Hilde Sessak

Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeared in more than ninety film and television series during her career. She appeared in a number of films during the Nazi era including Quax, der Bruchpilot (1941).

Selected filmography

  • Trouble Backstairs (1935)
  • City of Anatol (1936)
  • When Women Keep Silent (1937)
  • Water for Canitoga (1939)
  • The Curtain Falls (1939)
  • Kleider machen Leute (1940)
  • Quax, der Bruchpilot (1941)
  • Happiness is the Main Thing (1941)
  • Luisa Sanfelice (1942)
  • Paracelsus (1943)
  • A Salzburg Comedy (1943)
  • Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
  • Wer fuhr den grauen Ford? (1950)
  • When the Evening Bells Ring (1951)
  • Story of A Young Couple (1952)
  • The Man Between (1953)
  • The Confession of Ina Kahr (1954)
  • Sergeant Borck (1955)
  • We Cellar Children (1960)
  • Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1962)
  • Grete Minde (1977)
  • References

    External links

  • Hilde Sessak at the Internet Movie Database
  • Bibliography

  • Reimer, Robert. Cultural History Through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich. Camden House, 2002.
  • Hilde

    Hilde may refer to:

  • Hilde (given name)
  • Hilde (film), a 2009 German biopic film
  • MV Hilde, a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker
  • Tom Hilde (born 1987), Norwegian ski jumper
  • Characters

  • Hilde (Soulcalibur), a character in the Soul series
  • Hilde Schbeiker, a character in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
  • See also

  • Hild (disambiguation)
  • Hilda (disambiguation)
  • Hilde (film)

    Hilde is a 2009 German biographical film directed by Kai Wessel and starring Heike Makatsch, Dan Stevens and Monica Bleibtreu. It depicts the life of the German actress Hildegard Knef.

    Plot

    In 1966 Hildegard Knef returns to Germany. While she prepares for a concert she thinks back to the beginnings of her career. Flashbacks show how she became an actress and then started a second career as a singer.

    Cast

  • Heike Makatsch: Hildegard Knef
  • Dan Stevens: David Cameron
  • Monica Bleibtreu: Else Bongers
  • Hanns Zischler: Erich Pommer
  • Johanna Gastdorf: Frieda Knef
  • Trystan Wyn Puetter: Kurt Hirsch
  • Michael Gwisdek: grandfather
  • Roger Cicero: Ricci Blum
  • Anian Zollner: Ewald von Demandowsky
  • Sylvester Groth: Boleslaw Barlog
  • Fritz Roth: step-father
  • Hary Prinz: Willi Forst
  • Jeroen Willems: Anatole Litvak
  • Stanley Townsend: David O. Selznick
  • Reception

    Kirk Honeycutt's wrote "Hilde" was an "outstanding biopic about Hildegard Knef with a captivating performance" by Heike Makatsch but also felt the screenplay was "at times superficial". Variety's Derek Elley attested Heike Makatsch a "remarkably cohesive performance" which was true to each "physical mannerism" of Hildegard Knef. "Easy on the eyes but rarely going more than skin-deep" was his roundup.

    Hilde (given name)

    Hilde is one of several female given names derived from the name Hild formed from Old Norse hildr, meaning "battle". Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona, was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game. Hilde was popular in Norway from the 1950s until the 1970s. It is a variant of Hilda, which in turn is a more recent variation of Hildur.

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  • Hilde Hagerup (born 1976), Norwegian novelist and children author
  • Hilde Haugsgjerd (born 1952), Norwegian newspaper editor
  • Hilde Heynen, professor of architectural theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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