Otto Wernicke
Also Known As: Otto Karl Robert Wernicke
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Otto Karl Robert Wernicke (30 September 1893, Osterode am Harz – 7 November 1965) was a German actor. He was best known for his role as police inspector Karl Lohmann in the two Fritz Lang films M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. He was the first one to portray Captain Smith in the first "official" Titanic film. Wernicke was married to a Jewish woman. Only due to a special permit was he allowed to continue his work in Nazi Germany. Description above from the Wikipedia article Otto Wernicke licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osterode am Harz, Germany
Birthday: September 30, 1893
Deathday: November 07, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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M
Overview: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-05-11
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Der Tunnel
Overview: The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing the gigantic project, but the construction of the tunnel is proving to be as tedious as it is dangerous. MacAllan's worst enemy is the speculator Woolf, who had embezzled the money for the construction and who is attempting to cover up his crime by carrying out acts of sabotage. Also filmed in 1933 in a French-language version, LE TUNNEL, and remade in 1935 in England as TRANSATLATIC TUNNEL.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-10-26
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Titanic
Overview: In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-11-10
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Die blonde Christl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Overview: After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-04-21
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Das Schloß in Flandern
Overview: Officers stationed in a castle in Flandes during WWI are comforted by Gloria Delamare's recorded voice. One of them even writes her a letter that will never be sent. When the war is over Miss Delamare takes a tour in Belgium and spends a night in that castle. Most unexpectedly her former admirer appears and they dine and dance together. In the morning he has disappeared and she finds the letter. She tries to find him, only to discover he is presumably dead and involved in a family secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-13
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Peter Voss, Thief of Millions
Overview: Peter Voss, Thief of Millions is a 1932 German comedy crime film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Willi Forst, Alice Treff and Paul Hörbiger. It was based on the 1913 novel of the same title by Ewald Gerhard Seeliger which has been adapted into a number of films including previously in 1921 and later in 1946. It was the second to last film made by Dupont in Germany before he was forced to flee to the United States following the rise of the Nazi Party.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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The Great King
Overview: King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going well. The Austrians are inflicting major casualties, and his army is beginning to crumble. Defeat seems inevitable when a combination of events gives him hope that he may pull victory from the jaws of defeat after all.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-03-02
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Gold in New Frisco
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-10-02
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Chased by the Devil
Overview: A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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Wer fuhr den grauen Ford?
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Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-11
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Seinerzeit zu meiner Zeit
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-10-08
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Studentin Helene Willfüer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-01-12
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Amico
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-04-06
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Manege
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-07
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Das große Abenteuer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Midsummer Night's Fire
Overview: After many years in Africa, a man returns to his village in East Prussia to marry his intended bride. However, he finds himself drawn to another girl and contemplates running away with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Der Seniorchef
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-11-27
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The Bartered Bride
Overview: Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because of Hans, but the marriage arranger tries to "buy" Marie from Hans. But when Wenzel tells Hans, that he doesn't want to marry Marie, either, because he loves circus director Brummel's daughter, Hans decides to accept the offer of money for not interferring in the relations of Hans and Marie. But when Marie hears about this, she doesn't want to see Hans again.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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Wie einst im Mai
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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Nordlicht
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-09-19
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Der Stammbaum des Dr. Pistorius
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-05
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Die vertauschte Braut
Overview: Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities lead to her arrest, the second is paid for going to prison. There she meets Charles, Virginia's suitor. When out of jail she will have to fight not only for him but for going through with the leading role in a skating show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-04-16
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Gleisdreieck
Overview: Dark love story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-27
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Long Is the Road
Overview: "Long is the Road" - The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz
Overview: New Year’s Eve should be a time of joy for everyone. But Herr Reinhardt has decided to take his life on this evening. During his last conversation with his friend, Dr. Storp, the good doctor convinced him to wait until the following morning to kick the bucket and instead spend a happy evening with him in the emergency room on Alexanderplatz. It turns out to be an instructive night for Reinhardt. Life’s different fates play out before his eyes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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The Fugitive from Chicago
Overview: Werner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he learns from his friend Michael Nissen that his father has died recently. That means that the Dux-Werke are without a leader at the moment, for Werner's cousin Steffie, who is his co-heiress, is still too young to run the firm. In this situation, Werner convinces his friend Michael, who is an engineer by profession, to take over the firm as long as he is in jail and to pose as him. Michael agrees and is able to bring the firm up again. He even arranges a reliability test for motorcycles via Istanbul, Rome and Barcelona, which creates a big Turkish order for the company. When the real Werner escapes from jail and arrives in Germany, it looks as if the whole story is up to bust. But Werner needs money, so he convinces Michael to go on as before and hand over all profits of the firm to him.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-01-02
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Arzt aus Leidenschaft
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-04-29
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Der Katzensteg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-11
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The Molander Case
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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Du bist nicht allein
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-05
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Homecoming
