Karl Anton

Nascimento : 1898-10-25, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Morte : 1979-04-12

Filmes

The Avenger
Director
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.
Der kühne Schwimmer
Director
Viktor und Viktoria
Director
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome, when she falls in love with Robert.
Die Christel von der Post
Director
Hello Kathrin
Screenplay
German musical with Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander.
Hello Kathrin
Director
German musical with Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander.
Clivia
Director
Der Vetter aus Dingsda
Writer
Der Vetter aus Dingsda
Director
Die Rose von Stambul
Director
Von Liebe reden wir später
Director
Der Weibertausch
Director
Ruf an das Gewissen
Director
Verlobte Leute
Executive Producer
Verlobte Leute
Director
Der große Fall
Director
Peter Voss, der Millionendieb
Writer
Adaptation of Seeliger's novel, starting production in 1943, finished by DEFA studios after the war.
Peter Voss, der Millionendieb
Director
Adaptation of Seeliger's novel, starting production in 1943, finished by DEFA studios after the war.
Der große Preis
Director
The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a factory, which produces racing cars only, or someone can (or even must) get murdered. Not a good movie, not a bad either. The ending is abrupt and artificial, which seems to be a common plague of Third Reich's crime movies. Gustav Fröhlich could never get rid of his silent era mannerisms and overacting. But on the other side, this film is not boring and has to offer some decent plot turns and acting.
Die Hochstaplerin
Director
A fake countess falls in love with an honest man.
Kollege kommt gleich
Director
Die Wirtin zum weißen Röss'l
Director
Die große Nummer
Director
Die Sache mit Styx
Director
Immer nur Du
Director
The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.
The Star of Rio
Director
We're Dancing Around the World
Director
Mit versiegelter Order
Director
White Slaves
Director
Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship becomes a dancehall. Bloodbath, pillage and kidnapping follows. A Nazi/Germany propaganda film.
Martha
Director
At the English court, at the beginning of the 18th century, Lady Henriett fell in love with a farmer, Lionel, who, following a mistake, believes her to be his servant. By learning his quality, Lionel refuses to receive the one he already considered his fiancée. The queen herself will appease this lover's quarrel and, moreover, will free the peasants of his kingdom.
Martha
Director
At the start of the 18th century, British Queen Anne, inspired by her German born lady in waiting, emancipates the country's farmers and peasants.
Arènes joyeuses
Director
Cabissol, the Mayor of Martigues, a town in the South of France, wishes to organize a bullfight as part of the coming festivities. But that is not counting on Escopette, an opponent of bullfighting, who kidnaps the bulls. What further complicates things is that the appointed bullfighter, Chico de Granada, takes the French leave with Violette, one of Cabissol's daughters. As a measure of retaliation, Cabissol decides to force Escopette to replace Chico in the arena. Fortunately, Rémy, the head herdsman, comes to his rescue. Finally, everything goes well and Cabissol is so happy that he gives Rémy the hand of Marguerite, his other daughter.
Monsieur Sans-Gêne
Director
A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American comedy One Rainy Afternoon, released by United Artists.
La cinquième empreinte
Director
Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigate. Jean, the victim's butler, Lucie as well as Florence are suspected in turns but the real murderer is finally identified thanks to his fingerprints.
A Fly in the Ointment
Director
A young man drowning in debts must make a rich marriage to pay them off. But his friend compromises the plan until there is one that she likes and she herself has found a new protector.
Simone est comme ça
Director
Les surprises du sleeping
Director
Prince Philippe of Bracowa must join his fiancée by train. The young and pretty Gisèle is on the same train, for her too to join her fiancé.
Un soir de réveillon
Director
Matricule 33
Director
In 1917, a French deserter entered the service of German counterintelligence, but Villard (number 33) was a real French spy. Discovered, he is saved by a German spy who betrays her country for love.
I'm a Girl with a Devil in the Flesh
Director
This Czech sophisticated romantic comedy, filmed by director Anton also in a parallel French version ("Une petite femme dans le train"), casts beautiful Czech star Baarova in the role that Meg Lemonnier played in the Gallic version.
Nothing But Lies
Director
Two husbands claim to be Freemasons so they can go out at night. Where do they go, if not to the lodge, the Masonic lodge? In reality, one goes to visit a pretty and particularly welcoming concierge in his dressing room, and the other spends his evenings in the dressing room of a little music-hall actress.
Le chasseur de chez Maxim's
Director
