Alfred Balthoff
Also Known As: Альфред Бальтхофф
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Pyskowice, Slaskie, Poland]
Adult: No
Birthday: December 08, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 08, 1989
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Wer ist der nächste?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-22
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Punishment Battalion
Overview: The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.
Genres: History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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Heldinnen
Overview: A music comedy directed by Dietrich Haugk based on the play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-29
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Siebenmal in der Woche
Overview: The famous singer Roberto Ricci wants to save himself from his overly intrusive female fans with a fake marriage. Mr. Praxl from the marriage institute Eros finds him his own granddaughter Gertie, who works as a waitress and wants to finance her own singing and dancing career with the fee for the role of his wife. To comply with Mr. Ricci's wishes, the attractive Gertie disguises herself as a wallflower with her hair pinned up and high-necked dresses. The act has the desired effect on Roberto's female followers. Over time, however, Gertie and Roberto actually fall in love with each other, which sparks the jealousy of Roberto's stage partner Loretta. With the help of Füllkrug, she tries to thwart the budding romance.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Figaros Hochzeit
Overview: Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchanting film, the very first opera production of DEFA, stands out because of its lavish decor and costumes, its outstanding actors and their masterful voices of that time.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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Wozzeck
Overview: While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates humanity for having allowed Wozzeck’s fate. The tragic story unfolds in flashbacks, as Büchner narrates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-12-17
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Marriage in the Shadows
Overview: Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her, convinces her to stay with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-10-03
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Escape from East Berlin
Overview: East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-22
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Tausend Sterne leuchten
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-12
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Ship of the Dead
Overview: After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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The Foggy Night Murderer
Overview: The Foggy Night Murderer
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-05-22
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Our Daily Bread
Overview: A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11
Overview: Karin (Eva Bartok) is a brilliant student whose good looks give her an added advantage in assuming the role of a prostitute and exploring Berlin's thriving sex industry. Hired posthaste by nefarious Madame Clavius, the pretty blonde sets about gathering information for her thesis when she discovers that her old friend Madeline has been financing her luxurious lifestyle by working as a call girl in the very same brothel. The situation turns sinister when Madeline reveals to Karin that she has fallen in love and longs to start a new life, but any girl who tries to leave Madame Clavius soon turns up dead. When Madeline admits to considering suicide, Karin hatches a plan for both of them to make a clean break from the brothel and avoid Madame Clavius' deadly wrath.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-06-25
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Glückliche Reise
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-12-21
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Tevya und seine Töchter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-03-15
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2 x Adam, 1 x Eva
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Ein Todesfall wird vorbereitet
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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Träume von der Südsee
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Requiem für eine Nonne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-29
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Der Tod des Ministers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-04-27
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Un homme se penche sur son passé
Overview: In 50s Canada, trapper Jacques Monge is a freedom-loving adventurer. But when he falls in love with Hannah, a farmer's daughter, he stirs up trouble within his family.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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Unsere deutschen Kleinstädter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-05-28
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Rückkehr von den Sternen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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Peter Pan
Overview: Peter Pan is an adolescent boy who has escaped from his parents to the dreamland of Nowhere. Peter is determined to remain a little boy forever; because the adult world does not please him at all. Together with the fairy Tinkerbell, Peter Pan lures the girl Wendy and her two brothers John and Michael to Nowhere, where Peter teaches them to fly. They join forces with the Indians, led by the beautiful Tigerlilly, to fight together against the evil Captain Jack Haken and his wild pirates.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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Der Kandidat
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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Das heilige Experiment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-11-01
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Meister Timpe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Schiff ohne Hafen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-04-28
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Wo wir fröhlich gewesen sind
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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Der Tag, an dem die Kinder verschwanden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-12-17
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Das Vermächtnis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-09-29
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Krebsstation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-11-07
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Das Geld liegt auf der Straße
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-02-10
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Menschen
Overview: In Spring of 1945, the Wehrmacht forces are weary from retreat, while the Allies are closing in. A single Austrian captain attempts to guide what is left of his platoon behind the Russian lines to surrender to the Americans. They take under their wing a young man with a severe disability. As the loyalty of his men is brought to the test, the captain grows closer to the boy who evokes a deep secret from his past in the Nazi Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-08-25
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Der zehnte Mann
Overview: Is Evelyn Foreman schizophrenic, or is she really possessed by a dybbuk?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-10-30
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Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-17
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Der Fall Pinedus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-05
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Dorothea Angermann
Overview: Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-22
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Lady Lobsters Bräutigam
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-12-30
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Winterquartier
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-12-24
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Der doppelte Nikolaus
Overview: a tv-movie by Rainer Erler
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-24
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The High Life
Overview: Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-02-16
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Haus Herzenstod
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-15
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Nachricht aus Colebrook
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Die Herberge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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Das Ziel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-14
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Der Senator
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-06
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Der Seitensprung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-11-26
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Das Glück sucht seine Kinder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-18
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Brooklyn-Ballade
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-23
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Leben im Winter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Liebeserwachen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-22
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Die Flucht nach Ägypten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-12-24
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Die seltsamen Abenteuer des geheimen Kanzleisekretärs Tusmann
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-16
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Die Häuser des Herrn Sartorius
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-06-30
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Der Prozeß Mary Dugan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-08
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Auf einem Bahnhof bei Dijon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-08-16
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Die gelehrten Frauen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-25
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Das ozeanische Fest
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-02-05
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Biografie - Ein Spiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-12-06
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Alle Reichtümer der Welt
Overview: Adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "More Stately Mansions".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-02
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Blind Justice
Overview: A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections of the prosecutor, the accused is set free and is found dead shortly thereafter. The prosecutor decides to pursue the case and comes upon a band of criminals, who sell German state secrets. Shortly before the investigation comes to a close, a woman is murdered. When a witness asserts to have seen him near the woman's dead body, the prosecutor himself ends up in court and must now prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Der geborgte Weihnachtsbaum
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Und sowas nennt sich Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-01-10
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