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The Marathon Runner
''The Marathon Runner'' (german: Der Läufer von Marathon) is a 1933 German sports film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Brigitte Helm, Hans Brausewetter and Ursula Grabley. It was based on a 1928 novel by Werner Scheff, adapted by screenwriter Thea von Harbou. The film focuses on a love triangle between three German athletes competing at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.Bergfelder & Cargnelli p. 34 It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Ernő Metzner and Erich Zander. The German premiere took place at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo. It was the last film Dupont made in Germany, before escaping into exile following the rise to power of the Nazis. Cast * Brigitte Helm as Lore Steinkopf * Hans Brausewetter as Karl Roesicke * Ursula Grabley as Else Wittig, Lores Freundin * Viktor de Kowa Viktor de Kowa (also spelled Victor de Kowa, born Victor Paul Karl Kowalczyk; 8 March 1904 – 8 April 1973) was a German stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewald André Dupont
Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891 – 12 December 1956) was a German film director, one of the pioneers of the German film industry. He was often credited as E. A. Dupont. Early career A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California. One of his greatest successes was the silent film ''Varieté'' (1925). This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund. ''Varieté'' even did well in the United States, screening for 12 weeks at New York's Rialto Theatre. United States Dupont's success was noticed by Carl Laemmle at Universal, who offered Dupont a lucrative contract. His first project was ''Love Me and the World Is Mine'' in the early summer of 1926, which ran well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannisthal Studios
The Johannisthal Studios were film studios located in the Berlin area of Johannisthal. Founded in 1920 on the site of a former airfield, they were a centre of production during the Weimar and Nazi eras. Nearly four hundred films were made at Johannistal during the silent period. Sometimes known as the Jofa Studios, in 1929 they became the base of the newly established German major studio Tobis Film at the beginning of the sound era. After 1945 the studios fell into the Soviet Zone of Germany, and later into the Communist state of East Germany.Bergfelder p.24 The studios were used by the new monopoly film company DEFA. Although the first postwar German film ''The Murderers Are Among Us'' was shot at Johannisthal, they were used less than the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. It was often used for dubbing foreign films into German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or nativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Films
The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1933 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America. * Motion picture industry goes under National Recovery Administration code. * Receivers appointed for Paramount Publix, RKO and Fox Theatres. * Film industry takes eight week salary cut. * Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated. * John D. Hertz withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager. * Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Fox Film Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930. * Ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware creates "open market" for sound equipment. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Durra
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album '' Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher *Alfred University, New York, U.S. *The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario * Alfred Island, Nunavut * Mount Alfred, British Columbia United States * Alfred, Maine, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Balhaus
Carl Balhaus (born Carl Ballhaus; 4 November 1905 – 28 July 1968) was a German stage and film actor. After the Second World War he worked as screenwriter and director for the East German state-owned studio DEFA. He was an uncle of the Academy Award nominated cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.Thomas Vorwerk, http://www.satt.org/literatur/02_12_tykwer_1.html Selected filmography Actor * ''Der alte Fritz - 2. Ausklang'' (1928) - Ein Desserteur * ''The Age of Seventeen'' (1929) - Gerts Freund Martin * ''The Brandenburg Arch'' (1929) - Max * '' Spring Awakening'' (1929) - Moritz, sein Sohn * '' Revolt in the Reformatory'' (1930) - Fritz * ''Menschen im Feuer'' (1930) * '' Scapa Flow'' (1930) * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) - Gymnasiast Ertzum / Pupil * '' Westfront 1918'' (1930) - Butcher (uncredited) * ''Only on the Rhine'' (1930) - Karl * ''A Student's Song of Heidelberg'' (1930) - Bornemanns Leibfuchs * ''Father and Son'' (1930) - Louis de Lorche * ''Großstadtpiraten'' (1930) - Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Sabo
