Hannes Messemer
Also Known As: Ханнес Мессемер
Biography: Hannes Messemer (17 May 1924 – 2 November 1991) was a German actor from Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany
Birthday: May 17, 1924
Deathday: November 02, 1991
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Collin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-12-06
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The Defector
Overview: An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Ninotschka
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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The Great Escape
Overview: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-03
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Escape by Night
Overview: In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-07
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The Devil Strikes at Night
Overview: Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-19
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Once a Greek
Overview: An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-16
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Die Dame und die Unterwelt
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Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-01
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The Doctor of Stalingrad
Overview: Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russian doctor Alexandra Kasalinskaja, Schultheiss not only endangers his own life - because Alexandra is the lover of First Lieutenant Markow.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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Twelve Hours by the Clock
Overview: Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take them to freedom arrives.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-04-21
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Rose Bernd
Overview: West Germany's entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Hauptman play Rose Bernd. The title character, played by Maria Schell, is a servant girl on a remote farm. Sexually assaulted by both her employer and a coworker, Rose later bears a child, who die soon afterward. After nearly two hours of unrelieved misery, Rose finally finds happiness in the arms of a longtime admirer (where has he been for the past 12 reels?) Rose Bernd (aka The Sins of Rose Bernd) received a smattering of American showings thanks to the drawing power of star Maria Schell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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Escape from Sahara
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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The Odessa File
Overview: Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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Der arme Mann Luther
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-01-21
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Congress of Love
Overview: Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, history is in the making. Gathered around the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I, the Kings of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Prussia and Denmark, are persuaded they are building the future Europe whereas they are being manipulated by foxy Chancellor Metternich, he himself under the thumb of cynical Count Talleyrand, the French representative. All those considerations come second though to partying and social life, which is all these aristocrats really want out of this congress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-18
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Ein Tag, der nie zu Ende geht
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-21
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Taiga
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-08-27
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Der Transport
Overview: March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futility of his assignment and makes a fateful decision.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-30
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Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen
Overview: The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne is suspected of the crime and arrested by Inspector Cerdan. He is ordered to take her to Colombo. But the plane on the way there gets caught in a heavy storm and crashes shortly afterwards. Anne Pinaud and Cerdan are the only survivors of the crew and save themselves on a desert island. There they come across Werner Becker, who has been shipwrecked with his yacht and is also stranded here. While Cerdan continues to believe Anne is guilty of the crime, Werner believes she is innocent. Soon the tension between the two men builds up and they become rivals for Anne's favor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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Ein Hut von ganz spezieller Art
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-10
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Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen
Overview: TV-film by Alfred Vohrer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-10
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Reporter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-18
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Das Fräulein von Scuderi
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Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-27
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Die rote Hand
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-25
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Fleeting Acquaintances
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-22
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Frau Jenny Treibel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-12-14
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Die Brücke des Schicksals
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Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-25
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Oblomows Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Der 21. Juli
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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Die Räuber
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-02-06
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The Oppermanns
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Kennwort Schmetterling
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Das zerbrochene Haus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-05-07
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People in the Net
Overview: Espionage thriller about a married couple caught in the middle of dueling spy organisations.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-07-22
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Auf Engel schießt man nicht
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Amphitryon 38
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-22
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The Glass Tower
Overview: Katja Fleming has given up her job as an actress and married the business man Robert Fleming. But the cold that surrounds her in her modern, luxurious high-rise makes her lonely. Then she meets the author John Lawrence, who wants to convince her to perform in his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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Liebe im September
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-09-08
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Bericht von den Inseln
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-05-27
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Bericht einer Offensive
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-08-26
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Union der festen Hand
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-04-29
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Paulchen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Der kleine Bruder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-11-08
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Bericht eines Feiglings
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-05
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Ein Fall für Goron
Overview: Paris 1888: With the help of forensic medicine, a sensational criminal case is uncovered. The chief of the Paris Sûreté, Inspector Goron, with the help of Lyon University Professor Lacassagne, is able to solve a capital crime that seemed unsolvable according to the methods of forensic science at the time. By analyzing the bone structure, Lacassagne identifies an unknown dead man as the Parisian civil servant Alphonse Gouffé, who disappeared months ago, and is also able to prove that he was murdered. The murder suspects include Gabrielle Bompard and her lover Michele Eyraudt.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-07-12
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Onkel Silas
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-06-26
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Overview: Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting — and the woman who would be with him for most of his meteoric career. He was Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's highest paid stars — and one of its most difficult, most rebellious and, when he wished, most charming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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Die Verschwörung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-11-16
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Flieger Ross
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-10-25
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Die Fastnachtsbeichte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Alle mal herhören, auch die, die schwerhören..!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-05-03
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Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-06-03
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Das Attentat - L.D. Trotzki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-11-28
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Mit sich allein
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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Alle lieben Célimare
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-11
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Schatten der Helden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-27
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Babette Goes to War
Overview: Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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The High Life
Overview: Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-02-16
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Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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Die Paulskirche
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Die Ursache
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-11-19
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Langusten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-24
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August der Starke
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-01-03
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Die Hinrichtung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-10-02
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Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht
Overview: The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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Der tödliche Schlag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-25
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Aus Mangel an Beweisen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-03-30
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Das Trauerspiel von Julius Caesar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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König Richard II
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-03-03
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Plädoyer für einen Rebellen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-09
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Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Mission to Venice
Overview: An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-23
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Er ging an meiner Seite
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-21
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Herzlich willkommen?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-25
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General Della Rovere
Overview: The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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