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Überläufer
In German film history, an Überläufer ( defector) is a film that was in production under the Third Reich but only completed and premiered after the end of the Second World War. The vast majority of ''Überläufer'' films are romantic comedies with no reference to the political and military situation of the time. Completed shortly before the end of the war * '' Eyes of Love'' (dir. Alfred Braun) * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (dir. Erich Engels) * '' Ghost in the Castle'' (dir. Hans H. Zerlett) * '' How Do We Tell Our Children?'' (dir. Hans Deppe) * '' In the Temple of Venus'' (dir. Hans H. Zerlett) * '' Insolent and in Love'' (dir. Hans Schweikart) * '' Law of Love'' (dir. Hans Schweikart) * ''Melusine'' (dir. Hans Steinhoff), released 2014 * ''Quax in Africa'' (dir. Helmut Weiss) * '' Under the Bridges'' (dir. Helmut Käutner) Completed after the end of the war * ''The Appeal to Conscience'' (dir. Karl Anton) * ''The Court Concert'' (dir. Paul Verhoeven) * ''An Everyday Story' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Heart Beats For You
''A Heart Beats for You'' () is a 1949 German romance film directed by Joe Stöckel and starring Rudolf Prack, Annelies Reinhold and Franz Loskarn.Bock & Bergfelder p. 374 The film was shot in 1944, and was due for release in 1945 but did not premiere before the end of the war. Like several other Nazi-era films it was given a delayed release. It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Dürnhöfer and Max Seefelder. Cast * Rudolf Prack as Martin Hellwanger, Bauer * Annelies Reinhold as Regina, seine Frau * Franz Loskarn as Lois, Großknecht * Kurt Baumann-Grandeit as Peter, Knecht * Klaramaria Skala as Gertraud, Magd * Paula Braend as Großdirn * Edeltraud Schenk as Vroni, Kucheldirn * Michl Lang as Hagbauer, Bürgermeister * Hannes Keppler as Erlhofer * Karl Skraup as Vinzenz Haunstetter, Pfannenflicker * Martha Kunig-Rinach as Maria Haunstetter * Ludwig Meier as Der kleine Andreas * Alfred Pongratz as Vollmersha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Do We Tell Our Children?
''How Do We Tell Our Children?'' () is a 1944 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Leny Marenbach, Mathias Wieman and Hilde Körber. Made by the major German studio UFA, the film was not released until 21 December 1949 in Berlin and 13 March 1951 in Austria.Rentschler p. 268 The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilhelm Vorwerg. Shooting took place in the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Dresden and Switzerland. Synopsis In a suburb of Dresden, a widowed doctor with four children lives opposite a divorcee with three children. Gradually they fall in love despite the constant feuding between their children. Cast * Leny Marenbach as Käthe Westhoff * Mathias Wieman as Dr. Thomas Hofer * Hilde Körber as Adele * Ernst Waldow as Diesing * Babsi Schultz-Reckewell as Sigrid * Edmund van Kann as Klaus * Jürgen Tusch as Wölfchen * Hans-Dieter Gotzmann as Erich * Herbert Stetza as Theo * Hans Neie as Kurt * Jürgen Peter Jacoby as Pepi * Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Fledermaus (1946 Film)
''Die Fledermaus'' is a 1946 German operetta film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Marte Harell, Johannes Heesters, and Will Dohm. It is based on Johann Strauss II's 1874 work of the same name. The film was made by Terra Film, one of major German production companies of the Nazi era. It was shot using agfacolor at the Barrandov Studios in Prague and the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Although production began in 1944, the film was not released until 1946 when it was distributed by the communist-controlled DEFA company in the Soviet occupation zone. The film's sets were designed by Robert Herlth Robert Herlth (2 May 1893 – 6 January 1962) was a German art director. He was one of the leading designers of German film sets during the 1920s and 1930s.Reimer & Reimer p.146 Filmography * ''Masks'' (1920) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * ' .... Cast See also * Überläufer References Bibliography * External links * 1946 films 1940s historical mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Everyday Story
''An Everyday Story'' () is a 1948 drama film directed by Günther Rittau and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Marianne Simson and Karl Schönböck.Bock & Bergfelder p. 193 The film was produced in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, but was not given a release until DEFA in the Soviet Zone distributed it four years later. It received its Austrian release the following year, and eventually went into distribution in West Germany in 1950. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte and Karl Vollbrecht. Synopsis A novelist completes what he considers to be his masterpiece, but the publisher tells him to write an everyday story instead. Cast * Gustav Fröhlich as Bernd Falkenhagen * Marianne Simson as Anneliese Schwarz * Karl Schönböck as Herbert Winkler * Margot Jahnen as Susi Liebig * Hans Brausewetter as Werner, Direktor Exzelsior-Verlag * Paul Henckels as Spaziergänger * Hans Leibelt as Annelieses Vater * Käthe Haack Käthe Haack (born Käte Lisbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Court Concert (1948 Film)
''The Court Concert'' () is a 1948 German musical comedy film written and directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Elfie Mayerhofer, Hans Nielsen and Erich Ponto. In the United States it was released as ''Palace Scandal''. It is based on the 1935 musical comedy ''The Court Concert'' (music: Edmund Nick) which Verhoeven had co-written. A previous film version was made in 1936 and directed by Douglas Sirk. The remake was shot using agfacolor. Both productions are in the tradition of operetta films. It was produced by the major studio Tobis Film during 1944, but was not given a formal release until 1948 in Sweden and then East and West Germany the following year. The art director Otto Erdmann worked on the film's sets. Location shooting took place in Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Appeal To Conscience
