Birthday:
07-01-1928
Deathday:
05-16-2017 (88 years)
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
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I Often Think of Piroschka
Act like Andreas
event1955 star_border 7
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Andreas, a young German student comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas has to leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return some day.
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Act like Kurt Reiser
event1960 star_border 5.6
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The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacuated by ships. Gotenhafen was the last open port and ships left the town almost by the minute, overloaded by refugees. One of the last ships to leave Gotenhafen was the 'Wilhelm Gustloff', a former 'Kraft durch Freude' pleasure cruiser designed for 1000 passengers. Until today it is unknown how many people were on board but it is said to be around 10.000. The ship sunk without a trace and only a handful of people survived this hellish nightmare.
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Act like Leutnant Fuhrmann
event1959 star_border 7.2
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In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
SOS Pacific
Act like Dr. Strauss
event1959 star_border 6.9
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A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.
Heidelberger Romanze
Act like William Edwards (1912)
event1951 star_border 4.8
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The rich and jung American Susanne falls in love with the Student Hans-Joachim. Set in the romantic Heidelberg.
Season in Salzburg
Act like Dr. Erich Elz
event1961 star_border 5
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The actors Heinz Doll, Hans Stiegler and Werner Mack have failed to look after the end of the last season in time for a new commitment and are now unemployed. Since they are just right that the Salzburg mountain hotel "Zum Blaue Enzian" staff looking for.
Bombs on Monte Carlo
Act like Burg
event1960 star_border 5.5
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In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen.
The Odessa File
Act like Karl Braun
event1974 star_border 6.6
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Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
Until we meet again
Act like ein Freund Pamelas
event1952 star_border 4
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This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer.
Das Donkosakenlied
Act like Dr. Heinz Stark
event1956 star_border 6
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After the death of his mother, little Peter lives with his great sister Helga at his adoptive father Professor Hartmann. Peter is seriously ill, can not get upset and therefore also on the advice of his doctor Heinz Stark no more music. Even his revered Donkosaks , who remember him with their songs to his Russian mother, can no longer listen to him on the radio. It is all the more pleasing to him when the choir, during a tour with their conductor Serge Jaroff and their manager Rolf Bender, has an autopanne near his home. While Chauffeur Karl repairs the bus, Peter sings the choir's title The Evening Star, glowing us two - a song of his mother, which the choir has never heard before.
Junge Adler
Act like Lehrling Spatz
event1944 star_border 5
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Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, he had forbidden his son to take part in the competition, because the son's grades in school are substandard. In the end, Brakke sees no other way than to pull Theo from school and install him as an apprentice in his airplane manufacturing plant. Although Theo is received by the other 150 apprentices in a friendly fashion, he behaves in an arrogant and disrespectful tone towards them. He feels himself to be better than them, because his father is the director of the factory.
Der eingebildete Kranke
Act like Peter
event1952
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Dr. Hartwig has settled in a small town as a doctor. One day the magical Ursel Daxenmeyer appears in his practice. Dr. Hartwig falls in love with her and wants to marry her. Beforehand, however, various obstacles have to be cleared out of the way. A very special obstacle is Ursula's father, Eusebius Daxenmeyer. He deals with mixed goods and is also a hypochondriac, that is, an ill patient. No one can tell him his imagination that he is deadly ill.
At the Green Cockatoo by Night
Act like Knut Peters, Medizinstudent
event1957
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The inhibited, uptight Irene Wagner must take over running the seedy dance club the Green Cockatoo or lose her classic dance studio to creditors.
Wozzeck
Act like 3. Student
event1947 star_border 5
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While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates humanity for having allowed Wozzeck’s fate. The tragic story unfolds in flashbacks, as Büchner narrates.
Zirkus Renz
Act like Bäckerjunge Willi
event1943 star_border 5
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A circus film made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies.
The Brothers Noltenius
Act like Jürgen Noltenius, Sohn
event1945
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Wolf Noltenius is a real globetrotter. Early on, this talented young man travelled far and wide, where he earned fame as a construction planner. He moved to Brazil; but one day, homesickness got the best of him. He spontaneously travelled back to his hometown to visit his brother Werner and his family. Wolf and Werner, who both went into the same profession, couldn't be any more different: the one is worldly and an experienced man-about-town; the other a small bourgeois.
