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Luther (1928 Film)
''Luther'' is a 1928 Germany, German film about the life of Martin Luther, father of the Protestant Reformation. The silent film starred Eugen Klöpfer as Luther and Theodor Loos as Philipp Melanchthon, and was written by Berlin Cathedral chaplain Bruno Doehring. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth, Walter Röhrig and Werner Schlichting. It premiered at the UFA-Palast am Zoo. Plot Cast * Eugen Klöpfer as Martin Luther * Rudolf Lettinger as Luther's father * Elsa Wagner as Luther's mother * Livio Pavanelli as Luther's friend Alexius * Arthur Kraußneck as Johann von Staupitz, Staupitz * Karl Platen as Brother Franziskus * Theodor Loos as Philip Melanchthon, Melanchthon * Hermann Vallentin as Andreas Karlstadt, Karlstadt * Karl Elzer as Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, Friedrich the Wise * Werner Schott as John, Elector of Saxony, Johann the Steadfast * Ferdinand von Alten as Karl von Milti ...
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Hans Kyser
Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi actor and singer, son of Hans Raj Hans * Hans clan, a tribal clan in Punjab, Pakistan Places * Hans, Marne, a commune in France * Hans Island, administrated by Greenland and Canada Arts and entertainment * Hans (film), ''Hans'' (film) a 2006 Italian film directed by Louis Nero * Hans (Frozen), the main antagonist of the 2013 Disney animated film ''Frozen'' * Hans (magazine), ''Hans'' (magazine), an Indian Hindi literary monthly * ''Hans'', a comic book drawn by Grzegorz Rosiński and later by Zbigniew Kasprzak Other uses * Clever Hans, the "wonder horse" * ''The Hans India'', an English language newspaper in India * HANS device, a racing car safety device * Hans, the ISO 15924 code for Simplified Chinese characters See also

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Robert Herlth
Robert Herlth (2 May 1893 – 6 January 1962) was a German art director. He was one of the leading designers of German film sets during the 1920s and 1930s.Reimer & Reimer p.146 Filmography * ''Masks'' (1920) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * '' The Secret of Bombay'' (1921) * '' The Devil's Chains'' (1921) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) * '' Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' Parisian Women'' (1921) * '' Miss Julie'' (1922) * '' Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues'' (1922) * '' Luise Millerin'' (1922) * '' The Earl of Essex'' (1922) * '' The Treasure'' (1923) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * '' The Last Laugh'' (1924) * '' The Chronicles of the Gray House'' (1925) * ''Tartuffe'' (1926) * ''Faust'' (1926) * '' Luther'' (1928) * '' Looping the Loop'' (1928) * '' Whirl of Youth'' (1928) * '' Four Devils'' (1928) * ''Asphalt'' (1929) * '' The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * '' Manolescu'' (1929) * '' The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' The Temp ...
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Frederick III, Elector Of Saxony
Frederick III (17 January 1463 – 5 May 1525), also known as Frederick the Wise (German: ''Friedrich der Weise''), was Prince-elector of Electorate of Saxony, Saxony from 1486 to 1525, who is mostly remembered for the protection given to his subject Martin Luther, the seminal figure of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation. Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony, Elisabeth, daughter of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria. He was one of the most powerful early defenders of Martin Luther, as the elector successfully protected him from the Holy Roman Emperor, the Pope and others. He was ostensibly led, not by religious conviction about the possible truth of Luther's propositions, but rather by personal belief in a fair trial for any of his subjects (a privilege guaranteed by the Holy Roman Empire, imperial statutory law) and the rule of law. The prince-elector is considered to have remained a Roman Catholic all his life, ...
