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The Big Number
''The Big Number'' or ''The Big Act'' (German: ''Die große Nummer'') is a 1943 German drama film directed by Karl Anton and starring Leny Marenbach, Maly Delschaft and Paul Hoffmann (actor), Paul Hoffmann. A circus film, it was originally intended to star Harry Piel but due to delays on ''Elephant Fury, Panic'' he withdrew from the project, although he had contributed to the screenplay. Location shooting took place at the Sarrasani, Circus Sarrasani in Dresden. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Schiller. It was one of three entertainment-focused films playing in Berlin at the time of the Sportpalast speech by Joseph Goebbels calling for total war.Echternkamp p.109 Cast * Leny Marenbach as Helga Wallner * Maly Delschaft as Marion Wallner * Paul Hoffmann (actor), Paul Hoffmann as Heinrich Wallner * Rudolf Prack as Peter Stoll * Paul Kemp (actor), Paul Kemp as Otto Gellert * Charlott Daudert as Mariettchen * Marina Ried as Bianca * Karl Günther as Direktor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Anton
Karl Anton or Karel Anton (25 October 1898 12 April 1979) was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Biography He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father, Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician. Anton studied medicine, but left school after his father's death. He started as a stage actor and director in Vienna, Linz and Prague. During the World War I, Anton made amateur documentaries with his friends Karel Lamač and Otto Heller. He directed his first movie, a lyrical drama ''Gypsies (1922 film), Gypsies'', in 1921. Anton is considered an early proponent of Czech lyrical cinema tradition. He founded his own production companies Antonfilm (1923–30) and Sonorfilm (1930–32). After the international success of ''Tonka of the Gallows'' he worked in Paris for Paramount Pictures from 1932 to 1935. After leaving Paramount he moved to Germany in 1935. He died in West Berlin in 1979. Czech actor Raoul Schránil was his cousin. Selecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. When filmmaking professionals refer to shooting "on location", they are usually referring to a "practical location", which is any location that already exists in the real world. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film ''The Interpreter (2005 film), The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the Headquarters of the United Nations, United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films ''Amadeus (film), Amadeus'' and ''The Illusionist (2006 film), The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Location shooting includes any practical location which resembles the location of a scene in the script; for example, students in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, film school of the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Günther
Karl Günther (25 November 1885 – 27 June 1951) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Masked Ones'' (1920) * '' The Riddle of the Sphinx'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' The Call of Destiny'' (1922) * '' Your Valet'' (1922) * '' Modern Vices'' (1924) * '' The Queen of Moulin Rouge'' (1926) * '' The Yellow House of Rio'' (1931) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' Court Theatre'' (1936) * '' Alarm in Peking'' (1937) * ''Premiere'' (1937) * '' The Charm of La Boheme'' (1937) * '' A Prussian Love Story'' (1938) * '' The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl'' (1938) * '' Triad'' (1938) * '' Secret Code LB 17'' (1938) * '' Maria Ilona'' (1939) * ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939) * '' Stern von Rio'' (1940) * '' Women Are Better Diplomats'' (1941) * '' Der große König'' (1942) * ''Andreas Schlüter'' (1942) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * '' The Big Number'' (1943) * '' Romance in a Minor Key'' (1943) * '' The Second Shot'' (1943) * '' The War of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Ried
Marina Ried ( Rsjevskaja; 1921–1989) was a Russian-born German stage and film actress.Cowie & Elley p.167 The niece of the film star Olga Chekhova, she was born in Moscow but moved to Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ... as a child. She was married to actor Rudolf Platte between 1942 and 1953. Filmography References Bibliography * Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. External links * 1921 births 1989 deaths Soviet emigrants to Germany German television actresses German stage actresses German film actresses German people of Russian descent {{Germany-stage-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlott Daudert
Charlott Daudert (27 December 1913 – 19 January 1961) was a German film actress.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.275 Filmography * ''The Csardas Princess (1934 film), The Csardas Princess'' (1934) * ''Frasquita'' (1934) * ''Da stimmt was nicht'' (1934) * ''Old Comrades (film), Old Comrades'' (1934) * ''April, April! (1935 film), April, April!'' (1935) * ''Die klugen Frauen'' (1936) * ''The Bashful Casanova'' (1936) * ''Angels with Minor Faults'' (1936) * ''Crooks in Tails (1937 film), Crooks in Tails''(1937) * ''Der Etappenhase (1937 film), Der Etappenhase'' (1937) * ''Don't Promise Me Anything'' (1937) * ''Diamonds (1937 film), Diamonds'' (1937) * ''The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1938 film), The Man Who Couldn't Say No'' (1938) * ''Heimat (1938 film), Heimat'' (1938) * ''Das Ehesanatorium'' (1938) * ''Love Letters from the Engadine'' (1938) * ''Shoulder Arms (1939 film), Shoulder Arms'' (1939) * ''Her First Experience'' (1939) * ''Der vierte kommt nicht'' (1939) * ''Die kluge Schwiegermutt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kemp (actor)
