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Opfergang
''Opfergang'' (''The Great Sacrifice'' or ''Rite of Sacrifice'') is a 1944 German film directed by Veit Harlan. It is based on Rudolf G. Binding's work of the same title, with alterations for propaganda purposes. Synopsis Albrecht Froben, though married to Octavia, falls in love with his neighbor, Äls Flodéen. She, however, is slowly dying from a debilitating disease. During an epidemic, Albrecht goes to bring her daughter to safety but he catches typhoid and is quarantined in hospital. Octavia, realising the love match, and hearing that Äls is now bedridden and dying, dresses up as him and rides by her gates every day to keep her spirits up—her bed is next to the window. Albrecht returns. Äls has a dream in which she talks to her projection of Albrecht and concludes that she does not wish to take part in this union and accepts death. Albrecht is reconciled with his wife. Cast * Kristina Söderbaum as Äls Flodéen * Irene von Meyendorff as Octavia Froben * Carl Radd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the highpoint of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film '' Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial. While viewed critically for his ideologies, a number of critics consider him a capable director on the grounds of such work as his ''Opfergang'' (1944). Life and career Harlan was born in Berlin, the son of the writer Walter Harlan and his wife Adele, nee Boothby. His elder brother Peter was a multi-instrumentalist and musical instrument maker. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1934 he starred in the Berlin premiere of Eugen Ortner's tragedy '' Meier Helmbrecht'', but it was a critical disaster and he later described it as his lowest point as an actor. Shortly afterwards he directed his first play, the comedy ''Marriage on the Panke'', at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Films
The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning '' Going My Way'' plus popular murder mysteries such as '' Double Indemnity'', '' Gaslight'' and '' Laura''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1944 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *March 10 – MGM's '' A Guy Named Joe'', starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne, is released nationally in the United States. *May 3 – The film '' Going My Way'', directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, premieres in New York City. The highest-grossing picture of the year, it goes on to win a total of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for McCary, Best Actor for Crosby and Best Original Song for " Swinging on a Star". *May 13 – Dale Evans appears in her first film with future husband, Roy Rogers – ''Cowboy and the Senorita''. *July 20 – '' Since You Went Away'' is released. *August 16–S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Söderbaum
Beata Margareta Kristina Söderbaum (5 September 1912 – 12 February 2001) was a Swedish-born German film actress, producer, and photographer. She performed in Nazi-era films made by a German state-controlled production company. Early life Söderbaum was born in Stockholm, Sweden; her father, Professor Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum (1862–1933), was the permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. After both her parents died shortly after one another, Söderbaum moved to Berlin and enrolled in a theatre school. Career Nazi era Beginning in 1935, Söderbaum starred in a number of films with director Veit Harlan, whom she married in 1939. Harlan and Söderbaum made ten films together for the then state-controlled film production company UFA until 1945. According to film historian Antje Ascheid, Söderbaum is frequently identified as "most singularly representative of the Nazi ideal, as the quintessential Nazi star". As a beautiful Swedish blonde, Söderbaum had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Von Meyendorff
Irene von Meyendorff (6 June 1916 – 28 September 2001) was a Russian-born German-British actress. Biography Irene von Meyendorff was of Baltic German origin, born in 1916 in Tallinn (then Reval, Russia), Estonia as the eldest child of a German-Baltic aristocrat. Her birth name and title was Baroness Irene Isabella Margarete Pauline Caecila von Meyendorff. In the early 1930s she moved to Berlin to work as a cutter in the UFA film studios of Babelsberg. Her beauty soon landed her first film roles and the attention of Joseph Goebbels. Being purported to represent the purest ideal of Aryan beauty, the actress portrayed mostly noble patricians. The sale of her promotional postcards shows that she was the number one pin-up girl among the German Army during World War II. She was cast by propaganda director Veit Harlan twice: in 1944 in ''Opfergang'' and in 1945 in '' Kolberg''. The production of these elaborately produced colour films was strictly supervised by Goebbels; ''Kolberg'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Raddatz
Carl Raddatz (13 March 1912 – 19 May 2004) was a German stage and film actor. Raddatz was a leading man of German cinema during the Nazi era appearing in a number of propaganda films and romances. Later in his career he developed a reputation for playing benevolent father figures. Raddatz was briefly married to actress Hannelore Schroth, but the union ended in divorce. Partial filmography * '' Urlaub auf Ehrenwort'' (1938) - Grenadier Dr.Jens Kirchhoff * ''Faded Melody'' (1938) - Werner Gront * ''Liebelei und Liebe'' (1938) - Günther Windgassen * '' Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz'' (1939) - Reinhardt * ''Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) - Juwelenmakler Griffin * ''Liberated Hands'' (1939) - Graf Joachim von Erken * ''We Danced Around the World'' (1939) - Harvey Swington * ''Twilight'' (1940) - Robert Thiele * ''Golowin geht durch die Stadt'' (1940) - Dr. Robert Cannenburgh * ''Wunschkonzert'' (1940) - Herbert Koch * ''Above All Else in the World'' (1941) - Carl Wiegan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Schafheitlin
