Birthday:
12-26-1937
(87 years)
Birthplace:
Graz, Austria
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The Noah's Ark Principle
Act like Max Marek
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.
Kill Cruise
Act like Owner 'California'
event1990 star_border 3.8
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Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for.
Styrian Death
Act like Oberst Kräuter
event2021 star_border 5.8
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Two murders of prostitutes in a similar way - no wonder that Commissioner Sandra Mohr suspects a connection. The obvious suspicion that a serial killer could be up to mischief in Styria is initially dismissed by her supervisor Sascha Bergmann.
All Is Forgiven
Act like Fritz
event2007 star_border 6.6
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A father and daughter are reunited some 11 years after the father's drug addiction tore the family apart.
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
Act like Kommissar Stanek
event2008 star_border 6.6
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It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family.
If the Seed Doesn't Die
Act like Hans
event2010 star_border 5.9
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Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited.
Tom and Huck
Act like Anton Schön / teacher
event2012 star_border 6
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The story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, placed in the years right after the Second World War in Germany. A tale about friendship and courage.
Homecoming with Obstacles
Act like Johann Riedlinger
event2012 star_border 5
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Veterinarian Hansi Riedlinger emigrated to Australia many years ago. At the request of his mother Marianne, he is now returning to Kaisertal to give his father Johann a hand. After an expensive renovation of his stud, the stud ran into financial difficulties and the farm was threatened with loss, because Mayor Ludwig Hackl asked for his loan back earlier than agreed. Johann is up to his neck, but he doesn't want to be helped. To this day, he has not forgiven his son for turning his back on the common veterinary practice. Hansi tries to support the father anyway, but the malicious Hackl lets him down coldly: He wants to finish off his former best friend Johann - because of an old feud.
Hannah
Act like Commissioner Moser
event1996 star_border 7
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The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang. But while Hannah is still totally immersed in this passionate love affair, she unknowingly and progressively gets caught in a web of danger. Behind the harmless dolls and teddy-bears produced by the company a deadly secret is revealed. And for Hannah, the game of love suddenly turns bloody.
The Cop & the Girl
Act like Otto
event1985 star_border 4.5
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A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the cop helps her one night, she steals his gun and flees. He should report the loss of his gun to his boss, so he has to search for the girl. At the Dutch border it falls into the power of the police! Henceforth they are on the run, without a plan and without a goal ..
Besuchszeit
Act like Him
event1992
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Three short episodes directed by Gedeon Kovacs.
Kaiserschmarrndrama
Act like Herr Kessler
event2021 star_border 7
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A dicey murder investigation. A fuming best friend. A chaotic living situation. Village police officer Franz Eberhofer has a lot on his plate right now.
Second Sight
Act like Rehlinger
event1982 star_border 5.2
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A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.
Leni
Act like Blatzer
event1994 star_border 7
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A historical drama about a Jewish child who is adopted by a German couple and is eventually removed from the home.
Die Pferdefrau
Act like Hr. Grasser
event2001 star_border 5.8
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The young veterinarian Christine from Vienna stands on the sunny side of life. She is in a relationship with the attractive management consultant Alexander, has just completed her doctorate and is looking forward to a dream job. And she is also unexpectedly pregnant. But after an altercation with Alexander, she loses the child. She desperately flees to her father Georg, a painter to whom she had no contact for many years. He lives on an inherited family estate in Saxony. But instead of rest there is new excitement. At the neighboring riding school she gets together with coach Markus. His rude methods of horse education do not suit her at all. After some difficulties, the two get together and she can also win the trust of a difficult, valuable horse.
The Uppercrust
Act like Adolf Kottan
event1981 star_border 5
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This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".
Sheer Madness
Act like Dieter
event1983 star_border 6.8
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Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
Utta Danella - Das Familiengeheimnis
Act like Carl Ludwig Goltz
event2004 star_border 3.8
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Journalist Jakob Goltz visits his parents at Bodenee for the first time in many years. The encounter with his hard-hearted mother Jonah tears up old wounds in Jacob, who has only sad memories of his childhood. When his wife Madlon plunges into an affair with Jonas estate manager Rudolf, Jacob's worst fears seem to be reaffirmed: All those who are close to his mother become unhappy. But Jakob does not suspect that Jonah has a sad secret in him
My Friend the Wolf
Act like Obermait
event1999 star_border 10
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Biologist Karin Aich hopes to reintroduce wolves in Bavaria, making many enemies, including her own neighbors and family, along the way. One of her few supporters is a girl who befriends a feral wolfdog.
Lili Marleen
Act like Thome (uncredited)
event1981 star_border 6.3
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The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Drei Herren
Act like Karli
event1998 star_border 4.6
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Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a heart attack. The three men quite naturally assume that they have reached their destination and find somewhere to stay in the nearest village.
Murer - Anatomy of a Trial
Act like Robert Wallner
event2018 star_border 5.9
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Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, although the evidence is overwhelming, the desire to close this obscure chapter of history seems to surpass the desire for justice.
Rosen aus Jericho
Act like Dr. Peter Arndt
event1994
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In the worst crisis of his life, widower Franz Schuster finds out he has cancer and definitively gives up. Neither is his daughter able to get through to him. In hospital, he gets to know retired doctor Peter Arndt, who tries to show him the right way. At the lowest point of his life, Schuster gets to know and love Erika Frecher. Together they attempt to master their lives, and it is not the length of time, but the manner in which they will live, which opens up their avenue of hope.
Society's Finest
Act like Krott
event1990
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When Fritz returns from his studies in the United States he wants to walk on pink clouds with Maxie, a TV journalist, but they come upon a gun-running operation in which Fritz's father is involved.
Fritz is caught between his loyalty to his family and his love for Maxie, who also can't decide what's more important, a career as a journalist or Fritz. They both are caught unaware by the enormous amount of individuals involved in the scandal and their unscrupulous reactions. Finally they both attempt to gather proof of the activities of this Hydra-headed organization in spite of the risks involved and independently of each other. A pandemonium of fragments of the Noricum, Bundeswuerde and Lucona scandals. The evil spirit of the late eighties in Austria.
Kassbach - Ein Portrait
Act like Friend
event1979 star_border 6
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Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists.
The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of the "Kleinbürger", trapped between the fringes of the lower and middle-classes.
Das geheime Stockwerk
Act like Grandfather
new_releases Release: September 04, 2025
Twelve-year-old Karli moves to the Alps, where his parents open a hotel. While helping with renovations, he discovers an old elevator that takes him back to 1938. There, he befriends a Jewish girl, Hannah, and a shoeshine boy, Georg. Together, they solve a mystery, and Karli realizes the dark fate looming over his new friends.
Auf Achse
Act like Max Kottan (6 ep.)
event1980 star_border 6.3
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The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Stockinger
Act like Dr. Ladurner (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 5.5
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Stockinger is an Austrian-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997.
The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama Inspector Rex, and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the Homicide division or Mordkommission in German.
Stockinger leaves the series to return to Salzburg where his wife has inherited a dental practice from her late father . He is appointed a Bezirksinspektor at the Landes Gendarmerie, sharing an office with District Inspector Antonella Simoni.
Unlike the members of the team in 'Rex', who appear to be self-directed and are seldom seen to answer to senior management, Stockinger reports to Dr Brunner, a philosophising burecratic senior police inspector.
Stockinger is portrayed as a clumsy, almost Inspector Clouseau-like character, driving a clapped-out 1973 VW Variant, but single-minded when following up clues.
Kottan ermittelt
Act like Kottan (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 8.6
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Kottan ermittelt is an Austrian television series that was aired by Austrian television ORF between 1976 and 1984. The satirical 19-episode series about a policeman from Vienna now sports cult status. Police major Adolf Kottan was played by three actors who each gave the character a distinct 'flavor'.
Scene of the Crime
Act like Paul Gassmann (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.
Bas-Boris Bode
Act like Rutger Bode (6 ep.)
event1985
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Bas-Boris Bode is a German and Dutch television series, broadcast in 6 episodes in 1985.
Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau
Act like Dipl.-Ing. Martin Reidinger (65 ep.)
event1999
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Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau is a German television series.
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
Act like Meiser (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 2
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Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari is a German television series.
Café Meineid
Act like Anton Kirchweger (1 ep.)
event1990
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Café Meineid is a German courtroom comedy television series based on actual cases. The series aired 147 episodes from 1990 to 2003 and ended with the death of lead actor Erich Hallhuber.
Der Bergdoktor
Act like Stefan Mayerhofer (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 4.8
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Der Bergdoktor is a German-Austrian medical drama television series, broadcast in 96 episodes between 1992 and 1997.
Der Fahnder
Act like Hauptkommissar Schulz (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.
Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt
Act like W. Paulsen (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 5.9
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Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt is a German television series.
Schlosshotel Orth
Act like Bruno Weingart (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 1
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Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series.
Die Alpensaga
Act like Korporal Josef Huber (1 ep.)
event1976
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A six-part film series addressing the problems of rural Austria from 1900 to 1945. Contrary to the traditional "Heimatfilm", the Alpensaga detaches itself from typical clichés and tries to depict a critical view of societal structures of the time. World history is shown from the view of a peasant family living in a small village in Upper Austria.
Inspector Rex
Act like Kurt Kovarik (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.1
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After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.
Forsthaus Falkenau
Act like Bauer Schlüter (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 4.9
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Forsthaus Falkenau is a German television series.
SOKO Kitzbühel
Act like Karl Moosbauer (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 4.2
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SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.
Die Neue - Eine Frau mit Kaliber
Act like Hanns Mazinger (1 ep.)
event1998
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Die Neue – Eine Frau mit Kaliber is a German television series.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Act like Gottfried Meck (14 ep.)
event1980 star_border 7.7
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In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
Vienna Crime Squad
Act like Paul Schweikhart (3 ep.)
event2005 star_border 4.5
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SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
Zwei Weihnachtsmänner
Act like Stadlhuber Senior (2 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.5
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A tough lawyer and a childish pool-noodle salesman become mismatched traveling companions as they try to get home to Berlin in time for Christmas.
Kaisermühlen Blues
Act like Dr. Schneider (2 ep.)
event1992 star_border 6.8
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Kaisermühlen Blues is an Austrian television series.
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