Paul Kemp (20 May 1896 – 13 August 1953) was a German stage and film actor. Kemp worked as a piano accompaniest for silent films, and then served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War. Post-war he moved into acting on the stage in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. His career really took off when he moved to Berlin in 1929, appearing in the hit stage version of the novel '' Menschen im Hotel'' by Vicki Baum. He made his film debut in 1930, shortly after the introduction of sound film. He appeared prolifically in German and Austrian films until his death in 1953. Selected filmography * ''Cyanide'' (1930) - Kuckuck * ' (1930) - Aufnahmeleiter * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * '' Rag Ball'' (1930) - Priem * ''The Great Longing'' (1930) - Regieassistent Mopp * '' Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) - Jack * '' The Blonde Nightingale'' (1930) - Hirschfield * ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1931) - Mackie Messers Platte * ''Seitensprünge'' (1931) - Anton Schiller * '' M'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack (2 August 1905 – 2 December 1981) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * ''Florentine'' (1937) * ''Prinzessin Sissy'' (1939) - Prince Luitpold * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Felix Pirlinger - 1922 * ''Krambambuli'' (1940) - Thomas Werndl * ''Ein Leben lang'' (1940) - Franz Hofbauer * '' Beloved Augustin'' (1940) - Podl Schauerhuber, Musikant * ''Spähtrupp Hallgarten'' (1941) - Oberjäger Unterkirchner * ''Die heimlichen Bräute'' (1942) - Peter Leidinger * '' The Golden City'' (1942) - Großknecht Thomas - Annas Verlobte * ''The Big Number'' (1943) - Peter Stoll * '' The Eternal Tone'' (1943) - Berthold Buchner * ''Die unheimliche Wandlung des Axel Roscher'' (1943) - Zollassistent Alex Roscher * ''Reise in die Vergangenheit'' (1943) - Michael BrantnerLehrer * ''Aufruhr der Herzen'' (1944) - Franz Atzinger * ''Orient Express'' (1944) - Franz Schulz * ''Leuchtende Schatten'' (1945) * ''Der weite Weg'' (1946) - Franz Manhardt * ''Glaube an mich'' (1946) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Total War
Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all (including civilian-associated) resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilises all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs. The term has been defined as "A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the Territory (country subdivision), territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the law of war, laws of war are disregarded." In the mid-19th century, scholars identified what later became known as total war as a separate class of warfare. In a total war, the differentiation between combatants and non-combatants diminishes due to the capacity of opposing sides to consider nearly every human, including non-combatants, as resources that are used in the war effort. Characteristics Total war is a concept that has been extensively studied by scholars of conflict and war. One of the most not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazism, Nazi politician and philologist who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief Propaganda in Nazi Germany, propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers, known for his skills in public speaking and his virulent antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a doctorate in philology from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924 and worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch. He was appointed ''Gauleiter'' of Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportpalast Speech
The speech () or Total War speech was a speech delivered by Nazi Germany, German Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast, Berlin to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis powers, Axis allies. The speech is particularly notable as Goebbels almost mentions the Holocaust, when he begins saying (using the German word for extermination), but quickly changes it to (i.e. exclusion). This was the same word Heinrich Himmler used on 18 December 1941, when he recorded the outcome of his discussion with Adolf Hitler on the Final Solution, wherein he wrote ("exterminate them as partisans"). It is considered the most famous of Goebbels's speeches. The speech was the first public admission by the National Socialist leadership that Germany faced serious dangers. Goebbels called for a total war () to secure victory over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Schiller
Willy Schiller (11 August 1899 – 17 July 1973) was a German 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 ....Allan & Sandford p.3 In the later part of his career he worked for DEFA, the East German state-controlled film studio. Selected filmography * '' Radio Magic'' (1927) * '' The Green Alley'' (1928) * '' Don Juan in a Girls' School'' (1928) * '' The Lady from Argentina'' (1928) * '' Love in the Cowshed'' (1928) * '' Only a Viennese Woman Kisses Like That'' (1928) * '' The Night of Terror'' (1929) * '' The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1929) * '' The Youths'' (1929) * '' Distinguishing Features'' (1929) * '' Yes, Yes, Women Are My Weakness'' (1929) * '' Youthful Indiscretion'' (1929) * '' Beware of Loose Women'' (1929) * '' Secret Police'' (1929) * '' The Woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
