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Brigitte Mira
Brigitte Mira (, 20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, and on many occasions, with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Believed to have been born in Hamburg, she moved when young to Berlin. Mira's mother was German, and her father was Russian Jewish. During the Nazi era, Mira took part in the propaganda series ''Liese und Miese''. She played Miese (germ. ''bad one''): the bad role model, according to Nazi ideology, who listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. However, her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was cancelled for being counterproductive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish because she had false papers. Although she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and that she had to conceal her origins, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all. Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in ''Ali: Fear Eats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille (Elbe), Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen (state), Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's List of busiest ports in Europe, third-largest, after Port of Rotterdam, Rotterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight Hours Don't Make A Day
''Eight Hours Don't Make a Day'' () (also translated as ''(Eight Hours Are Not a Day)'' is a West German television miniseries written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, it was broadcast in five episodes between 1972 and 1973. The story follows a group of working-class people in Cologne, West Germany. Episodes Cast ;All episodes * Gottfried John as Jochen Epp * Hanna Schygulla as Marion Andreas * Luise Ulrich as Oma Krüger * Werner Finck as Gregor Mack * Irm Hermann as Irmgard Erlkönig * Wolfgang Schenck as Franz Miltenberger * Wolfgang Zerlett as Manfred Müller * Rudolf Waldemar Brem as Rolf Schwein * Grigorios Karipidis as Giuseppe Giuliano * Wolfried Lier as Wolf Epp * Hans Hirschmüller as Jürgen Graf * Renate Roland as Monika * Anita Bucher as Käthe Epp * Karl Scheydt as Arbeiter Peter * Rainer Hauer as Werkshallenleiter Volkmar Gross * Andrea Schober as Sylvia * Herb Andress as Rüdiger * Thorsten Massinger as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabian (film)
''Fabian'' () is a 1980 West German drama film directed by Wolf Gremm. It is based on the novel '' Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten'' (1931; , ) by German author Erich Kästner. The film was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not receive a nomination. Plot The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s. Cast * Hans Peter Hallwachs as Fabian * Hermann Lause as Labude * Silvia Janisch as Cornelia * Mijanou Van Baarzel as Frau Moll * Brigitte Mira as Frau Hohlfeld * Ivan Desny Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitsky; , 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a French actor of Russian Chinese origin. He had a lengthy career in French and German cinema, appearing in over 200 film and television roles over 50 year ... as Justizrat Labude * Charles Regnier as Erfinder * Ruth Niehaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derrick (TV Series)
A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and a boom hinged at its base to provide articulation, as in a stiffleg derrick. The most basic type of derrick is controlled by three or four lines connected to the top of the mast, which allow it to both move laterally and cant up and down. To lift a load, a separate line runs up and over the mast with a hook on its free end, as with a crane. Derricks are especially useful for high-rise rigging, jobs that cover a long period of time, or jobs when the impact to street or pedestrian traffic is a concern. Forms of derricks are commonly found aboard ships and at docking facilities. Large derricks mounted on dedicated vessels are known as floating derricks and shearlegs. The term derrick is also applied to the framework supporting a drillin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Gustav (TV Series)
''Iron Gustav'' (German: ''Der eiserne Gustav'') is West German television series which originally aired on ARD in seven episodes between 27 August and 8 October 1979.Rentschler p.356 It is based on the 1938 novel '' Iron Gustav'' by Hans Fallada about a Berlin taxi driver still using a horse-drawn carriage, and the hardships he faces due to increasing competition from motor cars in the Weimar Era. In 1928 to demonstrate what he can still do he takes his carriage from Berlin to Paris. Main cast * Gustav Knuth as Gustav Hackendahl * Eva Brumby as Grete Hackendahl * Eos Schopohl as Eva Hackendahl * Volker Lechtenbrink as Erich Hackendahl * Michael Kausch as Heinz Hackendahl * Erika Skrotzki as Gertrud Gudde * Manfred Lehmann as Eugen Bast * Dagmar Biener as Sophie Hackendahl * Peter Eschberg as Dr. Pasolt * Inge Landgut as Mutter Quaas * Gabriele Schramm as Irma Hackendahl * Rainer Hunold as Wilhelm Hackendahl * Valérie de Tilbourg as Tinette Blanc * Herbert Stei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Roulette
