Walter Lendrich
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arnstadt, Germany
Birthday: May 27, 1912
Deathday: July 15, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Her Third
Overview: In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out, and one lesbian friendship which she retains. She is looking for a husband, though, and thinks she has spotted a candidate in her fellow factory worker. As she contemplates marrying him, her story is told in a series of flashbacks.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-16
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Denn ich sah eine neue Erde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Die lieben Luder
Overview: The blonde Eva-Marie, a trained hairdresser and called Evchen, and her friend, the dark-haired nurse Yvonne, get dressed up in the evening and head out. Their territory is the night bar “Tusculum”, their target is particularly business people on the move and other gentlemen without company. A photo in a clear situation - that greatly increases the gentlemen's willingness to spend, the two sluts think. But the two of them get into trouble right from the first photo attack.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-02-15
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Zement
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-02
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Die eigene Haut
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-27
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Lachtauben weinen nicht
Overview: The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comradeship. Among the workers are, for instance, young Rolf, whom everybody just calls "Lachtaube" and who always comes through for his co-workers, or the likable Hubert, who works as a simple smelter again after being dismissed as the head of the steel mill. Then, there is also the stubborn Manfred, who should have become a brigadier long ago because of his experience and his competence, but this privilege is refused to him because Manfred is not a party member. Ironically, it is Manfred who hears by accident about the plans of the mill to close down the old Martin furnaces – and to lay off the smelters. When the other men learn about the plans they enter the barricades for their jobs and force the plant′s management to face the workers′ demands and criticism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-19
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Das Stacheltier - Das Wartehäuschen
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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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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Exploring the Brandenburg Marche
Overview: On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car. In the conversation that ensues, Menzel and Pötsch quickly discover that they both are great admirers of the early 19th-century writer Max von Schwedenow who was born in the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-04-21
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Hochzeit in Weltzow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-18
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Meines Vaters Straßenbahn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-12-28
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Der Prozeß wird vertagt
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-09-25
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The Lost Angel
Overview: August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach lives in the small town of Güstrow, keeping to himself and wanting to steer clear of politics. On this day he learns that the Nazis have dragged his famous 1927 sculpture The Hovering Angel out of the Güstrow Cathedral. Barlach begins to reflect on his life of “inner emigration” and on his work.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-21
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Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...
Overview: The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in love with Angela. She, in turn, spends time with the clique whenever her mother is occupied with her new lover. "Kohle" stays away from home to avoid his dad's alcohol problem, and Karl-Heinz is on his way to becoming a small-time criminal. Due to their interest in western music and culture they are regarded as no-goods and rowdies. Things get interesting when an incident forces Dieter and "Kohle" to escape to West Germany. Written by c.winter
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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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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Bahnwärter Thiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-11-21
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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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Pinselheinrich
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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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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Anlauf
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-31
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Mohr und die Raben von London
Overview: London in 1856. Karl Marx is living in exile in the British capital. One day, "Mohr", as Marx is called by his friends, meets the 13-year old worker′s son Joe. The boy works every day for twelve hours in a spinning mill and even has to work night shifts although that violates current rules. Marx tries to end the illegal activities of the spinning mill owner and one night shows up at the mill together with an inspector. But his foray is undermined by a robbery by the rebellious raven gang that is led by Joe′s brother Billy. The spinning mill owner of course takes this chance to blame his young workers for the theft. But Marx is not let astray and does not stop to fight against child labour. Furthermore, he tries to get the members of the raven gang back on the straight and narrow – with success.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-03-22
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Mir nach, Canaillen
Overview: A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and devise clever plots. As a result, he is able to climb the ladder from herder to chamber master, where he makes a fool of the feudal lords.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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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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Love at 16
Overview: Although at first Ina barely takes any notice of Matti, the two teenagers gradually fall in love at their dance classes and begin their first real relationship. Their parents are upset about this development and try to prevent their children from seeing each other. But Ina and Matti continue to meet in secret and their first sexual experience together brings mixed feelings for Ina.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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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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Long Roads - Secret Love
Overview: Long-haul driver Hannes (Manfred Krug) picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb (Jaecki Schwarz), who had a falling-out with his parents after dropping out of college and now travels around doing odd jobs. After a series of adventures, they are joined by Johanna (Jutta Hoffmann) and her child, who missed their bus and need a ride to Berlin. Johanna has left her husband so that he can reflect on their broken relationship and both men gradually begin to fall in love with her.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-12-04
