Zarah Leander
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Biography: Zarah Leander (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sa.ʁa leː.ˈʔan.dɐ]; 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). Although no exact record sales numbers exist, she was probably among Europe's best-selling recording artists in the years prior to 1945. Her involvement with UFA caused her films and lyrics to be identified as Nazi propaganda. Though she had taken no public political position and was dubbed an "Enemy of Germany" by Joseph Goebbels, she remained a controversial figure for the rest of her life. As a singer, Leander was known for her confident style and her deep contralto voice, and was also known as a "female baritone".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden
Birthday: March 15, 1907
Deathday: June 23, 1981
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Great Love
Overview: The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Konstgjorda Pompe
Overview: Summer revue from 1963
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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Dante's Mysteries
Overview: Dante, the great conjurer, performs at the Café Grans, a fashionable hotel-restaurant. Face to a dumbfound patrons he does his most famous tricks among which card manipulations or sawing a woman in half.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-23
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As Long As I Live
Overview: Following a trivial road accident, Ariane, an international adventuress, falls in love with Bernard Fleuret, a young artist-painter with diseased lungs. Being pursued by the police, she chooses to hide in the sanatorium where the young man is treated. Ariane proves so smitten by love that she finally changes her ways: she decides to let herself be arrested, sure as she is she will be reunited with her loved one later on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-01-21
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To New Shores
Overview: A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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The Marriage Game
Overview: The sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-11-25
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Der Blaufuchs
Overview: Ilona, the bored wife of an easily distracted professor, falls in love with his friend Tibor, a world-traveler and ladykiller. Although she pursues him, he declines to take advantage of the situation, because she's married to his best friend. Only after her husband shows an interest in a co-worker is it possible for a happy ending to take place for the two new couples.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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Premiere
Overview: As Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of romantic misadventures. But she manages to show up on stage at the appointed time, scoring a huge success.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-02-25
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La Habanera
Overview: While vacationing in Puerto Rico, a young Swedish woman falls in love with and marries a powerful local landowner. Ten years later, their marriage has turned sour; meanwhile, two Swedish doctors have arrived on the island to investigate a mysterious fever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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Der Weg ins Freie
Overview: In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-05-06
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It Was Always So Nice with You
Overview: While working as an accountant in his uncle's factory, talented young pianist Peter dreams of becoming a famous composer. When he shows his work to a producer, he manages to convince him to give him a chance. From time to time he gets bigger contracts that keep him more and more away from home and his young wife Elisa. When he "discovers" and supports a pretty ballerina in Munich, a rumor starts that he's having an affair. He fails to realize that his marriage is threatened.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Ave Maria
Overview: Karin Twerdy used to be an opera singer but now, in order to pay for her daughter Daniela's education in a religious school, she performs in a shady nightclub. Industrialist Dietrich Gontard, the father of Karin's school friend Christa, falls for her. But when he learns the truth about her he is outraged and rejects her. At a loss and not to stand in the way of Daniela's future, Karin chooses to disappear...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-09-07
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Damals
Overview: Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-04-23
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It Was a Gay Ballnight
Overview: 1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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Homeland
Overview: In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-06-25
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The Heart of a Queen
Overview: As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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How I Learned to Love Women
Overview: An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-02
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The Blue Moth
Overview: Julia Martens is a wrongly convicted murderess who is released from prison after thirteen years. She begins a new career as a chanson singer and her now grown-up son, who has been told that his mother is dead, has no idea who Julia Martens really is. One day he is suspected of murder and Julia intervenes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-26
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Gabriela
Overview: Gabriela once a famous singer who enjoyed great success. She married, had a daughter Andrea, but pursued her career. Now that Andrea has matured into a young woman, Gabriela is overwhelmed by maternal remorse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-04-06
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Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Das Blaue vom Himmel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-11-27
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The Desert Song
Overview: When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Cuba Cabana
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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The Great Yiddish Love
Overview: Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Four Companions
Overview: Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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Leckerbissen
Overview: "Gems" - Embedded in a frame story, the film shows excerpts from 18 entertainment films of the time, among others, "The Gypsy Baron", "The Three Codonas", "La Habanera", "Viennese Blood", "Sophienlund", and "Mask in Blue".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-06-05
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Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
Overview: The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, film, art, and music during the period. It includes interviews with Christopher Isherwood, Louise Brooks, Lotte Eisner, Elisabeth Bergner, Francis Lederer, Carl Zuckmayer, Gregor Piatigorsky, Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Kolisch, Mischa Spoliansky, Herbert Bayer, Mrs. Walter Gropius, and Arthur Koestler.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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The Wrong Millionaire
Overview: The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (Håkan Westergren) and his male secretary of the same name (Fridolf Rhudin). The millionaire stays hidden in his cabin with the secretary and does not appear on deck. A journalist arrives out at sea by airplane and asks for an interview, which the millionaire refuses to agree to. The journalist disguises himself as a steward, puts on a hidden camera (a spy camera) in the buttonhole, enters with a tea tray and photographs the wrong person - the secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-10-26
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Ich bin die Leander - das muss reichen…
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-12-31
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Ein Walzer zu zweien
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-29
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Die Akte Zarah Leander
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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Terras fönster 2
Overview: In the second edition of Terras fönster we meet racing cyclists and bicycles in Varberg. Stage from "Home slave women" with Hasse Ekman and Dagmar Ebbesen. Children's boots. In love with a couple, meetings are true at Djurgårdsfärjan. Zarah Leander sings her you love from "The Marriage Game" (1935). The recording of Singoalla. Golf games. A song with Git Gay. Sun and summer in California. Skating on Värtan. Wild Ville Wallén imitates Kalle Duck.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-15
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