''The Appeal to Conscience'' () is a 1949 German mystery film directed by Karl Anton and starring Karl Ludwig Diehl, Werner Hinz and Gustav Diessl.Davidson & Hake p. 61 It was originally shot in 1944, but remained uncompleted until it was finished by DEFA in the post-war era. It remained unreleased until it was given a 1949 premiere in Austria. Subsequently it was distributed in East Germany in 1950 and West Germany in 1951. It was produced by Tobis Film, one of the dominant companies of the Nazi era. It was shot in Studios in German-occupied Prague, with some location filming taking place around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Fritz Lück. Synopsis A celebrated crime writer solves a ten-year-old cold murder case. Cast * Karl Ludwig Diehl as Kriminalrat Husfeld * Werner Hinz as Volkmar Hollberg, Schrifsteller * Gustav Diessl as Dr. Gregor Karpinski * Käthe Haack as Helga Andree * Marina von Ditmar as Ingrid Andree * Anneliese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Bridges
''Under the Bridges'' () is a 1946 German drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz and Gustav Knuth. The film was shot in Berlin during the summer of 1944, but was not released until after the defeat of Nazi Germany. It premiered in Locarno in September 1946, and was not released in Germany until 1950 when it was picked up for distribution by Gloria Film. The film uses poetic realism to portray the everyday lives and romances of two Havel boatmen. In 1995, a survey among more than 300 film experts voted ''Unter den Brücken'' at No. 18 of the 100 most important German films. (pdf), p. 41 Cast * Hannelore Schroth as Anna Altmann * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quax In Africa
''Quax in Africa'' () is a German comedy adventure film produced from 1943–1944 and released in 1947, directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, and Lothar Firmans. It is a sequel to the 1941 film '' Quax the Crash Pilot''. Plot The year is ''circa'' 1932, and the initial setting is Bavaria, Germany. The novice aviator Otto Groschenbügel, nicknamed Quax (see the previous film '' Quax the Crash Pilot''), has advanced to become a professional flying instructor at the Flying School of Bergried. Although by nature a congenial fellow, he decides to adopt an authoritarian manner when learning of his pupils' unruly womanising. However his stern lectures that women have no place on an aerodrome are undermined when his friend Marianne unexpectedly visits him, and even more so when two female trainee pilots are assigned to him. Soon, the flying school's chief instructor announces that the ''Europaflug'' contest (an air rallye from Germany via Spain to Africa a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insolent And In Love
''Insolent and in Love'' () is a 1948 German romantic comedy film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Johannes Heesters, Gabriele Reismüller and Charlott Daudert.Rentschler p. 106 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Sohnle. The film was made in 1944 but it did not receive a domestic release until 1948. In 1950 it was distributed in Austria by Sascha Film. Cast * Johannes Heesters as Dr. Peter Schild, Ingenieur * Gabriele Reismüller as Clarisse Pernrieder * Charlott Daudert as Isolde, Tänzerin * Carl-Heinz Schroth as Cyrus Kracker, Schauspieler * Paul Kemp as Der alte Pernrieder, Clarissas Großvater * Paul Dahlke as Hennemann, Diener und Chauffeur * Melanie Horeschowsky as Klara Pernrieder * Ernst Waldow as Schleemann, Onkel von Peter Schild *Erna Sellmer as Frau Wiedehopf * Paul Westermeier as Walter Lemke, Boxer * Franz Schafheitlin as Justus Pernrieder, Fabrikant * Ernst Legal as Nordboden, Besitzer des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Temple Of Venus
''In the Temple of Venus'' () is a 1948 German drama film directed by Hans H. Zerlett and starring Olga Chekhova, Willy Birgel, and Hermann Speelmans.Beevor The film was originally produced during the final stages of the Second World War in 1945, but was not given a release until three years later. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Bi and Bruno Lutz. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. Cast See also * Überläufer In German film history, an Überläufer ( defector) is a film that was in production under the Third Reich but only completed and premiered after the end of the Second World War. The vast majority of ''Überläufer'' films are romantic comedies w ... References Bibliography * External links * 1948 films 1948 drama films German drama films 1940s German-language films Films directed by Hans H. Zerlett Bavaria Film films Films shot at Bavaria Studios German black-and-white films 1940s German films Films scored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Of Love
''Law of Love'' (German: ''Das Gesetz der Liebe'') is a 1949 German historical drama film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Hilde Krahl, Paul Hubschmid and Ferdinand Marian. Production began in 1944 during the Nazi era and was completed by 1945, but the end of the Second World War led to delays in its distribution as also occurred with several other productions.Rentschler p.287 It was not released for a further four years until its premiere in Erlangen, Bavaria in the newly established West Germany. Its West Berlin premiere took place in May 1950. The film was based on a 1936 novel of the same title by Fred Andreas. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and at the Hostivar Studios in German-occupied Prague. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Sohnle. Cast * Hilde Krahl as Madeleine Frisius * Paul Hubschmid as Premierleutnant Hofstede * Ferdinand Marian as Baron Pistolecrone * Hilde Hildebrand as Signora Rinuccini * Fritz Odemar as Martin - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friday The Thirteenth (1949 Film)
''Friday the Thirteenth'' () is a 1949 West German comedy crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Fritz Kampers, Angelika Hauff, and Fita Benkhoff. It was made by Terra Film in 1944, but was not released before the end of the Second World War. It received its much delayed premiere in 1949. It was one of several Nazi-era productions that were given releases in the years after the end of the war. The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Günther Artur Günther (1893–1972) was a German art director.Giesen p.202 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during a lengthy career. Selected filmography * ''When the Dead Speak'' (1917) * ''Ikarus, the Flying Man'' (1918) * ''Alraune, .... Cast See also * Überläufer References Bibliography * External links * 1949 films 1940s crime comedy films German crime comedy films West German films 1940s German-language films Films directed by Erich Engels Terra Film films German bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |