Eberhard Esche
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 25, 1933
Deathday: May 15, 2006
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Die italienische Reise von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1982-03-19
Die italienische Reise von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Overview: With excerpts from Goethe's diary, sketches and engravings, this film follows Goethe's Italian Journey through Rome, Naples and Pompeii.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-19
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Reparaturbrigade Zementwerk
1979-09-07
Reparaturbrigade Zementwerk
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-07
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The Farmer's Clever Daughter
1969-02-23
The Farmer's Clever Daughter
Overview: A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter warns him that the king will surely want him to bring a corresponding pestle as well. When the king throws the farmer into jail for fraud, he bemoans the fact that he did not listen to his daughter.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-02-23
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Trace of Stones
1966-06-30
Trace of Stones
Overview: Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New Socialist Unity Party secretary Werner Horrath is charged with bringing the rough-and-ready builder crew into line. The task seems doomed to fail as the two men compete for the affections of young engineer Kati Klee. But when she gets pregnant by married man Horrath, he is in danger of being expelled from the party, and Balla takes his side...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-06-30
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Denn ich sah eine neue Erde
1970-08-28
Denn ich sah eine neue Erde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz
1974-10-26
Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz
Overview: The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from the beginning, the extensively staged “owl”, who is introduced as a criminal and over the course of time, especially due to the influence of the ABV, develops into a good citizen, and incorrigible characters, with whom the ABV fails with its extensive attempts at rehabilitation and who are arrested after having committed again offenses.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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For Eyes Only
1963-07-19
For Eyes Only
Overview: The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage, sabotage, and diversion operations originated from here in order to undermine the Socialist Republic of Germany. A favorable moment for a military attack approaches and plans are developed. These plans are placed in the hands of Major Collins, who keeps them in a safe. Hansen has worked for him for many years, but also for the Stasi as a double agent. Security Chief Colonel Rock knows there is a leak, but Hansen has passed every test thrown at him. He is trying to deal with his current assignment: acquiring the plans so they can be made public. His mission is to get them out of the safe and into the GDR without getting caught.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-07-19
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Scharnhorst
1978-11-03
Scharnhorst
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-03
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Der Spiegel des großen Magus
1981-02-06
Der Spiegel des großen Magus
Overview: The evil and powerful King Magus brutally subjugates the people of his kingdom. Anyone who does not want to submit is turned into an animal and locked in a cage. Magus kidnaps the girl Hanna, whom he wants to marry. But Hanna refuses, and her lover, the shepherd Elias, goes to the castle to free her. He learns from Magus' servant Pravos that a mirror gives the king magic power and immortality and that he can only be defeated by water from the Moon Lake. Elijah sets out on his journey to the Moon Lake. Will he withstand the dangers and finally achieve victory over the king? Wrid he be able to free Hanna and the whole kingdom?
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-02-06
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Divided Heaven
1964-10-02
Divided Heaven
Overview: After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built and hoped that she would follow him …
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-10-02
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Der Trinker
1995-12-06
Der Trinker
Overview: Hans Fallada tells in his published after the war novel "The drinker" the story of the agricultural wholesaler Erwin Sommer, who flees from his narrow bourgeois relations under the burdens of the new times in the kingdom of the king alcohol, whose liberty and independence promises prove a lie - the only truth of the alcohol. On behalf of the WDR television play Ulrich Plenzdorf has adapted Fallada's 1944/45 novel for a film adaptation by Tom Toelle with Harald Juhnke in the main role of Erwin Sommer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-12-06
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Fleur Lafontaine
1978-12-25
Fleur Lafontaine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Levin's Mill
1980-11-13
Levin's Mill
Overview: In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-11-13
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The Incorrigible Barbara
1977-03-11
The Incorrigible Barbara
Overview: The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life, even after her separation from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Die Räuber
1967-06-14
Die Räuber
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-14
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The Little Prince
1972-05-21
The Little Prince
Overview: Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-05-21
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Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast
1979-04-21
Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast
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Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-04-21
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Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern
2002-01-01
Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Novalis - Die blaue Blume
1993-10-12
Novalis - Die blaue Blume
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-10-12
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Anlauf
1971-01-31
Anlauf
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-31
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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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KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
1971-03-25
KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
Overview: East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-03-25
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Till Eulenspiegel
1975-05-23
Till Eulenspiegel
Overview: In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.
Genres: Adventure History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-05-23
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Living With Uwe
1974-03-08
Living With Uwe
Overview: Uwe Polzin, a highly talented biologist publicly stands the defence of his doctorate and this crucial day prompts him to look back on his life so far. These reminiscences are not altogether positive and he and his family still face almost unsolvable problems. For; while Ruth, Uwe's sister, consciously goes without family life and private happiness in order to devote herself fully to her vocation as a doctor; he tries to reconcile career and family. He has found in Alla, his wife - an interpreter - not only a truly loving partner but also someone who shares his basic view of life. Still, their marriage is undergoing a crisis. Uwe's job has become so demanding that he expects her to cope with a great deal of domestic problems. Alla senses that her husband is exploiting her love towards him and that he expects her only to make sacrifices for him. This is why she is contemplating divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-08
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Fog
1963-03-14
Fog
Overview: At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in Rocksmouth, but first, the German envoy has to salvage an old ship wreck. In 1942, the "Princess of India" was supposed to bring children to safety in Canada but was sunk by a German submarine at departure. 58 people were killed, most of them children.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-03-14
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Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
1976-10-14
Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
Overview: Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives modestly and is dependent upon private patrons. Nagged by his patronizing brothers, spied upon by officials for his republican beliefs and faced by his progressive hearing loss, the composer becomes more and more isolated. Seeman’s poetic film explores the joys, heartbreak and artistic spirit of the great composer as he works on his Ninth Symphony.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-14
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Mord am Montag
1968-09-12
Mord am Montag
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-09-12
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Carl von Ossietzky
1963-09-01
Carl von Ossietzky
Overview: The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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Ripe Cherries
1973-12-06
Ripe Cherries
Overview: Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of a son, the tragic death of his wife, the relationship of his daughter Ingrid with Dr. Beißert coincided with the need to move to an uninhabited area where a nuclear power plant will be built. Kamp, Ingrid and the members of the friendly brigade decide to act as the duty and the feeling of partnership prompts them, and gradually they all become participants in the new construction...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Somalia - Die große Anstrengung
1977-01-20
Somalia - Die große Anstrengung
Overview: East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-20
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Geschichten jener Nacht
1967-06-07
Geschichten jener Nacht
Overview: Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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Anna, Called Hobblelegs
1990-09-21
Anna, Called Hobblelegs
Overview: Anna, the witch girl, has one short leg and one long leg and is therefore only called the hobble witch. Anna trains until she is far superior to all the others in both running and sneaking races. When she even reaches the end of the world and outwits two clumsy giants who do not want any creature to escape from this terrible place alive, she realises that she can be proud of herself.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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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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