Peter Berling
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Biography: Peter Berling (20 March 1934 – 21 November 2017) was a German actor, film producer and writer. He has worked on several occasions with director Werner Herzog, among them his collaborations with actor Klaus Kinski like Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Meseritz-Obrawalde, Posen-West Prussia
Birthday: March 20, 1934
Deathday: November 21, 2017
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Gender: Male
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Praxis Dr. Hasenbein
Overview: Before WWII: Dr. Hasenbein lives with his son Peter in a small town. Aunt Uschi's orphanage houses many children and a hamster. When the hamster falls ill, Dr. Hasenbein is given something to do. The tailor, Mr. Voss, is also treated by Dr. Hasenbein: for tendinitis. During the war, Dr. Hasenbein has to go away. When he comes back after 30 years, everything has changed...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-30
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Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem
Overview: The dreaded Doc Snyder returns home after 30 years. After his long ride through the prairies of the wild west, his laundry is extremely dirty, and who could wash it better than his unshaven mommy? But first she sends him to the prison, from which he is to free his brother Hank, because otherwise he will be hanged. When that's done, they both spontaneously decide to rob a bank, which goes completely wrong. Before Doc Snyder's eyes, his beloved brother is shot by his intimate enemy, the Nose Man. Snyder initially manages to escape, but the Nose Man takes up the pursuit, and from then on many innocent people have to die - including Snyder's mother...
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-11-11
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Overview: A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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Theo Against the Rest of the World
Overview: Theo is having some bad luck. His barely paid-for truck has been stolen, and credit collectors are after him. The chase leads him across Europe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Revolver
Overview: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-27
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The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried
Overview: An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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Cobra Verde
Overview: A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-12-03
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Fitzcarraldo
Overview: Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-02
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Black and White in Color
Overview: French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Haunted Summer
Overview: Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Victory March
Overview: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-12
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The Flexible Entrepreneur
Overview: As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett. In it, Sennett describes the effect of the ‘new’ flexible capitalism on society’s shifting system of norms and values.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Officer as a Philosopher
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Overview: Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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Rulers of the City
Overview: Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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Julia
Overview: German boarding school student Pauli hopes to lose his virginity while visiting his father in Italy.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-09-13
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Tex and the Lord of the Deep
Overview: Based on the adventures of the hero Tex from the comic strip by Bonelli. An interesting spaghetti-western/fantasy movie that blends magic and mythology with six-guns and stagecoaches.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-06
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Francesco
Overview: The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-22
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The Three Musketeers of the West
Overview: Three cowboys carry on like sagebrush swashbucklers.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-28
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Angel of Death
Overview: The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets of the Old Town in time-honored ritual. But for one celebrant this Holy Week is different. For him Semana Santa is a time to kill. As the death toll mounts, it falls to detective Maria Delgado - mistrusted outsider from Madrid - to stop the bizarre killings.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-09
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Bang, and the Angels Sing
Overview: A gangster comedy with music by Les Humphries and the Les Humphries Singers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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Die Geschäftsfreunde
Overview: Short film by Martin Müller
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-24
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Overview: About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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The Italian Connection
Overview: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Sergeant Klems
Overview: A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-03
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Dagger Eyes
Overview: Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination. A delightfully playful giallo starring the beautiful Carole Bouquet as Mystère, a high class call girl who becomes the target for a couple of assassins.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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Love Is Colder Than Death
Overview: Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-16
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Whity
Overview: "Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-02
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Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Overview: Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-05-21
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Half Brothers
Overview: Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are brothers. The news hits like a bomb. A German family man with a penchant for tricks, a spoiled, ambitious Turk and a rapping African – the three siblings immediately hate each other and it would all be nice if their paths were to separate again soon.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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Martha
Overview: After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-28
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Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
Overview: A portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Letter
Overview: T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire world, discovers astounding forms of existence, but cannot be hindered from his duty and keeps looking until he finally finds the address. There, he finds out that he has delivered his own judgment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-11-25
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Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
Overview: Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-08
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When Women Were Called Virgins
Overview: When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Young, Violent, Dangerous
Overview: Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). the group starts by robbing a gas station where paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, paul ends up killing more people. It isn’t long before the entire police force is looking for the three criminals, who pick up the girl and hightail it to the Swiss border, killing everyone in their path.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-02
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Tykho Moon
Overview: The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a killer posing as a whore.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-28
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A Big Grey-Blue Bird
Overview: Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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An Ideal Adventure
Overview: Patricia, a journalist, is fed up with all the stupid chores and being ridiculed by her colleagues. To show her talent, she challenges her director Eugenio to test her. She will write a good article, but if she fails she will sleep with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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The Name of the Rose
Overview: 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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Petomaniac
Overview: The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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Satantango
Overview: Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1994-02-08
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Gangs of New York
Overview: In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
Genres: Drama History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-14
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Veronika Voss
Overview: In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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Idole
Overview: Small town waitress Annerl pines for the captain of the local soccer team. When he falls for a travelling dancer, Annerl jealously follows her to Munich and embarks on an adventure involving a famous pop singer.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-13
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Meet Him and Die
Overview: Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly infiltrates the ranks of the underworld figure serving a sentence. Eventually a breakout is planned and Massimo is to be included. Just about as soon as they hit the street an attempt is made on the boss' (Martin Balsam) life. Massimo acts quickly in helping to save him and that's the in he has been waiting for
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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Location Africa
Overview: Making-of documentary that covers "Cobra Verde," Herzog's last film with Kinski before Kinski's death. This is the documentary that registers the behind the scenes moments of "Cobra Verde", the last project that united director Werner Herzog to actor Klaus Kinski. The notorious and infamous relation between the two filled Cinema theatres with masterpieces, but also filled pages of Cinema History with mutual declarations of both love and hate.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-28
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Good-for-Nothing
Overview: A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he expects a civil career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-27
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Dirty Weekend
Overview: A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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Voyager
Overview: Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-03-21
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The Return of Halleluja
Overview: Ramirez, the general of the Mexican revolution against Maximilian who has been appointed king of Mexico, organizes his forces to attack the king's General, Miranda. Ramirez realizes that the Aztec Indians would be allies of great value, so he offers to return to them an idol statue that has been stolen from them. Only Alleluja is capable of retrieving the idol from the thieves.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-30
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Rings of Fear
Overview: Angelo Russo, a sixteen year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angelo boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virgina (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis". Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virgina nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angelo Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours" ...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-08-19
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Overview: Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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The Niklashausen Journey
Overview: Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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News from the Great War
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome
Overview: A short by Alexander Kluge.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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