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City Of Anatol
''City of Anatol'' () is a 1936 German drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Horney and Fritz Kampers. It is based on a 1932 novel '' City of Anatol'' by Bernhard Kellermann. The film is set in a small city in the Balkans, where the discovery of oil leads to a major boom.Kreimeier, p. 237. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. A separate French language version '' Wells in Flames'' (''Puits en flames'') was made, also directed by Tourjansky but featuring a different cast. Cast * Gustav Fröhlich as Jacques Gregor * Brigitte Horney as Franziska Maniu * Fritz Kampers as Jaskulski * Rose Stradner as Sonja Yvolandi * Karl Hellmer as Xaver, Kellner * Harry Liedtke as Garcia, Genraldirektor * Aribert Wäscher as Melonenhändler * Olga Engl as Sonjas Großmutter * Ernst Behmer as ein Betrunkener * Gerhard Bienert as Arbeiter bei Ölbohrungen * Paul Bildt as Arbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Tourjansky
Victor Tourjansky ( 4 March 1891 – 13 August 1976), born Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhansky (), was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director who emigrated after the Russian Revolution (1917), Russian Revolution of 1917. He worked in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Biography Born into a family of artists in Kiev, Tourjansky moved to Moscow in 1911, where he spent a year studying under Konstantin Stanislavski. He became involved with silent film and, two years later, made his first productions as a screenwriter and director on the eve of World War I. When the October Revolution broke out, he left and stayed in Yalta, which had not yet been taken by the Bolsheviks. When the laws for the nationalisation of the cinema industry were applied to Crimea, he left with the Joseph N. Ermolieff, Ermoliev film company and its actors for France, via Constantinople, in February 1920. He was accompanied by his wife, the actress Nathalie Kovanko. On arriving in Paris, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio () (also known as Studio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is one of Cinema of Europe, Europe's large film studios. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include ''V for Vendetta (film), V for Vendetta'', ''Captain America: Civil War'', ''Æon Flux (film), Æon Flux'', ''The Bourne Ultimatum (film), The Bourne Ultimatum'', ''Valkyrie (film), Valkyrie'', ''Inglourious Basterds'', ''Cloud Atlas (film), Cloud Atlas'', ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'', ''The Hunger Games (film series), The Hunger Games'', ''Isle of Dogs (film), Isle of Dogs'' and ''The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Dahmen
Josef Dahmen (21 August 1903 – 18 January 1985) was a German stage, film and television actor.Youngkin p. 462. Dahmen was married to the actress Gisela von Collande, with whom he had a daughter Andrea Dahmen. His granddaughter Julia Dahmen is also an actress. Dahmen had a vague resemblance to Hungarian actor Peter Lorre. Selected filmography * '' Wibbel the Tailor'' (1931) - Sohn des Wirts * '' M'' (1931) - (uncredited) * '' A Tremendously Rich Man'' (1932) * '' The Hymn of Leuthen'' (1933) - Georg - Soldier * '' The Lake Calls'' (1933) - Besatzung der 'Carola' * ''Typhoon'' (1933) - Werkdetektiv * ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'' (1933) * ''Refugees'' (1933) - Man with red hair * ' (1934) - Müller, Chauffeur bei Sonnekamp * '' Pappi'' (1934) - Fred * ''Heinz in the Moon'' (1934) * '' Between Two Hearts'' (1934) * ''Decoy'' (1934) - Bandit * ''La Paloma. Ein Lied der Kameradschaft'' (1934) * '' Love, Death and the Devil'' (1934) - Macco * '' Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!'' (193 ... [...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 in Berlin and died in Zehlendorf, West Berlin. Selected filmography * '' Devil in Silk'' (1956) * ''Ich suche Dich'' (1956) * '' The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'' (1955) * ''A Heart Full of Music'' (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' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Bienert
Gerhard Max Richard Bienert (8 January 1898 – 23 December 1986) was a German stage and film actor. Gerhard Bienert was born in Berlin, Germany and died in the same city in 1986 at age 88. Selected filmography * '' Duke Ferrante's End'' (1922) * '' Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * '' The Man with the Frog'' (1929) * '' Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness'' (1929) - Untermieter * '' Ludwig II, King of Bavaria'' (1930) - Hesselschwerdt * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) - Polizist / Policeman * '' Her Majesty the Barmaid'' (1931) - Werkmeister * ''The Man in Search of His Murderer'' (1931) - Policeman * '' Feind im Blut'' (1931) - Mechaniker * ''Inquest'' (1931) - Baumann, Kriminalkommissar * '' M'' (1931) - Criminal Secretary * ''Checkmate'' (1931) - 2. Kommissar * '' Panik in Chicago'' (1931) - Tom * '' The Battle of Bademunde'' (1931) - Feldwebel * '' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) - Klempner-Karl * '' Peace of Mind'' (1931) - Unteroffizier Krause * '' Kameradschaft'' (1931) - Deutscher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Behmer
Ernst Behmer (22 December 1875 – 26 February 1938) was a prolific German stage and film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras. Behmer was born in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and died in Berlin at age 62. Selected filmography * '' Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * ''The Commandment of Love'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''Kri-Kri, the Duchess of Tarabac'' (1920) * '' Kean'' (1921) * '' The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * '' The Golden Bullet'' (1921) * '' The Homecoming of Odysseus'' (1922) * '' A Woman, an Animal, a Diamond'' (1923) * '' By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * '' The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * '' Children of No Importance'' (1926) * '' The Armoured Vault'' (1926) * ''Watch on the Rhine'' (1926) * '' Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * '' The Violet Eater'' (1926) * '' Roses from the South'' (1926) * '' Sister Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Engl
Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films. Biography Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague Conservatory. In August 1887 she made her stage début as Bertha in the play ''Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua'' in her home town. In 1888, she moved to the city of Danzig and performed in the theatre from 1889 to 1892 then briefly moved to Berlin. From 1892 to 1895 she performed with the court theatre in Munich and from 1895 to 1897 in Hamburg at the Thalia Theater, and from 1897 in Hanover. Engl made her film debut in the 1911 British silent film ''The Adoptive Child'' then returned to Germany and began appearing in German film productions. Her first major role was in the 1913 Carl Froelich-directed biopic ''Richard Wagner''. She would work continually throughout the 1910s and appear in a variety of roles for such directors as Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aribert Wäscher
Aribert Wäscher (1 December 1895 – 14 December 1961) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Black Tulip Festival'' (1920) * '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * '' The Hanseatics'' (1925) * '' The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * ''People to Each Other'' (1926) * ''Princess Olala'' (1928) * '' The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1928) * '' The Lady and the Chauffeur'' (1928) * '' Katharina Knie'' (1929) * '' The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' Different Morals'' (1931) * '' Under False Flag'' (1932) * '' A City Upside Down'' (1933) * '' Viktor und Viktoria'' (1933) * '' Love, Death and the Devil'' (1934) * '' The Island'' (1934) * '' Paganini'' (1934) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1934) * '' Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935) * '' Stradivari'' (1935) * '' The Higher Command'' (1935) * '' The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * '' City of Anatol'' (1936) * '' Under Blazing Heavens'' (1936) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Liedtke
Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia as the seventh out of 12 children of a merchant. After his father's death in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and began a qualification in retail business. By the chance acquaintance of Hans Oberländer, a stage director at Berlin, he started to take stage classes and was first engaged at the municipal Theater of Freiberg, Saxony. In 1908 Liedtke worked at the New German Theatre in New York City and in 1909 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Career In 1912 Liedtke appeared for the first time in the silent movie ''Zu spät'' and from then onwards usually as a young "Charming Boy" and gentleman. With Ernst Lubitsch he made movies like ''Das fidele Gefängnis'' (1917), ''Die Augen der Mumie Ma'' (1918), ''Carmen'' (1918), '' Die Austernprinzessin'' (1919), '' Madame DuBarry'' (1919), ''Sumurun'' (1920) and '' Das Weib des Pharao'' (1921). He also appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hellmer
Karl Hellmer (11 March 1896 – 18 May 1974) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1932 and 1969. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''I by Day, You by Night'' (1932) * ''The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' Love, Death and the Devil'' (1934) * ''Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn'' (1936) * '' City of Anatol'' (1936) * '' Stronger Than Regulations'' (1936) * '' Such Great Foolishness'' (1937) * ''Madame Bovary'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' The Mystery of Betty Bonn'' (1938) * '' Little County Court'' (1938) * '' The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' (1939) * ''Falstaff in Vienna'' (1940) * '' Friedemann Bach'' (1941) * '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941) * ''A Salzburg Comedy'' (1943) * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1943) * '' Carnival of Love'' (1943) * '' Heaven, We Inherit a Castle'' (1943) * ''Nora'' (1944) * '' Via Mala'' (1945) * ''Wozzeck'' (1947) * '' Quartet of Five'' (1949) * '' The Great Mandar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells In Flames
''Wells in Flames'' (French: ''Puits en flammes'') is a 1937 German adventure film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Josseline Gaël, George Rigaud and Suzy Vernon.Rentschler p.289 It is the French-language version of ''City of Anatol'' (1936). The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte Otto Hunte (9 January 1881 – 28 December 1960) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Hunte is considered one of the most important artists in the history of early German cinema, mainly for his set designs on the e .... Cast References Bibliography * Rentschler, Eric. ''The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife''. Harvard University Press, 1996. External links * 1937 films 1937 adventure films 1937 multilingual films 1930s French-language films 1930s German films Films about petroleum Films based on German novels Films based on works by Bernhard Kellermann Films directed by Victor Tourjansky Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Schiller
Willy Schiller (11 August 1899 – 17 July 1973) was a German 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 ....Allan & Sandford p.3 In the later part of his career he worked for DEFA, the East German state-controlled film studio. Selected filmography * '' Radio Magic'' (1927) * '' The Green Alley'' (1928) * '' Don Juan in a Girls' School'' (1928) * '' The Lady from Argentina'' (1928) * '' Love in the Cowshed'' (1928) * '' Only a Viennese Woman Kisses Like That'' (1928) * '' The Night of Terror'' (1929) * '' The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1929) * '' The Youths'' (1929) * '' Distinguishing Features'' (1929) * '' Yes, Yes, Women Are My Weakness'' (1929) * '' Youthful Indiscretion'' (1929) * '' Beware of Loose Women'' (1929) * '' Secret Police'' (1929) * '' The Woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
