Willy Fritsch

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Willy Fritsch war der bekannteste deutsche Schauspieler neben Hans Albers und Heinz Rühmann in den vierziger Jahren, er drehte mehrere Filme mit Lillian Harvey bis diese nach Frankreich emigrierte Er ist der Vater des Schauspielers Thomas Fritsch

27-01-1901

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119

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Willi Fritsch, Вилли Фрич, Wilhelm Egon Fritz "Willy" Fritsch

Also known as (male)

Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]

Place of Birth

27-01-1901

Birthday

Aquarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

119

Total Films

Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, Willi Fritsch, Wilhelm Egon Fritz "Willy" Fritsch

Also Known As (male)

Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]

Place of Birth

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119 Works

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3 Works

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3 Works

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Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten

0.0

Year:

1967

I Learned It from Father

10.0

Year:

1964

Rauf und runter

0.0

Year:

1964

Der Himmel kann warten

0.0

Year:

1962

The Bellboy and the Playgirls

The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. The 'suspicious' activities of women in the hotel give him a chance to practice his skills. Surprise! They are representatives of a lingerie manufacturer. To investigate further, he poses as a potential buyer, and the women take turns modeling their wares. The film is a re-edited version of a West German film from 1958 originally titled “Mit Eva fing die Sünde an” with roughly 15 minutes of additional footage shot by Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Hill with nudity inserted for an American release in 1962. Coppola has since said that the project was "adding five three-minute nudie sketches in color to a stupid German movie that had been shot in black-and-white"

3.1

Year:

1962

Isola Bella

Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and therefore slips in her father's villa in the role of a maid.

5.6

Year:

1961

Was macht Papa denn in Italien?

0.0

Year:

1961

Wenn die Heide blüht

4.0

Year:

1960

Sweetheart of the Gods

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.

0.0

Year:

1960

Hubertusjagd

The young Monika Dahlhoff returns from the USA after two years. As soon as she arrives, she learns that her father wants to sell his traditional stud farm, because he has quarreled with the members of the equestrian club. Accordingly annoyed is the old Dahlhoff, when his daughter just fell in love with the son of his greatest enemy. In the annual "Hubertusjagd" there is a dramatic encounter between the men.

4.0

Year:

1959

Mit Eva fing die Sünde an

0.0

Year:

1958

Schwarzwälder Kirsch

5.0

Year:

1958

Zwei Herzen im Mai

The musician Peter Paul Müller (Dieter Borsche) lives for his job. So much so that he also forgets the circumstances of the Nazi dictatorship. In the years between 1930 and 1946 he was only allowed to perform in small clubs, but after he met the pretty singer Marion (Vera Molnar), the big breakthrough came. But with the many appearances, the relationship with his wife Annemie (Kristina Söderbaum) threatens to break up.

0.0

Year:

1958

Der schräge Otto

7.0

Year:

1957

Die Beine von Dolores

4.0

Year:

1957

Solange noch die Rosen blüh'n

Another German Heimatfilm.

4.8

Year:

1956

Das Donkosakenlied

After the death of his mother, little Peter lives with his great sister Helga at his adoptive father Professor Hartmann. Peter is seriously ill, can not get upset and therefore also on the advice of his doctor Heinz Stark no more music. Even his revered Donkosaks , who remember him with their songs to his Russian mother, can no longer listen to him on the radio. It is all the more pleasing to him when the choir, during a tour with their conductor Serge Jaroff and their manager Rolf Bender, has an autopanne near his home. While Chauffeur Karl repairs the bus, Peter sings the choir's title The Evening Star, glowing us two - a song of his mother, which the choir has never heard before.

6.0

Year:

1956

Wo die alten Wälder rauschen

4.0

Year:

1956

Schwarzwaldmelodie

6.4

Year:

1956

The Three from the Filling Station

Three young men working at a filling station fall in love with the same woman.

0.0

Year:

1956

Three from the Gasoline Station

Robert, Peter and Fritz are the best of friends ... and hopelessly broke. But they don't let that stop them and in short order, they end up renting a deserted gas station. With just a little bit of wit and some elan, they'll bring the old girl back to life and all will look rosy ... until all three of them fall in love with the same dame: Gabi, the daughter of the director of a large gasoline firm. Thanks to her, their eternal friendship is really going to be put to the test.

