Halbstarke (German: [ˈhalpʃtaʁkə], lit. "half-strengths", loosely "greaser" or "rocker") is a German term describing a postwar-period subculture of adolescents – mostly male and of working class parents – that appeared in public in an aggressive and...
Greasers are a youth subculture that emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s from predominantly working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults in the United States and Canada. The subculture remained prominent into the mid-1960s and was...
Petra Krause (19 February 1939 – April 2025) was a Jewish-German-Italian Holocaust survivor and a communist militant who, along with her gang, supplied weapons to groups including the Red Army Faction (RAF) in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy.
Bikini boys, known as bikiniarze in Polish, were members of a subculture that originated among youths in Warsaw, Poland, in the 1940s and 1950s. From the capital the movement spread to other parts of the country and provoked a moral panic from the...
A jampec ([ˈjɒmpɛt͡s]) or jampi is someone associated with the Hungarian youth movement, from the Rákosi-era. It was a counter cultural movement, mainly consisting of middle-class inner-city young adults, especially in the 50s and 60s. It comes from...
Berlin is a major center in the European and German film industry. It is home to more than 1000 film and television production companies and 270 movie theaters. Three hundred national and international co-productions are filmed in the region every...
For Love and Others (original German title: Unser Wunderland bei Nacht) is a 1959 West German anthology film, directed by Jürgen Roland, Hans Heinrich and Reinhard Elsner. The film stars Monika Peitsch, Angelika Meissner and Paul Esser. Better known...
Theo Lingen (German pronunciation: [ˈteːo ˈlɪŋən] ; 10 June 1903 – 10 November 1978), born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films...
Hans Wolff (2 October 1911, Berlin – 1 June 1979) was a German film editor and director.