Gabriela
Act like Peter Hoyer
event1950
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Gabriela once a famous singer who enjoyed great success. She married, had a daughter Andrea, but pursued her career. Now that Andrea has matured into a young woman, Gabriela is overwhelmed by maternal remorse.
Was die Schwalbe sang
Act like Peter Hansen
event1956 star_border 4
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After high school the lover's Ursula and Gerhard paths part: she stays in the small town, while he attends university in Hamburg to become a composer. While she remains faithful to their love, he forgets more and more about her when he becomes successful as song writer for the famous singer Dahl. Disappointed, Ursula turns to Gerhard's former friend Peter.
Danke, es geht mir gut
Act like Günther Holk
event1948 star_border 5
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Boys are usually busy playing "Indians", but when their uncle decides to rent part of their home to a Doctor Höflin, they took an oath to cast him out with a series of pranks.
Kopf hoch, Johannes!
Act like Wilhelm Panse
event1941 star_border 8
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The exploits of a young German youth during World War II in Argentina.
Des Lebens Überfluß
Act like Felix Engler, Student
event1950
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Two young students, a man and a woman, rent the same appartment without knowing it. They have to arrange with their upcoming feelings, strange neighbours and poverty.
Days of Betrayal
event1973 star_border 5
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This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
Die Nacht der vier Monde
Act like Peter
event1984
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Psychological romance about a burglar and a paralyzed artist.
The Story Teller
Act like Kommissar
event1989
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In this mystery/thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Nico Thomkins (Udo Schenk), a writer, and his wife Helen (Anke Sevenich) are in the habit of playing games with one another. Even while they are breaking up, they are sufficiently in tune with one another to continue this practice. When the writer's wife takes off without leaving a note behind, people begin to suspect that he may have murdered her, and he plays along with this notion to the point of planting clues which would incriminate him. Obviously, no one with a shred of common sense would do such a thing, and these tricks get him into trouble. However, his troubles don't really begin until he starts to search for her in earnest.
The Misplaced World
Act like Ralf Kromberger
event2015 star_border 5.5
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By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.
City in the Fog
Act like Ole Klimm
event1950 star_border 7
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In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and finds that behind the clean facade there are abysses. He has five suspects in mind: the teacher Berling, who is having a relationship with a student, the twin brother and sole heir of the murdered man, the murdered man's shady roommate, the primary school teacher Klaus Erikson and his brother Jakob.
Immer nur Du
Act like Blumenjunge
event1941 star_border 5
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The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.
Maibritt, the Girl from the Islands
Act like Jochen Mintz
event1964 star_border 1
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A German businessmen is sent to Stockholm by his boss to secure an important contract, in the face of foreign competition. He discovers that the intended client has gone sailing round the Swedish islands and follows him. He becomes mixed up with a mysterious young woman named Maibritt, who eventually turns out to be the daughter of his intended client.
Junges Europa - Filmschau der Hitlerjugend. Folge 1
event1942
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Filmschau der Hitlerjugend.
100 Years of the UFA
Act like Self - Actor
event2017 star_border 5
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The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.
The Liberation of Prague
Act like Adolf Hitler
event1977 star_border 2
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On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.
Wie einst im Mai
Act like Cicero von Henkeshofen
event1961
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1838: Fritz Jüterbog and Ottilie von Henkeshofen love each other, but the difference in status is too great for Ottilie's parents to give their consent to a marriage. And so, Fritz sets off for America and returns from there 20 years later as a made man to ask for Ottilie's hand in marriage again. In the meantime, however, Ottilie - believing that Fritz had long since forgotten her - is married in a manner befitting her status, but very unhappily. Fritz, who is highly successful as an entrepreneur, is elevated to hereditary nobility because of his great services to the fatherland. It is too late for a union with Ottilie, but despite the years that pass, the two cannot forget their love. 75 years later, Fritz and Ottilie have died in the meantime, their grandchildren Fred and Tilla meet and fall in love.
