Johanna Clas
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 29, 1931
Deathday: October 21, 2009
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Gender: Female
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The Flight
Overview: When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-10-12
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Entlassen auf Bewährung
Overview: After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing apprenticeship and is released early for good behavior. While he is still on probation, money is stolen at the company where he works and everyone is quick to suspect Conny. Can he overcome his past mistakes and start fresh, or will the mistrust of his colleagues and friends become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-06-17
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The Second Track
Overview: In this German drama, Brock, a railroad inspector, witnesses a robbery at a train depot. He recognizes the thief, but turning the man in would mean acknowledging he knows him, thus revealing his own complicity with the Nazi war machine. When Brock’s daughter and her boyfriend begin to question him about the incident, will the secret he’s kept for nearly 20 years finally be exposed?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Chronicle of a Summer
Overview: In the late fifties a large industrial complex was built near Schwedt, in the GDR. This low budget film tells about the voluntary participation of the brigades of the Freie Deutsche Jugend in the building up …
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-15
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Die Nacht im Grenzwald
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-15
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Lutt Matten and the White Seashell
Overview: Eleven years old Lutt Matten lives near Baltic Sea and has only one dream - to go deep sea fishing independently and catch some eels.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-01-26
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The Suspicion
Overview: Two people love each other when they know they should not. Their parents' and friends' pleas, their social backgrounds and reputation, their careers; everything is used to make them give each other up. Flattery, lies and threats finally drive Frank to despair and Karin to treason. But it is not due to their parents' hatred, nor to any greed for inherited wealth. Rather, the mere conjecture expressed by the authorities is enough to set off a merciless mechanism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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Bear Ye One Another's Burden...
Overview: At the beginning of the 50s, two extremely disparate men meet in a private sanatorium for consumptives: an officer in the People's Police, Josef Heiliger; and a young Protestant curate, Hubertus Koschenz. On account of their consumption, they have to share a room. Initially, this is the only thing they have in common.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-27
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Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven
Overview: Little Sabine has spent her childhood in an orphanage after her parents died in a car accident. When one of the women in charge at the orphanage, Edith, leaves to have a baby, Sabine runs away, because Edith was the only adult there she could trust. She then wanders through the city to find someone to take her in. She meets a lot of people on her journey, but she seems out of place everywhere she goes until, at last, she realizes that there is a special place where she belongs.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-02
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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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Seitensprung
Overview: Edith and Wolfgang have led a fairly harmonious family life for many years, together with their son Danilo. Edith has long since got over Wolfgang's infidelity twelve years ago, which resulted in a daughter. Every now and then he visits 12-year-old Sandra, simply fulfilling his fatherly duties. But suddenly the girl appears at the door.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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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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Kaule
Overview: Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up with plans that are supposed to help others. Since they usually go awry, however, most of the time his fellow men have a hard time appreciating these plans. Things get even worse when Kaule meets Karola, a girl who is new in the village.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-05-06
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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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Mord ohne Sühne
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-06-27
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