6.3

Year:

1955

Liebe ist ja nur ein Märchen

3.0

Year:

1955

Drei Tage Mittelarrest

10.0

Year:

1955

Adventure in Rio

A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions.

0.0

Year:

1955

Der fröhliche Wanderer

5.0

Year:

1955

Weg in die Vergangenheit

0.0

Year:

1954

Maxie

0.0

Year:

1954

At the Order of the Czar

Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, much older than herself. A few years later, she met Franz Liszt, whose fame had already conquered the whole of Europe. Taking advantage of her husband's absence, the young woman invites the musician to her estate in Woronince. When Franz confesses his love for her, she finds it easier to fight her own feelings.

0.0

Year:

1954

Hungarian Rhapsody

1847. Franz Liszt meets the beautiful princess Caroline von Sayn-Wittgenstein in Kiev. The two fall in love, but the princess is forced to marry an elderly general. When the revolution breaks out in Hungary, she flees with Franz Liszt to Weimar. They also ask the Pope to annul Caroline's unhappy marriage, a question that remains unanswered for the time being. Can Liszt and his princess stay together for long?

0.0

Year:

1954

When the White Lilacs Bloom Again

Married couple Willy and Therese go separate ways. Willy leaves town and returns years later as a famous singer. But Therese is about to marry her best friend Peter. Little does Willy know that he and Therese now have a teenage daughter.

5.4

Year:

1953

Damenwahl

0.0

Year:

1953

Von Liebe reden wir später

The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but there is a catch: Hollmann is still married to his somewhat annoying wife Margot. Angela, however, has to get married as soon as possible because as a foreigner she will lose her work permit if she does not become a German citizen soon. The couple then come up with the idea of marrying Angela to the German bachelor Jonny Pitter, a writer - a sham marriage with no dishonorable consequences, of course. What neither Angela nor Prof. Hollmann suspect is that Jonny has been in love with Angela for some time

0.0

Year:

1953

At the well in front of the gate

4.5

Year:

1952

Ferien vom Ich

5.0

Year:

1952

Mikosch rückt ein

0.0

Year:

1952

The Heath Is Green

After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lüneburg Heath. While living a seemingly happy life on the estate of his cousin, Lüdersen hides a dark secret: he is a poacher.

5.5

Year:

1951

Die verschleierte Maja

0.0

Year:

1951

Schön muß man sein

0.0

Year:

1951

König für eine Nacht

Count Lerchenbach, the King's Adjutant, changes places with his master, King Ludwig I, in a romantic assignation with the beautiful Countess Rosenau.

4.4

Year:

1950

Mädchen mit Beziehungen

An unemployed engineer who does not want his fiancee to protect him has accidentally insulted his future boss, unknown and for no reason. From this meager idea, a stupidly rolled-out confusion with pop song in a Mexico bar develops.

0.0

Year:

1950

Die wunderschöne Galathee

0.0

Year:

1950

Schatten der Nacht

Elga's life with Magnus, her husband, would be a happy one if Struwe, her former lover, had not resurfaced and started to blackmail her.For a while, he has been extorting money from her, threatening, if she didn't, to reveal all the details about their past life. In desperation, Elga decides to disappear and goes to another town where, forsaken and forlorn, she sinks lower and lower. One day, Magnus, who has not forgotten her, meets her by chance. And he falls in love with this stray creature who reminds him of the one who left him so suddenly...

6.0

Year:

1950

Kätchen für alles

0.0

Year:

1949

Derby

A young horse lover falls in love with the handsome vet who looks after a special racehorse. But before the two can be happy together, there are a lot of obstacles in their way.

0.0

Year:

1949

Zwölf Herzen für Charly

0.0

Year:

1949

Hallo - Sie haben Ihre Frau vergessen

0.0

Year:

1949

Finale

0.0

Year:

1948

Film Without Title

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

7.2

Year:

1948

Die Fledermaus

Produced in 1944, finished and released in 1946.

8.0

Year:

1946

Das Leben geht weiter

0.0

Year:

1945

Die tolle Susanne

0.0

Year:

1945

Junge Adler

Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, he had forbidden his son to take part in the competition, because the son's grades in school are substandard. In the end, Brakke sees no other way than to pull Theo from school and install him as an apprentice in his airplane manufacturing plant. Although Theo is received by the other 150 apprentices in a friendly fashion, he behaves in an arrogant and disrespectful tone towards them. He feels himself to be better than them, because his father is the director of the factory.

