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Elektafilm
Elektafilm a.s., formerly Elektafilm s.r.o. was a Czechoslovak film production and film distribution company that existed from 1923 to 1951. It produced and distributed silent and since 1930 sound films in Czech, German and French languages. In the 1930s, Elektafilm was the biggest film production company in Czechoslovakia. The most successful Elektafilm-produced film was Gustav Machatý's ''Ecstasy''. Most of its films were shot at rented A-B Ateliers in Vinohrady, Prague in 1920s, and Barrandov Studios since 1930. Another Czechoslovak production company, Elekta-Journal (1929-1937), had no connection to Elektafilm despite the similar name. Elektafilm frequently worked with directors Martin Frič, Svatopluk Innemann, Karel Lamač and Miroslav J. Krňanský. History Elektafilm was founded by Josef Auerbach, Julius Schmitt and Jan Reiter as a limited liability company in 1923. In 1926, Elektafilm acquired a production company Vircofilm. In 1928, the company transformed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Affair Of Colonel Redl
''The Affair of Colonel Redl'' ( cs, Aféra plukovníka Redla) is a Czech comedy film directed by Karel Anton. German version of the movie ''The Case of Colonel Redl'' was released in 1931. The film is considered lost. Cast *Emil Artur Longen as Alfred Redl *Marie Grossová as Countess Vera Nikolayevna * Jiří Sedláček as Štěpán Dolan *Truda Grosslichtová as Eva, Dolan's fiancée *Jan Sviták as Count Boris Maximovich Marchenko * Josef Rovenský as Russian spy Daragiyev * Čeněk Šlégl as Archduke * Jiří Steimar as Head of Russian Secret service See also *''Colonel Redl'' (1925) Austrian film *''Colonel Redl ''Colonel Redl'' (german: Oberst Redl (original title); hu, Redl ezredes) is a 1985 biographical drama film by Hungarian director István Szabó. The plot, set in the period before World War I, follows the rise of Alfred Redl, an officer in the ...'' (1985) Hungarian film References External links * 1931 drama films 1931 films Czech black-and-white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schweik In Civilian Life
''Schweik in Civilian Life'' (Czech: ''Švejk v civilu'') is a 1927 Czech-Austrian silent comedy film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Karel Noll, Dina Gralla and Albert Paulig.Taylor p.149 It is a sequel to the 1926 film ''The Good Soldier Schweik''. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Vilém Rittershain, Hans Ledersteger and Alois Mecera. Location shooting took place in Vienna, Karlovy Vary and Prague. Cast * Karel Noll as Josef Švejk * Dina Gralla as Anička, Foster-child * Jiří Hron as Pavel * Albert Paulig as Baron Camra * Renati Renée as Dancer Lo * Jan Richter as Žížala * Josef Rovenský Josef Rovenský (17 April 1894 – 5 November 1937) was a Czech-Jewish Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 film actor and director. He app ... as Pižla * Robert Ford as Hotel Manager * Jindřich Fiala as Referee References Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kidnapping Of Fux The Banker
''The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker'' ( cs, Únos bankéře Fuxe) is a 1923 Czech silent comedy film directed by Karl Anton. The film was inspired by the slapstick comedies about the Keystone Cops. Fashion designer Paul Poiret played himself. Only an incomplete 61 minutes long version of the film survived. Cast * Adi Berger as Banker C. W. Fux * Anny Ondra as Fux's daughter Daisy * Karel Lamač as Tom Darey * Bronislava Livia as Maud Gould * Eman Fiala as Sherlock Holmes II * Emilie Nitschová as Daisy's tutor * Karel Fiala as Butler Karel * Theodor Pištěk as Duke of Pommery * Saša Rašilov as Police chief * Paul Poiret as Fashion designer from Paris * Jan W. Speerger as Burglar * Přemysl Pražský Přemysl Pražský was an early Czech film director, film actor, screenwriter and radio producer. He directed and appeared in a number of films in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s, directing comedy films such as '' Two Mothers'' (1921), '' T ... as Director of the asylu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecstasy (film)
''Ecstasy'' ( cz, Extase; french: Extase; german: Ekstase) is a 1933 Czech erotic romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz. The film is about a young woman who marries a wealthy but much older man. After abandoning her brief passionless marriage, she meets a young virile engineer who becomes her lover. ''Ecstasy'' was filmed in three language versions – German, Czech, and French. It is perhaps the first non- pornographic movie to portray sexual intercourse and female orgasm, although never showing more than the actors' faces. Plot Emil, a fastidious and orderly older man, carries his happy new bride, Eva, over the threshold of their home. He has great difficulty opening the lock on the front door, trying key after key. She is greatly disappointed on their wedding night because he does not even come to bed. He has pinched his finger in the clasp of Eva's pearls when he attempts to remove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svatopluk Innemann
Svatopluk Innemann (18 February 1896 – 30 October 1945) was a Czech film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and actor. He was one of the pioneers of Czech cinema. Biography and works Innemann, was a son of the Czech director Rudolf Innemann and opera singer Ludmila Lvová-Innemannová. He was born in Slovenia during their engagement, but was raised in Prague, where he studied to be a pork butcher. Around 1918 he became interested in film, and began to work as a camera operator. As cameraman, he co-created his first film with Otto Heller. From 1919 he worked independently. Innemann's early career was varied; he was involved in operettas, comedies and melodramas, short films and documentaries, often as cameraman. He made his directorial debut in silent films with the fairy-tale '' Little Red Riding-hood'' in 1920. In 1925 he directed the popular comedy '' From the Czech Mills'' and made a biographical film about Josef Kajetán Tyl, an important personality o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial And Royal Field Marshal (1930 Film)
