|
Wilhelm P. Krüger
Wilhelm P. Krüger (29 August 1883 – 12 July 1959) was a German stage and film actor.Chandler p. 309 Selected filmography * '' Flachsmann the Educator'' (1930) * ''Trouble with Jolanthe ''Trouble with Jolanthe'' (German: ''Krach um Jolanthe'') is a 1934 German romantic comedy film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Wilhelm P. Krüger, Marianne Hoppe and Olaf Bach. It was remade in 1955 as ''The Happy Village''. A separate ...'' (1934) * '' Every Day Isn't Sunday'' (1935) * '' When the Cock Crows'' (1936) * ''My Friend Barbara'' (1937) * ''Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) * ''Autobus S'' (1937) * ''White Slaves (film), White Slaves'' (1937) * ''You and I (1938 film), You and I'' (1938) * ''The Four Companions (film), The Four Companions'' (1938) * ''Cadets (film), Cadets'' (1939) * ''Target in the Clouds'' (1939) * ''Bismarck (1940 film), Bismarck'' (1940) * ''The Gasman (film), The Gasman'' (1941) * ''The Girl from Fano'' (1941) * ''Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),; ; World Book, Inc. ''The World Book dictionary, Volume 1''. World Book, Inc., 2003. p. 572. States that Deutsches Reich translates as "German Realm" and was a former official name of Germany. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich; . from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the German revolution of 1918–1919, November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a Weimar Republic, republic. The German Empire consisted of States of the German Empire, 25 states, each with its own nobility: four constituent Monarchy, kingdoms, six Grand duchy, grand duchies, five Duchy, duchies (six before 1876), seven Principality, principalities, three Free imperial city, free Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City-state, cities, and Alsace–Lorraine, one imperial territory. While Prussia was one of four kingdoms in the realm, it contained about two-thirds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You And I (1938 Film)
''You and I'' (German: ''Du und ich'') is a 1938 German romance film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk and Paul Bildt Paul Hermann Bildt (19 May 1885 – 13 March 1957) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born in Berlin and died in Zehlendorf, West Berlin. Selected filmography * '' Devil in Silk'' (19 ....Hake p.215 Cast References Bibliography * Hake, Sabine. ''Popular Cinema of the Third Reich''. University of Texas Press, 2001. External links * 1938 films German romance films 1930s romance films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner Films of Nazi Germany Terra Film films German black-and-white films 1930s German films Films scored by Wolfgang Zeller German-language romance films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 Births
Events January * January 4 – ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A Newhall House Hotel Fire, fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States civil service, is passed. * January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey, United States, installed by Thomas Edison. February * February 15 – Tokyo Electrical Lightning Grid, predecessor of Tokyo Electrical Power (TEPCO), one of the largest electrical grids in Asia and the world, is founded in Japan. * February 16 – The ''Ladies' Home Journal'' is published for the first time, in the United States. * February 23 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an Competition law, antitrust law. * February 28 – The first vaudeville th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elephant Fury
''Elephant Fury'' () is a 1953 West German drama war film directed by and starring Harry Piel.Rentschler p.283 It also features Herbert A.E. Bohme, Hans Zesch-Ballot and Dorothea Wieck. The film had a troubled production history. Originally made between 1940 and 1943 under the title of ''Panic'', it faced censorship problems. Following the end of the Second World War, Piel recovered the negative which had fallen into the hands of the occupying Soviet forces. He re-shot some scenes, and the film was eventually released more than a decade after it had first begun shooting. Synopsis During the Second World War, an air raid on a zoo leads to the animals escaping across the city. Cast * Harry Piel as Großtierfänger Peter Volker * Herbert A.E. Böhme as Mitarbeiter Fritz Kröger * Hans Zesch-Ballot as Zoodirektor Thiele * Dorothea Wieck as Hella Thiele * Wilhelm P. Krüger as Farmer A. R. Brinkmann * Ruth Eweler as Christa Brinkmann * Fritz Hoopts as Farmer H. Sander * Maria Krahn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bismarck's Dismissal
''The Dismissal'' () is a 1942 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner about the dismissal of Otto von Bismarck. It was one of only five films to receive the honorary distinction "Film of the Nation" by the Reich Propaganda Ministry Censorship Office. Plot The film shows the events leading up to Bismarck being dismissed by Wilhelm II of Germany and the dilettantes who surround him. An unscrupulous schemer plays on the king's desire to lead and so persuades him to dismiss his chancellor. This results in a disastrous two-front war by destroying Bismarck's treaty with Russia and leaving him to lament with the question of who would complete his work. The film ends with a postscript stating that Germany's misfortunes from 1890 to 1933 were the result of Bismarck's dismissal and that a nation's fate depends on its personalities, not its institutions. Cast Production The success of '' Bismarck'' led to the creation of a sequel. ''The Dismissal'' cost 3.6 million ℛℳ () to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Other Self
