Willy Birgel
Also Known As: Вилли Биргель, Wilhelm Maria Birgel
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Köln, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: September 19, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 29, 1973
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Heidi und Peter
Overview: Heidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats. In winter, she stays in the village and attends school. One day, a letter arrives from Heidi's German friend, Klara Sesemann, announcing her visit. Klara indeed appears the next summer along with her grandmother and the prim governess Miss Rottenmeyer. Klara is quickly convinced to stay with Heidi, but Peter becomes resentful that Heidi now spends so little time with him...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-08
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Heidi
Overview: Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he resents her presence, but, after a short while, Heidi manages to pierce his gruff exterior, and the two become close. She also befriends a young shepherd named Peter. After three years, Heidi's aunt arrives and demands Heidi's return to Frankfurt.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-11-13
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To New Shores
Overview: A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Overview: A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-12-11
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The Traitor
Overview: This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-19
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The Final Chord
Overview: After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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Der Blaufuchs
Overview: Ilona, the bored wife of an easily distracted professor, falls in love with his friend Tibor, a world-traveler and ladykiller. Although she pursues him, he declines to take advantage of the situation, because she's married to his best friend. Only after her husband shows an interest in a co-worker is it possible for a happy ending to take place for the two new couples.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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Johannisnacht
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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Das ewige Spiel
Overview: A woman between two men. Horror melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-03-21
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Barcarole
Overview: A young reckless womaniser is trapped one night at his club into a bet with a Mexican that he will win his wife before morning. There will be a duel in any case: if he loses his bet the Mexican will fire first.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-03-03
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Coffin from Hong Kong
Overview: A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.
Genres: Action Mystery Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-08-21
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Agent 505 - Death Trap Beirut
Overview: A couple of beautiful girls are murdered while sunbathing at a luxury hotel. The killer too is murdered, but able to reveal – before dying - that they were disposed of because the “knew too much”. Something bad is being planned in Beirut, and it has something to do with a man called The Sheikh, who has only four fingers. It seems this isn’t a lone incident. The Sheikh is also thought to be behind the assassination of several prominent scientists.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-22
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Frau Cheneys Ende
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-09-27
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Liebe kann wie Gift sein
Overview: After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When returning to her father, she is looked after by an educator who lacks the ability to guide the longing for love of an adolescent girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-07-22
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Joan of Arc
Overview: France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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Ein Herz kehrt heim
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-10-25
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The Heart of a Queen
Overview: As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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A Man Wants to Get to Germany
Overview: On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-07-25
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Hotel Sacher
Overview: Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there’s an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in the air. It is with this background that Nadja, a Russian spy, meets the Austrian civil servant Stefan. He loves her, but comes under suspicion of being an agent because of this love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-03-15
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Menschen ohne Vaterland
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-02-16
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....reitet für Deutschland
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-08-18
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Cavalry Captain Wronski
Overview: A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-11
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No Shooting Time for Foxes
Overview: Two old school friends, both in their late twenties. One lives on his parent’s rural estate and does nothing; the other half-heartedly pursues work as a journalist in Düsseldorf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-06-27
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Chased by the Devil
Overview: A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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When the Evening Bells Ring
Overview: A woman marries a rich landowner, by request of her parents, instead of her lover who's child she's expecting. After a couple of years, the father of the child returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-12-21
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When the Bells Sound Clearly
Overview: Austrian count von Warthenberg is a grumpy stud-farm-recluse since his wife's death. Ths summer, his old lover Susanne Weiden arrives, hoping for a 'fat' marriage and inheritance. But his daughter Hanna made other plan with secret lover Michael, teacher of Vienna's world-famous Wiener Sängerknaben, who will spend their Alpine countryside holiday in the village. Among them is adolescent Michael 'Mikel', son of the count's estranged elder daughter Maria. The plan is to make grandpa and knave meet and bond before their blood-ties are revealed. A stray dog accidentally and equestrian genes help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-29
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Diesel
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-02-09
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Faded Melody
