George Schnéevoigt

Birth : 1893-12-23, Copenhagen, Denmark

Death : 1961-02-06

History

George Schnéevoigt, born Fritz Ernst George Fischer, was a Danish film director and cinematographer.

Movies

Alle mand paa dæk
Director
Tordenskjold gaar i Land
Director
Jeg har elsket og levet
Director
Champagnegaloppen
Director
Laila
Director
A story of Lap herders who rescue a baby from a herd of wolves and name her Laila (played by Aino Taube as an adult). The pictorial beauty of the country is complimented by action shots of wolves and reindeer.
6th draw
Director
Fredlös
Writer
Fredlös
Director
Rasmines bryllup
Director
Nøddebo Præstegaard
Director
Lynet
Director
De blaa drenge
Director
Sylvia Grøn bliver fyret som lærerinde. I stedet slår hun sig sammen med sin store beundrer, skuespilleren Herman Sander. Sylvia Grøn lægger sine sparepenge i hans rejsende teater, men det går dårligt for teatret. Billedet af Herman Sander falmer også efterhånden som tiden går. Sylvias gamle elev, Eva Kristoffersen, søger tilflugt i teatertruppen. Hun er hemmeligt forelsket i komponisten Henrik Brandt. Lige inden nøglen må drejes om for teatergruppen får Sylvia en ide. Henrik Brandt har skrevet et teaterstykke og det vil hun sætte op.
Tango
Director
The "Tango Bar" is the fashion of the moment. The city's party-goers have chosen the small, cozy, intimate local venue for the night's wee hours. Gaby Grant is an ideal hostess who knows how to get guests to forget the day's sorrows and troubles - and knows how to get them to pay.
Nyhavn 17
Director
Lalla vinner!
Director
Using the money she won in the lottery, kitchen maid Lalla checks in to an expensive hotel, pretending to be a consule.
Odds 777
Director
A lottery win allows the kitchen girl Hansy Hansen to lodge at an upmarket seaside hotel where the widower landowner Rosen falls in love with her. However, Rosen is in financial difficulties because of the lawyer Sadolin, who reneged on marrying his daughter. He puts everything he can into the daughter's horse to win a race.
Tretten Aar
Writer
Poul Løwe is young, charming and rich - and his secretary Gretel is the same, except for the rich - and none of them are mutual blind to each other's characteristics, making it difficult for them to concentrate on the typewriter. There's just one difficult and embarrassing problem: Poul is married!
Tretten Aar
Director
Poul Løwe is young, charming and rich - and his secretary Gretel is the same, except for the rich - and none of them are mutual blind to each other's characteristics, making it difficult for them to concentrate on the typewriter. There's just one difficult and embarrassing problem: Poul is married!
Kirke og orgel
Director
Want to Bet a Million?
Director
Consul General Winterfeld is not thrilled that his son Jørgen will marry showgirl Aurora. He promises Jørgen a million if he can spend a month in the company of Aurora without there being a fight.
The Secret of Hotel Paradise
Director
The innkeeper Schultze and his wife are broke and don't know how to pay their rent when a shipwrecked sailor shows up with a chest full of money. In despair the Schultze couple murders the sailor.
Hotel paradis
Director
Henrik and Emilie Schultze rent the Hotel Paradis in a small, poor fishing village by the coast.
The Vicar of Vejlby
Director
A tale of murder and marriage in 1625 Denmark.
Eskimo
Director
Jack Norton is a careless gambler, until his father turns his back on him. Dead drunk he winds up on a boat going far up North, where he leaves the boat, only to be saved by Eskimos, where he soon falls in love.
Laila
Writer
Ranged across several generations, the story begins with a wealthy merchant, Lind, and his wife travelling in the coldest depths of winter to christen their baby daughter. Attacked by wolves, they lose the baby, which is found by the Lapp Jaampa (a dominating performance by Tryggve Larssen) and subsequently raised by a rich reindeer herder,
Laila
Director
Ranged across several generations, the story begins with a wealthy merchant, Lind, and his wife travelling in the coldest depths of winter to christen their baby daughter. Attacked by wolves, they lose the baby, which is found by the Lapp Jaampa (a dominating performance by Tryggve Larssen) and subsequently raised by a rich reindeer herder,
Cafe X
Director of Photography
Karl Kraft uncovers a major weapon smuggling scheme going on in Oslo. Along the way he meets the waitress Lilly, who is involved in the affair.
Norges-filmen
Cinematography
A propaganda film about the beautiful country Norway, meant for tourists abroad.
The People of the Borderland
Director of Photography
