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Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s.[1]

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  1. 106 relations: 't Was één April, A Scandal in Paris, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Aki Kaurismäki, Albert Einstein, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, All I Desire, All That Heaven Allows, Andrew Sarris, April, April!, Asta Nielsen, August Strindberg, Battle Hymn (film), Bavarian Film Awards, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Boefje, Cahiers du Cinéma, Captain Lightfoot, Charlottenburg, Chemnitz, Cinema of the United States, Columbia Pictures, Darling of the Sailors, David Lynch, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Erwin Panofsky, Expressionism (theatre), Far from Heaven, Final Accord (1938 film), Georg Büchner, German Empire, Guillermo del Toro, Hamburg, Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (film), Hitler's Madman, Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, Imitation of Life (1959 film), Ingmar Bergman, Interlude (1957 film), Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean-Luc Godard, John Waters, Jon Halliday, Klaus Detlef Sierck, La Habanera, Lana Turner, Lars von Trier, List of Edinburgh festivals, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Lugano, ... Expand index (56 more) »

  2. Film directors from Hamburg
  3. German people of Danish descent

't Was één April

t Was één April is a 1936 Dutch film directed by Douglas Sirk and Jacques van Tol.

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A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris is a 1946 American biographical film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring George Sanders, Signe Hasso and Carole Landis.

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A Time to Love and a Time to Die

A Time to Love and a Time to Die is a 1958 Eastmancolor CinemaScope drama war film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring John Gavin and Liselotte Pulver.

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Aki Kaurismäki

Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) is a 1974 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem.

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All I Desire

All I Desire is a 1953 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson, Lori Nelson, and Maureen O'Sullivan.

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All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 American drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter, and adapted by Peg Fenwick from a novel by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee.

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Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic.

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April, April!

April, April! is a 1935 German comedy film.

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Asta Nielsen

Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars.

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.

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Battle Hymn (film)

Battle Hymn is a 1957 American war film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson as Lieutenant Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War who helped evacuate several hundred war orphans to safety.

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Bavarian Film Awards

The Bavarian Film Awards (Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the state government of Bavaria in Germany for "exceptional achievement in German filmmaking." Along with the German Film Awards, these are the most highly regarded awards for filmmaking achievement in Germany.

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Bavarian Soviet Republic

The Bavarian Soviet Republic (or Bavarian Council Republic), also known as the Munich Soviet Republic (Räterepublik Baiern, Münchner Räterepublik), was a short-lived unrecognised socialist state in Bavaria during the German revolution of 1918–1919.

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Boefje

Boefje ("rascal") is a 1939 Dutch children's comedic melodrama directed by Detlef Sierck.

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Cahiers du Cinéma

() is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

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Captain Lightfoot is a 1955 American CinemaScope Technicolor adventure film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush and Jeff Morrow and is Sirk's adaptation of a book by W. R. Burnett written in 1954.

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Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.

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Chemnitz

Chemnitz (from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Darling of the Sailors

Darling of the Sailors (German: Liebling der Matrosen) is a 1937 Austrian comedy film directed by Hans Hinrich and starring Traudl Stark, Wolf Albach-Retty and Richard Romanowsky.

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David Lynch

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician.

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Deutsches Schauspielhaus

The Deutsches Schauspielhaus, sometimes referred to as the Hamburg Schauspielhaus or Hamburg Theatre, is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany.

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Erwin Panofsky

Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892, in Hannover – March 14, 1968, in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime.

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Expressionism (theatre)

Expressionism was a movement in drama and theatre that principally developed in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century.

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Far from Heaven

Far from Heaven is a 2002 historical romantic drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes, and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson.

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Final Accord (1938 film)

Final Accord (French: Accord final) is a 1938 French-Swiss musical comedy film directed by Douglas Sirk and Ignacy Rosenkranz and starring Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry and George Rigaud.

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Georg Büchner

Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker. Douglas Sirk and Guillermo del Toro are English-language film directors.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (film)

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? is a 1952 American comedy film distributed by Universal-International, directed by Douglas Sirk, and stars Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, and Gigi Perreau.

