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Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
Mann was born Paul Thomas Mann in Lübeck, Germany, and was the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant), and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns (a Brazilian of partial German ancestry who emigrated to Germany when seven years old). His mother was Roman Catholic, but Mann was baptised into his father's Lutheran faith. Mann's father died in 1891, and his trading firm was liquidated. The family subsequently moved to Munich. Mann attended the science division of a Lübeck Gymnasium (school), then spent time at the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich and Technical University of Munich where, in preparation for a journalism career, he studied history, economics, art history and literature.
Actors: Tyrone Staples (writer), Tyrone Staples (editor), Tyrone Staples (director), Tyrone Staples (writer), Tyrone Staples (actor), Aaron Robertson (miscellaneous crew), Wayne A. Kinney (actor), Christina Hernandez (miscellaneous crew), Christina Hernandez (actor), Catherine Martinez (actor), John Jones (miscellaneous crew), D'Anna Dettore (actress), Jasmine Germany (costume designer), Terry McNamara (miscellaneous crew), Amani Harris (actor),
Plot: Helena Hughes, a lady blind from birth, meets Thomas Mann, a photojournalist from the news. When Thomas asks Helena to marry him, she refuses because she feels that she cannot be everything he would need in a wife due to her disability. As a result, she undergoes a corneal eye transplant in order to gain the ability of sight. The procedure is a success and she is able to see Thomas for the first time. He then asks her, 'Now that you can see me totally and wholly...will you be my wife?' Will she now accept or reject him? A very gripping and spiritual message.
Genres: Drama, Family, Romance, Short,Actors: Goran Grgic (actor), Otokar Levaj (actor), Krunoslav Saric (actor), Branko Ivanda (director), Branko Ivanda (writer), Branko Zavrsan (actor), Sebastian Cavazza (actor), Vinko Kraljevic (actor), Dusko Valentic (actor), Milan Plestina (actor), Barbara Nola (actress), Zrinka Cvitesic (actress), Ecija Ojdanic (actress), Zijad Gracic (actor), Drazen Sivak (actor),
Plot: It's inspiring true story about two thirteen year old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theater venues, they weer praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian 'Pathe' and Berlin's UFA... During the Nazi persecution of Jews and later German nationals' flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.
Genres: Drama, Music, War,Actors: Paul Shaw (actor), Jerry Taylor (director), Jerry Taylor (writer), Jerry Taylor (editor), Selassie Amana (actor), Vance Branton (actor), L.A. Parker (actor), Vanda Snow (actress), Gabriel Turner (composer),
Genres: Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Daniel Kremer (actor), Daniel Kremer (writer), Daniel Kremer (editor), Daniel Kremer (producer), Daniel Kremer (director), John Gross (actor), William Cully Allen (actor), Katya Quinn-Judge (actress), Brooke Somers (actress), Glenn Walsh (actor), Ernst Hohmann (actor), Maya Baruch (actress), David Allen (actor), Eric Jeitner (writer), Patricia Fries (actor),
Plot: This film experiments with a fragmentary form of do-it-yourself cinema, mixing elements of narrative, experimental and pseudo-documentary to tell the story of a tormented individual whose short life and long death were affected by a great many factors. A heavily stylized and fictionalized version of real-life author Klaus Mann (John Gross) lives in the shadow of his father, the successful intellectual, novelist and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann (Ernst Hohmann). When Klaus pens a controversial essay on the concept of "revolutionary suicide" in protest of the world's selfishness and then acts out on it, a group of his contemporaries speak out in (staged) interviews about what led him down that road. It is a film about the creative process, the heartbreaking depiction of a rigid and strained father-son relationship and, most of all, it is a film about individuality.
Keywords: author, nobel-prize, novelist, revolutionary, suicideActors: Tony Calabretta (actor), Michael Rudder (actor), Alain Goulem (actor), Walter Massey (actor), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Tom Rack (actor), Christopher Heyerdahl (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), William Hurt (actor), Matt Craven (actor), Rémy Girard (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Noel Burton (actor), Dorothée Berryman (actress), Vlasta Vrana (actor),
Plot: After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France -where the Pétain government avoid occupation only by utter collaboration- to the US, and for lack of a better volunteer personally sets out in search of them. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally overcomes the reticence of the State Department. In Marseille he finds the people he specifically looked for, such as Marc Chagall, already housed by Harry Bingham, a Jewish US consulate official so he starts screening less obvious candidates and examines with Miriam Davenport and a German social democrat they pass for US clergyman Beamish how some can be rescued legally, others via a clandestine route, while colonel Joubert's State Police is at their trace...
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, artist, character-name-in-title, nazi, refugee, two-word-title, world-war-twoActors: Ulrich Tukur (actor), Peter Fitz (actor), Ilja Richter (actor), Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (writer), Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (director), Martin Benrath (actor), Ilja Richter (actor), Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (actor), Matthias Fuchs (actor), Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (producer), Heikko Deutschmann (actor), Gast Waltzing (composer), Florentine Bruck (editor), Bettina Kupfer (actress), Jörg Holm (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: József Madaras (actor), László Csurka (actor), Iván Darvas (actor), Lajos Mezey (actor), Gábor Koncz (actor), Géza Balkay (actor), Zoltán Rátóti (actor), Sándor Téri (actor), Ilona Györi (actress), Anikó Für (actress), Rita Tallós (actress), Dezsõ Koza (actor), Léna Darás (actress), Éva Tóth (actress), Csaba Ivánka (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Jerzy Binczycki (actor), Henryk Bista (actor), Marian Dziedziel (actor), Janusz Gajos (actor), Jan Peszek (actor), Jerzy Trela (actor), Anna Dymna (actress), Christopher Hampton (writer), Kazimierz Kutz (writer), Kazimierz Kutz (director), Andrzej Kozak (actor), Dorota Pomykala (actress), Jerzy Fedorowicz (actor), Ewa Kolasinska (actress), Monika Niemczyk (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Kurt Jaggberg (actor), Bruno W. Pantel (actor), Josef Moosholzer (actor), Robert Naegele (actor), Heinz Weiss (actor), Philipp Sonntag (actor), Bernd Fischerauer (actor), Hans Stadtmüller (actor), Jörg Hube (actor), Volker Prechtel (actor), Helmut Fischer (actor), Maria Stadler (actress), Mathias Eysen (actor), Alexis von Hagemeister (actor), Georg Althammer (writer),
Genres: Comedy, History,George Duke (keyboards)
Dave Parlato (bass)
Patrick O'Hearn (bass)
James "Bird Legs" Youman (bass, guitar)
Terry Bozzio (drums)
Chester Thompson (drums)
Chad Wackerman (drums)
Ruth Underwood (percussion)
Thana Harris (vocals)
Bruce Fowler (brass)
Time is money...
But Space is a long, long time!
Perhaps you are surprised
To see I speak your language?
But I have been monitoring
Your Earthly broadcasts for
Many years...
Many years...
And the reception on my little planet
Is extremely fine!
Time is money...
But Space is a long, long time!
On my lonely throne
In the cosmic night I ponder the vast expanses
Between your puny world and mine!
From my Couch-In-The-Sky,
As my planet goes by,
I behold all your misery below there!
I have seen all your lying,
And crying, and dying,
And, believe me,
YOUR planet is NOWHERE!
SPACE is a VERY LONG TIME!
(And if the equation,
As set forth above,
Is PROVED when we get to
The BOTTOM LINE...
The 'Powers Financial'
I'll hold o'er your world
Will complete my fantastic design!)
And the whole 'EQUIVALENT EARTH' SHALL BE MINE!
And the whole 'EQUIVALENT EARTH' SHALL BE MINE!
And the whole 'EQUIVALENT EARTH' SHALL BE MINE!