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Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel is a Actor Autrichienne born on 5 april 1900 at Vienna (Austria)

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
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Birth name Elisabeth Neumann
Nationality Austria
Birth 5 april 1900 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 24 december 1994 (at 94 years) at Vienna (Austria)

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (5 April 1900 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian actress.

Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, but she later returned. She was the second wife of Berthold Viertel.

Biography

Au cinéma, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel débute dans deux films allemands muets sortis en 1927. En Allemagne, suivent notamment M le maudit de Fritz Lang (1931, avec Peter Lorre dans le rôle-titre) et Ave Maria de Johannes Riemann (coproduction germano-italienne, 1936, avec Beniamino Gigli et Käthe von Nagy).

En 1939, fuyant le nazisme suite à l'Anschluss, l'actrice se réfugie aux États-Unis et y retrouve d'autres compatriotes exilés, dont Berthold Viertel (1885-1953) qu'elle épouse finalement en 1949 (restant sa veuve après son décès). Ainsi, elle contribue à deux premiers films américains, The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler de James P. Hogan (1943, avec Ludwig Donath et Gale Sondergaard) et La Maison de la 92e Rue d'Henry Hathaway (1945, avec William Eythe et Signe Hasso).

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le couple retourne en Autriche. Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel apparaît entre autres dans Le Beau Danube bleu de Paul Verhoeven (film allemand, 1954, avec Bernhard Wicki et Annemarie Düringer), Le Dernier Passage de Phil Karlson (film américain, 1961, avec Richard Widmark et Sonja Ziemann), Cabaret de Bob Fosse (film américain, 1972, avec Liza Minnelli et Michael York), Le Dossier Odessa de Ronald Neame (film britannique, 1974, avec Jon Voight et Maximilian Schell), ou encore Le Cinquième Mousquetaire de Ken Annakin (coproduction germano-autrichienne, 1979, avec Sylvia Kristel et Beau Bridges).

Le dernier de ses vingt-six films, américain, est La Petite Fille au tambour de George Roy Hill (1984, avec Diane Keaton et Yorgo Voyagis).

Pour la télévision (allemande principalement), elle participe à onze séries entre 1956 et 1979, dont Tatort (un épisode, 1970) et Inspecteur Derrick (un épisode, 1978).

S'ajoutent vingt-cinq téléfilms de 1957 à 1988, dont Heidi de Delbert Mann (1968, avec Jean Simmons et Maximilian Schell).

Également active au théâtre, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel se produit avant et après la guerre en Allemagne (en particulier à Berlin) ou en Autriche. De plus, elle joue à Broadway (New York) dans deux revues respectivement représentées en 1939 et 1940, puis dans deux pièces, la première en 1947 ; suit une adaptation de Crime et Châtiment de Fiodor Dostoïevski en 1947-1948 (avec John Gielgud et Lillian Gish).

Usually with

Walter Rilla
Walter Rilla
(3 films)
John Huston
John Huston
(1 films)
Paul Czinner
Paul Czinner
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (16 films)

