Birthday:
02-12-1971
(54 years)
Birthplace:
Toronto, Canada
Biography
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Benjamin Sadler (born February 2, 1971) is a German actor who was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of a German graphic designer and a British teacher. He lived in Canada until he was five. In 1976 he moved with his parents to Germany. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, his career as actor started in 1994 with roles in German thrillers such as Wolffs Revier and SK-Babies. In 2001 he appeared in the German-Italian film Maria Magdalena in the role as John the Baptist beside Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Danny Quinn. In 2002 he worked on two further religious films: The Bible - The Apocalypse with Richard Harris and Luther with Joseph Fiennes and Sir Peter Ustinov. He also appeared as the young emperor Augustus (Peter O'Toole was the emperor in later life).
In 2006 he played the part of a physician in the film Dresden. In 2007 he starred as a lawyer and father of a thalidomide-handicapped daughter, for which he received a Bambi Award in 2007. He explained in an interview that he was proud to be a part of the film, which influenced the German parliament to pass a law giving greater financial compensation for victims of thalidomide.
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Benjamin Sadler (born February 2, 1971) is a German actor who was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of a German graphic designer and a British teacher. He lived in Canada until he was five. In 1976 he moved with his parents to Germany. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, his career as actor started in 1994 with roles in German thrillers such as Wolffs Revier and SK-Babies. In 2001 he appeared in the German-Italian film Maria Magdalena in the role as John the Baptist beside Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Danny Quinn. In 2002 he worked on two further religious films: The Bible - The Apocalypse with Richard Harris and Luther with Joseph Fiennes and Sir Peter Ustinov. He also appeared as the young emperor Augustus (Peter O'Toole was the emperor in later life).
In 2006 he played the part of a physician in the film Dresden. In 2007 he starred as a lawyer and father of a thalidomide-handicapped daughter, for which he received a Bambi Award in 2007. He explained in an interview that he was proud to be a part of the film, which influenced the German parliament to pass a law giving greater financial compensation for victims of thalidomide.
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Luther
Act like Georg Spalatin
event2003 star_border 6.4
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During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
The Charlemagne Code
Act like Eik Meiers
event2008 star_border 5.7
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An action-packed race to find the legendary treasure of the Nibelungen hidden by Charlemagne and thought to be the biggest lost treasure in the world.
Das Mädchen auf dem Meeresgrund
Act like Hans Hass
event2011 star_border 5.5
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When Hans Hass seeks a secretary for his Viennese office in the summer of 1947, Lotte Baierl applies for the job. She has just graduated from high school and is a big fan of Hass. Lotte is learning how to handle diving equipment and underwater cameras, as she wants to participate in the next expedition. Hass, who is initially against the participation of a woman, changes his mind. The TV movie tells the story of the two diving pioneers.
If Not Us, Who?
Act like Walter Jens
event2011 star_border 5.7
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In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
Nur Anfänger heiraten
Act like Hannes Mack
event2003 star_border 5.9
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" Finally find yourself a man!" Nina ignores her grandmother 's request - and unexpectedly falls in love with Hannes , whose wedding she is supposed to organize ...
Mary Magdalene
Act like Giovanni il Battista
event2000 star_border 5.6
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Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene is overwhelmed by John's powerful message of the coming of the Messiah. Gazing into John's eyes before he dies, Mary is left with the certainty that her place is at the side of this great man, Jesus Christ.
The Apocalypse
Act like Valerius
event2004 star_border 5.3
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While Emperor Domitian persecutes the Christians, the aged apostle John has prophetic visions.
Augustus: The First Emperor
Act like Gaius Octavius, the young Augustus
event2003 star_border 5.9
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Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
Passion
Act like Prosecutor
event2013 star_border 5.3
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The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.
Antonia - Zwischen Liebe und Macht
Act like Moritz Ahrendorff
event2001 star_border 10
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Stunningly attractive law student Antonia Scherer and her girlfriend Judy are earning vacation money as Paparazze for a slimy gossip columnist named WALZ. Part of the job involves trying to snap photos of famous people on the Cote d'Azur. The two girls promptly catch a snap of the eldest son of a mega rich banking family, in a suggestive situation. Realizing that she has been spotted by him, Antonia runs off with the film but is then involved in an accident and loses consciousness. She wakes up to find herself on Leonhardt's private yacht.
