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Camilla Spira
Camilla Spira (1 March 1906 – 25 August 1997) was a German film actor. She appeared in 68 films between 1924 and 1986. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, of Jewish ancestry on her father's side, and died in Berlin, Germany. Her father was the Austrian actor Fritz Spira who died in the Ruma concentration camp in 1943. Her mother was actor Lotte Spira and her sister was the East German actor Steffie Spira. Selected filmography * ''Mutter und Sohn'' (1924) * ''In den Krallen der Schuld'' (1924) - Matia * '' A Free People'' (1925) * ''Im Krug zum grünen Kranze'' (1925) - Marie, seine Tochter * '' The Heart on the Rhine'' (1925) * '' The Pride of the Company'' (1926) - Minna * ''We Belong to the Imperial-Royal Infantry Regiment'' (1926) - Köchin * '' The Third Squadron'' (1926) - Ilonka, seine Tochter * '' Maytime'' (1926) - Minchen Lemke, die Tochter * '' Wrath of the Seas'' (1926) * '' Aftermath'' (1927) - Marlene - Wirtschafterin * '' On the Banks of the River Weser'' (1 ... [...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] |
My Sister And I (1929 Film)
''My Sister and I'' (German: ''Meine Schwester und ich'') is a 1929 German silent film, silent comedy film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Mady Christians, Hans Junkermann (actor), Hans Junkermann and Jack Trevor. It was shot at the National Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Ferdinand Bellan and Alexander Ferenczy. The film is a German adaptation of a French play by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr, ''Ma sœur et moi''. The rights to the film were reportedly difficult to negotiate. The film was praised for Noa's direction. Cast * Mady Christians as Prinzessin Margarete von Marquardstein * Hans Junkermann (actor), Hans Junkermann as Fürst von Marquardstein * Jack Trevor as Baron Udo von Ebenhausen * Igo Sym as Dr. Gustav Müller * Tilla Garden as Irmgard von Pleß * Charles Puffy as Sebastian Puffinger * Camilla Spira as Schuh-Molly * Jakob Tiedtke as Kunde References Bibliography * Heike Klapdor. ''Ich bin ein unheilbarer Europäer: Briefe aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Orplid Mystery
''The Orplid Mystery'' or ''Epilogue'' () is a 1950 West German thriller film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Horst Caspar, Bettina Moissi, and O.E. Hasse. The film did not perform well at the box office on its release.Davidson & Hake p. 50 It was made at the Spandau Studios of CCC Films. 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 ... Emil Hasler. Cast References Bibliography * * External links * 1950 films 1950s spy thriller films German spy thriller films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Helmut Käutner Seafaring films German black-and-white films Films shot at Spandau Studios 1950s German films Films scored by Bernhard Eichhorn {{1950s-Germany-fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Buntkarierten
''Girls in Gingham'' (; literally, The Checkered Ones)—sometimes called Beaverskin—is a 1949 German drama film directed by Kurt Maetzig. Plot In 1884, Guste is born as the illegitimate daughter of a maid. She marries a worker named Paul; her mistress gives her a set of common, checkered mattresses as a wedding gift. During the First World War, Paul is called to the front, and she remains alone with their children and works in a munitions factory. When she realizes how the capital of the great industry magnates had caused the war in the first place, Guste resigns and begins cleaning houses for a living. When the Nazis take over, Paul is fired from his job for being a trade-unionist, and dies. At the Second World War, their children are killed in a bombing. Gusta's granddaughter, Christel, is the only family she has now. After the war, as Christel is about to attend university - the first member of the family to have ever done so - her grandmother sews her a new dress from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Highness Dances The Waltz (1935 Film)
''Her Highness Dances the Waltz'' (German: ''Hoheit tanzt Walzer'') is a 1935 German-language Czech musical comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Irén Ágay, André Mattoni and Hans Homma.Von Dassanowsky p. 9 The operetta film is based on the 1912 operetta '' Hoheit tanzt Walzer'' by Leo Ascher (music) and Alfred Grünwald (libretto). It was filmed at the Barrandov Studios in Prague. The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Berger. A French version '' Valse éternelle'' was released in 1936. Cast * Irén Ágay as Princess Marika * André Mattoni as Prince Georg, Count Hohenaus' son * Hans Homma as Count Franz von Hohenau * Anna Kallina as Agnes, Count Hohenau's wife * Phillis Fehr as Liesl, Count Hohenaus' daughter * Maria Balcerkiewiczówna as Countess Lubowska * Teddy Bill * Alexander Fischer-Marich as Hofer, music copyist * Hans Jaray as Josef Langer, composer * Eugen Neufeld * Camilla Spira Camilla Spira (1 March 1906 – 25 Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Judas Of Tyrol
