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Der Stern Von Afrika
''Der Stern von Afrika'' () is a 1957 black-and-white German war film portraying the combat career of a World War II Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille. The film stars Joachim Hansen and Marianne Koch and was directed by Alfred Weidenmann, whose film career began in the Nazi era. ''Der Stern von Afrika'' was premièred on 13 August 1957 in Berlin and was popular at the German box office. The film was criticised for hewing closely to wartime propaganda in its portrayal of the German war effort and for avoiding an honest confrontation with the past. Plot The film begins shortly before the outbreak of World War II with Jochen Marseille ( Joachim Hansen) attending a Luftwaffe school in Berlin. His performance gains high recognition for his outstanding skill as a fighter pilot. His squadron starts off in France during the Battle of Britain, but is transferred to the Afrika Korps in North Africa. Marseille quickly becomes the most successful fighter pilot. His unit loses ... [...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] |
Battle Of Britain
The Battle of Britain () was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces."92 Squadron – Geoffrey Wellum." ''Battle of Britain Memorial Flight'' via ''raf.mod.uk.''. Retrieved: 17 November 2010, archived 2 March 2009. It takes its name from This was their finest hour, the speech given by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons on 18 June: "What Maxime Weygand, General Weygand called the 'Battle of France' is over. I expect that the Battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Ponto
Erich Johannes Bruno Ponto (14 December 1884 – 14 February 1957) was a German film and stage actor. Career Erich Ponto was born in Lübeck as the son of a textile merchant. After his family had moved to Hamburg- Eimsbüttel, he attended the gymnasium secondary school in Altona and upon his Abitur exam began a study of pharmacy at the University of Munich, where he went to lectures delivered by physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, whose discovery of X-rays or Röntgen rays, had earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Ponto worked for a few years as a pharmacist, but was already passionate about acting during his university time – he started to take acting lessons and eventually became a full-time actor. Ponto gave his debut on stage at the Stadttheater Passau in 1908, followed by engagements in Nordhausen, Reichenberg (Liberec), and Düsseldorf. From 1914 to 1947 he was a member of the Hoftheater Dresden ensemble (Staatstheater Dresden from 1918), in the season 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Hehn
Albert Hehn (17 December 1908 – 29 July 1983) was a German actor. Hehn appeared in a large number of films between 1938 and 1970. One of his most notable roles was in the 1941 war film '' Stukas''.Welch p.279 He was married to the actress Jeanette Schultze. Selected filmography * ''Comrades at Sea'' (1938) * '' Drei Unteroffiziere'' (1939) * ''Legion Condor'' (1939) * '' Stukas'' (1941) * ''Annelie'' (1941) * ''Tonelli'' (1943) * ''The Buchholz Family'' (1944) * ''Marriage of Affection'' (1944) * '' Martina'' (1949) * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (1949) * '' Monks, Girls and Hungarian Soldiers'' (1952) * '' Beautiful Night'' (1952) * ''The Mill in the Black Forest'' (1953) * ''The Hunter's Cross'' (1954) * '' The Forest House in Tyrol'' (1955) * ''We're All Necessary'' (1956) * '' The Star of Africa'' (1957) * '' The Battalion in the Shadows'' (1957) * '' Two Bavarians in the Harem'' (1957) * ''The Green Devils of Monte Cassino'' (1958) * ''Rommel Calls Cairo ''Rommel Calls Cai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Hermann Schaufuß
Hans Hermann Schaufuß (13 July 1893 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1922 to 1969. His sons were actors Hans Joachim Schaufuß and Peter-Timm Schaufuß. Selected filmography References External links * 1893 births 1982 deaths Male actors from Leipzig Actors from the Kingdom of Saxony German male film actors German male silent film actors 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-film-actor-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Doermer
Christian Doermer (5 July 1935 – 14 July 2022) was a German actor and director. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1954 to 2022. He starred in the 1966 film '' No Shooting Time for Foxes''. The film was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. In 1969, Doermer appeared as a German soldier attending the Christmas truce in Sir Richard Attenborough's satirical World War I musical film ''Oh! What a Lovely War''. Doermer himself has also directed a fair number of films including documentaries and television films. In 1962, he was one of the 26 authors of the famous Oberhausen Manifesto, demanding a change in German film. Selected filmography * '' The Forest House in Tyrol'' (1955) as Alfons Attinger * ' (1956), as Jochen * '' Teenage Wolfpack'' (1956), as Jan Borchert * '' All Roads Lead Home'' (1957), as Michael * ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (1957), as Unteroffizier Klein * ''Preco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Schürenberg
