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Der Verlorene
''The Lost One'' () is a 1951 West German crime film, crime drama film directed by Peter Lorre and starring Lorre, Karl John (actor), Karl John and Renate Mannhardt. It is an art film in the film noir style, based on a true story. Lorre wrote, directed, and starred in this film, his only film as director or writer. The film's translated name has been used as the title of his biography. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Schroedter and Karl Weber (art director), Karl Weber. Some scenes were shot at Studio Bendestorf and on provisional stages in the former flak tower on Heiligengeistfeld Hamburg, while location shooting took place around the city. Plot The story is told through a series of flashbacks. Dr. Rothe (Peter Lorre) is a German scientist doing secret research for the Nazi government during World War II. After he discovers that his fiancée has been selling secrets to the Allies, he murders her. This is covered up by the German government. After the war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States. Known for his timidly devious characters, his appearance, and accented voice, he was frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner. He has been caricatured throughout his life and his cultural legacy remains in media today. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before moving to Germany, where he worked first on the stage, then in film, in Berlin during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre, who was Jewish, left Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power. Lorre caused an international sensation in the Weimar Republic–era film ''M (1931 film), M'' (1931) where he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. His second English-language film was Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film), The Man Who Knew Too Much'' (1934), made in the United K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Weber (art Director)
Karl Weber (1897-1965) was a German art director.Giesen p.230 He frequently worked alongside Erich Zander (art director), Erich Zander designing film sets. Filmography * ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * ''The Opera Ball (1931 film), The Opera Ball'' (1931) * ''Ariane (film), Ariane'' (1931) * ''Abenteuer im Engadin'' (1932) * ''Der Diamant des Zaren'' (1932) * ''Melo (1932 film), Melo'' (1932) * ''The Dreamy Mouth'' (1932) * ''Spies at Work'' (1933) * ''The Old and the Young King'' (1935) * ''Forget Me Not (1935 film), Forget Me Not'' (1935) * ''If It Were Not for Music'' (1935) * ''A Night of Change'' (1935) * ''Demon of the Himalayas'' (1935) * ''Martha (1936 film), Martha'' (1936) * ' (1936) * ''Three Girls Around Schubert'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * ''The Beggar Student (1936 film), The Beggar Student'' (1936) * ''His Best Friend (1937 film), His Best Friend'' (1937) * ''Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''To New Shores'' (1937) * ''Zwei Frauen (1938 film), Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Hunzinger
Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander, Oleksandr, Oleksander, Aleksandr, and Alekzandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexsander, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa, Aleksandre, Alejandro, Alessandro, Alasdair, Sasha, Sandy, Sandro, Sikandar, Skander, Sander and Xander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Meister
Kurt is a male given name in Germanic languages. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Konrad/Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. Like Conrad, it can also a surname and less uncommon variations in Germanic languages including , Curd, , , Kord, Kort, Kurth, and Kurtu. In Turkish, Kurt means "wolf" and is a surname and less commonly a given name in numerous Turkic countries. Curt * Curt Boström (1926–2014), Swedish social democrat politician * Curt Casali (born 1988), American baseball catcher for the San Francisco Giants * Curt Gowdy (1919–2006), American sportscaster * Curt Hasler (born 1964), American baseball coach * Curt Hennig (1958–2003), American professional wrestler * Curt Jensen (born 1990), American shot put thrower * Curd Jürgens (1915–1982), German-Austrian actor * Wolf Curt von Schierbrand (1807–1888), German zoologist * Curt Schilling (born 1966), American baseball play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansi Wendler
Hansi Wendler (1912–2010) was a German film actress.Goble p.411 Selected filmography * ''Men Are That Way'' (1939) * '' Two in a Big City'' (1942) * '' I'll Carry You in My Arms'' (1943) * ''Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth?'' (1944) * ''The Lost One ''The Lost One'' () is a 1951 West German crime drama film directed by Peter Lorre and starring Lorre, Karl John and Renate Mannhardt. It is an art film in the film noir style, based on a true story. Lorre wrote, directed, and starred in this fi ...'' (1951) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1912 births 2010 deaths German film actresses {{Germany-film-actor-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotte Rausch
