Dieter Franke
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harthau, Germany
Birthday: October 13, 1934
Deathday: October 23, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Who's Afraid of the Devil
Overview: Based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm: Jakob is a poor farmer′s boy. Because of his timidity that even makes him run away from mice, he is often ridiculed by other people. Even the king is ill-disposed towards him. One day he sends Jakob to the devil to rob him of three golden hairs. This is supposed to be Jakob′s certain death. But naïve Jakob gets going and on his way even promises the oppressed subjects of the king to ask the devil for a way out of their misery.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-04
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Godfather Death
Overview: Once upon a time, there was a poor farmer who had thirteen children. Since the farmer was so poor, there was never anything left for the youngest of the family. Therefore, the farmer chose Death as the godfather of his son, Jörg, because all people are equal in the eyes of Death. The Grim Reaper is happy to look after the boy and turns Jörg into a skilled doctor who earns wealth and fame.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-12-27
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Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
Overview: Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, the line is to be electrified and Platow, who cannot cope with the new technology, has to work on a secondary local line. Georg, his son, a railway worker as well, is to attend a training course, but Georg refuses to go. Then his father comes to a surprising and highly unusual decision. He pretends to be Georg Platow, making himself twenty years younger than he really is and registers for the course.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-31
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Der Meisterdieb
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Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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My Friend Robinson
Overview: 19-year old Peter is working to gain practical experience for his planned medical studies. But his life turns into confusion as he unexpectedly comes a father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-03-02
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Camping, Camping
Overview: The fully loaded Trabi rolled towards the Baltic Sea and father Detlef is for once in excellent mood. Did he not agreed with his friend Alfred, located immediately each issue back with an urgent telegram from the resort. But as the two then adventurous go stalking in the jungle of the big city, they experience a failure after another. Sullen Detlef longs for marriage Trott and campground. There would be matched and over the years rather bland become married woman Eveline is undergoing a remarkable transformation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-12
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P.S.
Overview: When he reaches age 18, Peter is released from the children's home where he grew up, but this does not mean he is truly ready for adult life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-29
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Bankett für Achilles
Overview: For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He is about to retire; even if Karl, who finds ending his working life difficult, wanted to stay on, it would not be possible. Karl’s colleagues have arranged a farewell dinner for the retiring master at an outdoor restaurant. But on his last day of work, before the farewell dinner, he meets all sorts of people: both colleagues and people, who do not work at the plant. A mosaic of the biography of a person who found fulfilment in his work and now has to look for the meaning of his life anew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-20
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Anlauf
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-31
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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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Der gepuderte Mann im bunten Rock
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-04-08
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Ein Mann und sein Schatten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-21
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… verdammt, ich bin erwachsen
Overview: 15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult. He can hold a lot of rhubarb wine and has already kissed a girl. But with his new method of lawn mowing, which he thinks is brilliant, Klaus makes a big mistake: He causes a wild fire in the forest. Then he does not react adult-like at all, but shirks the responsibility, which leads to the break-up with his girlfriend Daniela. Furthermore, Klaus does not realize that several of the places he likes the most in his environment are now going to be sacrificed to mining. When Klaus becomes friends with the teacher Konzak and with the construction worker Jule, he feels understood for the first time and starts to take more responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-02
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Drei Kriege - 1. Teil: Tauroggen
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Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-10-14
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Eine Handvoll Hoffnung
Overview: Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war – a stroke of fate that has thrown the young woman off course emotionally. Indifferently, she is doing her work; her private life consists of an affair with a black-marketeer. Even when Anneliese witnesses an armed robbery, committed by infamous Wollnick and his gang, she stays lethargic and apathetic – she keeps silent instead of helping the inspector who is a friend of her aunt. It is not until Anneliese by coincidence meets her former lover, the watchmaker Kurt, that her life seems to take a positive turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-12
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Looping
Overview: The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the explosion of a carbide furnace in operation, a colleague is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-16
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Am I Moses?
Overview: A story about a young boy nicknamed Moses who lives in Germany Democratic Republic.
Genres: Family Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-30
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Men Without Beard
Overview: In his daydreams, 15-year old Otto is a real hero who masters dangerous situations by the dozen. But in reality, the rather imaginative ninth grader has trouble moving up to the next grade. Fortunately, his teacher Nickel notices that Otto does not lack intelligence, but the ability to use his imagination for the requirements of everyday school life. Together with school director Menschke, Nickel tries to change Otto’s attitude. Although this is easier said than done, Otto eventually realizes that he has to try to build his cloud-castles only after school has ended. And his teacher is going to support him in his attempts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Laut und leise ist die Liebe
Overview: Following a training course, the 28-year-old Helga Baumann, a single mother of two children, meets up with her husband Fred again. They had separated a while ago because their ideas of marriage were completely disparate: The conservative Fred advocated the woman′s role of wife and mother, while Helga dreamt about an emancipated partnership between two employed persons. Now, her sister has brought them back together. At first sight, Fred seems to have changed and, once again, Helga cannot resist his advances. But when she meets with difficulties during a fair in Tashkent, Fred yet again proves to be a petty bourgeois by assuring her that they would get along perfectly without her working.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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Dach überm Kopf
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Puppen für die Nacht
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-12-21
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Achillesferse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-07
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A Long Way to School
Overview: A young boy fantasizes his way to school into a battle between cowboys and Indians, where the bad guys want to steal some gold medals. Real events and fantasy interacts in his mind.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-07-13
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Johannes Kepler
Overview: Europe, 1620: The well-known astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, who teaches as a professor in Linz, receives the message that his mother is prosecuted as a witch in Württemberg. The truth behind the allegations is rather simple: His mother has been denunciated by a former friend after an argument with the authorities. Kepler tries desperately to convince the prosecutors of the absurdity of their allegations with rational arguments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Flowers for the Man in the Moon
Overview: Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of cheese. Manni, who is a big fan of technology, sees satellites and a car driving over the moon's surface. But Adam hears the moon speak, and hears it ask for flowers to cover its surface. From then on, Adam is determined to breed a kind of flower that can grow on the moon.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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Verliebt und vorbestraft
Overview: The young architect Hannelore becomes part of the all-male brigade Fröhlich whose members are supposed to build houses at the Strausberger Platz in Berlin. The brigade men drink a lot of beer and are less than thrilled about the new girl. Hanne is the only one who is absolutely delighted with Hannelore. When he starts a drunken fight on May Day, he is arrested and accused of armed robbery. Hannelore immediately convinces the other men in the brigade to help Hanne.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-08
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Heiße Spuren
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Genres: Crime Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-12-26
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The Adventures of Werner Holt
Overview: Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the front, Werner begins to understand the senselessness of war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-02-04
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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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Rückkehr als Toter
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-10
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Exploring the Brandenburg Marche
Overview: On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car. In the conversation that ensues, Menzel and Pötsch quickly discover that they both are great admirers of the early 19th-century writer Max von Schwedenow who was born in the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-04-21
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