Werner Lierck
Also Known As: Вернер Лирк
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: March 26, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 28, 1985
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Hot Summer
Overview: In this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast. When a loud and obnoxious group of boys intrudes on their holiday, the girls are horrified to learn that the boys have the same vacations plans as them. The two groups quarrel with each other and compete over a number of things, but gradually an attraction starts to form.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-20
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The Small White Mouse
Overview: „White mouse“ Fritz controls the traffic on Dresden’s Körner Square. Helene, who crosses the junction on her motor scooter every day, has taken a shine to Fritz a long while ago. Although Fritz yields right-of-way to her remarkably often, the two have not spoken to each other. In order to finally get to know him better, Helene deliberately performs a traffic violation. Her plan is working: She is ordered to take road safety education lessons from Fritz and they get closer. New problems arise in the shape of Mrs. Messmer who must pay a monetary fine. She feels discriminated against by Fritz and complains about him to his supervisor.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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Frozen Flashes
Overview: In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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For Eyes Only
Overview: The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage, sabotage, and diversion operations originated from here in order to undermine the Socialist Republic of Germany. A favorable moment for a military attack approaches and plans are developed. These plans are placed in the hands of Major Collins, who keeps them in a safe. Hansen has worked for him for many years, but also for the Stasi as a double agent. Security Chief Colonel Rock knows there is a leak, but Hansen has passed every test thrown at him. He is trying to deal with his current assignment: acquiring the plans so they can be made public. His mission is to get them out of the safe and into the GDR without getting caught.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-07-19
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Carnations in Aspic
Overview: A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived innovation leads to rapid advancement in an ad agency. Mueller-Stahl shines in this biting critique of East German workplace culture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-24
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Das Stacheltier - Ein Pferd müßte man haben
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-04-07
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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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Anflug Alpha 1
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-24
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Tscheljuskin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-11-01
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Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
Overview: In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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Ehesache Lorenz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-27
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Seilergasse 8
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-08-11
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Das Stacheltier: Fridericus Rex - Part Eleven
Overview: Two UFA employees travel by car from West Berlin to Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace together with Ministerial Director Schimmelpfennig to persuade Frederick II, who haunts the palace, to collaborate on a new film about himself. The daily newspaper Die Welt had already written about the fact that at the founding meeting of the new UFA, its director pointed out under the motto: "The old spirit lives" that the monumental film Fridericus Rex - Eleventh Part was a first contribution to the ideological armament of the Free World.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-26
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An Old Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-04
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Musterknaben
Overview: Two young building workers are more interested in girls than their work; complications ensue at home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-11-27
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Reserved for the Death
Overview: Former East German engineer Erich Becker had been lured to West Germany by promises of a high reward. Now residing in Stockholm, he is recalled to serve as a spy in the East. He is to convince Dr. Jadenburg to flee from the GDR with the help of his daughter Hanna, who works for the West. While travelling on the train with Hanna, he is told that he is also to murder another agent who betrayed and now works for the Stasi. The traitor is revealed to be a former friend of Becker, Harry Korb.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-07
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Auf der Sonnenseite
Overview: The story of the steel melter Martin Hoff, whose factory delegates him to a drama school, corresponds to the real life of the actor Manfred Krug. Like his (film) hero, Krug works as a steel melter, does artwork, sings and acts, and is sent to drama school. Like his hero, who behaves anarchically and conspicuously, Krug is soon expelled from school.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-04
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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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The Beautiful Lurette
Overview: The beautiful and charming laundress Lurette is a well sought-after young woman in Ludwig XV’s Paris. Her heart is already taken, however, and she makes elaborate plans during Carnival to obtain the man she truly loves, the carpenter Campistrel. During her plans to make Campistrel jealous and recognize his love for her, she meets the Duke of Marly, who plans to make her his mistress. The unsuspecting Lurette finds herself caught in a love triangle, and her peer, Marcelline, must save the beautiful Lurette from these scandalous schemes.
