Hilmar Thate
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Biography: Hilmar Thate (1931–2016) was one of the most important stage actors in Germany. He also gained national and international recognition through impressive roles in film and television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dölau, Germany
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Birthday: April 17, 1931
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 14, 2016
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Veronika Voss
Overview: In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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Hurenglück
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-27
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Angels of Iron
Overview: The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-04-23
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The Ninth Day
Overview: A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-08-05
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Zement
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-02
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Variation
Overview: The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Fleur Lafontaine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Professor Mamlock
Overview: A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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The Elective Affinities
Overview: Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to come stay. Charlotte, meanwhile, decides that her foster daughter Ottilie should come live with them. Complex and passionate relationships between the four people begin. Based on Goethe's novel of the same title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-08-27
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Once is Never
Overview: A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local dance band, leaving him with no time to relax.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Divided Heaven
Overview: After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built and hoped that she would follow him …
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-10-02
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Krieger und Liebhaber
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-07-12
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The Sailor’s Song
Overview: A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-11-09
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Optimistische Tragödie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-05
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Dingo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-05-04
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Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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Zweikampf
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-07-03
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People with Wings
Overview: This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant. Director Dehringer offers him the opportunity to train as an airplane constructor if he is willing to give up his communist beliefs under oath. Bartuschek will not allow himself to be bought and instead joins the underground resistance movement.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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Operation Rubikon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-05-22
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Paths in the Night
Overview: Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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Hitlerkantate
Overview: Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to assist renowned composer Broch, who was ordered to compose a cantata for Hitler′s 50th birthday, it first seems like a dream fulfilled. Over the time, Broch and Ursula fall in love, and her relationship with the former communist gradually changes Ursula′s perspective on the realities of Nazi Germany. But falling in love with a Nazi means a huge moral conflict for Broch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-06-22
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Die letzte Chance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-09-09
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Die Tage der Commune
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-16
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Die zweite Haut
Overview: A divorced woman tries to restart her life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-08
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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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Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
Overview: In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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Ein Mann und sein Schatten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-21
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Frei zum Abschuß
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Die Hose
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-10-05
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Dom Juan
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-04-23
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Die Frau am Pranger
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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Mother Courage and Her Children
Overview: During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wagon. She does not care if it's Catholics or Protestants she trades with as long as business thrives. She loses her three children as a result of the war: bold and spirited Eilif, sincere and upright Swiss Cheese and mute Katrin, who saves the children of Halle by beating a drum on a farmstead roof In wartime, the Fierling children's virtues prove to be deadly. Yet, Mother Courage, remains incorrigible. She will not have anyone "spoil the war" for her and so sets out once more after the soldiers with her wagon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-02-10
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Jahrgang 21
Overview: Film by Václav Gajer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Unbändiges Spanien
Overview: Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika
Overview: George Grosz, born on July 26th in Berlin, vicious draftsman and painter of the face of the ruling class, enfant terrible of the 1920s, accused of pornography and blasphemy, was one of the most popular visual artists of the Weimar Republic. Little is known, however, that Grosz spent half of his artistically productive life in the USA before returning to Berlin in 1959.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-02-15
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Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz
Overview: Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works, including The Weavers' Revolt (1893-97), The Peasant War (1902-08), Woman with the Dead Child (1903) and War (1922-23), her famous series of seven woodcuts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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Der Galgensteiger
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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Preludio 11
Overview: Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-03-19
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Filmsommerliches
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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Memento
Overview: A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots of gravestones and inscriptions – deported, murdered, perished; in Auschwitz or Theresienstadt. Commentary reminds us of the victims – "in 1933, 160,564 Jewish citizens lived in Berlin; in 1945, 3,500".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-02-16
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Berlin - Moskau
Overview: By coincidence, a couple who have just fallen in love are targeted by the Russian mafia, who have made a deal with a shady Berlin businessman and a corrupt politician. When the young woman is kidnapped, her boyfriend sets off on a dangerous search for her.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-08
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