Overview: After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at Thomas' place in Berlin. Although she confesses her love for him, Thomas asks his brother Werner to look after Barbara, as he feels he is too consumed by work and doesn't wish to be bound to anyone. Only after a fight with his brother does Thomas realize how much in love with Barbara he really is; but by that time, she has left him. For years, Thomas searches in vain for her until one day he meets her in New York ... where she is now married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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Kongo-Express
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Passionate Doctor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-20
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Fanny Elssler
Overview: Prince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt---Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles---son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking about French politics. Gentz enlists the help of ballerina Fanny Elsser, all the rage in several European capitals, to keep the Duke distracted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-11-04
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One Too Many on Board
Overview: During a journey of the "Ceder", the Captain, von Moltmann, disappears. It looks like an accident, but it could also have been murder. Attorney Dr. Burger and superintendent Störensen discover quickly that two of the crewmen hated the Captain: Chief officer Rohlfs suspects an affair between his fianceé Gerda and von Moltmann. Chief engineer Sparkuhl thinks the Captain has seduced his niece, who later committed suicide. The court decides that the Captain has gone overboard without anyone else's "help", but the rumors don't come to an end.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-31
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Black Roses
Overview: Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment. Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him. But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher. The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-12-23
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Der Fall Deruga
Overview: The physician Dr. Deruga is suspected of having poisoned his wife out of greed. She died after naming Deruga, poor and in debt, the sole heir in her will. There are a lot of people willing to testify against him in court, including Marta, the dead woman's best friend. Only his niece Mingo believes him to be innocent and goes out on her own to prove it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-09-21
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Enemies
Overview: The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-07
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Comrades
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Prince Woronzeff
Overview: Baron Franz von Naydek is constantly being mistaken for Prince Woronzeff, since both look identical. One day, Woronzeff decides that this similarity might come in handy. Since he is very ill and can no longer deal with the intrigues of his relatives, he begs his friend Naydek to play the role of prince for a while. Naydek agrees and everything seems to be going splendidly. Woronzeff’s ex-nag Diane sees through the game, however, but says nothing, since she’s fallen for Naydek. He, in turn, has the hots for Nadja, Woronzeff’s daughter, long thought lost and who has now reappeared. The prince’s relatives fear for their inheritance and so refuse to acknowledge Nadja’s existence. In the interim, Woronzeff dies. Now Naydek is obliged to play the role for a much longer time than he bargained for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Operation Michael
Overview: During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-06
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Geheimzeichen LB 17
Overview: It is purely coincidental that an assassination attempt against the Minister of Defense is thwarted. The attempt on his life was made by a group of anarchists. There's an investigation of the clues, which will doubtless lead to the perpetrators; but the investigating commissioner has to proceed carefully, for it is likely there is a traitor in his ranks.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-08-06
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Der dunkle Tag
Overview: Wolf Burkhardt, who has acquired mining rights in Africa, returns home to get financing for his project. At the same time, he'd like to renew his youthful love for Georgia, but is eventually, and falsely, suspected of fraudulent activities and returns back to Africa. It is only with the passing of five years that he sees his beloved once more. In the interim, she has married a state's prosecutor and they have a daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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Du gehörst zu mir
Overview: Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That his personal life is suffering because of this obsession is something the successful doctor doesn't notice. His wife Vera, who, after the death of their three year old son, is always alone anyway, feels increasingly neglected. And the love, which she apparently isn't able to get from her husband, she seeks from Dr. Groone, her husband's assistant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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Ich brauche Dich
Overview: The actress Julia Bach is married to the famous director, Professor Paulus Allmann; however, no one is to know about the marriage. Julia doesn't want a career simply because she has a famous spouse. For that reason, Paulus always has to go on his concert tours alone. It's no wonder then, that he soon starts to feel neglected. These feelings of neglect are encouraged by his ex-wife Hedi, who's always hanging around. When Paulus one day forgets his wife's birthday, she goes on the rampage in the presence of guests. Wounded, Paulus leaves their home. Julia thinks there's only one way to save their marriage: for one year -- until her next birthday -- they are not to see one another. In that period of time, it should be abundantly clear whether they belong together or not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-05-12
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Im Tempel der Venus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-02-27
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The Brothers Noltenius
Overview: Wolf Noltenius is a real globetrotter. Early on, this talented young man travelled far and wide, where he earned fame as a construction planner. He moved to Brazil; but one day, homesickness got the best of him. He spontaneously travelled back to his hometown to visit his brother Werner and his family. Wolf and Werner, who both went into the same profession, couldn't be any more different: the one is worldly and an experienced man-about-town; the other a small bourgeois.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-02-23
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Musik in Salzburg
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-09-08
