
Birthday:
11-03-1939
Deathday:
12-31-2001 (62 years)
Birthplace:
Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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The Deathmaker
Act like Dr. Machnik
event1995 star_border 6.7
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Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this interrogation Haarmann reveals his motives and his killing methods.
Lola
Act like Esslin
event1981 star_border 7.1
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Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
The Noah's Ark Principle
Act like Felix Kronenberg
event1984 star_border 5
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The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West, next stop World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline "The end of our future has already begun"). We follow the main protagonist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe in the process.
A Woman in Flames
Act like Markus
event1983 star_border 5.4
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Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who turns out to be a call boy, as well. Consequently, she moves into his penthouse, large enough for both to offer their services separately.
The Perjured Farmer
event1956 star_border 5.7
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Mathias Ferner commits perjury and is thus able to secure the farm of his stepbrother Jakob as soon as he dies. In doing so, he deprives Paula Roth and the children of their inheritance. However, there is a letter incriminating Mathias Ferner. Years later, Paula Roth gets her hands on this letter.
Die Mädels vom Immenhof
Act like Ethelbert
event1955 star_border 6.6
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Granny Jantzen lives with her three granddaughters Dick, Dalli and Angela on the small pony farm Immenhof in Northern Germany. Since the breeding of ponies isn′t profitable anymore, Granny Jantzen is struggling to keep the family property. During the summer break , young Ethelbert is spending his holiday with his cousins at Immenhof. While Angela has fallen in love with the wealthy land owner Jochen von Roth, Dick and Dalli have to put up with bigheaded urbanite Ethelbert.
Ferien auf Immenhof
Act like Ethelbert
event1957 star_border 6.6
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The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on horseback to Lübeck, where they all distribute the brochure - not knowing that Dalli has added some embellishments to the text.
Durst
Act like Pastor
event1993
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Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society.
Death Is My Trade
Act like Sturmbannführer Kellner
event1977 star_border 7.1
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A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
Die Bombe
Act like Uhl
event1988
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A terrorist drives a car to Hamburg's Rathausmarkt and unloads an unknown device that he claims can cause radioactive contamination. A special unit tries to subdue the man, but this reveals that the only way to prevent the explosion is to constantly readjust a transmitter, so they have to let him go.
Rotwang Must Go!
Act like Carlos
event1994 star_border 4
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A comedy directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.
Der Sandmann
Act like Zwick
event1995 star_border 5.7
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The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.
Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
event1987
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An exconvict turned in a movie star search for revenge against a corrupt cop.
Kalte Küsse
Act like Prof. Christoph Wessel
event1997 star_border 1
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After the corpse of the programmer Klaus Pape was found neatly dismantled in a freezer, Commissioner Beate Stein starts the research that will lead her to both the red-light district and the better society of Hamburg.
Mit 17 weint man nicht
Act like Horst Döring
event1960
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Horst, the 18-year-old son of a factory owner, and 17-year-old Karin dream up their future together in the most beautiful colors. Newly married, however, they don't float on cloud nine as they had hoped, but sink into the dreary everyday life of marriage. While Horst ends his school career prematurely, Karin seeks help from her father-in-law.
Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte
Act like Klaas Henning
event1959 star_border 10
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A comedy directed by Kurt Hoffmann.
Mau Mau
Act like Geschäftsführer
event1992 star_border 5
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A couple of stories revolve around the last days of a stripclub called 'Mau Mau'.
The Last Days of Gomorrah
Act like Kalle
event1974
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Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days of Gomorrah was a favorite of Sanders-Brahms, who brought feminist politics to the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s. It is a forceful piece of capitalist realism, critiquing working-class alienation and commodity culture.
Grottenolm
Act like Peckert
event1985
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A group of people meet on board an ambulance aircraft. They are all looking for a mysterious young man for different reasons. A "psychological-poetic" film that explores why people are puzzles to one another in the form of a game.
Julius Caesar
Act like Casca
event1988
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Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March.
World War Three
Act like Narrator
event1998 star_border 6.9
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This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
Frankfurt Millennium
event1998 star_border 8
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While the masses enthusiastically meet to celebrate the new Millennium, one does not sense much commotion at the kiosk and corner bar "Das Frankfurter Kreuz ". Strangers as well as regulars come to the Kiosk owned by Walter.
Tödliche Besessenheit
event1994 star_border 2
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When a businessman falls in love with a widowed actress, her dream of owning her own theater on the North Sea coast finally seems to come true. But suddenly a young man enters her life and things take a dramatic turn.
Der Verleger
Act like Redner in Israel
event2001 star_border 2
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"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, which quickly reaches millions of copies. His greatest publishing invention is a daily newspaper with which he wants to give the common man on the street a voice. But the publisher is not only successful in business, he also knows how to please women.
Prüfstand VII
event2002 star_border 5.7
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Prüfstand VII is a 2002 German docudrama film directed by Robert Bramkamp, about the V2 rocket and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The film deals with the history of ideas surrounding the rocket research and the conquest of space, with Bianca as the spirit of the rocket guiding the viewer around different aspects of rocket research. It is partly inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow and features dramatization of some selected scenes from the novel.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Act like Knab
event1975 star_border 7.8
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After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
The Cardinal
event1963 star_border 6.5
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A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Hochzeit auf Immenhof
Act like Ethelbert
event1956 star_border 6.9
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The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. In order to save the manor house, Dalli has started a "pony circus" with the village children in the barn, while Dick has given up hope of Ethelbert ever returning.
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Act like Leutnant von Trotha
event1959 star_border 7
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Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany.
Decoder
Act like H-Burger Manager
event1984 star_border 6.2
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F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.
U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien
Act like Jörg Christiansen
event1958 star_border 5.7
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In 1939 German U-boat captain Günther Prien receives orders to infiltrate the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sink British warships.
Wolffs Revier
Act like Hans Westphal (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 3.4
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Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
Scene of the Crime
Act like Robert Geffken (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.
Doppelter Einsatz
Act like Harald Manthey (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 2.3
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Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police.
Der Fahnder
Act like Rösch (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.
Ein Mann am Zug
Act like Jens Schüppers (1 ep.)
event1993
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Ein Mann am Zug is a German television series.
Bronski und Bernstein
Act like Dr. Clemens Dorn (1 ep.)
event2001
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Bronski und Bernstein is a German television series.
Die Cleveren
Act like Maximilian Schubert (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 6.8
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Die Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nation wide special unit of the German Bundeskriminalamt, dealing with serial offenders. The main characters are the profiler Dr. Dominik Born and a policewoman of the BKA, who co-ordinates the necessary steps to be taken by the local police authorities.
Peter Strohm
Act like Michael Lauer (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 6
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Peter Strohm is a German television series.
Rosa Roth
Act like Dr.Mohn (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 5.5
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Rosa Roth is a German television series.
Castle Hohenstein
Act like Baron Gunnar von Trauberg (1 ep.)
event1992
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After the tragic loss of her mother, the medical student Christine Berger takes a job as a supervisor for the young Countess Leonore von Hohenstein, who suffers from a heart disease. Leonore's husband Gregor and Christine are drawn to each other from the first moment, but both are aware of the impossibility of their love and try to suppress their feelings.
Der Alte
Act like Arnold Lippert (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6
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A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
Großstadtrevier
Act like Zylinski (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 5.9
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Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
Derrick
Act like Albert Kremer (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.
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