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Storms Of Passion
''Storms of Passion'' (German: ''Stürme der Leidenschaft'') is a 1932 Cinema of Germany, German crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Emil Jannings, Anna Sten and Trude Hesterberg. It is regarded as a precursor of film noir. The film was produced by Germany's leading film company Universum Film AG, UFA and shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo on 22 January 1932.Hardt p.240 An alternative French language version ''Tumultes'', starring Charles Boyer, was also released. Cast * Emil Jannings as Gustav Bumke * Anna Sten as Russen-Annya * Trude Hesterberg as Yvonne * Franz Nicklisch as Willy Prawanzke * Otto Wernicke as Police Commissioner * Hans Deppe as Der Nuschler * Hans Reimann (writer), Hans Reimann as Max * Julius Falkenstein as Paul * Anton Pointner as Ralph Kruschewski * Wilhelm Bendow as Emmerich * Hermann Vallentin as Gefängnisdirektor References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as '' The Killers'' (1946). Early life Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz Siodmak and the brother of Curt, Werner and Roland. His parents were both from Jewish families in Leipzig (the myth of his American birth in Memphis, Tennessee was necessary for him to obtain a visa in Paris during World War II). He worked as a stage director and a banker before becoming editor and scenarist for Curtis Bernhardt in 1925 (Bernhardt directed a film of Siodmak's story '' Conflict'' in 1945). At twenty-six he was hired by his cousin, producer Seymour Nebenzal, to assemble original silent movies from stock footage of old films. Siodmak worked at this for two years before he persuaded Nebenzal to finance his first feature, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is Europe's largest film studio. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's '' The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include '' V for Vendetta'', '' Captain America: Civil War'', '' Æon Flux'', '' The Bourne Ultimatum'', '' Valkyrie'', '' Inglourious Basterds'', '' Cloud Atlas'', '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'', '' The Hunger Games'', '' Isle of Dogs'' and '' The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also acts as producer on German productions and co-producer on international high-budget productions. Since January 2022 it has been owned by TP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 National Socialists 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 Swit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Bendow
Wilhelm Bendow (29 September 1884 – 29 May 1950) was a German film actor who appeared in many films during his career. Bendow made his debut in the 1913 film '' Aus eines Mannes Mädchenzeit''.Elsässer p.106 Selected filmography * '' Lust for Life'' (1922) * ''La Boheme'' (1923) * ''The Little Napoleon'' (1923) * ''Die Fledermaus'' (1923) * '' Wood Love'' (1925) * '' The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * ''Chaste Susanne'' (1926) * '' The Brothers Schellenberg'' (1926) * '' We Belong to the Imperial-Royal Infantry Regiment'' (1926) * ''Roses from the South'' (1926) * ''The Divorcée'' (1926) * '' His Toughest Case'' (1926) * '' My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1927) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * ''A Crazy Night'' (1927) * '' Carnival Magic'' (1927) * '' Her Dark Secret'' (1929) * ''German Wine'' (1929) * '' The Tender Relatives'' (1930) * '' Alraune'' (1930) * '' The Blonde Nightingale'' (1930) * ''The Emperor's Sweetheart'' (1931) * '' Madame Pompadour'' (1931) * ''Storms of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Pointner
Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as well as in Germany and the United States. Selected filmography * '' Martyr of His Heart'' (1918) * '' Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * '' The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore'' (1921) * '' The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' Frauenmoral'' (1923) * '' The Second Shot'' (1923) * '' Earth Spirit'' (1923) * '' The Curse'' (1924) * ''The Sailor Perugino'' (1924) * '' Nelly, the Bride Without a Husband'' (1924) * '' Marionettes of the Princess'' (1924) * ''Flight Around the World'' (1925) * ''Old Mamsell's Secret'' (1925) * '' The Dealer from Amsterdam'' (1925) * '' A Free People'' (1925) * '' Circus Romanelli'' (1926) * '' When I Came Back'' (1926) * '' The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * '' The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' The Three Mann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Falkenstein
