Lilli Schoenborn
Also Known As: Lili Schönborn-Anspach, Lilly Schönborn
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: March 31, 1898
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 04, 1987
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Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
Overview: Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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Children of No Importance
Overview: If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same crew from Die Verrufenen and turned his attention to the city's population of unwanted children for the heart-tugging Die Unehelichen, released the following year. The trio of foster children at the center of Die Verrufenen are survivors who use their own resourcefulness to get by when the kids' guardians and the system itself let them down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-09-06
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-12
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Under the Lantern
Overview: Else Riedel (Lissy Arna), locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate Max falls in love with her, but the situation is resolved: the three remain friends, and decide to form a music hall act. They want to ascend, but how? A way out beckons when a theatrical agent named Nevin enters Else’s life. He is played by Hubert von Meyerinck as a slick and oily villain, who oozes refinement; his experience behind bars is waved away with a silk scarf. He is cunning to the point of perfidiousness, but is not completely unsympathetic. He also embodies a new type - the scrounger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-08
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Bit by Bit
Overview: A mother wants to buy a bike for her son, but she doesn't have enough money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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Violanta
Overview: Violanta lives with her parents in a poor cottage in the mountains in Austria. Her family is frowned upon by the local population since her father is a drunk and suspected by the villagers to have caused the death of one of the farmers. One day handsome Marianus Renner comes along. He sees Violanta and immediately starts courting her, They become involved in a relationship, until one day he suddenly does not come to her usual appointment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Somewhere in Berlin
Overview: After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1946-12-18
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Rommel ruft Kairo
Overview: In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.
Genres: Drama War Thriller History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-02-19
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Kein Platz für Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-03-30
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Liebesleute
Overview: Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so, for that reason, he wishes to marry off his son Hermann with his well-off girlfriend Helga. But Hermann is in love with the farmer’s daughter Dorothea. He leaves his father’s estate with her and makes his way to Berlin to make a name for himself. He’s not successful in this and, so as not to stand in his way, Dorothea leaves him. Hermann’s aunt brings him back to his father’s estate, where, depressed over losing Dorothea, works tirelessly to clear the estate of all its debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-17
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Tip auf Amalia
Overview: 1940 German film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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Court Martial
Overview: In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tried and subsequently executed.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Krach im Hinterhaus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-08-08
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Biographie eines Schokoladentages
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-05
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Draußen vor der Tür
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-11-20
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Der Pfingstausflug
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Wages and Love
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-12
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Waldhausstraße 20
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-22
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Ein weißer Elefant
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-26
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Die tödliche Lüge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-05-15
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Namenlose Helden
Overview: A family suffers greatly during the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Damals
Overview: Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-04-23
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The Blum Affair
Overview: Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-12-03
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