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Director. Writer. Studied at the Deutsches Institut fuer Film und Fernsehen (DIFF) in Munich, Germany, as well as at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC) in Paris, France. In 1969 he founded the production company Hallelujah Film together with Volker Schlöndorff. Since 1992 he is co-manager of the Babelsberg studios in Potsdam, Germany (former UFA/DEFA).- Maria Bard was born on 7 July 1900 in Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931), G.P.U. (1942) and Husbands or Lovers (1924). She was married to Hannes Stelzer, Werner Krauss and Wilhelm Graaff. She died on 24 January 1944 in Potsdam, Germany.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Werner Hochbaum was born on 7 March 1899 in Kiel, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Die ewige Maske (1935), Vorstadtvariete (1935) and Schatten der Vergangenheit (1936). He died on 15 April 1946 in Potsdam, Germany.- Chris Donah was born on 27 September 1966. He died on 14 September 2021 in Potsdam, New York, USA.
- Horst Giese was born on 31 January 1926 in Neuruppin, Mark Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977), Nakovalnya ili chuk (1972) and Osvobozhdenie: Napravlenie glavnogo udara (1971). He died on 29 December 2008 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Peter Jahoda was born on 30 November 1952 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Zwerg Nase (1978), Spuk von draußen (1987) and Dein unbekannter Bruder (1982). He died in 1990 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Lore Frisch was born on 4 May 1925 in Schwindegg, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Meine Frau macht Musik (1958), Das Tor zum Paradies (1949) and Zar und Zimmermann (1956). She died on 6 July 1962 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Tilly Lauenstein was born on 28 July 1916 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse, Germany. She was an actress, known for The College Girl Murders (1967), Cäsar und Cleopatra (1969) and Die Troerinnen (1966). She was married to ???. She died on 8 May 2002 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Lothar Warneke was born on 15 September 1936 in Leipzig, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Bear Ye One Another's Burden (1988), Die Beunruhigung (1982) and Addio, piccola mia (1979). He died on 5 June 2005 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Angela Brunner was born on 12 January 1931 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Wolf unter Wölfen (1964), Genesung (1956) and Eine Handvoll Noten (1961). She was married to Walter Kaufmann. She died on 17 June 2011 in Kleinmachnow, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg, Germany.
- King Frederick III of Prussia was born on 18 October 1831 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg, Germany]. He was married to Princess Royal Victoria. He died on 15 June 1888 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg], Germany.
- Werner Dissel was born on 26 August 1912 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das grüne Ungeheuer (1962), Immenhof (1994) and Solange Leben in mir ist (1965). He died on 22 January 2003 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Costume Designer
Otto Hunte qualified with a degree from the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg. He first came to notice as a stage designer in Berlin around the turn of the century. When he entered films in 1919 as a set decorator and costume designer, he joined a highly skilled team (usually working in tandem with top craftsmen like Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht), frequently for the director Fritz Lang. As production designer/art director, Hunte was especially renowned for the darkly sinister, gothic sets he created for Lang's mammoth "Nibelungen" saga. In perfect contrast to these were his stylised futuristic designs for the underground Metropolis (1927); the monumental and richly ornate architecture for the sacrificial temple of Eschnapur in the two-part epic "Das Indische Grabmal" (and, similarly, for the city of Ophir in the fifth instalment of "Die Herrin der Welt").
