Felix Basch
Acting
Biography
Felix Basch was an Austrian-German actor, screenwriter, and film director.
Born: September 16, 1885
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Known For
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
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.
The Mask of Dimitrios
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Uncertain Glory
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
Appointment in Berlin
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Reunion in France
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Chetniks!
Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Serbian guerilla fighter General Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović. Based on the General's own memoirs, the film depicts Mihailovitch (played here by Philip Dorn) as a selfless idealist, leading his resistance troops, known as the Chetniks, on one raid after another against the Germans during WW II.
None Shall Escape
Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.
Once Upon a Honeymoon
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Above Suspicion
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Destination Unknown
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Vazoff (uncredited)
as Nazi Official (uncredited)
as Dr. Mensch
as Morley
as Hoppner (uncredited)
as Guide (Uncredited)
as Dr. Hjalmar Schacht - Banker (uncredited)
as Gen. von Bauer
as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
as Herr Kelman (uncredited)
as Col. Hecht
as Karl Renner
as Hermann Brahms
as de Segroff