Martin Trettau
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 12, 1930
Deathday: August 01, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Eastern Cross
Overview: OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-07-23
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Bahnwärter Thiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-11-21
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Verwandte und Bekannte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-10-16
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Imaginative King
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-06-30
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Im Spannungsfeld
Overview: Electronic data processing is an absolute must in the Information Age. Karl Hoppe, the director of a large plant, is aware of this need for modernization and hires mathematician Dr. Jochen Bernhardt to install computerized systems which are supposed to calculate ways in which the plant could be run more effectively. Dr. Bernhardt is so focused on efficiency that he forgets about the human side of work, causing his girlfriend to leave him and several dissatisfied employees to quit their jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-02-12
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Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven
Overview: Little Sabine has spent her childhood in an orphanage after her parents died in a car accident. When one of the women in charge at the orphanage, Edith, leaves to have a baby, Sabine runs away, because Edith was the only adult there she could trust. She then wanders through the city to find someone to take her in. She meets a lot of people on her journey, but she seems out of place everywhere she goes until, at last, she realizes that there is a special place where she belongs.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-02
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Mein lieber Mann und ich
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-05
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Love at 16
Overview: Although at first Ina barely takes any notice of Matti, the two teenagers gradually fall in love at their dance classes and begin their first real relationship. Their parents are upset about this development and try to prevent their children from seeing each other. But Ina and Matti continue to meet in secret and their first sexual experience together brings mixed feelings for Ina.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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Zwei leere Stühle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-05-26
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Einfach Blumen aufs Dach
Overview: Mechanic Hannes Blaschke and his wife Maxi, who works as a bus driver, have just become happy parents of twins. Now they have a serious transportation problem: Their Trabant is far too small for the grown family that furthermore includes two sons and a dog. Thanks to the support of a state secretary and of his brigade, Hannes acquires a Tschaika – a limousine that is normally restricted to representational purposes – for a small price. Whereas Maxi views the state carriage only as a useful means of transportation, Hannes enjoys the unusual pre-emption he is receiving for the spectacular car. Hannes, who normally is just a humble guy, starts to grate his colleagues with his new affectations. Thus, they teach him an effective lesson: They decorate the state carriage with flowers and thus bring Hannes back down to earth in a humorous way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-06-27
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Meines Vaters Straßenbahn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-12-28
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The Naked Man in the Stadium
Overview: In this film, Wolf and scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase explore the role of art and the artist in socialist society. A sculptor questions the reception and value of his work, in a delicately nuanced narrative interweaving personal memories, historical dilemmas, and political defeats.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-04-04
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Die ehrbaren Fünf
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Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-03-26
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Everyone Dreams of a Horse
Overview: Everyone dreams of a horse - and especially four Kulman family children...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-12-11
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Alwin auf der Landstraße
Overview: Ironically, at the beginning of the summer holidays, Alwins strict father has grounded him to get him to improve his spelling. Alwin feels like a prisoner and decides to run away heading to his grandparents in the Harz mountains nearly 200 kilometers away. On the road Alwin meets many people and with their help Alwin slowly progresses towards his destination.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-09-28
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Mein blauer Vogel fliegt
Overview: Based upon a true story, the movie centers on the German communist Robert, a "Kapo" in a concentration camp. When some Polish children are brought to the camp, Robert tries to save them from certain death. Due to his efforts they are being trained as masons and become part of his construction gang. Nevertheless, the boys, and mainly the clever Janusz, are very suspicious of Robert. They have already experienced too much evil and do not want to trust anybody – least of all a German.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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Pelle the Conqueror
Overview: From Martin Anderson Nexo's novel comes this loved story of a Swedish boy and his elderly father trying to make a better life for themselves in Denmark. A bleak future quickly becomes apparent when the two find employment on a farm full of misery.
Genres: Drama History Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Das Versteck
Overview: One year has passed since Max and Wanda got their divorce. Max has come to the realization that he wants his ex-wife back - no matter what the cost! So he concocts a sneaky plan: he asks Wanda to hide him from the police, who are apparently looking for him. At first, Wanda rejects all his attempts to restart their relationship. But she is soon unable to resist Max's convincing promises and even throws her lover out of the house. But then she discovers Max's lie.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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When Unku was Ede's Girlfriend
Overview: Ede falls in love with Unku, a girl from a travelling circus. Love cannot run smoothly however because Unku is a Gypsy. Various adventures take place before love is finally allowed to run its natural course.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Jugendweihe
Overview: Every year in the spring the pupils of the 8th grade in the GDR receive the 'Jugendweihe' and are admitted to the circle of adults. This year, Tim is ready. For him and his classmates, the day begins with a ceremony in the culture house, then he goes with the whole family in a hotel restaurant, to celebrate the event properly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-21
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Der entführte Prinz
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-07-26
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Die Alleinseglerin
Overview: Christine inherits a sailboat from her father, whom she barely knew. Christine is a divorced single mother and her job at a research insitute leaves her with too much work and too little time to sail. She can't find anyone to buy the boat at full value, so she tries to repair it over the winter in the hopes of being able to get a better price in the spring. Working on the boat become something of an obsession to the detriment of Christine's relationships with her son, boyfriend and collegues. When the boat is finally ready to sell, she isn't sure that she is willing to part with it after all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-07-02
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Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
Overview: On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off on a journey to consult with his artistic role model, Albrecht Dürer. Although Ratgeb has always tried to stay out of the political conflict, his journey brings him face-to-face with peasant revolutionaries and the brutality and violence of their daily lives.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-24
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Longing
Overview: Ena lives on a remote farmstead. One stormy night, hydraulic engineer Sieghart appears at her door after his car gets stuck in the mud. Although Ena falls in love with Sieghart, she decides to marry her fiancé Mathias. She is incapabale of hiding her true feelings from her groom-to-be, and on the night before the wedding, Mathias forces the pair to join him for a carriage ride – with deadly results.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-05-30
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Visiting Van Gogh
Overview: In the 22nd Century, antiquities command huge prices. A woman uses a time machine to travel back the the 19th Century in order to buy paintings from Vincent Van Gogh before he was famous. Will she be wealthy upon her return?
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-10-10
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Ripe Cherries
Overview: Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of a son, the tragic death of his wife, the relationship of his daughter Ingrid with Dr. Beißert coincided with the need to move to an uninhabited area where a nuclear power plant will be built. Kamp, Ingrid and the members of the friendly brigade decide to act as the duty and the feeling of partnership prompts them, and gradually they all become participants in the new construction...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Despite It All!
Overview: October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social Democrats oppose him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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Verspielte Heimat
Overview: Film by Claus Dobberke.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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P.S.
Overview: When he reaches age 18, Peter is released from the children's home where he grew up, but this does not mean he is truly ready for adult life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-29
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The Just People of Kummerow
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-17
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Johannes Kepler
Overview: Europe, 1620: The well-known astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, who teaches as a professor in Linz, receives the message that his mother is prosecuted as a witch in Württemberg. The truth behind the allegations is rather simple: His mother has been denunciated by a former friend after an argument with the authorities. Kepler tries desperately to convince the prosecutors of the absurdity of their allegations with rational arguments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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The Sinking of Emma
Overview: A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
Overview: He could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could have stood on the podium next to the highest in the land. If only he had wanted to! But Farssmann, shaken by divorce and unwilling to better himself, wants to remain what he is: an ordinary bookkeeper like you and me. And so the dollar deal with Mr. Osbar from Utah (USA) is not the first time he comes into conflict with the very palpable unreality of a country called the German Democratic Republic.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-05
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Weiberwirtschaft
Overview: Shortly after the end of World War II, young carpenter Achim is sent to a remote farm to do some repair work. Three women from different generations administer the farm on their own: Daughter, mother, and grandmother. There are no men around since grandmother Hanna has lost her husband in World War I, and mother Gertrud’s husband died in World War II. Although daughter Heidi is old enough to marry, she is neither engaged nor married. Thus, hardworking, yet shy Achim is the only man around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-05
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Der Lude
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-12-06
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Die Gänse von Bützow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-12-12
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I Was Nineteen
Overview: A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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Die eigene Haut
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-27
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Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Jan Oppen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-03-28
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