Genres: Comedy Music History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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Midnight Revue
Overview: Despite the fact that production manager Kruse doesn't have the actors or the crew for the job, he recklessly boasts that he could direct a revue film. To prevent him losing face, Kruse brings together four people - a dramaturg, a composer, a writer and an architect - and gives them the thankless task of turning his idea into a film. Except for the relatively unknown composer Alexander Ritter, who is enthusiastically committed to the project, the other members of the team find themselves stuck in this mess.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-07-06
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Reise ins Ehebett
Overview: The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a different girlfriend in every harbour. But his friends think that he should change his way of life. Thus, they take the lovely reporter Eva on board for a trip to Leningrad. But at first, Eva′s presence causes a lot of upheaval on board.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-07
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Fahrt ins Blaue
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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Unser stiller Mann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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Einfach Blumen aufs Dach
Overview: Mechanic Hannes Blaschke and his wife Maxi, who works as a bus driver, have just become happy parents of twins. Now they have a serious transportation problem: Their Trabant is far too small for the grown family that furthermore includes two sons and a dog. Thanks to the support of a state secretary and of his brigade, Hannes acquires a Tschaika – a limousine that is normally restricted to representational purposes – for a small price. Whereas Maxi views the state carriage only as a useful means of transportation, Hannes enjoys the unusual pre-emption he is receiving for the spectacular car. Hannes, who normally is just a humble guy, starts to grate his colleagues with his new affectations. Thus, they teach him an effective lesson: They decorate the state carriage with flowers and thus bring Hannes back down to earth in a humorous way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-06-27
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My Girlfriend Sybille
Overview: The adventures of three friends from East Germany on the Black Sea.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-24
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They All Knew Each Other
Overview: A car factory in the GDR. During a test ride there is a major accident. One driver is dead, another is seriously injured. The investigation reveals: sabotage.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Das Kleid
Overview: Poor weavers Hans (Horst Drinda) und Kumpan (Werner Lierck) try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally make it inside, the tyrannical Emperor Max demands they make him new clothes that would "bring all creatures to their knees." Hans and Kumpan claim only intelligent people can see the robe, and in order to prove himself clever, the emperor haughtily displays himself before his subjects wearing his new invisible regalia.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-02-09
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Shots Under the Gallows
Overview: In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-22
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Time to Live
Overview: The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he has only a short time left to live. Nevertheless, he wants to take on one last difficult new task: He wants to restructure a large firm which has run deep into the red numbers. In a short amount of time, Reger manages to establish mutual trust between the employees and the new management. Furthermore, he motivates the employees with his personal interest for their concerns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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Ripe Cherries
Overview: Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of a son, the tragic death of his wife, the relationship of his daughter Ingrid with Dr. Beißert coincided with the need to move to an uninhabited area where a nuclear power plant will be built. Kamp, Ingrid and the members of the friendly brigade decide to act as the duty and the feeling of partnership prompts them, and gradually they all become participants in the new construction...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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The Punch Bowl
Overview: It is the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Lehmann, foreman of a chemical company. All members of the large family are expected. Preparations are also being made in the company: Wilhelm is to be awarded the »Labor banner« and, as every year, the sons are responsible for the may bowl. But instead of family members, telegrams with rejections flutter into the house.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-04
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Liebesfallen
Overview: This episodic comedy explores love in all its varieties.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Hände hoch oder ich schieße
Overview: Small town policeman Holms suffers from a rather unusual problem: Because of the low crime rate, there is simply not enough to do for him. Deadly bored, he sinks into the depths of depression and requests the help of a psychiatrist. But his imagination is far more effective: In his dreams, he chases gangsters in London. Finally, some small-time crooks find a way to help "their" policeman out of his emotional misery: They steal a memorial from the market square and thus help Holms to a spectacular case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-02-01
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We Are Getting Divorced
Overview: Monika and Johannes are married. With increasing frequency, their son Manni becomes the focus of their arguments. Since the two cannot agree to a compromise, they decide to break up. The ten-year-old Manni is supposed to spend four weeks with Monika followed by four weeks with Johannes on an alternating basis. They want to prove to each other who has the better parenting skills. The plan fails, however, because Manni is very good at playing his parents off against each other. When Monika and Johannes finally see through their son’s game, they realize that their way of life does not lead to better parenting and they conclude that good parenting can only be achieved if they work together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-03-28
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No Cheating, Darling
Overview: For some time now, the residents of the placid little village of Sonnenthal talk only about one topic: Football! The ambitious mayor wants to promote the Sonnenthal team to the district league at any price because this success would also boost his own popularity. But he did not expect the resistance of the new head of school, Barbara, who is heavily annoyed by the one-sided focus. To bring Sonnenthal′s men and the mayor in particular to their senses, Barbara sets up a women′s football team that soon turns out to be a serious competition for the men′s team.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-07-13
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The Hunt for the Boot
Overview: Germany 1932, constant fights between Communists and Nazis tear the country apart. When a Communist is found dead, the police accuses another Communist being his murderer. But the Communist youth group follows another trail - the murderer left a characteristic boot print at the scene of the crime.