''The Judas of Tyrol'' () is a 1933 German historical drama film directed by Franz Osten and starring Fritz Rasp, Camilla Spira, and Marianne Hoppe. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.89 The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jacoby. Its Berlin premiere was at the Marmorhaus. Plot The film is set in the early nineteenth century, when Tyrol was under foreign occupation. The Tyrolean folk hero Andreas Hofer hides in the village of St Leonhardt, whose residents are preparing to stage their annual Passion Play. The film focuses on Raffl, a young farmhand cast in the role of Judas. Raffl gradually loses the ability to distinguish between role and reality. Cast Production The film was directed by Franz Osten and composed by Gottfried Huppertz. Camilla Spira Camilla Spira (1 March 1906 – 25 August 1997) was a German film actor. She appeared in 68 films between 1924 and 1986. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, of Jewish ancestry on her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roberts Case
''The Roberts Case'' ( or ) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Erich Engels and starring Hermann Speelmans, Camilla Spira and Eduard von Winterstein.Moeller p. 65 It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1933 films 1933 drama films Films of Nazi Germany Films of the Weimar Republic German drama films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Erich Engels German black-and-white films 1930s German films Films shot at Johannisthal Studios {{1930s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Testament Of Dr
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumping Into The Abyss
''Jumping Into the Abyss'' () is a 1933 German crime film directed by Harry Piel and starring Piel, Elga Brink and Anton Pointner.Rentschler p. 283 The film's sets were designed by Artur Günther and Willi Herrmann. Cast * Harry Piel as Harry Peters * Elga Brink as Betty Bergen * Anton Pointner as Baron Moll * Hermann Blaß as Karl Schöning * Gerhard Bienert as Walter Volkmann * Hilde Hildebrand as Eva Volkmann * Hans Ritter as Prank * Max Diekmann as Rattke * Camilla Spira as Anni * Justus Glatz as Toni, ein Bergführer * Engelbert Freudling as Geiersbacher, ein Bergführer * Hermann Vallentin as Generaldirektor Schenk * Georg John Georg John (born Georg Jacobsohn; 23 July 1879 – 18 November 1941) was a German stage and film actor. Early life Georg Jacobsohn was born into a Jewish household in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany. Career John began his c ... as Fotograf References Bibliography * External links * 1933 films 1933 crime fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgenrot (film)
''Morgenrot'' is a 1933 German submarine film set during World War I. Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish coloring of the eastern sky in advance of sunrise. ''Dawn'' was the U.S. title. It was filmed in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, the first German submarine movie made after World War I. Plot Set in 1916, the film offered up a highly fictionised version of the death of the British War Secretary, Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener aboard the cruiser HMS ''Hampshire'', on his way to Russia. A successful U-boat ace, Helmut Liers, lives in the fictional north German town of Meerskirchen with his mother, who has already lost two sons in the war. Liers is the local hero of Meerskirchen due to his command of ''U-21'' and the first part of the film concerns the high-spirit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haunted People
''Haunted People'' () is a 1932 German-Czech drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Hans Feher, and Eugen Klöpfer.Goble p. 775 It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin and location shooting, on location in Marseille. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Neppach and Erwin Scharf (art director), Erwin Scharf. Cast * Magda Sonja as Dame ohne Unterleib * Eugen Klöpfer as Vincenz Olivier * Hans Feher as Boubou, sein Sohn * Friedrich Ettel as Bürgermeister * Emilia Unda as seine Frau * Camilla Spira as Louise, beider Tochter * Vladimir Sokoloff as Trödler * Hugo Fischer-Köppe as Ausrufer * Fritz Odemar as Polizeichef * Hermann Picha as Mann in der Pferdehaut * Gustav Püttjer as André, Tischlergehilfe * Paul Rehkopf as Polizeikommissar * Joseph Schmidt * Ferdinand Hart References Bibliography * External links * 1932 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1930s German-language films Films directed by Friedrich Feher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heath Is Green (1932 Film)
''The Heath Is Green'' () is a 1932 German musical film directed by Hans Behrendt and starring Camilla Spira, Peter Voß and Theodor Loos. It was based on the novel by Hermann Löns which was made into further films in 1951 and in 1972. The film was partly shot on Lüneburg Heath. Plot The young forester Walter wants to catch a dangerous poacher in the Lüneburg Heath. He pursues a man into the house of the landowner Lüdersen and meets his daughter Grete. Grete discovers that her father, who used to own the whole area, is the poacher. She asks him to move into town with her. Walter can't catch the poacher. Chief Forester Schliepemann then has the whole area surrounded. The traveling trader Specht is arrested as a poacher. Lüdersen had surprised Specht and was fatally wounded by him. He dies putting Grete's hand in Walter's. Cast * Camilla Spira as Grete Lüdersen * Peter Voß as Walter - Ein junger Förster * Theodor Loos as Lüder Lüdersen * Fritz Kampers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