Julius Falkenstein (25 February 1879 – 9 December 1933) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1914 and 1933. Falkenstein was Jewish, but secured a special permit to continue making films following the Nazi rise to power in 1933. He died of natural causes the same year, having made only one further film. Selected filmography * ''Die geheimnisvolle Villa'' (1914) * '' The Princess of Neutralia'' (1917) *''The Toboggan Cavalier'' (1918) * '' The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * '' The Dancer Barberina'' (1920) * '' The Love of a Thief'' (1920) * ''The Princess of the Nile'' (1920) * '' Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1921) * '' The Story of Christine von Herre'' (1921) * '' The Convict of Cayenne'' (1921) * '' Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * ''Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * '' His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Don Juan'' (1922) * '' Das Milliardensouper'' (1923) * '' E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Reimann (writer)
Hans Reimann (1889–1969) was a German satirist, novelist, and playwright. He wrote under the pseudonyms Max Bunge, Hans Heinrich, Artur Sünder, Hanns Heinz Vampir, and Andreas Zeltner. Biography Albert Johannes Reimann was born on 18 November 1889 in Leipzig where he grew up. He studied German philology and art history at the Kunstakademie in Munich. After serving in the German army during World War I, he published the satirical journal ''Der Drache (The Dragon)'' in Leipzig from 1919 till 1921 from 1924 till 1929 the ''Stachelschwein (Porcupine)'' in Frankfurt on the Main. He worked also for the satirical ''Simplicissimus'' and ''Die Weltbühne'' and founded the cabarets "Retorte" (in Leipzig) und "Astoria" (in Frankfurt on the Main.). He lived in Berlin since 1925. Having expressed critiques of the Nazis and planned a Hitler parody under the title ''Mein Krampf (My Cramp)'', he experienced great difficulties and was blacklisted by the Nazi regime. He wrote under several pse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Deppe
Hans Deppe (; 12 November 1897 – 23 September 1969) was a German actor and film director. Filmography As director As actor References External links * 1897 births 1969 deaths German male film actors German television directors Male actors from Berlin Film directors from Berlin 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Wernicke
Otto Karl Robert Wernicke (30 September 1893, Osterode am Harz – 7 November 1965) was a German actor. He is best known for his role as police inspector Karl Lohmann in the two Fritz Lang films '' M'' and '' The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''. Married to a Jewish woman, he was only able to continue working in Germany after the Nazi Party took power in 1933 because he received a special dispensation from the Reich Chamber of Culture. In 1943, he portrayed Captain Smith in ''Titanic'', the first film on the subject which was simply titled ''Titanic'', and the first to combine various fictional characters and subplots with the true events of the sinking; both conventions went on to become a staple of ''Titanic'' films. After being cast in 1944 in the propaganda epic '' Kolberg'', he was added to the '' Gottbegnadeten-Liste'', a list of artists considered crucial to Nazi culture which Joseph Goebbels compiled for Adolf Hitler's approval. Selected filmography * '' Girls You Don't Marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer (; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American films during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised, in romantic dramas such as '' The Garden of Allah'' (1936), '' Algiers'' (1938), and '' Love Affair'' (1939), as well as the mystery-thriller '' Gaslight'' (1944). He received four Oscar nominations for Best Actor. He also appeared as himself on the CBS sitcom ''I Love Lucy''. Life and career Early years Boyer was born in Figeac, Lot, France, the son of Augustine Louise Durand and Maurice Boyer, a merchant. Boyer (which means "cowherd" in the Occitan language) was a shy small-town boy who discovered the movies and theatre at the age of eleven. Early acting career Boyer performed comic sketches for soldiers while working as a hospital orderly duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the '' Organisation internationale de la Francopho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ufa-Palast Am Zoo
The Ufa-Palast am Zoo, located near Berlin Zoological Garden in the New West area of Charlottenburg, was a major Berlin cinema owned by Universum Film AG, or Ufa. Opened in 1919 and enlarged in 1925, it was the largest cinema in Germany until 1929 and was one of the main locations of film premières in the country. The building was destroyed in November 1943 during the Bombing of Berlin in World War II and replaced in 1957 by the Zoo Palast. History The Neo-Romanesque building at Hardenbergstraße was designed as an exhibition hall by architect Carl Gause (1851–1907), an alumnus of the Bauakademie who had also drawn plans for the Hotel Adlon. Like the '' Romanisches Haus'' nearby, the design followed the model of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Auguste-Viktoria-Platz (present-day Breitscheidplatz), built in 1891–1895 according to plans by Franz Schwechten. The development of a "Romanesque forum" met the demands of Emperor Wilhelm II who even set guidelines for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