Lotte Rausch (24 May 1913 – 11 March 1995) was a German stage and film actress.Youngkin p.324-25 Selected filmography * '' If We All Were Angels'' (1936) * ''The Broken Jug'' (1937) * '' Triad'' (1938) * ''Women for Golden Hill'' (1938) * ''Bachelor's Paradise'' (1939) * '' New Year's Eve on Alexanderplatz'' (1939) * '' My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1939) * '' Wibbel the Tailor'' (1939) * ''Police Report'' (1939) * ''Twilight'' (1940) * ''Alarm'' (1941) * ''Rembrandt'' (1942) * ''Love Letters'' (1944) * '' The Lost One'' (1951) * '' A Thousand Red Roses Bloom'' (1952) * '' Three Days of Fear'' (1952) * '' Rose of the Mountain'' (1952) * ''The Bachelor Trap'' (1953) * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1955) * ''Father's Day'' (1955) * ''Where the Ancient Forests Rustle'' (1956) * '' The Legs of Dolores'' (1957) * '' Widower with Five Daughters'' (1957) * '' The Muzzle'' (1958) * ''I Learned That in Paris I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Ingeborg Scholz
Eva Ingeborg Scholz (16 February 1928 – 21 March 2022) was a German film and television actress. Biography Eva Ingeborg Scholz made her debut in the title role of the 1948 film '' 1-2-3 Corona'' and appeared regularly in films over the following decade, including a performance as a young lodger in Peter Lorre's only directorial effort '' The Lost One'' (1951) and a supporting role in '' The Devil's General'' (1955) with Curd Jürgens. Among her later films are the Disney production ''Emil and the Detectives'' (1964), in which she played the mother of the title character, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's '' The American Soldier'' (1970). From the early 1960s she appeared increasingly in television, where she remained active until the age of 90 years in 2018. She appeared in popular television productions like ''Tatort'', ''Derrick'', ''The Old Fox'' and ''Stuttgart Homicide''. In 2018, she won the Deutscher Schauspielpreis (German Actors Award) for her supporting role in the ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Hofer
Johanna Hofer (born Johanna Therese Stern; 30 July 1896 – 30 June 1988) was a German film actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1926 and 1982. Biography Hofer was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of engineer and later director of AEG Georg Stern and his wife Lisbeth (''née'' Schmidt), who was the younger sister of artist Käthe Kollwitz. Hofer's younger sisters were dancer Katta Sterna and actress Maria Matray. Hofer's father was Jewish and her mother was Lutheran. In 1932, Hofer and her husband, Austrian actor Fritz Kortner Fritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn, 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director. Life and career Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn into a Jews, Jewish family. He studied at the Vien ..., left Germany and lived in Switzerland, then Austria and the United Kingdom, before settling in the United States in 1938. In 1941, the couple moved from New York City to Los Angeles. Filmogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmuth Rudolph
Helmuth Rudolph (1900–1971) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' So Ended a Great Love'' (1934) * ''The Last Waltz'' (1934) * '' Back in the Country'' (1936) * '' Blum Affair'' (1948) * '' Blocked Signals'' (1948) * '' Love '47'' (1949) * ''The Prisoner'' (1949) * '' Don't Dream, Annette'' (1949) * '' Amico'' (1949) * '' Good Fortune in Ohio'' (1950) * '' The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice'' (1950) * '' The Dubarry'' (1951) * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1951) * '' The Lost One'' (1951) * ''I Can't Marry Them All'' (1952) * '' Fight of the Tertia'' (1952) * '' It Was Always So Nice With You'' (1954) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1954) * ''Alibi'' (1955) * '' The Story of Anastasia'' (1956) * '' Devil in Silk'' (1956) * '' My Father, the Actor'' (1956) * ''Charley's Aunt'' (1956) * ''Wir Wunderkinder ''Wir Wunderkinder'' is a 1958 West German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Hansjörg Felmy and Robert Graf. The black-and-white film is also known in Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. When filmmaking professionals refer to shooting "on location", they are usually referring to a "practical location", which is any location that already exists in the real world. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film ''The Interpreter (2005 film), The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the Headquarters of the United Nations, United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films ''Amadeus (film), Amadeus'' and ''The Illusionist (2006 film), The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Location shooting includes any practical location which resembles the location of a scene in the script; for example, students in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, film school of the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille (Elbe), Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen (state), Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's List of busiest ports in Europe, third-largest, after Port of Rotterdam, Rotterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
