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The Spessart Inn
''The Spessart Inn'' () is a 1958 West German musical comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann. It starred Liselotte Pulver and Carlos Thompson. Plot In the late years of the 18th century, Felix and Peter, two journeymen, are travelling across the Spessart hills to Würzburg. Scared of the bandits that plague these parts, especially after a brief encounter with them, the two are glad to find an inn in the middle of the forest. However, it turns out that they have wandered into a den of thieves. The owners are in league with the bandits, who this very night plan to abduct Franziska, the Comtesse von Sandau, who is travelling through the forest with a group including her fiancé, Baron Sperling. Their coach is waylaid by a trap and the bandits direct them to the nearby inn. The waitress warns the journeymen of impending danger and they pass on the warning to the nobles. During the night, the brigands arrive. To escape, the Comtesse switches places with Felix and, in a man's clothes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer. His 1958 film ''Wir Wunderkinder'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival and his 1960 film ''The Haunted Castle (1960 film), The Haunted Castle'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1961 film ''The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi'' was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmann, Kurt 1910 births 2001 deaths Film people from Freiburg im Breisgau People from the Grand Duchy of Baden Film directors from Baden-Württemberg Best Director German Film Award winners German comedy film directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Fitz
Veronika Fitz (28 March 1936 – 2 January 2020) was a German television actress. She also had some solo-shows on the stage and produced a few singles. Her daughter Ariela Bogenberger is a director and producer. Selected filmography * ''The Vulture Wally (1956 film), The Vulture Wally'' (1956) * ''The Spessart Inn'' (1958) * ''The Haunted Castle (1960 film), The Haunted Castle'' (1960) * ''Oh! This Bavaria!'' (1960) * ''When Ludwig Goes on Manoeuvres'' (1967) * ''Don't Get Angry'' (1972) * ''Doctor Faustus (1982 film), Doctor Faustus'' (1982) * ''In aller Stille'' (2010) * ''Die Alpenklinik - Notfall für Dr. Guth'' (2011) References External links *Agency Peter Reinholz German television actresses 1936 births 2020 deaths People from Landsberg (district) German film actresses 20th-century German actresses Actresses from Bavaria {{Germany-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Herlth
Robert Herlth (2 May 1893 – 6 January 1962) was a German art director. He was one of the leading designers of German film sets during the 1920s and 1930s.Reimer & Reimer p.146 Filmography * ''Masks'' (1920) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * '' The Secret of Bombay'' (1921) * '' The Devil's Chains'' (1921) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) * '' Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' Parisian Women'' (1921) * '' Miss Julie'' (1922) * '' Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues'' (1922) * '' Luise Millerin'' (1922) * '' The Earl of Essex'' (1922) * '' The Treasure'' (1923) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * '' The Last Laugh'' (1924) * '' The Chronicles of the Gray House'' (1925) * ''Tartuffe'' (1926) * ''Faust'' (1926) * '' Luther'' (1928) * '' Looping the Loop'' (1928) * '' Whirl of Youth'' (1928) * '' Four Devils'' (1928) * ''Asphalt'' (1929) * '' The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * '' Manolescu'' (1929) * '' The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' The Temp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is not a state of its own. It ranks as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The metropolitan area has around 3 million inhabitants, and the broader Munich Metropolitan Region is home to about 6.2 million people. It is the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, third largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Munich is located on the river Isar north of the Alps. It is the seat of the Upper Bavaria, Upper Bavarian administrative region. With 4,500 people per km2, Munich is Germany's most densely populated municipality. It is also the second-largest city in the Bavarian language, Bavarian dialect area after Vienna. The first record of Munich dates to 1158. The city ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavaria Studios
Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the First World War. During their early years they were known as the Emelka Studios, while Geiselgasteig has also often been used to refer to them. They provided a provincial rival to the emerging dominance of Berlin studios, particularly the Universum Film AG, UFA conglomerate. Bavaria Film took over the studios, and became the dominant non-Berlin production company. During the Nazi era, Bavaria was one of the four major companies that dominated the German film industry alongside UFA, Terra Film, Terra and Tobis Film, Tobis. In 1942 the companies were merged into a single administrative UFI. When the Cold War began in the 1940s, many of the former Berlin studios were now in East Berlin on the other side of the Iron Curtain and the Bavaria Studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Wolter