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Hitler's Madman

Hitler's Madman is a 1943 World War II drama directed by Douglas Sirk.

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Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

Hyperinflation affected the German Papiermark, the currency of the Weimar Republic, between 1921 and 1923, primarily in 1923.

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Imitation of Life (1959 film)

Imitation of Life (1959) is an American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal International.

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Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter.

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Interlude (1957 film)

Interlude is a 1957 American CinemaScope drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring June Allyson and Rossano Brazzi.

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Jean-Louis Comolli

Jean-Louis Comolli (30 July 1941 – 19 May 2022) was a French writer, editor, and film director.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.

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John Waters

John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist.

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Jon Halliday

Jon Halliday (born 28 June 1939) is an Irish historian specialising in modern Asia.

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Klaus Detlef Sierck

Klaus Detlef Sierck (30 March 1925 – 1944) was a German child actor.

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La Habanera

La Habanera is a 1937 German romantic melodrama feature film directed by Detlef Sierck (later known as Douglas Sirk).

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Lana Turner

Julia Jean "Lana" Turner (February 8, 1921June 29, 1995) was an American actress.

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Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Douglas Sirk and Lars von Trier are English-language film directors.

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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Lugano

Lugano (Lügán) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

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Lured

Lured is a 1947 American film noir directed by Douglas Sirk and starring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and Boris Karloff.

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Magnificent Obsession (1954 film)

Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 American romantic drama film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson.

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Meet Me at the Fair

Meet Me at the Fair is a 1953 American musical film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Dan Dailey, Diana Lynn and Hugh O'Brian.

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Melodrama

A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a very strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Mise-en-scène

Mise-en-scène ("placing on stage" or "what is put into the scene") is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in the visual arts through storyboarding, visual themes, and cinematography and in narrative-storytelling through directions.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.

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Mystery Submarine (1950 film)

Mystery Submarine is a 1950 American war film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén and Robert Douglas.

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Nero-Film

Nero-Film AG was a German film production company founded in 1925 and based in Berlin during the Weimar era.

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Never Say Goodbye (1956 film)

Never Say Goodbye is a 1956 American drama romance film directed by Jerry Hopper starring Rock Hudson.

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No Room for the Groom

No Room for the Groom is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don DeFore and Spring Byington.

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Nuremberg Laws

The Nuremberg Laws (Nürnberger Gesetze) were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

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Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland

The Großdeutschland", also commonly referred to simply as Großdeutschland or Großdeutschland Division, was an elite combat unit of the German Army (Heer) that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.

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Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author.

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Pillars of Society (1935 film)

Pillars of Society (German: Stützen der Gesellschaft) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Detlef Sierck (later known as Douglas Sirk) and starring Heinrich George, Maria Krahn and Albrecht Schoenhals.

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Polyester (film)

Polyester is a 1981 American comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters, and starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole.

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Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American independent crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary.

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker and actor.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, actor, and dramatist. Douglas Sirk and Rainer Werner Fassbinder are English-language film directors.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Schlußakkord

Schlußakkord (Final Accord or better Final Chord;Sabine Hake, Popular Cinema of the Third Reich, Austin: University of Texas, 2001,, p. 246, note 4: the title "refers to a musical term" whereas that of Sierck's 1939 French-language Accord Final can also mean "concluding agreement".

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Serge Daney

Serge Daney (June 4, 1944, Paris – June 12, 1992) was a French movie critic.

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Seymour Nebenzal

Seymour Nebenzal (22 July 1899 – 23 September 1961) was an American-born Jewish-German film producer.

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Shockproof

Shockproof is a 1949 American crime film noir directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Patricia Knight and Cornel Wilde.

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Sign of the Pagan

Sign of the Pagan is a 1954 American historical drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, shot in CinemaScope (color by Technicolor), and released by Universal Pictures.

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Sleep, My Love

Sleep, My Love is a 1948 American noir film directed by Douglas Sirk.

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Slightly French

Slightly French is a 1949 American musical comedy film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Dorothy Lamour, Don Ameche and Janis Carter.

