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The actors in the film?

posted 15 years ago by shock-8
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Does anyone have any insight as to the fate of the actors in the film? We know the filmmakers went on to varying degrees of success in the film industry but I cannot find anything remotely solid about what eventually happened to the actors, except for the passage where it notes that they all returned to their jobs and had Hitler to deal with in the near future. The End.

Anyone? They lived? They died? They escaped? They had normal lives? Anything? I'm surprised I've not seen one inquiry about it although I may have read somewhere that someone believed Brigitte Borchert was still alive and around 100 years old...but I'm not sure.

[–] BlueGreen 15 years ago

Sorry to disappoint you: I have no idea, either.
But I too would like to know what happened to them.

But considering the scarcity of visitors on this particular message board, I think you might have a better chance of getting an answer if you repost this question on the I NEED TO KNOW board.

Good luck. ;)

[–] shock-8 15 years ago

Thanks! I should try that. I'm not desperate or anything - LOL - just curious. 1929 is particularly interesting for me as it was the year my mother was born- in fact she was born September 2nd which would have been around the time that filming for this wrapped. The girls in the film are about my grandmother's age...she would have been 100 next year but sadly died in 1932 from cancer. I look at images from any particular period and always wonder what was happening with my family at that moment? What else was going on in the world at the same time?

[–] BlueGreen 15 years ago

I look at images from any particular period and always wonder what was happening with my family at that moment? What else was going on in the world at the same time?

Wow - you sound like the twin I never had...
(I bet you also like to touch ancient stones trying to picture - to "touch" - the hand of the individual who carved it? :))

I am perfectly capable of watching a single old photograph - not to mention movies - for HOURS, wondering: 'What did that woman walking by have in her bag? Where was that boy going to?' - and so on.
In my mind I always try to "follow" them out of the picture frame, to wherever they were going.

Thanks for telling your particular reasons for your interest.
(Paradoxically,that makes it even more interesting to me, too.)

If I ever find out what happened to these actors, you'll be the first to know.
I promise. ;)

[–] jufjo 13 years ago

Brigitte Borchert, the girl selling records, died a few days ago, 100 years old.

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[–] rnmackenzie 12 years ago

One of the extras on the Criterion DVD--a short German-language documentary--features Brigitte Borchert in old age, still animated and fascinating. The piece also gives a little overview of what happened to each of the others. Only the fellow playing the taxi driver went on to have a (short) movie career after this film. If you click on her name on the cast listing, IMDB gives a nice short bio of Christl, and her post-Germany life; she died in a plane crash in 1960.

[–] aahronheim 12 years ago

"I am perfectly capable of watching a single old photograph - not to mention movies - for HOURS, wondering: 'What did that woman walking by have in her bag? Where was that boy going to?' - and so on.
In my mind I always try to "follow" them out of the picture frame, to wherever they were going."

You two really ought to read "Time and Again" if you haven't already.

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[–] elliott-43 9 years ago

The Jewish actor Kurt Gerron, who was also a successful writer and director in pre-Nazi Germany fled to France, then settled in Amsterdam in 1933. But Nazi determination and genocidal efficiency prevailed and Gerron was arrested by the SS in 1943 in occupied Holland and sent to a concentration camp and forced to direct "The Fuhrer Donates a City to the Jews", a staged doc intended to promote a kinder, gentler version of the brutal mass murderer, Herr Hitler. In true Nazi form, in appreciation for his services the Nazi Academy of Film gave him the special award reserved for Jewish directors-- a one-way ticket to Auschwitz where he was murdered.

[–] Ruthlilycat 8 years ago

So, I'm watching From Caligari to Hitler & I see snippets of this film which looks so interesting.

Who is that instesting-looking black haired woman? I had to find out (I'm Jewish too, but blondish naturally & blue eyes). I searched.

Christl Ehlers. She fled Germany in 1933, married Hamden Wentworth (Massachusettes), and had 4 kids with him. One of those kids I could find the name, Francisca Wentworth. She lives in the SFBA in Pacifica.

Unfortunately Ehlers & husband Wentworth were killed in a plane crash in 1960.

Francisca has an unused Twitter account & she posted a pic on it. Her eyes are similar to her mother's.

Google said that all of her children live in N California. I don't know the names of any of the other ones.

[–] Steamboy 8 years ago

And Annie Schreyer? I liked her best of all performers and characters. Perhaps because we see her so little and being in bed most of the time she doesn't appear so petty as the others (especially the men).

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