Ilka Grüning
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 4, 1876
Place of Birth: Wien, 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.
Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Kings Row
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
A Foreign Affair
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.
Phantom
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
Mr. Soft Touch
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Raw Deal
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than Rick intended...
Joyless Street
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
The Treasure
On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists conveyed as much through symbolism as action.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Mama Ludwig
as Martha Lorry (uncredited)
as Mrs. Marguerite Haasvelt
as Old Woman (Uncredited)
as Pauline's Duenna (uncredited)
as Grandmother Rudetzki (uncredited)
as Mrs. Rogers
as German Wife (uncredited)
as Aunt Klara
as Mattie
as Grandma (uncredited)
as Seamstress (uncredited)
as Mrs. Leuchtag - Carl's Immigrating Friend (uncredited)
as Frau Brahms
as Mrs. Pfeffier
as Anna
as Mrs. Steiner
as Frau Franken
as Frau Hasenklein
as Fräulein Czibulka
as Eine Vermieterin
as Seraphine
as Frau Svoboda
as Die Mutter
as Leos Mutter
as Emils Mutter
as Madame Sidonie Ehrenthal
as Augustina, die Leibköchin
as Rosalindes Mutter
as Elisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau
as Anna
as Baronin / Baroness
as Wirtin
as Witwe Walterspiel
as Wera Cheberiak