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A photograph or photo is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating photographs is called photography. The word "photograph" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light".
The first permanent photograph was made in 1822 by a French inventor, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, building on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): that a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light. Niépce and Louis Daguerre refined this process. Daguerre discovered that exposing the silver first to iodine vapor, before exposure to light, and then to mercury fumes after the photograph was taken, could form a latent image; bathing the plate in a salt bath then fixes the image. These ideas led to the famous daguerreotype.
Actors: Hubert Mulzer (actor), Thomas Thieme (actor), Jim McKay (actor), Gerald Alexander Held (actor), Bernd Stegemann (actor), Niels-Bruno Schmidt (actor), Jan Josef Liefers (actor), Michael Gwisdek (actor), Stipe Erceg (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor), Moritz Bleibtreu (actor), Heino Ferch (actor), Andreas Borcherding (actor), Sandra Borgmann (actress), Kirsten Block (actress),
Plot: Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, abduction, activist, aden-yemen, air-base, airplane-hijacking, airport, ambush, ammunitionActors: Bernd Stegemann (actor), Bernhard Schir (actor), Eckhard Preuß (actor), Özay Fecht (actress), Gerd Wameling (actor), Miroslav Nemec (actor), Maja Maranow (actress), Antonio Di Mauro (actor), Cecilia Pillado (actress), Fabian Joest (actor), Anneke Troost (costume designer), Kambiz Giahi (composer), Gloria Behrens (director), Jürgen Pomorin (writer), Klaus Michael Kühn (producer),
Genres: Crime, Thriller,Actors: Danuta Stenka (actress), Krystyna Feldman (actress), Elzbieta Jarosik (actress), Lech Lotocki (actor), Slawa Kwasniewska (actress), Katarzyna Bujakiewicz (actress), Michal Grudzinski (actor), Andrzej Maleszka (director), Grazyna Korin (actress), Antonina Choroszy (actress), Irena Dudzinska (actress), Wirginia Pietryga (actress), Daniela Poplawska (actress), Krzysztof Nguyen (actor), Beata Zurek (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Brigitte Mira (actress), Karlheinz Böhm (actor), Irm Hermann (actress), Kurt Raab (writer), Eva Mattes (actress), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (writer), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (actor), Matthias Fuchs (actor), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (director), Adrian Hoven (actor), Gottfried John (actor), Hannes Kaetner (actor), Peter Kern (actor), Peer Raben (composer), Kurt Raab (actor),
Plot: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.
Keywords: anarchismActors: Brigitte Mira (actress), Karlheinz Böhm (actor), Irm Hermann (actress), Kurt Raab (writer), Eva Mattes (actress), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (writer), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (actor), Matthias Fuchs (actor), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (director), Adrian Hoven (actor), Gottfried John (actor), Hannes Kaetner (actor), Peter Kern (actor), Peer Raben (composer), Kurt Raab (actor),
Plot: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.
Keywords: anarchismActors: Wolf C. Hartwig (producer), Helmut Brasch (actor), Michael Schreiner (actor), Rosl Mayr (actress), Josef Fröhlich (actor), Peter Thomas (composer), Josef Moosholzer (actor), Günther Ungeheuer (actor), Margot Mahler (actress), Werner Abrolat (actor), Walter Feuchtenberg (actor), Astrid Boner (actress), Ernst Hofbauer (director), Wolf Harnisch (actor), Annemarie Wendl (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Gamil Ratib (actor), Gérard Landry (actor), Sylvain Levignac (actor), Burt Lancaster (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Sid James (actor), Serge Bento (actor), Hubert de Lapparent (actor), Paul Bonifas (actor), Paul Faivre (actor), Édouard Francomme (actor), Serge Bento (actor), Thomas Gomez (actor), Henri Coutet (actor), Minor Watson (actor),
Plot: Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins the circus, and manages to covince Mike to teach him the 'triple'. Meanwhile Lola, a tumbler, wants to get in on the act.
Keywords: acrobat, ambition, animal-trainer, bar, bareback-rider, based-on-novel, circus, circus-performer, cripple, drunkennessActors: Hans Otto (actor), Philipp Lothar Mayring (director), Hans May (composer), Philipp Lothar Mayring (writer), Paul Henckels (actor), Hermann Vallentin (actor), Erich Kestin (actor), Paul Rehkopf (actor), Ernst Pröckl (actor), Fritz Odemar (actor), Max Adalbert (actor), Friedl Haerlin (actress), Ferdinand Hart (actor), Jens Keith (miscellaneous crew), Julius E. Herrmann (actor),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Hans Brausewetter (actor), Robert Garrison (actor), Kurt Gerron (actor), Karl Harbacher (actor), Fritz Kampers (actor), Hermann Picha (actor), Sophie Pagay (actress), Lydia Potechina (actress), Liddy Hegewald (producer), Herbert Juttke (writer), Georg C. Klaren (writer), Hans Sternberg (actor), Eduard von Winterstein (actor), Maly Delschaft (actress), Gustav Adolf Semler (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Sergei Gerasimov (actor), Andrei Kostrichkin (actor), Grigori Kozintsev (writer), Leonid Trauberg (director), Grigori Kozintsev (director), Leonid Trauberg (writer), Emil Gal (actor), Yanina Zhejmo (actress), Irina Kunina (writer), Yevgeni Kumeiko (actor), Polina Pona (actress), Aleksandr Zavyalov (actor),
Genres: ,I found this photograph
Underneath broken picture glass
Tender face of black & white
Beautiful, a haunting sight
Looked into an angel's smile
Captivated all the while
From her hair and clothes she wore
I'd have placed her in between the wars
Was she willing when she sat
And posed a pretty photograph
To save her flowering and fair
For days to come
For days to share
A big smile for the camera
How did she know
The moment could be lost forever
Forever more
I found this photograph
In stacks between the old joist walls
In a place where time is lost
Lost behind where all things fall
Broken books and calendars,
Letters script in careful hand,
The music to a standard tune by
Some forgotten big brass band
From the thresh hold what's to see
Of our brave new century
Television's just a dream
Of radio and silver screen
A big smile for the camera
How did she know
The moment could be lost forever
Forever more
Was her childhood filled with rhyme
Or stolen books of passion crimes?
Was she innocent or blind to the cruelty of her time?
Was she fearful in her day?
Was she hopeful? did she pray?
Were there skeletons inside
Family secrets sworn to hide?
Did she feel the heat that stirs
The fall from grace of wayward girls?
Was she tempted to pretend
In love and laughter until the end?