Birthday:
07-03-1935
(89 years)
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
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Willi and the Windsors
Act like Prince Philip
event1996 star_border 5.2
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The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
Act like Kai Uwe Lembke
event2008 star_border 6.6
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It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family.
As from Afar
Act like Simon Wiesenthal
event2013
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The Israeli historian Tom Segev writes about Simon Wiesenthal's strangest relationship: his friendship with Albert Speer. Speer who was the third Reich's chief architect and one of Hitler's closest friends took responsibility and showed remorse for the Nazi's crimes. After serving 20 years in prison he made efforts to clear his name and became a public persona with the help of his successful autobiography.
Alibi
Act like Walter Hansen
event1955 star_border 6
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An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder.
Hilfe, meine Schwester kommt
Act like Friedrich Mayerhofer
event2008 star_border 4.5
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Luisa Wagner is a successful event manager. At the same time she also manages to look after her two children, Krista and Jakob, the housework, her husband Michael and her father. When Luisa's twin sister Jenny also turns up and hardly lifts a finger to help, Luisa sees red. On an impulse, she takes over her sister's role and goes on tour with her theatre troupe in Italy. Meanwhile, Jenny assumes Luisa's chores in the home and her job, thereby experiencing not only the hurdles a mother is confronted with, but also falls madly in love with her sister's boss, Felix. Everyone is relieved when Luisa returns home after hearing of her father's breakdown. Especially Michael, who has learned to appreciate his wife anew.
Im Fluss des Lebens
Act like Richard Gutmann
event2011 star_border 4.5
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On the day of her greatest honor, the well-known Berlin author Agnes Berg receives the shocking news of the accidental death of her daughter Johanna and her husband. The loss hits her particularly hard: Agnes has been at odds with Johanna since she followed her husband to Mallorca 15 years ago. Concerned about her grandchildren Natascha and Enrico, whom Agnes has never seen before, she sets off for Spain. The reception is cool and unwelcoming. But Agnes is ready to fight for the love of her grandchildren, for which she will make a great sacrifice.
Rosa Luxemburg
Act like Gefängnisdirektor, Breslau
event1986 star_border 6.5
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Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.
The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Act like Anstaltsleiter
event1974 star_border 5.5
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Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent...
Wer zu lieben wagt
Act like Willi
event2010 star_border 4.2
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Maria Berger is an attorney who lives alone and delivered to her work since her divorce. One day her sister Clara tells her that she is going to marry a young lyricist of songs from Thailand. Maria tries to dissuade her sister, but she is so in love with her fiancé that celebrates the marriage against the wishes of Maria.
Second Sight
Act like Kreuzer
event1982 star_border 5.2
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A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.
Liebe ist die beste Medizin
Act like Dr. Maximilian 'Max' Haller
event2004 star_border 4
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On the news of his father's death, the successful city doctor Dr. Peter Haller to the funeral in his hometown. What he does not suspect: His father, also a respected doctor, has only faked his demise! With this trick he wants to persuade Peter, who had turned away from him many years ago, to take over the father's practice. But Peter is determined to leave as soon as possible. His attitude changes only when he falls in love with Stella, who is as beautiful as she is sensitive.
The Man Who Sold Himself
event1959
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Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works for one of the tabloid papers. The reporter digs up dirt on the past life of a local hotel owner, and wanting to take full advantage of the muck, he strings out his revelations in a series of perjorative, damning articles on the man. The result of this campaign turns out to be much worse than simply ruining the hotel owner's reputation.
Ripening Youth
Act like Bert Ilgen, Oberprimaner
event1955
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The trials and tribulations of love in a school community in the still young Federal Republic of Germany.
Nur mit euch!
Act like Georg Fischer
event2013 star_border 4.5
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Since the separation of his wife Katja, the architect Florian only sees his two daughters Anna and Sophie every other weekend. While he is looking for a solution to intensify the contact with the children, the doctor Katja tries to get the double burden of work and maternity duty better under control. As she falls in love again and wants to emigrate to Sweden, there is a bitter dispute. Florian sees his rights disregarded as a father, Katja feels constrained by its new claims in their life planning. In court, both want to enforce their interests
Wodzek
Act like Werksarzt
event1984
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Franz Woyzeck, the protagonist of Georg Büchner's unfinished drama is incorporated in this adaption of a classic. The contemporary Franz Wodzeck lives in Germany's Ruhr industrial region. Wodzeck meanders back and forth between the monotony of working each day in a car factory and returning each evening to the cheerless desolation of the factory dormitory. Once his girlfriend, Maleen, snubs him for his boss, Wodzeck's personal and social frustrations escalate into a vista of emotions: he runs amok and bloodily stubs Maleen to death. After he has killed his one sole love Wodzeck resigns himself to his fate. A hollow shell of a man is admitted to a psychiatric asylum. He feels no more anxiety, no more desire. He simply exists. FBW Prädikat: "wertvoll".
Neon City
Act like Busch
event1982 star_border 4.5
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Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s.
Liebe ist das schönste Geschenk
Act like Dr. Heinrich Hauser
event2007 star_border 4
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After much hesitation, the doctor, who fell in love, Peter Hauser finally managed to make his girlfriend Stella a marriage proposal. But when the two want to surprise his father Heinrich with the good news, the one holds much greater surprise ready: On holiday, he has fallen in love with the attractive widow Johanna and married her right away. Peter is anything but excited. He believes that Johanna is a notorious husband murderer. However, in trying to gather evidence of his suspicion, the awkward amateur detective moves from one fool to the next.
The Last Supper
Act like Max Liebermann
event2019 star_border 7
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On the day Hitler assumes power, the German-Jewish Glickstein family come together for dinner. Most of them—like many Germans at the time—do not take the Nazis seriously. When Leah announces her plans to emigrate to Palestine, her family talks her down. But when Michael indicates he’s actually an admirer of the National Socialist Movement, the family is on the brink of being torn apart.