''Her Other Self'' (, "The other 'I'") is a 1941 German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Hilde Krahl, Mathias Wieman, and Erich Ponto.Bock & Bergfelder p. 259 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 ... Otto Erdmann and Franz F. Fürst. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1941 films 1941 drama films German drama films Films of Nazi Germany 1940s German-language films Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner Tobis Film films German black-and-white films 1940s German films Films scored by Werner Bochmann {{1940s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Peters (film)
''Carl Peters'' is a 1941 German historical drama film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Hans Albers, Karl Dannemann, and Fritz Odemar. It was produced as an anti-British propaganda film during the Second World War. Albers portrays the titular German colonial leader. Bayume Mohamed Husen plays his native guide. The art director Fritz Maurischat worked on the film's sets. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and the Barrandov Studios in Prague. Synopsis The film is a biopic of Carl Peters, one of the founders of German East Africa, and takes place while he is under investigation by the Reichstag for unnecessary brutality. Instead, Peters openly calls for a global policy of colonialism and conquest, which he says will require issuing carte blanche to hard-hearted men like himself. He defends his policy of using execution without trial to prevent a native uprising, which, he insists, the parliamentarians could not have prevented. The parliamentarians, who are all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl From Fano
''The Girl from Fano'' () is a 1941 German drama film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk and Gustav Knuth.Hake p. 215 The film is based on a novel by Günther Weisenborn and is set amongst the fishing community of the Danish island of Fanø. Cast * Brigitte Horney as Patricia * Joachim Gottschalk as Fischer Ipke * Gustav Knuth as Fischer Frerk * Viktoria von Ballasko as Ipkes Frau Angens * Gerhard Bienert as Hinnerk * Paul Bildt as Kapellmeister Breitling * Helmut Brasch as Klaus * Karl Dannemann as Bootsmann * Walter Hillbring as Bootsverleiher * Luise Hohorst as Krankenschwester * Fritz Hoopts as Leuchtturmwärter Jens * Hans Kraft as Reisender * Wilhelm P. Krüger as Dusenschön * Justus Paris as Dr. Sperling * Joachim Pfaff as Kind * Fritz Reiff as Patentanwalt * Heddo Schulenburg as Schiffsjunge * Charlotte Schultz as Berthe * Isa Vermehren as Volig * Franz Weber as Friseur * Paul Wegener as Ulerk Ohm * Helmut Weiss Hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gasman (film)
''The Gasman'' () is a 1941 German comedy film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Heinz Rühmann, Anny Ondra and Walter Steinbeck.Bock & Bergfelder p. 347 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and premiered in the city's Gloria-Palast. The film's sets were designed by Walter Haag. It was made by Froelich's separate production unit, and distributed by the major studio UFA. Cast * Heinz Rühmann as Hermann Knittel * Anny Ondra as Erika Knittel * Walter Steinbeck as Herr - der nicht erkannt sein möchte * Erika Helmke as Blondes Fräulein Lilott * Will Dohm as Schwager Alfred * Franz Weber as Judge * Kurt Vespermann as Prosecutor * Hans Leibelt as Defense lawyer * Charlotte Susa as Schöne Zeugin * Gisela Schlüter as Entzückende kleine Frau * Herbert Bach as Kellner * Luise Bethke-Zitzman as Knittels Nachbarin * Paul Bildt as Nervenarzt Dr. Brauer * Fritz Draeger as Mann im Zugabteil * Paul Esser * Hugo Froelich as Taxifahrer * Wilhelm Große as Auskunftsbeamter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bismarck (1940 Film)
''Bismarck'' is a 1940 German historical film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, and Lil Dagover. This film depicts the life of the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, a German nationalist and lonely genius who withstands the Reichstag to act on behalf of the people. It was followed by a sequel ''Die Entlassung'' in 1942, with Emil Jannings taking over the title role. The film was made at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin by Tobis Film one of the leading German companies of the era. It was shot at a variety of locations involving several related to the historic events of film including in Berlin, Vienna, Bad Gastein and Babelsberg Palace. Plau am See in Mecklenburg was also used for shooting. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Machus and Erich Zander. Plot The film recalls the nineteenth century desire for German unification which at the time was threatened from several corners. From the liberals, fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