With the advent of sound, Hunte's work adapted to more contemporary requirements, such as the seedy night club setting for The Blue Angel (1930). An atomic reactor designed for the film Gold (1934) was apparently so convincing, that the Allies confiscated all prints of the film after the war. During the mid-1930's, Hunte sadly blotted his copy book by working on several notorious Nazi propaganda films. Ironically, his penultimate contribution was the anti-Nazi drama Murderers Among Us (1946). This, the first so-called 'Trümmer-film', was an immensely effective evocation of devastated post-war Germany.- Friedrich Kayßler was born on 7 April 1874 in Neurode, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Nowa Ruda, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Bismarck (1940), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) and Gold (1934). He was married to Helene Fehdmer and Luise. He died on 30 April 1945 in Kleinmachnow, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Georg Leopold was born on 30 March 1920 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Oh, diese Jugend (1962), Begegnungen (1967) and Tempel des Satans (1962). He was married to Krista-Sigrid Lau. He died on 17 June 2004 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Christa Müller was born on 8 March 1936 in Leipzig, Germany. She was a writer, known for Zum Beispiel Josef (1974), Der Traum vom Elch (1986) and Unser kurzes Leben (1981). She died on 2 October 2021 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Executive
Alfred Tolle was born on 2 October 1903 in Görlitz, Germany. He was a production designer and art director, known for Musterknaben (1959), Besondere Kennzeichen: keine (1956) and Seine Hoheit - Genosse Prinz (1969). He died on 10 September 1989 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.- Ilse Korseck was born on 12 May 1911 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier (1930), Madame hat Ausgang (1931) and Wie werde ich reich und glücklich? (1930). She died on 22 February 1933 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Actor
- Production Manager
Harry Studt was born on 20 February 1899 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and production manager, known for Zar und Zimmermann (1956), Kein Hüsung (1954) and The Assassination (1964). He died on 23 January 1976 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Horst E. Brandt was born on 17 January 1923 in Berlin, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Brot und Rosen (1967), Zwischen Nacht und Tag (1975) and Der Lude (1984). He was married to Ingeborg Kampfert and Eva Schottek. He died on 22 August 2009 in Kleinmachnow, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg, Germany.- Gertraud Kreissig was born in 1938 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Traum des Hauptmann Loy (1961), Einer muß die Leiche sein (1978) and Maria Stuart (1980). She died on 15 June 2011 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- German Army Gen. Kurt von Schleicher was born in 1882 in Brandenburg, Germany (then Prussia), the son of an officer in the Prussian army. He himself enlisted in the Prussian army, soon graduating from officer training school with the rank of lieutenant. In 1909 he attended the Prussian Military Academy, where he made the acquaintance of future political leader Franz von Papen. Schleicher subsequently was assigned to the Railway Department of the Prussian General Staff.
When World War I broke out Schleicher, now a captain, was attached to the General Staff at Supreme Army Command. During the year-long battle of Verdun--in which more than one million men died--Schleicher suspected that the reason many of the German artillery shells, for example, didn't explode on contact was because of shoddy workmanship due to defense contractors' greed for profits, and he wrote a blistering paper attacking war profiteering. That earned him a reputation as a liberal--not the best thing to be known as in an organization as fanatically conservative as the Prussian officer corps--and he spent the rest of the war on the General Staff. After the war he became assistant to Gen. Wilhelm Groener, who was placed in charge of the German army. In November of 1918 Germany was torn by political turmoil, much of it coming from a militant, armed leftist group known as the Spartacist League. Schleicher was used by the army as the negotiator between the civilian government and army, which wanted to enter Berlin and crush the Spartacist revolution once and for all. Schleicher managed to persuade the government to accede to the army's wishes, which caused his stock to rise in the halls of power within Germany. It was Schleicher's efforts that led to the government allowing the army to remain basically autonomous, without civilian oversight or control, in exchange for the army's promise to protect the government against any further revolutionary attacks.
One problem the army had was that, due to the Treaty of Versailles' restrictions on the size of the newly re-formed German army, many of the troops left in the army couldn't be counted on to remain completely loyal. Schleicher solved that problem by helping to form "freikorps", or paramilitary-type militia units, which consisted mainly of disaffected German veterans, in addition to street toughs, ex-convicts and convicted criminals. These units, while not officially part of the German army, were used to crush political opposition--the Spartacist League, for example, was effectively destroyed by the freikorps--in either street battles or straight-out assassinations, often in close cooperation with army officials. Adolf Hitler's feared "Storm Troopers", and later his even more feared SS, originally consisted mostly of former or current freikorps members. The German army did not consider the Weimar Republic, the elected government at the time, to be legitimate, and did everything it could to sabotage and undermine it. Schleicher's main function was to ensure that the army stayed independent of the government and got what it wanted without giving anything up, a task at which he succeeded admirably.
