Michael Gempart
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Winterthur, Switzerland
Adult: No
Birthday: April 21, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
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Ursula
Overview: Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-05
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Lullaby Ride
Overview: Life could be wonderful for Livia and Marco: good-looking, young, and Tim's parents. Tim is nine months old. His screaming every night drives his parents around the bend, although he was supposed to cement their relationship. But instead of slumber and sex, it's the same every night: jump out of bed and into the wobbly old Golf whose engine sound is the only thing that calms Tim down. One night, the unbelievable happens…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-08-23
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Cassette Love
Overview: A comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-27
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The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love
Overview: Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl
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Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-10-26
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Wachtmeister Rahn
Overview: Tragic story of german police officer Ernst Rahn who gets enmeshed in criminal activities.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Of Dogs and Wallpaper
Overview: Paul (40 yrs old) visits his elderly parents after a long time away. While father has joined a so called free-church, mother is now in a wheelchair and never leaves the house. Paul has not been aware of any of this. He has only come to visit because he is broke and needs money. Father is about to take a trip with his church and has promised to pay Paul for taking care of his mother while he is away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-08-10
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About a Girl
Overview: Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship preparing bodies for funerals, which is pretty cool, her musical idols are all dead. It’s about time Charleen was, too.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-08-06
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Burning Souls
Overview: A story about of one of the darkest periods in German history, an era in which the belief in occult forces was widespread. In Bamberg, witch hunts were fostered by a greedy and delusional Bishop Prince and reached their peak around 1630. This Bamberg ruler used the witch trials to purge his political enemies and enrich himself with their goods. Almost 1000 innocent men, women and children became his victims. BURNING SOULS deals with the era seen through the eyes of Johanna Wolff, a pharmacist's daughter, and the young physician Cornelius Weinmann. To save the innocent, he and a few courageous men revolt against the Bishop Prince.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-07-03
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Noch ein Wunsch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Studers erster Fall
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-04-20
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The Black Spider
Overview: Based on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Chouans!
Overview: Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war divides also the family of the Count Savinien de Kerfadec, a liberal and generous noble and a flying machines inventor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-23
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Heiraten macht mich nervös
Overview: Competition rider Nina Becker and movie star Niklas Tremsaal are a happy couple without a marriage certificate. Marrying is not an issue for the two - until the little niece India holds cheap plastic jewelry on Nina's finger for an engagement ring and so gets an avalanche rolling, which can not be stopped. - "Marry makes me nervous" is a joke-staged romantic comedy. Suzan Anbeh plays marrying Nina, who has to choose between her fiancé and her childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-06-21
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Night on Fire
Overview: Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the idyllic village of Schwant in Emmental. But, the more entangled Keller gets in the treads of the apparently clearcut case of sex murder, the more obvious the flaws in the village idyll become. Keller's quest turns into a deadly mission.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-11-13
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Shining Through
Overview: Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-31
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Der Portland-Ring
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-05-28
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Concert for Alice
Overview: Even with good acting, pleasant music, and artistic photography, this "love-boat" story of romance is more like Alice in Wonderland rather than Alice on the streets of Zurich. The Zurich Alice is a flautist who plays for the passersby like many another street or Metro musician. While so engaged, she meets a VIP Russian flautist who has defected and is living in the city. He falls in love with her and as a gesture of his devotion decides to arrange her solo concert debut. Meanwhile, Alice easily figures out what his plans are and devises her own secret scheme. When the day of the performance arrives, her Russian heartthrob is in for a flattering surprise, sure to end his bachelor status. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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While You Are Here
Overview: Sebastian, a young male prostitute, is one of Georgs few remaining chances to break through his hermit-like everyday life in exchange for a few fleeting moments of being together with someone at least for a few hours. Georg loves Sebastians easy-going and playful manner. He loves the absurd stories that the boy spontaneously comes up with and Georg never knows whether to actually believe all of them or not.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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Escape to the Front
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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A Song for Europe
Overview: Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regulations. One night in Basle, Switzerland, he leaves his home to post a letter, the start of a nightmare journey that leads to terrible consequences for his life, his career and for his wife and children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-27
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Wenn ich mich fürchte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-18
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Euch darf ich’s wohl gestehen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Doctor Faustus
Overview: A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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The Little Witch
Overview: The little witch is only 127 years old – too young for the annual coven of witches. Although she is not yet old enough to be a real witch she wants to become a really good one. This decision causes trouble inside her magic world.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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The Boat Is Full
Overview: During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-15
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Der Besuch der alten Dame
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Tanner
Overview: During the WW2, a Swiss mountain farmer, refuses to follow the government policy to increase self-sufficiency with produce. In his opinion, the steep mountain pastures are not suited for agriculture. Most of the villagers agree. However some begin to cultivate. Even after all his fellow farmers have given in and have started to plant cops, Tanner continues his opposition and ignores all letters and instructions. This leads to a series of reprimands, for instance, some of his hay is seized and his wife cannot buy at the local grocer's since the family won't comply with the government policy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-11
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Bride of the Orient
Overview: After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-03-02
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Die Vertreibung aus dem Paradies
Overview: Part satire, part drama, this movie tells the story of Anton Paulisch (Herb Andress), who has been living and working as an actor in Rome. When he hears that his mother is mortally ill, he returns to Munich to be at her bedside, but doesn't quite make it. He and sister Astrid (Elke Haltaufderheide) rediscover their friendship, though, as they go through a number of crises. Meanwhile, Anton makes an effort to find work in Munich, and runs headlong into the silliness and pretensions of the "New German Cinema" movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Dr. Hope
Overview: Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at the end of 19th century.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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König Lear
Overview: An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-03-29
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Planübung
Overview: A fictionalized version of a military training fight.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Irene
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Baal
Overview: Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-07
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The Inventor
Overview: In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti (Walo Luond), but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's eccentricities very well, and regard him as a crackpot. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread. Unfortunately for Jakob, the military have already come up with the same invention: the tank. The discovery finally breaks him, and he is quickly shuttled off to an asylum.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-10-25
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Family Practice
Overview: Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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Downhill Racer
Overview: An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-06
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Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the time to die
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-02-18
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