Overview: A Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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Drei wunderschöne Tage
Overview: This is essentially a "Kraft durch Freude" propaganda film though the organization is never mentioned. A company's three day outing might very well be the last because bankruptcy is just around the corner. The people on the trip have all their individual problems and wishes, too. This episodic film might sound quite promising considering the basic idea but its script is determinedly optimistic and leads everything and anything to a happy end. The dramatic parts are finished in a rather implausible way, the comedic are terribly predictable. There's a badly misjudged singing scene in the bus, some bavarian shtick, the Regensburger Domspatzen are singing in Augsburg and so on...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone
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Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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The Night of Temptation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-08
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Straßenmusik
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-07-09
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Der große Preis
Overview: The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a factory, which produces racing cars only, or someone can (or even must) get murdered. Not a good movie, not a bad either. The ending is abrupt and artificial, which seems to be a common plague of Third Reich's crime movies. Gustav Fröhlich could never get rid of his silent era mannerisms and overacting. But on the other side, this film is not boring and has to offer some decent plot turns and acting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-05-19
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S.A. Mann Brand
Overview: This Nazi propaganda film tells the story of a young truck driver who is having trouble making ends meet until he is exposed to the teachings of Adolf Hitler, and he joins the S.A., aka Storm Troopers, and manages to convert his father--a former soldier with Marxist leanings--and his girlfriend of the rightness of the Nazi cause.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-06-13
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D III 88
Overview: Across German screens at the outbreak of WWII streaks "DIII88: The New German Air Force Attacks", an aeronautic and maritime spectacle glorifying Hermann Goring's Luftwaffe and the spirit of the newly arisen Germany. Once war became imminent, Joseph Goebbels instructed the German film industry to initiate production of numerous militaristic projects, but DIII88 was initiated by the Propaganda Minister's rival, Goring, who commissioned several aviation pictures. DIII88 is not a war picture per se, because it takes place in peacetime, but the young, fresh-faced air aces enthusiastically look forward to the coming war. The propaganda is blatant: The only thing that matters is dedication to duty and unconditional commitment to the Fatherland.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-10-25
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Kamerad Hedwig
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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The naked truth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-01-31
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Overview: A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-12-11
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Das Leben ruft
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-12-20
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Was wird hier gespielt?
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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Wie der Hase läuft
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-05-24
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Autobus S
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-11
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Liebe dumme Mama
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-09-03
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Sein Sohn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-12-13
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Der mutige Seefahrer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-09-26
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Das Parfüm der Mrs. Worrington
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-07-09
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Rätsel um Beate
Overview: After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is connected to his demise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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Die fidele Tankstelle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-12-04
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Ein ganzer Kerl
Overview: Film by Boese.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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Onkel Bräsig
Overview: The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young people, so that by the end of the film, there's a double marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-09-24
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Stimme des Blutes
Overview: Two brothers (Albert Matterstock and Attila Hoerbiger), who are trapeze artists, are getting along just fine until Hoerbiger runs off with his brother's wife. Matterstock isn't very pleased when his wife is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Shadows Over Naples
Overview: An Italian-German crime film. One of Maria Montez's last films.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-05-10
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Geheimzeichen LB 17
Overview: It is purely coincidental that an assassination attempt against the Minister of Defense is thwarted. The attempt on his life was made by a group of anarchists. There's an investigation of the clues, which will doubtless lead to the perpetrators; but the investigating commissioner has to proceed carefully, for it is likely there is a traitor in his ranks.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-08-06
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Maria Ilona
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-14
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Die lustigen Weiber
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-24
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Heimweh
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Master of the World
Overview: A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-11
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Das Sonntagskind
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-11
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Eine Frau kommt in die Tropen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-07-27
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Achtung! Wer kennt diese Frau?
Overview: Film by Seitz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-04-10
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Kolberg
Overview: During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-30
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The Waitress Anna
Overview: Against the wishes of his adoptive father, Stefan Burgstaller decides to become a musician. He goes to Salzburg, where his girlfriend Veronika is already attending the conservatory. Stefan is also accepted at the school and even receives a scholarship because of his extraordinary talent. This paves the way for a carefree student life, which Stefan enjoys to the fullest. The fun-loving guy is popular everywhere, but he seems to be particularly fond of the slightly older waitress Anna, who works in the musicians' bar "Zur Bassgeige"...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-10-22
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Sky Without Stars
Overview: Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-14
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City of Violence
Overview: Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action adventure war thriller.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Immer die Mädchen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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The Tempest
Overview: Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-01-22
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Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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