Erich Pommer

Erich Pommer (July 20, 1889 – May 8, 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was the most important person in the German and European Film Industries in the 1920s and 1930s. He was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era as the head of production at Decla, Decla-Bioscop and from 1924 to 1926 at Ufa responsible for many of the best known movies of the Weimar Republic such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), Michael (1924), Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh (1924), Variety (1925), Tartuffe (1926), Manon Lescaut (1926) Faust (1926), Metropolis (1927) and The Blue Angel (1930). He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany for a time after the war.

Early life and career

Pommer was born in Hildesheim, Province of Hanover, to Gustav Pommer and his wife Anna. After a brief apprenticeship with the Herrenkonfektion Machol & Lewin, Pommer began his film career in 1907, with the Berlin branch of the Gaumont company, eventually taking over as director of its Viennese branch in 1910. In 1912, Pommer concluded his military service and became a representative of the French Éclair camera company in Vienna, where he was responsible for their business in Central and Eastern Europe. From 1913, he was Éclair general representative for Central Europe, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Poland, based in Berlin. In the same year, he married Gertrud Levy and became, together with Marcel Vandal, the director-general of the Viennese office of Éclair. Under Pommer's direction, the company began the production of feature films including Das Geheimnis der Lüfte / Le mystère de l'air (in English, the Mystery of the Air), the first films he produced. Another five films followed in 1915.

Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute.

His most famous films include the groundbreaking Metropolis (1927) – which was the world's most expensive film up to that point – and M (1931), a film noir precursor that was made before he moved to the United States.

Life and career

Early life

Lang was born in Vienna as the second son of Anton Lang (1860–1940), an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline "Paula" Lang née Schlesinger (1864–1920). Fritz Lang was baptized on December 28, 1890, at the Schottenkirche in Vienna.

Lang's parents were of Moravian descent and practicing Roman Catholics. His parents (his mother, Jewish born, converted to Roman Catholic) took their religion seriously and were dedicated to raising Fritz as a Catholic. Lang frequently had Catholic-influenced themes in his films. Late in life, he described himself as "born Catholic".

Thea von Harbou

Thea Gabriele von Harbou (27 December 1888 – 1 July 1954) was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is especially known as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis and the story on which it was based. Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films.

Early life, family, and education

Thea von Harbou was born in Tauperlitz, Bavaria, in 1888, into a family of minor nobility and government officials, which gave her a level of sophisticated comfort. As a child she was educated in a convent by private tutors who taught her several languages as well as piano and violin. She was a child prodigy. Her first works, a short story published in a magazine and a volume of poems published privately, focused on perceptions of art, subjects considered unusual for a girl of thirteen. Despite her privileged childhood, Harbou wanted to earn a living on her own, which led her to become an actress despite her father's disapproval.

Alfred Abel

Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis.

Early life

Born in Leipzig in the German Empire on 12 March 1879, Alfred Peter Abel was the son of Louis Abel, a peddler, and Anna Maria Selma. Abel had several careers before becoming an actor. In his early adulthood, Abel first studied to be a forester and later studied gardening in Saxon Mittweida. He changed his area of study to business in hopes of becoming a businessman. A short study of art drafting then followed at the Leipzig Academy. During this time, Abel attended private acting classes.

Stage career

Abel received his first acting job in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland. He continued acting in numerous theaters in the Lucerne canton, until he finally moved on to perform at the Baranowsky Theater in Berlin under the direction of Max Reinhardt. He quickly gained fame and was called to do several other acting jobs. He acted alongside Fritzi Massary in Erich Engles' production of The First Mrs. Shelby at the Königgrätzer Straße Theater. He garnered international success with his guest performance at the Irving Place Theatre in New York City. By the recommendation of fellow actor Rudolf Christians, Abel appeared with the acting ensemble at Berlin's Deutschen Theater in 1904, where he remained for the next decade. By this point, he had performed in every theater in Berlin.

F. W. Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm "F. W." Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was a German film director. Murnau was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air force, surviving several crashes without any severe injuries.

Arguably Murnau's best known work is his 1922 film Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Although not a commercial success due to copyright issues with Stoker's novel, the film was considered a masterpiece of Expressionist artwork. He was also known for his work with the 1924 film The Last Laugh and his interpretation of Goethe's Faust (1926). He later emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made three films, including Sunrise (1927), 4 Devils (1928) and City Girl (1930).

In 1931 Murnau travelled to Bora Bora to make the film Tabu with documentary film pioneer Robert J. Flaherty, who left after artistic disputes with Murnau, who had to finish the movie on his own. A week prior to the opening of the film Tabu, Murnau died in a Santa Barbara hospital from injuries he had received in an automobile accident that occurred along the Pacific Coast Highway near Rincon Beach, southeast of Santa Barbara.

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'Erich Pommer' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)

Actors: Raphael Sbarge (actor), Sigourney Weaver (actress), Sewell Whitney (actor), Sewell Whitney (actor), Peter Rodgers Melnick (composer), Scott Beehner (actor), Vaughn Armstrong (actor), Scott Subiono (actor), Margaret Smilow (producer), Kevin Fabian (actor), Robert Maffia (actor), George Alvarez (actor), Kristin Lindquist (actress), Anny Lowery Meza (editor), Lesli Margherita (actress),

Plot: Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.

Genres: Documentary,

Hilde (2009)

Actors: Johanna Gastdorf (actress), Martin Todsharow (composer), Stanley Townsend (actor), Monica Bleibtreu (actress), Hildegard Knef (writer), Jens Meurer (producer), Hanns Zischler (actor), Waléra Kanischtscheff (actor), Fritz Roth (actor), Michael Gwisdek (actor), Heike Makatsch (actress), Matthew Dylan Roberts (actor), Sylvester Groth (actor), Emilio Winschetti (miscellaneous crew), Jeroen Willems (actor),

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,

Marlene (2000)

Actors: Sandy Martin (actress), Enjott Schneider (actor), Monica Bleibtreu (actress), Katja Flint (actress), Armin Rohde (actor), Jürgen Schornagel (actor), Otto Sander (actor), Heiner Lauterbach (actor), Ben Becker (actor), Heinrich Schafmeister (actor), Heino Ferch (actor), Herbert Knaup (actor), Götz Otto (actor), Christiane Paul (actress), Katharina Müller-Elmau (actress),

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,
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Pommer, Erich Filmography

Play in Full Screen Die UFA

1992, role: actor
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1955, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Eine Liebesgeschichte

1954, role: producer
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1952, role: producer
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1952, role: producer
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1940, role: producer
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1940, role: producer
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1939, role: producer
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1938, role: writer
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1938, role: producer
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1938, role: director
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1938, role: producer
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1937, role: producer
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1937, role: producer
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1934, role: producer
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1934, role: writer
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1934, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Only Girl

1934, role: producer
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1934, role: producer
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1933, role: producer
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1933, role: producer
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1933, role: producer
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1933, role: producer
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1933, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Der Sieger

1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
Play in Full Screen The Congress Dances

1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1932, role: producer
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1931, role: producer
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1931, role: producer
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1931, role: producer
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1931, role: producer
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1931, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Le congrès s'amuse

1931, role: producer
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1931, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht

1931, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Liebeswalzer

1930, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Liebling der Götter

1930, role: producer

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