Genres: Crime Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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Alfons Zitterbacke
Overview: Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various mishaps.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-02-24
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The Thing in the Castle
Overview: A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore their youth.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-07-19
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The Boss Will Be Here at Noon
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-05
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Im Himmel ist doch Jahrmarkt
Overview: Five young, pretty female athletes are training for an international skydiving contest. From heaven they basically fall straight into the arms of five charming young men. Their coach is less than thrilled about the flirtation and urges his athletes to concentrate on the contest. He is convinced that love-making will put the victory to risk and asks them for sexual abstinence. The power of love turns out to be stronger, however, and soon the first love couples find each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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Im Sonderauftrag
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Die Nacht im Grenzwald
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-15
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Reportage 57
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-04-03
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Senta auf Abwegen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-07-16
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White Blood
Overview: The military officer Manfred von der Lohe has just been on a training course in the USA. During atomic bomb tests there, he was radioactively contaminated and has been incurably ill ever since. In order not to endanger the planned nuclear armament of the Bundeswehr and the economic interests involved, von der Lohe and his wife Eleonore are to disappear. But the couple turns to Professor Soltau, an anti-nuclear activist. Their goal is to inform the public about the danger …
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-06
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The Dream of Captain Loy
Overview: An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and the United States Air Force Corporal Doris Graves. During the flight, the two become closer, and they regret that the trip will end that evening. But everything turns out differently. The flight captain has received orders to pick up an agent at a German NATO airport, who is to be dropped off again on a Soviet island …
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Der Tod hat ein Gesicht
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-23
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Eine Handvoll Noten
Overview: Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plans: As a passionate trumpeter, he wants to study music in Berlin. His father is less than thrilled and wants his son to take over the bakery. Therefore, Andreas decides to try his luck in Berlin and starts working in a wholesale bakery together with his friend Paul. Incidentally, the in-house band is looking for a trumpeter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-25
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Zu jeder Stunde
Overview: The soldier Martin has been relocated to a small border village in Thuringia. During a storm, he comes to the rescue of Renate, a farmer′s daughter. The two young people fall in love, thereby upsetting Renate′s father who has already promised his daughter to the son of the big farmer Grabow. Henceforth, he does his utmost to tear Martin and Renate apart. Meanwhile, Grabow prepares to flee the GDR with the help of the lance-corporal Zimmer who is indebted to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-01-29
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Geschichten jener Nacht
Overview: Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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Geschwader Fledermaus
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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Ohne Paß in fremden Betten
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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Fog
Overview: At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in Rocksmouth, but first, the German envoy has to salvage an old ship wreck. In 1942, the "Princess of India" was supposed to bring children to safety in Canada but was sunk by a German submarine at departure. 58 people were killed, most of them children.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-03-14
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Verliebt und vorbestraft
Overview: The young architect Hannelore becomes part of the all-male brigade Fröhlich whose members are supposed to build houses at the Strausberger Platz in Berlin. The brigade men drink a lot of beer and are less than thrilled about the new girl. Hanne is the only one who is absolutely delighted with Hannelore. When he starts a drunken fight on May Day, he is arrested and accused of armed robbery. Hannelore immediately convinces the other men in the brigade to help Hanne.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-08
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Einer von uns
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-28
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Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt
Overview: Film by Frank Vogel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-06-08
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Peter und das Einmaleins mit der Sieben
Overview: Peter is unwilling to learn the multiplication tables at school. He would rather work as an acrobat at the circus, just like his friend Susanne. When the class plans a trip to the circus, Peter is supposed to buy the tickets. Since he miscounts and buys one ticket less than needed, he cannot join his schoolmates. Susanne, however, comes up with an idea and lets him work in the circus arena where he is supposed to check on the arithmetic problems of a numerate donkey. When Peter fails to control the donkey, he feels deeply ashamed and has to assess that math is needed in all parts of life.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-05-31
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Das verhexte Fischerdorf
Overview: Mauritius Halbermann, nicknamed "Mauts", works as an advertising manager for Gravo-Druck, a state-owned print company. Mauts, a man obsessed with his work, incessantly percolates with marvelous ideas - and now that he has once again come up with another brilliant idea, he naturally wants to present his proposal to his boss. As it happens, his supervisor along with his entire family and some of Mauts's colleagues - including Lore who Mauts secretly fancies - have gone on a holiday trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-07-06
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Krach im Hochhaus
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-03-21
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Mord am Montag
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-09-12
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My Wife Wants to Sing
Overview: Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into her head that she would like a career as a pop star. She had singing lessons in the past and her voice is still beautiful. A chance meeting with the idolized Italian singer Fabiani, revives her stage fever - much to the annoyance of her husband Gustl Wagner, head of the records section at a department store.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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The Sailor’s Song
Overview: A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-11-09
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Sun Seekers
Overview: A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-26
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Für Mord kein Beweis
Overview: After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home over night. The next morning, his wife Steffi has disappeared and is reported as a missing person. Captain Lohm takes over the case and at first looks for signs of a murder, but to no avail. Then, Steffi′s body is found in a lake. After her funeral, a stranger who had attended Steffi′s funeral for a short time is also found dead in a lake, and the connection between the two cases becomes apparent.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-04-18
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Hallo, Taxi!
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-14
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Das Stacheltier - aber genau!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-06-18
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Ware für Katalonien
Overview: At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, the Volkspolizei - the GDR police force - starts to look into the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases are the starting point for the investigation by second lieutenant Schellenberg of the department for optics racketeering: An old woman who was arrested in the Berlin city railway for trying to smuggle a pair of binoculars to West Berlin, and a dead person in an area of allotments who was involved in obscure dealings with optical devices.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-06
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Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-06-30
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