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The Circus Princess (1929 Film)
''The Circus Princess'' () is a 1929 German silent film directed by Victor Janson. It is an adaptation of the operetta '' Die Zirkusprinzessin''. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. 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 ...s Botho Hoefer and Hans Minzloff Cast In alphabetical order References Bibliography * External links * 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Victor Janson German silent feature films Films based on operettas Circus films German black-and-white films Films shot at Staaken Studios {{1920s-Germany-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Janson
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson (; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity. Selected filmography Actor * '' Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916) * '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''Carmen'' (1918) * '' The Ballet Girl'' (1918) * '' The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * '' Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Yellow Ticket'' (1918) * '' My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * '' The Dagger of Malaya'' (1919) * '' One or the Other'' (1919) * ''Superstition'' (1919) * '' The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * '' Countess Doddy'' (1919) * '' The Howling Wolf'' (1919) * '' The Merry Husband'' (1919) * '' The Panther Bride'' (1919) * '' The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * '' The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1919) * '' The Housing Shortage'' (1920) * '' The Last Kolczaks'' (1920) * '' The Secret of the Mummy'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * '' The Wildcat'' (1921) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * '' Das Milliardensouper'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trude Berliner
Trude Berliner (28 February 1903 – 26 February 1977) was a German actress. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Biography Berliner was born Gertrude Berliner in Berlin, Germany]. She became a famous cabaret performer in Berlin. In 1925, she appeared in her first movie, a silent film called '' Krieg im Frieden''. Berliner would wait four years before her second movie, but her film career would then take off. In 1929, she appeared in '' Dich hab ich geliebt'', which would become the first German talkie released in the United States. Berliner appeared in a number of well known movies in Germany during the 1930s, including '' Masken'', '' The Invisible Front'', ' and '' Kaiserwalzer''. ''Es war einmal ein Musikus'' (1933) was her last movie in Germany; it also featured S.Z. Sakall, in the fourth German movie that the two appeared in together. Being Jewish, she left Germany when Hitler and the Nazi Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Winkelstern
Marianne Winkelstern (1910–1966) was a German dancer and actress.Hardt p.238 She retired and settled in Britain after marrying an Englishman. Selected filmography * ''The Carnival Prince'' (1928) * ''The Circus Princess'' (1929) * ''The White Devil'' (1930) * ''Waltz of Love'' (1930) * ''The Big Attraction '' (1931) * ''My Heart Longs for Love ''My Heart Longs for Love'' (German: ''Mein Herz sehnt sich nach Liebe'') is a 1931 German musical romance film directed by Eugen Thiele and starring Trude Berliner, Max Adalbert and Johannes Riemann.Klaus p.202 The film's sets were designed by th ...'' (1931) References Bibliography * Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. External links * 1910 births 1966 deaths German female dancers German stage actresses German film actresses Military personnel from Berlin German emigrants to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernő Verebes
Ernő Verebes (born Ernst Weiss, December 6, 1902 – June 13, 1971) was a Hungarian-American actor who began his career in Hungarian silent films in 1915. During his film career he worked and lived in Hungary, Germany and in the United States. He was born into a Hungarian emigrant family in New York, but his family later returned to Austria-Hungary. Verebes was successful in Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s, often appearing in elegant and comedic roles. The Jewish actor had to leave Germany after the Nazi Party got into power. He returned to the United States in the late 1930s, but had to content himself with mostly small roles. He retired in 1953 after more than 140 films. Selected filmography In Europe: * ''Romlott emberek között'' (1915) * ''Mire megvénülünk'' (1917) – Áronffy Dezsõ as a boy * ''Oliver Twist (1919 film), Oliver Twist'' (1919) – First thief * ''Három pár facipö'' (1920) * ''Tamás úrfi kalandjai'' (1920) * ''Az ötödik osztály'' (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Sandrock
Adele Sandrock (; 19 August 1863 – 30 August 1937) was a German actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German movie stars. Early life Sandrock was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the daughter of the German merchant Eduard Sandrock (1834–1897) and his Dutch wife, Johanna Simonetta ten Hagen (1833–1917). With sister Wilhelmine (1861-1948) and brother Christian (1862–1924), she grew up in Rotterdam, and, after her parents' divorce on 15 November 1869, in Berlin, where she learned German. Career In 1878 at the age of fifteen, Sandrock made her debut as Selma in ''Mutter und Sohn'' by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. In Berlin she met the famous Meiningen Ensemble and achieved success at the Meiningen Court Theatre where her first role was Luise in Friedrich Schiller's ''Intrigue and Love'', followed by further engagements in Moscow, Wiener Neustadt, and Budapest. In 1889, she had her breakthrough at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Rosch
