Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Known for Acting

5/4/1898

Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (5 May 1898 – 19 November 1958) was a German film actor.

Known For (43 credits)

9.0

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

1975

Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.

Movie

The Gentleman in Room 6

1951

About a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

6.6

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Resisting Enemy Interrogation

1944

A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic WW2 training film.

6.6

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Passage to Marseille

1944

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

6.6

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First Comes Courage

1943

Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.

6.6

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Background to Danger

1943

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

5.6

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Hitler's Madman

1943

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.

6.9

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Hangmen Also Die!

1943

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

6.1

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Edge of Darkness

1943

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

5.7

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Margin for Error

1943

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.

8.2

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Casablanca

1943

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

6.2

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Once Upon a Honeymoon

1942

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.