
Birthday:
02-05-1904
Deathday:
05-17-1989 (85 years)
Birthplace:
Eberswalde, Germany
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Emil and the Detectives
Act like Straßenbahnschaffner
event1954 star_border 7.7
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Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Übermut im Salzkammergut
Act like Gendarm Eckzahn
event1963 star_border 4.7
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Birgit is a model from the city and sweetheart of the farmer's son Rolf. Incognito she takes a job as a maid on their farm.
Farewell Waltz
event1934 star_border 5.5
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Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her.
Rhythm Inn
Act like Dixieland Band Piano Player
event1951 star_border 2
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A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.
Homesick for You
Act like Paulchen Friese
event1952 star_border 5.5
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Five musicians form in pre-war Berlin a dance band, which is largely successful thanks to the singer Marion. When love rivalries break out among the musicians and the Second World War begins, they are scattered in all directions. After the war, a coincidence brings them together again.
So liebt und küsst man in Tirol
Act like Emil Schulze
event1961 star_border 2
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A music comedy by Franz Marischka.
Das Posthaus im Schwarzwald
Act like Kuno Loder
event1958 star_border 4
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Rural comedy set in the Black Forest.
Blond muß man sein auf Capri
Act like Joseph Gebhard
event1961 star_border 5
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Maria and Hannes are already looking forward to their vacation together when Hannes has to go away on business at short notice. Maria suspects that Hannes is having an affair with another woman and defiantly travels to Capri with her friends.
Peter Voss, der Millionendieb
Act like Steward
event1946 star_border 7.2
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Adaptation of Seeliger's novel, starting production in 1943, finished by DEFA studios after the war.
Königin einer Nacht
Act like Ganove
event1951 star_border 6
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Duke Ferdinand of Novara-Liechtenstein flees the duchy to avoid an arranged marriage with princess Anna Silvana of Este-Parma. He loses his papers on the flight and is treated as an imposter at the inn where he stays. The princess is hot on his heels, and ends up staying at the same inn under an assumed name. Mayhem ensues.
Am Sonntag will mein Süßer mit mir segeln gehn
Act like Egon Ackermann, der Neureiche
event1961 star_border 6.8
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Albert and Corinna begin a camping site in their backyard and soon welcome a bunch of eccentric, love lost holiday goers.
Bel Ami
Act like Stenotypist
event1939 star_border 5.6
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Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.
Girls in Gingham
Act like Conferencier
event1949 star_border 6.5
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A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and family work in tandem to face the tragedies of war, economic hardship and death.
Damals
Act like Kellner in der Hotelbar
event1943 star_border 6.6
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Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
Davon träumen alle Mädchen
Act like Barbesitzer Blatzmann
event1961 star_border 7
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After the summer holidays, Marion, Conny, Gaby, Jacqueline, and Uschi are on the train to Seeburg, where they attend boarding school. During the trip they meet trumpet-player Jochen and his band.
Love in Stunt Flying
Act like Bildberichterstatter
event1937 star_border 5
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Mabel is a successful pilot who hates sensational media, but falls in love with Jack, a womanizer journalist with conservative views on gender. When the two of them get married, they make a deal: Mabel will cease to fly as long as Jack doesn't interview any more women. But how long can they keep their pact?
One or the Other of Us
Act like Opa Melzer
event1974 star_border 4.8
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Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer.
Melody of a Great City
Act like Berliner an einer Straßenbahnhaltestelle
event1943 star_border 7.8
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A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.
Moskau - Shanghai
Act like Manager in Shanghai
event1936
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A drama film directed by Paul Wegener.
Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything
Act like Reiseführer im Autobus
event1938
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English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When the cranky historian travels to a Napoleon conference in Paris, his smart spouse secretly follows him. Unnoticed by her, the city of love threatens to spark a romance between Arthur and a chorus girl.
Raid
Act like Der „flotte Willi“
event1947 star_border 5
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Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a major police raid all seem to come from the same source. The trail leads Commissioner Naumann to the Alibaba Cabarett, but he is unable to find conclusive evidence to convict its owner Goll.
Der schwarze Blitz
Act like Barkeeper Johnny
event1958 star_border 4.5
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Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team.
Under the Bridges
Act like Man on the Bridge
event1946 star_border 7.2
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Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.
Our Daily Bread
Act like 1. Skeptiker
event1949 star_border 5
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A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.
My Life Is at Stake
Act like Ernst Torsten
event1936
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The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie star Christa (Kitty Jantzen), allegedly had an affair with singer Juan Navarro (Harry Hardt), who was found dead in front of Dr. Lessners house. Christa is arrested ...
The Gypsy Baron
Act like Ein Richter
event1962
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The young Sandor comes to Timisoara and immediately takes on the pig farmer Zsupan to help the gypsy girl Saffi. As a result, he has bad cards when he spontaneously falls in love with Zsupan's daughter Arsena. In the castle of the Barinkays, which fell in Ungande, Sandor meets a group of gypsies. The old Czipra realizes that Sandor is the son of the Barinkays. Sandor is looking for the family treasure and has to choose between Arsena and Saffi.
Die Unschuld vom Lande
Act like Dr. Bruno Falke
event1957
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Theater director Werner Sturm was amazed when he arrived in the Bavarian market town of Oberwinkel on a vacation and came across all kinds of disguised characters: knights and maids, squires and heralds were running around, and children were shooting arrows through the air with their bows
The Night of the Great Love
Act like Baron Danner
event1933 star_border 1
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The story, set in Constantinople, of a young man who falls in love with a woman much older than he is, and her daughter falls in love with him also. An American critic was vastly impressed by the day-and-night locale shots, and wrote that the film-maker had discarded and soft-pedaled the soft and sentimental in favor of the realistic and logical.
