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Christine Kaufmann

Christine Kaufmann

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19721981

Born 11 January 1945 · Lengdorf, Styria, Austria · died 28 March 2017

Christine Maria Kaufmann is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured.

Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19721981

  • Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress1962
  • Golden Globe Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Christine takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 75% of their frames are night, 64% low key — the look of the work Christine takes.

Time of day

Night75%
Day15%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key64%
Chiaroscuro13%
Natural11%
High key6%

Shot size

Closeup36%
Medium35%
Wide17%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle13%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral46%
Tense30%
Ominous13%
Lonely5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Christine Kaufmann's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.