Birthday:
12-26-1948
Deathday:
11-24-2012 (63 years)
Birthplace:
Wixhausen, Darmstadt, Germany
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Sawdust Tales
Act like Nathan
event1997 star_border 5.4
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Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land scarred by social decay and imminent war, a circus troupe awaits the arrival of the mysterious Rupert who is to deliver them from danger into a better world. The old and wise tightrope master keeps a watchful, loving eye on his young apprentice who, to his concern, could be drafted into the army at any moment. To make matters worse, the boy falls in love with a mermaid...
After Midnight
Act like Herr Kullenbach
event1981 star_border 3
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The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.
Advertising Rules!
Act like Günter Pflüger
event2001 star_border 5.5
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Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy parents, wants to establish herself as an artist. The clumsy and enthusiastic Viktor, not quite honest, wants work. When he wanders into Kaminsky's meeting with Opel and says something about irony, the Opel director wants him in on the campaign. Then he steals an idea from Rosa that the Opel director loves. Before Rosa discovers he's expropriated her idea, Rosa and Viktor become lovers. Father-son feelings materialize between Kaminsky and Viktor. Can the impulsive Viktor hold it together before Rosa learns the truth and flies away?
Alles Lüge
Act like Car Seller
event1992 star_border 4.3
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Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful businessman, while Kasulke tries to continue working on the comedy circuit - without success. When his wife also cheats on him, he decides to start a new life in Berlin. There he quickly meets his old friend Portmann, who has built up a huge company. He offers him a job. But Erich puts the entire company in danger...
Der achte Tag
Act like Hamacher
event1990
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A medical doctor who is regarded as a specialist in retort research has been found dead. Science journalist Vera Pukall investigates the alleged suicide and uncovers the ruthless activities of a large pharmaceutical company. She receives help from Dr. Svoboda, of all people, the group's main stockholder.
Happy Video
event1996
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German short film
5 Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom
Act like Boxing Manager
event1992 star_border 7
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A comedy directed by Rolf Silber.
Kill Your Darling
Act like Meisner
event2009
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Young people disappear in Berlin's subway shafts, near the "Kill Your Darling" disco.
Gomez: Heads or Tails
Act like Paul Kern
event1998 star_border 2
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Dominik, a 16-year-old student, lives with a troubled family and finds himself alone. In order to impress a girl, he gets involved in a shady deal where things go wrong. Then a true friendship comes to save him from the disaster.
Der Trip - Die nackte Gitarre 0,5
event1996 star_border 2.7
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Schlager fan Dieter still lives with his parents and doesn't really fancy anything: neither women nor regular work. His parents, ideological old hippies, want to restrict Dieter's freedom as little as possible, but they still want to make the love-struck Candy appealing to him. Annoyed by the constant demands, Dieter leaves the house and finds himself in a nightclub. There he meets Petra, who is about to get married to Hilmar, the heir to millions. Petra wants to enjoy one last love affair with Dieter before the wedding. After a passionate kiss, they are both thrown back to 1972. Dieter, who regains consciousness in a shared flat in Berlin, finds out that Petra is in Munich, whereupon he sets off to find her. His journey holds many a bizarre adventure, such as a meeting with his young hippie parents.
Fraulein
Act like Karl
event1986 star_border 5
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A German woman and a former French prisoner of war live in 1950s Germany. Instead of playing a role in rebuilding her country, the heroine remains preoccupied with her personal affairs.
Rising to the Bait
Act like Raschke
event1992
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Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about who is entitled to a share in the property and tries to blackmail the township's mayor to get his cooperation. However, the hard-working and honest old lady has an ally in the person of her more sophisticated border, a woman who works in the mayor's office and has been to the West. She takes great delight in foiling the underhanded agent.
