Maria Perschy
Also Known As: Maria Pechy, Maria Percy, Herta-Maria Perschy
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maria Perschy (September 23, 1938 – December 3, 2004) was an Austrian actress. Perschy was born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria and moved to Vienna at the age of 17 to study acting. After completing her education, she moved to Germany for more training, leading to a movie career. Her first major success came with Nasser Asphalt where she played together with Horst Buchholz. Her acting career would eventually take her — by way of France, Italy, and Great Britain — to Hollywood. Perschy played in a number of American films, her most notable roles being in the 1962 biopic Freud and the 1964 Rock Hudson comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?. Perschy's career in America eventually declined and by the late 1970s her only US appearances were brief roles in TV shows such as Hawaii Five-O and General Hospital. While shooting in Spain in 1971, Perschy suffered a burn injury from an accident that required several operations before she could resume her career. Perschy returned to her native Austria in 1985 and continued to perform in a series of plays and TV series. On 3 December 2004, Austrian state broadcaster ORF reported that Maria Perschy had died of cancer in Vienna. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Perschy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
Adult: No
Birthday: September 23, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 03, 2004
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The Castle of Fu Manchu
Overview: The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Nayland Smith.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-29
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Ordered to Love
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-01-13
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Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Overview: Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-11
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Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll
Overview: An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-05
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The Ghost Galleon
Overview: After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their own boat has vanished. The survivors struggle to fight off the spectral knights with what little knowledge they have of them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-28
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Hunchback of the Morgue
Overview: A hunchback working in a morgue falls in love with a sick woman. He goes berserk when she dies and seeks help from a scientist to bring her back from the dead.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-07-13
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The People Who Own the Dark
Overview: A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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633 Squadron
Overview: When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-06
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Overview: In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-21
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Man's Favorite Sport?
Overview: Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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Natürlich die Autofahrer
Overview: Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta Schmalbach he has no pity. Thus he cannot understand why his daughter Karin just falls in love with a racing pilot called Walter. But it gets even worse when Eberhard wins a VW-Kaefer at the annual police party. So he has to learn to drive and thus even brings his teacher close to a heart attack.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-20
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The Password Is Courage
Overview: Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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The Moralist
Overview: The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Love in Rome
Overview: A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
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Exorcismo
Overview: A young woman participates (unknowingly) in a satanic ceremony and gets possessed by the spirit of her late father.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-10
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The Tall Women
Overview: Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-09-26
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Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
Overview: Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the American Government for a huge amount of money. German secret service (BND) agent 'Dynamite' will use his fists, guns and more to try to stop them.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-08-11
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A Witch Without a Broom
Overview: A flirtatious sorcerous fancies a handsome human professor. Cross time antics arise when she attempts to bring the hapless professor into her alternate dimension.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Harry and Harriet
Overview: A bodyswitch comedy directed by Cyril Frankel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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The Vengeance of Pancho Villa
Overview: During the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa is wounded and left his large treasure in gold back in the city of Colón. He is forced to establish an alliance with General Urbina, leader, and he asks seven of his faithful guerrillas to take back the gold that he has hidden in a farm, near the New Mexico border, and which will allow him to pay for a new army and guns.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-09-12
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Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin
Overview: Dr. Fabian is the good soul at the University Surgical Clinic. Nicknamed "Paulchen" by his famous boss, Professor Spalke, the demigod in white brings joy to the lives of his patients with his cheerful disposition and is also tireless in his support and advice for his students. It's no wonder that women would love to get their hands on this dream man. But Dr. Fabian remains steadfast - until he meets the attractive anaesthetist Inge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-06-15
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Operation Hong Kong
Overview: A suave gangster tries to get away from his boss with a suitcase full of heroin. Two pilots and lots of beautiful women get involved in the affair. Soon blood begins to flow.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-03-20
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The Bandits of the Rio Grande
Overview: Three female schoolteachers head down to a small village which has a small army detail. The village is raided for by bandits and the teachers are taken along to the bandits' camp.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-22
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Lady Country Doctor
Overview: A German village gets a new doctor, but the conservative folk have trouble accepting a female for the job.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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The Mad Executioners
Overview: A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Wet Asphalt
Overview: In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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Der schwarze Blitz
Overview: Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-09-15
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The Standard
Overview: During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
Genres: War Action Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Sette donne per una strage
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Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Nichts als Ärger mit der Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-11-28
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Die Liebe des Jahres
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-31
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Der Held meiner Träume
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-08-04
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No Survivors, Please
Overview: Aliens attempt to take over the Earth by taking over the bodies of humans at the moment of their death, and using them as tools for their invasion plans.
