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Alfred Hirschmeier is a Production Design Allemand born on 19 march 1931 at Berlin (German)
Alfred Hirschmeier (19 March 1931 – 27 March 1996) was a German production designer. In 1995, he was a member of the jury at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.
Il devient chef sur Junges Gemüse. Par la suite, Hirschmeier devient l'un des chefs décorateurs les plus importants de RDA. Il mène des enquêtes minutieuses pour recréer des décors détaillés de scènes historiques. Dans les années 1980, il participe à des productions ouest-allemandes.
De 1977 à 1982, Alfred Hirschmeier est membre du bureau de l'association du cinéma et de la télévision de la RDA. De 1990 à sa mort, il est professeur à la Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam, où il enseigne la scénographie.
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Nationality German
Birth 19 march 1931 at Berlin (German)
Death 27 march 1996 (at 65 years) at Potsdam (German)
Awards National Prize of East Germany
Birth 19 march 1931 at Berlin (German)
Death 27 march 1996 (at 65 years) at Potsdam (German)
Awards National Prize of East Germany
Biography
Fils de Felix Hirschmeier, cordonnier, et de son épouse Hedwig, il intègre pour y apprendre la peinture les studios de la DEFA. Au bout d'un an, il entame l'étude de la scénographie et des costumes à la Kunsthandwerk Berlin. En 1953, il est d'abord assistant et travaille notamment pour les films de Kurt Maetzig.Il devient chef sur Junges Gemüse. Par la suite, Hirschmeier devient l'un des chefs décorateurs les plus importants de RDA. Il mène des enquêtes minutieuses pour recréer des décors détaillés de scènes historiques. Dans les années 1980, il participe à des productions ouest-allemandes.
De 1977 à 1982, Alfred Hirschmeier est membre du bureau de l'association du cinéma et de la télévision de la RDA. De 1990 à sa mort, il est professeur à la Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam, où il enseigne la scénographie.
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The Tango Player (1991)
, 1h36Directed by Roland Gräf
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Gwisdek, Corinna Harfouch, Jeannine Burch, Jaecki Schwarz
Roles Production Design
Rating60%
Solo Sunny (1980)
, 1h42Directed by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf
Origin German
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Renate Krößner, Alexander Lang, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Johanna Schall, Fred Düren, Lothar Warneke
Roles Production Design
Rating68%
Ingrid "Sunny" Sommer is a singer for an East German band, called the Tornadoes, whose audience is usually senior citizens. For Sunny, performing as a solo pop singer is her dream but singing the same song over and over to a small crowd has not gotten her there yet. When the saxophone player of the band is injured, the musician and philosopher Ralph steps in to substitute for him. Sunny falls for Ralph’s saxophone skills, and soon they become lovers. Sunny asks Ralph to write her a song, and eventually he agrees. After walking off the stage before a performance, Sunny is soon replaced in the band by a new girl. Sunny turns to Ralph for comfort and finds him cheating on her. Finally Sunny has a chance to sing solo on stage with the song Ralph wrote for her, but she does not feel the love that she desires from the audience and gives up. After mixing sleeping pills and alcohol Sunny ends up in a hospital where she stays for rehabilitation. Once Sunny gets back on her feet she goes back to her old factory job, but she quits shortly after starting. The film ends with Sunny being accepted as a singer for another band with a sound different from the Tornadoes.
Jacob the Liar (1975)
, 1h36Directed by Frank Beyer
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell, Peter Sturm, Dezső Garas
Roles Set Designer
Rating70%
In a Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland, a man named Jakob is summoned to the Gestapo office on a charge he broke the curfew. As the soldier who sent him there merely played a prank on him, he is released, but not before hearing a radio broadcast about the defeats of the German Army. As no one believes he went to the Gestapo and came out alive, Jakob makes up another tale, claiming he owns a radio – a crime punishable by death. He then starts encouraging his friends with false reports about the advance of the Red Army toward their ghetto. The residents, who are desperate and starved, find new hope in Jakob's stories. But it all ends as the Germans deport the people to their death in the extermination camps.
Carbide and Sorrel (1963)
, 1h25Directed by Frank Beyer
Genres Comedy
Actors Erwin Geschonneck, Manja Behrens, Horst Giese, Fritz Diez, Sabine Thalbach
Roles Production Design
Rating70%
In 1945, after the end of World War II in Europe, Karl 'Kalle' Blücher examines the ruins of the cigarette factory where he worked in the city of Dresden. The other workers tell him they need carbide to replace the destroyed roof. They assign him the job of getting it, as he has a brother-in-law in Wittenberge who works at a carbide company. Also, they are all married and have to look after their families, while he is single and a vegetarian, so he should be better able to feed himself along the way.
Naked Among Wolves (1963)
, 1h56Directed by Frank Beyer
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Viktor Avdyushko, Peter Sturm, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Werner Dissel
Roles Set Designer
Rating71%
Buchenwald concentration camp, early 1945. A Polish prisoner named Jankowski, who has been on a death march from Auschwitz, brings a suitcase to the camp. When the inmates in the storage building open it, they discover a three-year-old child. Jankowski tells them he is the son of a couple from the Warsaw Ghetto, both of whom perished. Prisoner Kropinski becomes attached to the boy, and begs Kapo André Höfel to save him. Höfel, who is a member of the camp's secret communist underground, consults with senior member Bochow. He is instructed to send the child on the next transport to Sachsenhausen. Höfel cannot bring himself to do so, and hides him. Jankowski is deported to Sachsenhausen alone.
