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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 31, 1935
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Gender: Male
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Overview: The adventures of Kit Bellew and his friend Shorty during the gold fever at the end of the 19th century.
Genres: Adventure Western Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-12-15
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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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Overview: The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical student Dieter is dating art school student Sonja. Rather unintentionally, they exchange partners. During a carnival ball, Dieter makes out with Siegi because he falls for her her fresh and happy girlish manner. Sonja coolly observes this game and sees this intermezzo as a test for their relationship. While Siegi and Dieter vacation at the sea, Sonja falls in love with Edy. Now the die seems to be cast for new constellations. But when both couples stand in front of the registrar’s office, they finally come to their senses.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-08
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-11-21
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-02-25
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Overview: On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off on a journey to consult with his artistic role model, Albrecht Dürer. Although Ratgeb has always tried to stay out of the political conflict, his journey brings him face-to-face with peasant revolutionaries and the brutality and violence of their daily lives.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-24
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Overview: The story of Ulzana, an Apache chief who has reached a rapprochement with the local Mexican population and generously extends it to whites who travel through the territory. His people have become inured to the treacherous ways of the white man, however, and are now reliant on them for booze, 'relief flour' and beef steak.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-06-29
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Overview: The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from the beginning, the extensively staged “owl”, who is introduced as a criminal and over the course of time, especially due to the influence of the ABV, develops into a good citizen, and incorrigible characters, with whom the ABV fails with its extensive attempts at rehabilitation and who are arrested after having committed again offenses.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-26
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-05-04
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Overview: This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her bags, drives to Hoppegarten, and is soundly rejected by the head coach. Gabi doesn't want to give up, and in order to at least have a roof over her head, she rushes into a marriage with the seemingly nice Freddie. However, this marriage soon proves to be her second rejection, as Freddie openly dislikes the fact that she wants to be a jockey.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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Overview: This quirky episodic comedy weaves together three plotlines centered around the employees of a car garage, with some unexpected fairytale elements to get things moving. A woodland fairy convinces shy bookkeeper Piel to suddenly start driving his Trabi far above the speed limit. Manager Neumann sells his soul to a black cat in order to purchase a more respectable vehicle. And a spirit named "Car Accident" offers to warn owner Sengebusch about upcoming traffic accidents so he can make money by always being the first on the scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-06-16
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Overview: A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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Overview: The school authorities want to read success stories in director Joachim Faber's reports. But they cannot simply be produced on an assembly line. Pupils, for example, use the wrong tone. The matter draws circles until the superiors finally talk about refusal to work. Director Faber is caught between the efforts to resolve the conflict with pedagogical means and the pressure from above.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-07-08
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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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Overview: A fantasy story about the young boy Lutz who is looking, with two friends, for a missing magical bird.
Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-03-06
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-24
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Overview: Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, the line is to be electrified and Platow, who cannot cope with the new technology, has to work on a secondary local line. Georg, his son, a railway worker as well, is to attend a training course, but Georg refuses to go. Then his father comes to a surprising and highly unusual decision. He pretends to be Georg Platow, making himself twenty years younger than he really is and registers for the course.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-31
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-05-26
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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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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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Overview: Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth birthday because his father has told him the story of Icarus, and promised to take him on a sightseeing flight. When Matthias' father doesn't come home, he is devastated. He runs throughout the city, talks to his friend about the relationships of adults, looks for his father at his desk, and gets himself into conflict with the police. As he sits alone on the roof of a house, he comes to the conclusion that Icarus didn't plummet to the earth because he didn't listen to his father, but rather because his father had forgotten him.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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Overview: Slovakian villagers towards the end of WW II are despairing as German troops fall back to their village.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1975-01-24
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Overview: Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Overview: A story of Victor Jara - one of the most popular singers in Chile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-11
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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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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-02-10
