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Erna Fentsch

Erna Fentsch

Ernestine He attended school at the Institute of English ladies, and took against the will of their parents acting lessons. She played theatre and was, at first unnamed, small film roles. In the 1930s and 1940s, she played mostly feisty young women in productions with the Bavarian folk play character.

After her marriage with actor Carl Wery, she retired from acting and wrote from 1943 Film screenplays. As a writer, she often had the Bavarian local color connected. With a total of 22 scenarios, 16 of which were filmed, she was a significant part of the character of the German cinema of the 1950s. She wrote screenplays for the home movies, historical movies, comedies and love movies, where she remained personally little is known. Her husband, Carl Wery played the title roles in The perjury Bauer and Sebastian Kneipp. As her most popular work, the award-winning film drama On the gallows, the love is connected.

In later years, she took up under the name of "Ernestine Wery" on the writing. She wrote several novels, particularly detective novels, the books for the crime series Tatort will have some of their rotation as the basis.

She was buried in the old Bogenhausen is a cemetery in Munich, next to her husband, beige. (The tomb wall to the right no.

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Movies Made By Erna Fentsch (15)

Sebastian Kneipp (1958)

Memorable moments from the life of the Catholic priest and naturopath from Wörishofen (1821-1897). The film depicts the successes of his hydrotherapy methods, his hostility from conventional medicine, and his rehabilitation by Pope Leo XIII. ...

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The Perjured Farmer (1956)

Mathias Ferner commits perjury and is thus able to secure the farm of his stepbrother Jakob as soon as he dies. In doing so, he deprives Paula Roth and the children of their inheritance. However, there is a letter incriminating Mathias Ferner. Years later, ...

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Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (1956)

The sensitive Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf is suffering from his marriage, dictated by his father, Emperor Franz Joseph, and the strict court etiquette. He meets a kindred spirit in the very young Baroness Mary Vetsera. ...

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The Confession of Ina Kahr (1954)

Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears awa ...

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Ein Herz spielt falsch (1953)

A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. ...

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Have Sunshine in Your Heart (1953)

On a mountain lake, in the picturesque Alps in the Salzburg region, the old, rich grumble has retired to his country house and actually only wants to live in peace and seclusion. Soon the longed-for peace will be over, because in the immediate vicinity a h ...

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The Swap (1952)

Lorenz has his eye on Simon Gigl's prize-winning breeding bull and would love to have it. But is he willing to make a deal to give up his wife Uschi to Gigl for a week in exchange for the bull? ...

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My Name is Niki (1952)

Winnie is desperate and doesn't know what to do next. She is about to marry her lover Paul, who has returned from war captivity. Both want to emigrate to America short after marriage. But the young woman has an illegitimate one-and-a-half-year-old son, who ...

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Die seltsame Geschichte des Brandner Kaspar (1949)

Brandner Kaspar does not want to die, there is still so much to do and experience on earth. When death appears and wants to get him, Kaspar plays with him for his life - and wins. ...

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The Millionaire (1947)

Leopold Habernal, lives a quiet, modest life as a postman. When he unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money, he suddenly becomes an object of desire for several unmarried woman in the town, leading also to resentment amongst his former male friends. Ulti ...

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The False Bride (1945)

There's only one way for the farmer Assbichler to save his farm from ruin: he has to marry off his son Toni to the pretty Rosl, the daughter of the rich farmer Pius Mang. Mang, however, wants his daughter to marry a well-off man; and so Assbichler has to ...

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Movies Starring Erna Fentsch (12)

Die keusche Sünderin (1944)

Xaver Bimshofer is the richest peasant in the village; and therefore, his only daughter Lenerl should marry a guy, who is diligent enough to keep the exemplary farm running. But Bimshofer doesn't know, that Lenerl has long been a couple with the servant S ...

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The Sold Grandfather (1942)

The unscrupulous dealer Haslinger has paid off a debt note worth 1000 Mark from the peasant Kreithofer and now wants the man's farm in return for the debt settlement. Then, suddenly, a rumor pops up that Grandfather Kreithofer is a rich man, who wants to ...

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Under Blazing Heavens (1936)

In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking. ...

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Petticoat Government (1936)

In Bavaria's snowy mountains, a battle of the sexes develops over the Rosl family brewery which a conniving relative sets up for staffing entirely by women. The moral is, as with reproduction, society needs both genders to get the job done. ...

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The Unsuspecting Angel (1936)

Jozi's aunt runs an inn near the border and has a little side-job: she smuggles. Poor, naive Jozi doesn't know anything about it. Jozi falls in love with the young border patrol officer Hans and her feelings are amply returned. But Hans' supervisor sus ...

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Matrimonial Strike (1935)

In a theme reminiscent of the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, wives and sweethearts in a Bavarian village agree to withhold sex from their men, as long as the men keep spending time with a new waitress at the inn. ...

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Schuß am Nebelhorn (1934)

Sebastian Geyer, a poacher is put down by poacher Toni. Leni convinces Toni to stop poaching because she loves him, and Sebastian to become the forester's assistant. Sebastian shoots Toni out of jealousy. Luckily, he is a terrible shot. ...

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The Champion of Pontresina (1934)

Pontresina, Switzerland, at the beginning of the 20th century. A ski jumping competition is about to take place. ...

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Der Tunnel (1933)

The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing the gigantic project, but the construction of the tunnel is proving to be as tedious as it is dangerous. Mac ...

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A Man with Heart (1932)

A story about a series of confusions, in which Paul Ritter, a bank employee, is unaware that the girl he's fallen in love with is the daughter of his boss. No one bothers to tell him and he gets jealous of the boss, who seems to have a very good relationsh ...

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