Karl John
Also Known As: Carl John
Biography: Karl John (24 March 1905 – 22 December 1977) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 50 films between 1933 and 1977.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cologne, Germany
Birthday: March 24, 1905
Deathday: December 22, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Man Between
Overview: A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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The Devil’s General
Overview: The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-02-23
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The Mysterious Magician
Overview: The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-08-21
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Again the Ringer
Overview: Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-06-04
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Sabine
Overview: This German educational film about sexually transmitted diseases, through a mixture of medical imagery and love making scenes, makes the case for a timely medical treatment of gonorrhea and syphilis, and underpins this plea primarily with blatant clinical evidence of the syphilitic secondary stage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-10
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Sorcerer
Overview: Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Overview: In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-04-07
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The Lost One
Overview: A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-09-07
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Sacred Waters
Overview: Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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In Those Days
Overview: A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-06-13
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This Time it Must Be Caviar
Overview: Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, France or even communist Russia! To save his skin, he'll do - almost - anything, to anyone...
Genres: Thriller Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Andreas Schlüter
Overview: Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-09-11
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Fabrik der Offiziere
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Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-29
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The Laugh Doctor
Overview: Because the soulful county doctor in a small spa town in the mountains has interfered with the business of selling "healing waters", he incurs the enmity of the local shopkeepers. And for that reason, his candidacy for the post of District Medical Officer is thwarted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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Two in a Big City
Overview: A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-01-23
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Über alles in der Welt
Overview: Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Die gute Sieben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-05-08
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When the Cock Crows
Overview: Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-23
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Detective Story
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-27
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Love '47
Overview: A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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So war Mama
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-03-22
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Der spanische Bürgerkrieg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-01-08
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Die Flucht nach Holland
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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Wenn der junge Wein blüht
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-21
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Hinter diesen Mauern
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Oberst Wennerström
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-10-25
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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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2 x Adam, 1 x Eva
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Möwen über Sorrent
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Schiff ohne Hafen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-04-28
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Furlough on Word of Honor
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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Das heilige Experiment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-05-30
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No Way Back
Overview: A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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The Last Night
Overview: Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Melody of a Great City
Overview: A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-10-04
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Stukas
Overview: This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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U-Boat, Course West!
Overview: This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-05-09
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Der Weg ins Freie
Overview: In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-05-06
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My Life for Ireland
Overview: A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-01-02
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Kora Terry
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-27
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Die unvollkommene Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-10-17
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Operation Michael
Overview: During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-06
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The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Dandelions
Overview: Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he was deeply in love, has unexpectedly left him and is now a junkie whore. Devastated, he tries to ease his pain with booze and cheap thrills. His wife's best friend (Dagmar Lassander) makes a move on him, and when he spurns her (after scewing her first, naturally) she plots her revenge. She does so in an ingenious way, by exploiting a fantasy woman of his, but her plan backfires with tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-11
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Land
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Jeden die Seine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-05-27
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Hoffnung ist ein Ding mit Federn
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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Fahrt ins Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-04-29
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Smuggler's Ball
Overview: Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operation, all the while romancing Siska (Christian Lenier), the daughter of a local customs official. Various subplots and secondary characters weave in and out as the plotline guides the viewer through the WW II years. Towards the end, the story shifts gears when the Benelux Frontier Agreement eliminates all government regulations. The film's screenplay is by Charles Spaak, himself the descendant of a Belgian political family, and thus well-versed in bureaucracy and red tape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-08
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Entführung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Hermann und Dorothea
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-25
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Peenemünde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-08-11
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Madame Sans-Gêne
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-18
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Bal paré
Overview: At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-05-22
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Verbotenes Land
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-15
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The White Demon
Overview: When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-19
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Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-06-25
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White Slaves
Overview: Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship becomes a dancehall. Bloodbath, pillage and kidnapping follows. A Nazi/Germany propaganda film.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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Unser Mittwochabend
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-11-23
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