Oscar Sabo (29 August 1881, in Vienna – 2 May 1969, in Berlin) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * ''The False Dimitri'' (1922) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * ''The Little Escapade'' (1931) * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * '' A Night in Paradise'' (1932) * ''Gitta Discovers Her Heart'' (1932) * ''Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932) * ''Wedding at Lake Wolfgang'' (1933) * '' The Marathon Runner'' (1933) * ''Girls of Today'' (1933) * '' Love Must Be Understood'' (1933) * '' Tales from the Vienna Woods'' (1934) * ''Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935) * '' Last Stop'' (1935) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) * '' Steputat & Co.'' (1938) *''The Secret Lie'' (1938) * '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * '' Heimatland'' (1939) * ''Detours to Happiness'' (1939) * '' Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) * '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) * ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trude Von Molo
Trude von Molo (22 December 1906 – 27 November 1989) was an Austrian film actress.Youngkin p.465 She was the daughter of the writer Walter von Molo and the twin sister of Conrad von Molo. Von Molo attended the Max Reinhardt training school. She emerged as a leading actress of German cinema in the early 1930s, but then retired and emigrated to Latin America. Her American debut was in the film, ''The Theft of the Mona Lisa'' (1931), when the German-made film played in the United States. Selected filmography * '' Ludwig II, King of Bavaria'' (1929) * ''The Theft of the Mona Lisa'' (1931) * ''The Man Who Murdered'' (1931) * ''The White Demon'' (1932) * '' The Invisible Front'' (1932) * ''The Marathon Runner ''The Marathon Runner'' (german: Der Läufer von Marathon) is a 1933 German sports film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Brigitte Helm, Hans Brausewetter and Ursula Grabley. It was based on a 1928 novel by Werner Scheff, adapted by ...'' (1933) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hartmann (actor)
Paul Wilhelm Constantin Hartmann (8 January 1889 – 30 June 1977) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Zofia - Kriegs-Irrfahrten eines Kindes'' (1915) * ' (1915) * ' (1916) * ' (1917) * ' (1917) as Georg * '' Christa Hartungen'' (1917) as Bernd Römer * ' (1917) as Hieronymus * '' Mountain Air'' (1917) as Egon * ' (1917) * ' (1918) * '' Es werde Licht!'' (1918) as Ernst Hartwig * ''Mouchy'' (1918) * '' The Prisoner of Dahomey'' (1918) * '' Precious Stones'' (1918) * ''Der unheimliche Gast'' (1918) as Uwe Johanssen * ''Taumel'' (1919) * '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * ''Die Hexe von Norderoog'' (1919) * ''The Secret of Wera Baranska'' (1919) * ''Blonde Poison'' (1919) as Georg Maudi * '' The Galley Slave'' (1919) as Rastignac * ''The Girl and the Men'' (1919) * ''Monika Vogelsang'' (1920) as Amadeo Vaselli, Kirchenmaler * ''Battle of the Sexes'' (1920) * ''Mary Magdalene'' (1920) as Karl * ''Können Gedanken töten?'' (1920) as Geliebter * '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany. During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe, it was frequently referred to as Hitlerism (german: Hitlerfaschismus). The later related term " neo-Nazism" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the Second World War. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist '' Völkisch'' movement which had been a prominent aspect of German nationalism since the late 19th century, and it was strongly influenced by the paramilitary groups that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ufa-Palast Am Zoo
The Ufa-Palast am Zoo, located near Berlin Zoological Garden in the New West area of Charlottenburg, was a major Berlin cinema owned by Universum Film AG, or Ufa. Opened in 1919 and enlarged in 1925, it was the largest cinema in Germany until 1929 and was one of the main locations of film premières in the country. The building was destroyed in November 1943 during the Bombing of Berlin in World War II and replaced in 1957 by the Zoo Palast. History The Neo-Romanesque building at Hardenbergstraße was designed as an exhibition hall by architect Carl Gause (1851–1907), an alumnus of the Bauakademie who had also drawn plans for the Hotel Adlon. Like the '' Romanisches Haus'' nearby, the design followed the model of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Auguste-Viktoria-Platz (present-day Breitscheidplatz), built in 1891–1895 according to plans by Franz Schwechten. The development of a "Romanesque forum" met the demands of Emperor Wilhelm II who even set guidelines for the des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Zander (art Director)
Erich Zander (1889–1965) was a German art director.Giesen p.230 Selected filmography * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1926) * ''Derby'' (1926) * '' Students' Love'' (1927) * ''Alpine Tragedy'' (1927) * ''The Little Slave'' (1928) * '' Mariett Dances Today'' (1928) * '' Volga Volga'' (1928) * '' Rooms to Let'' (1930) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1930) * '' I'll Stay with You'' (1931) * '' Ariane'' (1931) * '' A Thousand for One Night'' (1933) * ''The Marathon Runner'' (1933) * '' Spies at Work'' (1933) * ''The Love Hotel'' (1933) * '' The Double'' (1934) * ''Little Dorrit'' (1934) * '' Knockout'' (1935) * '' The Blonde Carmen'' (1935) * '' She and the Three'' (1935) * '' The Young Count'' (1935) * ''The Red Rider'' (1935) * ''Love Can Lie'' (1937) * '' His Best Friend'' (1937) * '' Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * '' I Love You'' (1938) * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1939) * '' Quartet of Five'' (1949) * ''The Blue Swords ''The Blue Swords'' (german: Die blauen Schwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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