A man is a hunter at Maxim's restaurant. He lives in the provinces and his family is unaware of his profession. As soon as he has enough money, he quits his job and goes home for his daughter's wedding to a marquis. This one is a regular at the restaurant and the man tries to prevent the wedding before the truth is discovered.
Make Up
Director
Misfortunes and disarray of the little clown Leroy who is upstaged by a comrade, Bertini, and sees himself abandoned by his girlfriend Ginette, preferring his collaborator to him.
Une petite femme dans le train
Director
Sophisticated romantic comedy of suspicious husbands, straying wives, handsome lovers, with various misunderstandings thrown in for good measure. (Including a gender-reversal of the old Pirandello plot twist from "The Late Mathias Pascal" of the protagonist changing identities after supposedly perishing in a train wreck.)
Shout It from the House Tops
Director
The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.
Mister Albert
Director
Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.
The naked truth
Director
The Champion Cook
Director
Le Cordon Bleu doesn't refer to a ham-and-veal delicacy, though there is plenty of ham in this Gallic comedy. The scene is a posh Parisian hotel-restaurant, which ends up a hotbed of infidelity and mistaken identity. Hotel cook Regina is romantically involved with her boss Octave, the husband of Irma. Mistaken for another woman, Irma is passionately pursued by Bernereau, whose wife gets involved with someone else's husband, whose wife gets involved with.
The Case of Colonel Redl
Editor
The case of Colonel Redl -- an officer blackmailed into spying by virtue of his homosexuality.
The Case of Colonel Redl
Director
The case of Colonel Redl -- an officer blackmailed into spying by virtue of his homosexuality.
A Girl from the Reeperbahn
Editor
Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the silent assistant Jens in a secluded, small world. When the only survivor from a shipwreck, young Margot from Reeperbahn, is washed up on the island, Uwe's feelings arouses. But dark clouds appear in the sky.
A Girl from the Reeperbahn
Writer
Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the silent assistant Jens in a secluded, small world. When the only survivor from a shipwreck, young Margot from Reeperbahn, is washed up on the island, Uwe's feelings arouses. But dark clouds appear in the sky.
A Girl from the Reeperbahn
Director
Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the silent assistant Jens in a secluded, small world. When the only survivor from a shipwreck, young Margot from Reeperbahn, is washed up on the island, Uwe's feelings arouses. But dark clouds appear in the sky.
Tonka of the Gallows
Producer
A prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.
Tonka of the Gallows
Editor
A prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.
Tonka of the Gallows
Director
A prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.
Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara II.
Director
Pohádka máje
Director
A lyrical tale of the pure, vernal romance between a diffident, somewhat naive girl from a rural backwater and a fairly dissolute, but kind-hearted law student from Prague.
Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara I.
Director
Do panského stavu
Director
The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
Screenplay
The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
Director
Tu ten kámen
Director
Tu ten kámen
Screenplay
Tu ten kámen
Story
Poslední polibek
Director
Mrtví žijí
Gypsies
Screenplay
The tale of the Venetian gondolier whose desire for revenge following a thwarted love affair leads him to Bohemia. The intricate plot also deals with destinies of other characters, who finally come together in a dramatic encounter at one time and in one place. In his role as screenwriter and director, Anton produced a highly accomplished version of Mácha’s work. He respected the original but was also able, along with the DoP Karel Kopřiva, to capitalise on the possibilities that the film medium offered. For the Venice prologue, the filmmakers exploited the photogenic qualities of the city – the narrow streets, the lagoons, gondolas and the sea – and they moved the set to the enigmatic Czech landscape around the castle of Kokořín.
Gypsies
Director
The tale of the Venetian gondolier whose desire for revenge following a thwarted love affair leads him to Bohemia. The intricate plot also deals with destinies of other characters, who finally come together in a dramatic encounter at one time and in one place. In his role as screenwriter and director, Anton produced a highly accomplished version of Mácha’s work. He respected the original but was also able, along with the DoP Karel Kopřiva, to capitalise on the possibilities that the film medium offered. For the Venice prologue, the filmmakers exploited the photogenic qualities of the city – the narrow streets, the lagoons, gondolas and the sea – and they moved the set to the enigmatic Czech landscape around the castle of Kokořín.