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Karl-Otto Alberty
Karl-Otto Alberty (also Karl Otto Alberty, 13 November 1933 – 25 April 2015) was a German actor. He was variously credited as ''Charles Albert'', ''Charles Alberty'' and ''Carlo Alberti''. Career Alberty was born as ''Karl-Otto Poensgen'' in Berlin on 13 November 1933. He started out as an amateur boxer before discovering a talent for acting, making his début at the City Theatre in Konstanz in 1959. He then began to take supporting roles in films. He made his first appearance in English language films as an SD officer (who captures Richard Attenborough) in '' The Great Escape'' (1963). With his broad face, broken nose and distinctive white-blond hair, he would go on to play variations of the role of German officers in a series of films, notably ''Battle of the Bulge'' (1965), Andrew V. McLaglen's '' The Devil's Brigade'' (1968), Luchino Visconti's '' The Damned'' (1969), and as a Waffen-SS tank commander of a Tiger I tank from the 1st SS Panzer Division LSSAH in ''Kelly's H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by 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 4.6 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 region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House In Karp Lane
''The House in Karp Lane'' () is a 1965 West German drama film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Jana Brejchová, Edith Schultze-Westrum and Wolfgang Kieling. It portrays the Jewish residents of a Prague boarding house during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. While the film received several awards, it was a major commercial failure.Bock & Bergfelder p.207 Hoffmann then returned to directing the comedies he was better known for. The film was shot at the Barrandov Studios Barrandov Studios is a set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe. Barrandov has made several major Hollywood productions, including ''Mission: Impossible (film), ... in Prague, and on location around the city. Cast References Bibliography * Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1965 films 1965 drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
''Slaughterhouse-Five'' is a 1972 American comedy-drama military science fiction film directed by George Roy Hill and produced by Paul Monash, from a screenplay by Stephen Geller, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. The film stars Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim, who is "unstuck in time" and has no control over where he is going next. It also stars Ron Leibman as Paul Lazzaro and Valerie Perrine as Montana Wildhack. ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' premiered at the 25th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. The film also won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the inaugural Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. Sacks was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male for his portrayal of Pilgrim. Vonnegut wrote about the film soon after its release, in his preface to '' Between Time and Timbuktu'': "I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On Rommel
''Raid on Rommel'' is a 1971 American war film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Danielle De Metz and Wolfgang Preiss. The film centers on a British commando attempting to destroy German gun emplacements in Tobruk. Originally intended as a made-for-television film, ''Raid on Rommel'' extensively reuses action footage from 1967's ''Tobruk (1967 film), Tobruk'', and the storyline is also largely the same. The film was released by Universal Pictures on February 12, 1971, and was both a critical and commercial failure. Plot In Libya in 1942, Captain Alex Foster, an intelligence officer with the British Army, allows himself to be captured by a German Afrika Korps convoy transporting British prisoners, pretending to be injured. Once integrated with the prisoners, consisting of a medical unit and remnants of a commando force, Foster outlines his plans to take over the convoy, with the help of the prisoners, and redirect it towards the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lickerish Quartet
''The Lickerish Quartet'' (Italian: ''Esotika Erotika Psicotika''; also known as ''The Licorice Quartet, Erotic Quartet'' and ''Sex Quartet'') is a 1970 erotic drama film produced and directed by Radley Metzger and starring Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg and Paolo Turco. It was written by Metzger and Michael DeForrest. Plot In their castle, a wealthy couple watch an erotic movie with their adult son. Later that evening, at a local carnival, they spot a woman who appears to be one of the performers in the film, and decide to take her home with them. Although a subsequent viewing of the film calls the woman's identity into question, their house guest quickly succeeds in seducing the various members of the family, resulting in the revelation of certain facts, fears and desires. Cast * Silvana Venturelli as the visitor * Frank Wolff as Castle owner * Erika Remberg as the wife * Paolo Turco as the son Production It was filmed in Italian and later dubbed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great White Hope (film)
''The Great White Hope'' is a 1970 American biographical romantic drama film written and adapted from the 1967 Howard Sackler play of the same name. The film was directed by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Beah Richards and Moses Gunn. Jones and Alexander, who also appeared in the same roles in the stage versions, received Best Actor and Actress Academy Award nominations for their performances. The film and play is based on the true story of boxer Jack Johnson and his first wife, Etta Terry Duryea, and the controversy over their marriage and Duryea's death by suicide in 1912. Plot Set between 1910 and 1915, the story follows Jack Jefferson, patterned after real-life boxer Jack Johnson, going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and others who want to see white people win at sports, announce the search for a "great white hope", a white boxer who will def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Of Santa Vittoria
