Manfred Noa

{{short description|German film director}}

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| name = Manfred Noa

| birth_date = 22 March 1893

| birth_place = Berlin, German Empire

| death_date ={{death date and age|1930|12|5|1893|3|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Berlin, Weimar Germany

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| occupation = Film director

| yearsactive = 1916 - 1930

| relatives = Loo Hardy (sister)

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Manfred Noa (22 March 1893 – 5 December 1930) was a German film director. Noa was described by Vilma Bánky, who he directed twice, as her "favourite director".Schildgen p.42 Noa's 1924 film Helena has been called his "masterpiece" although it was so expensive that it seriously damaged the finances of its production company Bavaria Film.Schildgen p.42

A film and art director later specialised in historical films,{{Cite book |last=Santini |first=Daria |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_Exiles/fxAYEAAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Manfred+Noa+biography&pg=PA71&printsec=frontcover |title=The Exiles: Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London |date=2019-09-05 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78673-628-4 |language=en}} Noa is perhaps best known today for his 1922 film Nathan the Wise, an adaptation of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play of the same title, which made a plea for religious tolerance.{{Cite book |last=Hoberman |first=J. |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Bridge_of_Light/k7U8TGJi904C?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Manfred+Noa+Lessing&pg=PA60&printsec=frontcover |title=Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds |date=2010 |publisher=UPNE |isbn=978-1-58465-870-2 |language=en}} He was the third husband of the actress Eva May, who was the daughter of his fellow director Joe May and actress Mia May.{{Cite book |last=Barton |first=Ruth |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Hedy_Lamarr/KhzHRMmYPggC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Manfred+Noa+Eva+May&pg=PT77&printsec=frontcover |title=Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film |date=2010-08-13 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-3991-3 |language=en}} Noa died 5 December 1930 in Berlin of peritonitis.{{Refnec|date=March 2025}}

Selected filmography

References

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Bibliography

  • Eisner, Lotte H. The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt. University of California Press, 2008.
  • Kester, Bernadette. Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933). Amsterdam University Press, 2003.
  • Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.
  • Schildgen, Rachel A. More Than A Dream: Rediscovering the Life and Films of Vilma Banky. 1921 PVG Publishing, 2010.