Leon Askin

Leon Askin

Nascimento : 1907-09-18, Vienna, Austria

Morte : 2005-06-03

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Leon Askin

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Ene mene muh – und tot bist du
A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The police's secret investigation concentrates on the nursing staff at first. But the new medical director, Dr. Klein, discovers that one of the patients is the culprit.
Kubanisch rauchen
Waranovsky
Paul and Bernd take over a small upscale antique store together. On one nightly excursion, Bernd introduces Paul and Lisa with each other. What was intended as a little variety to marriage-like everyday life develops into a great romance accompanied by a threat: If Eva hears about the affair, the financing for the shop will be in danger. Slowly but surely, Paul is ready to give up everything for Lisa: the shop, Eva and especially the loan. Bernd knows that Dragan is his only hope.
Die Bräute
Rutte
Adele and Sibylle, the two brides of narrow-gauge crooks Heinz and Hermann , are fed up with being just appendages . Together with fellow sufferers , they decide to pull off their own coups - and they do it much better , more cleverly and more successfully than their unsuspecting men... underworldand the police are at a loss.
Black Flamingos - Sie lieben euch zu Tode
An unhappy young photographer is about to make his debut as a journalist. He is to write an obituary about the weapons-crazy mayor of a Lower Austrian village who, it is said, had a tank from WWII. In the course of his research he unearths a conspiracy of wifes murdering their husbands to get an early widowers pension.
Leon Askin - (Über)Leben und Schauspiel. Private Anmerkungen
Himself
"The art of the stage actor and even of a stage director is evanescent. Nothing remains of it but a 'still' photograph or two (...) Not everyone can be a genius. Somebody has to be a Leon Askin - and that's me." Leon Askin, born in Vienna in 1907 , fled from the Nazis to the USA in 1940. The private Leon Askin is portrayed: his daily routine, his contact with those around him, at work. During quiet moments, he discusses his thoughts about persecution, emigration, work, discipline, success, the image one projects to the world, his identity as a Jew, loneliness, the struggle for recognition and health, life acting - and also about death.
Glück auf Raten
Deadly Love
Following the failure of the marriage of the influential publisher Helmreich and his wife, Helmreich wins the suit for the custody of their 6-year old son. His former wife, Uschi, robbed of the meaning of her life, commits an act of desperation.
Die Fernsehsaga – Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte
alter Adler
Fear of Heights
Vater Gusenleitner
An unusual love story between a farmer from a small village and a 25-year-old recently released prisoner from Vienna. First he wins the acceptance and sympathy of the villagers before his past catches up with him.
Hitler Stole My Ideas
Using archive film material never seen before, Hollywood veteran Leon Askin portrays Adolf Lanz (1874-1954), the man who gave Hitler his ideas.
OcchioPinocchio
Lo psichiatra
A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.
Odd Jobs
Don Carlucci
Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.
Savage Island
Luker
Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.
First Strike
A U.S. Navy submarine captain tries to prevent the Soviets from trying to launch World War III.
Frightmare
Wolfgang
Um grupo de estudantes rouba o cadáver de Conrad Radzoff, uma estrela de cinema de terror, para transportá-lo para a casa assombrada onde foram rodados seus melhores filmes. Eles aprendem o verdadeiro significado de terror quando o espírito vingativo de Conrad começar a matar um por um.
Going Ape!
Zebrewski
When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Oscar inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orang outangs. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the apes or just one gets sick or dies during the next 3 years, the zoologic society will get all the money. So he not only has to deal with 3 apes and an annoyed girlfriend, but also with a greedy zoologic society's president.
Parapsycho: Spectrum of Fear
Split into three episodes, this film examines extrasensory perception, reincarnation and telepathy.
Die gelbe Nachtigall
Jason