Siegfried Schürenberg (12 January 1900 – 31 August 1993) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1933 and 1974. He was born in Detmold, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany in 1993, at age 93. Although he never played leading roles, he was a well-known supporting actor who played the role of Sir John in numerous Edgar Wallace films during the 1960s. He was also a busy dubbing actor, for example as the German voice for Clark Gable in most of his films, including Rhett Butler in ''Gone with the Wind''. Selected filmography * '' The Marathon Runner'' (1933) * '' A Man Wants to Get to Germany'' (1934) - Conner, British friend * '' Master of the World'' (1934) - Werner Baumann * '' Asew'' (1935) - Sawinkoff * '' The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) - Herr von Tremoliere * '' Forget Me Not'' (1935) - Hellmut von Ahrens - Erster Offizier * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) - Lord Beckhurst * '' The Traitor'' (1936) - Neumann * '' Men Without a Fatherlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arno Paulsen
Arno Paulsen (1900–1969) was a German actor who appeared in around sixty films in the post-Second World War years. He also appeared frequently on stage and was also a voice actor dubbing foreign films for release in Germany. He appeared in a mixture of West German and East German films. He made his film debut in the 1946 rubble film Rubble film () was an aesthetic choice for those films made directly after World War II dealing with the impact of the battles in the countries at the center of the war. The style was mostly used by filmmakers in the rebuilding film industries o ... '' Murderers Among Us''.Brockmann p.197 Filmography References External links * Bibliography * Brockmann, Stephen. ''A Critical History of German Film''. Camden House, 2010. 1900 births 1969 deaths German male film actors Male actors from Szczecin Actors from the Province of Pomerania German male voice actors German male stage actors 20th-century German male actors {{German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Von Collande
Gisela von Collande (5 February 1915 – 22 October 1960) was a German film actress. Gisela came from an acting family. She was the sister of the actor and director Volker von Collande. She married the actor Josef Dahmen, with whom she had a daughter Andrea Dahmen. The granddaughter Julia Dahmen also became an actress. Collande played the role of Trude in the military spy film The Traitor (1936 German film), ''The Traitor'' which premiered on September 9, 1936 at the Nazi Party, NSDAP Nuremberg rallies, Party Convention. She also played roles in ''Target in the Clouds'' (1939) and ''Pour le Mérite (film), Pour le Mérite'' (1938), propaganda films for the Luftwaffe. She was killed in 1960 during a traffic accident. Selected filmography * ''Maria the Maid'' (1936) * ''The Traitor (1936 German film), The Traitor'' (1936) * ''The Broken Jug (film), The Broken Jug'' (1937) * ''Pour le Mérite (film), Pour le Mérite'' (1938) * ''The False Step'' (1939) * ''Target in the Clouds'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kerst
Alexander Kerst (23 February 1924 – 9 December 2010) was an Austrian television actor. He was born in Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czechoslovakia and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography References External links *Erna Baumbauer Management 1924 births 2010 deaths Austrian male television actors 20th-century Austrian male actors German Bohemian people Naturalised citizens of Austria People from Kralupy nad Vltavou {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peer Schmidt
Peer Eugen Georg Schmidt (11 March 1926; Erfurt, Weimar Germany – 8 May 2010; Berlin) was a German actor who specialized in film actor, films, television and dubbing. He is best known as the German voice of Gérard Philipe, Marlon Brando and Jean-Paul Belmondo. (German) Selected filmography References External links * 1926 births 2010 deaths Actors from Erfurt German male film actors German male stage actors German male television actors German male voice actors 20th-century German male actors Male actors from Thuringia {{Voice-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Frank
Horst Frank (28 May 1929 – 25 May 1999) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1955 and 1999. He was born in Lübeck, Germany and died in Heidelberg, Germany. Selected filmography * '' Der Stern von Afrika'' (1957) – Albin Droste * ' (1957) – Heyne * '' The Copper'' (1958) – Josef Schmitz * ''Rosemary'' (1958) – Student Michael Runge * ''Blitzmädels an die Front'' (1958) – Gaston, ein Franzose * '' The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1958) – Jan Lindgren * ''Schwarze Nylons – Heiße Nächte'' (1958) – Sabri * '' My Ninety Nine Brides'' (1958) – Jonny der Husar * '' Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?'' (1959) – Feldwebel Böse * '' Wolves of the Deep'' (1959) – Lo Sposino * '' The Head'' (1959) – Dr. Brandt – alias Dr. Ood * '' Rebel Flight to Cuba'' (1959) – Richard Marshall * '' The Cat Shows Her Claws'' (1960) – Le Major Von Hollwitz * ''Boomerang'' (1960) – Willy Schneider * ''Kein Engel ist so rein'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