Schleicher rose quickly through the ladders of power in the German army and government, gaining a reputation for ambition and ruthlessness combined with a knack for ingratiating himself with the powers-that-be and a mastery of the intricacies and intrigues of the cutthroat--and lethal--politics of the time. He became a proponent of the philosophy of "total war" against Germany's real and perceived enemies and found ways around the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, meant to ensure that Germany would never re-arm itself to the point where it would pose another threat to peace in Europe. He used the freikorps to crush street protests against the government and even to assassinate political opponents. He became a close confidant and adviser to German President Paul von Hindenburg through his friendship with Hindenburg's son, a fellow army officer. In that capacity he exercised immense power and used that power to undermine the democratic process in Germany--he believed that only a military dictatorship, with him as head, could "make Germany great again"--and decided to use the ever-increasing power of Adolf Hitler's Nazi movement to accomplish that. He believed that he could use the Nazis to crush all domestic opposition and put them in power, then destroy them himself. However, Nazi officials knew Schleicher better than he thought they did--Herman Goering once quipped that "any Chancellor who has Herr von Schleicher on his side must expect sooner or later to be sunk by the Schleicher torpedo"--and they had no illusions as to what he had in store for them.
Schleicher's rise to power eventually resulted in his being appointed Chancellor. However, his term turned out to be a disaster. His relations with the Cabinet were frosty at best, and his once solid friendship with President Hindenburg's son evaporated over some sort of personal affront--it's never been made clear exactly what happened--but it also resulted in the loss of his access to President von Hindenburg himself. Schleicher's skills at political intrigue didn't translate into skills at governing, and he alienated practically every level of the German government and society itself. Matters finally came to a head when the army leadership demanded that Hindenburg fire Schleicher as Chancellor and install Hitler, which Hindenburg did on January 30, 1933.
Schleicher tried to ingratiate himself with the new Hitler government, but with little success. Hearing of the growing rift between Hitler and SA (Storm Trooper) leader Ernst Röhm, Schleicher decided to throw in with Rohm against Hitler. That proved to be his undoing. Hitler, fearing that Rohm was organizing a coup against him by the SA, moved against Rohm on June 30, 1934, thereafter known as "The Night of the Long Knives". Rohm and the top SA leadership and their associates were arrested and imprisoned--many, including Rohm, were murdered in their cells by SS executioners--and many more were simply shot as soon as they were found. Unfortunately for Schleicher, he was one of them. SS assassins burst into his house that night and shot and killed Schleicher and his wife. - Actor
- Writer
Armando was born on 18 September 1929 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor and writer, known for Herenleed (1971), Het voorval - Armando en de mythe (2018) and Zomergasten (1988). He died on 1 July 2018 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Eduard Claudius was born on 29 July 1911 in Buer, Westphalia, Germany. He was a writer, known for Wo Du hin gehst... (1957). He died on 13 December 1976 in Potsdam, Germany.
- Actor
- Producer
Ernst Hofmann was born on 7 December 1880 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Die Fledermaus (1923), Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin (1922) and Emerald of Death (1919). He was married to Hedda. He died on 27 April 1945 in Potsdam, Germany.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Karl-Ernst Sasse was born on 5 December 1923 in Bremen, Germany. He was a composer and actor, known for Destiny (1921), The Last Laugh (1924) and Das Licht auf dem Galgen (1976). He was married to Inge Burg. He died on 12 November 2006 in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Brandenburg, Germany.- Hans Hardt-Hardtloff was born on 8 August 1906 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Schüsse unterm Galgen (1968), Frau Venus und ihr Teufel (1967) and Das unsichtbare Visier (1973). He died on 24 May 1974 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Lothar Bellag was born on 27 November 1930 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Daniel Druskat (1976), Johann Sebastian Bach (1985) and Wie ein Vogel im Schwarm (1990). He died on 8 August 2001 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Eva Schäfer was born on 18 September 1924 in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany. She was an actress, known for Trampen nach Norden (1977), Isabel on the Stairs (1984) and Kaskade rückwärts (1984). She died on 31 August 2003 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Charly Berger was born on 19 November 1881 in Germany. He was an actor, known for Er oder ich (1930), Was ist los im Zirkus Beely? (1927) and Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt (1933). He died on 28 April 1945 in Potsdam, Germany.
