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Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitsky; , 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a French actor of Russian Chinese origin. He had a lengthy career in French and German cinema, appearing in over 200 film and television roles over 50 years, and was a two-time German Film Award winner. Early life Desny was born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitsky () in Beijing, China. His Russian father, Nikolai Desnitsky, gained French citizenship and worked as a secretary at the French embassy. His mother was Swedish. Career Desny was a film actor. Bilingual in French and German, he acted in more than 150 films, both in Germany and France. In 1980, Desny received an honorary German Film Award for "his continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years." Death Desny died in Ascona, Switzerland. Selected filmography * ''La fleur de l'âge'' (1947) * ''Bonheur en location'' (1949) - Gordon junior * '' Madeleine'' (1950) - Emile L'Anglier * ''Les mousquetaires ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatort
("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-service broadcasting organization ARD for their channel Das Erste, it is unique in its approach in that it is jointly produced by all of the organization's regional members as well as its partnering Austrian and Swiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes several episodes to a common pool. As a result of this, Tatort is a collection of different police stories where different police teams solve crimes in their own cities, with uniqueness in architecture, customs, and dialects of the cities being a distinctive part of the series. Often, the city, not the police force, is the real main character of an episode. The fact that local stations each produce a small number of episodes per year has enabled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Without Camelias
''The Lady Without Camelias'' () is a 1953 French–Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Lucia Bosé, Gino Cervi, and Andrea Checchi. Based on a story by Antonioni, the film is about a newly discovered starlet and her experiences in the film business. Plot Film executive Gianni Franchi discovers young shop assistant Clara Manni and makes her the star of his new film, ''Woman Without Destiny''. When test screenings reveal that the public is enamoured with Clara, but less enthusiastic about the film itself, producer Ercole uses her presence in her second feature, which is still in production, by emphasising its scenes of passion. Clara is taken by surprise by Gianni's marriage proposal, to which she reluctantly agrees. Once married, Gianni, who becomes jealous over the provocative marketing for her film, categorically states that he doesn't want her involved with it anymore. He makes her the star of a new version of the trial of Joan of Arc, with Gia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannequins Of Paris
''Mannequins of Paris'' (French: ''Mannequins de Paris'') is a 1956 French drama film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Madeleine Robinson, Ivan Desny and Mischa Auer.Bessy, p. 91 It is set in the world of high fashion. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. It was shot in Technicolor with location shooting in Paris, Cannes and Rome. Synopsis Promising artist Pierre gives up his career to help design styles for his wife Véronique's successful fashion house in Paris. Feeling neglected by her obsession with the business, he has an affair during a trip to Cannes to present the new collection and falls in love with an attractive singer. Cast * Madeleine Robinson as Véronique Lanier * Ivan Desny as Pierre Lanier * Mischa Auer as Yaschlik * Jacqueline Pierreux as Pearl * Max Révol as Max * Georges Chamarat as Boris Rabinowsky * Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Gabrielle * Marie-Hélène Arnaud as Josette * Ghislaine Arsac as Wanda * Jacqueline Huet a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballerina (1956 Film)
''Ballerina'' or ''Roses for Bettina'' () is a 1956 West German drama film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Willy Birgel, Elisabeth Müller and Ivan Desny.Rentschler p.234 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger. Cast * Willy Birgel as Professor Förster * Elisabeth Müller as Bettina Sanden * Ivan Desny as Kostja Tomkoff, Choreograph * Eva Kerbler as Irene Gerwig * Leonard Steckel as Opernintendant * Carl Wery as Dr. Brinkmann * Hermann Speelmans as Kalborn * Erich Ponto as Schimanski, Pförtner * Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ... as Jazzmusiker References Bibliography * Rentschler, Eric. ''The Films of G.W. Pabst: An Extraterritorial Cinema''. Rutger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Montès
''Lola Montès'' is a 1955 historical romance film, and the last completed film of German-born director Max Ophüls. Based on the novel ''La vie extraordinaire de Lola Montès'' by Cécil Saint-Laurent, the film depicts the life of Irish dancer and courtesan Lola Montez (1821–1861), portrayed by Martine Carol, and tells the story of the most famous of her many notorious affairs, those with Franz Liszt and Ludwig I of Bavaria. A co-production between France and West Germany, the dialogue is mostly in French and German, with a few English-language sequences. The most expensive European film produced up to its time, ''Lola Montès'' underperformed at the box office, but it had an important artistic influence on the French New Wave cinema movement, and continues to have many distinguished critical admirers. Heavily re-edited (multiple times) and shortened after its initial release for commercial reasons, it has been twice restored (in 1968 and 2008). The film was released on DVD a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Girl Without Boundaries
''A Girl Without Boundaries'' (German: ''Mädchen ohne Grenzen'') is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Géza von Radványi and starring Sonja Ziemann, Ivan Desny and Barbara Rütting. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Athens, Fürstenfeldbruck and Munich-Riem Airport. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Sohnle and Gottfried Will. Synopsis A stewardess falls in love with a passenger, an industrialist, while on a trip to Athens. He proposes to her but she discovers that he already has a wife and child. Cast * Sonja Ziemann as Helga Gruber * Ivan Desny as Eric Johnson * Barbara Rütting as Maria Johnson * Claus Biederstaedt as Georg Hartman * Maria Sebaldt as Lissy Wedekind * Michael Janisch as Olaf Haagerlund * Ginette Pigeon as Marion * Louis de Funès * Gabrielle Steffan * Rolf von Nauckhoff Rolf von Nauckhoff (1909–1968) was a Swedish film actor who worked mainly in Germany.World Filmography: 1967 p.152 Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunja (film)
