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George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before emigrating to the United States in 1933.
George Grosz was born Georg Ehrenfried Groß in Berlin, Germany, the son of a pub owner. His parents were devoutly Lutheran. Grosz grew up in the Pomeranian town of Stolp (Słupsk), where his mother became the keeper of the local Hussars Officers' mess after his father died in 1901. At the urging of his cousin, the young Grosz began attending a weekly drawing class taught by a local painter named Grot. Grosz developed his skills further by drawing meticulous copies of the drinking scenes of Eduard von Grützner, and by drawing imaginary battle scenes. From 1909 to 1911, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where his teachers were Richard Müller, Robert Sterl, Raphael Wehle, and Osmar Schindler. He subsequently studied at the Berlin College of Arts and Crafts under Emil Orlik.
Actors: Jürgen Tarrach (actor), Hans-Michael Rehberg (actor), Hannes Michael Schalle (composer), Bernd Fischerauer (actor), Bernd Fischerauer (writer), Bernd Fischerauer (director), Hans Schuler (actor), Michael Roll (actor), Marion Mitterhammer (actress), Katrin Pollitt (actress), Christian Hoening (actor), Thomas Oláh (costume designer), Holger Handtke (actor), Bibiana Beglau (actress), Klaus Gietinger (writer),
Plot: Germany, 1920. First World War is lost. The peace treaty of Versailles obliges Germany to reduce its army, the "Reichswehr" to 100,000 soldiers. Influencal groups of economists and military leaders connect in the "Nationalen Vereinigung" a national convention to plan the coup d'etat. Among them the chief of landscaping and member of the board of directors of the German Bank, Wolfgang Kapp and the highest ranked commanding General Walther, Freiherr von Lüttwitz. General Ludendorf, who used to be the chief of the Supreme Army Command during the World War, pulls the strings in he background by his middlemen Pabst and Colonel Bauer. When the government wanted to dissolve the "Brigade Ehrhardt", the most powerful Freikorps, General Lüttwitz disobeys this order and orders the troupes to march against the government in Berlin. The Government has to flee, first to Dresden, then to Stuttgart. Large parts of the army follow the putschists, who however, are not united themselves. First victim is Secretary of Finances Erzberger.
Genres: History,Actors: Jürgen Tarrach (actor), Bernd Fischerauer (director), Hans-Michael Rehberg (actor), Mathieu Carrière (actor), Hannes Michael Schalle (composer), Bernd Fischerauer (writer), Osman Ragheb (actor), Serge Avedikian (actor), Bruno F. Apitz (actor), Gerald Alexander Held (actor), Rainer Basedow (actor), Bernd Fischerauer (actor), Marion Mitterhammer (actress), Adriana Altaras (actress), Katrin Pollitt (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Brad Krevoy (producer), Til Schweiger (actor), Bruce Weitz (actor), Jürgen Schornagel (actor), Gerhard Schmidt (producer), Jeff Beal (composer), David Paymer (actor), Peter Pauli (actor), Richard Roundtree (actor), Rolf Kanies (actor), August Zirner (actor), Brad Krevoy (producer), Wilfried Hochholdinger (actor), Pimes Doerfler (miscellaneous crew), Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport, War,Actors: Judit Hernádi (actress), Attila Árpa (actor), Molly Parker (actress), Kevin McKidd (actor), John Cusack (producer), Richard Szabó (miscellaneous crew), Kerry Shale (actor), Peter Capaldi (actor), John Cusack (actor), Ulrich Thomsen (actor), Noah Taylor (actor), E. Andrew Pecs (miscellaneous crew), Catherine Charlton (miscellaneous crew), Linda Gamble (miscellaneous crew), François Ivernel (producer),
Plot: Munich, 1918. German-Jew Max Rothman has returned to much of his pre-war life which includes to his wife Nina and their two children, to his mistress Liselore von Peltz, and to his work as an art dealer. He has however not returned to being an aspiring painter as he lost his dominant right arm during the war. He is approached by an aspiring painter, a thirty-year old Austrian war veteran named 'Adolf Hitler' (qv), who wants him to show his works. Although he doesn't think the paintings are all that original and he doesn't really like Hitler as a person, Rothman takes Hitler under his wings if only because of their camaraderie of being war veterans, and knowing that Hitler had nothing and no one to come back to after the war unlike himself. Rothman believes that Hitler has promise if only he can find his original artistic point of view. In part out of need for money, Hitler, on the urging of Captain Karl Mayr, agrees to work for the army as a political spokesman in anti-Semitic propaganda. Slowly, Hitler's view becomes a holistic one of a new world, where he begins to meld his art and politics. Rothman becomes excited about Hitler's artistic viewpoint, despite its anti-Semitic bent. The question becomes if the sentiments behind the view will take over its artistic merit.
Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, abstract-art, adultery, amputee, anti-semitism, apparition, art, art-dealerActors: Egon von Jordan (actor), Fritz von Friedl (actor), Rudolf Prack (actor), Rudolf Schündler (actor), Alexander Golling (actor), Heinz Moog (actor), Wolfgang Büttner (actor), Harry Hardt (actor), Marquard Bohm (actor), Attila Hörbiger (actor), Leon Askin (actor), Peter Kern (actor), Helmut Käutner (actor), Rudolf Fernau (actor), Guido Wieland (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,