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The Last Illusion
''The Last Illusion'' () is a 1949 German drama film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Fritz Kortner, Johanna Hofer and Lina Carstens.Hake p. 103 It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Lück, Fritz Maurischat and Hans Sohnle. Synopsis A Jewish university professor returns from exile following the end of the Second World War. His hopes of rebuilding a new Germany are undermined by the continuing antisemitism of his colleagues and students. Cast * Fritz Kortner as Professor Mauthner * Johanna Hofer as Lina * Rosemary Murphy as Mary * Lina Carstens as Emma * William Sinnigen as Elliot * Michael Murphy as Spencer * Ernst Schröder as Walter * Paul Hoffmann as Fechner * Arno Assmann as Kurt * Charles Régnier as Bertram * Alwin Edwards as Homer * Harald Mannl as Fraenkl * Friedrich Domin as Professor Helfert * Hans Clarin Hans Clarin (14 September 1929 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Von Báky
Josef von Báky (23 March 1902, Sombor, Zombor, Austria-Hungary – 28 July 1966, Munich, West Germany) was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as ''Josef v. Baky'' and ''József Báky''. He was born in the village of Zobor in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Zombor, Veľký Krtíš District, Zombor, Slovakia). He worked as an assistant to Géza von Bolváry. He worked as Film director, director or Film producer, producer on no less than 48 films. He died in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. Báky's best known film is ''Münchhausen (1943 film), Münchhausen'', which was released in 1943. It is a fantasy-comedy and is noted for how it avoids politics of its time. The film was ordered by Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Schrobsdorff
Angelika Schrobsdorff (24 December 1927 – 30 July 2016) was a German author. Life Schrobsdorff's was born the daughter of Else Kirschner (1893–1949), an assimilated Jew from Berlin, and her second husband Erich Schrobsdorff (1893–1952), a member of the wealthy Berlin bourgeoisie. Schrobsdorff grew up in Berlin, and in 1939Rengha Rodewill: ''Angelika Schrobsdorff - Leben ohne Heimat'' (Biography), be.bra Verlag, Berlin Germany 2017 fled with her mother and sister Bettina (1922—2007) to Sofia, Bulgaria, where she remained until the end of the war. Her grandmother Minna Kirschner was murdered in Theresienstadt. Her grandfather Daniel Kirschner (1864–1939) died of pneumonia in a Berlin hospital. In 1947, Schrobsdorff returned to Germany. In 1971, she married the French film-maker Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018), with whom she subsequently lived in Paris. Later she lived in Munich for a few years before emigrating to Israel. She lived in Jerusalem Jerusalem is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Clarin
Hans Clarin (14 September 1929 – 28 August 2005) was a German actor. He became a well-known voice actor of characters in children audio plays, particularly the kobold '' Pumuckl'' (including its TV and cinematic film adaptations), the German voice of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's diminutive Gaulish hero Asterix (in circa 30 German audioplay adaptations of the ''Asterix'' comic books, produced and published 1986-1992 under the Europa label), and the ghost '' Hui Buh''. Biography Clarin was born Hans-Joachim Schmid in Wilhelmshaven, and grew up in Frankfurt am Main. After graduation he studied acting in Munich from 1948 to 1950. He made his début appearance in 1950 in Franz Grillparzer's play ''Weh dem, der lügt'' ("Woe to him who lies"). From 1952 until 1967 he was employed by the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich, where he appeared in plays such as ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Leonce and Lena'', ''Woyzeck'' and ''The Blue Angel'', and gained a reputation as a character ... [...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] |
Harald Mannl
Harald Mannl (1904–1961) was a German actor of film, radio and television.Feinstein p.56 He also directed two films for DEFA in East Germany in the mid-1950s, and acted in others, before returning to West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi .... Filmography References Bibliography * Feinstein, Joshua Isaac . ''The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema 1956–1966''. Stanford University, 1995. External links * 1904 births 1961 deaths German male film actors German male television actors Male actors from Dresden {{Germany-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwin Edwards
Alwin is a German and Dutch form of Alvin and may refer to: * Alwin-Broder Albrecht (1903–1945), German naval officer, one of Adolf Hitler's adjutants during World War II *Alwin Berger (1871–1931), German botanist and contributor to the nomenclature of succulent plants * Alwin Boerst (1910–1944), German World War II Luftwaffe Stuka ace *Alwin Bully (1948–2023), Dominican cultural administrator, playwright, designer of the national flag of Dominica * Alwin Elling (1897–1973), German filmmaker *Alwin C. Ernst (1881–1948), American businessman, co-founder of the accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst *Alwin de Prins (born 1978), former competitive swimmer who represented Luxembourg * Alwin Hammers (born 1942), German theologian *Alwin Karl Haagner (1880–1962), South African ornithologist *Alwin Al Jarreau (1940–2017), American singer *Alwin Kloekhorst (born 1978), Dutch linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Hittitologist *Alwin Korselt (1864–1947), German mathematician * Alwin McGr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Régnier
