Erich Dunskus
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pillkallen
Birthday: July 27, 1890
Deathday: November 25, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Great Love
Overview: The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Die Kuckucks
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Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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Das Herz von St. Pauli
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Shadows over St. Pauli
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Between Hamburg and Haiti
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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The Big Game
Overview: A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to a big problem: who would be the perfect man to replace him? Werner Fehling appears to be the perfect replacement for the sick man. The problem is, he's a bitter rival of the goalkeeper, Jupp Jaeger. Both men love the same girl, Grete Gabler. Grete is the daughter of a senior member of the sports club, which is why she feels doubly under pressure not to do anything to jeopardize the success of the team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-07-10
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Seven Slaps
Overview: William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Overview: The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacuated by ships. Gotenhafen was the last open port and ships left the town almost by the minute, overloaded by refugees. One of the last ships to leave Gotenhafen was the 'Wilhelm Gustloff', a former 'Kraft durch Freude' pleasure cruiser designed for 1000 passengers. Until today it is unknown how many people were on board but it is said to be around 10.000. The ship sunk without a trace and only a handful of people survived this hellish nightmare.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-02-25
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Serenade
Overview: The violin virtuoso Ferdinand Lohner is lonely and depressed after the death of his wife. But then he gets to know the much younger Irene and forgets all about his dead wife, marrying the young tart soon after. Irene moves into the house in the mountains, where Ferdinand, his son Heinz and his former mother-in-law Mrs. Leuthoff live. The bitter Mrs. Leuthoff makes life difficult for Irene, since she had no way of preventing Ferdinand from re-marrying after her daughter bit the dust. When Ferdinand conveniently goes out on tour once again, Irene has to sit at home with the bitter woman. One day, Irene’s cousin Gustl comes on a visit and Mrs. Leuthoff takes the opportunity to “accidentally” let slip to Ferdinand, that his current wife is a whore. As if living with your current mother-in-law isn’t enough to deal with!
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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Herz – modern möbliert
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-10-29
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...und wer küßt mich?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-07
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The Rats
Overview: Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to sell her child to another woman, Anna. After the birth, Pauline decides she wants the baby back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-07-06
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A Prize of Gold
Overview: A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-14
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Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
Overview: A drama set on Faroe Islands by Frank Wisbar based on the novel by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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Mazurka
Overview: A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-11-14
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Altes Herz wird wieder jung
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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Die goldene Spinne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-12-23
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Morituri
Overview: As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-09-24
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The Mountain Calls
Overview: The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-06
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Overview: A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-30
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Bel Ami
Overview: Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-02-21
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Der Schritt vom Wege
Overview: Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-02-09
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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Overview: Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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Joan of Arc
Overview: France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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Süss, the Jew
Overview: Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-09-24
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So Ended a Great Love
Overview: The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-17
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Der Blaufuchs
Overview: Ilona, the bored wife of an easily distracted professor, falls in love with his friend Tibor, a world-traveler and ladykiller. Although she pursues him, he declines to take advantage of the situation, because she's married to his best friend. Only after her husband shows an interest in a co-worker is it possible for a happy ending to take place for the two new couples.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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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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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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Michael Kramer
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-11-17
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Kein Platz für Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-03-30
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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-07-14
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The Emperor of California
Overview: The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-07-20
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Versprich mir nichts!
Overview: Maler Pratt, an artist, refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika thinks differently and sells them because she thinks they are good...and they need the money. As he only signs an "M" on his work, Monika has no difficulty in claiming she is "M", but problems arrive when she is commissioned to do a large mural and Maler refuses to help her out. However, his creative spirit gets the best of him and he does the mural which is widely acclaimed to be a great work of art. Felder , an art dealer, is not overly pleased with this turn of events as he has been pleading with Monika to divorce her shiftless husband and marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Die göttliche Jette
Overview: Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-03-18
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Hände hoch
Overview: In this Nazi propaganda film about the Hitler Youth, young German boys at a Hitler Youth recreation camp in Slovakia find themselves bored and irritated when bad weather confines them to their quarters. Things brighten up when the police inform them that a pair of escaped convicts are in the area, and the boys determine to catch them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-10-22
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Hot Blood
Overview: Baroness Marika von Korossy dresses up as a man, in order to compete in a horse race. Her victorious horse, Satan, will only allow her to ride him and throws everyone else off of him. That includes the dandy lieutenant Tibor von Denes, who immediately recognizes that Marika isn't a man. It isn't long before he makes friends with her and even gets her to dance with him. It's then that Marika takes off her hat and shows she's a woman, which causes jealous Ilonka von Peredy to go into a rage. When Marika is forced to sell her estate to raise money, Ilonka is able to get Marika's beloved Satan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-20
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Das Mädchen Christine
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-01-14
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Träum’ nicht, Annette!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Mein Herz gehört Dir
Overview: Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel Mathilde Möhring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-06-09
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Hab’ mich lieb!
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-12-08
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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-07-14
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Eine Frau für drei Tage
Overview: 1944 German film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-04-28
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...and the Sky Above Us
Overview: Hans Albers plays returning war veteran Hans Richter who has trouble finding work. With nowhere else to turn, Richter gets involved with black market activities. This so disgusts Richter's son, blind ex-soldier Edwin (Paul Edwin Roth), that the boy literally disowns his father. Hans eventually mends his ways, but not before several other devastating setbacks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-12-09
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Annelie
Overview: On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15 minutes will again and again become the girl′s fate.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-09-09
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Anfrage
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-07-07
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Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
Overview: The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is a row with the new engineer Michel the evening after the first trip. He leaves - out of jealousy. Instead of him, Marianne takes three funny musicians with her who are looking for work. The trip to Hamburg on the Elbe initially ends on a sandbank, from which another barge, the "Petrel", frees them. Michel has now been hired there. After a few complications and pointless fights, because Marianne has long been in love with Michel, there is the well-deserved happy ending.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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Mayor Anna
Overview: A novelty in German post-war history: a young woman (Eva Rimski) becomes mayor in a village. She is efficient and enjoys respect, but soon enough two villagers disagree with her work. In her predecessor, a prominent farmer (Arno Paulsen), she has a bitter enemy. But even her boyhood friend (Reinhard Kolldehoff), who wants to marry her as he returns home from captivity, can not accept that his future wife holds such an office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Das andere Ich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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Sechs Stunden Angst
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-11-25
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The Comedians
Overview: Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-09-05
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The Broken Jug
Overview: The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-10-18
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Vergiß mein nicht
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-23
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Der König ist tot
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Under the Bridges
Overview: Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1946-08-31
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1-2-3 Corona
Overview: Post-war Germany 1945: Two rival gangs of uprooted boys fight each other in the ruins of Berlin, whose business is the black market out of necessity in order to survive. Their respective leaders are Gerhard and Dietrich. A pretty young circus artist named Corona comes to the destroyed city with a traveling circus. She immediately caught the boys' attention. When the latter notice that the circus director is abusing the girl, the two gangs join forces and plot an act of revenge against the tyrant. But with the hustle and bustle caused by this, Corona falls from the trapeze and is seriously injured. When the circus moves on, the boys organize a doctor for the sick artist who has been left behind. Their collectively concern for the blonde beauty makes them forget their enmity. This welds the troops closer together and sets the course for a common, meaningful future.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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The Bridge
Overview: This is the directorial debut of Artur Pohl and tells the story of war refugees as they try to settle in a small town in Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-02-27
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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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The Last Witness
Overview: Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-30
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Spätsommer
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-05
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The Berliner
Overview: Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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Die 7 Todsünden des Staatsbürgers
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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