Marga Legal
Also Known As: Марга Легаль
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: February 18, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 30, 2001
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Heimliche Ehen
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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Star-Crossed Lovers
Overview: Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sentenced to fifteen years in a concentration camp. Magdalena, meanwhile, goes underground with the help of a friend and later immigrates to the Soviet Union. Michael, who has joined the Red Army, discovers on the way to Moscow that Magdalena is staying there. But when his plane lands, she is already on her way back to Germany. Michael hopes that one day, he and Magdalena will be reunited.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-06-08
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The Legend of Paul and Paula
Overview: Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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Schwester Agnes
Overview: Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with the new mayor. The consequences leave an entire community upside down.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-08
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The Condemned Village
Overview: East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-04-14
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Außenseiter
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-01-27
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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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Das Geheimnis des Ödipus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-17
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Ehesache Lorenz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-27
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Life Begins
Overview: A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in Brandenburg, to West Berlin, taking his daughter with him. Her uncle's luxurious house, the turbulence of life in the big city, and her cousin's progressive thinking and quick wit all turn her head at first. But behind all this glitter and tinsel lurks the cold, hard world of money and Erika begins to feel homesick for the town where she grew up and for Rolf, her first real boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-05-22
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The Naked Man in the Stadium
Overview: In this film, Wolf and scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase explore the role of art and the artist in socialist society. A sculptor questions the reception and value of his work, in a delicately nuanced narrative interweaving personal memories, historical dilemmas, and political defeats.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-04-04
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Klotz am Bein
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-11-14
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Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Knock-out
Overview: Carolin lives in the East and works in a West Berlin bar. After the building of the wall she tries to persuade Georg, a soldier of the border regiment, to let her cross over. He falls in love with her and defends her against a West German pimp with a punch to the jaw.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-14
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Fallada: The Last Chapter
Overview: This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is intermittently imprisoned and threatened in order to motivate him to write for the Fatherland. Even the attention of his kind, patient wife and loving children begin to feel oppressive to him. This is one of the few films to take a serious, in-depth look at the tribulations of a creative artist pulled in all different directions by the real world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-05-11
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Five Days, Five Nights
Overview: Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While Dresden is in ruins, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer have disappeared from the city’s Old Masters Picture Gallery. Red Army captain Leonov and his soldiers have been ordered to recover the lost paintings. During the next five days, Dresden’s residents join the search for the collection. A secret Nazi document offers a first lead…
Genres: War History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-02-27
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The Banner of Krivoi Rog
Overview: In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kriwoj Rog, Russia, give their flag as a gift to the locals of Bergstedt, Germany. This quickly takes on a symbolic meaning for the miners in Bergstedt as the Nazi party demands that this Soviet gesture be erased and the flag be replaced with their own. The miner and communist party functionary Otto Brosowski (Erwin Geschonneck) publicly declares it his duty to defend this flag against every danger, and he keeps his promise despite his family being threatened by torment and torture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-10-26
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Der Nachlass
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-10-31
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Herbstzeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-11
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Sie und Er
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-01-29
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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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Konzert für Bratpfanne und Orchester
Overview: For the "Festival of good ideas" that is to take place in their residential quarter the musically enthusiastic young Bum wants to rehearse a music show along with his friends. With pans, cans, hooters and other junk they make music. Some adults get angry about that. Others like the second-hand dealer Dohlenei and Mr. Kling from the symphony orchestra help the children to make their fantastic idea come true.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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A Berlin Romance
Overview: Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West. But she also loves the bright shop windows in his part of the city. The flashiness of this new world soon evaporates, however, when Hans loses his job.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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Castles and Cottages
Overview: Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the count gets divided amongst the farmers, Anton receives a piece and hopes to be able to work freely. But an old debt and intrigue keep Anton and his family from finding peace. The farmers of the village begin to discover their own power when Annegret, Anton's daughter, leaves. Is a new beginning possible for Anton? This film paints an impressive panorama of the development of a minor village in Mecklenburg from the end of the war to the uprising of 17 June 1953.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-02-09
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Astray
Overview: In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Alarm at the Circus
Overview: Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves for training. Nevertheless, they cannot seem to save enough and so they let themselves be hired by the bartender Klott for a twisted scheme. However, Klaus overhears one of Klott's conversations and learns that Klott intends for the boys to steal horses from the East Berlin Barlay Circus, where Klaus recently made some good friends. Indignant, he sets out to stop the robbery—and an adventurous action story results.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-08-26
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Frau Jenny Treibel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Jahrgang 21
Overview: Film by Václav Gajer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Der Sandener Kindermordprozeß
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-07-20
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Seine Kinder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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Ein idealer Gatte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-06-02
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Marta, Marta
Overview: East Berlin, late 1970s: Because she doesn't really have any particular career aspirations, Marta becomes a nurse. And since true love is a long time coming, the 17-year-old seduces Monty, the young man next door. Then there are her parents' marital problems. Marta is in the middle of the exciting trials of growing up.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-26
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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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Deadly Web
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Der Geisterseher
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-04-03
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Schach von Wuthenow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-07-16
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Leben zu zweit
Overview: Karin, who is in her mid-thirties, works as registrar but has been divorced for several years. Together with her 16-year old daughter Nora, she leads a happy and independent life. Then, she finds a new partner in the mathematician Peter, but does not tell her daughter about him. When Peter proposes marriage, Karin always comes up with new excuses why such a step is still too early for her. She mainly fears that Nora would not be able to cope with another marriage of her mother. But when Peter cannot be dissuaded anymore by her excuses and finally wants to marry her, Karin comes up with a bizarre plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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Sommerwege
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Engel mit einem Flügel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-08-25
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Mathilde Möhring
Overview: Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-08-21
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Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Overview: Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in fact an "aircraft commander". This assertion brings about an embarrassing situation, for he suddenly meets her onboard his new work place, an IL-14 charter plane where Ilse acts as a stewardess. It gets worse, however: During a stop in Varna the police appear because Horst’s former lover Madelon has vanished. At home, meanwhile, his landlady has her hands full with her lodger’s current and former playmates. Ilse decides to put an end to this mixup and since the dull captain of the plane, Richard, makes no move to confront his co-pilot about his unstable private life, the smart stewardess appeals to the rest of the crew to help her teach Horst a few lessons in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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Baron Münchhausens Tochter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-07
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Gartenparty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-12
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Der Weg ins Nichts
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-11-21
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My Friend Robinson
Overview: 19-year old Peter is working to gain practical experience for his planned medical studies. But his life turns into confusion as he unexpectedly comes a father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-03-02
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My Father Alfons
Overview: Ten years old Ernst and his father Alfons are traveling to the family event on their bikes.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-07-14
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Der Lotterieschwede
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-09-11
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Bold Adventure
Overview: In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, Duke of Alba, and from there organize resistance against the invaders.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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Wer seine Frau lieb hat
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-02-10
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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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Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East
Overview: Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll crash course in capitalism - with unsurpassed success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-08-20
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Preludio 11
Overview: Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-03-19
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Nur eine Frau
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-03-06
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Tote reden nicht
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Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-06
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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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Hochzeitsreise
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-06-10
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