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The Gestapo (German pronunciation: [ɡeˈstaːpo, ɡəˈʃtaːpo] ( listen); abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, "Secret State Police") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei). From September 1939 forward it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) ("Reich Main Security Office") and was considered a sister organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("Security Service") and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) ("Security Police").
As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring—future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official—was named Interior Minister of Prussia. This gave him command of the largest police force in Germany. Soon afterward, Göring detached the political and intelligence sections from the police and filled their ranks with Nazis. On 26 April 1933, Göring merged the two units as the Gestapo. He originally wanted to name it the Secret Police Office (German: Geheimes Polizeiamt), but discovered the German initials "GPA" would be too similar to the Soviet GPU.
War Machine (James Rupert Rhodes) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero appearing in comic books set in the Marvel Comics universe. The character of James Rhodes first appeared in Iron Man #118 (January 1979) by David Michelinie, John Byrne and Bob Layton. The War Machine armor, which became Rhodes' signature armored battlesuit, was designed by Len Kaminski and Kevin Hopgood.
Also known by his nickname Rhodey, Rhodes has been a featured character in the Iron Man animated series, Iron Man: Armored Adventures and The Invincible Iron Man animated film. He was first portrayed by actor Terrence Howard in the 2008 film Iron Man. Don Cheadle replaced Howard in the 2010 sequel Iron Man 2 and will reprise the role in Iron Man 3.
In addition to Iron Man and his own title War Machine, Rhodes has been featured in the ensemble titles West Coast Avengers; Force Works by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning; Sentinel Squad O*N*E; The Crew by Christopher Priest; and Avengers: The Initiative by Dan Slott and Christos Gage. Rhodes was also featured in the alternate-reality Marvel MAX imprint's U.S. War Machine series by Chuck Austen, and U.S. War Machine 2.0, by Austen and Christian Moore.
Actors: Ewa Telega (actress), Marta Klubowicz (actress), Lech Soluba (actor), Mateusz Kosciukiewicz (actor), Tadeusz Lampka (producer), Kordian Piwowarski (editor), Kordian Piwowarski (writer), Kordian Piwowarski (director), Bartosz Chajdecki (composer), Katarzyna Zawadzka (actress), Tomasz Leszczynski (actor), Stanislaw Szymanski (producer), Krzysztof Hanke (actor), Józef Grzymala (actor), Iga Banasiak (actress),
Genres: Biography,Actors: Alan Sacks (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Hubert von Spreti (producer), Susan Werbe (producer), Andrew Hurwitz (miscellaneous crew), David McKillop (producer), Barbara Rosenblat (actress), Claus Wehlisch (editor), Katja Wildermuth (producer), Nadav Schirman (producer), John Piscitello (composer), Fatime Dévényi (miscellaneous crew), Nándor Lovas (actor), Deirdre Slevin (editor), Rafael Marmor (producer),
Plot: While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
Keywords: cave, cave-dweller, interview, jew, world-war-twoActors: Alan Sacks (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Hubert von Spreti (producer), Susan Werbe (producer), Andrew Hurwitz (miscellaneous crew), David McKillop (producer), Barbara Rosenblat (actress), Claus Wehlisch (editor), Katja Wildermuth (producer), Nadav Schirman (producer), John Piscitello (composer), Fatime Dévényi (miscellaneous crew), Nándor Lovas (actor), Deirdre Slevin (editor), Rafael Marmor (producer),
Plot: While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
Keywords: cave, cave-dweller, interview, jew, world-war-twoActors: Paul Coster (actor), Niklaas van Poortvliet (producer), Niklaas van Poortvliet (director), Nic Hinton (writer), Mai Cunningham (actor),
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Jürgen Tarrach (actor), Roberto Della Casa (actor), Sabrina Ferilli (actress), Edwige Fenech (producer), Jean-Luc Azoulay (producer), Lorenza Indovina (actress), Franco Marotta (writer), Luis Bacalov (composer), Laura Toscano (writer), Rolando Ravello (actor), Giorgio Gobbi (actor), Luca Montanari (editor), Stefano Fregni (actor), Fabrizio Donati (actor), Mariolina Bono (costume designer),
Plot: Rome 1943. ANGELA is an attractive, unwed mother who lives in a working class neighborhood of Rome. We are in the middle of the Second World War. Alone and considered a "disgrace," Angela is an easy target for gossip and backbiting. Hardened by life, she has learned to fend for herself and for her young "illegitimate" boy. Forced by necessity to ignore certain scruples and seek profit from the tragic events around her, she works on the black market for quick cash. But History, the one with a capital "H" throws her for a loop. It is October 16, 1943, the fateful day of the German purge upon Rome's Jewish Ghetto. Angela is informed of the round-up by Signor Brescia, an old jeweler who asks her to hide his son Davide in her home in exchange for a kilo of gold. Though full of misgivings, Angela accepts the trade-off and hosts the young Jew in the secret storeroom where she keeps her black market supplies. The beginning of their relationship is turbulent to say the least. Davide despises that greedy and insensitive woman, and she, in turn, considers him only "trouble," a liability that could get her into serious hot water. But in time, despite the odds, the two opposites, he the idealistic and she the practical, inexorably come to attract each other. Angela and Davide fall in love... an absolute love that denies all the glaring obstacles of those bitter days without future; a love nurtured on illusion replete with plans and projects too grand and distant to be plausible. But for Davide, that love, however fulfilling, is not enough: safely hidden in that house, he feels like a coward. At all costs, he wants to join the Resistance Movement and fight for