often seen as a comedic leading man. One of his most successful and more serious roles was in ''Roses for the Prosecutor''. Giller was born in Recklinghausen. In 1956, he married actress Nadja Tiller; they had two children and appeared together in a number of films. The couple resided in Lugano, Switzerland for many years. In 2009, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent a major (but unsuccessful) operation. He died in Hamburg in 2011, aged 84. Selected filmography * ''Artists' Blood'' (1949) * ''Kein Engel ist so rein'' (1950) * ''The Girl from the South Seas'' (1950) .... Lothar * ''Insel ohne Moral'' (1950) .... Dicky * ''Falschmünzer am Werk'' (1951) .... Conny Hauser * ''Die Frauen des Herrn S.'' (1951) .... Platon * ''Sensation in San Remo'' (1951) .... Ernst * ''Wildwest in Oberbayern'' (1951) .... 2.Aufnahmeleiter Schmittchen * ' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Domin
Friedrich Domin (15 May 1902 – 18 December 1961) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1939 and 1961. He was born in Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland) and died in Munich, West Germany. In 1922, he graduated from the Max Reinhardt's drama school, now known as Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was awarded the honor state actor in 1939, and in 1944 he was included in the ''Gottbegnadeten'' list, created by Joseph Goebbels, as an "irreplacable actor" to the continuation of Nazi film production. Selected filmography * ''Das Lied der Wüste'' (1939) - Sir Collins, ihr Stiefvater * ''Der siebente Junge'' (1941) - Baron Florian von Roeckel * '' The Comedians'' (1941) - Johann Neuber * ''Alarmstufe V'' (1941) - Prof. Crusius * '' The Little Residence'' (1942) - Waldemar Prinz von Lauffenberg * ''Fünftausend Mark Belohnung'' (1942) - Joachim Wengraf * '' The Endless Road'' (1943) - Fürst Metternich * ''Man rede mir nicht von Liebe'' (1943 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Steckel
Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German-Jewish Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 actor and director of stage and screen. Steckel was born as Leonhard Steckel in Knihinin, a Galician town that is today a district of the city Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He began his career as a stage actor and spent the duration of World War II in exile in Zürich, Switzerland, where he had gone to work at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. It was during this time that he began to direct. Steckel was killed in a major rail accident on 9 February 1971 in Aitrang, West Germany. Partial filmography * '' Phantoms of Happiness'' (1930) - Gefängnisarzt * '' M'' (1931) - Man (uncredited) * '' The Adventurer of Tunis'' (1931) - Ferrero * '' The Daredevil'' (1931) - Barini, Inhaber American Hippodrom * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) - Krakauer, ein Trödler * ''Secret Agent' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy A
Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Willie Allen (basketball) (born 1949), American basketball player and director of the Growing Power urban farming program * Willie Allen (racing driver) (born 1980), American racing driver * Willie Anderson (other) * Willie Apiata (born 1972), New Zealand Army soldier, the only recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand * Willie (footballer) (born 1993), Brazilian footballer Willie Hortencio Barbosa * Willy Böckl (1893–1975), Austrian world champion figure skater * Willy Bocklant (1941–1985), Belgian road racing cyclist * Willy Bogner Sr. (1909–1977), German Nordic skier * Willy Bogner Jr. (born 1942), German fashion designer and alpine skier * Willie Bosket (born 1962), an American convicted murderer whose numerous crimes committed as a minor led to a change in New York state law * Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Kirchhoff
Herbert Kirchhoff (1911–1988) was a German art director. Selected filmography * '' Nora's Ark'' (1948) * '' My Wife's Friends'' (1949) * '' The Last Night'' (1949) * '' Second Hand Destiny'' (1949) * '' Third from the Right'' (1950) * '' Harbour Melody'' (1950) * ''The Man in Search of Himself'' (1950) * '' Maya of the Seven Veils'' (1951) * '' Woe to Him Who Loves'' (1951) * '' Poison in the Zoo'' (1952) * '' Dancing Stars'' (1952) * '' Under the Thousand Lanterns'' (1952) * '' The Singing Hotel'' (1953) * '' Not Afraid of Big Animals'' (1953) * '' The Flower of Hawaii'' (1953) * '' Dancing in the Sun'' (1954) * '' Money from the Air'' (1954) * '' Columbus Discovers Kraehwinkel'' (1954) * '' How Do I Become a Film Star?'' (1955) * '' Operation Sleeping Bag'' (1955) * '' Secrets of the City'' (1955) * '' Ball at the Savoy'' (1955) * '' The False Adam'' (1955) * '' Music in the Blood'' (1955) * '' A Heart Returns Home'' (1956) * '' Between Time and Eternity'' (1956) * ''Heart Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