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Overview: The main character Otto, the "best man", is a copy of the illustrious Mister Bean. He takes on an apprenticeship as a building-worker, which makes him a member of a building brigade. At the same time Otto tries to start a love affair, which he handles even clumsier. Never the less Otto makes progress with the lady in question, a single mother, who apparently doesn't mind. Actually he wanted her sister, but a retired Leninist party member changes his mind. This gives him the courage to persevere in his work, albeit with the helping hand of the obligatory retired party member. And behold, in the end Otto invents a new method of building, which saves the brigade many hours of work.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-11-27
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Overview: Young lieutenant Riedel, the leader of a motorized unit of NVA riflemen, is always concerned about his men. Thus, he is all the more happy that everything is running smoothly with the new recruits when he returns from his honeymoon. It seems to him that lance corporal Weißenbach, who is not only the oldest of the men but also a formidable armoured personnel carrier driver, has been a reliable stand-in for him. Thus, Riedel is all the more surprised when he learns that Weißenbach boosts the squad's performance with partly questionable methods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-06-29
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-07-25
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Overview: One year has passed since Max and Wanda got their divorce. Max has come to the realization that he wants his ex-wife back - no matter what the cost! So he concocts a sneaky plan: he asks Wanda to hide him from the police, who are apparently looking for him. At first, Wanda rejects all his attempts to restart their relationship. But she is soon unable to resist Max's convincing promises and even throws her lover out of the house. But then she discovers Max's lie.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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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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Overview: Seventeen-year-old Martina has a paralyzing fear of heights, which prevents her from fulfilling her father’s wish that they perform a tightrope act together. As she is quite taken with the black panthers in the circus, as well as their trainer Dittrich, she decides to be an animal trainer instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-04
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Overview: History teacher and coin collector Karl Schneider wants to track down an ancient coin while on vacation in Bulgaria. When he meets a group of musicians, he finds out that their singer Jana Christova is wearing this coin around her neck. He falls in love with her, but the young love soon faces some unexpected troubles. His travel companion, the pop singer Theobald, accompanies the events with music.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1965-05-20
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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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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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Overview: Christine inherits a sailboat from her father, whom she barely knew. Christine is a divorced single mother and her job at a research insitute leaves her with too much work and too little time to sail. She can't find anyone to buy the boat at full value, so she tries to repair it over the winter in the hopes of being able to get a better price in the spring. Working on the boat become something of an obsession to the detriment of Christine's relationships with her son, boyfriend and collegues. When the boat is finally ready to sell, she isn't sure that she is willing to part with it after all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-07-02
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-02-15
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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Overview: Mechanic Hannes Blaschke and his wife Maxi, who works as a bus driver, have just become happy parents of twins. Now they have a serious transportation problem: Their Trabant is far too small for the grown family that furthermore includes two sons and a dog. Thanks to the support of a state secretary and of his brigade, Hannes acquires a Tschaika – a limousine that is normally restricted to representational purposes – for a small price. Whereas Maxi views the state carriage only as a useful means of transportation, Hannes enjoys the unusual pre-emption he is receiving for the spectacular car. Hannes, who normally is just a humble guy, starts to grate his colleagues with his new affectations. Thus, they teach him an effective lesson: They decorate the state carriage with flowers and thus bring Hannes back down to earth in a humorous way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-06-27
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Overview: Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers. Manne, the father of her child, wanted to escape from the GDR and is in prison. After he is released, Manne wants to live again with Suse and their child together. But she rejects him as well as another worshiper. Suse is more interested in the Soviet engineer Boris, but apparently not for her, since he can never remember her at their chance encounters. But a much bigger problem - and a difficult one - is Suse, when she is offered to go to the Soviet Union for six months.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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Overview: Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of a son, the tragic death of his wife, the relationship of his daughter Ingrid with Dr. Beißert coincided with the need to move to an uninhabited area where a nuclear power plant will be built. Kamp, Ingrid and the members of the friendly brigade decide to act as the duty and the feeling of partnership prompts them, and gradually they all become participants in the new construction...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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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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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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Overview: A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain of him and his life. What happened to his four daughters? Do they take after him? How have they developed? His youngest daughter Nanny, who is still living with her father, gets her three other siblings to Weimar to visit their father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-02-26
