Birthday:
05-16-1917
Deathday:
07-01-2013 (96 years)
Birthplace:
Wanne-Eickel, Germany
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Red Corner
Act like Gerhardt Hoffman
event1997 star_border 6.3
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An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
The Axe of Wandsbek
Act like Dr. Koldewey, Gefängnisdirektor
event1982
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1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. The broke Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide.
Die Bombe
Act like Schroeder
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.
Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg
Act like Oberleutnant Grützner
event1969 star_border 7
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Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures.
Rosamunde Pilcher: Rosen im Sturm
Act like George Atherton
event1999 star_border 3.5
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London businessman Robert Cummings meets his partner Barbara Harding's father only when she comes to his Devon estate, Parnham House, to reconcile on his deathbed, having blamed him for three years for her mother's fatal car accident, which he insists was suicide. Against Robert's professional advice, they follow his dying wish, carrying on the stud-farm, which requires lots of urgent learning.
Die Entführung
Act like Roberts Vater Johann Lund
event2007 star_border 2
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On his birthday, Tobias goes shopping to the city with his mother. While waiting in the car for her to remove money from an ATM, he disappears without a trace. His mother, distraught, desperately seeks him. When she returns home, a phone call confirms her fears: Tobias has been kidnapped. Meanwhile the guests begin to arrive to the party.
Gabriel
Act like Police Chief
event1973
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The archangel Gabriel is sent to earth to announce the end of the decaying human race with his trumpet. But even angels have feelings...
Metallic Blues
Act like Old Reception Clerk
event2004 star_border 7.6
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A man enters the car and drives it to a local car dealer where he hopes to sell it. It seems that he has moved back from Canada and cannot afford the tax on the car. The dealership is manned by two. One appears to be the worker of the pair - keeping the cars clean and running. The other is a cookie cutter version of many auto salesmen to be found everywhere in the world. He is Shmuel, the apparent owner of the lot and has seen the same car in a German dealer's catalog priced at €50,000. He conferences with Siso, the worker of the pair, whose financial support he needs and convinces him to invest in the purchase of the car. In the typical car dealer fashion, Shmuel makes a deal to buy the car from the "ignorant Arab" for €5,000.
Martha Jellneck
Act like Franz Laub
event1988
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72 years old Martha Jellneck lives alone in a small apartment in Hamburg. Since she's hampered in walking, she never leaves her home. Her only contacts to the outside world are the young social worker Thomas and a neighbor boy who walks her dog. When Thomas tells her one day that Franz Laub, another one of his clients, has his birthday, she becomes suspicious: that was also her half-brother's name and day of birth - only that he died in WW2...
Anatomy
Act like Femerichter
event2000 star_border 6.2
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Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.
Tanker
Act like Sitting
event1970
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A young married couple, professional, intelligent and without inhibitions. Peter, an economist, Helga, a secretary at a financial broker. When Helga's boss is offered old tankers, the clever couple decides to get involved in the business. The plan is bound to fail, because knowledge and the courage to take risks are not enough. To rake in money, above all, a lot of money is needed.
On the Killer's Track
Act like Königsberg
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 Fall Bachmeier - Keine Zeit für Tränen
event1984 star_border 3.5
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The film deals with the criminal case involving Marianne Bachmeier, who shot her daughter's murderer in the courtroom in 1981.
Ahnenerbe
Act like Narrator
event1969
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"The ancestors heritage" - The Ahnenerbe was a scientific institute in the Third Reich dedicated to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan Race. The films deals with trials against the guilty ones of this part of the Holocaust.
The Counterfeit Traitor
event1962 star_border 6.4
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Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
(1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 4.5
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Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district.
Scene of the Crime
Act like Warrlau (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.
The Black Forest Clinic
Act like Richter (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.1
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The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel.
The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital.
Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.
Die fünfte Kolonne
Act like Dr. Müller-Walsum (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 8
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Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.
Hamburg Transit
Act like Prof. Karl Hoffmann (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.
A Case For Two
Act like Eduard Seifert (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.
Immenhof
Act like Verleger Mersheimer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7
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Immenhof is a German television series.
Die Kommissarin
(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.
SOKO München
(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.
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