Mathias Gnädinger
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Gnädinger erlernte den Beruf eines Schriftsetzers, bevor er in Zürich am Bühnenstudio seine Schauspielausbildung begann. In der Folge arbeitete er an verschiedenen Bühnen. Das letzte feste Engagement hatte er in Berlin an der Schaubühne. Er ist seit 1988 freischaffender Schauspieler. In seiner bisherigen Laufbahn wirkte er in 130 Theaterstücken und über 70 Filmen für Kino und Fernsehen mit.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ramsen
Birthday: March 25, 1941
Deathday: April 03, 2015
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Gender: Other
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Ich
Overview: Rainer von Hessen and Niki de Saint Phalle met after he saw a photo of HON, the 1966 installation for Moderna Museet Stockholm, in a German magazine. Their collaboration began when Saint Phalle first designed the costumes and sets to Aristhophanes’s LYSISTRATA, directed by Hessen (then known under the stage name Diez). Thereafter, Hessen co-authored and directed her play ICH, which was performed at the Staatstheater Kassel in 1968.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-11-06
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Leo Sonnyboy
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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Länger leben
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-11-24
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Hunkeler und der Fall Livius
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Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-12-13
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Hunkeler und die Augen des Ödipus
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Genres: Crime TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-07-16
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The Mountain
Overview: It's 1922. A weather observer and his wife live in a remote cabin high in the Swiss Alps. As this drama begins, they are being joined by a third person, an Austrian who coveted the job the Swiss man had won in this bleak location. Not only that, but he also has his eyes on the Swiss man's lovely wife. The Austrian has charm, so he wins some hospitality from the couple. The three live together for a little while, but the rivalry between the two men soon erupts with tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-07
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St. Francis Birds Tour
Overview: A daft road movie about two aging thesps in search of Klopfenstein himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Sternenberg
Overview: Franz Engi returns to his hometown after being away for 30 years. A lot of things have changed in that time. There are only few families with children left in the village and that is why the school is about to be closed down. Franz decides to save the school and teacher Eva's job in a very unusual way....
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-22
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Lieber Brad
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-29
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Broken Silence
Overview: A black comedy directed by Walter Deuber and Peter Stierlin.
Genres: Horror Crime Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Exit Oerlikon
Overview: When Hans looks back, he must say: That was a good life! He saw the world, loved his wife Martha and yes, two, three things went wrong. But that doesn't need to be talked about. And now? Two years ago Martha died, Hans can barely manage his daily routine anymore, and after a visit to the vet his beloved dog Miller doesn't return home. Hans is tired. Basically he can't be bothered anymore. He wants to die. But one doesn't talk about this. At best maybe with Willi, his friend. He trusts in him, he considers him as his ally, who should help him implement his plan...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-01-29
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Comedian
Overview: Roni Beck is a man whose only thought in life is to become a professional comedian, but who due to his lack of success must live hidden in his mother's appartment in an old people's home, continuing to believe firmly that his day in the limelight will come. One day Serge Grätzer, the director of the old people's home, discovers Roni, and makes him help out with the work. Serge then decides to take a hand in Roni's career, embezzling money to launch the budding comedian. Once again however success eludes Roni. In the end Serge decides to fulfil his own secret longings to be on the stage. This leads to a row between the two men. Despite a reconciliation, they never again appear together on the stage. And when Serge's embezzlement is discovered he has to flee with the police at his heels and the home has to be closes. In the end, Roni persuades Mr. Klein, an eccentric old man who likes to play the stock market, to save the home with the millions he has stashed away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-03-16
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Andreas Hofer
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Genres: War History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-06-29
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Hunkeler macht Sachen
Overview: Two dead with their earlobes slashed. Inspector Hunkeler believes that the brothel owner Garzoni is the culprit. However, his colleagues Madörin and Lüdi are researching the drug milieu. Then prosecutor Suter withdraws Commissioner Hunkeler from the case because of bias. Has Hunkeler grown old? The third film adaptation of a case with the Basel inspector Hunkeler based on the novel by Hansjörg Schneider.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-03-30
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Tresko - Der Maulwurf
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-12-27
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Silberkiesel - Hunkeler tritt ab
Overview: Hunkeler's last official act went awry: a diamond courier evaded surveillance, the goods ended up in the Basel sewage system, and Lüdi suffered life-threatening injuries. Plagued by guilt, pensioner Hunkeler goes in search of the "silver pebbles". Ultimately, even as a retiree, he is ahead of the pack with his sense of the longings of the little people.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-01-15
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Hunkeler - Das Paar im Kahn
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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Hunkeler - Tod einer Ärztin
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-03-15
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Downfall
Overview: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Der Gemeindepräsident
Overview: Swiss provincial politics can be a minefield...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Children of the Open Road
Overview: In 1939, after barely escaping the Nazis, a Gypsy family returns to Switzerland only to be torn apart by racial persecution in the benign guise of children's welfare. This fictionalized story of Jana, an eight-year-old Gypsy girl snatched from her parents and consigned to a life of orphanages and bleak foster homes, is based on a little-known chapter of Swiss history: From 1926 to 1972, the state-supported Pro Juventute, a children's aid foundation, forcibly removed some 700 Gypsy children from their families, in order to sever the ties with their culture and assimilate them to a "better way of life." The underlying aim was to preempt a new generation's caravans from following their nomadic traditions along Switzerland's country lanes.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Marmorera
Overview: The psychiatrist Simon embarks with his newly wed Paula on a wedding trip to Marmorera, the home of his ancestors. The body of a young woman is found on the shore of the reservoir. A little later, the same woman - alive but without an identity - was taken to the Psychiatric University Clinic Burgholzli in Zurich, where Simon works. The idea of the film is based on a true story: in 1954 the entire old Marmorera was demolished and flooded to prevent protests against the planned dam above the village. Only the cemetery with the bones of the dead was moved.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-01-25