Star-Crossed Lovers (1962)
, 1h25Directed by Frank Beyer
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Armin Mueller-Stahl, Annekathrin Bürger, Ulrich Thein, Manfred Krug
Roles Set Designer
Rating71%
Magdalena and Michael are two children from working-class families in Berlin, who have sworn to marry each other. When they grow older, after the Nazis rose to power, Michael is arrested for being a member of the Communist Party of Germany. Magdalena joins the underground party to continue his work. Jürgen, a friend of the two who is now a storm trooper, tries to convince her not to become a communist. During the Second World War, Michael is sent a penal battalion on the Eastern Front, where he meets Jürgen again as a commanding officer. Michael overpowers him, defects to the Red Army and returns to the battalion once more to convince the soldiers to surrender, thus saving their lives. He reaches Moscow, where he sees Magdalena board a plane. He tries to call out for her, but she does not hear him. They will never meet again.
At a French Fireside (1962)
, 1h39Directed by Kurt Maetzig
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Angelica Domröse, Hannjo Hasse, Günther Simon
Roles Set Designer
Rating65%
Bundeswehr soldier Klaus' regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ordered to be kind to the populace, since the West German High Command wishes the French to forget the atrocities that were committed during the Second World War. Klaus falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of the local mayor. He discovers that his commanders intend to demolish the ruins of a local church, in which civilians were murdered by the German occupation forces at 1944. A local journalist who researches the event discovers that West German General Rucker ordered the massacre, but he is mysteriously murdered. Klaus defies his commanding officer Siebert, who instructs him to steal the documents indicting Rucker, and hands the evidence over to Jeanne.
Five Cartridges (1960)
, 1h24Directed by Frank Beyer
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Erwin Geschonneck, Ulrich Thein, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Fritz Diez, Manfred Krug, Hans Finohr
Roles Set Designer
Rating66%
During the Spanish Civil War, a battalion of the International Brigades is cut off without water or ammunition. The commander, Major Bolaños, requests his commissar, the German Heinrich Witting, to select five volunteers who will remain in the trenches and hold off the enemy, while the battalion retreats across the Ebro River. Witting chooses the Frenchman Pierre, the German Willi, the Pole Oleg, the Spaniard José and the Bulgarian Dimitri. In addition, the Soviet radio operator Vasia stays behind to handle communications.
SAS 181 Does Not Reply (1959)
, 1h30Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ulrich Thein, Erwin Geschonneck, Hans Finohr, Fritz Diez, Gustav Püttjer, Rudolf Ulrich
Roles Production Design
Kurt, a young apprentice in a fishing commune and a member of the Technology and Sport Association, enters a race to show his maritime skills. After he fails to win, he falls in love with a girl named Anke, but she loves the apprentice Hannes. Kurt and Hannes sail with skipper Laue on one of the collective's boats, SAS 181. Laue pretends to be Kurt's friend and encourages a conflict between the two boys. However, they both realize that he intends to reach the Danish isle of Bornholm and defect to the West. The two settle their differences and, with the help of the old fisherman Jens, return the boat home.
Special Mission (1959)
, 1h18Directed by Heinz Thiel
Genres Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Fritz Diez, Katharina Matz, Gustav Püttjer, Gerd Michael Henneberg
Roles Production Design
In 1958, somewhere in the Baltic Sea, a People's Navy minesweeper commanded by Captain Fischer encounters a foreign boat. Its skipper is a man named Arendt, who has served with Fischer in the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. Fischer recalls how, in 1943, his superior Captain Lieutenant Wegner planned to defect to the Danish resistance and join the communists, but was arrested and sentenced to death. Fischer realizes that Arendt, one of the few who knew of Wegner's plans, was actually a Gestapo agent and betrayed him. Now, he understands that Arendt works for West Germany and intends to gather intelligence in the German Democratic Republic. Fischer foils his plans and the minesweeper returns to its mission.
Castles and Cottages (1957)
, 3h23Directed by Kurt Maetzig
Genres Drama
Actors Raimund Schelcher, Erika Dunkelmann, Erwin Geschonneck, Helga Göring, Hans Finohr, Ulrich Thein
Roles Production Design
Rating67%
In a feudal estate in Mecklenburg, the hunchback coachman Anton Zuckman married maid Marthe, who was pregnant with Baron von Holzendorf's illegitimate child, in exchange for a letter promising that the baron would recognize his offspring when it would wed and endow it with 5000 Mark. Marthe gave birth to a daughter, Anna, nicknamed Annegret.
Two Mothers (1957)
Directed by Frank Beyer
Genres Drama, War
Actors Helga Göring, Françoise Spira, Heinrich Gies, Franz Arzdorf
Roles Art Direction
Rating68%