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The Heir
Overview: A few days before the planned wedding of the chief inheritor von Halleborg, he experiences a terrible blow: his beloved bride Julia has a riding accident and dies of her injuries. Von Halleborg becomes a broken man and chooses not to waste another moment thinking of love -- his heart belongs to Julia ... forever. In doing so, von Halleborg runs the risk of losing his entire estate, for the conditions of inheritance make all to clear that if he does not marry by his 45th birthday, the estate is to be turned over to someone else. Von Halleborg had already made peace with this fact until he discovers that the future lord of the manor will be his nephew Oskar, a selfish and ruthless scoundrel, concerned only with money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-06-06
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Don't Ask My Heart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-08-27
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Between Time and Eternity
Overview: Between Time and Eternity
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-11-15
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Der Kreidegarten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-29
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The Priest and the Girl
Overview: A priest falls in love with a rich man's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Rosenmontag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-05
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Melody Beyond Love
Overview: Marlene Roedern is a student at the Salzburg Mozarteum, as is her boyfriend, Hans Hellmer, a promising conductor. Strothoff, a government cultural representative, engages Hans to conduct at Hamburg. While in Salzburg, Strothoff meets Marlene, who works as a tourist guide in order to pay her tuition fees. He hires her for an all-night tour of the city. She becomes infatuated with him and he with her. Hans is not happy about this.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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Die Fee
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-17
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Die Toteninsel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-08-22
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Ein Mann vergißt die Liebe
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-17
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Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-11-14
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Andorra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-10-17
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The Chaplain of San Lorenzo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-02-26
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Stars Over Colombo
Overview: Adventure film in an exotic setting based on the “Indian Tomb”: While visiting a circus in Germany, the Indian maharajah Gowan sees the rider Yrida, who comes from Swedish nobility. The maharajah falls in love with the circus rider and quickly sends the entire circus to Ceylon, where he courts Yrida. But Yrida loves someone else: the student Gowaran, who she does not know is the maharajah's son. In order to get Yrida completely under his control, the maharaja has her drugged and abducted to his castle in India.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-17
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Circus Girl
Overview: Sequel to “Stars above Columbo”: Yrida, a circus rider who has been abducted to India, wakes up in the maharajah's palace, where the court physician convinces her that she has only dreamed all the terrible events. The maharaja tries to win her love. At the same time, assassins are planning to overthrow the maharaja. The maharaja's son, Gowaran, falls under suspicion. His innocence is only proven when the temple dancer and lover of the maharaja chooses suicide. The maharaja abdicates and appoints his son as his successor. Now Yrida gets the man she really loves.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-05
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Ride to Freedom
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-14
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Ballerina
Overview: Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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Beyond Control
Overview: Germany 1934. In the middle of a southern German forest, a number of mannequins are placed on the two men, Waldemar Velte and Kurt Sandweg from Wuppertal, with their repeating rifles organize shooting practice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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Die Heilige und ihr Narr
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
Overview: Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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Romanze in Venedig
Overview: Deeply disappointed by her bridegroom, Andrea flees from Bruggern to the south and experiences a beautiful "Romance in Venice". She falls in love with the boyish-charming pianist Stefan Schröder. But a misunderstanding leads to breakage. Andrea returns pregnant to Germany. Stefan signs a contract for America. And the years go by .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-09-27
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Der Meteor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-23
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Sind wir das nicht alle?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-08-08
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Professor Sound und die Pille
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Hippodrome
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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Der Gefangene der Botschaft
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-03-22
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Maria Ilona
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-14
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Der Gouverneur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-04-22
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Leb’ wohl, Christina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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Die blonde Frau des Maharadscha
Overview: Maharaj Gowan is in love with the blonde circus rider Yrida. However, the son of the Maharaj also have strong feelings for her.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-05-03
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Ihr Bräutigam
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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Die Erbin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-07-09
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Die Jahre vergehen
Overview: The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-02-06
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Don Juan in der Hölle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-10
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