Martin Benrath
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: November 09, 1926
Deathday: January 31, 2000
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Film Narrator
Overview: Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances are changing dramatically these days in Germany, he gets new hope that things will again be going better for him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-11-25
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Stalingrad
Overview: A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-20
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From the Life of the Marionettes
Overview: Peter and Katarina are at a marital crossroads, but, when he brutally kills a burlesque dancer, their domestic squabbles are rendered trivial by comparison. In the wake of the crime, the film backtracks, painting a portrait of the fraught union between Peter and Katarina. When does a marriage go bad? What causes a member of the German bourgeoisie to murder an innocent woman?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-10-08
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Morituri
Overview: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-24
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Beresina
Overview: A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in the Alps than reality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-08-20
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Heidemelodie
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Berlinger
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-06
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Put on Ice
Overview: In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher Brasch implicates secret service agent Körner and the government in the suicide of a young teen. As a result Brasch and the exposed Körner are fired.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-05-20
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Schtonk!
Overview: Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-03-12
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The White Rose
Overview: During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-24
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Success
Overview: For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Bei Tag und Nacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-05
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Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg
Overview: Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures.
Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-01-14
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Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-05
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Der Engel mit dem Flammenschwert
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-21
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Tausend Melodien
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-06-18
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Court Martial
Overview: In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tried and subsequently executed.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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The Ideal Woman
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-24
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Wir sind noch einmal davongekommen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-15
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Minna von Barnhelm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Night train D 106
Overview: 'Please help me!' the young GDR refugee begs the passengers of the interzonal train 'D 106'. He has just jumped on the night train during an unforeseen stop - to get to the west as quickly as possible. He can't go back, and in less than an hour they reach the German-German border - without stopping. The passengers meanwhile begin to ask themselves serious questions: Am I helping the young man and risking my own safety? Or is that too dangerous for me? While people are racking their brains, not only is the train racing away, but time is too ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-06-16
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Oberst Wennerström
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-10-25
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Gespenster
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-12
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Die Mission
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-29
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Die Mitschuldigen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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Das Attentat - Heydrich in Prag
Overview: Based on historical events, the film tells the story of Operation Anthropoid which led to the assassination of the German SS leader Heydrich in Prague by Czech rebels led by Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis.
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-09-13
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Wie es euch gefällt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-09-17
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Was Ihr wollt
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-31
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Die Zauberfrau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-05-25
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Die Nacht von Lissabon
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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Ein Riß im Eis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-07
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Der Panamaskandal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-27
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Narrenspiegel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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Der Tod kam als Freund
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-10-20
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Sein Doppelgänger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-08-21
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Beim nächsten Kuß knall ich ihn nieder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-04-11
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Widows
Overview: A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife and mother of three children, Elisabeth is the perfect career woman and Maria uses already in their third marriage sex appeal to get ahead in life. But one day it turns out that the three except their friendship still connects another great thing in common: They are all tired of her life as a wife. And so begins the story of a rabenscharzen comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulties to achieve this. The only question is: How are they merely their husbands going on?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-22
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Zwei Asse und ein König
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-31
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Die Affäre
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-10-23
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Glücksucher
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-02-08
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Natascha
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-02-19
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Nie wieder Mary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-01
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Der Campus
Overview: A married university professor ends his explosive affair with a female student who then accuses him of sexual harassment. A satire with plenty of situation comedy about a misstep with consequences!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-05
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Dieser Platonow
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-12-06
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Eine Herzensangelegenheit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Krebsstation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-11-07
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Alle für die Mafia
Overview: Italy gives sponsors the choice between banishment and prison. Mario Adorf decides to go into exile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-08-02
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Sonntagsgeschichten
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Hedda Gabler
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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Karpfs Karriere
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-04
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Die chinesische Mauer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-09
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Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl
Overview: Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other possessions. Initially the family lives in Switzerland, but even here they come to feel the antisemitism. And when money becomes scarce, and Anna's father can't find work as a journalist and Jew, they move on to France, where they are no long submitted to racial discrimination, but struggle financially. Eventually the entire family manages to go to England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Don Juan in der Hölle
Overview: In heaven there is faith, and love. Only in hell there is justice. Everyone here gets the part that suits them best. Therefore, hell is the place for eternal pleasures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-03
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Kaum zu glauben
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Die Frau des Fotografen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-05-30
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Erschwerte Möglichkeit der Konzentration
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-06-08
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