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Princess Olala
''Princess Olala'' (German: ''Prinzessin Olala'') is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Robert Land and starring Carmen Boni, Walter Rilla, Marlene Dietrich and Hans Albers.Wood p.65 It is also known by the alternative title of ''Art of Love''. It was made at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Neppach. Cast * Hermann Böttcher as Der Fürst * Walter Rilla as Prince Boris, his son * Georg Alexander as Der Kammerherr * Carmen Boni as Prinzessin Xenia * Illa Meery as Hedy, her friend * Marlene Dietrich as Chichotte de Gastoné * Hans Albers as René Chichotte's friend * Gyula Szőreghy as a strong man * Lya Christy as Lady Jackson * Aribert Wäscher as Police superintendent * Carl Goetz Carl Goetz (10 April 1862 – 15 August 1932) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in around seventy films during the silent and early sound eras. Goetz was of a Jewish background.Praw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Land
Robert Land (1887–1940) was an Austrian-Jewish film director of Moravian descent. Biography Born as Robert Liebmann to a German-speaking Jewish Family in Kroměříž. Land moved to Vienna to study German literature and art history. He started directing movies in 1919. He chose the pseudonym Robert Land in order to avoid being mistaken with film critic and screenwriter Robert Liebmann (1890-1942). He made movies in Austria and Germany until 1933, when he fled to Czechoslovakia after Nazis' rise to power. Unable to find work he went to Italy in 1934, before returning to Prague a year later. He directed three movies in Czechoslovakia – ''Jana'' (1935), ''Arme kleine Inge (1936) and '' The Doll'' (1938). In 1938 he moved to Paris, where he died on 12 October 1940. He's buried at Cimetière parisien de Thiais. Selected filmography * '' The Jewess of Toledo'' (1919, screenwriter) * '' Don Juan'' (1922) * '' The Curse'' (1924) * '' The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas and inconsistenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Silent Feature Films
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Films Directed By Robert Land
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Of The Weimar Republic
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Films
The following is an overview of 1928 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1928 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 6 – The long-awaited Charlie Chaplin comedy '' The Circus'' premieres at the Strand Theatre in New York City. *April 21 – '' The Passion of Joan of Arc'' is released. * July 6 – '' Lights of New York'' (starring Helene Costello) is released by Warner Bros. It is the first "100% Talkie" feature film, in that dialog is spoken throughout the film. Previous releases ''Don Juan'' and '' The Jazz Singer'' had used a synchronized soundtrack with sound effects and music, with ''The Jazz Singer'' having a few incidental lines spoken by Al Jolson. * September 19 – '' The Singing Fool'', Warner Bros' follow-up to ''The Jazz Singer'', is released. While still only a partial-talkie (sequences still feature intertitles), 66 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Abel
Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropolis''. Early life Born in Leipzig in the German Empire on 12 March 1879, Alfred Peter Abel was the son of Louis Abel, a peddler, and Anna Maria Selma.Alfred Abel biography Abel had several careers before becoming an actor. In his early adulthood, Abel first studied to be a forester and later studied gardening in Saxon . He changed his area of study to business in hopes of becoming a businessman. A short study of art draft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Goetz
Carl Goetz (10 April 1862 – 15 August 1932) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in around seventy films during the silent and early sound eras. Goetz was of a Jewish background.Prawer p.213 He is particularly noted for his role in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's '' Pandora's Box'' (1929). Selected filmography * ''Bogdan Stimoff'' (1916) * '' Tom Sawyer'' (1917) * ''The Count of Cagliostro'' (1920) * ''The Fool and Death'' (1920) * '' Dracula's Death'' (1921) * '' The Favourite of the Queen'' (1922) * '' La Boheme'' (1923) * '' The Expulsion'' (1923) * ''The Mill at Sanssouci'' (1926) * ''The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * '' Pratermizzi'' (1927) * ''Princess Olala'' (1928) * ''Scampolo'' (1928) * ''My Heart is a Jazz Band'' (1929) * '' Pandora's Box'' (1929) * '' Fräulein Else'' (1929) * '' The Singing City'' (1930) * '' The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' Danton'' (1931) * '' Yorck'' (1931) * ''The Paw'' (1931) * ''1914'' (1931) * ''Shadows of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aribert Wäscher
Aribert Wäscher (1 December 1895 – 14 December 1961) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Black Tulip Festival'' (1920) * '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * ''Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * ''The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * ''People to Each Other'' (1926) * ''Princess Olala'' (1928) * '' The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1928) * '' The Lady and the Chauffeur'' (1928) * '' Katharina Knie'' (1929) * '' The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * ''Different Morals'' (1931) * '' Under False Flag'' (1932) * ''A City Upside Down'' (1933) * '' Viktor und Viktoria'' (1933) * '' Love, Death and the Devil'' (1934) * ''The Island'' (1934) * '' Paganini'' (1934) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1934) * '' Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * ''Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935) * '' Stradivari'' (1935) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * '' The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * '' City of Anatol'' (1936) * '' Under Blazing Heavens'' (1936) * '' Stronger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lya Christy (Lyα), a spectral line of hydrogen.
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Lya may refer to: * LYA (airport), an airport serves Luoyang, China * Lya (DC Comics), a fictional character * Lya (given name), a feminine given name * Lyman-alpha line The Lyman-alpha line, typically denoted by Ly-α, is a spectral line of hydrogen (or, more generally, of any one-electron atom) in the Lyman series. It is emitted when the atomic electron transitions from an ''n'' = 2 orbital to the gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Szőreghy
Gyula Szőreghy (30 November 1887 – 22 December 1942) was a Hungarian film actor. Szőreghy was born in Algyo, Austria-Hungary (now, Hungary) and died in 1942 in Budapest. He was also credited as Julius von Szöreghy. Selected filmography * '' Mary Ann'' (1918) * ''White Rose'' (1919) * ''Oliver Twist'' (1919) * '' Serge Panine'' (1922) * ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' (1922) * '' Masters of the Sea'' (1922) * ''A Vanished World'' (1922) * '' Gypsy Love'' (1922) * ''Young Medardus'' (1923) * ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1924) * '' The Alternative Bride'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * ''Women You Rarely Greet'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' The Wooing of Eve'' (1926) * '' Darling, Count the Cash'' (1926) * '' The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' Maytime'' (1926) * ''Unmarried Daughters'' (1926) * '' German Hearts on the German Rhine'' (1926) * ''Two and a Lady'' (1926) * '' Her Highness Dances the Waltz'' (1926) * '' Dancing Vienna'' (1927) * '' The Most Beautiful Legs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illa Meery
Illa Meery (1915–2010) was a Russian-born French adventuress, singer, film actress and possibly Soviet spy who became involved in the French black market under German occupation. Émigrée She was the daughter of count Alexandre Alexandrovitch Tchernychev-Bezobrazov and Marie Nicolaïevna née Chtcherbatova. She arrived in France in 1919 with her parents and older brother as refugees from the October Revolution, first in Marseille, then Paris. She attended the Russian school in rue Daru. Film actress and Chanel model She appeared in several early French films in the 1920s, notably in '' Zouzou'' as Barbara, the topless foil for sensation Josephine Baker, who in that film became the first black woman to star in a French feature film. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