The Hustle
Act like Tony
event2000 star_border 4.2
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Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their victims, Pierce, pulls a gun. Instead of killing them, Pierce offers the desperate couple a chance at the biggest score of their lives.
Italiener und andere Süßigkeiten
Act like Paolo Fabrelli
event2004 star_border 6
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Designer Charlotte's monotonous single existence is thrown into turmoil when one day she meets businessman Paolo Fabrelli. She thinks she recognizes him as the ice cream seller who proposed to her in Italy years ago. In reality, however, Paolo is his cousin. Confused at first, then amused, Paolo doesn't even think about clearing the mix-up. He has fallen madly in love with Charlotte and hopes for true love...
Annas Alptraum kurz nach 6
Act like Lukas Walser
event2007 star_border 6
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Anna Marek is looking forward to a break in her hectic life as a midwife and single mother of two daughters: for the first time in years, she will be taking the children on vacation. But then her neighbor Lukas rings the doorbell. He asks for Anna's help. His Chilean friend Maria went into labor unexpectedly. Anna can be persuaded to go to the clinic. She helps the baby into the world, quarrels with her mother, drives to Italy with her children. But the next morning Anna wakes up in her bed in Mainz and the chaos day seems to repeat itself.
Das Jerusalem-Syndrom
Act like Peled
event2013
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A young pregnant woman who lives in Jerusalem believes she is going to bring the son of God into the world. Her older sister tries to convince her to return with her to Germany. Then the young woman disappears.
Pinocchio
Act like Antonio
event2013 star_border 4.8
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The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures from joining the circus to visiting the inside of whale! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Act like Frank Henne
event2012 star_border 5.9
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Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contradictory and, no surprises here, single young woman in her late-twenties.
The German Friend
Act like Michael Tendler
event2012 star_border 5.5
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It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants to Argentina, he is the son of a senior SS officer, a tragic political legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over the next three decades. Following the teenaged Friedrich to Germany, Sulamit finds him caught up in the radical politics of late-1960s student life; and she’s forced to make important decisions about her attitude to her homeland when Friedrich returns to Argentina to join the fight against the military junta.
Bettgeflüster & Babyglück
Act like Uli
event2005 star_border 4.5
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A baby is supposed to crown the dreamlike marriage of the divorce attorneys Pia and Uli, but the success of all their efforts – ranging from “sex on a schedule” to artificial insemination – fails to materialize. When Pia learns that Uli has cheated on her during this difficult period, she immediately files for a divorce. But Uli fights stubbornly for the custody of the deep-frozen oocytes which have remained from the artificial insemination.
Rommel
Act like Hans Speidel
event2012 star_border 6.1
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The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Der Untergang der Pamir
Act like Victor Reetz
event2006 star_border 7
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The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
Bocksprünge
Act like Silvan
event2014 star_border 3
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Two couples and two singles are confused by their enotions to each other.
Sehnsucht nach Liebe
Act like Jochen Hofmann
event2004 star_border 5
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The widowed, single-parent pastor Anja has a silent admirer in Herbert. But then she falls in love with Jochen.
Verführt - Fatal Online Affair
Act like Josef
event1999 star_border 4.2
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Changing jobs and changing boyfriends - until now, the beautiful Sonia has cheated her way through life. She found the support she needed with her sister Karin. But then Karin doesn't return from a supposed business trip. Sonia sets off with her dog Bigfoot in search of her sister. The first clue leads to an internet chat room where Karin regularly logged in under her alias Demi Moore and indulged in provocative sex talk.
Tag der Wahrheit
Act like Jean-Luc Laboetie
event2015 star_border 6.6
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The truth about the ailing state of the Haut-Rhin nuclear power plant in the tri-border region is to come to light - this is the goal of the assassin David Kollwein. He brings the power plant in his power and extorted policy and operating company. The German prosecutor Marie Hoffmann has only three hours to procure explosive information together with the French policeman Jean-Luc Laboetie and to prevent the meltdown in the reactor ...
Antonia – Tränen im Paradies
Act like Moritz Graf von Ahrendorff
event2003 star_border 10
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Antonia lives happily with her aristocratic husband on their Bavarian mansion until a child is abducted and their idyll comes to an abrupt end
Das Programm
Act like Simon Dreher
event2016 star_border 6
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A banker's family is to be included in a protection programme after the family father became involved in negligent transactions with a gangster. But he will only receive comprehensive protection if he provides the needed information.