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The Rabbit Is Me
Overview: Maria, a young student sees her brother Dieter going to prison for sedition against the state. She starts an affair with Paul, a judge who turns out to be the one who sentenced her brother, which eventually leads to a confrontation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-10-25
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Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
Overview: Screen adaptation of Eichendorff's famous novella. A penniless drifter roams the land with his violin and preferably sings his songs to beautiful women. Two of his female admirers get him employed as a gardener at a castle. Yet he doesn't settle down for long, and moves on to his next temporary job as a customs officer. Finally, he travels to Italy where he joins the gang of Rinaldo Rinaldini and eventually meets the love of his life.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-10
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Die Unbesiegbaren
Overview: The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-03-13
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Effi Briest
Overview: In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house that she believes has a ghost.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-03-07
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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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Weil ich dich liebe …
Overview: Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about his ideas and modification proposals. Thus, the pretty and confident veterinarian Sabine Ladenbach becomes his only ally and soon they fall in love with each other. When Thiessen’s wife Eva notices that her husband is growing away from her, she starts to fight for him. Eventually, Thiessen realizes that Eva is the woman of his life, both privately and professionally. At the same time, he figures out that he needs the support of his team to achieve success in his field.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Netzwerk
Overview: Film by Ralf Kirsten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-09-02
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Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod
Overview: In 1903, Jan Anskath and his half-brother Martin are living in Rajgorod at the border between Russia and Prussia – Jan on the Russian, Martin on the Prussian side. Both are occasionally smuggling stuff over the border. But while Jan acts from political conviction and is smuggling illegal writings over the border, Martin is only interested in the money. That is why he does not question his shadowy client when he sneaks out refugees into Russia. But then it becomes evident that the distinguished gentleman has robbed the refugees from all of their belongings, only to turn them over to the authorities of the Czar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-18
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Eine Handvoll Hoffnung
Overview: Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war – a stroke of fate that has thrown the young woman off course emotionally. Indifferently, she is doing her work; her private life consists of an affair with a black-marketeer. Even when Anneliese witnesses an armed robbery, committed by infamous Wollnick and his gang, she stays lethargic and apathetic – she keeps silent instead of helping the inspector who is a friend of her aunt. It is not until Anneliese by coincidence meets her former lover, the watchmaker Kurt, that her life seems to take a positive turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-12
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P.S.
Overview: When he reaches age 18, Peter is released from the children's home where he grew up, but this does not mean he is truly ready for adult life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-29
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Brandstellen
Overview: Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin Kunze is still a member of this scene. Bruno, who still has left-wing beliefs, becomes her attorney. But when Karin gets into a shootout with the police, she has to go into hiding. The prosecuting attorney Baller has also been a former member of the anarchistic scene. He does not want his past to be revealed by Karin′s apprehension and prosecution. Thus, he asks Kappel to find Karin and sneak her out to a foreign country.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-16
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Des Henkers Bruder
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Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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Lotte in Weimar
Overview: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. The book's story tells of young love and suicide. In this East German film, based on a book by Thomas Mann, Lotte (Lilli Palmer) was the woman who served as the model for the heroine in the novel Werther. She comes to Goethe's hometown for a visit, and her experiences there eerily re-create episodes from the book. Goethe comes across as a pompous old bore, and his friends as pandering sycophants, in this very proper communist party-sponsored, anti-heroic movie.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-05-15
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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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Der Fremde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Brot und Rosen
Overview: Film by Thiel and Brandt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-09-27
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The Bicycle
Overview: Susanne is a young single mother who lives a somewhat "carefree" lifestyle. After quitting her job, she finds herself in trouble financially and attempts a minor insurance fraud to make ends meet. Despite its rare view of everyday socialism from a woman's perspective, East German officials were critical of this frank portrayal of a less-than-ideal socialist citizen and turned down all invitations for the film to be screened abroad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-07-22
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Hotelboy Ed Martin
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-11
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Gefährliche Fracht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-05-20
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Tempel des Satans
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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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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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Overview: This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-03-09
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Im Sonderauftrag
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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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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Junge Frau von 1914
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-17
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Die Rosenholzmöbel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-05-18
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Schlafwagen Paris-München
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-01-24
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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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