Somewhere in Berlin
Act like Gustav Iller
event1946 star_border 5.8
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After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless.
On the Killer's Track
Act like Grassmann
event1985 star_border 5.5
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A man who has just become unemployed kills his closest relatives before he judges himself.
Der See der Träume
Act like Hannes Schulze
event2006 star_border 4.7
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Her daughter has just gone abroad for a school year when Anna's husband Rolf tells her that he wants a divorce. Anna, surprised and desperate, seeks refuge with her father Hannes. In her idyllic hometown, she meets her childhood sweetheart Nick again, whose wife took the life half a year ago. Nick's little daughter is so traumatized by this experience that she has not spoken out since. Anna cares lovingly for the child, and Anna and Nick come closer. But Rolf has since regretted his decision.
Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht
Act like Major Gamelin
event1977 star_border 6
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The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
Act like Generalmajor Schmidthuber
event1985 star_border 3
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The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Fight of the Tertia
Act like Tertianer
event1952
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Der Kampf der Tertia (Fight of the Tertia) is the story of a group of tough but sensitive German schoolboys. Upon learning that a local catskin dealer intends to buy up all the local felines, the boys organize a boycott against the man. It's a uphill climb, since the dealer has the law and the government on his side, having spread a rumor that the cats were diseased and needed to be killed off. Thanks to the boys, who aren't above a little larceny and duplicity themselves, the villain is foiled and the world made safe for meowers and mousers once more. Kampf der Tertia is based on a popular children's novel by Wilhelm Speyer.
The Canterville Ghost
Act like Simon Canterville
event1964 star_border 7
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The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.
Pharos of Chaos
Act like Self - Narrator (voice)
event1983 star_border 6.3
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A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.
Scene of the Crime
Act like Kessenich (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.2
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Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Der Fahnder
Act like Kommissar im Rauschgiftdezernat (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6.9
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Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005.
In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.
Die Kommissarin
Act like Arzt (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 8
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Die Kommissarin is a German police TV series which aired on Das Erste. Its 66 episodes ran from 1994 till 2006.
The series, which takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is notable as being the first, and as yet one of the few commercially successful, German detective series to have a female lead character.
The main character is Inspector Lea Sommer, played by Hannelore Elsner. Sommer is divorced with custody of her teenage son, Daniel. She is looking forward to a new relationship with her new boyfriend, Jonathan. Although Lea and Jonathan telephone each other frequently, he has never actually been seen or heard on screen.
Sommer was originally paired with Nick Siegel, but in a 1996 episode, Siegel was shot to death by an escaping criminal. His last words were "Lea, ich fühle mich so kalt". Sommer's current partner officer is Jan Orlop.
Die Kommissarin airs on the German Language channel German Kino Plus in the United States. In Finland it airs on YLE TV2 under the title Etsivä Lea Sommer.
Polizeifunk ruft
Act like Paul Bremer (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 4
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Polizeifunk ruft is a German television series.
Hamburg Transit
Act like Arzt vom Dienst (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6
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Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970.
Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht
Act like Julius Hartlaub (28 ep.)
event1992 star_border 8
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Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht is a series of family author Kurt Bartsch, directors Werner Masten, Vera Loebner and Karin Hercher, shot from 1991 in Germany. The consequences had a length of 52 or 46 minutes. For subsequent repetitions of the consequences of the first season in about 45 minutes were cut. In addition, they were provided with an alternative, shorter guy, who was also designed in a different font.
Derrick
Act like Herr Busse (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 6
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Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Lutter
Act like Werner Saibel (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 9
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Lutter is a German television series.
A Case For Two
Act like Herr Brenneisen (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 5.2
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Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall
Act like Ulrich Kästner (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 4.5
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Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995.
Wolffs Revier
Act like Hans Arnold (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 3.4
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Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
Heiter bis tödlich - Morden im Norden
Act like Herr Fischer (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5.9
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Morden im Norden is a German Police that has been broadcast by Das Erste. The show is set in Lübeck, Germany
Morden im Norden is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".
Wolkenstein
Act like Bertram Glahn (1 ep.)
event1996
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Max Wolkenstein is a German television series.
SOKO Köln
Act like Dr. Ansgar Steiner (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6
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The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
Peter Strohm
Act like Prof. Dr. Luckow (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 6
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Peter Strohm is a German television series.
Beckmann
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 2
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Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
Abenteuer Airport
Act like Bronnen (2 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6
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Abenteuer Airport was a German television series broadcast in 1990. It was an airport adventure series; 12 episodes were produced.
Familie Schölermann
Act like Heinz Schölermann (30 ep.)
event1954
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Familie Schölermann is a German television series.
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
Act like Hans-Gerd Schäfer (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 2.5
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Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.
Schwarz greift ein
Act like Wagner (1 ep.)
event1994
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Schwarz greift ein is a German television series.
Kreuzfahrt ins Glück
Act like Petko (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 3.5
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A picturesque journey on the waves of love and life. Each episode embarks on a tantalizing cruise, intertwining the stories of newlyweds beginning their matrimonial journey and the ship's crew navigating their own personal tribulations. As breathtaking locations unfurl in the backdrop, heartwarming encounters and serendipitous moments greet the passengers. However, it's not all smooth sailing—each voyage confronts its fair share of tempests, from past heartbreaks resurfacing to unexpected on-board mishaps. Yet, amidst the ebb and flow of emotions, the series consistently delivers an uplifting message: love and understanding can steer any ship to safe harbor. A truly heartwarming watch.
Markus Lanz
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event2008 star_border 5
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TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
Abendschau
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 6
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The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
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