Fanny Hobichler, a young promising actress, moves to Vienna in the 1920s in order to pursue her big break. She draws inspiration and seeks help from the popular stage actor Albert Kortz who once started out from the same provincial town as she did and was a close friend of her late father. Kortz, however, dreams of retiring as he is tired of his fame and having to deal with the short-tempered theatre director Jason. Together, they try to outwit Jason.
Karl May
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popular German author, who set many of his adventure novels in an idealized version of the American Wild West. His tales of the cowboy and the Ubermensch alike were beloved by many, including (Our) Hitler, who supposedly ordered his generals to read May works after defeats in the Russian campaign.
Verurteilt 1910
Regierungsrat Stukart
Perahim - die zweite Chance
Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls
Thor
John Considine plays the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next. Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone
Unidos Pelo Mal
Dr. Krodt
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
Death Knocks Twice
Peppe Mangano
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
The Maltese Bippy
Axel Kronstadt
A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a family of vampires lives next door.
A Fine Pair
Chief Wellman
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.
God's Police Patrol
Felix
The Confiscation of Confession and 10 million Marks bring the young accident priest Wolf into an adventurous situation: A deadly injured gobber has entrusted him with the hiding-place of the millions of heavy prey, making him the key figure of dangerous gangster interests. The ice-cold cheeks, the fat Felix, and the sex bomb Roma are placed on him to reveal the secret. But Wolf remains ironic - even as Roma tried to seduce him in a completely unchristian way. On the contrary, Wolf brings the beautiful blonde even to think - and so the hunt for the prey ends quite differently
Lucrezia
Alessandro VI
Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.
Os Canhões de San Sebastian
Vicar General
Leon Alastray, misto de herói e bandido. Está com a cabeça a prêmio e é conduzido pelo padre John até o povoado de San Sebastian. O local está deserto, seus moradores estão escondidos nas montanhas, fugindo de ataques dos índios Yaquis, que constantemente invadem o povoado, roubando todo seus suprimentos. Porém, quando o padre é morto, eles confundem o fora-da-lei com o padre.
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
Oscar
A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.
Os Perigos de Paulina
Commissar
Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Morchek
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former companion Angela appears and blackmails him to help her robbing the Spanish National Bank of Pamplona. He gives in and develops a brilliant plan... Will this be then end of his comfortable life?
Canções e Confusões
Inspector de Groote
Guy Lambert decide levar seu show de Londres para Bruxelas. O que ele não sabe é que também está levando duas beldades, que o seguem secretamente. Uma (Annette Day) é uma herdeira apaixonada, a outra (Yvonne Romain) uma enigmática tentação. Uma é pouco, mas duas podem ser demais para o desencanado Guy. Comédia, mistério e caos se combinam em Canções e Confusões. Elvis Presley interpreta Guy, nesse filme que mistura o desaparecimento de pedras preciosas, detetives de sobretudo e mais. E no meio de tudo isso, um homem tem que fazer o que um homem tem que fazer: interpretar uma fantástica trilha que inclui Double Trouble, City By Night, Could I Fall in Love?, Long-Legged Girl e There s So Much World to See. Com Elvis Presley, até os confusões são pura diversão.
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Colonel Kastorp
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.
Favor Não Incomodar
Langsdorf
O casal americano Mike Harper (Rod Taylor) e Janet Harper (Doris Day) se mudam para a Inglaterra por conta do trabalho de Mike em sua empresa de roupas e tecidos de lã. Apesar de Mike preferir viver em um apartamento no coração de Londres, Janet, que não é uma menina de cidade grande, aluga uma casa 30 milhas fora de Londres, em Kent. Por isso que Mike muitas vezes por conveniência dorme em um dos apartamentos da empresa em Londres. E aí Janet começa a achar que Mike arrumou uma amante, a secretária, e o Mike acha que Janet está apaixonada pelo decorador. E começa a confusão.
O Harém das Encrencas
Samir
Agente americano, ex-jogador de futebol, apelidado ‘’Rumo Errado’’, ocasiona tumulto internacional, quando em missão para a Rússia, acaba chegando em um país árabe.
Sherlock Holmes e o Colar da Morte
Charles