'' Chinese Roulette '' () is a 1976 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Margit Carstensen, Ulli Lommel, and Anna Karina. The film, a bleak psychological drama, climaxes with a truth-guessing game, which gives the film its title. The plot follows a bourgeois married couple whose infidelities are exposed by their disabled child. Plot Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, are packing before going off for the weekend, which each intends to spend abroad. While they are away their twelve-year-old daughter Angela, who is disabled and walks with crutches, has to remain home under the care of her mute governess, Traunitz. Actually, the couple have lied about their travel intentions. Convinced that his wife and daughter will be elsewhere, Gerhard takes his longtime mistress Irene Cartis — a French hairdresser — on a weekend tryst to the family's country house. The Christ family's rural estate is run by a sinister housekeeper named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satan's Brew
''Satan's Brew'' () is a 1976 German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Plot The poet Walter Kranz and his wife Luise live with Walter's mentally disabled brother Ernst. They have money problems, as the formerly successful "poet of the revolution" has not written anything in two years. His bank account is overdrawn, his publisher refuses to give him an advance, and he has already accumulated too many debts with his friends Lisa and Rolf. One of Walter's mistresses, Irmgard von Witzleben, writes him a check, but he shoots her while roleplaying with a gun. Walter gets the idea to write about a prostitute and begins to interview Lana von Meyerbeer, but soon runs out of questions and has sex with her. Luise watches and complains that he has not had sex with her in seventeen days. Meanwhile, Ernst is increasing his collection of dead flies. While a policeman comes to ask for Walter's alibi for Irmgard's supposed murder, movers come to repossess his furniture. Walter visits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everyone Dies Alone
''Everyone Dies Alone'' / '' Alone in Berlin'' (Original title: ''Jeder stirbt für sich allein'') is a 1976 West German drama film adapted from the Hans Fallada novel '' Every Man Dies Alone''. The book was based on the story of two ordinary Germans, Otto and Elise Hampel, who committed acts of civil disobedience against the Third Reich, were caught and sentenced to death. Synopsis The film takes place in Berlin in 1940, during World War II as Adolf Hitler is at the height of his power. Anna and Otto Quangel, a working class couple, live in Berlin in simple circumstances and are not particularly interested in politics. Then, their only son is killed in action during the Battle of France and as they grieve for their son, the desire to resist the Nazi regime grows within them. When a Jewish neighbor is also killed, Anna decides to join the German Resistance. She begins writing very personal flyers on postcards, which she at first alone and then with her husband, leaves in publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Carrier
''The Secret Carrier'' (German: ''Der Geheimnisträger'') is a 1975 West German comedy film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Willy Millowitsch, Brigitte Mira and Sybil Danning.Bock & Bergfelder p.291 Location shooting took place in Rhodes. Synopsis A mild-mannered Cologne accountant is recruited to take part in a secret mission. Cast * Willy Millowitsch as Buchhalter Kuno Hopfen * Gunther Philipp as Drusus Malz * Brigitte Mira Brigitte Mira (, 20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, and on many occasions, with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Believed to have been born in Hamburg, she moved when young to Berlin. Mira's moth ... as Betty Hopfen * Sybil Danning as Tanja * Jürgen Scheller as Mann mit den zehn Gesichtern * Hansi Kraus as Curd Bergmann * Jutta Speidel as Lisa Hopfen * Peter Millowitsch as Ferdinand Platz * Alexander Allerson as Dr. Dregger * Walter Ullrich as Dr. Herms * Barbara Assmann as Luise P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Küsters Goes To Heaven
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Fox And His Friends
''Fox and His Friends'' (; also known as ''Fist-Right of Freedom'') is a 1975 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Fassbinder, Peter Chatel and Karlheinz Böhm. The plot follows the misadventures of a working-class gay man who wins the lottery, then falls in love with the elegant son of an industrialist. His lover tries to mold him into a gilt-edged mirror of upper-class values, and ultimately swindles the easily flattered "Fox" out of his fortune. The film is an incisive look at the relationship between money and emotions. Love is seen as a commodity that can be bought for money and lasts only as long as it is profitable. Plot Franz Bieberkopf is a sweet and unsophisticated working-class gay man who works in a carnival as "Fox, the Talking Head". He loses his job when his boyfriend Klaus, the carnival owner, is arrested for tax fraud. Fox visits his alcoholic sister Hedwig who cannot help. After losing his remaining money, Fox meets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His style involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film they are working on. In 1961, when Herzog was 19, he started work on his first film Herakles (film), ''Herakles''. He has since produced, written, and directed over 60 films and documentaries such as ''Aguirre, the Wrath of God'' (1972); ''The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser'' (1974); ''Heart of Glass (film), Heart of Glass'' (1976); ''Stroszek'' (1977); ''Nosferatu the Vampyre'' (1979); ''Fitzcarraldo'' (1982); ''Cobra Verde'' (1987); ''Lessons of Darkness'' (1992); ''Little Dieter Needs to Fly'' (1997); ''My Best Fiend'' (1999); Inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