''Dunja'' is a 1955 Austrian film, Austrian historical film, historical drama film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Eva Bartok, Karlheinz Böhm, Ivan Desny and Walter Richter.Fritsche p.254 It is an adaptation of the shorty story ''The Belkin Tales#The Station Master, The Station Master'' by Alexander Pushkin, which had previously been made into the 1940 film ''Der Postmeister'' by Gustav Ucicky. It was shot at the Sievering Studios, Sievering and Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna and location shooting, on location in Burgenland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Maurischat. Cast * Eva Bartok as Dunja * Ivan Desny as Minski * Karlheinz Böhm as Mitja * Walter Richter as Postmeister * Maria Litto as Mascha * Eva Zilcher as Elisabeth * Otto Wögerer as Serjej * Hanns Ernst Jäger, Ernst Jäger as Oseip * Lotte Medelsky as alte Frau * Waldemar Leitgeb as Fürst Wlow * Hannes Schiel as Alexej * Bruno Dallansky as Pjotr * Otto Schenk as Sascha * Ernst Meis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André And Ursula
''André and Ursula'' is a 1955 Cinema of Germany, West German drama film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Ivan Desny, Elisabeth Müller and Ina Peters.Bock & Bergfelder p.84 It was based on the 1937 novel of the same title by Polly Maria Höfler. The film updates the book's storyline from the First World War, First to the Second World War. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Bi and Bruno Monden. Cast * Ivan Desny as André Duval * Elisabeth Müller as Ursula Hartmann * Walter Clemens (actor), Walter Clemens as Gaston Duval / Andrés Bruder * Ina Peters as Mimi Duval – Andrés Schwester * Mária Tasnádi Fekete as Angéle Senard – Andrés Tante * Denise Cormand as Jeanne Boulier * Ulrich Bettac as Père Dominique – Pater * Hans Henn (actor), Hans Henn as Henri * Hans von Morhart as Pächter Boulier – Jeannes Vater * Ernst Stankovski as Wendelin * Dieter Wieland as Georg * Ingmar Zeisberg as Nora * Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frou-Frou
''Frou-Frou'', is a French comedy film from 1955, directed by Augusto Genina, written by A. E. Carr, starring Dany Robin and Louis de Funès. The film is also known as "A Girl from Paris". Plot Frou-Frou is a 16-year-old peddler. She comes to the attention of four gentlemen who, Pygmalion-like, agree on helping her to improve her situation. They teach her to behave like a lady and introduce her to the upper class. But she falls in love with an unsuccessful artist who commits suicide after he has befathered her with a daughter... Cast * Dany Robin as Antoinette Dubois called "Frou-Frou" * Louis de Funès as Colonel Cousinet-Duval, one of Frou-Frou's mentors * Gino Cervi as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky, one of Frou-Frou's mentors * Philippe Lemaire as Michel Arthus, the young painter * Ivan Desny as Henri de Gaspard, Frou-Frou's first lover * Mischa Auer as Grand duke Alexis * Jean Wall as Jean Sabatier, one of Frou-Frou's mentors * Umberto Menalti as Count Sigismond Meursault, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Of Life And Death
''Master of Life and Death'' (German: ''Herr über Leben und Tod'') is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Maria Schell, Ivan Desny and Wilhelm Borchert. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin and on location around the city and in Brittany. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter. It is based on the 1938 novel of the same title by Carl Zuckmayer.Goble p.796 Synopsis Barbara is married to the distinguished professor of medicine Georg Bertram who once saved her father's life. When they have a mentally handicapped child together his clinical coldness comes to the fore and he wants to commit euthanasia on the child. She stops him and takes the child away to Brittany in the hope that a change of location and nursing will help them to improve. While there she encounters a much more sympathetic doctor. Cast * Maria Schell as Barbara Bertram, geb. Hansen * Ivan Desny as Dr. Daniel Karentis * Wilh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Plague (1954 Film)
''The Golden Plague'' () is a 1954 West German drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Ivan Desny, Karlheinz Böhm, and Gertrud Kückelmann. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Bütow. Location shooting took place in Dotzheim and Kaiserslautern. Plot Ivan Desny plays a disillusioned exile returning to Germany from the United States. The film centers around drug trafficking and the black market. Cast *Ivan Desny as Sergeant Hartwig *Karlheinz Böhm as Karl Hellmer *Gertrud Kückelmann as Franziska Hellmer * Wilfried Seyferth as Wenzeslaw Kolowrat *Elise Aulinger as Johanna Neureither * Heinz Hilpert as Tonder * Ilse Fürstenberg as Mrs. Försterling * Erich Ponto as Dr. Sierich *Alexander Golling as Hamann * Ethel Reschke as Lola *Joachim Rake as Captain Tyler Reception Award nominations *Karlheinz Böhm was nominated for the 1955 Bambi Award best German actor * Erich Ponto was nominated for the 1955 German Film Awards The German Film Award (), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confession Under Four Eyes
''Confession Under Four Eyes'' (German: ''Geständnis unter vier Augen'') is a 1954 West German crime drama film directed by André Michel and starring Hildegard Knef, Carl Raddatz and Ivan Desny.Broadbent & Hake p.123 It was shot at Göttingen Studios and on location in Hamburg and a displaced persons camp near Nuremberg in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Paul Markwitz. Cast * Hildegard Knef as Hilde Schaumburg-Garden * Carl Raddatz as Dr. Frigge * Ivan Desny Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitsky; , 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a French actor of Russian Chinese origin. He had a lengthy career in French and German cinema, appearing in over 200 film and television roles over 50 year ... as Gregor Marmara * Werner Hinz as Jorga * Franz Schafheitlin as Chef Director, Dr. Kopp * Stanislav Ledinek as Carol * Ursula Grabley as Reporter * Hans Christian Blech as Tscheche References Bibliography * Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |