Günther Kaufmann
Also Known As: 京特·考夫曼
Biography: Günther Kaufmann (16 June 1947 – 10 May 2012) was a German film actor best known for his association with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: June 16, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 10, 2012
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Gods of the Plague
Overview: A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-24
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Leroy
Overview: A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl and meeting her racist family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-27
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Kamikaze 1989
Overview: In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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Killing Is My Business, Honey
Overview: A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-26
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Silent Resident
Overview: At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering utopian high-rises and work, collectively, in a single compound.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods
Overview: When the mighty Viking Halvar suddenly disappears, his clever but timid son Wickie must lead the Vikings on a dangerous journey to rescue his father from the evil Sven and go in search of the legendary treasure of the gods.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-28
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Wickie the Mighty Viking
Overview: One morning our little Viking village of Flake is raided by frightening looking spooky demons who kidnap all the children… except for Wickie, who was stuck in a tree trying to use a kite to learn to fly.
Genres: Comedy Family Action Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Whity
Overview: "Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-02
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The Third Generation
Overview: A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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Little Murders
Overview: He's not interested in horror films, instead he listens to classical music, quotes Latin idioms - and is on trial for murder. Did 13-year-old Martin, son of a prominent judge, actually kill a little boy? And what role does his best friend, the mysterious taxi driver Viktor Gumm, play in the case?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-20
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Overview: Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-05-19
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Rio das Mortes
Overview: Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-02-15
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The Coffee House
Overview: Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-05-18
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Jerry Cotton
Overview: Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-03-11
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Overview: About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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In a Year with 13 Moons
Overview: Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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The Niklashausen Journey
Overview: Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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Otto - The Movie
Overview: East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-07-19
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Turkish for Beginners
Overview: During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk must fight for survival. After initially Cem macho repulsive acts on Lena, a jellyfish in the water and sand in a bikini, she recognizes the time the romantic core behind his cool facade. Meanwhile, meet also their parents, who obdurate psychologist Doris and Metin Öztürk to work together to find their missing children. So both generations take an involuntary Turkish Basic Course for beginners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-03-14
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1 Berlin-Harlem
Overview: An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-12
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Depressionen
Overview: Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontaneous healing. The next depression is determined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-24
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Baal
Overview: Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-07
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Mulligans Rückkehr
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Mayday! Überfall auf hoher See
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-08-09
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Krieg und Frieden
Overview: The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Der Tod der Schneevögel
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-04
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Whopper Punch 777
Overview: The young son of a sports journalist helps his out-of-town father out of a jam by getting into the hotel room of a famous boxer and conducting a sensational star interview with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
Overview: Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-06-22
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HipHop Express
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-08-18
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Lola
Overview: Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-08-20
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Für meine Kinder tu' ich alles
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-16
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Wie stark muß eine Liebe sein
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-29
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Today We're Playing Boss
Overview: Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-27
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Der Sieger von Tambo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-03
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Adele Spitzeder
Overview: The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. Initially dubbed the "Angel of the poor", she was arrested for fraud after the whole scheme collapsed.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-18
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Veronika Voss
Overview: In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Overview: The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-06-28
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Overview: Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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Querelle
Overview: A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-08
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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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