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The Boat Is Full
Overview: During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-15
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Journey of Hope
Overview: In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe, as economic insurance. The three set off for Istanbul, Milan, and Switzerland, stowing away on a ship. At Lake Como, they pay the rest of their money to unprincipled men who abandon them at an Alpine pass before a blizzard. Father and son are separated from Meryem. Will anyone reach the land of promise?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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You Love Me Too
Overview: Julia and Romeo are two disenchanted lovers who want to break up but are unwilling to suffer the pain. After a nasty fight, Romeo storms off and unsuccessfully vents his frustration with a black prostitute. While visiting the ramshackle brothel, he sees a strange man, who may be a government official, handing over a huge wad of money. Later, he and Julia reunite and go to an upscale golden anniversary party. There a handsome American flirts with Julia. After yet another row, Romeo and Julia retire to the balcony for a love scene. Unfortunately, their making up is interrupted by a sudden power outage. When the lights go back on, Romeo finds the knifed corpse of the party's hostess at his feet. Naturally, he's accused of the crime, but before the other partygoers can get him, he and Julia flee into the Berlin summer night. Their strange series ensuing adventures comprise the rest of the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-02
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Big & Little
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Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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Ricordare Anna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-03
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WhoAfraidWolf
Overview: A group of actors making their way to Rome ends up losing its way due to the fog, the darkness, the ice and their own feelings of guilt, suddenly getting completely lost in the hills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-02-16
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Bride of the Orient
Overview: After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-03-02
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Probefahrt ins Paradies
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-03-25
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Winckelmanns Reisen
Overview: Before Ernst Winckelmann, a sales representative for hair products, calls on hairdressing salons and chemist's shops, he rehearses what he intends to say, shakes the dandruff from his hair and slips into an innocuous pair of shoes. None of this helps. Winkelmann is no sales talent and his product is a failure. Meanwhile, in a small corner pub in the Barmbek district of Hamburg, Winkelmann's young girlfriend Aline uses some firm but gentle persuasion to make the last customer leave. Not much doing tonight. During the day, Rüdiger the barman, pulls most of the beers for the landlord, Aline's father, who survives on memories of good times at Miami Beach...
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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Ein Ruhetag
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-24
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Pattberg's Legacy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-05-31
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Steinschlag
Overview: Hardly back from America in her home village, the young mountain guide Andrea Stamm is called to a rescue operation. The wife of the contractor Baumberger has an accident. A murder? The whole village mourns, but Andreas's father Robert Stamm can not believe in an accident. The former police officer, who was sent against his will in early retirement, is convinced that Baumberger killed his wife. After initial hesitation, Andrea gives credence to her father's suspicions and begins to investigate. The television movie Steinschlag is an exciting Swiss crime drama based on the novel by Emil Zopfi.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-05-30
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Pestalozzi's Mountain
Overview: In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed after bloody attacks of the French. In retrospect, the disappointed Pestalozzi experiences the last few months with "his" children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-03-17
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Magic Hunter
Overview: A battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an innocent woman in his custody, enters into a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for a handful of "magic" bullets that always hit the mark. A mysterious and mythical story.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1994-10-23
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Schneller Sommer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Justice
Overview: Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-10-14
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Bingo
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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Zones
Overview: Without knowing it, Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention. It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world. From a height, this land looks like a piece of felt, from close up like a clean and tiny park. The footpaths are lined with benches and the streets with banks. Alfred and Julia have been married for 8 years, are childless, and live on the 16th floor of a new building. Thanks to their various crises, they have got to know each other somewhat better, but their most outstanding characteristic remains their mediocrity. On Friday, August 12th 1977, a mysterious epidemic breaks out in their country. The mass media ensure that the news is widely broadcast. The authorities order a ban on information, but those concerned break their imposed silence. On Sunday evening, it becomes known that the epidemic was nomore than a kind of "dress rehearsal" for a real emergency. Alfred and Julia continue to live in a land of pure invention - but now they are conscious of the fact.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-08-07
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Der Galgensteiger
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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Tschäss
Overview: The story of some young people who grew up in a working-class area in Zurich in the late 1950s. The plain living style of their educators is not on their wavelength. They find the occurences in the newly opened Jazz club much more tempting. Down there is what must not be up there: spontaneous lust for life. Jazz electrifies them all. And then there are the girls ...
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-06-29
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Henry's Romance
Overview: It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiancé, as Henry once betrayed his lost love Anna. In memory of Anna and his cruel Dickensian childhood, Henry challenges Lys to a duel to try to appease his guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-12-20
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Im Namen der Gerechtigkeit
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-13
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Der Chinese
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-26
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The Inventor
Overview: In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti (Walo Luond), but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's eccentricities very well, and regard him as a crackpot. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread. Unfortunately for Jakob, the military have already come up with the same invention: the tank. The discovery finally breaks him, and he is quickly shuttled off to an asylum.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-10-25
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