Heinz Weiss
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Biography: Heinz Weiss (12 June 1921 – 20 November 2010) was a German film actor. Weiss is best known for playing the role of Phil Decker in the Jerry Cotton series of films and the role of Captain Heinz Hansen in Das Traumschiff. He also played the character "Kramer" in the iconic World War II film The Great Escape (1963). He himself had served in German military, the Wehrmacht, during World War II. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stuttgart; Germany
Birthday: June 12, 1921
Deathday: November 20, 2010
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Gender: Male
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Manhattan Night of Murder
Overview: Second Jerry Cotton movie. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Special agent Jerry Cotton is summoned by the FBI to help crack down on the Criminals and put them out of business. He doesnt pull any punches either.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-11-24
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Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight
Overview: Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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The Violin Case Murders
Overview: The first film adaptation of Jerry Cotton. FBI agents Jerry Cotton and Phil Decker are tracing a group of six murderers. Disguised as a vagabond Jerry Cotton infiltrates the gang. Kitty, the leader's girlfriend, soon becomes Jerry's most important helper. With her help, he's able to prevent a bomb's explosion in a school. The deadly attack on a rich collector he can not prevent. The gangsters flee with the loot and a hunt to the death begins ...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
Overview: An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget that he has unfinished business with them.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Murderers Club of Brooklyn
Overview: Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-17
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Deadly Shots on Broadway
Overview: An FBI agent is killed by the mob after making off with five million in gold bars in a robbery gone bad. Agent Jerry Cotton is called in to bring the gang to justice and find out where his dead pal hid the missing gold.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-03-26
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Jerry Cotton: Death in the Red Jaguar
Overview: Part Seven in Jerry Cotton Series. The FBI agent tackles an organisation of assassins who kill to order.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Jerry Cotton: Death and Diamonds
Overview: Sixth part of Jerry Cotton movies. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-02-23
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The Green Archer
Overview: The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor. Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Great Escape
Overview: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-03
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Punishment Battalion
Overview: The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.
Genres: History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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The Roaring Forties
Overview: Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his original good intentions by a low-life press agent who convinces him it would be well worth his while to win the race by illegal maneuvering. As he sets off, flashbacks tell how he came to be on the sailboat; later he has long monologues -- several of them, and in-between he occasionally battles to stay afloat on an uncooperative sea.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-11
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Im Vorhof der Wahrheit
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-26
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Flight in Danger
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Marinemeuterei 1917
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-02
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Nur der Wind
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Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-09-28
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So weit die Füße tragen
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Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-02-12
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Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter
Overview: Musical comedy set in a high school.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht
Overview: The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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Der Vorgang
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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Der Fall Eleni Voulgari
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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Der Mann nebenan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-01-14
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Der Fall der Generale
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-22
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Preußen über alles
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-13
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Blind Justice
Overview: A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections of the prosecutor, the accused is set free and is found dead shortly thereafter. The prosecutor decides to pursue the case and comes upon a band of criminals, who sell German state secrets. Shortly before the investigation comes to a close, a woman is murdered. When a witness asserts to have seen him near the woman's dead body, the prosecutor himself ends up in court and must now prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Der Belagerungszustand
Overview: A comet drops from the sky and causes a stir in Cadiz, Spain. A nihilistic drunk called Nada announces that very bad things are imminent. A herald gives orders that it is punishable to mention the comet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-03-07
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Die Abrechnung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-11
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Die Affäre Eulenburg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-20
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Doctor Faustus
Overview: A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Immer bei Vollmond
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-03-13
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Der Traum des Mr. Borton
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-07-06
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Die Brücke von Zupanja
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Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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Der Mann, der Donnerstag war
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Auf Wiedersehen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Begründung eines Urteils
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-28
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Annemarie Lesser
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-10-14
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Confused Feelings
Overview: It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-10
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Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-19
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Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Wie eine Träne im Ozean
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-04
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Sir Roger Casement
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Blauer Himmel den ich nur ahne
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-02-05
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Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-09-09
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Max Hölz. Ein deutsches Lehrstück
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-07-11
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Rückkehr ins Paradies
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-09-20
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Wallenstein
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Berlin Tunnel 21
Overview: In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-25
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Dumala
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-20
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Claus Graf Stauffenberg
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-16
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Das Vermächtnis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-09-29
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Sir Basil Zaharoff - Makler des Todes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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Die Zukunft hat Geburtstag - 100 Jahre Automobil
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-29
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Jugend einer Studienrätin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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Brandenburg Division
Overview: The famous-notorious Division Brandenburg was (in wartime) under command of Admiral Canaris. But, the death brave division, joined by men, who where not really quite volunteering, received a command: Sulina, a harbour at black sea, where urgently needed oil is turner over, should be prevented from an attack. The plan is worked out and some more men need to volunteer, to let it become real.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-14
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Sonderurlaub
Overview: TV-Movie from Rainer Erler
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-16
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Das große Wunschkonzert
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-19
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Die Truhe
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-04-29
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In Sachen Erzberger gegen Helfferich
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Nennen Sie mich Alex
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-09-04
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Das Unbrauchbare an Anna Winters
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-21
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Der Traum des Eroberers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-03-27
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Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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Die Journalisten
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-09-08
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Freundschaftsspiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-19
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Anna Böckler
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-10-19
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Der tödliche Schlag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-25
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Der Tod des Sokrates
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-11-26
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Die venezianische Tür
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-04
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The Little Drummer Girl
Overview: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Friedrich Ebert und Gustav Stresemann, Schicksalsjahre der Republik
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-08-07
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Verratener Widerstand - Das Funkspiel der deutschen Abwehr in Holland
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte
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Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-06-03
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Die Silberflöte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-04
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Ein Abschiedsgeschenk
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-01-10
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Der Stadtbrand
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-03-19
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Friedrich III. '...gestorben als Kaiser'
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-10
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