Marina Berti
Also Known As: Maurin Melrose - Marina Berti, Maureen Melrose, Elena Maureen Bertolini, Марина Берти
Biography: Elena Maureen Bertolini, known as Marina Berti, (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002) was an English-born Italian film actress. Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), Night Train Murders (1975), and the TV miniseries' Moses the Lawgiver (1975) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002. [Wikipedia]
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: September 29, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 29, 2002
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A Spiral of Mist
Overview: The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-08
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Lady Caliph
Overview: La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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Moses the Lawgiver
Overview: The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-22
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Overview: A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-24
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Deported
Overview: The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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The Swordsman of Siena
Overview: A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Prince of Foxes
Overview: In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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Preludio d'amore
Overview: After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco’s other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by drowning herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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At the Edge of the City
Overview: Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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Damon and Pythias
Overview: Damon is a thief who begins to question his beliefs after he meets Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-05
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Eager to Live
Overview: Massimo pretends to be rich but he's actually poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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The Testimony
Overview: A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-02-15
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La posta in gioco
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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Safety Catch
Overview: A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead woman's handbag, an undeveloped film is discovered by the doctor, who decides to investigate the young woman's alleged suicide.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-07
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Madame
Overview: Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-21
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The Queen of Sheba
Overview: The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-06
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Casta diva
Overview: As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Hate Is My God
Overview: A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are now notable men of the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-23
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Up Front
Overview: Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-05
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La valle del diavolo
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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Tre nel mille
Overview: A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers, Pannocchia and Carestia, travel through Italy in the midst of numerous adventures: The prophetic year is marked only by the discovery on the part of the cavalryman of his wife's betrayal
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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Every Man Is My Enemy
Overview: When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Gate of Heaven
Overview: Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-02-16
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Woman of the Mountains
Overview: An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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Operazione Mitra
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Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-02-23
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Embassy
Overview: US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
Genres: Action TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-21
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Abdullah's Harem
Overview: Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-01
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Stubborn Fate
Overview: Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-05-28
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La fuggitiva
Overview: In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a prominent role. In this sentimental drama, the little girl suffers for and rebels against the loneliness and neglect stemming from the lack of a mother and a loving family setting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-11-02
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The Repenter
Overview: A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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Planet Venus
Overview: Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome he meets Amelia, a child suffocated by the bourgeois environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-27
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Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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Monsieur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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Divieto di sosta
Overview: A wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boarding school, and her own brother, who is all about scientific research. The girl, who has learned of the alleged poet's less-than-honest intentions, tries every means to drive him away and restore her mother's sentimental balance. For this she pretends to be in love with him who, attracted by her youth and rich dowry, proposes that she elope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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L'ultima mazurka
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-25
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Mit dem Herzen einer Mutter
Overview: A woman loses her husband in a car accident and plunges into a severe emotional crisis, which is why she leaves her son in the care of her mother-in-law. When she goes to pick him up weeks later, a fierce battle breaks out between the women over the child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-11-22
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The Stranger Returns
Overview: The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-17
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Jessica
Overview: When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-19
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A Face in the Rain
Overview: An American spy hides in an apartment. But the woman who lives there is herself the mistress of a German Officer.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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Sinfonia fatale
Overview: An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-05-01
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Il canto dell'emigrante
Overview: An Italian singer who found fame in America comes back to his native country and finds out that his former girlfriend is in prison.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Earth Cries Out
Overview: Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-08-30
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Sicilian Uprising
Overview: Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-10-21
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Giacomo l'idealista
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-02-01
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The Divine Nymph
Overview: In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-16
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Notte di tempesta
Overview: The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-06-12
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I dieci comandamenti
Overview: Ten episodes, one for each of the Ten Commandments. Lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-01-08
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The Red Carnation
Overview: Our hero is the 18-year-old Alessio Mainardi, who receives a token red carnation from a girl named Giovanna and becomes a symbol of love, desire, and even has political overtones as a symbol of the struggle for political freedom in opposition to Fascism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Dead End
Overview: Rebellious teen Sergio decides to isolate himself from society by living near the shore of a desolate lake. But he's unable to live freely once police show up and accuse him of murdering a young girl he was briefly acquainted with. This psychological drama with giallo elements appears to have been out of circulation since its theatrical run.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Late Night Trains
Overview: Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-09
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Temptation
Overview: The young architect Guido maintains a relationship with Carla, wife of industrialist Veraldi that despite being aware of her infidelity does nothing to prevent it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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Il cavaliere dalla spada nera
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-13
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Made in Italy
Overview: A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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The Sky Is Red
Overview: Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in an abandoned area with some girls, Carla, an eighteen year old girl who works as a prostitute, Giulia, younger and sick of tuberculosis, and a girl, Maria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-03-15
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Don Milani
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Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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Il sentiero dell'odio
Overview: A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two families who have always been enemies of each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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An Angel for Satan
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-04
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Overview: An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-10
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Cuori sul mare
Overview: Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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Knights of the Queen
Overview: A new adventure for the Dumas musketeers who this time must save the Infanta of Spain from the intrigues of the Prince of Condé who wants to take the throne at any cost. (This film is a compendium edit made from episodes of the television series "I tre moschettieri")
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-24
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Buona parte di Paolina
Overview: Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghese, which she turned into a private residence. She also poses half naked for the famous statue of Canova, who is also presented as a effeminate and scoundrel. When her reputation as a depraved spreads, on the advice of the Pope, she is segregated away from all the men. when the French troops deport from Rome the Pope and the cardinals as well, Paulina sees prostitution as the only way to find herself some "fresh meat". Finally after seven years villa Borghese is reopened to the public, as Paulina goes back to Paris, to the great relief of the Roman people and the clerical circles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-01
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Amen.
Overview: Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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Red Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-13
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Il capitano nero
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-15
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