Freedom, all the more so after he witnesses the brutal arrest of one of Angela's neighbors, the railway worker Giacomo Sinisi. Events take their course: it is March 23, 1944 and along Via Rasella, the "Bozen" Battalion is attacked by partisans. A bomb kills twenty-six soldiers and leaves roughly an equal number seriously wounded. The final death toll reaches thirty. The Nazis command an immediate reprisal. After hasty and furious negotiations, a "decimation" is ordered: for every German soldier, ten Italians will be killed, culled from the criminals, Jews and political prisoners detained at the Regina Coeli and Via Tasso prisons. News of the reprisal spreads like an evil omen and Angela, just back from the countryside outside Rome where she gets her Black Market supplies (and keeps her son out of harm's way), discovers that on precisely that same day, Davide had slipped out of the house to join the Resistance Movement. Ignoring the curfew, she marches through a city full of prowling German military vehicles, and tracks down a partisan contact who can bolster her hope that Davide is safe. But unfortunately, just the opposite is true: Davide was caught in a round-up and dragged off to Regina Coeli. Now Angela is impelled by desperation to find a solution, no matter how extreme, to save her beloved's life. She appeals to Chief Warden Marino Santipani, a longtime suitor of hers, whom she had always firmly refused. She tries to swing a deal with the man: a kilo of gold in exchange for Davide' life. But as Angela is quick to realize, it's not gold that Santipani wants. She accepts his implicit demand. The Chief Warden savagely possesses her with the arrogance of one who has finally conquered a young, attractive and spirited woman who had always tauntingly denied herself. But after Angela's mortifying sacrifice, the man reneges on his end of the deal and instead offers a painful dilemma. While recognizing his obligation, Santipani, cruel and cunning, imposes his own thankless task on her: he can cancel Davide's name from the list of condemned men to be consigned to the Germans, but she, instead of him, must name the replacement. Is Angela equal to the moral burden of deciding the life and death of another person... perhaps even a boy... or a man with wife and children? Angela caves in, she can't do it and Davide is consequently sent off to die with the other 335 victims of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre. Unspeakable grief nearly kills her as well, a grief that turns to rage and hatred. Aware that she's expecting Davide's baby, Angela is now convinced that justice can only mean one thing: murderous revenge. Gun in hand, she waits for Santipani in the shadows by the apartment building door... But in the fraction of a second between decision and action, she is overwhelmed by the realization that Davide had changed her. And suddenly, that pathetic man she is about to kill is no longer worth the weight of further remorse. But as her heart pounds and mind races, a shot is fired, its deafening report echoing through the entrance hall... a shot fired from another gun, brandished by another woman bent on revenge: Signora Sinisi, whose husband Giacomo was doomed to Davide's same fate. Overwhelmed by History, Angela is left with the painful awareness of her life-affirming decision... that and with a child to be born, vivid memento of a great and unforgettable love.
Keywords: character-name-in-titleActors: Bela B. Felsenheimer (actor), Jochen Nickel (actor), Anna Thalbach (actress), Jan Decleir (actor), Andrey Fedortsov (actor), Sergey Bekhterev (actor), Andreas Wodraschke (editor), Konstantin Vorobyov (actor), Oli Weiss (editor), Niko von Glasow (writer), Niko von Glasow (producer), Niko von Glasow (director), Wolfgang Michael (actor), Susanne Bredehöft (actress), Antje Paul Leinberger (producer),
Plot: Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time. But working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued by the Gestapo. With the escaped concentration camp prisoner Hans Steinbrück they plan acts of sabotage, until the Gestapo take them on with their full might. When they're arrested, Karl is torn between his will to survive, his feelings of responsibility, his love for his brother and his loyalty to the Edelweiss Pirates.
Keywords: anarchist, anti-fascist, german-resistance, independent-film, melodrama, nazi, partisan, resistance, underground-resistanceActors: Jirí Sequens (director), Rudolf Jelínek (actor), Ludek Munzar (actor), Frantisek Nemec (actor), Josef Vinklár (actor), Robert Vrchota (actor), Jirí Sequens (writer), Daniela Kolárová (actress), Václav Sasek (writer), Karel Mares (composer), Vilém Besser (actor), Evgeniy Zharikov (actor), Ladislav Frej (actor), Libuse Geprtová (actress), Jaroslav Drbohlav (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: James Dime (actor), Ludwig Donath (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), James Dime (actor), William Challee (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Felix Bressart (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Ray Collins (actor), Robert Blake (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), William Edmunds (actor),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: 1930s, apple, based-on-novel, beer, bicycle, bloodstains, church, church-bell, clock, clothes-lineActors: James Dime (actor), Ludwig Donath (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), James Dime (actor), William Challee (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Felix Bressart (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Ray Collins (actor), Robert Blake (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), William Edmunds (actor),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: 1930s, apple, based-on-novel, beer, bicycle, bloodstains, church, church-bell, clock, clothes-lineActors: LeRoy Mason (actor), Martin Kosleck (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), John Banner (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Felix Basch (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Arno Frey (actor), John Mylong (actor),
Genres: Drama, War,