Alfred Edel
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Abensberg, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: March 12, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 17, 1993
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Fear of Fear
Overview: After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-08
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The German Chainsaw Massacre
Overview: Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
Overview: Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-07
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Hitler: A Film from Germany
Overview: A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of personality in propaganda to how said propaganda was associated with pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual, and national heritage to the Holocaust and the ideology behind it, particularly from Himmler's point of view.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-06-07
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100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
Overview: On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker.
Genres: Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-02-18
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Bavaria Blue
Overview: A German-born director of an American television station travels through Bavaria with a folk music impresario to do research for a show to be broadcast directly to the United States. He comes into contact with all kinds of people and all kinds of different expressions of Bavarian folk music.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-10-28
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Terror 2000
Overview: Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this matter in Rassau, exploring a world of obsessive sex, mislead lust and an over-whelming irrational love to the German nation, infiltrating anyone's mind. Rascism doesn't start with shaved hair and boots but rather in the middle of society itself...
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos
Overview: A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-08-29
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My Father Is Coming
Overview: Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit. The main problem is that Vicky has told him she is a successful actress and happily married. She enlists the help of a gay friend to play her husband. Using a large range of characters—gay, lesbian, straight, transsexuals—the film creates a funny and touching view of family dynamics and sexuality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-23
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Menu Total
Overview: A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this film, which follows no linear narrative structure, at a moment when right-leaning German intellectuals argued for a coming to terms of the country’s relation with its Nazi past. Schlingensief disagreed. (MoMA)
Genres: Mystery Horror Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-02-20
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
Overview: The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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The Mikado Project
Overview: A thriller-comedy by Torsten Emrich.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-07-28
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Death of a World Star
Overview: A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte
Overview: Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in this civil war...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-19
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Das Casanova-Projekt
Overview: Hartmann, a first-time film director is trying to find an actor for the Role of Casanova. Wenn he meets Alfred Edel, the actor's colourful personality spoils Hartmann's vision of a glorious Casanova epic. In the end, the director realizes that all the time he wanted to make this movie to please his mother, so he decides instead to join Edel's way of having fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da
Overview: An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same time juggling ironically - as he still does - with the term 'avant-garde'. A number of other preferences and obsessions were evident at an early stage, e.g. the mind-numbing habit of having his people stumbling and screaming around: life as a race track. His films likewise feature a lot of theatrical and cryptic outpourings. No wonder that they failed at the box office. No wonder either, however, that Schlingensief was attracted to theatre.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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Die Spider Murphy Gang
Overview: Günther, Michael, Barny and Franz, real Munich boys, want to make their own music: Rock 'n' Roll Bavarian-style. Will they go under or make it to the top?
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-07
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Supermarket
Overview: Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-30
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Ain’t Nothin’ Without You
Overview: Martha and Alfred exchange experiences about life and events in Hamburg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-10-25
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Stroszek
Overview: Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-05-20
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Overview: The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
Overview: Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a reserve of utopian optimism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-12-18
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The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
Overview: A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-10-31
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Giovanni oder die Fährte der Frauen
Overview: German TV-Film
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-10-24
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Die Perle der Karibik
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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The Patriotic Woman
Overview: Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical approach to 'uncovering' the past, quite literally digging with the spade and dissecting books with hammers and drills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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Hugs and Other Things
Overview: Jennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary. Action takes place in typical Bavaria.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-15
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Die letzten Abenteuer
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Original Language: de
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Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient
Overview: The somewhat indolent father Traugott Wurster looks after his six sons while his wife works in a butcher's shop. One day, when Traugott falls into a mysterious prolonged sleep, mother Wurster is forced to give the children to relatives. Markus is sent to the stuffy Uncle Theodor, who turns into a childhood friend under his influence. Mother Wurster also "rents" the sleeping Traugott to a furniture store, which uses him to advertise mattresses in the shop window.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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Manöver
Overview: Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-08-03
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Earthbound
Overview: The movie "Earthbound" is based on an authentic story: Franz Seeliger, a 75 year old psychiatric patient wants to steer a self-built, muscle propelled flying machine. But he is kept in custody since the Thrid Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Muttertreu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Berlinger
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-06
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Mixwix
Overview: Mix Wix tells the story of the owner of the Mix Wix department store, who has successfully done business with underwear and socks and even has the largest selection of underwear. Since Mix Wix cannot improve further in this segment, it would like to expand its line to include tennis clothing. To do this, however, he needs additional commercial space, for which he must wait for the building permit. Mix Wix spends the time waiting on the rooftop of the bar, wondering if his current existence represents meaningful life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-07-13
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Die Zeit dazwischen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
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Class Relations
Overview: A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-21
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Overview: Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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Idiots' Battle
Overview: This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel as an Indian chief was commissioned by the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf to inaugurate their cinema organ. The look and feel of the film stems from the silent film era, but the camp style and over use of clichéd characters bears the trade mark of Schlingensief all over. “I love all things kitsch, like opera, and I feel inspired by music. I was interested in silent film but not a great deal”, said the director.
Genres: Comedy Western Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Engine Cough
Overview: A short film by Alexander Kluge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Tears in Florence
Overview: Fashion designer Rüdiger falls in love with Italian countess Vera, who was injured by him in a car accident. Just before their wedding they find out they are brother and sister. The wedding is cancelled, and Vera returns to Florence in a state of shock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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Der Stromtreiber - Der Mann im roten Kahn
Overview: A 30-year-old returns to his hometown after several years away, where he is confronted with childhood memories, especially feelings of hatred towards his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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The 120 Days of Bottrop
Overview: An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-11-06
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Yesterday Girl
Overview: A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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The Sternstein Manor
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-19
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