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Night Of Decision
''Night of Decision'' (german: Nacht der Entscheidung) is a 1956 West German drama film directed by Falk Harnack and starring Carl Raddatz, Hilde Krahl and Albert Lieven.Bock & Bergfelder p. 383 It was shot at Göttingen Studios and on location in Belgium. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Walter Haag. Synopsis After ten years as a prisoner in Siberia, a Belgian industrialist returns home to find that he has been declared dead and his wife has remarried. Cast * Carl Raddatz as René Dobersin * Hilde Krahl as Claire Vernon * Albert Lieven as Albert Vernon * Ernst Schröder as Jacques Ardent * Gisela Tantau as Monique Dobersin * Harry Meyen as Philip Ardent * Alfred Schieske as André * Joseph Offenbach as Smozik * Hans Hessling as Jules * Fritz Rémond Jr. as Professor Mareau * Maria Sebaldt as Penny * Paul Günther as Matthieu * Gerd E. Schäfer as Piet van Hoek * Karl Meixner as Francois * Rudolf Kalvius as Dr. Fabre * Alwin Woesthoff Alwin is a Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falk Harnack
Falk Harnack (2 March 1913 – 3 September 1991) was a German director and screenwriter. During Germany's Nazi era, he was also active with the German Resistance and toward the end of World War II, the partisans in Greece. Harnack was from a family of scholars, artists and scientists, several of whom were active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and paid with their lives. Early years Falk Erich Walter Harnack was the younger son of painter Clara Harnack (née Reichau) and literary historian Otto Harnack; a nephew of theologian Adolf von Harnack and Erich Harnack, professor of pharmacology and chemistry; the grandson of theologian Theodosius Harnack and the younger brother of jurist and German Resistance fighter Arvid Harnack. He was also a cousin of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ernst von Harnack, who, like his brother and sister-in-law, Mildred Harnack, also became victims of the Third Reich. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Haag
Walter Haag (1898–1978) was a German art director. He worked on more than sixty films during his career including the 1940 historical melodrama ''The Heart of a Queen''.Hull p.179-80 Selected filmography * '' The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * '' The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1936) * '' When the Cock Crows'' (1936) * ''The Heart of a Queen'' (1940) * '' The Gasman'' (1941) * '' Wedding in Barenhof'' (1942) * '' The Great Love'' (1942) * '' Between Heaven and Earth'' (1942) * '' Back Then'' (1943) * '' Keepers of the Night'' (1949) * '' Amico'' (1949) * ''My Niece Susanne'' (1950) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1950) * '' Doctor Praetorius'' (1950) * ''Immortal Beloved'' (1951) * '' The Day Before the Wedding'' (1952) * '' Beloved Life'' (1953) * '' The Blue Hour'' (1953) * ''His Royal Highness'' (1953) * ''She'' (1954) * ''Mamitschka'' (1955) * ''Night of Decision'' (1956) * '' The Glass Tower'' (1957) * '' King in Shadow'' (1957) * '' A Woman Who Knows What She Wants'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Meixner
Karl Meixner (13 February 1903 – 29 December 1976) was an Austrian film actor. Partial filmography * '' Frederica'' (1932) * '' The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'' (1933) - Hofmeister * '' Hitlerjunge Quex'' (1933) - Wilde * ''Refugees'' (1933) - Pappel * ''The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * ''Port Arthur'' (1936) * '' Moscow-Shanghai'' (1936) - Pope * ''White Slaves'' (1937) - Der Scharfrichter * ''Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) - Ein Aufwiegler * '' Another World'' (1937) - Li, Carters Diener * ''Starke Herzen'' (1937) - Ein aufständiger Kommunist vom Rollkommando * ''Dance on the Volcano'' (1938) - Aufwiegler (uncredited) * '' So You Don't Know Korff Yet?'' (1938) - Timor * ''Pour le Mérite'' (1938) - Führer einer Kommunistenhorde * ''The Governor'' (1939) - Diener bei Dr. Erko * '' Bismarck'' (1940) - Loewe * ' (1940) - Michel - Künstler * ''Carl Peters'' (1941) * ''Leichte Muse'' (1941) * ''Wetterleuchten um Barbara'' (1941) * ''Geheimakte W.B.1'' (1942) - Senator * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerd E
Gerd or GERD may refer to: * Gerd (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname * Gerd (moon), a moon of Saturn * Gerd Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica * Gastroesophageal reflux disease, a chronic symptom of mucosal damage caused by stomach acid coming up from the stomach into the esophagus * Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia Fictional and mythological figures * Gerðr, sometimes modernly anglicized as ''Gerd'' or Gerth, the wife of the Norse god Freyr * Gerd Frentzen, in the Japanese anime ''Blassreiter'' See also * Gird (other) The Moscow-based Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (also 'Group for the Investigation of Reactive Engines and Reactive Flight' and 'Jet Propulsion Study Group') (russian: Группа изучения реактивного движения, ... * Gurd (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Günther (actor)
Paul Günther (24 October 1882 – 13 February 1959) was a German diver who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the 3 m springboard event. In the plain high diving he competed in the final, but did not finish, so he became eighth. In 1988 he was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum (ISHOF) is a history museum and hall of fame, located at One Hall of Fame Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, operated by private interests and serving as the central point for the st .... See also * List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame References 1882 births 1959 deaths German male divers Divers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic divers of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in diving Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Hanover 20th-century German people {{Germany-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Sebaldt