Die Degenhardts
event1944 star_border 5.7
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A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once again
Unser Charly
(1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 4.8
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Unser Charly is a German television series.
Heimat - Deine Filme
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event2008
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This documentary takes an entertaining and informative look at the German Heimatfilm phenomenon. The first part examines the history of the genre since the 1950s, while the second part presents crowd favorites of the genre.
Scene of the Crime
Act like Edmund Freese (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.
Hamburg Transit
Act like Rüdiger Wetterau (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.
Ein Heim für Tiere
Act like Erwin Nordmeyer (1 ep.)
event1985
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Ein Heim für Tiere is a German television series.
A Case For Two
Act like Dr. Vasques (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.
Aus heiterem Himmel
Act like Herr Berger (1 ep.)
event1995
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Aus heiterem Himmel is a German comedy television series, broadcast between 1995 and 1999. The series was created by Hannah Hollinger and is about a comic author Tobias and his boat-building friend Christopher who inhabit an old villa and lead a life of promiscuity.
Drehkreuz Airport
(1 ep.)
event2001
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Drehkreuz Airport is a German television series.
Secret Army
Act like Hans Van Broecken (5 ep.)
event1977 star_border 7.6
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World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Irgendwie und Sowieso
Act like Fluggast mit Pfeife (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 5.8
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Irgendwie und Sowieso is a German television series.
SOKO München
Act like Philipp Körner (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5.5
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SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.
Auf Achse
Act like Präfekt (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 6.3
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The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Donna Leon
Act like Claudio Stein (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 7.2
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Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
Act like Viktor Böhr (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.
The Riddle Of The Sands
Act like Dollmann (10 ep.)
event1985 star_border 7
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Fleet buildups in England and Germany cast the shadow of the First World War. Why do the two young Englishmen, Davis and Carruthers, go on a sailing trip through the sailing trip through the North German Wadden Sea? Why are they putting themselves and their boat in danger?
On Norderney Davies gets to know the rich merchant Dollmann, supposedly a Swede. Davies lets himself be Davies is guided through the Wadden Sea by Dollmann's yacht - and almost dies. An attempted murder? Daives and Carruthers get caught in a whirlpool of mysterious of mysterious events. Is Dollman making common cause with the Germans against England? Davies falls in love with Dollman's seductive daughter Clara. Is Dollman just using her as a tool - against whom? And what role does role does Frigate Captain von Brüning play in the plot?
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Act like Adolf Hitler (4 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.2
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The rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, children and mistress, this biography (based on the recollections of Mussolini's eldest son, Vittorio) chronicles Il Duce's tyranny as he plunges Italy into the dark days of World War II.
Arsène Lupin
Act like Fox (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 7.7
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Arsène Lupin is a French TV show which was co-produced with German, Canadian, Belgian, Dutch, Swiss, Italian and Austrian TV stations. It was only loosely based on Maurice Leblancs novels.
Georges Descrières' portrayal of Arsène Lupin showed more similarity to Graf Yoster than to Maurice Leblanc's original. He behaved in the first place as a perfect gentleman who never got angry. He was always relaxed, because whatever could possibly had bothered him in daily life was taken care of by his butler. It wasn't questioned how he had come to his financial independence although the series sometimes discreetly implied that he was a professional criminal. Besides rescuing damsels in distress Lupin took on criminals, competing with their wit and intelligence. Either he stole paintings from rich people who had to be considered white-collar criminals or he acted as a detective who derailed criminal schemes. However, when he was attacked, he could defend himself effortlessly by using elegant jujutsu methods.
Among the guest stars were German actors such as Günter Strack and Sky du Mont.
Jean-Paul Salomé said in his commentary on the DVD version of his film Arsène Lupin he had like this series as a child. German TV, one the investors, would broadcast the show eventually between 18:00-20:00 o'clock because it was only allowed to show commercials within that very timeslot. For them to get a financial return on investment the show had to be appropriate for families and also for children who would watch it alone. Subsequently it was nearby to ask to defuse and flatten some of Leblanc's plots in order to avoid possible complaints that could force the station to broadcast the show beyond the "Vorabendprogramm".
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