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The Girl From Flanders
''The Girl from Flanders'' () is a 1956 romantic drama film directed by Helmut Käutner starring Nicole Berger, Maximilian Schell, and Viktor de Kowa. It is an adaption of the novel '' Engele von Löwen'' (Angele de Louvain) written by Carl Zuckmayer. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin with location filming around the town of Damme in Flanders. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz. Plot 1914, German advance through Belgium: the young war volunteer Alexander 'Alex' Haller (Schell) is given water by a young Belgian woman (Berger). 1917, Third Battle of Flanders: Alex, now a 2nd lieutenant, is tired of the propaganda on the Home Front, so he spends his furlough in the hinterland of the Western Front. While boarding in a brothel, he meets the young woman again. They fall in love. Late 1918, German retreat after the Armistice An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Käutner
Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany. Käutner is relatively unknown outside of Germany, although he is considered one of the best filmmakers in German film history. He was one of the most influential film directors of German post-war cinema and became known for his sophisticated literary adaptations. Biography He was born in Düsseldorf, German Empire, Germany. Käutner started out as a director in the Nazi era, but his films remained largely free of National Socialist propaganda. One of his early successes was ''Romanze in Moll'' (1943), an adaptation of Guy du Maupassant's short story "Les Bijoux". Other remarkable films were and ''Under the Bridges''. His 1956 film ''The Captain from Köpenick (1956 film), Der Hauptmann von Köpenick'' was nominated for the Academy Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Filming
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] |
Gert Fröbe
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor. He was known in English-speaking countries for his work as the title character in the James Bond film '' Goldfinger'', as Peachum in ''The Threepenny Opera'', as Baron Bomburst in ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', as Hotzenplotz in '' The Robber Hotzenplotz'', General Dietrich von Choltitz in '' Is Paris Burning?'', as Colonel Manfred von Holstein in '' Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'', and as Inspector Bauer in Ingmar Bergman's '' The Serpent's Egg''. Fröbe was a three-time German Film Award nominee, twice for Best Leading Actor and once for Best Supporting Actor. In 1978, he won an honorary award for "outstanding individual contributions to the German cinema over the years." Early life and education Fröbe was born in Oberplanitz, today part of Zwickau. He was initially a violinist, but he abandoned it for Kabarett and theatre work. He joined the Nazi Party in 1934 at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Tillmann
Fritz Tillmann (December 13, 1910 – October 30, 1986) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' Hoegler's Mission'' (1950) - Fritz Rottmann * ''The Council of the Gods'' (1950) - Dr. Hans Scholz * '' Master of Life and Death'' (1955) - Dr. Peter * '' Sacred Lie'' (1955) * '' The Plot to Assassinate Hitler'' (1955) - General Henning von Tresckow * ''The Major and the Bulls'' (1955) - Major William Sunlet * ''The Girl from Flanders'' (1956) - Hauptmann Lüdemann * ''Love'' (1956) - Herr Ballard * '' The Story of Anastasia'' (1956) - Baron von Pleskau * ''Von der Liebe besiegt'' (1956) - Leo Seduc, Marios Compagnon * '' King in Shadow'' (1957) - Count Rantzau * ''...und die Liebe lacht dazu'' (1957) - Jan Dirksen * '' All Roads Lead Home'' (1957) - Dr. Jacobs * '' Doctor Crippen Lives'' (1958) - Kriminalinspektor Steen * '' Confess, Doctor Corda'' (1958) - Oberinspektor Dr. Pohlhammer * ''Es war die erste Liebe'' (1958) - Andreas Bergmann * '' Der Schinderhannes'' (1958) - Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Domin
Friedrich Domin (15 May 1902 – 18 December 1961) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1939 and 1961. He was born in Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland) and died in Munich, West Germany. In 1922, he graduated from the Max Reinhardt's drama school, now known as Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was awarded the honor state actor in 1939, and in 1944 he was included in the ''Gottbegnadeten'' list, created by Joseph Goebbels, as an "irreplacable actor" to the continuation of Nazi film production. Selected filmography * ''Das Lied der Wüste'' (1939) - Sir Collins, ihr Stiefvater * ''Der siebente Junge'' (1941) - Baron Florian von Roeckel * '' The Comedians'' (1941) - Johann Neuber * ''Alarmstufe V'' (1941) - Prof. Crusius * '' The Little Residence'' (1942) - Waldemar Prinz von Lauffenberg * ''Fünftausend Mark Belohnung'' (1942) - Joachim Wengraf * '' The Endless Road'' (1943) - Fürst Metternich * ''Man rede mir nicht von Liebe'' (1943 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armistice
An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, as it may constitute only a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace. It is derived from the Latin ''arma'', meaning "arms" (as in weapons) and ''-stitium'', meaning "a stopping". The United Nations Security Council often imposes, or tries to impose, ceasefire resolutions on parties in modern conflicts. Armistices are always negotiated between the parties themselves and are thus generally seen as more binding than non-mandatory UN cease-fire resolutions in modern international law. An armistice is a '' modus vivendi'' and is not the same as a peace treaty, which may take months or even years to agree on. The 1953 Korean War Armistice Agreement is a major example of an armistice which has not been followed by a peace treaty. An armistice is also different from a truce or ceasefire, which refer to a temporary cessation of ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Front (World War I)