Maria Katharina Helene Sebaldt (26 April 1930 in Berlin-Steglitz) is a German actress. Life The daughter of a department head of the Paramount film distribution company took private acting lessons from 1946 to 1949 and passed an acting examination in 1951. As early as 1947 she made her stage debut in Sondershausen as ''Edeltraud Panse'' in Maximilian Böttcher's ''Krach im Hinterhaus''. Numerous theater engagements followed, among others in Sondershausen, Berlin (Renaissance Theater, Theater Club British Center) and Munich. From 1965 until his death in 2010, Maria Sebaldt was married to her colleague Robert Freitag. Together with Freitag's first wife, the actress Maria Becker, she created the cookbook ''Eat and Drink and Be Happy'' in 1997, ''Favorite dishes from Maria Becker & Maria Sebaldt''. Maria Sebaldt has a daughter, Katharina Freitag, and a grandson. Film In 1953, Sebaldt made her film debut alongside Rudolf Prack in ''When Village Music Plays on Sunday Evening''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Rémond Jr
Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as well as for similar names including Fridolin and, less commonly, Francis. Fritz (Fryc) was also a name given to German troops by the Entente powers equivalent to the derogative Tommy. Other common bases for which the name Fritz was used include the surnames Fritsche, Fritzsche, Fritsch, Frisch(e) and Frycz. Below is a list of notable people with the name "Fritz." Surname * Amanda Fritz (born 1958), retired registered psychiatric nurse and politician from Oregon * Al Fritz (1924–2013), American businessman * Ben Fritz (born 1981), American baseball coach * Betty Jane Fritz (1924–1994), one of the original players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League *Clemens Fritz (born 1980), German footballer *Edmund Fritz (before 1918–after 1932), Austrian actor, film dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Hessling
Hans Oskar Richard Hessling (March 22, 1903 – February 24, 1995) was a German film and television actor. Selected filmography * ''Joan of Arc'' (1935) * '' Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * '' The Heart of a Queen'' (1940) * '' Corinna Schmidt'' (1951) * '' Have Sunshine in Your Heart'' (1953) * '' Before God and Man'' (1955) * '' Night of Decision'' (1956) * '' The Night of the Storm'' (1957) * ''The Buddenbrooks'' (1959) * ''Sacred Waters'' (1960) * ''The Last Pedestrian ''The Last Pedestrian'' (german: Der letzte Fussgänger) is a 1960 West German comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Heinz Erhardt, Christine Kaufmann and Käthe Haack. It was shot at the Göttingen Studios. The film's set's w ...'' (1960) * '' Max the Pickpocket'' (1962) * '' The Priest of St. Pauli'' (1970) References External links * 1903 births 1995 deaths German male film actors German male television actors Male actors from Munich 20th-century German male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Offenbach
Joseph Offenbach (born ''Joseph Ziegler''; 28 December 1904 – 15 October 1971) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 1969. Selected filmography References External links * * 1904 births 1971 deaths German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Schieske
Alfred Schieske (6 September 1908 – 14 July 1970) was a German actor. Career Schieske was born in Stuttgart, the son of a German father and a French mother. He studied acting with Willy Reichert made his stage debut at the Staatstheater Stuttgart at the age of 19. Afterward, he played in Heidelberg, Esslingen and Bochum. In 1940, he joined the Berlin Staatstheater, led by Gustaf Gründgens.Biography and photo After , Schieske first went to |
Harry Meyen
Harry Meyen (born Harald Haubenstock; 31 August 1924 – 15 April 1979) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films and television productions between 1948 and 1975. In the 1960s he also worked as a theatre director in West Germany. Personal life Meyen was born in Hamburg, the son of a Jewish merchant who was deported to a concentration camp during the Nazi regime. The 18-year-old Meyen himself was incarcerated as a ''Mischling'' and survived the Neuengamme concentration camp. After the war, he began his career with Willy Maertens at the Hamburg Thalia Theater. From 1952 he performed at the Theater Aachen and from 1955 moved to Berlin. Also starring in films directed by Helmut Käutner, Falk Harnack and Wolfgang Staudte, he played the role of a young ''Luftwaffe'' officer in the 1955 movie ''Des Teufels General'' side by side with Curd Jürgens. He also worked as a dubbing actor giving his voice to Dirk Bogarde, Robert Mitchum, Michel Piccoli, Peter Seller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Tantau
Gisela is the name of: People Full name * Gisela, Abbess of Chelles (757–810), daughter of Pepin the Short, sister of Charlemagne ** Gisela, daughter of Charlemagne (781–808) * Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious (born 821), consort of Eberhard of Friuli * Gisela of France, also Gisella or Giséle (fl. 911), traditionally, a daughter to the king of France, Charles the Simple and a consort of Rollo * Gisela of Burgundy (c. 975 – 21 July 1006), daughter of Conrad, king of Burgundy ** Gisela of Hungary (c. 985 - 7 May 1065), her daughter * Gisela of Swabia (989 or 990 – 14 February 1043), Holy Roman Empress, wife of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor * Archduchess Gisela of Austria (12 July 1856 – 27 July 1932), daughter to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, named after Giselle of Bavaria * Gisela (singer) (born January 1, 1979), a Spanish singer Given name * Gisela (name) Other * Gisela, Arizona, a US census-designated place * Gisela (magazine) {{disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |