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- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Director Max Ophüls was born Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the golden twenties. He worked in cities such as Stuttgart, Dortmund, Wuppertal, Vienna, Frankfurt, Breslau and Berlin. In 1929 his son Marcel Ophüls was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He had begun to work under his pseudonym Max Ophüls by that time. In the early 1930s Ophüls discovered the movie world and began to work as an assistant director for Anatole Litvak. He directed his first movies (Dann schon lieber Lebertran (1931), Die verliebte Firma (1932)) in that time too. Around 1933 he emigrated to France and also worked in the Netherlands and Italy for a period of eight years. In 1941 he emigrated again, this time to the USA where he worked for a period of 10 years before he went back to France in 1950. Beginning in 1954 he also worked in Germany again, mainly for German radio in Baden-Baden. Max Ophüls died in March 1957 in Hamburg, Germany and is buried on the famous cemetery Père-Lachaise in Paris, France.- Actress
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
Ingrid Caven was born on 3 August 1938 in Saarbrücken, Germany. She is an actress and production manager, known for Suspiria (2018), Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972) and Looping (1981). She was previously married to Rainer Werner Fassbinder.- Merlin Sandmeyer was born in 1990 in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. He is an actor, known for Me and the Others (2021), Brandheisser Einsatz and Our wonderful years (2020).
- Actress
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Sandra was born on 18 May 1962 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. She is an actress and composer, known for Tatort (1970), Sandra: (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena (1985) and Sandra: Around My Heart (1989). She was previously married to Olaf Menges and Enigma.- Actor
- Art Department
Willy Schäfer was born on 6 March 1933 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was an actor, known for Derrick (1974), Kommissar Freytag (1963) and Isar 12 (1961). He died on 6 May 2011 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Rüdiger Weigang was born on 25 June 1942 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was an actor, known for Des Doktors Dilemma (1977), A Perfect Spy (1987) and Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984). He died on 20 April 2022 in Berlin, Germany.
- Bianca Hein was born on 9 September 1975 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Mein Chef und ich (2004), Andi Ommsen ist der letzte Lude (2003) and Unter uns (1994).
- Cinematographer
Daniel Gottschalk was born on 7 December 1972 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. He is a cinematographer, known for Mechanic: Resurrection (2016), Trade (2007) and Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives (2023).- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Wolfgang Staudte was born on 9 October 1906 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Ciske de Rat (1955), Rotation (1949) and Murderers Among Us (1946). He was married to Angelika Hoffmann, Rita Heidelbach, Ingmar Zeisberg and Renate Praetorius. He died on 19 January 1984 in Zigrski Vrh near Sevnica, Slovenia, Yugoslavia.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Jill Weller was born on 25 September 1986 in Saarbrücken, Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for Immenhof - Das große Versprechen (2022), The Year of the Soul (2022) and Hidden Space (2023).- Fiona Erdmann was born on 9 September 1988 in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. She is an actress, known for Zeit der Entscheidung - Die Soap Deiner Wahl (2009), Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996) and FunnyMovie (2008). She was previously married to Mohammed.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
German entertainer, the daughter of a furniture dealer. Rex was initially trained as a singer and dancer, the latter in Zurich under the noted choreographer and expressionist dance specialist Mary Wigman. She began her career on stage in her home town Saarbrücken as Rut Gerhard, singing and dancing in revues and musical comedies. In 1947, she married an ex-Luftwaffe officer and hypnotherapist, Dr. Gerhard Rex, and had a 12-year long hiatus from performing. In September 1958, she was engaged by Peter Kreuder to play Zarah Leander's daughter in his musical Madame Scandaleuse at the Viennese Raimundtheater. At this time, the journalist and producer Wolfgang Rademann (best known as the creator of the popular TV series Das Traumschiff (1981) and The Black Forest Hospital (1985)) prompted her name change to Rut Rex-Gerhard (which then became Rut Rex).
A very attractive and personable blonde, Rex continued to perform on the stage from 1962, appearing in Hamburg and Vienna opposite Freddy Quinn in the musical Heimweh nach St. Pauli and in Berlin as Helen of Troy in the play Das Opfer Helena. In 1967, she released her first music single, followed by six albums of chansons between 1972 and 1977. She was seen on the screen in a few movies and TV productions with musical content, including The White Horse Inn (1960) and Sexbombe mit Tick (1970). By that time she acquired the popular sobriquet 'Sexy Rexy'. There was to be one more name change: having divorced Rex in 1971, she got married the following year to the journalist and TV executive Joseph Viehöver (1925-1973) and has been henceforth known as Rut Rex-Viehöver. Her last screen appearance was in 2005.- Gregor Weber was born on 28 August 1968 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Familie Heinz Becker (1992) and Spuk aus der Gruft (1998).
- Saskia Vester was born on 24 July 1959 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. She is an actress, known for KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst (2007), Die Landärztin (2005) and Großstadtrevier (1986). She is married to Robert Flörke. They have two children.
- Art Department
- Animation Department
- Director
Frédéric Back was born on 8 April 1924 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was a director, known for The Man Who Planted Trees (1987), Crac (1980) and The Mighty River (1993). He was married to Ghylaine Paquin. He died on 24 December 2013 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.- Fridolin Sandmeyer was born in 1987 in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Sophie macht Theater (2019) and Trauzeugen (2023).
- Yves Massard was born in 1925 in Saarland, a German region close to the French border, occupied at the time by French troops according to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty. Drawn to the theater, Massard was trained by Pierre Fresnay and started a fruitful career on the boards in such prestigious plays as 'Une grande fille toute simple' (by André Roussin), 'Les mains sales' (by Jean-Paul Sartre) or 'Un tramway nommé désir' (by Tennessee Williams). In parallel, he began to appear in a few late forties films, but in bit parts. His roles started to grow in 1952 and for ten years he worked regularly in up to three films a year. But nothing much remains of his work, at least in film history. To be fair, it is not by starring for Maurice Cloche, Jean Gourguet or Walter Kapps that you buy yourself a stairway to eternity. One major role in a Spanish masterpiece Bardem's 'Calle Mayor' earned him a handful of roles in Spain, but once again it was in desperately uninteresting films, two of which were directed by Jesus Franco, the king of the Z's! After 1962, this good actor worked only sporadically , sometimes in tiny parts in A films (his scenes were even deleted in the Bronson vehicle 'Le passager de la pluie'), at others in more fleshed-out roles but in bombs by Max Pécas or the like. A sad ending for a thespian who deserved better.
- Actress
- Music Department
Sascha Ley was born on 13 September 1967 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Autobahnraser (2004) and Femmes Pirates (Women Pirates).- Claus Dieter Clausnitzer was born on 15 January 1939 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He is an actor, known for Knallerfrauen (2011), Rote Rosen (2006) and Loriot (1976).
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Editor
Manfred Kirchheimer was born in 1931 in Saarbrücken, Saar Territory [now Saarland, Germany]. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2006), Spraymasters (2008) and Free Time (2019).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Nicole Hohloch was born on 25 October 1964 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Playoff (2011), S.P.U.N.G (2002) and Nicole: Alle Menschen sind besonders (2019). She has been married to Winfried Seibert since 18 August 1984. They have two children.- Thorsten Havener was born on 27 September 1972 in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. He is known for The next Uri Geller - Unglaubliche Phänomene live (2008), Landesschau (1957) and Aufgemerkt! Pelzig unterhält sich (1999).
- Karen Böhne was born on 3 October 1963 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Godless Youth (2017), Max and Moritz Reloaded (2005) and WaPo Duisburg (2022).
- Ellen Arnhold was born on 8 February 1961 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. She has been married to Stefan Simkovics since 26 November 2004.
- Visual Effects
Hao Li is a computer scientist and entrepreneur, working in the fields of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision. He is founder and CEO of Pinscreen, Inc., as well as Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, as well as director of the Vision and Graphics Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He was also a visiting professor at Weta Digital and a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm. His algorithms for 3D processing are widely used in the visual effects industry for automating the creation of digital humans, as well as enabling the ability to capture facial performances in real-time in virtual production. At Weta Digital, he was responsible for the high-fidelity facial performance capture pipeline that reenacted the deceased actor Paul Walker in the movie Furious 7 (2015). For his contributions, Li received the TR35 Award in 2013, recognizing him as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35, from the MIT Technology Review. In 2018, he won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award. Li was named to the DARPA ISAT Study Group in 2019 and won the ACM SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live! "Best in Show" award in 2020.