More film ephemera... Photos and info on Postwar German movie stars(in German). I've always been fascinated by this kind of international pop cinema that flies under the North American radar (our cultural NORAD?), and ends up in the sad margins of recollection, barely on the tip of the tongue of dumb memory. Most of the films featured on the site appear to be melodramas or comedies, movies that would not have easily translated to American tastes (unlike the fantastical Krimis, which at least showed up as second features at drive-ins or downtown fleapits or on late night television). The stars themselves were attractive enough, although they didn't seem to make much of a splash outside West Germany (or German speaking environs), unlike, say, Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, Gert Frobe, or Karin Dor (although a lot of these aforementioned actors made their transatlantic bones on Bond films, oddly enough). Another chapter in the secret history of cinema.
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