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Directed by Federico Fellini
A hundred years ago, Italian film director and screenwriter Federico Fellini (1920-1993) was born in the Italian town of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast. Fellini was one of the most influential...
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Cinefest 2020: Ivo Blom's personal postcard choice
This week we follow Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage. The theme is 'Cinema, War, and Tulips: German-Dutch Film Relations'. EFSP co-host Ivo Blom is one of the...
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Produced by Rudolf Meyer
On the second day of Cinefest, EFSP presents Rudolf Meyer (1901-1969). During the 1930s and 1950, this German-born producer and film distributor produced several light-hearted entertainment films in...
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Nicolas Koline
It is the third day of Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage in Hamburg. The theme of the festival is 'Cinema, War, and Tulips: German-Dutch Film Relations'. Hurrah! Ich...
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Lien Deyers
It is day four of Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage. The beautiful Dutch actress Lien Deyers (1910-1965) was discovered by famous director Fritz Lang who gave her a part...
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Frits van Dongen
Today is the fifth day of Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage. Another popular star of the German cinema of the 1930s was Dutch actor Frits van Dongen (1901-1975). The...
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Sabine Sinjen
Guten tag! The theme of Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage is 'German-Dutch Film Relations'. A German film with a Dutch touch is Es/It (Ulrich Schamoni, 1964) shot by...
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Produced by Marten Toonder
For the seventh day of Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage, EFSP selected Marten Toonder (1912-2005), the creator of the Dutch comic strip 'Tom Poes & Oliver B....
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Dutch girls in the international cinema
It is the eighth day of Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage and it is the first day of the international conference. How was the Netherlands represented in German cinema?...
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Cox Habbema
On the ninth day of Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage, EFSP hails a star who embodied the theme of the festival, 'German-Dutch Film Relations'. From 1969 till 1984,...
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Directed by Paul Verhoeven
It is the last day of Cinefest, the 17th International Festival of German Film-Heritage. A more recent Dutch-German coproduction is Zwartboek/Black Book (2006), directed by Dutch director Paul...
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Heli Finkenzeller
German stage and film actress Heli Finkenzeller (1914-1991) had her greatest successes in popular Ufa comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. After the war she often played mother or aunt roles, such as in...
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Gosse de riche (1920)
The French silent film Gosse de riche/Rich Kid premiered on 27 August 1920. The day after, the star of the film, Suzanne Grandais, was killed. The car in which she was sitting with her director Charles...
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Produced by Joop Geesink
Cinefest is over, but today we have an encore. A kind of sequel to last week's post on animator Marten Toonder, a post on his one-time collaborator Joop Geesink (1913 -1984). This Dutch film producer...
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Directed by Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang (1890-1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was...
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La Collectionneuse: Who's that lady?
Welcome to one of the most difficult and engaging film quizzes in cyberspace. For the second time, La Collectionneuse a.k.a. Marlene Pilaete lets us guess: who's that lady? For this quiz, Marlene spent...
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Five New Filmshots by Film Weekly
In March this year, EFSP did two posts with five series of Filmshots cards. These b/w cards were produced as a supplement for the British magazine Film Weekly. Each series presents a Hollywood film of...
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Montgomery Clift
Handsome American actor Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was one of Hollywood's first Method actors. He starred in films like the Western Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948), A Place in the Sun (George Stevens,...
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Giulietta De Riso
Giulietta De Riso (1896-1988) was an Italian stage and - mainly silent - film actress. She acted in almost twenty films, but De Riso never became a real star or diva. Italian postcard by Ballerini...
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Renate Holm
Renate Holm (1931) is a German-Austrian film actress and operatic soprano. During the 1950s she was a popular star of Schlager films and operettas. In the 1960s, she became a star at the Vienna State...
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