Legends - Claudia Cardinale
Legenden portrays a woman whose career began as a beauty queen 1957 in Tunis, leading to world fame - Claudia Cardinale.
Legends - Claudia Cardinale - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Michael Strauven |
Director of photography: | André Boehm |
Sound: | Mario Krauß |
Production manager: | Stefan Hoffmann |
Executive Producer: | Jörg Kunkel |
Producer: | Susanne Stenner |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
TV Editor: | Gerolf Karwath |
Shooting locations: | Tunis |
Produced for: | SWR, 2010 |
Legends - Gert Fröbe
Portrait of the grand character actor Gert Fröbe, who was a leading German actor during the post-war era and succeeded even internationally. Unforgettable to this day is his role as the eponymous Goldfinger, a formidable adversary to Sean Connery's James Bond.
Legends - Gert Fröbe - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Michael Strauven |
Director of photography: | André Boehm |
Location manager: | Moritz Widmann |
Production manager: | Stefan Hoffmann |
Producer: | Susanne Stenner |
Executive Producer: | Moritz Hansen |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
TV Editor: | Gerolf Karwath |
Shooting locations: | Germany, France, England |
Produced for: | SWR, 2010 |
Legends - Jane Fonda
Retrieved from "Barbarella" to "Hanoi-Jane" to the aerobics queen - Jane Fonda has done much in her life, to escape the shadow of her father, Henry. The film traces her Hollywood career and the story of an amazing and contradictory emancipation.
Legends - Jane Fonda - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Michael Wulfes |
Director of photography: | Volker Tittel |
Location manager: | Moritz Widmann |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Excecutive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Program manager: | Thomas Fischer |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Principal photography: | March 08 |
Shooting locations: | USA, France |
To be aired on: | ARD/SWR, 2008 |
Legends - Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando - a biography of the most influential actor in polls in history.
Legends - Marlon Brando - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Michael Strauven |
Director of photography: | André Böhm |
Location manager: | Sven Heiligenstein |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Excecutive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Program manager: | Thomas Fischer |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Principal photography: | March 07 |
Shooting locations: | Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and others |
To be aired on: | ARD/SWR, 2007 |
Legends - Audrey Hepburn
Child woman, Funny Face, fashion icon - Audrey Hepburn captured Hollywood by storm in the early 50's and is next to Elizabeth Taylor to the highest paid actress in the dream factory. Actually, the buxom Marilyn Monroe, the role of Holly Golightly in getting "Breakfast at Tiffany's", but the production company Paramount decided at the last moment for the lean Audrey. Unforgotten is her breathy "Moon River". In the 1929-born Dutchwoman fled again before the glittering world in their European homeland, always in search of security.
The movie "Audrey Hepburn" goes to the phenomenon on the track. With the camera we see the traces of her life in England, France, the United States and Switzerland, where she retired in 1993 died. Fellow actors such as Roger Moore and Harry Belafonte, her son from his marriage to Mel Ferrer and her last boyfriend decrypt the diva, her longing to be just a mother and housewife, her penchant for older men, her failed marriages and their self-sacrificing devotion to children in Not in the world. Friends from childhood in Holland and England talk about how Audrey suffered life from the loss of his father, a follower of the British fascists, who left the family when Audrey was ten years old.
Legends - Audrey Hepburn - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Michael Strauven |
Director of photography: | André Böhm |
Location manager: | Sonja Maxeiner, Sven Heiligenstein |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Excecutive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Program manager: | Thomas Fischer |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Shooting locations: | Schweiz, France, USA, England, Netherlands, Germany |
To be aired on: | ARD/SWR, 2005 |
Legends - Max Schmeling
He is probably the most popular German sportsman of the 20th Century. Only German heavyweight champion, movie hero and model husband with a big heart and a hard right.
Max Schmeling's athletic career started in the cinema. 1921 - as a 16-year-old - he sees a film about the world championship fight between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier and convinced Schmeling's father that his son would become a professional boxer. Already Schmeling 1926 German champions, European champions for another year after that light heavyweight. But Max wants more. He travels to New York, the "El Dorado" of boxing. On 12 June 1930 Max Schmeling wins against American Jack Sharkey, the World Heavyweight.
A battle brings the legend Max Schmeling for blasting: On 19 June 1936 already 30 years suggests Schmeling in the 12th Round the hands down favorite "Brown Bomber" Joe Louis KO 90 000 shocked viewers in New York's Yankee Stadium and millions of people worldwide to watch the radio "the biggest sports sensation of all time". Schmeling's victory over Joe Louis Black is for the regime in Berlin a perfect propaganda coup. Hitler sounds: "Every German can now be proud of!" Max Schmeling is celebrated all right, but a National Socialist, or even an anti-Semite, he is not. When he suggests to separate himself from his Jewish manager Joe Jacobs, he defends himself with success.