- Thea Schmidt-Keune was born on 9 October 1920 in Hannover, Germany. She was an actress, known for Feuer unter Deck (1979), Archiv des Todes (1980) and Chiffriert an Chef - Ausfall Nr. 5 (1979). She was married to Victor Keune. She died on 17 March 1993 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Special Effects
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Ernst Kunstmann was born on 25 January 1898 in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Brandenburg, Germany. He was a cinematographer, known for Metropolis (1927), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and The Last Laugh (1924). He died on 30 May 1995 in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Brandenburg, Germany.- Fiona Lorenz died on 29 July 2014 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Theresia Wider was born on 21 April 1937 in Reigersfeld, Oberschlesien, Germany. She was an actress, known for Sing, Cowboy, sing (1981), Zille und ick (1983) and Addio, piccola mia (1979). She died on 17 February 2012 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Ulli Günther was born on 24 July 1942 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Der goldene Schuß (1964) and Musik aus Studio B (1961). He died on 13 October 1999 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Trude Brentina was born on 23 August 1899 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Unterwegs nach Atlantis (1977), Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) and Besondere Kennzeichen: keine (1956). She died on 31 July 1986 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Heinz Thiel was born on 10 May 1920 in Magdeburg, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Brot und Rosen (1967), Reserviert für den Tod (1963) and Im Sonderauftrag (1959). He died on 9 March 2003 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Peter Brand was born on 1 August 1937 in Gera, Thuringia, Germany. He was a cinematographer, known for Das unsichtbare Visier (1973), Der fliegende Holländer (1964) and Sabine Wulff (1978). He died on 10 April 2023 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Joachim Tomaschewsky was born on 1 April 1919 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Reader (2008), Archiv des Todes (1980) and Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1970). He was married to Gisela Morgen. He died on 8 February 2019 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Karl Gass was born on 2 February 1917 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Kosmos - Erinnerungen an Alexander von Humboldt (1960), Allons enfants... pour l'Algérie (1962) and Der Oktober kam... (1970). He was married to Gitta Nickel and Christel Hemmerling-Gass. He died on 29 January 2009 in Kleinmachnow, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Germany.- Actress
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ilse Bastubbe was born on 30 April 1935 in Stolp, Pomerania, Germany. She was an actress and assistant director, known for Geheimcode B 13 (1967), Eine Handvoll Noten (1961) and Musterknaben (1959). She died on 26 June 2010 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Egon Günther was born on 30 March 1927 in Schneeberg, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam (1990), Morenga (1985) and Lotte in Weimar (1975). He was married to Franziska and Helga Schütz. He died on 31 August 2017 in Potsdam, Germany.- Actor
- Director
Günter Rüger was born on 24 July 1926 in Leipzig, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Hochzeitsnacht im Regen (1967), Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) and Der fliegende Holländer (1964). He was married to Inge Noack. He died on 14 May 2015 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.- Benno Pludra was born on 1 October 1925 in Mückenberg, Germany. He was a writer, known for Tambari (1977), Lütt Matten und die weisse Muschel (1964) and Ein Sommertag macht keine Liebe (1961). He was married to Waltraut. He died on 27 August 2014 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Alfred Struwe was born on 22 April 1927 in Marienburg, East Prussia, Germany [now Malbork, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Das unsichtbare Visier (1973), Front ohne Gnade (1984) and Das große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck (1981). He was married to Brigitte. He died on 12 February 1998 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Roland Oehme was born on 27 October 1935 in Gräfenhainichen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Wie füttert man einen Esel (1974), Einfach Blumen aufs Dach (1979) and Der Mann, der nach der Oma kam (1972). He died on 29 November 2022 in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Brandenburg, Germany.- Rose Becker was born on 2 June 1929. She was an actress, known for Résiste - Aufstand der Praktikanten (2009), Der letzte Zeuge (1998) and Zille und ick (1983). She died on 30 October 2019 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Friedrich Teitge was born on 8 May 1899 in Potsdam, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die schwarze Galeere (1962), Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957) and Der fliegende Holländer (1964). He died on 6 October 1976 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.
- Erich Schlossarek was born on 22 April 1928 in Spremberg, Germany. Erich was a writer, known for Zwischen vierzig und fünfzig (1974), Plantagenstraße 19 (1979) and Der zweite Mann (1978). Erich died on 10 June 2011 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Writer
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kurt Barthel was born on 30 January 1931 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Fräulein Schmetterling (1966), Die Nacht im Grenzwald (1968) and The Divided Heaven (1964). He was married to Petra Barthel and ???. He died on 3 January 2014 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.