Gerd Ehlers
Also Known As: Герд Элерс
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rheinfelden, Baden, Germany
Birthday: May 21, 1924
Deathday: June 27, 1988
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Sonntagsfahrer
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-08-30
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Verwandte und Bekannte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-10-16
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Der Mann mit der Maske
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-02-16
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Toggenburger Bock
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-02-07
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Der erste Urlaubstag
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-13
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Kunstraub
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-27
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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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Ach, du fröhliche
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-12
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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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Pension Boulanka
Overview: A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating team.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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Die Seefee
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-02
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Anton the Magician
Overview: A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-09-19
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When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam
Overview: Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965/66 due to the film's political content. Only in 1989/90 could the director reconstruct the film, where missing sounds and images are replaced with script inserts.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Flying Dutchman
Overview: In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks refuge in her fantasies and dreams. In this realm of imagination, a bold and restless sea captain appears to her—the Flying Dutchman—who is cursed to wander the seas forever. In her obsessive dreams, Senta frees this man through her love for him.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Heroin
Overview: This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin somewhere in the Middle East, and smuggle it in several steps to East Berlin, and from there to France (or so it appears), killing when necessary. The hero is an officer of East German customs, who with detective work, some masquerade, and occasional violent action ultimately unravels the whole network, of course with the support of the local customs departments.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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The Just People of Kummerow
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-17
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Black Panthers
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Martina has a paralyzing fear of heights, which prevents her from fulfilling her father’s wish that they perform a tightrope act together. As she is quite taken with the black panthers in the circus, as well as their trainer Dittrich, she decides to be an animal trainer instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-04
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Viechereien
Overview: Alma Krause is the proud owner of a thoroughbred French bully. Even otherwise, she nurses and harbors several two- and four-legged friends in her apartment - just as one would expect from a veterinarian's widow. Her nephew Heinz, on the other hand, is kind of beaten. Not as for the love of animals, that would fit badly to a nascent vet, but for a small animal practice, as the blessed uncle operated, he seems to have no ambitions. A future as a "Bazillenscheuche" in the cowshed would like to spare him again Aunt Alma. And she takes her appropriate action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-05-30
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Zugvogel am Sund
Overview: Ekke and Karsten are newcomers to the shipyard. Paddy claims to have heard it on Rügen radio. But the two did not fall on their heads, even if they still fear that their accommodation, the "Fritz Heckert" accommodation ship, could be - as it is called - a "working-class monastery". Not only do they find out from Paddy that such worries are unfounded, they experience it for themselves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-12
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Der Nachfolger
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-12
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Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-08-30
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Pinselheinrich
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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Naked Among Wolves
Overview: Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-10
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Hochzeitsnacht im Regen
Overview: This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her bags, drives to Hoppegarten, and is soundly rejected by the head coach. Gabi doesn't want to give up, and in order to at least have a roof over her head, she rushes into a marriage with the seemingly nice Freddie. However, this marriage soon proves to be her second rejection, as Freddie openly dislikes the fact that she wants to be a jockey.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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Ein gewisser Katulla
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-17
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The Zernik Murder Case
Overview: After meeting the woman on the train Erwin Retzmann kills her in the forest.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-30
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Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
Overview: Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives modestly and is dependent upon private patrons. Nagged by his patronizing brothers, spied upon by officials for his republican beliefs and faced by his progressive hearing loss, the composer becomes more and more isolated. Seeman’s poetic film explores the joys, heartbreak and artistic spirit of the great composer as he works on his Ninth Symphony.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-14
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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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Fleur Lafontaine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Like Father, Like Son
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-01-22
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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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Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Overview: Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi criminal Eichmann. Disgusted by the monstrosities that are revealed, she eventually returns to Germany. There, she wants to cover common cases and trials again. Her first assignment is a murder trial against a man called Ralf Jordan who constantly maintains his innocence. Conradi, who believes Jordan and wants to help him, starts to investigate the case - and thus opens up a political can of worms. The backgrounds of the case reach back to the Nazi period and involve officials of the Third Reich, who in the meantime have returned to their powerful positions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-15
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Johannes Kepler
Overview: Europe, 1620: The well-known astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, who teaches as a professor in Linz, receives the message that his mother is prosecuted as a witch in Württemberg. The truth behind the allegations is rather simple: His mother has been denunciated by a former friend after an argument with the authorities. Kepler tries desperately to convince the prosecutors of the absurdity of their allegations with rational arguments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Der Arzt von Bothenow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-23
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Drei Kapitel Glück
Overview: Ev and Peter fall in love at first sight. Peter studies dentistry in Leipzig and is eager to work in the country. There is an unfilled dentist vacancy in his home village. Ev, on the other hand, is drawn to the city. Being a commercial artist, she sees no chance to find a job in the country. This conflict becomes the first real test for their relationship.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-07-13
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Terrible Woman
Overview: Film by Jindrich Polák.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-07-30
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Wo der Zug nicht lange hält
Overview: Film by Joachim Hasler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-07-14
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What Would Happen If...?
Overview: In the late 1950s, the collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen on the German-German border. Those in charge have to face many obstacles, especially from a large-scale farmer who is unwilling to join the co-op. All of a sudden, mysterious men in a fancy car appear in the village and show an interest in the rundown manor house. Gossip spreads quickly, and some villagers think there will be a re-parceling of properties and a land swap with West Germany. They assume everything will go back to how it used to be and even expect the count to return to his manor. In preparation, the situation in the village escalates at a fevered pitch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Kein Ärger mit Cleopatra
Overview: Film by Helmut Schneider.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-06
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Lieber guter Weihnachtsmann
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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The Rainmaker
Overview: The Germanic pagan deity, The Rainmaker, has fallen asleep, causing widespread drought and poverty. A young couple, Andreas and Maren must trick an old goblin into leading them to the magic garden of The Rainmaker and wake her up.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Carbide and Sorrel
Overview: After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to travel to Wittenberg - the only place where carbide can be found. Once there, Kalle find himself in the unfortunate situation of having to hitchhike his way back to Dresden, transporting seven heavy barrels of carbide. However, his inventiveness and optimistic attitude help transform the grueling task into an adventurous, entertaining, and funny journey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-12-27
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Die Geschichte vom goldenen Taler
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-02-09
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Der Lumpenmann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-31
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Irrlicht und Feuer
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-21
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Die Dame und der Blinde
Overview: A woman meets a blind man who helped her during the war and has fallen on hard times since.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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