FRAGMENT | The Family Steffensen lives on a farm in Southern Jutland. The area has been under German rule for 60 years, when WW I suddenly breaks out. The possibility of regaining the lost land brings new hope to the border people, but the poor Steffensen's farm is threatened by compulsory sale. Secretly, the youngest son runs off to Denmark to get money, but he doesn't make it back before his parents are forced out of their home. Surprisingly, the family's farm laborer has come into money and acquires the farm. The restored film is only a fragment of the original film. The fragment consists of the film's ending, where it's exposed who the mystical farm laborer really is. (stumfilm.dk)
Baldevins bryllup
Director
Baldevins bryllup (English: Baldevin's wedding) is a 1926 Norwegian comedy film directed by George Schnéevoigt, starring Einar Sissener and Victor Bernau. The film is based on a play by Vilhelm Krag, and tells the story of how Simen Sørensen (Bernau) manages to get his friend Baldevin Jonassen (Sissener) married to the lady next door. The film was renovated in 2006, for the 100-years anniversary of Kristiansand Cinema.
Master of the House
Director of Photography
A bully browbeats his wife and children until he meets his match in the woman who raised him.
Once Upon a Time
Director of Photography
The Princess of Illyria has spurned every suitor, when a gypsy loitering around the castle catches her eye. In actuality, he is the Prince of Denmark, there with his friend Kasper Røghat. The prince captivates her with magic devices, a noisemaker and a copper kettle, in return for kisses and a night in her bedchamber. When Kasper Røghat tells the king about the “affair,” the princess is thrown out of the castle, forcing her to settle in Denmark with the prince and work as a poor potter. Will the fairytale have a happy ending?
Growth of the Soil
Director of Photography
In rural Norway in the early 20th century, the homesteader Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with his wife Inger and their two sons. Life is both harsh and fulfilling.
Leaves from Satan's Book
Director of Photography
The power of Satan is highlighted in four historical tales: the betrayal and subsequent arrest of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the execution of Marie Antoinette, and the Finnish War of Independence in 1918.
The Parson's Widow
Director of Photography
A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems--first, the widow is old enough to be his grandmother, and second, he is already engaged to another woman.
De mystiske Z-Straaler
Cinematography
Karsakow is a circus dancer who's just lost his job. How will his little brother Vladir and himself survive? In the paper Karsakow reads about the inventor Berg, who has constructed a light beam that shines through everything. The Z beam. Professor Berg seeks persons to participate in scientific research with the development of the Z beam. When Karsakow's agent can't find him any new work, he decides to contact Berg.
De mystiske Z-Straaler
Writer
Karsakow is a circus dancer who's just lost his job. How will his little brother Vladir and himself survive? In the paper Karsakow reads about the inventor Berg, who has constructed a light beam that shines through everything. The Z beam. Professor Berg seeks persons to participate in scientific research with the development of the Z beam. When Karsakow's agent can't find him any new work, he decides to contact Berg.
De mystiske Z-Straaler
Director
Karsakow is a circus dancer who's just lost his job. How will his little brother Vladir and himself survive? In the paper Karsakow reads about the inventor Berg, who has constructed a light beam that shines through everything. The Z beam. Professor Berg seeks persons to participate in scientific research with the development of the Z beam. When Karsakow's agent can't find him any new work, he decides to contact Berg.
Mysteriet på Duncan Slot
Writer
There are strange things going on at Duncan Castle, where some metaphysical being seems to have been spreading a psychological disease.
Mysteriet på Duncan Slot
Director
There are strange things going on at Duncan Castle, where some metaphysical being seems to have been spreading a psychological disease.
Under galgen
Director of Photography
Colonel Bjelke is disturbed by the fact that his beautiful wife Yelva spends a lot of time with Lt. Sparre. Yelva is planning a visit to the fortune teller to find about her future.
Dødsklokken
Bertram
Lt. Charley is sent to deliver a message and has to get there before the enemy crosses the territory. But a spy intercepts the message and Lt. Charley is accused of being a traitor.