Rolf Ludwig
Also Known As: Рольф Людвиг
Biography: Rolf Ludwig (28 July 1925 – 27 March 1999) was a German actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: July 28, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 27, 1999
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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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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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The Man with the Objective Lens
Overview: A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Who's Afraid of the Devil
Overview: Based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm: Jakob is a poor farmer′s boy. Because of his timidity that even makes him run away from mice, he is often ridiculed by other people. Even the king is ill-disposed towards him. One day he sends Jakob to the devil to rob him of three golden hairs. This is supposed to be Jakob′s certain death. But naïve Jakob gets going and on his way even promises the oppressed subjects of the king to ask the devil for a way out of their misery.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-04
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The Tinder Box
Overview: A young soldier discovers three chests of copper, silver and gold and an old tinder-box in the hollow of an old oak tree. He is now rich. But he squanders the money until it is all gone. All he has left is the old tinder-box. He uses it to light a small pipe and three large dogs come to his rescue. Based on the fairy-tale by Hans Christian Anderson.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-04-17
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Moritz in der Litfaßsäule
Overview: No one has any time for Moritz. And at school, things are not exactly the greatest either. Moritz runs away and moves into the inside of an advertising pillar. A speaking cat, a circus girl and a street sweeper become his new friends. Gradually, they help the young boy to realize that running away does not solve anything.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-11-27
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Zement
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-02
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Späte Ankunft
Overview: In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the Prussian district of Westprignitz from the late Dr. Tochtenhagen. His decision was met with incomprehension everywhere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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Camping, Camping
Overview: The fully loaded Trabi rolled towards the Baltic Sea and father Detlef is for once in excellent mood. Did he not agreed with his friend Alfred, located immediately each issue back with an urgent telegram from the resort. But as the two then adventurous go stalking in the jungle of the big city, they experience a failure after another. Sullen Detlef longs for marriage Trott and campground. There would be matched and over the years rather bland become married woman Eveline is undergoing a remarkable transformation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-12
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Das Buschgespenst
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-12-26
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Fatal Error
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, the Wyoming Oil Company has established itself in the vicinity of Wind River City at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, where they have been illegally pumping oil from Native American territory. One of the company's greedy agents, Mike Allison, kicks out both his white partners and the Native Americans. He has his some of his associates secretly murdered and blames it on the Native Americans, who are then killed when they get in the way of his plans. Five chiefs with lifelong shares in the Oil Company die mysteriously as a result. The young chief Shave Head asks his a half-blooded brother Chris Howard for help.
Genres: Western Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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Die Zwillinge
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-27
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Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-02
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Seine Hoheit – Genosse Prinz
Overview: Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohenlohe-Liebenstein. His royal grandmother designates him as the heir to her estate. A private trip to her reveals that she does not want a NATO airbase built on her land. The GDR and his grandmother thus find a common interest, and a clever lawyer from the East works against other family members looking to settle their debts with the estate money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-08-15
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Levin's Mill
Overview: In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-11-13
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Käthe Kollwitz – Pictures of a Life
Overview: Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-04-23
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Viel Lärm um nichts
Overview: Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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Der Richter von Zalamea
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-04-19
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As Long as There’s Life in Me
Overview: This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat, workers’ leader and a virulent antimilitarist, is one among 110 SPD members of Parliament who vote against approving war loans. From then on, he is considered un-German and a traitor to the fatherland, and his own party’s leadership turns against him. Despite threats, Liebknecht speaks up against the war and writes the manifesto “The Main Enemy Is at Home.” Even when he is arrested and charged with treason, he does not surrender.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-09
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The Captain from Cologne
Overview: Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage and becomes the Director of the Montan Corporation, and a member of the West German Parliament. Herr Karjanke, the real Captain, learns of Albert’s ruse, and wants to claim his "rightful" position in Parliament. But Karjanke cannot come forward until his politicking "Doppelganger" succeeds in passing an amnesty law for war criminals. When Albert is finally brought before a judge on charges of fraud, he learns that this own amnesty law does not apply to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-12-07
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Maiden, You Please Me
Overview: A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-03-20
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Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Overview: Everything changes for fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke, a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, when he learns that his father, who died as a war hero, was actually Jewish. Heinz is forced to leave school, loses his friends, and worst of all, his mother dies in a bombing raid. A kind-hearted police officer tries to get him a place at an orphanage in Thuringia, but on the way there, he is picked up by the SS and sent to a training camp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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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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Optimistische Tragödie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-05
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The Russians Are Coming
Overview: It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During the hunt for a forced labourer who is on the run, Günter catches him and watches as he is shot to death. He proudly accepts the award of an Iron Cross before being shipped to the nearby front as part of the last contingent of troops. He is quickly captured by Soviet soldiers, but manages to escape and return home. When the town is occupied by the Red Army, Günter is arrested for the murder of the forced labourer. The film was banned in 1968 before it was completed, and a large portion of the negative was later destroyed.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-02-02
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Ich zwing dich zu leben
Overview: Germany at the end of World War II: Teacher Grübler lives in a small village in the Ore Mountains together with his 15-year old son Wolfgang. At school, the dutiful Grübler, a member of the NSDAP, teaches his pupils to volunteer for military service, but when his own son volunteers for the Waffen SS, he is nevertheless shocked and fears for his boy′s life. But Wolfgang starts to hate his father for his doubts: He thinks his father is a coward. In his desperation, Grübler chains and kidnaps his son to hide him in a dugout in the forest until the end of the war. In their shelter, father and son are fighting bitterly but when the Nazis who still believe in the "Endsieg" discover their hideout, Grübler sacrifices his life to save Wolfgang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-04-19