Karl Friedrich Anton Hermann "Charles" Régnier"Wedekind aus Horst Kreis Neustadt am Rübenberge in Niedersachsen". In: ''Niedersächsisches Geschlechterbuch''. (Genealogical studies). Limburg an der Lahn: Verlag C. A. Starke Volume 187 (1982), pp. 481-634, here p. 532 (22 July 1914 – 13 September 2001) was a German actor, director and translator. He appeared in more than 135 films between 1949 and 2000. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he was one of the busiest German theatre and film actors. Family life and upbringing Born at Freiburg in 1914, Regnier owed his name to his grandfather, a native Frenchman. Regnier was the first child of Anton Karl Regnier and Emile (Milly) Maria Friederike Harrer, born in Freiburg im Breisgau. His father was a general practitioner and Charles initially wanted to become a doctor. Charles Regnier grew up in Strasbourg and Badenweiler where his maternal grandparents owned the Schloss Hausbaden hotel. After his father's suicide in 1924, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arno Assmann
Arno Assmann (30 July 1908 – 30 November 1979) was a German actor, film director and television writer. He committed suicide. Filmography As an actor * '' The Original Sin'' (1948) * '' The Last Illusion'' (1949) * '' My Wife's Friends'' (1949) * '' The Orplid Mystery'' (1950) * '' Harbour Melody'' (1950) * '' Gabriela'' (1950) * ''Decision Before Dawn'' (1951) * ''Sensation in San Remo'' (1951) * '' Woe to Him Who Loves'' (1951) * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1951) * ''The Divorcée'' (1953) * '' Rose-Girl Resli'' (1954) * '' Homesick for Germany'' (1954) * ''Hilfe – sie liebt mich'' (1956) * '' Max the Pickpocket'' (1962) * ' (1971, TV film) * '' The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of'' (1972) * ' (1973, TV miniseries) * '' Der Springteufel'' (1974; TV film) * ' (1975, TV miniseries) * ' (1978, TV series) As a director * '' I Will Always Be Yours'' (1960) References External links * * Staff (undated)."Arno Assmann"(in German). steffi-line.de. Retrieved 8 Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hoffmann (actor)
Paul Hoffmann (25 March 1902 – 2 December 1990) was a German actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1937 to 1990. From 1968 to 1971 Hoffmann was director of the Burgtheater The Burgtheater (; literally: "Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater", originally known as '' K.K. Theater an der Burg'', then until 1918 as the ''K.K. Hofburgtheater'', is the national theater of Austria in ... in Vienna. Selected filmography References External links * 1902 births 1990 deaths German male film actors Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Male actors from Düsseldorf {{Germany-film-actor-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Schröder (actor)
Ernst Schröder (27 January 1915 – 26 July 1994) was a popular German theatre, film and TV actor. Life Born in Herne, Schröder began his acting career at the nearby Bochum Theatre in 1934, under the director Saladin Schmitt. He worked there until 1936, also working as assistant director and Stage Designer. After working at Bielefeld and Wuppertal, he moved to the Schiller Theatre in Berlin in 1938, which became his artistic home and the location of his greatest triumphs, particularly after the Second World War. During the war he served briefly in the army, was wounded, and returned to the Schiller Theatre in 1942. When in 1944 the theatre was closed, he returned to serve in the army, and ended the war in Italy as a prisoner. He returned to the theatre in 1946 and rapidly re-established his reputation. He was a member of the jury at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival in 1957. He was considered one of the greatest character actors of the German theatre, enjoying l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Murphy (German Actor)
Michael, Mick, or Mike Murphy may refer to: Artists and entertainers * Michael Murphy (actor) (born 1938), American actor * Michael Murphy (Canadian actor) (born 1996), Canadian actor best known for the role of "Sam Foster" in the sitcom ''Life with Boys'' * Mike Murphy (musician) (1946–2006), American drummer for the Bee Gees and Chicago * Michael Bryan Murphy, lead singer of REO Speedwagon * Michael John Murphy, American folk musician * Mike L. Murphy (born 1975), American film maker and animator * Michael Murphy (singer) (born 1986), ''New Zealand Idol'' runner up * Mic Murphy (born 1958), member of musical duo The System * Michael Murphy (sculptor) (born 1975), American artist * Mick Murphy (guitarist) (born 1972), American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Sportspeople Association football * Mick Murphy (footballer) (born 1976), English former football midfielder * Mike Murphy (footballer) (born 1939), English former football goalkeeper Gaelic football * Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
