Alexander Granach
Nascimento : 1893-04-18, Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Morte : 1945-03-14
História
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Alexander Granach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s who immigrated to the United States in 1938.
Granach was born Jessaja Gronach in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Horodenka district, Austrian Galicia then, now Verbivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Granach entered films in 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was the vampire classic Nosferatu (1922), in which the actor was cast as Knock, the lunatic counterpart to Renfield, effectively a substitute name for Dracula. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as Kameradschaft (1931).
The Jewish Granach fled to the Soviet Union when Hitler came to power. When the Soviet Union also proved inhospitable, he settled in Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Granach proved indispensable to film makers during the war years, effectively portraying both dedicated Nazis (he was Julius Streicher in The Hitler Gang, 1944) and loyal anti-fascists. Perhaps his best role was as Gestapo Inspector Alois Gruber in Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die! (1943). His last film appearance was in MGM's The Seventh Cross (1944), in which almost the entire supporting cast was prominent European refugees.
Knock - ein Häusermakler
The horror classic, Nosferatu, remastered with a soundtrack by Type-O Negative and hosted by David Carradine.
Tim Oberta
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
Zillich
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
Angelo
Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.
Major Braginski
Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.
Paco
Guerra Civil Espanhola, anos 30. O idealista Robert Jordan (Gary Cooper) se engaja no conflito para defender os princípios de liberdade e democracia. Numa missão de altíssimo risco, ele aguarda o melhor momento de explodir uma ponte de importância vital para as tropas inimigas. Neste cenário de idealismos e tensões quase insuportáveis, a mística Pilar, líder das forças da resistência civil, encoraja a bela e jovem Maria (Ingrid Bergman) a ajudar Robert em sua missão. Durante uma noite debaixo das estrelas, o medo da morte e a possibilidade do amor caminham lado a lado, em pleno horror da guerra.
Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Durante a ocupação nazista da Checoslováquia, o cirurgião Dr. Franticek Svoboda, um patriota checo, assassina o brutal "Carrasco da Europa", o Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich e é ferido no processo. Na tentativa de escapar, ele é ajudado pelo professor de história Stephen Novotny e sua filha Mascha. Versão totalmente ficcional do episódio. Foi o único projeto Hollywoodiano bem sucedido de Bertolt Brecht; o dinheiro que recebeu permitiu escrever "As visões de Simone Marchand", "Schwyk na Segunda Guerra Mundial" e a adaptação da "Duquesa de Malfi" de Webster. Hanns Eisler ganhou um Oscar por sua partitura musical. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Joe Poska
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.
Pierre - Man in Casino
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
Mr. Nikolas
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Gestapo Agent
Um esquadrão da RAF é derrubado sobre a França ocupada. Os panfletos chegam a Paris apesar do fato de que o mais novo, Baby, está ferido. Ele deve estar escondido e suas feridas cuidadas. A Gestapo já emitiu ordens para sua prisão.
T. Amato
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
The Pole
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Hotel Valet (uncredited)
Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) é o correspondente de um jornal de Nova York que viaja para a Europa usando o pseudônimo de Huntley Haverstock, quando a 2ª Guerra Mundial era uma realidade cada vez mais iminente. Inicialmente ele vai para Londres mas logo está em Amsterdã, onde juntamente com várias pessoas testemunha o assassinato de Van Meer (Albert Bassermann), um diplomata holandês. Entretanto, logo ele toma consciência que quem morreu foi um sósia e que Van Meer na verdade foi sequestrado por agentes do inimigo, que querem arrancar do diplomata importantes segredos. Assim sua situação fica desesperadora, pois sua história é em princípio absurda e, além disto, estão querendo matá-lo.
Soldier (uncredited)
Esta produção estrelada por Charles Laughton, que estava no auge de sua carreira quando personificou Quasímodo (o Corcunda), recebeu duas indicações ao Oscar, em 1939. É provavelmente, a melhor interpretação dada ao triste personagem, morador da Catedral de Notre Dame, que perambula pelos impressionantes cenários de Paris, criados especialmente para o filme, em Hollywood. Maureen O'Hara está perfeita como a linda cigana Esmeralda, pela qual Quasímodo se apaixona desesperadamente, a ponto de romper a paz da imponente e secular Catedral, aterrorizando a população.
Comrade Kopalski
Nina Yakushova (Greta Garbo), comissária do governo soviético, é mandada a Paris para averiguar o comportamento de três representantes do governo que têm como missão negociar uma jóia. Aos poucos sucumbe ao capitalismo e a Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas), um galanteador francês que está apaixonado por ela.
Rovelli
Danilo
A Soviet agent tries to win over a band of gypsies to a happy life on a farm co-op.
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
Kasper
The picture tells of a mine disaster where German miners rescue French miners from an undergound fire and explosion. The story takes place in the Lorraine/Saar region, along the border between France and Germany.
Redner
This German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid Rosa Valletti. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Forst manages to steal the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing his sweetheart. But when the girl proves to be a fickle sort, the crestfallen hero confesses his crime and is carted off to jail. Unwilling to admit that he'd been led astray by a woman, Forst claims that he stole the Mona Lisa to restore it to his native Italy, and as a result is hailed as a national hero! Raub der Mona Lisa was distributed in the U.S. by RKO Radio, under the title The Theft of the Mona Lisa.
Marat
This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the dramatic downfall and execution of Georges Danton in 1794 at the hands of Maximilien Robespierre. The film also presents an interesting, if not historically inaccurate, portrayal of Louis XVI.
Jaurès' Friend
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Gestino
Beppo, Legionär
Coco
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
Stranger
Drama of plot and intrigue in Imperial Russia.
The struggels of the German proletariat over the course of several centuries. Propaganda film by the Social Democratic Party.
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Pollaczek
Diener bei Alfredo
Geiger Gecko
Murphy
Judas Ischariot
From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
Archivar Lindhorst
Shadowplayer
Durante um jantar dado por um barão rico e sua esposa, quatro convidados ocupam a mesa da mansão do século 19 na Alemanha. Uma sombra dá aos convidados uma visão do que o barão ciumento pode fazer se os cavalheiros não reduzirem os olhares à sua bela esposa. O filme é considerado parte do movimento expressionista alemão.
Shoemaker
Clegg
The dancer Navarro has lost her husband and son. With her daughter at her side, she returns to her homeland and comes under suspicion of spying when she gets into a relationship with a business friend of her deceased husband. This film is considered lost.
Ferucchio
Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
Schigolch
Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go.
ein Gefangener
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Knock
Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim), agente imobiliário, viaja até os Montes Cárpatos para vender um castelo no Mar Báltico cujo proprietário é o excêntrico conde Graf Orlock (Max Schreck), que na verdade é um milenar vampiro que, buscando poder, se muda para Bremen, Alemanha, espalhando o terror na região. Curiosamente quem pode reverter esta situação é Ellen (Greta Schröder), a esposa de Hutter, pois Orlock está atraído por ela.
