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Heinz Welzel
Heinz Welzel (1911–2002) was a German stage, television and film actor. He was also a noted voice actor Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talen ..., dubbing foreign films for German-speaking audiences. He played one of the lead roles in the popular 1939 aviation film '' D III 88''.Paris p.94 Filmography References Bibliography * Paris, Michael. ''From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema''. Manchester University Press, 1995. External links * 1911 births 2002 deaths German male film actors Male actors from Berlin {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, Brexit, departure from the European Union. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany, and is the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country in terms of 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 4.5 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 reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legion Condor (film)
''Legion Condor'' is a 1939 German war film directed by Karl Ritter and starring Paul Hartmann, Albert Hehn and Fritz Kampers. The film portrays the German Condor Legion, which fought in the Spanish Civil War. Because of the German-Soviet Pact, the production was halted after 15 days of shooting, on 25 August 1939 to avoid offending the Soviets, who had supported the other side in Spain and were negatively portrayed in the film. Karl Ritter's diary entry that day stated that Hermann Göring had called the Ufa studio to tell him to abort the film. The film is often confused with the full-length documentary film by Karl Ritter, ''Im Kampf Gegen den Weltfeind'' (''In the Battle against World Enemy #1''), released on 15 June 1939 on the same subject. ''Legion Condor'' was planned as a sequel to Ritter's highly successful 1938 feature film, ''Pour le Merite'', also starring Paul Hartmann, Albert Hehn, Fritz Kampers, Carsta Löck, amongst others. In August 2018 the long-lost Ufa film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Births
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Qasr El Nile Club. * January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. * January 18 – Eugene B. El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Valley Of Death (film)
''The Valley of Death'' or ''Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death'' (german: Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten) is a 1968 western film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Lex Barker, Pierre Brice and Rik Battaglia. It was the last in a series of films based on Karl May novels. These had previously enjoyed major commercial success, although this film's box office returns were disappointing. It was effectively a remake of an earlier film in the series ''Treasure of the Silver Lake''. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in Yugoslavia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vladimir Tadej Vladimir Tadej (9 May 1925 – 1 March 2017) was a Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director. He contributed to more than forty films from 1949 to 1998. Selected filmography References External links * 1925 births .... Cast References External links * 1968 films 1968 Western (genre) films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blind Justice (1961 Film)
''Blind Justice'' or ''Excluded to the Public'' (German: ''Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit'') is a 1961 West German crime film, crime drama film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch and Eva Bartok.Bock & Bergfelder p.34 It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann (art director), Otto Erdmann and Hans Jürgen Kiebach. Synopsis While prosecuting a wealthy businessmen accused of murdering his wife so he could marry his younger girlfriend, the Public prosecutor's office, state prosecutor is forced to examine the evidence more closely after claims the accused is innocent and his wife committed suicide. Cast * Peter van Eyck as Staatsanwalt Dr. Robert Kessler * Marianne Koch as Ingrid Hansen * Eva Bartok as Laura Beaumont * Claus Holm as Dr. Werner Rüttgen * Wolfgang Reichmann as Alexander Lamas * Werner Peters as François Lacroix * Susanne Cramer as Helga Dahms * Alfred Balthoff a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Perfect Couple (1954 Film)
''The Perfect Couple'' (german: Das ideale Brautpaar) is a 1954 West German romantic comedy film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Ingeborg Körner, Hans Reiser, and Peter Mosbacher.Bock & Bergfelder p. 461 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Vollbrecht and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot on location in Berlin and Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1954 films 1954 romantic comedy films German romantic comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Robert A. Stemmle German black-and-white films 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid (1947 Film)
