Helmut Griem
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helmut Griem (born April 6, 1932 in Hamburg – November 19, 2004 in Munich) was a German actor. Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich. Among his many film and TV appearances (a quite memorable one being NBC's mini-series Peter the Great, portraying the formidable Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell), the Oscar-winning film Cabaret (1972), in which he played the rich "Baron Maximilian von Heune" is probably the best-known; other internationally-known performances include his work in The Damned, The McKenzie Break, and Ludwig. Griem starred in the television mini-series "The Devil's Lieutenant" directed by John Goldschmidt, adapted by Jack Rosenthal and based on the novel by M Fagyas, for Channel 4 and ZDF. Despite his success in film, the theatre remained at the heart of Griem's work, and he performed in many classic roles from both the German and English-language repertoire. Later in his career Griem turned to theatre direction, including Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. Before his death, Griem had planned to direct the Botho Strauss play Die eine and die andere (This One and The Other). Griem twice won the Bambi Award: in 1961 and in 1976. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helmut Griem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 06, 1932
Deathday: November 19, 2004
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Ludwig
1973-03-07
Ludwig
Overview: Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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The Glass Cell
1978-04-06
The Glass Cell
Overview: A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-04-06
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The Magic Mountain
1982-02-25
The Magic Mountain
Overview: Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-02-25
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Cabaret
1972-02-13
Cabaret
Overview: Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-13
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Breakthrough
1979-03-01
Breakthrough
Overview: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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The Passerby
1982-04-14
The Passerby
Overview: Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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A proposito di quella strana ragazza
1989-05-13
A proposito di quella strana ragazza
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-05-13
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The Damned
1969-10-30
The Damned
Overview: In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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The McKenzie Break
1970-10-28
The McKenzie Break
Overview: A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Elective Affinities
1983-01-22
Elective Affinities
Overview: On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childhood friend of Edouard's called the Captain, and despite Charlotte's ominous premonition, Ottilie, Charlotte's beautiful and orphaned niece...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-22
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The Desert of the Tartars
1976-10-29
The Desert of the Tartars
Overview: Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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The Meetings of Anna
1978-10-08
The Meetings of Anna
Overview: On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-08
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Missus
1994-12-20
Missus
Overview: Italian Made-for-TV film by Alberto Negrin.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-20
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The Lost Daughter
1997-03-11
The Lost Daughter
Overview: The rich Westerner embarks on a journey to find his daughter who vanished in Montreal and Zurich. The disappearance is linked to a sect that selects its followers for its heritage, education and physical beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-11
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Girl from Hong Kong
1961-08-29
Girl from Hong Kong
Overview: Unusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a Chinese woman while on leave in Hong Kong, only to meet with disapproval from his family and friends when the couple returns to Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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The Clown
1976-01-14
The Clown
Overview: Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-14
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Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
1961-11-28
Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
Overview: A drama set on Faroe Islands by Frank Wisbar based on the novel by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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Verlassen sie bitte ihren Mann
1993-09-29
Verlassen sie bitte ihren Mann
Overview: Henriette, the buoyant wife of a politician leaves her ambitious husband in the middle of an election campaign and begins a new life. The fact that, as the still legally married wife of a public figure, she takes a job as a model for lingerie just can't go well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-09-29
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Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
1986-10-22
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
Overview: A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-22
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Put on Ice
1980-05-20
Put on Ice
Overview: In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher Brasch implicates secret service agent Körner and the government in the suicide of a young teen. As a result Brasch and the exposed Körner are fired.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-05-20
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Fabrik der Offiziere
1960-12-29
Fabrik der Offiziere
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Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-29
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Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle
1988-10-26
Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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The Hamburg Syndrome
1979-11-22
The Hamburg Syndrome
Overview: When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-11-22
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Sting in the Flesh
1981-05-01
Sting in the Flesh
Overview: Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded car to Sardinia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Versuchung
1982-01-01
Versuchung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
1972-04-12
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-04-12
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Liebe für Liebe
1967-04-01
Liebe für Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Blick von der Brücke
1967-04-10
Blick von der Brücke
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-10
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Der gefälschte Sommer
1996-01-01
Der gefälschte Sommer
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Liebe auf Bewährung
2004-01-01
Liebe auf Bewährung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Bel Ami
1968-03-19
Bel Ami
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-03-19
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Es fängt ganz harmlos an
1975-09-29
Es fängt ganz harmlos an
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-09-29
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Der Mörder in dir
2000-12-07
Der Mörder in dir
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-12-07
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East Zone, West Zone
1962-04-24
East Zone, West Zone
Overview: Defeated Germany has just been divided into two zones ( Soviet and Allied ) when Hans, a young inhabitant of Berlin, decides to cross the demarcation line to join his family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-24
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The Second Victory
1987-06-04
The Second Victory
Overview: After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-04
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Hard Days, Hard Nights
1990-08-16
Hard Days, Hard Nights
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-08-16
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Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
1997-05-03
Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-05-03
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1945
1994-05-23
1945
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-05-23
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Germany in Autumn
1978-03-03
Germany in Autumn
Overview: Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Die Brüder
1958-12-21
Die Brüder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-21
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Die Ballade von Peckham Rye
1966-03-07
Die Ballade von Peckham Rye
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-07
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Burning Heart
1995-01-25
Burning Heart
Overview: Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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Die Grube
1995-10-28
Die Grube
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-10-28
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Voyage of the Damned
1976-12-22
Voyage of the Damned
Overview: A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990-01-30
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Overview: A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-30
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Lourdes
2000-05-29
Lourdes
Overview: The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-29
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Black Sun
1978-09-09
Black Sun
Overview: A German artist in Spain decides to revenge the death of two Nordic tourists and to defend the strikers in a bloody conflict.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-09-09
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Children of Rage
1975-05-28
Children of Rage
Overview: The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-28
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Zum Geburtstag
1960-03-10
Zum Geburtstag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Landläufiger Tod
1980-01-01
Landläufiger Tod
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Devil's Lieutenant
1984-01-11
The Devil's Lieutenant
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-11
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Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien
1963-12-25
Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Der zerbrochene Krug
1959-07-29
Der zerbrochene Krug
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-07-29
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Amokfahrt zum Pazifik
2001-01-04
Amokfahrt zum Pazifik
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-04
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Christinas Heimreise
1965-03-25
Christinas Heimreise
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-25
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Shooting Stars
1990-05-17
Shooting Stars
Overview: Drama set around the kidnapping of a footballer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-17
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Die Stunde des Löwen
1999-05-21
Die Stunde des Löwen
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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Because, Because of a Woman
1963-08-17
Because, Because of a Woman
Overview: A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-17
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Malou
1981-03-20
Malou
Overview: Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation reflected in the unusual destiny of an individual woman. And that of Hannah, an alert, independent, modern woman, seeking after freedom and her own identity, and trying in present-day Berlin to save her shaky marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-03-20
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Antigone
1965-09-05
Antigone
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-05
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