Rolf Hansen

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Rolf Hansen (born December 12, 1904 in Ilmenau , Thuringia , † December 3, 1990 in Munich , Bavaria ) was a German film director , screenwriter and film actor .

Life

Rolf Hansen began his directing career in 1933 as Hans Behrendt's assistant in a production of the small Berlin-based Patria-Filmproduktions- und Vertriebs GmbH, "Hochzeit am Wolfgangsee". After completing this production, he moved to Froelich-Film GmbH, whose boss, Carl Froelich , initially employed him as a production and assistant director. Hansen's first directorial work was also the first German color film : The Beauty Spot, based on a story by Alfred de Musset and the screenplay by Carl Froelich. The main roles in this 40-minute film were played by Lil Dagover and Wolfgang Liebeneiner .

Other independent directorial works were the confusion game Gabriele one, two, three (1937, with Marianne Hoppe and Gustav Fröhlich ) and the cheerful and entangled love story Sommer, Sonne, Erika (1939, with Karin Hardt and Paul Klinger ). In the year between these two films, Rolf Hansen directed the marriage film Life Can Be So Beautiful (1938, with Ilse Werner and Rudi Godden ), which was banned by the film inspection agency due to its overly realistic portrayal of the housing shortage at the time.

In addition, Rolf Hansen continued to work for Carl Froelich . Between 1934 and 1940 Froelich used him as an assistant in all his directorial work; it was not until 1940/41 that he was replaced in this function by Ernst Mölter . Hansen now made films with Zarah Leander , with whom he had worked as Froelich's assistant since 1938. While these earlier films - Heimat , It Was a glittering ball night and The Queen's Heart - had suffered from significant style breaks and script deficiencies, Hansen managed to put Zarah Leander in a far more favorable light with his own scripts. The films The Path to the Outdoors , The Great Love and Back then were made in three consecutive years . The film Die Große Liebe (1942), in which Zarah Leander appeared alongside Viktor Staal , became the most commercially successful German film of the entire war.

After the end of the Second World War , Rolf Hansen was able to start his career with films such as Dr. Holl (1950/51), The Last Recipe (1951/52), The Great Temptation (1952), Sauerbruch - That Was My Life (1953/54), Devil in Silk (1955) and Resurrection (1958).

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Cinegraph. Lexicon for German-language films

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personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1990
Place of death Munich , Bavaria