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Quax The Crash Pilot
''Quax the Crash Pilot'' () is a 1941 German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt and Lothar Firmans. It is also sometimes translated as ''Quax the Test Pilot''. It features the popular song " Homeland, Your Stars". The film set in the 1930s before the outbreak of the Second World War. It is based on an aviation story by Hermann Grote about an everyday man who wins a newspaper competition that offers free flying lessons. Despite initial struggles, he gradually shows himself to be a good pilot. Much of the film was shot on location in Bavaria. Interiors were shot at the Tempelhof and Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and the Bavaria Studios in Munich. It was followed by a sequel ''Quax in Africa'' which was also made during the Nazi era, but not released until 1947. The film appears to have been popular with wartime ''Luftwaffe'' crews. Nightfighter pilot Wilhelm Johnen recalled it being shown at Venlo airfield on the evening of his unit' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer. His 1958 film ''Wir Wunderkinder'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival and his 1960 film ''The Haunted Castle (1960 film), The Haunted Castle'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1961 film ''The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi'' was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmann, Kurt 1910 births 2001 deaths Film people from Freiburg im Breisgau People from the Grand Duchy of Baden Film directors from Baden-Württemberg Best Director German Film Award winners German comedy film directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio () (also known as Studio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is one of Cinema of Europe, Europe's large film studios. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include ''V for Vendetta (film), V for Vendetta'', ''Captain America: Civil War'', ''Æon Flux (film), Æon Flux'', ''The Bourne Ultimatum (film), The Bourne Ultimatum'', ''Valkyrie (film), Valkyrie'', ''Inglourious Basterds'', ''Cloud Atlas (film), Cloud Atlas'', ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'', ''The Hunger Games (film series), The Hunger Games'', ''Isle of Dogs (film), Isle of Dogs'' and ''The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beppo Brem
Beppo Brem (11 March 1906 in Munich, German Empire – September 5, 1990 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor, who was in over 200 film and television productions between 1932 and 1990. He often played stereotypically Bavarian characters, but managed to find respect as a character actor in later years. Selected filmography * ''The Bartered Bride'' (1932) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1933) * '' Um das Menschenrecht'' (1934) * '' Shock Troop 1917'' (1934) * ''The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' The Switched Bride'' (1934) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) * ''Knockout'' (1935) * ''The King's Prisoner'' (1935) * '' The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935) * '' Donogoo Tonka'' (1936) * '' The Three Around Christine'' (1936) * '' Home Guardsman Bruggler'' (1936) * '' The Last Four on Santa Cruz'' (1936) * '' Unternehmen Michael'' (1937) * ''Meiseken'' (1937) * '' Anna Favetti'' (1938) * ''Frau Sixta'' (1938) * '' Fools in the Snow'' (1938) * '' The Deruga Case ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Vogelsang
Georg Vogelsang (1883–1952) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.216 He specialised in Bavarian character parts. Selected filmography * '' The Secret of Castle Elmshoh'' (1925) * ''Three Fathers for Anna'' (1939) * '' The Eternal Spring'' (1940) * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1940) * '' Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * '' Lightning Around Barbara'' (1941) * '' Sky Hounds'' (1942) * '' The War of the Oxen'' (1943) * ''Gabriele Dambrone'' (1943) * '' The Eternal Tone'' (1943) * '' Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944) * '' The Wedding Hotel'' (1944) * ''Orient Express'' (1944) * '' Via Mala'' (1945) * ''Quax in Africa ''Quax in Africa'' () is a German comedy adventure film produced from 1943–1944 and released in 1947, directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, and Lothar Firmans. It is a sequel to the 1941 film '' Quax the Crash P ...'' (1947) * '' The Secret of the Red Cat'' (1949) * '' Royal Children'' (1950) * '' King for One Night'' (1950) * '' Who Is T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Peukert
Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role in his early years, such as the comedy '' The Happy Journey'' (1924),Grange p.164 he mostly appeared as a character actor. Peukert was also a film director, making eleven short and feature films during the silent era. He was married to the actress Sabine Impekoven who appeared with him in several silent films. Selected filmography * '' Poor Jenny'' (1912) * '' My Leopold'' (1914) * '' My Leopold'' (1919) * '' The Love of Marion Bach'' (1919) * '' King Krause'' (1919) * '' Hasemann's Daughters'' (1920) * '' My Leopold'' (1924) * '' The Happy Journey'' (1924) * '' The Second Mother'' (1925) * '' Radio Magic'' (1927) * '' Two Under the Stars'' (1927) * '' I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1928) * '' Autumn on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Sessak
Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeared in more than ninety film and television series during her career. She appeared in a number of films during the Nazi era including ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941).Reimer p. 97 Selected filmography * ''Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer'' (1934) * ''Light Cavalry (1935 German film), Light Cavalry'' (1935) - Kellnerin Catella * ''The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935 film), The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1935) * ''Liebeslied'' (1935) * ''Trouble Backstairs (1935 film), Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) - Paula Schulze, Tochter * ''The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1936 film), The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1936) - Marianne Neumeister * ''Schloß Vogelöd'' (1936) - Wally, Tochter des Waldhüters * ''Orders Are Orders (1936 film), Orders Are Orders'' (1936) - Annerl * ''Der verkannte Lebemann'' (1936) - Elsie Schultze - Stubenmädchen im Hotel * ''City of Anatol'' (1936) - Dienstmädchen bei Franziska * ''Die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elga Brink
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (born Frey, formerly Brink; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known professionally as Elga Brink, was a German film actress. Brink rose to prominence in the early 1920s, when she starred in many silent films. Her last silent film was '' Marriage in Trouble'' in 1928. After silent films, Brink continued acting in sound films until her retirement in 1951. Her last role was in the 1951 movie ''Das fremde Leben.'' After her retirement, Brink remarried and worked as a clerk in Hamburg until her death in 1985. Life Elga Brink was born Elisabeth Margarete Frey in Berlin on 2 April 1905, the daughter of a banker in Berlin-Waidmannslust. Shortly after her birth, her surname was changed to Brink. Brink attended a business school before being introduced to silent films by Albert Pommer, the brother of Erich Pommer. Her first role was in a romantic comedy ''Lebenshunger'', where she played a supporting role alongside Ressel Orla. After several more films, Brink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Liedtke
Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia as the seventh out of 12 children of a merchant. After his father's death in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and began a qualification in retail business. By the chance acquaintance of Hans Oberländer, a stage director at Berlin, he started to take stage classes and was first engaged at the municipal Theater of Freiberg, Saxony. In 1908 Liedtke worked at the New German Theatre in New York City and in 1909 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Career In 1912 Liedtke appeared for the first time in the silent movie ''Zu spät'' and from then onwards usually as a young "Charming Boy" and gentleman. With Ernst Lubitsch he made movies like ''Das fidele Gefängnis'' (1917), ''Die Augen der Mumie Ma'' (1918), ''Carmen'' (1918), '' Die Austernprinzessin'' (1919), '' Madame DuBarry'' (1919), ''Sumurun'' (1920) and '' Das Weib des Pharao'' (1921). He also appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venlo Airfield
Royal Air Force Brüggen, more commonly known as RAF Brüggen, in Germany was a Royal Air Force station until 15 June 2001. It was situated next to the village of Elmpt, approximately west of Düsseldorf on the Dutch–German border. The base was named after the village of Brüggen, the nearest rail depot. Construction began in mid-1952, which involved the clearing of forest and draining of marshland. The station became active in 1953 during the rapid expansion of NATO forces in Europe. The main paint shop situated next to the main runway was responsible for the surface finishing of all aircraft, ground equipment and RAF Regiment Rapier missile systems. In 2002, it was handed over to the British Army and renamed Javelin Barracks. 317 Supply and Transport Column In 1953, the 317 Supply and Transport Column arrived at RAF Brüggen from Uetersen. This followed the decision to supply all RAF stations in Germany through the port of Antwerp. In 1954 the unit was redesignated as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Johnen
Wilhelm Johnen (9 October 1921 – 7 February 2002) was a German night fighter ace in the Luftwaffe during World War II. Born in 1921 Johnen joined the Luftwaffe in 1939. In 1941 Johnen joined the German night fighter force (''Nachtjagd'') and participated in the Defence of the Reich campaign. He achieved his first success on 26 March 1942. Johnen became a night fighter ace on 25 June 1943 after achieving his fifth victory. In March 1944 he was appointed as ''Staffelkapitän'' (squadron leader) at the rank of ''Oberleutnant'' with his victory total at 18. In April 1944 Johnen was briefly interned in Switzerland when he force-landed in the country. It caused an international incident but he was repatriated with his crew some days later. Wilhelm Johnen was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 29 October 1944 for the destruction of 33 Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers. He ended the war with 34 aerial victories, all of these claims were made at night. After the war Johnen st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Era
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, and his word became the highest law. The government was not a coordinated, cooperat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quax In Africa
''Quax in Africa'' () is a German comedy adventure film produced from 1943–1944 and released in 1947, directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, and Lothar Firmans. It is a sequel to the 1941 film '' Quax the Crash Pilot''. Plot The year is ''circa'' 1932, and the initial setting is Bavaria, Germany. The novice aviator Otto Groschenbügel, nicknamed Quax (see the previous film '' Quax the Crash Pilot''), has advanced to become a professional flying instructor at the Flying School of Bergried. Although by nature a congenial fellow, he decides to adopt an authoritarian manner when learning of his pupils' unruly womanising. However his stern lectures that women have no place on an aerodrome are undermined when his friend Marianne unexpectedly visits him, and even more so when two female trainee pilots are assigned to him. Soon, the flying school's chief instructor announces that the ''Europaflug'' contest (an air rallye from Germany via Spain to Africa a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
