Fred Düren
Also Known As: Фред Дюрен
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: December 02, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 02, 2015
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Suturp - eine Liebesgeschichte
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Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-06-07
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The Russian Miracle
Overview: Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary chronicles Russia’s dramatic transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union, covering key historical moments including the 1917 October Revolution and the rise of Soviet communism. Through the use of archival footage, the film explores the socio-political upheavals that reshaped Russia and culminates in the achievements of the Soviet space program. Produced by DEFA, it was first broadcast on East German television in 1963, offering an insightful look at Russia's 20th-century evolution.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-07
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Fortress on the Rhine
Overview: During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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The Turning Point
Overview: In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-20
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Der kleine und der große Klaus
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Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-12-24
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I Survived Certain Death
Overview: Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-11-18
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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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Die Grünstein-Variante
Overview: The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-04-19
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Fleur Lafontaine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Käthe Kollwitz – Pictures of a Life
Overview: Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-04-23
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Shots Under the Gallows
Overview: In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-22
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Spielbank-Affäre
Overview: In a casino in a We'5t German health resort, one often sees Sybille - an attractive young student actress. With her winnings from the roulette table, she attempts to finance her studies. Despite a rather lucky streak, her winnings are a little on the lean side. She doesn't, however, gamble with her own money but with that of Dr. Busch, a lawyer, who likes to stay in the background with the argument that gambling houses are not the proper turf for a serious lawyer. From him, Sybille receives only a small share of her winnings later, and only through the intervention of Gerhard Fischer, a journalist, does Sybille come to realize her role in Dr. Busch's fraudulent scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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Toter Winkel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-05-02
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The Flying Dutchman
Overview: In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks refuge in her fantasies and dreams. In this realm of imagination, a bold and restless sea captain appears to her—the Flying Dutchman—who is cursed to wander the seas forever. In her obsessive dreams, Senta frees this man through her love for him.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Overview: As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Mir nach, Canaillen
Overview: A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and devise clever plots. As a result, he is able to climb the ladder from herder to chamber master, where he makes a fool of the feudal lords.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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Die Überlebende
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-12-21
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Solo Sunny
Overview: Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life as a whole. She begins a relationship with the amateur saxophonist and studied philosopher Ralph who writes her a very personal song - but his obsession with death and unfaithful lifestyle is not for her. After getting into a quarrel with a band member who harasses her and telling off a show-host she is thrown out of the band. Abandoned, she struggles to regain control over her life.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-08
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Die Räuber
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-14
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Junge Frau von 1914
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-17
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Sheriff Teddy
Overview: A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-11-29
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The Lost Angel
Overview: August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach lives in the small town of Güstrow, keeping to himself and wanting to steer clear of politics. On this day he learns that the Nazis have dragged his famous 1927 sculpture The Hovering Angel out of the Güstrow Cathedral. Barlach begins to reflect on his life of “inner emigration” and on his work.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-21
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Orpheus in the Underworld
Overview: This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-07
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Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-10-15
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Die Mutter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-11-07
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Am grauen Strand, am grauen Meer
Overview: An adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-05
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Monolog für einen Taxifahrer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-04-26
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They Called Him Amigo
Overview: A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him with food and help him to continue his flight. Later one of the boys, the son of a communist, is charged with theft, arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-22
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Five Cartridges
Overview: It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade is badly wounded he gives his five comrades a message which he divides up and secretes into in five cartridges. All five shells must reach the battalion in order for the message to be relayed. But Frenchman Pierre can’t bear the heat of the Sierra. When he leaves their hide-out to drink from a well he is hit by an enemy bullet.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-11-03
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Der Schimmelreiter
Overview: German-Polish adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-11-12
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Anlauf
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-31
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Auftrag für M & S
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-07-18
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Der Herr aus Zürich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-09
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Netzwerk
Overview: Film by Ralf Kirsten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-09-02
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The Devil's Elixirs
Overview: Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie (Jaroslava Schallerová), whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin (Andrzej Kopiczynski) intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie (Milena Dvorská).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück
Overview: This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm. After the war, the King - in an unwarranted move - deprives the major of his honor. Von Tellheim becomes impoverished and, filled with shame, breaks off his relationship to Minna. An innkeeper in Berlin, who is a police informer, makes the Major move to a shabby little attic because he cannot pay his debt. In the meantime, Minna has also arrived at the inn. She and her lady's maid Franziska are questioned and spied on by the nosy innkeeper. Minna has followed her beloved Tellheim and she now cunningly manages to elicit a new declaration of love from him...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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The Dream of Captain Loy
Overview: An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and the United States Air Force Corporal Doris Graves. During the flight, the two become closer, and they regret that the trip will end that evening. But everything turns out differently. The flight captain has received orders to pick up an agent at a German NATO airport, who is to be dropped off again on a Soviet island …
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Italienisches Capriccio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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Guten Tag, lieber Tag
Overview: Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concentrate on their marks. Consequently, Strebel is anything but delighted with his pupil. To top it all, a TV show becomes interested in a performance by Strebel′s apprentices. To calm down their teacher, Jutta Fröhlich, who has already cast an eye on Strebel, makes him an offer: When they better their marks, Strebel would permit them to make a performance on television.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-02
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Tilman Riemenschneider
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-05
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Hatifa
Overview: Hatifa is tired of her difficult fate and escapes from the place of her enslavement, a quarry in the desert. There she wanders around in freedom, but ultimately helpless, without water or food. Shortly before dying of thirst, she is saved by the sage Simsal, who is traveling with a caravan of the merchant Ganem. Hatifa quickly makes many friends, including the young servant Hodja. Only to him she confides her secret. The girl had to keep the fact that she was a slave to herself. After all, anyone who helps escaped slaves is mercilessly threatened with the death penalty. Out of consideration for the caravan, they both flee, but are soon picked up by Ganem. When he realizes that he can make a lot of money with Hatifa, he sells her again to a quarry.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-07-24
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What Would Happen If...?
Overview: In the late 1950s, the collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen on the German-German border. Those in charge have to face many obstacles, especially from a large-scale farmer who is unwilling to join the co-op. All of a sudden, mysterious men in a fancy car appear in the village and show an interest in the rundown manor house. Gossip spreads quickly, and some villagers think there will be a re-parceling of properties and a land swap with West Germany. They assume everything will go back to how it used to be and even expect the count to return to his manor. In preparation, the situation in the village escalates at a fevered pitch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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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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The Sailor’s Song
Overview: A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-11-09
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Preludio 11
Overview: Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-03-19
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Das letzte Wort
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-07-17
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