Ralf Wolter (26 November 1926 – 14 October 2022) was a German stage and screen actor. Wolter appeared in nearly 220 films and television series in his over 60 years as a character actor. Life and career Wolter began his long career on the Berlin stage and in cabaret during the late 1940s. He made his first film appearance in ''Die Frauen des Herrn S.'' and quickly achieved prominence as an actor for comedic supporting roles. In 1961, he appeared as the baldheaded Soviet agent Borodenko in Billy Wilder's comedy ''One, Two, Three'' with James Cagney and Horst Buchholz. Another Hollywood film with Wolter in a supporting role was ''Cabaret'' (1972), where he played, alongside Liza Minnelli, the role of the neighbour Herr Ludwig, a publisher of pornographic books who later turns out to be a Nazi. In Germany, Wolter achieved his greatest fame as the eccentric but friendly trapper Sam Hawkens and as Hadschi Halef Omar in a number of highly successful Karl May film adaptations dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Complojer
Vera Complojer (1896–1969) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Giesen p.231 Selected filmography * '' Maria Ilona'' (1939) * '' Her First Experience'' (1939) * '' Detours to Happiness'' (1939) * '' Wunschkonzert'' (1940) * '' The Sinful Village'' (1940) * '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) * '' Melody of a Great City'' (1943) * '' Wild Bird'' (1943) * '' The White Adventure'' (1952) * '' The Poacher of the Silver Wood'' (1957) * '' Salzburg Stories'' (1957) * ''The Spessart Inn'' (1958) * ''Sebastian Kneipp Sebastian Kneipp (; 17 May 1821 – 17 June 1897) was a German Catholic priest and one of the forefathers of the naturopathic movement. He is most commonly associated with the "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy (often called "Kneipp therapy" o ...'' (1958) * '' I Must Go to the City'' (1962) * '' The Merry Wives of Tyrol'' (1964) * '' Der Weibsteufel'' (1966) * '' The Murderer with the Silk Scarf'' (1966) References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Göbel
Heini Göbel (1910–2009) was a German film, stage and television actor. In 1955 he portrayed Hercule Poirot in a German television adaptation of Agatha Christie's ''Murder on the Orient Express'' the first time the novel had been adapted for the screen.Aldridge p.288 Selected filmography * '' After the Rain Comes Sunshine'' (1949) * '' Trouble in Paradise'' (1950) * '' Two in One Suit'' (1950) * ''Desires'' (1952) * '' The Great Temptation'' (1952) * '' My Name is Niki'' (1952) * '' As Long as You're Near Me'' (1953) * '' The Missing Miniature'' (1954) * ''The Angel with the Flaming Sword'' (1954) * '' A Woman of Today'' (1954) * '' Hello, My Name Is Cox'' (1955) * '' The Last Man'' (1955) * '' I Know What I'm Living For'' (1955) * '' Kitty and the Great Big World'' (1956) * '' Marriages Forbidden'' (1957) * ''The Spessart Inn'' (1958) * ''Oh! This Bavaria! ''Oh! This Bavaria!'' () is a 1960 West German comedy film directed by Arnulf Schröder and starring Rudolf Vogel, Liesl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hanft
Karl Hanft (25 July 1904 – 2 February 1982) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Shock Troop'' (1934) * '' Enemies'' (1940) * '' The Endless Road'' (1943) * '' Tonelli'' (1943) * ''Orient Express The ''Orient Express'' was a long-distance passenger luxury train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company ''Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'' (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the length of continental Europe, w ...'' (1944) * '' Hubertus Castle'' (1954) * '' Salzburg Stories'' (1957) * '' The Beautiful Adventure'' (1959) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1960) References External links * 1904 births 1982 deaths Austrian male film actors Male actors from Vienna 20th-century Austrian male actors {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Esser
Paul Esser (24 April 1913 – 20 January 1988) was a German stage and television actor and voice actor. He is remembered for playing the lead role in the Sender Freies Berlin version of the detective series '' Tatort''. Esser was born in Geldern-Kapellen and died in Tenerife. Selected filmography * '' The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Liebesgeschichten'' (1943) - Oskar - 20 Jahre * ''Rotation'' (1949) - Hans Behnke * '' Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute'' (1950) - Heinrich, Musiker * ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1950) - Sir John Falstaff (Johannes Spenser) * '' Heart of Stone'' (1950) - Ezechiel * '' Man of Straw'' (1951) - Regierungspräsident von Wulckow * '' Homesick for You'' (1952) - Otto Klemke * '' Christina'' (1953) - Fritz Ohlsen, Knecht * '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1953) - Florian * '' A Life for Do'' (1954) - Onkel Karl * '' Prisoners of Love'' (1954) - Max * ''Hoheit lassen bitten'' (1954) - Bauunternehmer Kehlbach * '' Island of the Dead'' (1955) - Fritz Kahlmayer * '' ... [...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] |
