Rolf Hansen (director)
Rolf Hansen ( born December 12, 1904 in Ilmenau, Thuringia, † December 3, 1990 in Munich, Bavaria ) was a German film director, screenwriter and actor.
Life
Rolf Hansen began his directing career in 1933 as assistant to Hans Behrendt in a production of Patria small Berlin - film production and distribution GmbH, " wedding on the Wolfgangsee ". After completion of this production, he moved to Froelich -Film GmbH, whose boss, Carl Froelich, first put him as a production and assistant director. Hansen's debut as a director was also the first German Color Film: The beauty spot on a story by Alfred de Musset and the script by Carl Froelich. The star in this 40 - minute film played Lil Dagover and Wolfgang Liebeneiner.
More independent directorial work were the confusion comedy Gabriele one, two, three (1937, with Marianne Hoppe and Gustav Fröhlich) and the cheerful - entangled love story Summer, sun, Erika (1939, with Karin Hardt and Paul Klinger ). In between these two films Rolf Hansen directed the film Marriage Life can be so beautiful (1938, with Ilse Werner and Rudi Godden ), which was banned because of its too realistic representation of the former housing shortage by the Board of Film.
In addition, Rolf Hansen continued to work for Carl Froelich. Between 1934 and 1940, Froelich put him in all his directorial works as a wizard; until 1940/41, he was replaced by Ernst Mölter in this function. Hansen now made films with Zarah Leander, with whom he had worked as an assistant Froelich since 1938. While these earlier films - home, It was a glittering ball and the heart of the Queen - had suffered from significant stylistic inconsistencies and screenwriter deficiencies, succeeded Hansen to put Zarah Leander with his own screenplays in a much more favorable light. In three consecutive years, the films were The way to freedom, the love, and that time. The film The Great Love (1942 ), in which Zarah Leander occurred alongside Viktor Staal, the most commercially successful German film of the entire war period was.
After the end of World War II Rolf Hansen could 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 (1958 ) continue in Silk (1955) and resurrection.