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Summer Storm (1944 film)

Summer Storm is a 1944 period romantic melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Edward Everett Horton, and Anna Lee.

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Take Me to Town

Take Me To Town is a 1953 American Comedy Western film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Ann Sheridan and Sterling Hayden.

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Taza, Son of Cochise

Taza, Son of Cochise is a 1954 American Western film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Rush.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Court Concert

The Court Concert (Das Hofkonzert) is a 1936 German historical romantic comedy film directed by Detlef Sierck (later known as Douglas Sirk), and starring Mártha Eggerth, Johannes Heesters, and Kurt Meisel.

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The First Legion

The First Legion is a 1951 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and written by Emmet Lavery.

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The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935 film)

The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Das Mädchen vom Moorhof) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Detlef Sierck and starring Hansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank and Eduard von Winterstein.

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The Lady Pays Off

The Lady Pays Off is a 1951 American romantic comedy film starring Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally and Gigi Perreau, and directed by Douglas Sirk.

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The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water is a 2017 romantic fantasy film directed and co-produced by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor.

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The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman is a 1946 American historical melodrama film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders and Louis Hayward.

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The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, and Robert Middleton.

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The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill.

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There's Always Tomorrow (1956 film)

There's Always Tomorrow is a 1956 American romantic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett.

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Thunder on the Hill

Thunder on the Hill is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Claudette Colbert and Ann Blyth.

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Ticino

Ticino, sometimes Tessin, officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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To New Shores

To New Shores (Zu neuen Ufern) is a 1937 German drama film directed by Detlef Sierck (later known as Douglas Sirk) and starring Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel and Viktor Staal.

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Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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UFA GmbH

UFA GmbH, shortened to UFA, is a film and television production company that unites all production activities of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann in Germany.

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Universal Studios, Inc.

Universal Studios, Inc. (formerly as MCA Inc., also known simply as Universal) is an American media and entertainment conglomerate and is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut.

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University of Hamburg

The University of Hamburg (Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany.

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University of Jena

The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form Uni Jena), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.

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University of Television and Film Munich

The University of Television and Film Munich (German: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, short: HFF Munich) is a publicly funded film school in Munich, Germany.

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Week-End with Father

Week-End with Father is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, and Gigi Perreau.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios) is a 1988 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas and Julieta Serrano.

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Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1958) is a Hongkonger film director, screenwriter, and producer. Douglas Sirk and Wong Kar-wai are English-language film directors.

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Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind is a 1956 American Southern Gothic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.

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Zarah Leander

Zarah Leander (15 March 1907 – 23 June 1981) was a Swedish singer and actress whose greatest success was in Germany between 1936 and 1943, when she was contracted to work for the state-owned Universum Film AG (UFA).

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See also

Film directors from Hamburg

German people of Danish descent

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Sirk

Also known as Detlef Sierck, Detlev Sierck, Hans Detlef Sierck, Hans Sierck.

, Lured, Magnificent Obsession (1954 film), Meet Me at the Fair, Melodrama, Mise-en-scène, Molière, Mystery Submarine (1950 film), Nero-Film, Never Say Goodbye (1956 film), No Room for the Groom, Nuremberg Laws, Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland, Pedro Almodóvar, Pillars of Society (1935 film), Polyester (film), Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Roger Ebert, Schlußakkord, Serge Daney, Seymour Nebenzal, Shockproof, Sign of the Pagan, Sleep, My Love, Slightly French, Summer Storm (1944 film), Take Me to Town, Taza, Son of Cochise, Technicolor, The Court Concert, The First Legion, The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935 film), The Lady Pays Off, The Shape of Water, The Strange Woman, The Tarnished Angels, The Threepenny Opera, There's Always Tomorrow (1956 film), Thunder on the Hill, Ticino, To New Shores, Todd Haynes, UFA GmbH, Universal Studios, Inc., University of Connecticut, University of Hamburg, University of Jena, University of Television and Film Munich, Week-End with Father, Weimar Republic, West Germany, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Wong Kar-wai, Written on the Wind, Zarah Leander.