Sherlock Holmes and Watson do battle with their nemesis, Professor Moriarity, over an ancient necklace attributed to Cleopatra.
O Testamento do Dr. Mabuse
Flocke
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.
Lulu
Medizinalrat Dr. Goll
A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.
Cupido Não Tem Bandeira
Peripetchikoff
Berlim, logo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. CR MacNamara preside a filial da Coca -Cola da Alemanha. Ele está trabalhando duro e tenta dar o seu melhor para impressionar a sede em Atlanta, uma vez que ele já ouviu falar que a sede europeia em Londres em breve estará vaga e estão à procura de um novo chefe. Porém o Sr. Hazeltine, Vice Presidente da Coca-Cola, pede a MacNamara para cuidar de sua filha Scarlett, quem vai fazer uma viagem pela Europa. Scarlett, no entanto, não se comporta da maneira que uma menina jovem respeitável de sua idade deveria. E começa a confusão.
Blind Justice
Dr. Leupold
Always Trouble with the Bed
Luigi Papagallo
A German police man thinks his wife is a call girl.
Towarisch
Dimitri Gorotschenko
Weit ist der Weg
Luiz
Bis dass das Geld euch scheidet
Anwalt Dr. Plauert
Pension Schöller
Fritz Bernhardi
Der Traum des Mr. Borton
Martin Borton
Mistress of the World - Part II
Fernando
Continuação de "A Senhora do Mundo".
A Senhora do Mundo
Fernando
Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.
Die Irre von Chaillot
Präsident
Entscheidung
Lajos Morva
Der Mann im Manne
Ed Keller
The Peter Tchaikovsky Story
Anton Rubinstein
The story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his "Sleeping Beauty" ballet.
The Last Blitzkrieg
Sergeant Steiner
The fanatical son of a Nazi General leads a squad of German commandos, disguised as American Troops, behind the lines in order to sabotage the Allied Forces.
Rebel Flight to Cuba
General Cordobas
A group of criminals hijacks a plane, intending to fly it to Cuba.
Der Schinderhannes
Spy Chasers
Alex Baxis
Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
Carolina Cannonball
Otto
Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile.
O Vale dos Reis
Valentine Arko, Antique Dealer
Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
O Segredo dos Incas
Anton Marcu
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
Cabeça de Pau
Laslo Gromeck
O Ventríloquo Jerry Morgan vê um outro caso de amor falhar. O motivo: quando o relacionamento chega ao ponto em que é hora de falar sobre o matrimônio, seu boneco Clarence torna-se desprezível e ciumento. Sua noiva Audrey o abandona e Jerry quebra seus dois bonecos, Clarence e Terrence. O fabricante dos bonecos de Morgan é o Sr. Papinek que é membro de uma rede de espionagem que roubou planos secretos para a produção do avião secreto Lafayette. Como Morgan está indo para Zurique, na mesma noite, Papinek decide usar os bonecos de Morgan como correio e esconde os planos secretos nas cabeças dos bonecos. Outra rede de espionagem secreta também quer ter em suas mãos a bagagem de Jerry e eles "também" o perseguem. Além destas duas organizações Jerry também é perseguido pela polícia, que suspeita que ele cometeu um assassinato. O Cômico Nº 1 da Canção e da Dança em seu melhor!
The Veils of Bagdad
Pasha Hammam
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!
O Manto Sagrado
Abidor
O primeiro filme rodado em Cinema Scope, O Manto Sagrado foi indicado para cinco categorias do prêmio Oscar em 1953, incluindo Melhor Filme e Melhor Ator para Richard Burton. Burton interpreta Marcellus Gallio, o centurião romano encarregado do supervisionar a crucificação de Cristo. Mas quando ele ganha o manto de Cristo em um jogo de azar ao pé da cruz, sua vida muda para sempre.
China Venture
Wu King
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.
Furacão de Emoções
Pierre Marchand
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.
Desert Legion
Major Vasil
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
De Tanga e Sarongue
King Ramayana
Tendo que sair de Melbourne com pressa para evitar várias propostas de casamento, dois homens cantam e dançam para trabalhar como mergulhadores. Isso os leva a uma ilha idílica a caminho de Bali, onde competem uns com os outros pelos favores da princesa Lala. O mergulho perigoso produz um baú de joias de valor inestimável, que desperta o interesse menos romântico de alguns locais obscuros.
Three Lives
Dr. Stein
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.
Assignment: Paris
Franz (uncredited)
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Immediate Call
Writer
In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first. He gains peace but loses his happiness.