Birthday:
04-03-1946
(78 years)
Birthplace:
Krefeld, Germany
Biography
Heinrich Giskes was born on April 3, 1946 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999), Wir können auch anders... (1993) and Heinrich (1977).
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Bang, Boom, Bang
Act like 'Ratte'
event1999 star_border 7.5
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Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.
SommerHundeSöhne
Act like Franks Vater
event2005 star_border 5.6
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Summer is the time to travel, enjoy life, and do or leave what you want. A motor home with two occupants makes its way south. But the two travelers do not travel voluntarily, and certainly not together.
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Act like Kommissar
event1993 star_border 7.6
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The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet Viktor, a deserted Russian soldier who kidnaps them, and Nadine, who joins them voluntarily. On their way to their inheritance, the protagonists get into some seemingly hopeless situations.
The Hunt for the Hidden Relic
Act like Professeur Wilfort
event2002 star_border 6.9
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Steffen Vogt, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His theory of a time-traveler who made a video of Jesus is laughed at by everyone, however, including Sharon, an attractive Israeli woman he adores. Although no one appears to believe him, his find certainly seems to have generated interest: Steffen is attacked shortly afterwards in his hotel room by strange men; then he discovers that the German embassy and the secret service are after him; and when his friend Dan is murdered, he goes into hiding.
Hashish
Act like Narrator
event2002 star_border 5.8
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A small village high up in the mountains of Ketama, Northern Morocco. The life of the people here has been shaped by the drug hashish for centuries. Hashish as daily work, hash as exchange currency, hashish as business, hashish as basis and philosophy of a social system, hashish as medium for dreams and hashish as reason for stagnation.
Biikenbrennen - Der Fluch des Meeres
Act like Hansen
event1999 star_border 6.5
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Some businessman of a software company moves to the seashore because his daughter suffers from asthma as her mother did before she died. He doesn't like the villagers and he doesn't want them to hold the Biikenbrennen like every year in front of his new house because it's too dangerous. Biikenbrennen is a fire which prevents the cursed ghost of Wavlew to steal a child as he did in the 15th century to receive all the belongings of the villagers. So fate happens. And the arrogant father has to get his daughter back. Without the help of the villagers.
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand
Act like Heinrich
event1975 star_border 4
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West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society.
Keine Hand wäscht die Andere
Act like Kredit
event1988
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On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets entangled in her threatened life ever deeper.
Tenderness of the Wolves
Act like Lungis
event1973 star_border 5.7
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A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover.
Liebeskonzil
Act like Verteidiger
event1982
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Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza was imprisoned for obscenity. Schroeter alternates scenes from the Panizza’s work with a dramatization of his trial, presenting the play as an expressionist spectacle performed by actors wearing exaggerated makeup who gesture and grimace grotesquely. The film thus forms a bridge between Schroeter’s use of tableaux in his early experiments with the political urgency of his 1980s films. On the eve of the AIDS crisis, Schroeter is presciently worried about disease as an excuse for governmental repression and the oppression of sexuality. - Harvard Film Archive
Superstau
Act like Westermann
event1991 star_border 6.6
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Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year everything ends in a big traffic jam.
If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer
Act like Vereinsvorstand
event2002 star_border 6.3
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Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks.
Sommer in Rom
Act like Neri
event2013 star_border 4.7
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For Cologne newspaper journalist Michael Heinrich, a year-long posting as Itally correspondent is a dream coming true. His lawyer wife Susanne agrees to take her long-postponed sabbatical year there, but janitor Filippo and his hunky cousin Toni still hasn't finished the apartment in Principe Ercole's 'palazzo'. Angelic son Tobias and pubescent brat Caroline object being torn away from their world, but soon take to welcoming Romans. Roman utilities and Vatican bureaucracy test Michael's patience as well as Ercole's frisky niece Maria and Susanne's visiting parents. Controversial archaeology professor Neri offers Michael a 'steal' scoop on the missing main Etruscan sanctuary. Written by KGF Vissers
Heinrich
Act like Heinrich von Kleist
event1977 star_border 5
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The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
Nightland
event1996
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Doctor, maid, slave, sister, father, mother, sick person, old people, wounds... Film is about perception and misperception and all kinds of loss. Based on the Franz Kafka story "A Country Doctor".
Die Bakchen
Act like First messenger from the mountain
event1974
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Austrian flmed staged production of Euripedes' The Bacchae, portraying a conflict between the deity Dionysus, son of Zeus, and his cousin Pentheus, ruler of Thebes
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
Act like Polizist
event2012 star_border 4.3
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The Dutch supervillain Freek van Dyk is keeping the world on tenterhooks - and the world's best secret services can only stand by and watch. Finally, the Turkish Ayran Secret Service intervenes. However, there is a mix-up, because after two of the ASS men are eliminated, ASS head Süleyman is looking for a "Süper agent" and mistakes the clueless Indian cleaner Ranjid for one. He actually just wants to cure his sick cow, but suddenly has to save the world.
