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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arosa, Switzerland
Birthday: May 06, 1932
Deathday: May 24, 2017
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Gender: Male
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Overview: When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-09-18
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Overview: The former waiter Ernst Held believes himself to be called higher and seeks self-realization as a poet. When he recites poems to his wife's beautician in an ambiguous situation, his wife puts him out the door. Completely destitute, the thwarted poet must therefore return to the lowlands of life and become the head in the Munich pub "Goldener Löffel".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-01-31
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Overview: Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Overview: A terrorist drives a car to Hamburg's Rathausmarkt and unloads an unknown device that he claims can cause radioactive contamination. A special unit tries to subdue the man, but this reveals that the only way to prevent the explosion is to constantly readjust a transmitter, so they have to let him go.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-25
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Overview: Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-12
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Overview: The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Austria, the ensuing tide of East German refugees to Hungary and Czechoslovakia for transfer to West Germany, the pompous ceremonies at GDR's 40th anniversary, the inept transactions the Politburo took to salvage the situation, the resulting dismissal of their leader Erich Honecker, the international press conference in East Berlin on 9th November 1989, at which Politburo member Günther Schabowski erroneously announced the immediate opening of the 'Iron Curtain', which finally led to the collapse of socialism in the GDR and the other East Bloc countries.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Overview: Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-04
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Overview: Roni Beck is a man whose only thought in life is to become a professional comedian, but who due to his lack of success must live hidden in his mother's appartment in an old people's home, continuing to believe firmly that his day in the limelight will come. One day Serge Grätzer, the director of the old people's home, discovers Roni, and makes him help out with the work. Serge then decides to take a hand in Roni's career, embezzling money to launch the budding comedian. Once again however success eludes Roni. In the end Serge decides to fulfil his own secret longings to be on the stage. This leads to a row between the two men. Despite a reconciliation, they never again appear together on the stage. And when Serge's embezzlement is discovered he has to flee with the police at his heels and the home has to be closes. In the end, Roni persuades Mr. Klein, an eccentric old man who likes to play the stock market, to save the home with the millions he has stashed away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-03-16
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Overview: Robert is magically attracted to Johanna. He observes and stalks her. Finally, the two get to know each other. But Johanna's relationship with Karl is not quite over.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-12-13
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-05-07
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-10-21
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-05
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Overview: Before Ernst Winckelmann, a sales representative for hair products, calls on hairdressing salons and chemist's shops, he rehearses what he intends to say, shakes the dandruff from his hair and slips into an innocuous pair of shoes. None of this helps. Winkelmann is no sales talent and his product is a failure. Meanwhile, in a small corner pub in the Barmbek district of Hamburg, Winkelmann's young girlfriend Aline uses some firm but gentle persuasion to make the last customer leave. Not much doing tonight. During the day, Rüdiger the barman, pulls most of the beers for the landlord, Aline's father, who survives on memories of good times at Miami Beach...
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-06
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Overview: In this Swiss film noir a private investigator stumbles onto a case involving blackmail and an oversexed, under-aged girl. He finds the girl, and, tragically, becomes involved with her.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-04-14
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Overview: Three dramatic stories from the everyday school life of adolescent pupils.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-12-26
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-03-02
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Overview: Live recording from the Salzburger Festspiele (Salzburg Festival) 1974
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-08-29
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-09-14
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-09-17
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-29
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Overview: The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-10-13
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