''Imperial and Royal Field Marshal'' ( cs, C. a k. polní maršálek) is a 1930 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Karel Lamač. It is considered to be the first ever Czech language sound film. Cast *Vlasta Burian ... František Procházka, false Imperial and Royal Field Marshal * Theodor Pištěk as Colonel Alois Přecechtěl *Helena Monczáková as Přecechtělová, colonel's wife * as Lili Přecechtělová, their daughter *Jiří Hron as Lieutenant Rudi Eberle *Jan W. Speerger as Military servant Sepll *Čeněk Šlégl as Count Géza von Medák, Rittmeister *Jindřich Plachta as Hofer, first lieutenant * Josef Horánek as Real Imperial and Royal Field Marshal * Olga Augustová as Singer * Eman Fiala as Gustav Jannings, cabaret singer *Otto Heller as Soldier *Jaroslav Marvan as Maršálek's servant *Josef Rovenský Josef Rovenský (17 April 1894 – 5 November 1937) was a Czech-Jewish Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanka A Jindra
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Hanka may refer to: * Angela Hanka, Austrian figure skater * Václav Hanka (1791–1861), Czech philologist * ''Hanka'' (film), 1955 Yugoslav film * a variation of the given name Hannah Hannah or Hanna may refer to: People, biblical figures, and fictional characters * Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin * Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin * Hanna (Irish surname), a famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From The Czech Mills (1925 Film)
''From the Czech Mills'' ( cs, Z českých mlýnů) is a 1925 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Svatopluk Innemann. Cast * Ferry Seidl as Šebestián Šafránek *Filip Balek-Brodský as Florián Karásek / Vodník *Božena Svobodová as Mrs. Karásková *Bohumil Kovář as Priest * Zdena Kavková as Anička *Jiří Plachý as Karel Karásek *Vladimír Řepa as Tonda Kolenatý *Antonín Frič as Old miller *Luigi Hofman as Landowner *Nora Ferry as Julinka, landowner's daughter *Milka Balek-Brodská as Aunt Filomena *Hugo Haas Hugo Haas (19 February 1901 – 1 December 1968) was a Czech film actor, director and writer. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1926 and 1962, as well as directing 20 films between 1933 and 1962. Life and career Haas was born in ... as Baron Zachariáš Zlámaný References External links * 1925 films 1925 comedy films Czechoslovak black-and-white films Czech silent films Czechoslovak comedy films {{1920s-comedy-film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaumont Film Company
The Gaumont Film Company (, ), often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (founded in 1912). Gaumont predominantly produces, co-produces, and distributes films, and in 2011, 95% of Gaumont's consolidated revenues came from the film division. The company is increasingly becoming a TV series producer with its American subsidiary Gaumont International Television as well as its existing French production features. Gaumont is run by Nicolas Seydoux (President), Sidonie Dumas (General Director), and Christophe Riandee (Deputy General Director). History Originally dealing in photographic apparatus, the company began producing short films in 1897 to promote its mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chagall (film)
''Chagall'' is a 1963 short documentary film directed by Lauro Venturi which focuses on the work of artist Marc Chagall. It won an Oscar at the 36th Academy Awards in 1964 for Documentary Short Subject. The Academy Film Archive preserved ''Chagall'' in 2008. Cast * Vincent Price as narrator (voice) * Marc Chagall Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with several major ... as himself References External links * 1963 films 1963 documentary films 1963 short films 1963 independent films 1960s French-language films 1960s English-language films 1960s short documentary films American short documentary films Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners American independent films Marc Chagall Documentary films about visual artists 1960s multilingual films 1960s American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are an international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", although more commonly referred to by its nickname, the "Oscar". The statuette, depicting a knight rendered in the Art Deco style, was originally sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley from a design sketch by art director Cedric Gibbons. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Academy Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mirisch Company
The Mirisch Company was an American film production company owned by Walter Mirisch and his brothers, Marvin and Harold Mirisch. The company also had sister firms known at various times as Mirisch Production Company, Mirisch Pictures Inc., Mirisch Films, and The Mirisch Corporation. History Walter Mirisch began to work as a producer at Monogram Pictures beginning with ''Fall Guy'' (1947), the profitable ''Bomba the Jungle Boy'' series, ''Wichita'' (1955), and '' The First Texan'' (1956), by which time the company was known as Allied Artists. Walter Mirisch was in charge of production at the studio when it made '' Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956) and '' Love in the Afternoon'' (1957). The Mirisch Company was founded in 1957 at which time it signed a 12-picture deal with United Artists (UA) that was extended to 20 films two years later. UA acquired the company on March 1, 1963, but the Mirisch brothers continued to produce for their distribution, under other corporate name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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