The Western Front was one of the main Theatre (warfare), theatres of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the Imperial German Army, German Army opened the Western Front by German invasion of Belgium (1914), invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in Third Republic of France, France. The German advance was halted with the First Battle of the Marne, Battle of the Marne. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trench warfare, trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France, the position of which changed little except during early 1917 and again in 1918. Between 1915 and 1917 there were several offensives along this Front (military), front. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire, and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinterland
Hinterland is a German word meaning the 'land behind' a city, a port, or similar. Its use in English was first documented by the geographer George Chisholm in his ''Handbook of Commercial Geography'' (1888). Originally the term was associated with the area of a port in which materials for export and import are stored and shipped. Subsequently, the use of the word expanded to include any area under the influence of a particular human settlement. Geographic region * An area behind a coast or the shoreline of a river. Specifically, by the ''doctrine of the hinterland,'' the hinterland is the inland region lying behind a port and is claimed by the state that owns the coast. * In shipping usage, a port's hinterland is the area that it serves, both for imports and for exports. * The term is also used to refer to the area around a city or town. * More generally, ''hinterland'' can refer to the rural area economically tied to an urban catchment area. The size of a hinterland can depen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Front
Home front is an English language term with analogues in other languages. It is commonly used to describe the civilian populace of the nation at war as an active support system for their military. Civilians are traditionally uninvolved in combat, except when the hostilities happen to reach their residential areas. However, the expanded destructive capabilities of modern warfare posed an increased direct threat to civilian populations. With the rapid increase of military technology, the term "military effort" has changed to include the "home front" as a reflection of both a civilian "List of recognized economic sectors, sector" capacity to produce arms, as well as the structural or policy changes which deal with its vulnerability to direct attack. This continuity of "military effort" from fighting combat troops to manufacturing facilities has profound effects for the concept of "total war". By this logic, if factories and workers producing material are part of the war effort, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. Belgium covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.8 million; its population density of ranks List of countries and dependencies by population density, 22nd in the world and Area and population of European countries, sixth in Europe. The capital and Metropolitan areas in Belgium, largest metropolitan region is City of Brussels, Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a complex Federation, federal system structured on regional and linguistic grounds. The country is divided into three highly autonomous Communities, regions and language areas o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Kutz
Walter Kutz (1904 – 1983) was a German art director.Langford p.223 Selected filmography * '' Nora'' (1944) * '' Dreaming'' (1944) * '' The Silent Guest'' (1945) * '' And the Heavens Above Us'' (1947) * '' Nights on the Nile'' (1949) * '' The Chaste Libertine'' (1952) * '' When the Heath Dreams at Night'' (1952) * ''The Colourful Dream'' (1952) * '' You Only Live Once'' (1952) * ''The Prince of Pappenheim'' (1952) * '' The Stronger Woman'' (1953) * '' The Dancing Heart'' (1953) * '' The Uncle from America'' (1953) * '' A Life for Do'' (1954) * '' Bon Voyage'' (1954) * '' Consul Strotthoff'' (1954) * '' The Witch'' (1954) * '' Girl with a Future'' (1954) * '' Before God and Man'' (1955) * '' Heaven Is Never Booked Up'' (1955) * ''The Girl from Flanders'' (1956) * '' The Beautiful Master'' (1956) * '' Victor and Victoria'' (1957) * '' Voyage to Italy, Complete with Love'' (1958) * '' Here I Am, Here I Stay'' (1959) * ''The Death Ship'' (1959) * '' What a Woman Dreams of in Springti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Hasler
Emil Hasler (8 November 1901 – 15 January 1986) was a German art director who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. These included a number of Weimar classics such as '' Diary of a Lost Girl, M'' and ''The Blue Angel''.Prawer p.12 He later worked in Nazi era cinema on films like ''Robert Koch'' and '' Münchhausen''. Selected filmography * '' Monika Vogelsang'' (1920) * '' Always Be True and Faithful'' (1927) * '' Dyckerpotts' Heirs'' (1928) * '' Odette'' (1928) * '' Diary of a Lost Girl'' (1929) * '' The Fourth from the Right'' (1929) * '' Three Days Confined to Barracks'' (1930) * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) * '' Twice Married'' (1930) * '' Shadows of the Underworld'' (1931) * '' M'' (1931) * '' Hooray, It's a Boy!'' (1931) * '' What Women Dream'' (1933) * '' The Castle in the South'' (1933) * '' Dream Castle'' (1933) * '' Spring Parade'' (1934) * '' Farewell Waltz'' (1934) * '' Winter Night's Dream'' (1935) * '' A Night on the Danube'' (1935) * '' Pygmalion'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
