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Joseph Delmont
Joseph Delmont (8 May 1873 as Josef Pollak in Loiwein, Austria – 12 March 1935 in Píšťany, Slovakia) was an Austrian film director of some 200 films, largely shorts, in which he was noted for his innovative use of beasts of prey. He was also a cameraman, actor and screenplay writer. During later life he was active as an author. Life Delmont was born in 1873 as one of 16 children of Moses (later Maximilian) Pollak and Resi (or Rösi, later Theresia) née Fuchs, in Loywein, Lower Austria (Austria). He grew up as a performer, latterly a trapeze artist, in a travelling circus. After training as a metal worker, he re-joined the circus as an animal trainer and lion tamer, in which capacity he traveled the world. In 1901 he visited the United States, and stayed there in order to work as a manager of an animal business. After visiting several shows of the new medium of film and becoming interested in it, Delmont started to make his own films in 1903 for the film production c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Nivelli
Max Nivelli (January 1, 1878 - February 27, 1926) was a film producer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic era. He was among the first to examine the issues of anti-Semitism and prejudice in his films. Nivelli died at an early age (48) and worked in the film industry for less than 10 years, yet he produced 19 films, most of them full-length feature films. As most films of that era, his films were silent, black-and-white and shot on celluloid. Only his last film - "Unity, Justice and Freedom", has so far been found, restored and digitized. Early life Max Nivelli was born as Menachem (Mendel) Lewin in Kuźnica,Berlin State Archive - "Landesarchive Berlin" - Rep. 805, Nr. 517 - Marriage Certificate of Mendel Lewin & Helena Kaufmann a town on the eastern border of Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. His parents, Shmuel and Tsippa Lewin, were candy manufacturers. As a young man he emigrated to Berlin and between the years 1903-1911 he became the owner and partner in several comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maharaja's Victory
''The Maharaja's Victory'' (german: Der Sieg des Maharadscha) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Joseph Delmont and starring Luciano Albertini, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Wilhelm Diegelmann.Krautz p. 383 The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann. Cast * Luciano Albertini * Erich Kaiser-Titz * Wilhelm Diegelmann Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor. Career Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, Wil ... * Lili Dominici * Rolf Müller References Bibliography * Alfred Krautz. ''International directory of cinematographers, set- and costume designers in film, Volume 4''. Saur, 1984. External links * 1923 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Joseph Delmont German black-and-white films Phoebus Film films 1920s German films {{1920s-Germany-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Of Steel (1922 Film)
''Der Mann aus Stahl'' () is a 1922 German silent drama film directed by Joseph Delmont and starring Luciano Albertini, Wilhelm Diegelmann and Carola Toelle. Cast * Luciano Albertini *Wilhelm Diegelmann * Carola Toelle * Hermann Vallentin *Magnus Stifter Magnus Stifter (23 January 1878 – 8 September 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in 85 films between 1914 and 1941. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), and died in Vienna, Austria. Selected filmogr ... * Fritz Schulz * Robert Leffler *Rudolf del Zopp References External links * Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Joseph Delmont German silent feature films German black-and-white films 1922 drama films German drama films Silent drama films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{Germany-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Récamier (1920 Film)
''Madame Récamier'' is a 1920 German silent historical film directed by Joseph Delmont and starring Fern Andra, Bernd Aldor and Albert Steinrück.Klossner p.234 The film portrays the life of Juliette Récamier, a French society figure of the Napoleonic Era. Cast * Fern Andra as Madame Récamier * Bernd Aldor as Talma * Albert Steinrück * Ferdinand von Alten as Napoleon Bonaparte * Johanna Mund as Joséphine de Beauharnais * Viktor Senger as Pierre Bernard * Else Wasa as Marie * Rudolf Lettinger as Jacques Récamier * Hermann Böttcher as Fouche * Adolf E. Licho as Robert * Emil Rameau Emil Rameau (born Emil Pulvermacher; 13 August 1878 – 9 September 1957) was a German film and theatre actor, and for many years the deputy artistic director at the Schiller Theater. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1915 and 1949. Lif ... as Dufrand * Walter Formes as Graf Artois * Doris Schlegel as Blanche * Boris Michailow as Constand References Bibliograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Sexes (1920 Film)