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Karl Elzer
Karl Conrad Elzer (2 August 1881 – 30 August 1938) was a German film actor. Elzer was born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and died in Rottach-Egern, Bavaria, Germany at age 57. Selected filmography * '' The Robber Bride'' (1916) * '' The Blue Lantern'' (1918) * '' Bummellotte'' (1922) * '' Maud Rockefeller's Bet'' (1924) * '' Set Me Free'' (1924) * '' Lena Warnstetten'' (1925) * '' The Proud Silence'' (1925) * ''The Humble Man and the Chanteuse'' (1925) * '' Young Blood'' (1926) * '' The Trumpets are Blowing'' (1926) * '' Excluded from the Public'' (1927) * '' Queen Louise'' (1927) * ''Venus in Evening Wear'' (1927) * '' A Girl of the People'' (1927) * '' Luther'' (1928) * '' Morass'' (1928) * '' The Page Boy at the Golden Lion'' (1928) * '' Indizienbeweis'' (1929) * '' Hungarian Nights'' (1929) * ''The Hero of Every Girl's Dream ''The Hero of Every Girl's Dream'' (German: ''Der Held aller Mädchenträume'') is a 1929 German silent film directed by Robert Land and ...
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Andreas Karlstadt
Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt (148624 December 1541), better known as Andreas Karlstadt, Andreas Carlstadt or Karolostadt, in Latin, Carolstadius, or simply as Andreas Bodenstein, was a German Protestant theologian, University of Wittenberg chancellor, a contemporary of Martin Luther and a reformer of the early Reformation. Karlstadt became a close associate of Martin Luther and one of the earliest Protestant Reformers. After Frederick III, Elector of Saxony concealed Luther at the Wartburg (1521–1522), Karlstadt and Thomas Müntzer started the first iconoclastic movement in Wittenberg and preached theology that was viewed as Anabaptist, but Karlstadt and Müntzer never regarded themselves as Anabaptists. Karlstadt operated as a church reformer largely in his own right, and after coming in conflict with Luther, he switched his allegiance from the Lutheran to the Reformed camp, and later became a radical reformer before once again returning to the Reformed t ...
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Hermann Vallentin
Hermann Vallentin (24 May 1872 – 18 September 1945) was a German actor. Biography Hermann Vallentin was born in Berlin in 1872. He was the son of a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner, Felix Vallentin. He was the older brother of actress Rosa Valetti. After training as an actor at the Royal Theatre in Berlin with Max Grube and Hans Oberländer, he received his first engagement at the Central-Theatre in Berlin in the 1895/96 season. In the next few years, appearances on various Berlin stages followed. From 1914, Vallentin was also a film actor. He mostly embodied fatherly figures, patriarchs and directors, but also small-minded philistines. In the 1931 film version of '' Der Hauptmann von Köpenick'', he played the uniform tailor Adolph Wormser. The seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, ended his film career abruptly. In 1933 Vallentin, emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he appeared on German language stages in Ústí and Prague. In 1938 he left for Switzerland and work ...
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Philip Melanchthon
Philip Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and influential designer of educational systems. He stands next to Luther and John Calvin as a reformer, theologian, and shaper of Protestantism. Early life and education He was born Philipp Schwartzerdt on 16 February 1497 at Bretten, where his father Georg Schwarzerdt (1459–1508) was armorer to Philip, Count Palatine of the Rhine. His mother was Barbara Reuter (1476/77-1529). Bretten was burned in 1689 by French troops during the War of the Palatinate Succession. The town's Melanchthonhaus was built on the site of his place of birth in 1897. In 1507 he was sent to the Latin school at Pforzheim, where the rector, Georg Simler of Wimpfen, introduced him to the Latin and Greek poets and to Aristotle. He was in ...
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Karl Platen
Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer of the Silent film, silent era and later the sound era and known for ''Girl in the Moon (film), Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and ''M (1931 film), M'' (1931). Biography Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877, in Halle an der Saale, German Empire, Germany. He died on July 4, 1952, in Weimar, German Democratic Republic at the age of 75. Selected filmography * ''Ein Ausgestoßener'' (1913, part 1) * ''Der Katzensteg'' (1915) - Pfarrer * ''Die Erben des Geizhalses'' (1915) - Pflegesohn von Riedel Hermann * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''Hängezöpfchen'' (1919) - Prof. Hahnensporn * ''Das rosa Strumpfbändchen'' (1919) * ''The Boy in Blue (1919 film), The Boy in Blue'' (1919) - Alter Diener / Old servant * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919, Short) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * ''Madame Du Barry (1919 film), Madame Du Barry'' (1919) - Guillaume Dubarry * ''Der rote Sarafan'' (1919) ...