So fühlt sich Liebe an
Act like Jensen
event2004 star_border 5
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A successful journalist must choose between his wife and a co-worker.
Night of the Living Dorks
Act like Professor
event2004 star_border 5.5
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Three not-so-cool school friends decide to try a old voodoo ritual. Later, they die in a car accident, but live on as zombies. But being a zombie has advantages, too...
Das Phantom
Act like Dussous
event2000 star_border 6.4
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After the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists.
Willi and the Windsors
Act like Herr Schaefer
event1996 star_border 5.2
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The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.
Purity of Heart
event1980
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An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
Act like Albert
event1975
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A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces are however not able to stop the man from suicide.
I’m an Elephant, Madame
Act like Schuljunge
event1969 star_border 4.8
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I’m an Elephant, Madame ( Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame) follows a class of high school students in 1968 Bremen during their last year at school, their lessons, their protests, their private life. Focuses in particular on the troublemaker & provocateur Rull who in his apolitical chaotic way takes on both the authoritarian school administration and the leftist protesters.
Wunderlich's World
Act like Richter
event2016 star_border 4.8
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Mimi has her hands full. Her son Felix is hyperactive, her ex-husband Johnny is a mess, her father is a chronic gambler. Then Felix signs her up for a Swiss casting show, because Mimi wanted to be a musician originally. So Mimi decides to head for Switzerland, since it could pay all their debts. But then the whole family wants to come...
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
Act like DRK-Mitarbeiter
event2001 star_border 7.3
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The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.
The Fifth Commandment
Act like Rudi Linnemann
event1978
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A notorious gang of robbers threaten the Ruhr region of Germany in the 1920s.
Apokal
Act like Ariel
event1971 star_border 7.5
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This German language film is said to be loosely based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe. It is difficult to say, as there is no story to be discerned in this non-stop pastiche, heavy with symbolism but with no other distinguishing features. It was, however, a German entry in the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
Polizeiruf 110
Act like Herr Meinecke (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 6.4
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Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
SOKO München
Act like Charly (3 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.
Das Amt
Act like Arnfried Hornhausen (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.3
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Das Amt was a German comedy television series which aired between 1997 to 2002 on RTL. It was created by Dietmar Jacobs.
Lutter
Act like Albert Kampmann (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 9
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Lutter is a German television series.
Wilsberg
Act like Ekki's Father (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 7.8
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Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his friends, especially because of the car.
Der Fahnder
Act like Willi Lang (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.
A Case For Two
Act like Combat-Schütze (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.
Blond: Eva Blond!
Act like Barnabas Gorke (1 ep.)
event2002
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Eva Blond is a German television series.
Hallo Robbie!
Act like Herwig Berger (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 3
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Hallo Robbie! is a German television series.
Unser Charly
Act like Herr Oppermann (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 4.8
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Unser Charly is a German television series.
Wolffs Revier
(1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 3.4
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Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
SK Kölsch
Act like Max Schmelzer (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 5.5
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SK Kölsch is a German television series.
Balko
Act like Rippelmeyer (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 5.8
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Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards.
Danni Lowinski
Act like Alfred Grindel (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 5.3
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Danni Lowinski is a former hairdresser who has graduated in law. When she does not get a job at a law firm, she starts to give legal advice from the basement of a shopping mall.
Großstadtrevier
Act like Dr. Peer Hartenbach (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 5.9
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Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
SOKO Kitzbühel
Act like Wulfing Förnthaler (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.
SOKO Köln
Act like Johannes Klein (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6
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The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
Phoenixsee
Act like Jupp Schmiedeskamp (6 ep.)
event2016
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At Phoenixsee, an artificial lake in the southern part of Dortmunds, two worlds collide between modern apartments for the rich while the old-established working class is living just a few blocks away. The newly-rich Hansmann family just moved here from Düsseldorf while the Neuraths have been living in Dortmund for their whole life. As their children are attending the same school and play in the same soccer team, the families and their problems become entangled.
Scene of the Crime
Act like Alexander Kern (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.
Die Kommissarin
Act like Wärter (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.
Die Cleveren
Act like Dr. Karlheinz Hebener (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 6.8
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Die Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nation wide special unit of the German Bundeskriminalamt, dealing with serial offenders. The main characters are the profiler Dr. Dominik Born and a policewoman of the BKA, who co-ordinates the necessary steps to be taken by the local police authorities.
Die Feuerengel
Act like Broding (1 ep.)
event1997
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Die Feuerengel is a German drama television series.
Mit Herz und Holly
Act like Rudi Dömitz (2 ep.)
event2023 star_border 4
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The physician Dr. Katrin Herz needs support in her practice in Tangermünde. She finds it in the young Dr. Holly Sass. The Berlin city plant only agrees to the job on the Elbe in order to follow a promising lead to her missing mother. Dr. Katrin Herz puts her in touch with the previous practice owner, who probably knew Holly's mother as a patient.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Act like Hinrich Seilmann (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.5
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A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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