Franz Schafheitlin (9 August 1895 – 6 February 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1927 and 1974. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Pullach, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Bordellos of Algiers'' (1927) * ''Mariett Dances Today'' (1928) * ''The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) as Bornhausen * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) as Prosecutor * '' The Ringer'' (1932) as Sergeant Carter * ''Daughter of the Regiment'' (1933) as Major * ''Sonnenstrahl'' (1933) as Ein Arzt im Unfallkrankenhaus * ''Frasquita'' (1934) as Juan * '' The Secret of Cavelli'' (1934) * ''Asew'' (1935) as Urzoff * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) as R12 * ''Eva'' (135) as Stefan, ein Arbeiter * ''The Eternal Mask'' (1935) as Monsieur Negar * ''Leutnant Bobby, der Teufelskerl'' (1935) * '' ...nur ein Komödiant'' (1935) as Blanchet, court painter * ''Die Pompadour' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur (6 March 1886 – 13 May 1960) was a German film actor. Early life Stahl-Nachbaur was born in Munich, Germany and died at age 74 in Berlin. Selected filmography * ''Das Geschlecht der Schelme. 1. Teil'' (1917) * ''Das verlorene Paradies'' (1917) * ''Eugen Onegin'' (1919) - Fürst Gremin * ''Zwischen Tod und Leben'' (1919) - Fritz Nettenmair * ''Fidelio'' (1919) - Gouveneur * ''Pogrom'' (1919) - Krassowsky * '' Maria Pavlowna'' (1919) - Polizist Maximowitsch * ''Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren'' (1919) * ''König Nicolo'' (1919) - King Nicolo * '' Lillis Ehe'' (1919) - Dr. Goldmann * '' Lilli'' (1919) - Count von Simon * ''Zwischen neun und neun'' (1919) - Stanislaus Demba * ''Zwangsliebe im Freistaat'' (1919) - Dr. Erhardt Kraft * ''Der verführte Heilige'' (1919) * ''Gewalt gegen Recht'' (1920) - Minister * '' Satanas'' (1920) - Prince Alfonso d'Este * ''Die Welt ohne Hunger'' (1920) - Fred Bell * ''Narrentanz der Liebe'' (1920) - Student Alfred Freese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Treßler
Otto Treßler, also Otto Tressler, (13 April 1871 – 27 April 1965) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1915 and 1962. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Vienna, Austria. He was a close friend to Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria. Partial filmography * '' The Story of a Maid'' (1921) - Leopold * '' Frau Dorothys Bekenntnis'' (1921) * ''Das Weib des Irren'' (1921) - Graf * '' Children of Darkness'' (1921, part 1, 2) - Schiffskapitän Pool * ''Die Narrenkappe der Liebe'' (1921) - Spieler * ''Pflicht und Ehre'' (1924) * ''Le fauteuil 47'' (1926) - Le baron Lebret * '' The Crimson Circle'' (1929) - Ministerpräsident * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) - Gerichtsvorsitzender * '' Gently My Songs Entreat'' (1933) - Graf Esterhaazy * '' The Racokzi March'' (1933) - Der Regimentsarzt * '' When You're Young, the World Belongs to You'' (1934) - Rossani * '' The Island'' (1934) - Der Botschafter * ''Abenteuer eines ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Richard
Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress. Selected filmography * '' The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916) * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * '' The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach'' (1917) * ''The Diamond Foundation'' (1917) * ''The Ringwall Family'' (1918) * '' Waves of Fate'' (1918) * ''The Ghost Hunt'' (1918) * ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918) * '' Intoxication'' (1919) * ''Baccarat'' (1919) * '' The Dancer'' (1919) * '' Superstition'' (1919) * '' The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * '' Temperamental Artist'' (1920) * '' The Black Count'' (1920) * ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * '' Judith Trachtenberg'' (1920) * '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' The Last Witness'' (1921) * '' The Hunt for the Truth'' (1921) * '' The New Paradise'' (1921) * '' The Stranger from Alster Street'' (1921) * '' About the Son'' (1921) * '' Alfred von Ingelheim's Dramatic Life'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Devil in Silk'' (1956) * '' Ich suche Dich'' (1956) * ''The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'' (1955) * '' The Dark Star'' (1955) * '' Reaching for the Stars'' (1955) * '' Ludwig II'' (1955) * '' Sky Without Stars'' (1955) * '' Son Without a Home'' (1955) * ''Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben'' (1954) * ''The Missing Miniature'' (1954) * ''The Angel with the Flaming Sword'' (1954) * ''As Long as You're Near Me'' (1953) * ''The Stronger Woman'' (1953) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1953) * '' Toxi'' (1952) * '' No Greater Love'' (1952) * ''All Clues Lead to Berlin'' (1952) * ''The Great Temptation'' (1952) * ''Father Needs a Wife'' (1952) * '' Heart of Stone'' (1950) * ''The Council of the Gods'' (1950) * ''Don't Dream, Annette'' (1949) * '' The Beaver Coat'' (1949) * ''Blum Affair'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology. Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German Idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism. His breakthrough work was 1989's '' The Sublime Object of Ideology'', his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences. He has written over 50 books in multiple languages. The idiosyncratic style o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Hamburg
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
