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Hans Philipp August Albers (September 22, 1891 – July 24, 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Hans Albers was born in Hamburg, the son of a butcher, and grew up in the district of St. Georg. He was seriously interested in acting by his late teens and took acting classes without the knowledge of his parents. In 1915 Albers was drafted to serve in the German Army in World War I, but was wounded early on. After the war Albers moved to Berlin, where he found work as a comedic actor in various Weimar-Era Berlin theatres. His breakthrough performance was that of a waiter in the play Verbrecher (Criminals). It was also in Berlin that Albers began a long-term relationship with half-Jewish actress Hansi Burg (1898–1975). The relationship ended only when he died in 1960.
After roles in over one hundred silent films, Albers starred in the first German talkie Die Nacht gehört uns (The Night Belongs to Us) in 1929. Soon thereafter, Albers played big-mouthed strong man Mazeppa alongside Marlene Dietrich in her star-making classic Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel). Albers himself shot to fame in 1930 with the movie Der Greifer and constantly enhanced his star status with similar daredevil roles in the 1930s. He was probably at his best when teamed-up with fellow German movie legend Heinz Rühmann, as in Bomben auf Monte Carlo (1931) and Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war (1937). Many of Albers' songs from his movies became huge hits and some even remain popular to this day.
Actors: Gerald Alexander Held (actor), Alexander Beyer (actor), Hilmi Sözer (actor), Hans-Jochen Wagner (actor), David Wurawa (actor), Peter Jordan (actor), Arnfried Lerche (actor), Traute Hoess (actress), Barbara Philipp (actress), Kida Khodr Ramadan (actor), Stefan Will (composer), Yvonne Wassong (miscellaneous crew), Liane Jessen (producer), Béatrice M. Hoffmann (miscellaneous crew), Maren Eggert (actress),
Plot: Sensible German tax collector Erol Ozak has to apprentice haughty young Jana von Unruh. Her thoughtless zeal when confronted with a bag of presumably ill-gotten cash entices a gunfight, which Erol survives, but the bag disappears after a car-crash during his flight. Alas the police and even his superiors mistrust his story, suggesting he may have stolen the cash. The gangsters came after Erol to pay up, offering as only alternative abusing his tax service skills for illegal extortion. Somehow his neighbors and public functionaries are involved.
Keywords: abuse, blackmail, extortionActors: Nadja Tiller (actress), Horst Königstein (director), Horst Krause (actor), Udo Lindenberg (actor), Brigitte Janner (actress), Matthias Freihof (actor), Paul Vincent Gunia (composer), Ina Paule Klink (actress), Marion Michael (actress), Janna Striebeck (actress), Andreas Brucker (actor), Annette Uhlen (actress), Elke Czischek (actress), Luci Van Org (actress), Bernd Begemann (actor),
Genres: Biography, Musical,Actors: Ilse Werner (actress), Hans Albers (actor), Ottokar Runze (producer), Johannes Silberschneider (actor), Ulrich Tukur (actor), Géza von Cziffra (actor), Helmut Käutner (actor), Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (director), Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (writer), Hans-Peter Ströer (composer), Christian von Richthofen (actor), Hans Peter Kochenrath (producer), Barbara Büscher-Grimm (editor), Bernhard Weber (actor), Gerd Bellmann (actor),
Genres: Documentary, History,