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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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Overview: 1934, Germany. The ten-year-old Peter lives in a small town with his parents. His father, an underground Communist, is arrested. In the summer vacation the kids from the neighbourhood fight in two teams, which prevail in turns. One team, led by Ewald, imitates the Nazis, while the other, headed by Fritz, follows his Communist father's example.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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Overview: A film gala featuring a colorfully mixed program of musical numbers, along with the most popular artists of the GDR music, film and television scenes. The majority of the show is comprised of music performances, which are visually altered or transformed. Cabaret-style written contributions and one acts round out the program. Before each performance, the artists involved are seen in an everyday situation in their life.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Overview: After a ten-year absence, Severino returns to his tribe, the Manzeneros, who live on the edge of the Argentinian Andes. The reason for his visit is to take his younger brother back with him up north. However, in his home village, Severino finds a tense and troubled situation. His father Raymundo has recently been found dead. He was on the tracks of a gang of white bandits who had stolen cattle from both Indians and settlers. A sheep breeding company is behind these criminal machinations. This company seeks to drive the Indians and settlers off the fertile land so that they can purchase it cheaply.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Overview: Sabine Wulff is almost 18 when she is released from the juvenile detention center. She doesn't want to return to her unsupportive parents or to her former boyfriend Jimmy, who got her into trouble by persuading her to steal cigarettes. She instead chooses to begin an honest life by getting a job and renting her own room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-10
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-03
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Overview: The action takes place in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna in years 1932 and 1933, a time when the great Bulgarian revolutionary and internationalist Georgi Dimitrov was actively involved in establishing a broad alliance of democratic forces against the emerging threat of war and fascism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-10-21
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Overview: Film by Roland Oehme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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Overview: The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days. The children greet him with joy, but she greets him only with anxiety because their marriage is missing its key ingredient: love. She wants a divorce, but he refuses mainly out of comfort as well as due to pressure from the party. Katrin finds a strange solution: she shoplifts and is put on probation for three months. This is enough to force Richard into a divorce because he is concerned about the "moral liability" of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-04-03
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Overview: During a weekend spent on the island Hiddensee, the snobbish high school student Jan, who has just been expelled from school, meets Christine. Christine is impressed with his bragging attitude although he just uses it to hide his insecurity and his remorse about the fact that he was sacked. Naturally, he keeps quiet about his current situation. Christine’s companion Hannes is less thrilled about Jan. Later on, the three of them meet again at a dockyard in Stralsund. After the disreputable end of his school career, Jan is assigned to the very brigade in which Christine and Hannes work as a crane operator and a brigadier respectively.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-03-17
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Overview: Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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Overview: Film by Thiel and Brandt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-09-27
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Overview: The philosopher Democritus has a toothache, so a dentist from ancient Abdera sets off for his house. En route, he gets into a fight with a donkey driver. This conflict eventually causes all of Abdera to go crazy. Just when the city is seconds away from having a civil war, Democritus' apprentice shows up to ease the city's tensions with a gift.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-07-20
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Overview: Film by Frank Vogel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-06-08
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Overview: East German television film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-08-01
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Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-20
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Overview: Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-11-09
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Overview: As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Red Fox, who wanted information on where the tribe finds its gold. Two years later, at the height of the Great Sioux War, Tokei-ihto and Red Fox meet again.
Genres: Drama Western Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-30
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-23
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Overview: A young blacksmith, searching for happiness in a series of dreams, realizes that he must find a rejected princess and hold her hand. A fairytale after the Brothers Grimm.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-22
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Overview: A story about funny adventures young boy Mirco and a drillers blue helmet.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-10
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Overview: Reporters tell lies about East Germany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-02-09
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-02-03
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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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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-14
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-24
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Overview: The two-piece black and white movie "Brennende Ruhr" portrays the events during the Kapp-Putsch 1920 in a small german town in the Ruhr district. The main protagonist is Ernst Sukrow, a student who sympathises first with the bourgeois forces but finally decided to join the communists in their fight.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-26
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Overview: Two part movie about Einstein's escape from Germany in 1932 and his influence in the invention of the nuclear bomb in 1939.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-21
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-05-27
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Overview: The young communist Artur Becker fights with the Interbrigades against the Franco putschists during the Spanish Civil War. He had experienced his baptism of fire in Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic during the Kapp Putsch. He was seriously wounded and arrested. After an unsuccessful escape attempt, he was interrogated several times by Spanish and German putschists and then shot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-03-19
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