Wolfgang Zilzer
Biography: German-American actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 20, 1901
Deathday: June 26, 1991
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A Daughter Of Destiny
1928-01-25
A Daughter Of Destiny
Overview: Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-25
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Raid in St. Pauli
1932-05-02
Raid in St. Pauli
Overview: Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the harbor section of Hamburg.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-05-02
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Docks of Hamburg
1928-10-10
Docks of Hamburg
Overview: When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-10
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938-03-25
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Overview: American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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To Be or Not to Be
1942-03-06
To Be or Not to Be
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Lovesick
1983-02-18
Lovesick
Overview: Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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Invisible Agent
1942-08-07
Invisible Agent
Overview: The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Hotelgeheimnisse
1929-03-19
Hotelgeheimnisse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-19
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Hitler's Madman
1943-06-10
Hitler's Madman
Overview: In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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Schützenliesel
1926-12-21
Schützenliesel
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-21
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Walk East on Beacon
1952-06-01
Walk East on Beacon
Overview: An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-01
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Forbidden Passage
1941-02-08
Forbidden Passage
Overview: This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Enemy of Women
1944-11-10
Enemy of Women
Overview: Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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Casablanca
1943-01-15
Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Television Spy
1939-10-20
Television Spy
Overview: A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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The Diary of Anne Frank
1967-11-26
The Diary of Anne Frank
Overview: During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-26
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I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
I'll Give a Million
Overview: After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-27
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Thérèse Raquin
1928-11-04
Thérèse Raquin
Overview: A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin was shot in a German studio and featured Gina Manes in her greatest part. Zola’s sombre bourgeois tragedy was brought vividly to life. The details of the Raquin home, the human tensions, the unspoken words, and the looming shadows created an unforgettable effect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-04
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Der Barbier von Filmersdorf
1915-06-11
Der Barbier von Filmersdorf
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-06-11
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Overview: FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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Everything Happens at Night
1939-12-22
Everything Happens at Night
Overview: Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
Espionage Agent
Overview: When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-30
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Ninotchka
1939-11-23
Ninotchka
Overview: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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Appointment in Berlin
1943-07-15
Appointment in Berlin
Overview: The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-15
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940-02-23
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Overview: True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Underground
1941-06-28
Underground
Overview: A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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Escape
1940-11-01
Escape
Overview: An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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A Dispatch from Reuters
1940-10-19
A Dispatch from Reuters
Overview: German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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Three Faces West
1940-07-03
Three Faces West
Overview: Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-03
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Marriage in Name Only
1930-11-26
Marriage in Name Only
Overview: a movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-26
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Alpentragödie
1927-09-19
Alpentragödie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-19
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The Ancient Law
1923-10-29
The Ancient Law
Overview: Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-29
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Bookkeeper Kremke
1930-09-14
Bookkeeper Kremke
Overview: In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-14
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The Lady Has Plans
1942-01-20
The Lady Has Plans
Overview: Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-20
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Hotel Imperial
1939-05-11
Hotel Imperial
Overview: It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
1927-05-02
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Overview: Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-02
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So Ends Our Night
1941-02-27
So Ends Our Night
Overview: An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Boycott
1930-12-14
Boycott
Overview: A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-14
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
1939-10-07
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Overview: Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
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Such Is Life
1930-03-24
Such Is Life
Overview: A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1930-03-24
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Das Heiratsnest
1927-09-01
Das Heiratsnest
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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Venus in Evening Wear
1927-04-12
Venus in Evening Wear
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-04-12
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Arme kleine Colombine
1927-04-06
Arme kleine Colombine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-04-06
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The Devil with Hitler
1942-10-18
The Devil with Hitler
Overview: Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-18
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Primanerliebe
1927-06-02
Primanerliebe
Overview: An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-06-02
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Geschminkte Jugend
1929-04-17
Geschminkte Jugend
Overview: Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-17
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Behind the Rising Sun
1943-08-01
Behind the Rising Sun
Overview: A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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Stairway to Light
1945-11-03
Stairway to Light
Overview: This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-03
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Margin for Error
1943-02-10
Margin for Error
Overview: When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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Crucified Girl
1929-08-26
Crucified Girl
Overview: The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy groom, and gardening. In fast-paced, rhythmic cuts, Louise and Jakob Fleck draw their audience into a carefree, urban romantic comedy. With a single scene, however, it turns into a melodrama about sexual violence, shame and perpetrator-victim reversal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-08-26
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Sir or Madame
1928-11-13
Sir or Madame
Overview: A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-13
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Daughters of Eve
1928-04-03
Daughters of Eve
Overview: An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-03
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Out of Darkness
1941-03-29
Out of Darkness
Overview: This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-29
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Counter-Attack
1945-04-26
Counter-Attack
Overview: Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-26
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Singing in the Dark
1956-03-07
Singing in the Dark
Overview: Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.
Genres: Music Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-07
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Bomber's Moon
1943-08-05
Bomber's Moon
Overview: An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-05
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Casanova wider Willen
1931-10-19
Casanova wider Willen
Overview: Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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The High Tourist
1931-11-27
The High Tourist
Overview: Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-11-27
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Hotel Berlin
1945-03-02
Hotel Berlin
Overview: An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-02
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Die Spinne
1917-02-02
Die Spinne
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-02-02
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Mister Buddwing
1966-07-15
Mister Buddwing
Overview: An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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Strafsache van Geldern
1932-08-22
Strafsache van Geldern
Overview: Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-22
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