Trude Bechmann
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 03, 1904
Deathday: July 25, 1982
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The Flight
1977-10-12
The Flight
Overview: When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-10-12
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Der Mann mit der Maske
1964-02-16
Der Mann mit der Maske
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-02-16
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Das Stacheltier - Ein Pferd müßte man haben
1961-04-07
Das Stacheltier - Ein Pferd müßte man haben
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-04-07
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The Second Track
1962-10-26
The Second Track
Overview: In this German drama, Brock, a railroad inspector, witnesses a robbery at a train depot. He recognizes the thief, but turning the man in would mean acknowledging he knows him, thus revealing his own complicity with the Nazi war machine. When Brock’s daughter and her boyfriend begin to question him about the incident, will the secret he’s kept for nearly 20 years finally be exposed?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
1973-05-31
Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
Overview: Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, the line is to be electrified and Platow, who cannot cope with the new technology, has to work on a secondary local line. Georg, his son, a railway worker as well, is to attend a training course, but Georg refuses to go. Then his father comes to a surprising and highly unusual decision. He pretends to be Georg Platow, making himself twenty years younger than he really is and registers for the course.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-31
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Schwarzer Samt
1964-02-27
Schwarzer Samt
Overview: Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-02-27
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Ein altes Modell
1976-12-27
Ein altes Modell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-12-27
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White Blood
1959-10-06
White Blood
Overview: The military officer Manfred von der Lohe has just been on a training course in the USA. During atomic bomb tests there, he was radioactively contaminated and has been incurably ill ever since. In order not to endanger the planned nuclear armament of the Bundeswehr and the economic interests involved, von der Lohe and his wife Eleonore are to disappear. But the couple turns to Professor Soltau, an anti-nuclear activist. Their goal is to inform the public about the danger …
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-06
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Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
1980-08-07
Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
Overview: In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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Addio, piccola mia
1979-01-18
Addio, piccola mia
Overview: Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in Germany, but they are not successful. Büchner has to leave the country and seeks exile in France and Switzerland, where he falls ill with typhus.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-18
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Tonight and Tomorrow Morning
1980-10-31
Tonight and Tomorrow Morning
Overview: A woman in her mid thirties drifts through Berlin on a Friday night then lazes around her apartment with her husband the next morning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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April Has 30 Days
1979-05-30
April Has 30 Days
Overview: On April 1st, single mother Maria and her ten-year-old son Micha move into a new apartment located in the Berlin district Marzahn. On the very first evening, Maria gets an invitation from her neighbor Alvaro, a political emigrant from Uruguay who keeps working for his country’s Communist Party while staying in the GDR. Maria and Alvaro fall passionately in love. Even Micha, who is suspicious of Alvaro in the beginning, eventually becomes friend with him. Thus, nothing stands in the way of their happiness – except for the certainty that Alvaro will have to leave as soon as he gets a new assignment.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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Johannes Kepler
1974-11-15
Johannes Kepler
Overview: Europe, 1620: The well-known astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, who teaches as a professor in Linz, receives the message that his mother is prosecuted as a witch in Württemberg. The truth behind the allegations is rather simple: His mother has been denunciated by a former friend after an argument with the authorities. Kepler tries desperately to convince the prosecutors of the absurdity of their allegations with rational arguments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Guten Tag, lieber Tag
1961-11-02
Guten Tag, lieber Tag
Overview: Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concentrate on their marks. Consequently, Strebel is anything but delighted with his pupil. To top it all, a TV show becomes interested in a performance by Strebel′s apprentices. To calm down their teacher, Jutta Fröhlich, who has already cast an eye on Strebel, makes him an offer: When they better their marks, Strebel would permit them to make a performance on television.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-02
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What Would Happen If...?
1960-09-01
What Would Happen If...?
Overview: In the late 1950s, the collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen on the German-German border. Those in charge have to face many obstacles, especially from a large-scale farmer who is unwilling to join the co-op. All of a sudden, mysterious men in a fancy car appear in the village and show an interest in the rundown manor house. Gossip spreads quickly, and some villagers think there will be a re-parceling of properties and a land swap with West Germany. They assume everything will go back to how it used to be and even expect the count to return to his manor. In preparation, the situation in the village escalates at a fevered pitch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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The Adventures of Werner Holt
1965-02-04
The Adventures of Werner Holt
Overview: Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the front, Werner begins to understand the senselessness of war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-02-04
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Die Rosenholzmöbel
1969-05-18
Die Rosenholzmöbel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-05-18
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Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?
1962-01-19
Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?
Overview: A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon found – hanged. Sawmill owner Züllich claims that Gäbler committed suicide because he was forced to join an agricultural production cooperative, but others are convinced Gäbler was murdered. Officers Schneider and Anders must navigate their way through a complex maze of personal and political motivations in order to reconstruct the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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Exploring the Brandenburg Marche
1982-04-21
Exploring the Brandenburg Marche
Overview: On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car. In the conversation that ensues, Menzel and Pötsch quickly discover that they both are great admirers of the early 19th-century writer Max von Schwedenow who was born in the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-04-21
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