''Battle of the Sexes'' (german: Der Kampf der Geschlechter) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Joseph Delmont and starring Paul Hartmann, Eduard von Winterstein Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim (1 August 1871 – 22 July 1961), known as Eduard von Winterstein, was an Austrian-German film actor who appeared in over one hundred fifty German films during the silent and sound eras. He was ... and Eva Everth.Bock & Bergfelder p. 535 Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1920 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Joseph Delmont German black-and-white films 1920s German films {{1920s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Otto Löwenstein
Hans Otto Löwenstein (1881–1931) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter of the silent era.Zipes p.169 Selected filmography * ''Emperor Charles'' (1921) * '' The Ragpicker of Paris'' (1922) * '' Modern Marriages'' (1924) * ''Colonel Redl'' (1925) * '' Kissing Is No Sin'' (1926) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1926) * ''The Life of Beethoven ''The Life of Beethoven'' (German: ''Das Leben des Beethoven'') is a 1927 Austrian silent drama film directed by Hans Otto and starring Fritz Kortner, Heinz Altringen and Ernst Baumeister.''Wagner and Cinema'', p. 82 Cast * Fritz Kortner as ...'' (1927) * '' Madame Dares an Escapade'' (1927) * '' Endangered Girls'' (1928) References Bibliography * Zipes, Jack. ''The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films''. Routledge, 2011. External links * 1881 births 1931 deaths Austrian film directors Austrian male screenwriters 20th-century Austrian screenwriters 20th-century Austrian male writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the technological singularity, singularity. Science fiction List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction, predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many #Subgenres, sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half the country's million people. Panama was inhabited by indigenous tribes before Spanish colonists arrived in the 16th century. It broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia, a union of Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela. After Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada eventually became the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the construction of the Panama Canal to be completed by the United States Army Corps of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartacist Uprising
The Spartacist uprising (German: ), also known as the January uprising (), was a general strike and the accompanying armed struggles that took place in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919. It occurred in connection with the November Revolution that broke out following Germany's defeat in World War I. The uprising was primarily a power struggle between the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) led by Friedrich Ebert, which favored a social democracy Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to prom ..., and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, which wanted to set up a council republic similar to the one established by the Bolsheviks in Russia. In 1914 Liebknecht and Luxemburg had founded the Marxism, Marxist Spartacus League (), which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolshevism
Bolshevism (from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Marxist–Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power and establishing the "dictatorship of the proletariat". Alexander TarasovThe Sacred Function of the Revolutionary Subject/ref> Bolshevism originated at the beginning of the 20th century in Russia and was associated with the activities of the Bolshevik faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party – and first of all, the founder of the faction, Vladimir Lenin. Remaining on the soil of Marxism, Bolshevism at the same time absorbed elements of the ideology and practice of the revolutionaries of the second half of the 19th century ( Sergey Nechaev, Pyotr Tkachev, Nikolay Chernyshevsky) and had many points of contact with such domestic left–wing radic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Glass
Max Glass (12 June 1881 – 18 July 1965) was an Austrian screenwriter, film director, and producer. Glass was born in Jaroslau, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a Jewish family, but later converted to Catholicism. He gained a PHD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Glass entered the German film industry as a writer, but soon became a producer. By the mid-1920s he rose to be head of production at Terra Film before breaking away to set up his own production company in 1928 Glass' lover the actress Ruth Werner appeared in a number of his films but was unable to marry him until he had secured a divorce from his first wife, Dr. Helene Münz (married 1908–1957), with whom he had two sons, Paul Glass (born 1910) and Georges Glass (born 19 October 1917, Vienna). Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germany in 1933, Glass' production companies were shut down and he was forced to go into exile in France. Glass again worked as a producer, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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