Rosamunde Pilcher: Stunden der Entscheidung
Act like Nigel Davenport
event1997
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Finally the time has come. During the holidays, Christabel, who is studying in the USA, travels to her parents. To her parents' surprise, she is joined by her future husband, Nigel. When the wedding preparations are in full swing, she meets her childhood friend Sam and realizes that she feels more for him than friendship. Suddenly Christabel is no longer sure who her heart beats for.
One Breath
Act like Jan
event2016 star_border 5.7
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A nightmarish crisis occurs after a pregnant young Greek immigrant takes a job as a nanny to a young professional couple, in this stunning drama from Germany’s Christian Zübert.
Rosenzweig's Freedom
Act like Jacob Rosenzweig
event1998
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When Michael Rosenzweig, a working-class German Jew, is charged with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader, he and his family find themselves fighting for justice in the face of a brick wall of prejudice.
Within the Whirlwind
Act like Pavel
event2009 star_border 5.1
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During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Francesco
Act like Ugolino
event2014 star_border 7
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Depicts various periods in the life of Saint Francesco: Youth and the first conversion in 1206, the process that inflicts his father, the birth of the historical nucleus of Fraternitas and the departure for the Holy Land up to the writing of rules and death, addressing the problem of the legacy of his message in the different interpretation that Chiara and Elia will give it.
Luna's Revenge
Act like Jacob
event2018 star_border 5.7
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When Luna’s family is killed in cold blood on a mountain vacation, she barely escapes, and has to discover she’s been living a lie: her dad was a Russian secret agent, and her family was just a front. Luna has the opportunity to flee the country. But first she wants revenge.
Wendy - Der Film
Act like Gunnar
event2017 star_border 6.8
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Twelve-year-old Wendy is not at all happy that she has to spend her summer vacation with her parents at her grandma Herta's run-down riding stables. Wendy has been afraid of horses ever since a riding accident. But then she meets the pretty mare Dixie, who has run away from the butcher. Slowly, a deep friendship develops between the horse and the girl, and while Wendy does everything she can to save Dixie, she also manages to overcome her fear.
Tödliche Geheimnisse – Jagd in Kapstadt
Act like Prof. Jonas Schwarz
event2017 star_border 4.4
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Where is Paul Holthaus? The investigative journalist Rommy Kirchhoff, together with his son Max, is looking for the disappeared lobbyist Paul Holthaus, who has negotiated several times in Cape Town on behalf of Lilian Norgren for their agricultural corporation Norgreen Life. Norgren makes it clear to Rommy that the search for the whistleblower is unwanted and puts her and the boy in danger.
Wendy 2 - Freundschaft für immer
Act like Gunnar
event2018 star_border 7.4
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Her grandmother's riding stable, where Wendy lives with her parents, is on the verge of bankruptcy. When she hears about a youth tournament, she wants to take part so that she can use the prize money to save the farm. But she doesn't have the right horse. Her former circus horse Dixie is not ready to jump hurdles. The show horse Penny is traumatized. So Wendy has to look after Penny and make sure Dixie doesn't get jealous at the same time.
Hotel Meina
Act like Hans Krassler
event2008 star_border 6
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How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask themselves.
Charlotte Link - In the Valley of the Fox
Act like Matthew
event2020 star_border 4.3
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Andrew continues searching for his missing wife years after the police close their investigation.
Jenseits der Angst
Act like Ronald Kärger
event2019 star_border 5
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Renowned fashion designer Lisa Hembach irritates her surroundings with her behavior. She looks erratic, unfocused and feels persecuted.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Act like Heinz Rosenfeld
event2019 star_border 7.1
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In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.
Tödliches Erwachen
Act like Jan Brenner
event2019 star_border 4.3
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The lover of a policeman is strangled in his house.
Duisburg - Linea di sangue
Act like Thomas Block
event2019 star_border 5.9
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After a brutal mafia-led massacre in the city of Duisburg, two detectives - one Italian, one Gernan - team up to investigate.Based on true events.
Eine harte Tour
Act like Clemens
event2020 star_border 4.4
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A mountain hiking tour of friends brings to light unexpected conflicts.