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Farewell
Overview: In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will not take part in this war. This resolution signifies a turning point in his life; a farewell to his class and his family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-10-10
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Italienisches Capriccio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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Stein
Overview: Actor Ernst Stein, having abdicated from the stage in 1968 in protest of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, has long since retreated from the world around him. In a remote house encircled by an overgrown garden, he lives in a world of dreams and memories. Suddenly, in 1989, an out-of-kilter society sends forth its progeny. Young people, tramps and characters of all sorts take refuge with Stein for a short span, carrying the turmoil of the times into his house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-19
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Nikolaikirche
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-10-17
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Die Grünstein-Variante
Overview: The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-04-19
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Im Sonderauftrag
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Das Stacheltier - Das Gesellschaftsspiel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-12-31
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Der blaue Boll
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-12-13
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Lenz
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-05-24
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The Gleiwitz Case
Overview: Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Zünd an, es kommt die Feuerwehr
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-02-08
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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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Der Mann und sein Name
Overview: Based on a story by Anna Seghers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-05-29
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Career
Overview: Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.
Genres: Drama Crime War History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-15
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Winter Child
Overview: Winterkind tells a tragic story of the Russian Yelena, who after seven years of captivity learns that her son Boris, born in the camp, has been adopted by a German couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-12-03
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A Strange Love
Overview: After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. He is a widower with two sons, with the younger son just entering school. She is single and relatively satisfied in her current relationship with a married colleague. When they meet again later, they resolve to enter into a strictly intellectual relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-09-18
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Wo andere schweigen
Overview: Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new legislative session because at seventy-five, she is the oldest representative in the German Reichstag. Although she is ill and almost blind, she see this as her chance to make her voice heard amid the growing Nazi influence in Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-03
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Schwein gehabt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-02-11
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The Fiancee
Overview: The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée enables her to survive the tribulations of her time in prison, where she is one of few political prisoners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-09-05
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Thomas Müntzer
Overview: In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to assume the rectorate. As a follower of Luther′s teachings, he finds in the Bible not only reasons for clerical, but also for secular reforms. But when Luther turns away from the rural population after a discord with Müntzer, it is Müntzer who becomes the peoples′ spokesman. He is forced to go to Southern Germany, where he convenes with revolting farmers. But his way leads him back to Thuringia. In 1525, he and Heinrich Pfeiffer form the centre of the Thuringian peasant uprising in Mühlhausen, but their success is diminished by the fact that peasants and craftsmen don′t seem to be able to work together. In Frankenhausen, Müntzer becomes the leader of a peasants′ army that is set to fighting the ruler′s army – and sustains a devastating loss. Müntzer is arrested and sentenced to death by decapitation for his insurgency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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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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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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Despite It All!
Overview: October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social Democrats oppose him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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Der Biberpelz
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-24
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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 Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-23
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Dusk: 1950s East Berlin Bohemia
Overview: A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-12-15
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Eine Pyramide für mich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-12-04
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School Ghost
Overview: Carola is a mischievous girl who doesn't care much for school- except for sports and recess, of course. Without her good friend Willi to keep her on the straight and narrow, she would really be in trouble. One day at school, Carola has an idea. She invents what she calls "International Ghosts' Day" and a ghost named "Buh" to go with it. When Buh turns out to be less-than-imaginary the two decide to switch places, with Buh taking on all the schoolwork, and Carola taking the opportunity to play practical jokes on all her friends...
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-07-03
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Meine Frau Inge und meine Frau Schmidt
Overview: Film by Roland Oehme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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The Land Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-03-19
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Der kleine Kuno
Overview: What do grown-ups actually do at night? Little Kuno has been asking himself this question a lot lately. One day, the curious six-year-old decides to get to the bottom of it and sneaks outside his house at night. He wanders around the streets aimlessly and experiences some very exciting things.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-06-11
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Flucht ins Schweigen
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-05-27
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Die heute über 40 sind
Overview: Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-20
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Der Teufelskreis
Overview: Shortly after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933, preparations were underway to silence the members of the socialist and communist parties.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-01-13
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Drei Mädchen im Endspiel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-04-19
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Mich dürstet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-07-19
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Sommerliebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Sein großer Sieg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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Sommer, Sonne, AK 8
Overview: This documentary, intended to inspire new home filmmakers, tells the stories of ordinary people who learned how to make their own films by renting inexpensive AK 8 cameras. A young couple documents their vacation on the Baltic Sea, a garden plot community celebrates a party, and comrades from a sports club even film themselves playing cards underwater. The film's sarcastically humerous commentary on everyday life plays with clichés and taboos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-11-19
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Herberge für einen Frühling
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-06-02
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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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