Otto Mellies
Also Known As: Отто Меллис, Otto Ewald Ernst Mellies
Biography: Otto Mellies was a German actor on stage, in film and television, and a voice actor. He was known for his performance of the title role of Lessing's Nathan the Wise on stage 325 times.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stolp, Pomerania, Germany (now Slupsk, Pomorskie, Poland)
Birthday: January 19, 1931
Deathday: April 26, 2020
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Superstau
Overview: Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year everything ends in a big traffic jam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-03-21
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Die klugen Dinge
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-30
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Driving School
Overview: In the GDR, purchasing a car was such a difficult process that many families applied for one years in advance. For example, Gisela secretly orders a Wartburg model after the birth of her first child. By the time the vehicle is ready, her daughter is a teenager, and Gisela's husband, who actually prefers walking, has already bought a second Wartburg from a friend in financial trouble. As a result, the couple decides to sign up for driving school together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-11-20
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Mord am Meer
Overview: Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of the RAF. Without initially disclosing that he not only knew the dead man but was even related to him, Glauberg begins to investigate, supported by the young, attractive but inexperienced BKA officer Paula Reinhardt. The traces lead to Berlin to the scattered remnants of the RAF and its still functioning cable groups. Wolgast lived there in a shared apartment before he, like so many former terrorists, fled to the GDR in the 1980s. A former roommate of Hans Veith Seewald points out the parallel to Glauberg to a murder case from 1978.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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According to Plan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-06-26
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Credo: Martin Luther - Wittenberg 1517
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-10-27
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Martin Luther
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-09
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Heimweh nach der Zukunft. Max Steenbeck erzählt
Overview: Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-27
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Der Winter ist ein harter Mann
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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Das Staatsgeheimnis
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Folge einem Stern
Overview: A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a teacher training college, he is faced with the task of preparing young people for life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-18
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Jugend ohne Gott
Overview: A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi ideals as time goes on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-11-24
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Knocked Up
Overview: Kerstin is a successful department head of a tax consulting firm in Berlin. She is respected and feared by her employees. Only one thing is too short in her life: for years she had no sex and no husband by her side. At the company, she wants to show that she can also party properly. The next morning, she wakes up in a hotel bed with two employees next to her: the hated opponent Simon and the "footman" Gregor. With the aid of her assistant Achim, she has lost all the memories of the previous evening. Her employees are forcing her to silence. Four months later, she realizes that she is pregnant and one of her nightmares is the father.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-07-23
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Back on Track
Overview: A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-10
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Changing Skins
Overview: Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-09-24
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Public Enemies
Overview: Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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Stopped on Track
Overview: Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-19
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Die letzte Begegnung
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-04-24
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Klassenkameraden
Overview: The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many years returning to the familiar places of his childhood, he hopes to meet again his old friends, especially Fred, Helmuth and Richard, with whom he had a close childhood friendship. When confronted with a murder shortly after his arrival and given the task of investigating it, he has the painful experience that his friends are involved in the case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-11-18
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Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück
Overview: This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm. After the war, the King - in an unwarranted move - deprives the major of his honor. Von Tellheim becomes impoverished and, filled with shame, breaks off his relationship to Minna. An innkeeper in Berlin, who is a police informer, makes the Major move to a shabby little attic because he cannot pay his debt. In the meantime, Minna has also arrived at the inn. She and her lady's maid Franziska are questioned and spied on by the nosy innkeeper. Minna has followed her beloved Tellheim and she now cunningly manages to elicit a new declaration of love from him...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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Intrigue and Love
Overview: Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. They fall in love with each other, but both their fathers urge them to end the affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-11-09
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Ein brauchbarer Mann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-10-18
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Pension Boulanka
Overview: A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating team.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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Hocus-Pocus Fidibus
Overview: In works like “Guide Dog Ruepel” (1962), Bärbl Bergmann was the first feature film director in the GDR to portray children in their often pitiless but also honest dealings with each other, something that was almost impossible in the documentary films of that period. But she also managed to sneak lessons on how to pursue educational goals with creative obstinacy into popular science films. Thus her educational piece about two boys who discover that magic, too, requires hard work, despite its rational approach, is far from disenchanting: The protagonists reach their conclusion via detours that take them through mysterious corridors, furtive looks through keyholes and bewitching dreams.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Die Gipfelstürmerin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-04-26