Caravaggio
Act like Onorio Longhi
event2007 star_border 5.9
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The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
Leben über Kreuz
Act like Sebastian Blumberg
event2021 star_border 6.8
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Two couples who can't stand each other need to become friends. Because this is their only chance for a life-saving organ donation.
Ohne jede Spur - Der Fall Nathalie B.
Act like Georg
event2025
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The reconstruction of the dramatic abduction of triathlete Nathalie Birli, who was hit by a car during training and then held against her will in the driver's house.
Lexx
Act like Nool (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7
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A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
Augustus: The First Emperor
Act like Gaius Octavius (2 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6.2
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Old and ill, Augustus, the man who changed the fortunes and destiny of an empire by completing Julius Caesar's project, recounts the two most important phases of his life: his rise to power and his fight against the pressure of his family.
Dresden
Act like Alexander Wenninger (2 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.5
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In January 1945, the young nurse Anna Mauth, working at a hospital in Dresden, becomes engaged to senior physician Benjamin Wenninger. At the same time, an English Lancaster bomber is shot down. The pilot Robert Newman, the only survivor, manages to reach the city severely injured and hides in the hospital's cellar. Anna discovers him incidentally thinking he is a German deserter, but finally decides to help Robert...
War and Peace
Act like Dolokhov (4 ep.)
event2007 star_border 6.3
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War and Peace is a 2007 Russian-French-Italian-German miniseries directed by Robert Dornhelm. It was broadcast in Belgium and in France in four parts during October and November 2007. It was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, which also is divided into four parts. The actors are of different nationalities.
Impact
Act like Roland Emerson (2 ep.)
event2009 star_border 5.9
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Impact is a mini-series about a meteor shower which eventually sends the moon on a collision course with Earth. The two-part mini-series premiered February 14 and 15, 2009 on the Canadian premium television channel Super Channel and was also shown on ABC on June 21 and 28, 2009 and on Alpha TV on September 2011 .
Scene of the Crime
Act like Gert Mewes (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.
Rosa Roth
Act like Fuhrmann (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 5.5
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Rosa Roth is a German television series.
Anatomy of Evil
Act like Johannes Rink (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 6.7
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The criminal psychologist Richard Brock teaches at the University of Vienna. He used to work as a psychologist until his wife took her own life and he lost his license on suspicion of incorrect treatment. In the meantime he has developed a reputation as a particularly good interrogation specialist and is therefore called in by the police in special cases.
Wolffs Revier
Act like Fjodor Romanow (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 3.4
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Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
SK-Babies
Act like Sylvester (1 ep.)
event1996
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SK-Babies is a German television series.
Wolkenstein
Act like Christian Brandt (1 ep.)
event1996
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Max Wolkenstein is a German television series.
Girl friends – Freundschaft mit Herz
Act like Stefan Ahlbaum (13 ep.)
event1995
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Girl friends – Freundschaft mit Herz is a German television series.
Shades of Guilt
Act like Thomas (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7
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In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Knonberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem. In German with subtitles.
Spuk im Reich der Schatten
Act like Friedrich von Kuhlbanz (4 ep.)
event2000
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Spuk im Reich der Schatten is a German television series.
Anna Karenina
Act like Aleksej Karenin (2 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.3
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Anna and Kitty. Two lives. One of desperate passion that ends in tragedy, the other, an existence made real through love. Two destinies that interweave, giving rise to two, so very different stories, yet lived in pursuit of the same desire- to find a love that lets them fully be themselves, to live without having to conform to society’s pretenses.
Krupp: A Family Between War and Peace
Act like Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (3 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.3
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The Krupps were one of Germany's most powerful and controversial families until their downfall.
Hotel Europa
Act like Fritz Dreesen (2 ep.)
event2021 star_border 4.5
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In 1918, at the end of World War I, young Emil Dreesen returns from the battlefield with the intention of taking over the family business, an elegant hotel on the banks of the Rhine.
Bambi Awards
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 9
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The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Pinocchio
Act like Antonio (2 ep.)
event2013
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When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.
Furia
Act like Ruben Voss (3 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.1
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Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.
Shadowplay
Act like Leopold Garten (8 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.5
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In 1946 Berlin, an American cop searches for his missing brother while helping a novice German policewoman fight the violent crimes engulfing the city.
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