Regular Guys
Act like Mofafahrer
event1996 star_border 5.9
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Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop. Written by Konstantin Articus
Die grüne Wolke
Act like Hoss
event2001
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A strange green cloud has turned almost the entire human race into stone. The only survivors are eight children, their intrepid teacher Birnenstiel and his friend, a jolly millionaire, who by chance all happen to be in an airship above the green cloud at the time. Against this background Birnenstiel tells a bizarre adventure story in which he and the children are heroes. With loving and pointed irony he confronts his protagonists with deep-frozen beauty queens, gene-manipulated tomatoes, extraterrestrial maniacs, aggressive goldfish and last but not least the rampant mechanics of an abandoned civilisation which claims its victims one by one. When the narrator goes too far, the children take the story into their own hands...
Obsession
Act like Detective
event1997 star_border 4
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Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a fateful encounter in a Berlin train station. The allure of forbidden love becomes irresistible, and an intense love triangle is ignited. Who will Miriam choose? Who will walk away? For two men who desperately adore the same woman and for the woman who loves them equally...there is no easy way out.
Polizeiruf 110
Act like Löwe (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.
Wolffs Revier
Act like Paul Römer (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 3.4
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Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
Scene of the Crime
Act like Seibert (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.
Kir Royal
Act like Wolf (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 7.2
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Kir Royal – Aus dem Leben eines Klatschreporters is a six-part television series by Helmut Dietl from the year 1986. This is a parody of the Munich newspaper, their gossip reporter Michael Graeter and Issuer Anneliese Friedmann. The series about the tabloid reporter Baby Schimmerlos plays in the Munich "Schicki-Micki" scene of the 1980s.
Die Kommissarin
Act like Häftling (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.
Großstadtrevier
Act like Schorsch (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.
Mord in bester Gesellschaft
Act like Kommissar Schlüter (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 8
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Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series.
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde
Act like König Wahnfried (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 7.7
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Die ProSieben Märchenstunde is a television movie series that has been produced since 2006. It features characters that are exclusively portrayed by German and Austrian comedians and actors. The series is shot in Prague.
The screenplays have - amongst others - been written by Tommy Krappweis, Erik Haffner and Norman Cöster who came up with the stories of Bernd das Brot. Additionally, they are directing and have cameo appearances. Many actors use their respective dialect.
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde was nominated for the German Comedy Award in the category Best Comedy in 2006. It is also broadcast on Austrian television channel ORF, which is co-producing the series, airing the programme as Die ORF Märchenstunde.
Der Clown
Act like Hundsfurth (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 7.3
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Der Clown was a German television series that ran between 21 April 1998 and 11 October 2001. It ran for 46 episodes, and starred Sven Martinek, Diana Frank, Thomas Anzenhofer and Volkmar Kleinert.
Der Clown was also a 2005 film.
Derrick
Act like Krosske (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.
A Case For Two
Act like Kurt Weber (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.
Abschnitt 40
Act like Polizeihauptkommissar Georg Burrow (38 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6.2
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Abschnitt 40 was a German police television series broadcast between May 21 2001 and 2006. It was aired on RTL Television.
Eurogang
(1 ep.)
event1975
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Eurogang is a German television series.
SK Kölsch
Act like Alfred Becker (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 5.5
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SK Kölsch is a German television series.
Schwarz greift ein
Act like Jörg Schleicher (1 ep.)
event1994
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Schwarz greift ein is a German television series.
Der Fahnder
(2 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.
Eine Klasse für sich
(1 ep.)
event1984
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Eine Klasse für sich is a German television series.
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Act like Koselmann (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.1
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Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
Die Hesselbachs
Act like Thomas Faulstroh (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 5
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Die Firma Hesselbach is a German television series.
Peter Strohm
Act like Kleinkrimineller (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 6
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Peter Strohm is a German television series.
Coast Guard
(1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.4
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Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.
Auf Achse
Act like LKW-Fahrer Pierre (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 6.3
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The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Roller Coaster
Act like Herr Tischler (1 ep.)
event1992
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The series "Achterbahn" is about friendships and the handling of difficulties and problems from children's everyday lives.
Balko
Act like Siebecke (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.
SOKO Stuttgart
Act like Manfred Gröne (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 6.1
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The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.
Hamburg Dockland
Act like Jürgen Rottmann (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 6
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Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.
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