''Raid'' (german: Razzia) is a 1947 German crime film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Paul Bildt, Agathe Poschmann, and Claus Holm. It was made as a cautionary tale about the black market in postwar Berlin. It was made in the Soviet Zone, which would later become East Germany. It was produced by the state-controlled DEFA and shot at the Johannisthal Studios and on location around Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Bruno Monden. The picture sold more than 8,090,000 tickets. Plot The film takes place in Berlin, in the direct aftermath of Germany's defeat in the Second World War. The black market is rife in the ruined city. Chief Inspector Friedrich Naumann (Paul Bildt) organizes a raid on the "Ali Baba Club", a suspected center of a black market gang, but the raid fails due to the gang having an informer in the police ranks. Later, Naumann investigates alone, discovers a secret tunnel in the club, and gets murdered. The plot th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titanic (1943 Film)
''Titanic'' is a 1943 German propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA, depicting the catastrophic sinking of in 1912. Despite the fact that there already was a German silent film produced in 1912 just four weeks after the sinking and a British company had released a German-language film about the disaster in 1929, the film was commissioned by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels with the intent of showing not only the superiority of German filmmaking, but also as a propaganda vehicle which would depict British and American capitalism as being responsible for the disaster. The addition of an entirely fictional heroic German officer to the ship's crew was intended to demonstrate the superior bravery and selflessness of German men as compared to the British officers. The film's original director, Herbert Selpin, was arrested during production after making disparaging comments about the German army and the war in the east. He was found ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Premiere
''Love Premiere'' (german: Liebespremiere) is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hans Söhnker, Kirsten Heiberg and Fritz Odemar. The film's sets were designed by Robert Herlth. The film based on the stage play "Axel an der Himmelstür", that was a great success for Zarah Leander and established her marvelous career in 1936. When Zarah Leander signed a film contract with UFA in Babelsberg Babelsberg () is the largest quarter ('' Stadtteil'') of Potsdam, the capital city of the German state of Brandenburg. The affluent neighbourhood named after a small hill on the Havel river is famous for Babelsberg Palace and Park, part of the Pala ... in 1937, Kirsten Heiberg was invited to replace Leander on stage but refused to. In 1943 originally Zarah Leander was the first choice to recreate her role on the silver screen but she left Germany in the midst of 1943 to return to her native Sweden. Thus Kirsten Heiberg could return to the screen after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menschen Im Sturm
''Menschen im Sturm'' ( en, People in the Storm, link=yes, italic=yes) is a 1941 German film directed by Fritz Peter Buch. It was an anti-Serbian propaganda and part of a concerted propaganda push against Serbs, attempting to split them from the Croats. Synopsis Vera witnesses the persecution of ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, which awakens her ethnic consciousness. Her cosmopolitan friend Alexander is arrested. Vera flirts with the Serbian commander to allow ''Volksdeutsche'' to escape to the border. When arrested, she proudly affirms that she helped her countrymen and, in an escape attempt, is shot, to die happy and heroic. Cast *Olga Chekhova *Gustav Diessl *Hannelore Schroth *Siegfried Breuer *Josef Sieber * Heinz Welzel *Kurt Meisel Production and release The film was shot on locations in Hrvatsko Zagorje, then-Independent State of Croatia, in July 1941. Its Zagreb premiere was held on 21 March 1942. Unusually, contemporary Viennese film magazine ' classified the film as "f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Above All Else In The World
''Above All Else in the World'' (german: link=no, Über alles in der Welt) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Karl Ritter and starring Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer and Fritz Kampers.Kreimeier p. 312 The title refers to the second line of the German national anthem. It was made as a propaganda film designed to promote Nazi Germany's war aims in the Second World War. Synopsis Following the outbreak of war, Germans abroad face persecution from the British and French authorities. Cast * Paul Hartmann as Otl. Steinhart * Hannes Stelzer as Hans Wiegand * Fritz Kampers as Fritz Möbius * Carl Raddatz as Carl Wiegand * Oskar Sima as Leo Samek * Maria Bard as Madeleine LaRoche * Berta Drews as Anna Möbius * Carsta Löck as Erika Möbius * Marina von Ditmar as Brigitte * Joachim Brennecke as Willy Möbius * Karl John as Olt. Hassencamp * Josef Dahmen as Uffz. Weber * Georg Thomalla as Uffz. Krause * Herbert A.E. Böhme as Kapitän Hansen * Wilhelm König as Funker Boysen * Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