Genres: Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-04-23
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Wenn beide schuldig werden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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Melody of Hate
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-05-17
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Secret of the Sphinx
Overview: Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too obvious.
Genres: Adventure Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-04
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Say it with Flowers
Overview: The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an attempt on Hitler. Desperate, Klaus shoots and kills his children and then shoots at his pregnant wife and leaves her badly injured. Finally, attempts suicide, but at the last moment does not have the courage to pull the trigger, and flees on a motorcycle, having an accident ... The action continues in France. Jean-Claude is a handsome young man self-conscious about a malformation in his face. Jean-Claude lives with his parents, Jacques Bergé, an amnesiac man, self-enclosed and obsessed with Egyptian art, and Concepcion, a woman also closed in herself and obsessed with flowers from her garden, and apparently , suffering from paranoia.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-04
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Melodie der Herzen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-24
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Kilma, Queen of the Jungle
Overview: A young girl who survives a plane crash in the jungle grows to adulthood and becomes "Kilma," a feared protector of the jungle who wields a bullwhip.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Roter Mohn
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Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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The Last Day of the War
Overview: The war in Europe is ending, but the American troops have to find a scientist on the run who is also chased by some surviving SS forces.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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The Specter of Terror
Overview: Maria Preston, Iberia stewardess, lives with her friend and companion Elena O'Hara. She finds out that is followed by a mysterious character. He is Charly, an airport employee, U.S. Vietnam veteran, unhinged and with sexual disorders due to the infidelity of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-06-09
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De profesión: polígamo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-03
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The Night of Fury
Overview: A policeman infiltrates in a gang of forgers. He and their leader fought together in Vietnam, where he saved his life. The policeman arrives to the gang headquarters, a mansion in the Californian coast, and thinks everything is under control, until some unexpected visitors, a gang of deranged hippies, show him he is wrong.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Los fríos senderos del crimen
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-07-07
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Fanny
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-28
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Die verkaufte Braut
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-01-17
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The Desperate Ones
Overview: In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Vultures
Overview: A dying wealthy patriarch, Ramon summons his relatives to his bedside, setting the tone for intriguing suspense when a bizarre set of murders occurs. The terror begins with the arrival of the old man's sister and her lover. Blood and gore are a regular state of affairs. The first suspect is Carl who, despite his protests of his innocence, is hounded by the local detective. But the morbid killings continue... so is he the murderer, or isn't he?
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Die drei Dorfheiligen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Die Nacht der Nächte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-08-26
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Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community
Overview: One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced level of aspiration has remained the focus of all subsequent discussions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-02-21
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Five Golden Dragons
Overview: While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-03
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I piaceri del sabato notte
Overview: Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-05-04
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El límite del amor
Overview: Manuela and Juan, a young couple who has been married for four years, likes to practice sexual games. As part of that games they want to include Juan's secretary, an old nun, secretly in love with Manuela.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-10-25
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The Adolescents
Overview: A shy girl named Ana is sent to an English boarding school. After a period of adjustment, she travels to London with two of her more world weary classmates and becomes the target for a trio of men who take illicit photographs of young girls to be published in 'Estimulation' Magazine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-09
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Extraconiugale
Overview: Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-24
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Fox Hunt
Overview: Ignazio is a depressed businessman after he suffers heavy losses in the financial markets. His wife Helena soon finds distraction elsewhere. Germano lives a double life. Leandro, the gamekeeper of the rich and powerful, soon uses his knowledge of the masters to dominate them - and their wives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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Freud: The Secret Passion
Overview: An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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African Gold
Overview: The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-08
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Liebling, ich muß auf Geschäftsreise
Overview: Philipp Meinhold, smart and womanizing architect, is in a dilemma between well-behaved wife Susanne and furious girlfriend Birgit. He secretly goes on vacation to Thailand with his friend Fritz. But he can't enjoy the palm trees and sunshine in his vacation paradise for long, because the storm is already approaching in the form of a feminine double hit: wife and lover arrive in the sunny Thai state. And soon the ex-crush is seen wandering the beaches, lonely and jealous ...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-05-21
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