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Johann Von Staupitz
Johann von Staupitz ( 1460 – 28 December 1524) was a German Catholic priest and theologian, university preacher, and Vicar General of the Augustinian friars in Germany, who supervised Martin Luther during a critical period in his spiritual life. Martin Luther himself remarked, "If it had not been for Dr. Staupitz, I should have sunk in hell." Although he remained Catholic, died as a Benedictine monk and had repudiated the Reformation, he is commemorated on 8 November as a priest in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Biography Johann von Staupitz was born in Motterwitz around 1460. Descended from an old Saxon family of Czech origin (ze Stupic), he matriculated in the year 1485 and was accepted into the Augustinian order of friars in Munich before being posted to Tübingen, where he was eventually promoted to the rank of prior. In 1500, Staupitz was made a Doctor of Theology and in 1503 he was elected to the post of Vicar General of the "Saxon Refor ...
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Arthur Kraußneck
Arthur Kraußneck (born Arthur Carl Gustav Müller; 1856–1941) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' The Doomed'' (1924) * '' My Leopold'' (1924) * '' Chronicles of the Gray House'' (1925) * '' The Mill at Sanssouci'' (1926) * ''The Blue Danube'' (1926) * ''Prinz Louis Ferdinand'' (1927) * '' Dancing Vienna'' (1927) * ''The Girl with the Five Zeros'' (1927) * ''The Weavers The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs from ...'' (1927) * '' Luther'' (1928) Bibliography * Wipfler, Esther. ''Martin Luther in Motion Pictures: History of a Metamorphosis''. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. External links * 1856 births 1941 deaths People from Ozyorsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast People from the Province of Prussia ...
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Livio Pavanelli
Livio Cesare Pavanelli (7 September 1881 – 29 April 1958) was an Italian film actor. Pavanelli was born in Copparo, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died in Rome in 1958 at age 76. Selected filmography * ''Mariute'' (1918) *''Fabiola (1918 film), Fabiola'' (1918) * ''The Cheerful Soul'' (1919) * ''Princess Giorgio'' (1920) * ''The Sack of Rome (film), The Sack of Rome'' (1920) * ''A Woman's Story'' (1920) * ''The Second Wife (1922 film), The Second Wife'' (1922) * ''The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'' (1924) *''Niniche (1925 film), Niniche'' (1925) * ''The Story of Lilian Hawley'' (1925) * ''Chamber Music (film), Chamber Music'' (1925) *''Dancing Mad (film), Dancing Mad'' (1925) * ''My Friend the Chauffeur'' (1926) * ''Unmarried Daughters'' (1926) * ''The Queen of the Baths'' (1926) * ''The Ride in the Sun'' (1926) * ''Kissing Is No Sin (1926 film), Kissing Is No Sin'' (1926) * ''The Laughing Husband'' (1926) * ''Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1926 film), Mademoiselle J ...
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Rudolf Lettinger
Rudolf Lettinger (26 October 1865 in Hamburg – 21 March 1937 in Berlin-Schöneberg) was a German stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1883 when he played the role of Kosinsky in Friedrich Schiller's drama ''The Robbers''. Some of his more prominent roles in his prestigious stage career were ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' and Gessler in ''William Tell''. He also worked with acclaimed stage director Max Reinhardt. In 1912, Lettinger played his first film role in ''Das Geheimnis von Monte Carlo''. Lettinger appeared in over 90 films until 1931, mostly as a supporting actor. His best-known film is perhaps ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920), where Lettinger portrayed Dr. Olsen. Selected filmography * ''Das Geheimnis von Monte Carlo'' (1912) * ''Ein Gruss aus der Tiefe'' (1915) - Vareno Ziehtochter Rawalla * ''Das goldene Friedelchen'' (1916) - Hermann Strecker * ''Irrende Liebe'' (1917) - Carl Coster, ehemaliger Bankdirektor * ''Das Legat'' (1917) - Geldverleiher Rosen * ' ...
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