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Actress

The Little Drummer Girl, 2h10
Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Diane Keaton, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Thorley Walters, Eli Danker, Julian Firth
Roles Mme Minkel
Rating60% 3.046833.046833.046833.046833.04683
Set in Europe and the Middle East, the plot follows the Mossad's clandestine attempt to flush out a PLO bomber named Khalil. To capture him, they kidnap and later kill his brother, then recruit an anti-Zionist American actress named Charlie to impersonate the dead man's girlfriend, hoping Khalil will contact her. Charlie does everything the Mossad asks of her, but as she goes deeply undercover, she questions just how far she should go before reaching a point where she is unable to escape.
The Fifth Musketeer, 1h56
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin Austria
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about families, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Beau Bridges, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Alan Hale Jr.
Roles La matrone au couvent
Rating53% 2.6561852.6561852.6561852.6561852.656185
Le roi Louis XIV a à son insu un frère jumeau, Philippe, mais quand il est dit, il verrouille immédiatement son frère à la Bastille. Le roi veut augmenter sa popularité et met en scène un assassinat contre lui-même où Philippe est habillé comme roi Louis. Mais Philippe parvient à échapper à l'assassinat et tout le monde le croit le vrai roi ...
The Odessa File, 2h3
Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey, Mary Tamm
Roles M Wenzer
Rating69% 3.49663.49663.49663.49663.4966
On 22 November 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Peter Miller, a young freelance reporter, pulls over to the curb to listen to a radio report of the event in a district in Hamburg, West Germany. As a result he happens to be stopped at a traffic signal as an ambulance passes by on a highway. He chases the ambulance and discovers it is en route to pick up the body of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who had committed suicide, leaving behind no family. The reporter obtains the diary of the man, which contains information on his life in the Second World War Riga Ghetto, and the name of the SS officer who ran the camp, Eduard Roschmann.
Cabaret
Cabaret (1972)
, 2h4
Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about writers, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson
Roles Fräulein Schneider
Rating77% 3.8969453.8969453.8969453.8969453.896945
In 1931 Berlin, young American Sally Bowles performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new British arrival in the city, Brian Roberts, moves into the boarding house where Sally lives. A reserved academic and writer, Brian gives English lessons to earn a living while completing his doctorate. Sally tries seducing Brian and suspects he may be gay. Brian tells Sally that on three previous occasions he has tried to have physical relationships with women, all of which failed. They become friends, and Brian witnesses Sally's anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic. Sally and Brian become lovers despite their earlier reservations; they conclude that his previous failures with women were because they were "the wrong three girls".
Freud: The Secret Passion, 1h56
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse
Actors Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Susan Kohner, Fernand Ledoux, Larry Parks, David McCallum
Roles M Bernays, la mère de Martha
Rating71% 3.590253.590253.590253.590253.59025
This pseudo-biographical movie depicts Sigmund Freud's life from 1885 to 1890. At this time, most of his colleagues refused to treat hysteric patients, believing their symptoms to be ploys for attention. Freud, however, learns to use hypnosis to uncover the reasons for the patients' neuroses through his mentor and friend Josef Breuer. His main patient in the film is a young woman who refused to drink water and is plagued by a recurrent nightmare.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, 2h15
Directed by Henry Levin, George Pal
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Biography, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about writers, Films about magic and magicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Eden, Walter Slezak, Oskar Homolka
Roles Une vendeuse de fleurs
Rating63% 3.1958553.1958553.1958553.1958553.195855
The story focuses on the Grimm brothers, Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) and Jacob (Karlheinz Böhm), and is biographical and fantastical at the same time. They are working to finish a history for a local Duke (Oscar Homolka), though Wilhelm is more interested in collecting fairy tales and often spends their money to hear them from locals. Tales such as "The Dancing Princess" and "The Cobbler and the Elves" are integrated into the main plot. One of the tales is told as an experiment to three children in a book store to see if publishing a collection of fairytales has any merit. Another tale, "The Singing Bone", is told by an old woman (Martita Hunt) in the forest who tells stories to children, while the uninvited Wilhelm secretly listens through an open window. The culmination of this tale involves a jeweled dragon and features the most involved usage of the film's special effects.
The Secret Ways, 1h52
Directed by Richard Widmark, Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Richard Widmark, Charles Régnier, Sonja Ziemann, Walter Rilla, Senta Berger, Howard Vernon
Rating61% 3.0920053.0920053.0920053.0920053.092005
In Vienna, 1956, after Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, American adventurer Michael Reynolds (Richard Widmark) is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, Professor Jansci (Walter Rilla), out of Communist-ruled Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution. Reynolds goes to Vienna to see the professor's daughter, Julia (Sonja Ziemann), and he persuades her to accompany him to Budapest. Once there, Reynolds is kidnapped by freedom fighters who take him to the professor's secret headquarters.
Town Without Pity, 1h45
Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about capital punishment
Actors Kirk Douglas, Christine Kaufmann, E. G. Marshall, Hans Nielsen, Ingrid van Bergen, Richard Jaeckel
Rating71% 3.5945553.5945553.5945553.5945553.594555
Four somewhat drunk American soldiers leave a bar (where "Town Without Pity" is playing on the jukebox) in occupied Germany after World War II. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Karin Steinhof (Christine Kaufmann) has a quarrel with her 19-year-old boyfriend, Frank Borgmann, in the countryside. She leaves to change out of her wet bikini, and is taken by Sergeant Chuck Snyder (Frank Sutton) and gang raped by him, Corporal Birdwell Scott (Richard Jaeckel), Private Joey Haines (Mal Sondock) and Corporal Jim Larkin (Robert Blake). When Frank hears her screams for help, he runs to her, but is knocked out. After the four men are done, the guilt-ridden Larkin lingers behind; he covers the girl with his shirt before leaving with the others.
The House on 92nd Street, 1h28
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll, Harry Bellaver
Roles Freda Kassel
Rating65% 3.2972353.2972353.2972353.2972353.297235
In 1939, American standout university student Bill Dietrich (William Eythe) is approached by Nazi recruiters due to his German heritage. He feigns interest, then notifies the FBI. FBI agent George Briggs (Lloyd Nolan) tells him to play along.
Ave Maria
Ave Maria (1936)
, 1h28
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Käthe von Nagy, Paul Henckels, Carl Auen, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Herbert Hübner, Emmerich Hanus
Roles une mélomane
Rating67% 3.3563153.3563153.3563153.3563153.356315
Tino Dossi (Beniamino Gigli), a wealthy, famous, and older opera singer, is grieving over the terrible loss of his wife, a devoted French woman. Each year, he travels to Paris to visit her grave, but one year he is forced to go a concert his manager has arranged. While enjoying the concert, his manager visits a seedy night club and, while drunk, tells a cabaret entertainer, and her lover, that the singer is very unhappy and also wealthy.
Donogoo Tonka, 1h40
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anny Ondra, Viktor Staal, Will Dohm, Aribert Wäscher, Heinz Salfner, Oskar Sima
Roles Auswandererfrau
Rating57% 2.8810852.8810852.8810852.8810852.881085
L'histoire d'une mystérieuse cité mythique, appelée Donogoo où vont se cristalliser toutes les ambitions de la complexe nature humaine, sans cesse en rivalités et en tourments .....
M
M (1931)
, 1h57
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Serial killer films, Films about capital punishment, Auto-justice
Actors Peter Lorre, Gustaf Gründgens, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Klaus Pohl, Friedrich Gnaß
Roles la jeune prostituée
Rating82% 4.148574.148574.148574.148574.14857
A group of children are playing an elimination game in the courtyard of an apartment building in Berlin using a chant about a murderer of children. A woman sets the table for dinner, waiting for her daughter to come home from school. A wanted poster warns of a serial killer preying on children, as anxious parents wait outside a school.