5.0

Year:

1944

Die Gattin

Puck Niklas (Jenny Jugo) loves her husband Peter even though her brother thinks he's a no-good. She's very charming and a bit crazy and does everything to help him get an engagement as an architect. Opportunity comes knocking in the form of factory owner Walter Baumann (Willy Fritsch) who sees through her trickery but at the same time charmed by her, he gives her Peter the job. Soon Walter finds out

0.0

Year:

1943

Der kleine Grenzverkehr

6.3

Year:

1943

Liebesgeschichten

0.0

Year:

1943

Geliebte Welt

0.0

Year:

1942

Attack on Baku

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates. (Description from Wikipedia)

0.0

Year:

1942

Vienna Blood

Young Count Georg Wolkersheim is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his country, Reuss-Schleiz-Greiz. Tensions arise between the count, his wife Melanie, and their two chamberlains, and when the four attend a court ball, Melanie leaves Georg, assumes the identity of a famous actress, and attracts the affections of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria.

7.4

Year:

1942

Women Are Better Diplomats

A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.

5.2

Year:

1941

Leichte Muse

A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.

0.0

Year:

1941

Dreimal Hochzeit

5.0

Year:

1941

Das leichte Mädchen

Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in rather daring roles. Dietz finds a way to escape from a gathering over coffee, during which he's supposed to be introduced to "decent ladies". After all, his great love is waiting for him somewhere else.

5.0

Year:

1941

Die keusche Geliebte

5.0

Year:

1940

Die unvollkommene Liebe

0.0

Year:

1940

Streit um den Knaben Jo

0.0

Year:

1939

Die Geliebte

A love story between officer von Warp coming from a wealthy family and salesgirl Therese. When the social rules of the time would force the officer to resign from service in order to marry Therese the situation becomes tense.

5.0

Year:

1939

Woman at the Wheel

Maria Kelemen is a secretary in the office of a bank in Budapest. Her boss, director Borden, courts her, albeit she is engaged to Paul (about which she has remained silent). On the day of the wedding, Paul becomes unemployed and takes on the role of a house-husband. During a visit at Borden’s, Maria introduces Paul as her brother, which incites raging jealousy in the latter.

8.0

Year:

1939

Am seidenen Faden

A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.

0.0

Year:

1938

Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht

2.6

Year:

1938

Zwischen den Eltern

0.0

Year:

1938

A Prussian Love Story

The film depicts the love affair between William I and Elisa Radziwill.

6.0

Year:

1938

Gewitterflug zu Claudia

0.0

Year:

1937

Seven Slaps

William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.

6.3

Year:

1937

Menschen ohne Vaterland

5.0

Year:

1937

Lucky Kids

After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.

6.7

Year:

1936

Boccaccio

The residents of the town of Ferrara are swept up in a tide of emotion and physical passion by the writings of a Renaissance author. Before long, the town is in chaos and it becomes difficult to keep track of which characters have been involved with one another. Is it any wonder the Germans didn't take their Italian allies seriously?!

5.0

Year:

1936

Black Roses

Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment. Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him. But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher. The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.

5.7

Year:

1935

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.

7.2

Year:

1935

Prinzessin Turandot

0.0

Year:

1934

Die Insel

A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.

5.0

Year:

1934

Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz

4.0

Year:

1934

A Prince's Young Love

Period romance set in Bismarck's Second Empire about a nobleman who wants to marry the daughter of a lowly pharmacist.

0.0

Year:

1933

Waltz War

The quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss. It comes to a break. Strauss is engaged in London and has his first successes there. Thanks to the initially unfortunate intervention of Lanner's daughter, a reconciliation is finally achieved.

7.7

Year:

1933

Cairo Season

Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them marry each other. Their parents have the same plan, too ... but with regards to their nosy kids. And so it happens, that Tobby wants to surprise the parents with the announcement of their -- the parents' -- engagement at a party (so nice to let them know), but is one-upped by Stefanie's father, the old Count, who announces the engagement of the kids. To avoid a scandal, they have to get married, but will divorce later.