Hilda is one of several feminine given names derived from the name ''Hild'', formed from Old Norse , meaning 'battle'. Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona, was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game. Hilda of Whitby was an early Christian saint. Hylda is a spelling variant. Hilde is a variant of Hilda. Another variation on ''Hild'' is Hildur. Hildy is an English nickname. Ildikó is a Hungarian form of the name. Related names include Brunhilde, Brynhild, Hildebrand, Hildegard, Gunhild, Krimhild, and Mathilde. Cultural influences The name became rare in England during the later Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century. Several English-language popular 19th century novelists used the name Hilda for their heroines. Hilda Scarve was the romantic heroine of the 1842 novel ''The Miser's Daughter'' by William Harrison Ainsworth. Nathaniel Hawthorne used the name Hilda for the innocent art student heroine of his 1860 novel ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Potechina
Lydia Potechina (5 September 1883 – 30 April 1934) was a Russian actress. She emigrated to Germany in 1918. She was married to the Russian-German film producer Max Pfeiffer. Selected filmography *''Destiny'' (1921) * ''The Conspiracy in Genoa'' (1921) * '' Parisian Women'' (1921) * '' Circus of Life'' (1921) * '' Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' Barmaid'' (1922) * '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * '' Insulted and Humiliated'' (1922) * '' The Green Manuela'' (1923) * '' Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * ''Resurrection'' (1923) * ''Carousel'' (1923) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * '' Darling of the King'' (1924) * '' Leap Into Life'' (1924) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) * '' Passion'' (1925) * '' The Found Bride'' (1925) * '' Women of Luxury'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * '' A Waltz Dream'' (1925) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1925) * ''Athletes'' (1925) * '' Peter the Pirate'' (1925) * '' The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * '' The Schimeck Family'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Picha
Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting roles during his career. He played the title role in the 1920 film '' Wibbel the Tailor'', directed by Manfred Noa. He appeared in Fritz Lang's ''Destiny''.Kreimeier p.73 Selected filmography * '' The Armoured Vault'' (1914) * '' Hilde Warren und der Tod'' (1917) * '' The Princess of Neutralia'' (1917) * '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917) * '' The Beggar Countess'' (1918) * '' Five Minutes Too Late'' (1918) * '' The Rat'' (1918) * '' Your Big Secret'' (1918) * '' The Commandment of Love'' (1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * '' The Derby'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * '' The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1919) * '' Irrlicht'' (1919) * '' The Platonic Marriage'' (1919) * '' The Bodega of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Murski
Alexander Alexandrovich Murski (Russian: Александр Александрович Мурский) (1 November 1869 – April 1943) was a Russian-born German actor. Murski died in 1943 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. Murski known for his acting in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929), Michael (1924) and Zwei Kinder (1924). He was occasionally credited with the names Alexander Mursky and Aleksandr Murskij. Selected filmography * '' Zaida, the Tragedy of a Model'' (1923) * ''Michael'' (1924) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * '' Two Children'' (1924) * ''The Blackguard'' (1925) * '' The Adventure of Mr. Philip Collins'' (1925) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1925) * '' The Island of Dreams'' (1925) * ''The Found Bride'' (1925) * '' Love is Blind'' (1926) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1926) * '' The Son of Hannibal'' (1926) * ''His Toughest Case'' (1926) * ''Mata Hari'' (1927) * '' A Murderous Girl'' (1927) * '' The Queen of Spades'' (1927) * '' Homesick'' (1927) * '' Th ... [...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] |
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950. Early life Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and attended a boarding school in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria. After completing secondary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in a textile shop in Munich and at the same time took acting classes with Richard Stury, who presided as president of the Munich experimental stage. After appearances at small suburbs in Munich, such as the Alhambratheater, he wandered through the province and finally found engagements in Alzey, Karlsruhe, Lucerne, Sondershausen, Helmstedt and Aachen. During the First World War he served as a cavalryman on the Eastern Front, was wounded, fired and joined the front theaters in Warsaw and Łódź. During a commitment begun in 1917 at the Munich Volkstheater, Fritz Kampers got to know the director Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Junkermann (actor)
Hans Ferdinand Junkermann (24 February 1872 – 12 June 1943) was a German actor. He was married to the Austrian actress Julia Serda. Selected filmography * '' Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) * ''The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * '' The Girl from Acker Street'' (1920) * '' The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore'' (1921) * ''Hamlet'' (1921) * ''Hazard'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * '' The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * ''The Lady and Her Hairdresser'' (1922) * '' The Woman on the Panther'' (1923) * '' Das Milliardensouper'' (1923) * '' Nanon'' (1924) * '' The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * '' Darling of the King'' (1924) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) *'' Dancing Mad'' (1925) * '' The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * '' Express Train of Love'' (1925) * ''The Salesgirl from the Fash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
