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Directed by Paul Verhoeven
In our series on directors, EFSP presents an updated post on the most famous, provocative, and challenging Dutch film director ever, Paul Verhoeven. Don't mix him up with the German director of the...
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Herta Staal (1930-2021)
On 2 October 2021, Austrian actress and singer Herta Staal (1930) passed away. She was a star of the German-language cinema of the 1950s and played leading and supporting roles in both Heimatfilms and...
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Les Fratellini
Les Fratellini or the Fratellini brothers was a legendary clown trio whose wit, charm, and superb acting techniques were widely admired in Europe. Paolo or Paul, the poetic whiteface François, and the...
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De vierde man (1983)
EFSP congratulates 83-years-young Dutch director Paul Verhoeven with his new film, Benedetta (2021) which will be released in Dutch cinemas tomorrow. Benedetta, played by Virginie Efira, is a...
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Paul Verhoeven: ‘Homosexuality is, of course, controversial’
Paul Verhoeven caused quite a stir during the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with his 'lesbian nun drama'Benedetta (2021). Homosexuality surprisingly often plays a role in Verhoeven's films, but in the...
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Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal (1926-2001) is one of the best-known and most important Spanish film actors. Luis Buñuel’s Nazarín (1959) was his breakthrough in cinema. He also appeared in such classics as Bunuel's...
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The 'Moderne Künstler' series by MMB
Before colour photography became mainstream, most film star postcards contained sepia pictures. There are a few exceptions like the Moderne Künstler series by German publisher MMB. All the postcards in...
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Nicole Kidman
Elegant Nicole Kidman (1967) is known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports and is one of the highest-paid actresses of the film industry. She received an Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia...
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Wanda Treumann
Wanda Treumann (1883–1963) belonged to the most popular stars of the German cinema before the First World War. She played the lead in nearly 90 films, but many of them were shorts. Together with Viggo...
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Annekathrin Bürger
Annekathrin Bürger (1937) is a German stage, film, and television actress. Bürger was a prominent actress in East Germany appearing in a number of films made by the state-run DEFA film studios as well...
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Kill Bill (2003-2004)
The two-part American martial arts film Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003-2004) stars Uma Thurman as the Bride (code name Black Mamba), a former member of a team of assassins, the Deadly...
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William Boyd
American film actor William Boyd (1895-1972) with his expressive blue eyes and prematurely silver-gray hair was a sought-after leading man of the silent movie era. He is now best known for his later...
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The Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil
Les Quatre Cents Coups du diable (The Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil) was a 'grande féerie', first performed on 23 December 1905 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Ivo Blom found nine vintage...
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Published by Armando Terzoli
During the late 1930s and/ or 1940s, A. (Armando) Terzoli in Rome edited a large series of film star postcards with actors from the Italian sound cinema. The cards were printed by Stabilimenti Angeli...
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Tommy Lee Jones
American actor Tommy Lee Jones (1946), known for his deadpan delivery, played hard-edged but sarcastic law enforcement and military officers in such blockbusters as the thriller The Fugitive (1993)...
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Published by Sedma Sila, Part 2
Last week, Ivo Blom made a selection for EFSP of Sedma Sila cards with European stars. Sedma Sila was a postcard publisher from Beograd (Beograd), then Yugoslavia, now Serbia. It published postcards of...
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Charles Morton
Charles Morton (1908-1966) was a good-looking and athletic American film and television actor. His film career started as a leading man in the silent era in films by John Ford and Friedrich Wilhelm...
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Fritz Delius
Fritz Delius (1890-1966) was a German stage actor who played many leading roles in productions by Max Reinhardt. He was also one of the pioneers of German silent cinema. Delius acted with such stars as...
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Baby LeRoy
Baby LeRoy (1932-2001) was Hollywood's most famous toddler. When he was only 16 months old, he became the youngest person ever put under term contract by a major studio. Between 1933 and 1935 he...
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Peer Gynt (1919)
Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem 'Peer Gynt' (1867) is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays and was adapted many times for stage and screen. Peer Gynt (Victor Barnowsky, 1919) was a two-part...
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