Leonard Steckel
Also Known As: Leonhard Steckel
Biography: Leonard Steckel was a German actor and director of stage and screen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Iwano-Frankiwsk, Ukraine
Adult: No
Birthday: January 18, 1901
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 09, 1971
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Nights in Port Said
Overview: The niece of a shady tavern-keeper of Port Said, surrounded by dangerous men who haunt the ports, meets a man whom she will love and with whom she flees.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-05-06
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The Captain from Kopenick
Overview: A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-08-15
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I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are
Overview: An impoverished count has to work as a chauffeur but because of his good looks attracts women, one of them wealthy enough to solve his problem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-09-08
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Unsichtbare Gegner
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-09-26
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Making of: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer
Overview: Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-12-05
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Du mein stilles Tal
Overview: Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with a musician she was dating shortly before their marriage. Now this man, by now a famous concert pianist, enters her life again. Elisabeth resists the temptation to sink once again into the arms of her romantic lover. Since she loves her husband, she stays with him and continues to keep her secret...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-09-23
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Stresemann
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-11
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Der letzte Sommer
Overview: A Nordic revolutionary's plans to murder the president go awry when he falls in love with the man's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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Spione im Savoy-Hotel
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Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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The daredevil
Overview: Harbour policeman Hans and his companion rescue a young woman from water during their night watch, to find out she is connected with a jewel robbery in which a gangster now owner of an hippodrome, an out jailed one and his mistress now mixed up with an American millionaire weave some obscure plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-11-26
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Kampf um Blond
Overview: Lotte and Daisy run away from the orphanage and make their way to Berlin, where they meet shady characters. The police are looking for the two of them, especially as several girls have recently disappeared without trace.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-02
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Affäre Blum
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-05-16
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Salon Dora Green
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-22
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Der Meteor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-23
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Das Haus voller Gäste
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-13
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Sweetheart of the Gods
Overview: Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-11
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Ewiger Walzer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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The Company's in Love
Overview: The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-22
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Little Friends
Overview: At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy learns the hard way. The 6-year-old must practice daily 6 hours at the piano and already impresses at famous music parties. When Eduard Fabricius breaks a leg after a concert in Lucerne and must go to the hospital, he can be persuaded by a pediatrician to grant some carefree vacation weeks in a manor for Wolfgang. The manor belongs to the young widow Elisabeth who soon grows very fond of the little boy. Wolfgang makes friends with 11-year-old Heidi and Jöggi, a boy his age who first saw a rival in him...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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Nachts ging das Telefon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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The Secret of the Black Trunk
Overview: A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths. Scotland Yard investigates, and discover that the murders are linked to an addictive drug called Mescadrine.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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Plädoyer für einen Rebellen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-09
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A Song for You
Overview: During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Hände aus dem Dunkel
Overview: Film by Waschneck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-04-24
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The adventure in Tunisia
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-09
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Das Kartenspiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-13
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Staatsbegräbnis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-06-14
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The Doctor of Stalingrad
Overview: Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russian doctor Alexandra Kasalinskaja, Schultheiss not only endangers his own life - because Alexandra is the lover of First Lieutenant Markow.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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Ballerina
Overview: Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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Die Silberflöte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-04
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Überfahrt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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Liebe ohne Illusion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-04-06
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Gitta Discovers Her Heart
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-04-04
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Kabale und Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-12-10
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Anastasia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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The Visit
Overview: Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-06
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Escape from Sahara
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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Tenant Schulze against everyone
Overview: Several inhabitants of a big apartment building get involved in a series of lawsuits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-10-11
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