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Des Drachens grauer Atem
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-06-03
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Verräter
Overview: Documentary on the former border patrol sergeant Klein. Klein deserted in 1961, defected to the enemy and betrayed state and military secrets. He was caught by the security forces.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Berlin - Hauptstadt der DDR I
Overview: A portrait of East Berlin
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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In the Shadow of Karakorum
Overview: In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Karakoram Mountains, geographically north of the Himalayas. They come across the Hunza, a people who live in the valley of the same name and believe they are descended from the soldiers of Alexander the Great. The documentary conveys impressions of the poor life of the Hunza people, the harvest, a court hearing, festivals and the children's everyday school life. Finally, the expedition sets off again and sets up its main camp on the moraine ridge of a glacier, where they measure the glacier and the earth's magnetic field. Finally, some men from the research community set off for a sub-peak of Batura.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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Natascha - Wettlauf mit dem Tod
Overview: When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best possible treatment. Unfortunately, they decide against chemotherapy in favor of a gentle natural remedy. When the hospital doctors notice that the child's condition is deteriorating, the necessary race against time can only begin once the parents are convinced of the effectiveness of conventional therapy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-03-31
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Die Deutschlehrerin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-10-19
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Trampen nach Norden
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Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-26
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Einer muß die Leiche sein
Overview: A group of tourists from the GDR spend their holiday at the coast of Bulgaria. When making a trip to a small fisher house, they have to stay they night, because the ship's motor broke down. One of the group proposes a game: Someone has to be a corpse, one the detective and another one the murderer. But shortly after starting the game the "corpse" has vanished only to befound at the foot of the nearby cliff - being dead for real. Now the group start their investigation...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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Der Uranberg
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-17
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Mord in bester Familie
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-03-21
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Das Mädchen und der Junge
Overview: Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-12-24
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Sein letzter Fall
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Sichel Gottes
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-10
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The Faithful Robot
Overview: GDR TV play based on a story by Stanislaw Lem.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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The Beautiful Lurette
Overview: The beautiful and charming laundress Lurette is a well sought-after young woman in Ludwig XV’s Paris. Her heart is already taken, however, and she makes elaborate plans during Carnival to obtain the man she truly loves, the carpenter Campistrel. During her plans to make Campistrel jealous and recognize his love for her, she meets the Duke of Marly, who plans to make her his mistress. The unsuspecting Lurette finds herself caught in a love triangle, and her peer, Marcelline, must save the beautiful Lurette from these scandalous schemes.
Genres: Comedy Music History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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Die Liebe und die Königin
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Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-02
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Zahl bar, wenn du kannst
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-03
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Schulmeister Spitzbart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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Marta, Marta
Overview: East Berlin, late 1970s: Because she doesn't really have any particular career aspirations, Marta becomes a nurse. And since true love is a long time coming, the 17-year-old seduces Monty, the young man next door. Then there are her parents' marital problems. Marta is in the middle of the exciting trials of growing up.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-26
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Berühmte Ärzte der Charité: Der Mann aus Jena
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-06-20
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Der Kristallspiegel
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-08
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Der Arzt von Bothenow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-23
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Der Geisterseher
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-04-03
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Narrenweisheit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-07-02
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Die traurige Geschichte von Friedrich dem Großen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-08
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Nathan der Weise
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Gefährliche Nähe und Du ahnst nichts
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-08-09
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Risiko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-05-13
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Mord im märkischen Viertel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-06
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Der Unfallzeuge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-11-23
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Wie ein Vogel im Schwarm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-25
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Simplon-Tunnel
Overview: A sociohistorical drama about the construction of the Simplon-tunnel: A conflict develops when German workers want to strike and fight for better working conditions while Italian workers simply want to earn money and provide for their families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-06-12
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Sommerliebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-04-08
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Adelsnest
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-02-22
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