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Peter Marx (actor)
Peter Marx (1914–1978) was a German stage and film actor.Reimer p.221 He appeared in many films of the state-controlled studio DEFA in East Germany. Selected filmography * '' Free Land'' (1946) * '' Morituri'' (1948) * '' The Orplid Mystery'' (1950) * ''The Last Year'' (1951) * '' Anna Susanna'' (1953) * ''The Goodies The Goodies were a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor (17 July 1940 – 12 April 2020), Graeme Garden (b. 18 February 1943) and Bill Oddie (b. 7 July 1941). The trio created, wrote for and performed in their The Goodies (TV series), ...'' (1959) * '' For Eyes Only'' (1963) References Bibliography * Dieter Reimer. ''DEFA-Stars''. Militzke Verlag, 2004. External links * 1914 births 1978 deaths German male film actors German male stage actors Male actors from Cologne {{Germany-film-actor-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cologne
Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn Region, Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left bank of the Rhine, left (west) bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine (Lower Rhine), about southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany. The city's medieval Cologne Cathedral () was the History of the world's tallest buildings#Churches and cathedrals: Tallest buildings between the 13th and 20th century, world's talles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Year
''The Last Year'' () is a 1951 East German drama film directed by E.W. Fiedler and Hans Heinrich (director), Hans Heinrich and starring Inge Keller, Hans Klering and Hermann Stövesand.Reimer p.21 It was made by the state-controlled DEFA in communist East Germany. Filming took place at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by Wilhelm Depenau and Artur Günther. Cast * Inge Keller as Charly * Hans Klering as Heini Holler * Hermann Stövesand as Ferdinand * Peter Marx as Schorsch * Gustav Püttjer as Gustav * Ralf Siebert as Moses * Gerd Frickhöffer as Blague * Otto Stübler as Konsul * Reinhard Kolldehoff as Kommissar * Lutz Götz as Moulin * Peter Lehmbrock as 1. Heizer * Hans Rose (actor), Hans Rose as 2. Heizer * Werner Pledath as Kapitän * Helmut Bautzmann as Französischer Seemann * Johannes Bergfeldt as Holländischer Seemann * Maria Besendahl as Frau Primm * Albrecht Bethge as Höherer SS-Offizier * Louis Brody * Friedrich Wilhelm Dann as Englisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Male Film Actors
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1978 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Somoza's government. * January 13 – Former American Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany '' persona non grata''. * January 24 ** Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Births
This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Events January * January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure. * January 11 **The Sakurajima volcano in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Eyes Only
''For Eyes Only '' (alternatively ''Streng Geheim'' (''Top Secret'')) is an East German espionage film. It was released in 1963. Plot In 1961, Hansen has seemingly escaped from East Germany and now works for an American company called Concordia in West Germany. Hansen is actually an agent of the Stasi, and Concordia is the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Division in Germany, from which countless saboteurs and spies have been sent over the border to wreak havoc in East Germany. The United States plans to invade the country, after staging an internal uprising as a provocation to intervene. The plans are held by Collins, Hansen's superior. The latter intends to steal them, but has to evade the suspicions of security officer Rocker, who knows there is a leak. Hansen is assisted by his chauffeur, František, who has uncovered his covert identity but intends to help him, in order to return to his homeland Czechoslovakia. The two manage to steal the safe with the invasion plans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goodies (1959 Film)
''Musterknaben'' (''Role Models''; English-language title: ''The Goodies''; also known as ''Das Beschwerdebuch or Alles aus Liebe'') is an East German romantic comedy film, directed by Johannes Knittel. It was originally released in the GDR in 1959 and again in Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ... in 1960. Plot Bassi and Edwin are the two laziest, most irresponsible construction workers in their workers' brigade. When they fall in love with their neighbors Thea and Susi, they pretend to be reliable young men and accompany their friends to a meeting of the local chapter house. To keep up appearances, the two are forced to undertake several duties which they would not have dreamed of doing otherwise. The plot turns into a chain of comical mistakes, but eventual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Susanna
''Anna Susanna'' is an East German drama film directed by Richard Nicolas. It was released in 1953. Plot During the Great Depression, a rich businessman named Brinkmann decides to sink his ship, ''Anna Susanna'', in order to collect on the insurance. He orders its captain, Kleiers, to sabotage it while at sea. When Kleiers carries out his instructions, he is spotted by several sailors and passengers. The captain is killed in the ensuing fight, but not before he manages to shipwreck ''Anna Susanna''. Only a handful of people survive. After they return home, they discover that Brinkmann's insurance fraud worked and he was compensated. They sue him at court and manage to have him indicted. Cast * Günther Simon as Orje * Peter Marx as Fietje * Werner Peters as Kuddel * Harry Hindemith as Emil * Herbert Richter as Kleiers * Alfred Maack as Peer Frensen * Maly Delschaft as Kuddel's mother * Aribert Grimmer as Kuddel's father * Arno Paulsen as Jan Brödel * Werner Pledath as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Orplid Mystery
''The Orplid Mystery'' or ''Epilogue'' () is a 1950 West German thriller film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Horst Caspar, Bettina Moissi, and O.E. Hasse. The film did not perform well at the box office on its release.Davidson & Hake p. 50 It was made at the Spandau Studios of CCC Films. The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ... Emil Hasler. Cast References Bibliography * * External links * 1950 films 1950s spy thriller films German spy thriller films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Helmut Käutner Seafaring films German black-and-white films Films shot at Spandau Studios 1950s German films Films scored by Bernhard Eichhorn {{1950s-Germany-fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),; ; World Book, Inc. ''The World Book dictionary, Volume 1''. World Book, Inc., 2003. p. 572. States that Deutsches Reich translates as "German Realm" and was a former official name of Germany. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich; . from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the German revolution of 1918–1919, November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a Weimar Republic, republic. The German Empire consisted of States of the German Empire, 25 states, each with its own nobility: four constituent Monarchy, kingdoms, six Grand duchy, grand duchies, five Duchy, duchies (six before 1876), seven Principality, principalities, three Free imperial city, free Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City-state, cities, and Alsace–Lorraine, one imperial territory. While Prussia was one of four kingdoms in the realm, it contained about two-thirds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morituri (1948 Film)
''Morituri'' is a 1948 German black-and-white drama film produced by Artur Brauner's CCC Film. The film was directed by Eugen York and starred Walter Richter, Winnie Markus and Lotte Koch. It features the onscreen debut of German actor Klaus Kinski as a Dutch concentration camp prisoner. Plot As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low. The Polish doctor blows up a bridge, attracting the German troops' attention to the forest. The soldiers come perilously close to the hidden fugitives, but in the last moment have to retreat before the advance of Red Army units. Cast * Walter Richter as Dr. Leon Bronek * Winnie Markus as Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Land (film)
''Free Land'' () is a 1946 German drama film directed by Milo Harbich and starring Ursula Voß, Fritz Wagner and Herbert Wilk. The film was a work of propaganda made by DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany. It uses a neorealist style to portray the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities. It proved to be very unsuccessful on its release.Noack p. 256 Cast * Ursula Voß as Frau Jeruscheit * Fritz Wagner as Neubauer Jeruscheit * Herbert Wilk as Bürgermeister Siebold * Hans Sternberg as Altbauer Strunk * Aribert Grimmer as Altbauer Melzig * Peter Marx as Altbauer Schulzke * Oskar Höcker as Neubauer Kubinski * Elfie Dugal as Küchenmädchen * Kurt Mikulski as Siedler * 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). Biogr . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
