Struggle for Eagle Peak
Struggle for Eagle Peak is a 1960 Norwegian crime film directed by Tancred Ibsen.
It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.
Einer spinnt immer
Einer spinnt immer is a 1971 Austrian/ West German film directed by Franz Antel.
Wilhelm Münter Rolfsen
Wilhelm Münter Rolfsen( 11 May 1913 – 8 December 2002) was a Norwegian barrister, resistance member and film producer.
During the German occupation of Norway he was actively involved in the resistance movement, particularly by organising a network for escorting refugees to Sweden.
He took part as a prosecutor in the legal purge in Norway after World War II, and he wrote two books about his wartime experiences.
He was involved in film productions, including" Nine Lives" and" Struggle for Eagle Peak"
Tancred Ibsen
Tancred Ibsen( 11 July 1893 – 4 December 1978) was a Norwegian officer, pilot, film director, and screenwriter.
He was the son of Sigurd Ibsen, and the grandson of Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
He was married to dancer and actress Lillebil Ibsen.
His son Tancred Ibsen, Jr.( 1921–2015) was a Norwegian diplomat.
Alf Malland
Alf Malland( 24 January 1917 – 16 August 1997) was a Norwegian actor.
He appeared in 42 films and television shows between 1949 and 1987.
He starred in the film" Struggle for Eagle Peak", which was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.
Eva Bergh
Eva Bergh( 25 February 1926 – 19 February 2013) was a Norwegian actress.
Her most famous film roles are in" The Long Memory"( 1952) and" Struggle for Eagle Peak"( 1960).
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Franz Antel
Franz Antel( 28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
Born in Vienna,
Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years.
After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale.
In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies( romantic, slapstick, and/ or musical) and" K.u.k. films" all of which, for Austrian and German TV stations alike, have been a staple of weekend afternoon programming ever since.
In between there is quite a sober film about the Oberst( Colonel) Redl affair that shook the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy on the eve of World War I.
Antel himself later commented on this period," I always wanted to provide good entertainment for the people at the cinema.
After the screening, people should say: Well now, I am in a good mood, I will go out and have a glass of wine."
( German original:" Ich wollte die Leute im Kino immer gut unterhalten.
Die Besucher sollten nach der Filmvorführung sagen:
So, jetzt bin ich gut aufgelegt, jetzt geh ich auf ein Viertel Wein.")
From the late 1960s, encouraged by the new opportunities in the film industry brought about by the sexual revolution, Antel gradually switched his main interest to soft porn and ribaldry.
It was in particular his series of" Frau Wirtinhostess") films, directed under the pseudonym François Legrand, with which he tried to win international recognition.
Titles included" The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan"( 1967)," Sexy Susan Sins Again"( 1968)," Wild, Willing& Sexy"( 1969) and" Do n't Tell Daddy"( aka" Naughty Nymphs" in the U.S.A.)( 1972).
Antel would recount an anecdote about himself describing how, in order to live up to his reputation as a womanizer, he used to carry a pair of high heels in his luggage which he then would occasionally place in the corridor in front of his hotel room – especially when he was travelling alone.
Among the best known actors Antel had worked with from the 1940s to the 1970s were Hans Moser, Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Werner, Curd Jürgens, Tony Curtis, Herbert Fux, Heinrich Schweiger, Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Marisa Berenson, Britt Ekland, Andréa Ferréol.
1981 was a turning point in Antel's career when he adapted for the big screen a stage play by Ulrich Becher and Peter Preses.
Set from the days of the Anschluss of 1938 until after the end of the war," Der Bockerer" is about a Viennese butcher named Karl Bockerer( Karl Merkatz) whose common sense rather than intellect tells him to oppose the Nazis and who dares to show resistance just because he is never fully aware of the possible fateful consequences of his actions.
While Bockerer and his wife survive the war unscathed, their son joins the SA but, after some internal intrigue, is sent to the front and killed.
The film was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.
The film's strong anti-fascist message, the moving dialogue, and performances by the" crème de la crème" of Austrian actors and actresses( Ida Krottendorf, Alfred Böhm, Heinz Marecek, Hans Holt, Dolores Schmidinger and many more) made" Der Bockerer" an unusually successful film and gave new impetus to Antel's career.
He made three sequels, which follow the lives of the Bockerers well into the 1960s, each depicting a crucial historical event in Austria or one of its neighbouring countries:
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, Struggle For Eagle Peak or Einer Spinnt Immer?
Answer: Struggle For Eagle Peak