Michael Gerber
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: February 10, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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Willenbrock
Overview: Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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Good Bye, Lenin!
Overview: Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-02-13
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Die letzte Schlacht
Overview: The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the third Reich which was supposed to last for a thousand years and succumbed after twelve in an orgy of violence and fire. In the catacombs of his bunker under the Reich Chancellery in the capital city of Berlin, which Adolf Hitler wanted to make to the centre of the world, the dictator operates with ghost divisions during the final days of the war. Only in the final moment, he takes his own life. Meanwhile, On the streets, in the ruins, and the basements of the destroyed city, the final battle wages on: Adolescents are sacrificed without purpose, women get raped, loyal party comrades commit suicide in the thousands, Jews who were in hiding for years hope for the liberation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-03-15
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Optimistische Tragödie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-05
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Schulmeister Spitzbart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Overview: The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her. Lotte cannot decide between these two men. She eventually rejects Werther, who does not survive her decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-08-26
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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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Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-02
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Die letzte Nacht zum Fürchten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Der Tölpelhans
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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Zettl
Overview: A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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The Lives of Others
Overview: In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-03-23
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Lola and Billy the Kid
Overview: Murat, a Turkish gay youth living in Berlin’s Turkish ghetto, decides to come out to his family. What he doesn’t know yet is that his family has even bigger secrets to hide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-02-12
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Die schwarz-goldene Schlange
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Something to Remind Me
Overview: Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees. The next morning Thomas awakes to find Leyla and his laptop, which contains vital case files, missing.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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Heute sterben immer nur die anderen
Overview: Maria tells her former colleague, Hanna, that she has undergone a cancer operation but is now cured. Soon after, she suffers a relapse. The doctors believe that she should be told the truth about her condition, and Hanna is willing to do so. For Maria, it is the beginning of several long, agonizing weeks until she is ready to accept that she has only a very small amount of time left to live. In the meantime, Hanna has to decide how she can help her friend die; an almost unbearable decision, but once made she carries it out to the last consequence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-24
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The Turning Point
Overview: In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-20
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Your Unknown Brother
Overview: A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has difficulty adjusting to life in Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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I Wish I Were a Pigeon
Overview: The story of German minority members who, after escaping from Wehrmacht, form a partisan unit named "Ernst Thalmann" in eastern Croatia. The focus is a family whose members fight on different sides of the barricade.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-02-22
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Die Poggenpuhls
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Der Mann und sein Name
Overview: Based on a story by Anna Seghers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-05-29
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Three
Overview: Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexciting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no idea that his two lovers are married, until they are all found out when Hanna becomes pregnant, with the natural doubts stemming from their situation.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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Nicht ohne deine Liebe
Overview: The successful spoiled stock market pro Arthur Boysen is a winner. When he is diagnosed with an incurable disease of the nervous system, he takes on the fight against the disease. - Gripping drama with Robert Atzorn as a charismatic financier, who only by the threat of a deadly disease can recognize the value of love for his wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Mathilde Möhring
Overview: Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-08-21
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Netzwerk
Overview: Film by Ralf Kirsten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-09-02
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The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter
Overview: The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-02-02
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Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-02-10
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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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Der Mantel des Ketzers
Overview: Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-04-23
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Rabbit Heart
Overview: The thirteen year old Janni is depressed, because she's still a little behind in her physical development. This leads to bullying remarks from her classmates. One day, a film crew comes to her school to find a candidate for the role of a Prince in a movie. They choose Janni, who they think is a boy. She takes on the role. At school, she tells her classmates she plays a Princess. When the moment of truth approaches she must find the self-confidence to invite the class to the premiere.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-12-13
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Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe
Overview: Two farmers, Grimm and Melcher, were once on friendly terms, but a petty argument over a piece of land has since turned them into implacable enemies. Their two children- Veronika and Fabian- used to be childhood friends. When they meet again as young adults, they instantly fall in love, despite the bitter feud between their families. With no hope for a future together, the two seek to end their lives in this retelling of the classic story by Shakespeare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-05-10
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Mensch, mein Papa...!
Overview: Film by Ulrich Thein.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-09-20
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The Seventh Year
Overview: Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years. They have a six-year-old daughter. Both partners are totally taken up by their work which is physically and mentally demanding. So there is little time left for family life and the strained relations worsen and finally plunge Barbara into a crisis - shortly before their seventh wedding anniversary. At this very point a child dies in hospital, prompting Barbara to ask herself in desperation if - and for how long she can put up with the double burden of career and family. On top of this, she notices that Gunter is starting to compare her to other women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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Der Revolver des Corporals
Overview: Film by Rolf Losansky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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Unterm Birnbaum
Overview: Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame. She is a "newcomer" to the area and even after eleven years in the area, still a "stranger". A Cracow company announces that a money-collector is on his way to the innkeeper. Mr. Szulski arrives and the debts are settled - with money supposedly stemming from an inheritance. The next day, Szulski departs but according to the maid and the stable-boy, behaves in a very strange manner. Soon afterwards, his carriage is discovered in the Oder River, but there is no trace of the drowned man. Hradscheck's neighbor starts casting suspicion on the innkeeper. The Counselor of Justice, who heads the investigations has the spot under the pear tree dug out. A dead body is exhumed...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Olle Henry
Overview: 1945. Peace still bears the traces of war everywhere. There meet the animated girl Xenia and the former boxer Henry. Being together gives them a sense of opportunity. She wants to break away from the semi-world milieu, he try a comeback in the boxing ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-11-24
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Jorinde und Joringel
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Genres: Fantasy TV Movie Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-02-24
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Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle
Overview: This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimbursement is challenged, and he must also pay taxes on his destroyed mill. He resists the tax collectors and takes off to Vienna, where he intends to defend his rights. On the way, he rescues the Duchess of Guastalla from assault. She also wants to go to Vienna, as His Majesty Franz II is trying to contest an heir in her favor. With cunning, luck, and dagger, Florian fights his way through a slew of nobility and their secret police.
Genres: History Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-11-21
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Der Mann von der Cap Arcona
Overview: 1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 - a catastrophe he himself survived as a concentration camp prisoner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-12
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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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Tod und Auferstehung des Wilhelm Hausmann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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Before the Fall
Overview: In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column,Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-07-04
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Not All Were Murderers
Overview: Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Die Farben der Liebe
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Genres: Romance TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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