Winnie Markus with Cork dockers

Winnie Markus with Cork dockers

Winnie Markus, Dockers, Cork Film Festival, Cork Docks

This is a black and white photo of the Czech-born German actor Winnie Markus taken with a group of men identified as 'dockers' at the back of the photo. Cork had a rich history of dockers working at the Port of Cork, unloading ships berthed at the city's bustling quays; this ended in 2009 following the modernisation of work practices. In this 1950s photo, Markus, wearing a dark coat over a light-coloured dress, is shown laughing and signing her autograph as she turns towards one of the men. On the far left a man can be seen with his head sticking out of a circular porthole window. In the background, we can make out a shipyard crane festooned with crane cables.

Winnie Markus was born in 1921 and moved to Germany, via Prague and Vienna, when she was sixteen. She started her acting career on the stage before accepting her first film role in 1939 with A Mother's Love (Gustav Ucicky, 1939). Markus was awarded the prestigious German culture award - the Gold Film Tape - for her contribution to German film in 1986.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Ambrose O'Mullane

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1957

Ambrose O'Mullane

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TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

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1957
Cork, Ireland

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218 x 176mm