Max Schmeling in June 1938 and remains one of the main figureheads for the Nazi propaganda machine - as long as he is counted out in the rematch against Joe Louis to just 124 seconds. An happiness, as Schmeling later recognize themselves. Together with the actress Anny Ondra, whom he married in 1933, he retires to his estate Ponickel back in Pomerania. A year later he was suddenly summoned to the military. He will remain one of the most prominent German athletes, who must be at the front.
1947, at the age of 42 years, rising again to earn Max Schmeling in the ring - about money, because the war in Schmeling's have almost lost everything. Eventually it to the Coca-Cola CEO James A. Farley brings, as a manager in the beverage group. Schmeling is a wealthy man who always demonstrates generosity when he is asked for help. When Joe Louis died impoverished in 1981, Schmeling takes for granted the cost of the funeral.
Today Max Schmeling lives quietly on his estate near Hamburg's.
Legends - Max Schmeling - Backsatge
Written and directed by: | Michael Wulfes |
Director of photography: | Volker Tittel |
Location manager: | Sonja Maxeiner |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Excecutive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Program manager: | Silvia Gutmann (NDR) |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
To be aired on: | ARD/NDR, 2003 |
Legends - Ingrid Bergmann
Three Oscars, countless awards, starring in the film classic "Casablanca" - while the center of a scandal that shocked the prudish America: Ingrid Bergman is the most successful and controversial star of the Hollywood cinema of the 40s and 50s.
The 1915-born daughter of a German and a Swede soon loses her parents and invents a dream world for which she imagines more new figures. She goes to drama school, play minor roles for the Swedish cinema. No later than the fifth film in 1936, they acquired star status at home - and is perceived abroad. The war prevented an acting career in Germany, but instead brings the producer of "Gone with the Wind, David O. Selznick, to Hollywood.
Ingrid Bergman emphasizes natural, serene, "innocent" beauty comes to the American public. "It looks like one of the first spring storm clean meadow landscape," the press is jubilant over their new star. But she wants to leave a false gloss of Hollywood. In 1949, they inspired the movie "Rome, Open City," the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. First, the work, then the love for the then highest paid Hollywood actress moves to Italy - and gets a little later a child by Rossellini. As a symbol of "free love" she is condemned publicly in America, because there can be Ingrid Bergman back her husband Petter Lindstrom and the then eleven year old daughter Pia. The films, however, the Ingrid Bergman turns with her new husband, hardly anyone wants to see. After her separation from Rossellini, she returns in triumph to Hollywood in 1957 and receives an Oscar for the lead role in "Anastasia". She reconciled with her daughter Pia. But acting remains the most important thing in Ingrid Bergman's life. During the filming of her latest film, "Golda Meir", is it because of her cancer been attacked physically strong. But it holds by iron remains of their "good old friend, the camera" faithful to the last scene. Not even a year later, on her 67th Birthday, Ingrid Bergman died in London.
Legends - Ingrid Bergmann - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Michael Strauven |
Director of photography: | Florian Pfeffer |
Location manager: | Sonja Maxeiner |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Excecutive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Program manager: | Thomas Fischer |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
To be aired on: | ARD/SWR, 2003 |
Legends - Franz Beckenbauer
His successes are unlikely to be repeated: German Champion, European Champion than players, European Cup winner and world champion when players and team boss. What he tackles seems to turn into gold, it was as President of FC Bayern Munich or as head of the organizing committee for the 2006 World Cup. When he began in 1964, football was still a smell of work and leisure time fun and sauerkraut. His nickname "Kaiser" says everything about his importance, but also about his self-image. From the street soccer players in the Munich Giesing working-class neighborhood, where the son of a postman, was born in 1945, was an Aesthete who already enchanted with 18 years of the experts: Where other sweat, he proposes no visible effort elegant hooks and brilliant passes. Legendary its use in the World Cup semi-final when he played despite a broken shoulder. But the nation can not bind the perfectionist: "I was never one for which they were screaming. I thought they were always considered arrogant. "
With his manager Robert Swan as he recognizes, first, how much money in football is to earn. Just before the finals in 1974, he threatens the DFB with a strike, if the premiums are not significantly increased. Therefore, there is a success on the field: German Champion, European Champion, World Champion. In the 70 years it is not enough of football. He takes over the lead role in the feature film "Libero", which depicts the identity crisis of a professional footballer. But scathing criticisms finish second career. 1977 gets a kink his life when his father dies and his marriage goes to pieces.
With the passage of the New York Cosmos in 1977 begins a new life for him, at last without constant observation and one can look up to the even he: Pelé.
In 1982 he returns, will be the Champion and 1984 with the HSV DFB boss - the first without a trainer license. He forms a team of talent into champions. In 1990, he leads the German team for the World Cup.
Legends - Franz Beckenbauer - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Christian Weisenborn |
Director of photography: | Michael Wulfes |
Location manager: | Sven Heiligenstein |
Production manager: | Sonja Maxeiner |
Excecutive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Program manager: | Gerolf Karwath, Florian Huber, Matthias Kremin |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
To be aired on: | ARD/SWR, 2003 |
