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Canaris (film)
''Canaris'' is a 1954 Cinema of Germany, West German drama film directed by Alfred Weidenmann and starring O. E. Hasse, Barbara Rütting and Adrian Hoven. It portrays real events during the Second World War when Wilhelm Canaris, the head of Abwehr, German military intelligence, was arrested and executed for his involvement with the 20 July Plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler. The film was a major success at the German box office, possibly because it allowed audiences to identify with a heroic German figure disassociated from Nazism. Released in the UK as ''Canaris Master Spy'', and in the US as ''Deadly Decision''—it is also known by the alternative title ''Canaris: Master Spy''. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. Main cast Music The soundtrack features music from ''Lohengrin (opera), Lohengrin'', composed by Richard Wagner. Release ''Canaris'' opened in Hanover on 30 December 1954. The distributor played down any political significance to the film, and marketed it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Weidenmann
Alfred Weidenmann (10 May 1916 – 9 June 2000) was a German film director, screenwriter, and author of children's books. He directed more than 30 films between 1942 and 1984. Selected filmography * ' (1942) * ' (1944) * ''I and You'' (1953) * ''Canaris (film), Canaris'' (1954) * ' (1955) * ''Alibi (1955 film), Alibi'' (1955) * ''Heaven Is Never Booked Up'' (1955) * ''Kitty and the Great Big World'' (1956) * ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (1957) * ''Scampolo'' (1958) * ' (1958) * ''The Buddenbrooks (1959 film), The Buddenbrooks'' (1959) * ''Boomerang (1960 film), Boomerang'' (1960) * ''Sacred Waters (1960 film), Sacred Waters'' (1960) * ''Adorable Julia'' (1962) * ''Only a Woman (1962 film), Only a Woman'' (1962) * ' (1963) * ''Condemned to Sin'' (1964) * ''Shots in Threequarter Time'' (1965) * ''The Gentlemen (1965 film), The Gentlemen'' (1965) * ''Who Wants to Sleep?'' (1965) * ''I Am Looking for a Man'' (1966) * ''Maigret and His Greatest Case'' (1966) * ''Pistolen-Jenny'' (196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20 July Plot
The 20 July plot, sometimes referred to as Operation Valkyrie, was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and leader of Nazi Germany, and overthrow the Nazi regime on 20 July 1944. The plotters were part of the German resistance, mainly composed of Wehrmacht officers. The leader of the conspiracy, Claus von Stauffenberg, tried to kill Hitler by detonating an explosive hidden in a briefcase. However, due to the location of the bomb at the time of detonation, the blast only dealt Hitler minor injuries. The planners' subsequent coup attempt also failed and resulted in a purge of the Wehrmacht. As early as 1938, German military officers had plotted to overthrow Hitler, but indecisive leadership and the pace of global events stymied action. Plotters gained a sense of urgency in 1943, after Germany lost the Battle of Stalingrad and Soviet forces began to push towards Germany. Under the leadership of Stauffenberg, plotters tried to assassinate Hitler at leas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Wilk
Herbert Wilk (1905–1977) was a German stage, television and film actor. He emerged as a screen actor during the Nazi era, appearing in war films such as '' U-Boote westwärts'' (1941).Kreimeier p.312 However the bulk of his career came after the Second World War. After initially appearing in films made by the East German studio DEFA, he largely worked in West German television for the remainder of his career. Selected filmography * '' The Desert Song'' (1939) * '' Commissioner Eyck'' (1940) * '' The Rothschilds'' (1940) * '' U-Boote westwärts'' (1941) * '' Stukas'' (1941) * '' Free Land'' (1946) * ''The Beaver Coat'' (1949) * '' The Girl from the South Seas'' (1950) * '' Woe to Him Who Loves'' (1951) * '' Canaris'' (1954) * '' The Mosquito'' (1954) * ''Stresemann'' (1957) * '' The Unexcused Hour'' (1957) * ''The Black Chapel ''The Black Chapel'' (German: ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'') is a 1959 political fiction, political thriller film directed by Ralph Habib and starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Treff
Alice Martha Treff (4 June 1906 – 8 February 2003) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1932 and 2001. She was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1932) * '' Melody of Love'' (1932) *'' The Green Domino'' (1935) * ''The Girl Irene'' (1936) * '' The Irresistible Man'' (1937) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) * '' Mistake of the Heart'' (1939) * '' Wedding in Barenhof'' (1942) * '' Two in a Big City'' (1942) * '' Front Theatre'' (1942) * '' The Endless Road'' (1943) * '' Circus Renz'' (1943) * '' In Those Days'' (1947) * '' Ghost in the Castle'' (1947) * '' Street Acquaintances'' (1948) * '' Dangerous Guests'' (1949) * '' Girls Behind Bars'' (1949) * '' Night of the Twelve'' (1949) * '' Der Auftrag Höglers'' (1950) * '' My Niece Susanne'' (1950) * ''The Sinful Border'' (1951) * '' That Can Happen to Anyone'' (1952) * '' The Flower of Hawaii'' (1953) * '' Canaris'' (1954) * '' The Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Essel
Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge Businesses * Franz Deuticke, a scientific publishing company based in Vienna, Austria * Franz Family Bakeries, a food processing company in Portland, Oregon * Franz-porcelains, a Taiwanese brand of pottery based in San Francisco Other uses * ''Franz'' (1971 film), a Belgian film * Franz (2025 film), an upcoming biographical film of Franz Kafka * Franz Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language See also * Frantz (other) * Franzen (other) * Frantzen (other) Frantzen or Frantzén is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Allen Frantzen (born 1947/48), American medievalist * Björn Frantzén (born 1977), Swedish chef and restaurateur * Jean-Pierre Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Regnier
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mosbacher
Peter Mosbacher (1912–1977) was a German stage actor, stage, film actor, film and television actor.Goble p.252 Filmography References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1912 births 1977 deaths German male stage actors German male television actors German male film actors 20th-century German male actors Male actors from Mannheim {{Germany-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Preiss
Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002) was a German theatre, film and television actor. The son of a teacher, Preiss studied philosophy, German, and drama in the early 1930s. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932. He appeared in various theatre productions in Heidelberg, Königsberg, Bonn, Bremen, Stuttgart and Berlin. In 1942, he made his film début – he was specifically exempted from military service – in the Universum Film AG production '' Die grosse Liebe'' with Zarah Leander. After the end of the Second World War, Preiss returned to the theatre, and from 1949 worked extensively dubbing films into German. In 1954, he returned to film acting, appearing in Alfred Weidenmann's ''Canaris''. The following year, Preiss played the lead role of Claus von Stauffenberg in Falk Harnack's film '' The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'', which dramatised the 20 July plot. This role brought Preiss to popular at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( , ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a German high-ranking SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-. Many historians regard Heydrich as one of the darkest figures within the Nazi regime. Adolf Hitler described him as "the man with the iron heart." Heydrich was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was also (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC, now known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which formalised plans for the "Final Solution to the Jewish question"—the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe. He was the founding head of the (Security Service, SD), an intelligence organisation charged with seeking out and neutralising resistance to the Nazi Party via arrests, deport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial backing from the French company Pathé. The producer Paul Davidson's PAGU then took control and constructed a grander structure. The First World War propaganda drama '' The Yellow Passport'', the historical comedy '' Madame DuBarry'' and the expressionist 1920 silent film '' The Golem'' were made there by PAGU. During the 1920s the site came into the hands of the dominant German company UFA which also controlled the Babelsberg and Staaken Studios in the city. It was used for several of the company's major productions during the Weimar Republic including '' The Last Laugh''. It was partly used by Terra Film during the Nazi era. In 1945 the studios were captured by Soviet Army troops during the Battle of Berlin while the shooting of the come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Title
An alternative title is a media sales device most prominently used in film distribution. Books and films are commonly released under a different title when they are screened or sold in a different country. This can vary from small change to the title, such as the addition of ''The'', to wholesale changes. Film titles are also often changed when they are released on DVD or VHS. Reasons The reasons for this are varied, but usually point towards marketable, linguistic or cultural differences. Some titles may not be easily understood in other parts of the world, and may even be considered offensive. Most title changes are commercial. An example is Italian director's Sergio Leone's 1971 film ''Duck, You Sucker!'', initially released with this title as he was convinced it was a well-known English saying. When the film performed poorly, it was subsequently rebranded as '' A Fistful of Dynamite'', similar in name to his 1964 film ''A Fistful of Dollars'', part of the successful Dollars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