0.0

Year:

1933

I by Day, You by Night

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.

6.4

Year:

1932

A Blonde Dream

Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American movie mogul, and together they turn an old railway carriage into a "Villa Hollywood" for her.

5.5

Year:

1932

A Mad Idea

A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't complain: business is good and he has plenty of guests. For exmple, there's Theo Muller with his revue troupe. For reasons of "sound", Muller calls himself "Miller", which, of course, causes more confusion. His daughter, the beautiful Evelyn, is confused with Mabel Miller, who has come to the hotel on a mission for her filthy rich father ... namely, to estimate the worth of the castle.

7.0

Year:

1932

The Cheeky Devil

Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful married woman, whose husband is otherwise distracted.

0.0

Year:

1932

The Congress Dances

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.

7.2

Year:

1931

In the Employ of the Secret Service

During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.

0.0

Year:

1931

Her Grace Commands

An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants’ bal and falls in love with an alleged caterer, who turns out next day to be a lieutenant of the guard. Without letting on to her masquerade, she makes sure he climbs the ranks quickly. At the same time, she tries to thwart her engagement to an unpopular prince.

5.0

Year:

1931

Burglars

The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.

6.2

Year:

1930

The Three from the Filling Station

Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.

6.1

Year:

1930

Hokuspokus

Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.

0.0

Year:

1930

Love waltz

0.0

Year:

1930

Melody of the Heart

A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.

6.0

Year:

1929

Woman in the Moon

A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

7.2

Year:

1929

Her Dark Spot

When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief. Lilian decides to find the woman who is preparing her next coup in Nice.

0.0

Year:

1929

Docks of Hamburg

When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.

5.2

Year:

1928

Spies

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.

7.4

Year:

1928

Schuldig

"Guilty" - Thomas Feld returns home after 16 years in prison to find his wife Magda and daughter Maria fell in the hands of Peter Cornelius, the owner of a cabaret. Lawyer Frank Peters falls in love with Maria.

5.0

Year:

1928

Hungarian Rhapsody

On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family fortune and marriage seems an unlikely prospect. Impoverished Franz's love for effervescent and upright country girl Marika coincides with the tragic tale of lovelorn violinist Josef, all but ignored by royal beauty Camilla.

6.0

Year:

1928

His Late Excellency

In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of intrigants, and his only real friend was the Baroness Windegg (Olga Tschechowa), a kind-hearted, witty, and very attractive woman, who however was not much loved by the Leuchtenstein upper class. And as these are only interested in getting better positions and other wealths after His Excellency's death, the baroness invents the story that the old ruler wrote his memoirs before his death, containing a lot of intimate, delicate and potentially embarrassing details about the Leuchtenstein dignitaries. Unsurprisingly, everyone is afraid about the details to be revealed. Only the successor to the throne, Prince Ernst Albrecht (Willy Fritsch) sees through the baroness' scheme, and as he is a lusty young man, he joins in her prank.

0.0

Year:

1927

The Last Waltz

0.0

Year:

1927

A Sister of Six

A silent romantic comedy

0.0

Year:

1926

The Chaste Susanne

Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.

6.3

Year:

1926

Die Boxerbraut

0.0

Year:

1926

Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer

0.0

Year:

1926

The Waltz Dream

Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.

5.6

Year:

1926

The Girl with a Patron

The Girl with a Patron (German: Das Mädchen mit der Protektion) is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Ossi Oswalda, Willy Fritsch, and Nora Gregor. It was one of a number of popular comedies released by UFA during the era alongside its more prestigious art films.

0.0

Year:

1925

Her Dancing Partner

0.0

Year:

1925

Der Farmer aus Texas

0.0

Year:

1925

Express Train of Love

Silent romantic comedy set on a train.

0.0

Year:

1925

Guillotine

0.0

Year:

1925

Mother and Child

0.0

Year:

1924

His Wife, the Unknown

A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in order to return to his service under a different name. Only when the painter falls in love with her as a stranger to him, she reveal herself.

5.2

Year:

1923

Hallig Hooge

0.0

Year:

1923

Der Heiratsschwindler

0.0

Year:

1922

Miss Venus

Maud Goodin is the daughter of a millionaire, content with her present life, but she is an interesting conquest for those wants to get on the social ladder.

0.0

Year:

1921