Zwei Herzen im Mai
Act like Julius Krüger
event1958
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The musician Peter Paul Müller (Dieter Borsche) lives for his job. So much so that he also forgets the circumstances of the Nazi dictatorship. In the years between 1930 and 1946 he was only allowed to perform in small clubs, but after he met the pretty singer Marion (Vera Molnar), the big breakthrough came. But with the many appearances, the relationship with his wife Annemie (Kristina Söderbaum) threatens to break up.
Always Trouble with the Bed
Act like Windmacher, Abgeordneter
event1961 star_border 5.5
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A German police man thinks his wife is a call girl.
Wunschkonzert
Act like Lüdecke
event1955
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Accountant and would-be song-writer Willy inadvertently gets into a live TV game show and is tasked with finding, presenting and performing with a motley band of six amateur musicians within 90 minutes.
Petermann ist dagegen
Act like Hubert Herbert Horn - Bibliothekar aus Augsburg
event1938 star_border 5
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Experiences during a voyage with a KDF-steamer (Kraft Durch Freude = Power Through Joy, a nazi campaign that allowed working class people to make affordable holidays often on steamers).Grumpy old Petermann is a moaner, but during a KDF-tour on the "Der Deutsche" there's so much Freude that he is transformed into a playful nice old chap. It has some beautiful moments despite the obvious promotion of the KDFconcept.
Die Jahre vergehen
Act like Scholtes, Besitzer einer Instrumentenhandlun
event1945 star_border 5
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The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.
The Turkish Cucumbers
Act like Theo-Maria Neumann
event1962
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Oskar Schnabel is a wholesaler of fruits from the Arabian region. One day his oriental trading partner passes on a twelve-piece of harem ladies to him.
Fuhrmann Henschel
Act like Feriengast
event1956 star_border 5.8
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The simple and good-natured coachman Henschel has a sick wife and a deceitful maid who looks after the household. The wife makes him promise never to marry the maid. But after his wife's death, Henschel succumbs to the temptation of the maid.
The Stars Shine
Act like Kellner
event1938 star_border 6.2
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German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
D III 88
Act like Funker
event1939 star_border 5.3
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Across German screens at the outbreak of WWII streaks "DIII88: The New German Air Force Attacks", an aeronautic and maritime spectacle glorifying Hermann Goring's Luftwaffe and the spirit of the newly arisen Germany. Once war became imminent, Joseph Goebbels instructed the German film industry to initiate production of numerous militaristic projects, but DIII88 was initiated by the Propaganda Minister's rival, Goring, who commissioned several aviation pictures. DIII88 is not a war picture per se, because it takes place in peacetime, but the young, fresh-faced air aces enthusiastically look forward to the coming war. The propaganda is blatant: The only thing that matters is dedication to duty and unconditional commitment to the Fatherland.
The Fox of Paris
Act like Kleinschmidt, Quades Bursche
event1957 star_border 7.9
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Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.
Hurra, die Rattles kommen
Act like Pop Olsen
event1966
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Music film featuring a German beat band.
The High Life
Act like Fakir
event1960 star_border 4
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Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.
Regine
event1935 star_border 8
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Frank returns to his homeland as an engineer, falls in love with Regine, the housemaid of his uncle, and marries her. Thanks to the intrigues of Floris, one of Frank's rejects, Regine is suspected of having an affair with another man. Depressed and desperate, she intends to commit suicide, but is saved by Frank in the last minute.
Der Polizeibericht meldet
Act like Schmidt
event1934 star_border 5
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Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator Haupt inspects items in the apartment of the dead man, he comes to the conclusiong that Gisela herself is the murderess and accusations start flying between the married couple. The murdered man's brother, the lawyer Burckhardt, steps up to act as defense counsel for the woman, with whom he has learned to love in the meantime.
Die fromme Lüge
Act like Rundfunkreporter
event1938 star_border 5
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The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”
Von Liebe reden wir später
Act like Sekretär
event1953
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The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but there is a catch: Hollmann is still married to his somewhat annoying wife Margot. Angela, however, has to get married as soon as possible because as a foreigner she will lose her work permit if she does not become a German citizen soon. The couple then come up with the idea of marrying Angela to the German bachelor Jonny Pitter, a writer - a sham marriage with no dishonorable consequences, of course. What neither Angela nor Prof. Hollmann suspect is that Jonny has been in love with Angela for some time
Die Stunde der Versuchung
Act like Billy Miller
event1936
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Irene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac Norris slyly benefits from her depression and lures her to his apartment. As she struggles to fend him off a shot is fired and Mac collapses.
Der letzte Mann
Act like Kellner Otto
event1955 star_border 4.3
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A hotel employee loses his sense of self-respect when he is demoted.
Drei Damen vom Grill
Act like Oskar Hübner (140 ep.)
event1977 star_border 7
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Drei Damen vom Grill is a German television series.
Derrick
Act like Herr Pöllmann (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.
Der Alte
Act like Oskar Mosse (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6
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A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
Beschlossen und verkündet
Act like Nachtwächter Kruse (1 ep.)
event1975
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Beschlossen und verkündet is a German crime television series. 13 episodes were aired in 1975.
Jakob und Adele
Act like Jacobs Freund (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6
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Jakob und Adele is a German television series.
Der Kurier der Kaiserin
Act like Müller (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 8
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Der Kurier der Kaiserin is a German Television series.
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