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Joseph Albrecht

Joseph Albrecht

Directing

Biography

Joseph Albrecht was born on 5 January 1894 in Lambeth, South London, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Isban: Or the Mystery of the Great Zimbabwe (1920), Copper Mask (1919) and A Border Scourge (1917). He died in October 1977 in Durban, South Africa.

Known For

Symbol of Sacrifice
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Symbol of Sacrifice is a 1918 film dramatisation of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. It follows English soldier Preston Fanshall from the British defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana to Rorke's Drift where he participates in the successful defence of that post.

Symbol of Sacrifice

1918
Moedertjie
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Tante Koester (Moedertjie) and her husband travel by train to Maraisburg to look for their only son who hasn't written home for two years.

Moedertjie

1931
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Early South African FIlm

A Story of the Rand

1916
The Building of a Nation
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The epic (and very costly) retelling of the history of South Africa from 1652 to 1910, made to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Great Trek (1838)

The Building of a Nation

1938
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South African Film

The Reef of Stars

1923
Simon Beyers
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South African Movie

Simon Beyers

1947
Geboortegrond
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A farmer's son, Jan (Pierre de Wet), works on the farm for his strict father (Jan Brill). He realizes that he is not valued, and his father does not want to know anything about modern farming methods. They get into an argument and he decides to look for work in Johannesburg.

Geboortegrond

1946
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South African Film

The Piccanin's Christmas

1917
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South African Film

A Kract Affair

1916
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The Johannesburg City Council presents “After Sixty Years,” a circa 1946 black-and-white film narrated by Frank Secker that tells the history of the South African city.

After Sixty Years

1946
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The film shows Port Louis, the capital; workers on sugar plantations and road mending as well as colonial life in the then British dependency.

Mauritius 1941

1941
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South African Film

The Man Who Was Afraid

1920
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Adam Varney, a former transport rider, makes an unexpected appearance in the camp of Dalmayne, a prospector looking for gold somewhere in southern Africa

Isban: Or the Mystery of the Great Zimbabwe

1919
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South African Film

With Edged Tools

1919
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South African Film

And Then ---

1917
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South African Film

A Border Scourge

1917
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South African Film

A Zulu's Devotion

1916
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South African Film

The Gun-Runner

1916
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South African Film

The Splendid Waster

1916
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South African Film

Copper Mask

1919