''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'' is a 1969 American war film distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and co-produced by George Glass from a screenplay by Ben Maddow and William Rose. It was based on the best-selling 1966 novel by Robert Crichton. The music score was by Ernest Gold and the cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno. The film stars Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger, and Sergio Franchi. It also features Renato Rascel, Giancarlo Giannini, and Eduardo Ciannelli; with Valentina Cortese making an uncredited appearance. It was shot almost entirely on location in Anticoli Corrado, Italy (near Rome). Plot The story is set during World War II in the summer of 1943, immediately after the fall of Italy's Fascist government under Benito Mussolini, when the German army moved to occupy most of the country. The only substantial source of income for the little hill town of Santa Vittoria is its wine. The townsfol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Help Me, My Love
''Help Me, My Love'' () is a 1969 Commedia all'italiana film written, directed and starred by Alberto Sordi. Plot Giovanni and Raffaella have been happily married for ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she met at the chamber music concerts she attends weekly with her mother. Cast * Alberto Sordi as Giovanni Machiavelli * Monica Vitti as Raffaella * Silvano Tranquilli as Valerio Mantovani * Laura Adani as Elena * Ugo Gregoretti as Michele Parodi * Mariolina Cannuli as Danila Parodi * Nestor Garay as Father Bardella * Karl-Otto Alberty Karl-Otto Alberty (also Karl Otto Alberty, 13 November 1933 – 25 April 2015) was a German actor. He was variously credited as ''Charles Albert'', ''Charles Alberty'' and ''Carlo Alberti''. Career Alberty was born as ''Karl-Otto Poensgen'' in Be ... as Bauer Reception Sordi and Vitti were the previous season's biggest box office stars in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Jeschonnek
Hans Jeschonnek (9 April 1899 – 18 August 1943) was a German military aviator in the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' during World War I, a general staff officer in the ''Reichswehr'' in the inter–war period and ''Generaloberst'' (Colonel-General) and a Chief of the General Staff (Germany), Chief of the General Staff in the Luftwaffe, the aerial warfare branch of the ''Wehrmacht'' during World War II. He was born in 1899 and joined the military as a cadet in 1909. Trained as an officer at a military academy, he was granted his commission in 1914 and served in the infantry on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front. In 1916 he transferred to the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' and trained as a fighter pilot. Jeschonnek shot down two enemy aircraft by the time of the German defeat in November 1918, earning the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class. Jeschonnek remained in the military, joining the ''Reichswehr'', the Weimar Republic armed forces. He fought in the Silesian Uprisings in 1919 and then se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Reeperbahn At Half Past Midnight (1969 Film)
''On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight'' () is a 1969 West German drama film directed by Rolf Olsen and Al Adamson and starring Curd Jürgens, Heinz Reincke, and Jutta D'Arcy. It takes its title from a popular 1912 song of the same name about Hamburg, the setting of the film. It is also known by the alternative title An alternative title is a media sales device most prominently used in film distribution. Books and films are commonly released under a different title when they are screened or sold in a different country. This can vary from small change to the ... ''Shock Treatment''. The film is a remake of '' On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight'' (1954). Main cast References Bibliography * External links * 1969 films 1969 crime drama films German crime drama films West German films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Rolf Olsen Films set in Hamburg Remakes of German films 1960s German films Films scored by Erwin Halletz German-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midas Run
''Midas Run'' (UK title ''A Run on Gold'') is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Alf Kjellin and starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood and, in one of his final big-screen roles, Fred Astaire. It was shot at the Tirrenia Studios in Tuscany. Location shooting took place in London, Venice, Milan and Rome. Plot Pedley, retiring from the British Secret Service, can't understand why he hasn't yet been knighted. He devises an elaborate heist of an airplane cargo, recruiting Mike Warden, a writer from America, although his real aim is to capture the elusive General Ferranti. Warden travels to Italy to assume control of the scheme along with Pedley's accomplice Sylvia Giroux, with whom he soon falls in love. They are arrested, but Pedley comes to their rescue just in time. Cast * Richard Crenna as Mike Warden * Anne Heywood as Sylvia Giroux * Fred Astaire as John Pedley * Ralph Richardson as Lord Henshaw * Cesar Romero as Carlo Dodero * Adolfo Celi as General Ferranti * Maurice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Odyssey (1968 Miniseries)
''The Odyssey'' () is an eight-episode European TV miniseries broadcast on RAI in 1968 and based on Homer's ''Odyssey''. It is a Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française coproduction, it was directed by Franco Rossi (director), Franco Rossi, assisted by Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava; the cast includes Bekim Fehmiu as Odysseus and Irene Papas as Penelope, Samson Burke as the Cyclops, as well as Barbara Bach as Nausicaa, and Gérard Herter. Plot First episode: Telemaco and Penelope Athena arrives in Ithaca to make sure that Ulysses' return is pleasant, although welcomed with respect by Telemachus, Mentes discovers that the palace of the king of Ithaca is besieged by numerous nobles of the region, the Suitors of Penelope, suitors, who wait for Queen Penelope to decide to take a new husband between them, supposing that Ulysses died since twenty years have passed since his departure for Troy, looting without reserve the cellar and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
