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Theo Nischwitz
Theo Nischwitz (1913–1994) was a German cinematographer and special effects expert. Following the Second World War he was head of special effects at the Munich-based Bavaria Film.Giesen & Storm p.170 He was married to the film editor Gertrud Hinz Gertrud Hinz (8 July 1912 – 1 September 1996) was a German film editor. She was married to the cinematographer Theo Nischwitz and was sometimes credited as Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz. She edited more than sixty films and television series during h .... Selected filmography Cinematographer * '' The Crew of the Dora'' (1943) * '' Nights on the Road'' (1952) Special effects * '' Bombs on Monte Carlo'' (1931) * '' F.P.1'' (1933) * '' Amphitryon'' (1935) * '' The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' (1943) * '' Wherever the Trains Travel'' (1949) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1960) References Bibliography * Giesen, Rolf & Storm J.P. ''Animation Under the Swastika: A History of Trickfilm in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945''. McFarland, 2012. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, Brexit, departure from the European Union. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany, and is the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country in terms of 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 4.5 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 reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nights On The Road
''Nights on the Road'' (german: Nachts auf den Straßen) is a 1952 West German crime film, crime drama film directed by Rudolf Jugert and starring Hans Albers, Hildegard Knef, Marius Goring and Lucie Mannheim. It was produced by the veteran Erich Pommer who had returned to Germany after years of exile. It is one of the more prominent German film noirs. It was acclaimed by German critics on its release and was awarded a prize at the Berlin Film Festival. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and location filming, on location in Frankfurt and various autobahns. The film's sets were designed by Rudolf Pfenninger and Ludwig Reiber. The production budget was around 900,000 deutschmarks.Hardt p. 190 Synopsis A happily married truck driver meets a much younger woman one night on the road and begins a relationship with her, which ends with her being drawn into the company of her criminal associate Kurt. Cast * Hans Albers as Heinrich Schlueter, truck driver * Hildegard Knef as I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Deaths
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela rect 0 400 200 600 1994 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 Births
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteers, Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing Ulster loyalism, loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Josip Broz Tito, Tito alongside Alban Berg, Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunted Castle (1960 Film)
''The Haunted Castle'' (german: Das Spukschloß im Spessart) is a 1960 West German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann. It was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. The film is a sequel to '' The Spessart Inn'' (1958) and was followed by '' Glorious Times at the Spessart Inn'' (1967). It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hein Heckroth Hein Heckroth (14 April 1901 in Gießen - 7 July 1970 in Amsterdam) was a German art director of stage and film productions. Heckroth began his career working with the German national ballet. Later, he moved to Great Britain and, after designi ... and Willy Schatz. Cast References External links * 1960 films 1960s comedy horror films 1960 musical comedy films 1960s fantasy comedy films West German films German musical comedy films German fantasy comedy films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Kurt Hoffmann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' is a 1988 adventure fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, and starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Robin Williams and Uma Thurman. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, the film is based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman Empire. The film was a notorious box office bomb, grossing just $8 million, losing Columbia Pictures $38 million. Despite this, it received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup. Plot In an unnamed war-torn European city in the "Age of Reason", amid explosions and gunfire from a large Ottoman army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen's life and adventures is taking pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphitryon
Amphitryon (; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιτρύων, ''gen''.: Ἀμφιτρύωνος; usually interpreted as "harassing either side", Latin: Amphitruo), in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis. His mother was named either Astydameia, the daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia, or Laonome, daughter of Guneus, or else Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus. Amphitryon was the brother of Anaxo (wife of Electryon), and Perimede, wife of Licymnius. He was a husband of Alcmene, Electryon's daughter, and stepfather of the Greek hero Heracles.Roman, L., & Roman, M. (2010). Mythology Amphitryon, a Theban general, was originally from Tiryns in the eastern part of the Peloponnese, and was a friend of Panopeus. Having accidentally killed his father-in-law Electryon, king of Mycenae, Amphitryon was driven out by Electryon's brother, Sthenelus. He fled with Alcmene to Thebes, where he was cleansed from the guilt of blood by Creon, king of Thebes. Alcmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombs On Monte Carlo (1931 Film)
''Bombs on Monte Carlo'' (german: Bomben auf Monte Carlo) is a 1931 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Hans Albers, Anna Sten, and Heinz Rühmann. The film is based on the novel '' Bomben auf Monte Carlo'' (1930) by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in August 1931. The film is known for featuring the German a capella band Comedian Harmonists, who perform the song '' Das ist die Liebe der Matrosen''. Plot Captain Craddock commands the Mediterranean cruiser Persimon, which sails under the flag of the Kingdom of Pontenero. Like his crew, he hasn't received any pay for a long time because the kingdom is bankrupt. Therefore, he refuses to take Queen Yola I on board for a Mediterranean cruise. Instead, he goes to Monte Carlo to confront the Pontenero consul there. But Yola is already there incognito, who, for lack of money, sacrifices her pearl necklace, for which Craddock finally receives 100,000 francs. Disguised as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crew Of The Dora
''The Crew of the Dora'' (german: Besatzung Dora) is a 1943 German film about ''Luftwaffe'' pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together. The film was banned in 1944, because of the worsening war situation; while on leave one character inspires a girl with hopes of settling in the east, a dream that no longer appeared possible. Cast *Hannes Stelzer as Flugzeugführer Leutnant Joachim Krane * Hubert Kiurina as Leutnant Franz von Borcke * Josef Dahmen as Feldwebel Otto Roggenkamp *Georg Thomalla as Bordschütze Unteroffizier Fritz Mott * Ernst von Klipstein as Hauptmann Kurt Gillhausen * Clemens Hasse as Oberleutnant Erich Krumbhaar *Helmut Schabrich as Oberleutnant Semmler * Wolfgang Preiss as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner *Suse Graf as Dr. Marianne Güldener *Charlott Daudert as Mathilde Kronschnabel *Carsta Löck as Straßenbahnschaffnerin Betty Schütte * Roma Bahn as Laborantin Fräulein Bornschlegel * Otz Tollen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (), Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary empire led by an emperor, although has been used in German to denote the Roman Empire because it had a weak hereditary tradition. In the case of the German Empire, the official name was , which is properly translated as "German Empire" because the official position of head of state in the constitution of the German Empire was officially a " presidency" of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia who would assume "the title of German Emperor" as referring to the German people, but was not emperor of Germany as in an emperor of a state. –The German Empire" ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''. vol. 63, issue 376, pp. 591–603; here p. 593. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich, as well as simply Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud Hinz
Gertrud Hinz (8 July 1912 – 1 September 1996) was a German film editor. She was married to the cinematographer Theo Nischwitz and was sometimes credited as Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz. She edited more than sixty films and television series during her career. In the Nazi era she edited the anti-British adventure film '' Uproar in Damascus'' (1939) and the war film '' Bloodbrotherhood'' (1941).Giesen p.189 Selected filmography * '' Ride to Freedom'' (1937) * '' The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (1937) * ''Tango Notturno'' (1937) * ''Secret Code LB 17'' (1938) *'' The Secret Lie'' (1938) * '' Uproar in Damascus'' (1939) * '' Bloodbrotherhood'' (1941) * '' Mask in Blue'' (1943) * '' Circus Renz'' (1943) * ''Beloved Darling'' (1943) * ''Carnival of Love'' (1943) * '' Music in Salzburg'' (1944) * '' I'll Make You Happy'' (1949) * '' The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan'' (1949) * '' The Secret of the Red Cat'' (1949) * ''Regimental Music'' (1950) * '' The Last Shot'' (1951) * '' Heart's Desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
