Werner Dissel
Also Known As: Вернер Диссель
Biography: Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor, director, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra. After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions. He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986. Source: Article "Werner Dissel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Köln, Germany
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Birthday: August 26, 1912
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 22, 2003
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Anatomy
Overview: Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-02-03
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Rotkäppchen
Overview: Little Red Riding-Hood lives together with her parents in a house on the edge of the forest. Her friends are a bunny, a squirrel and a bear. The little girl is always prepared to help, friendly, innocent and even unsuspecting, for she does not hold anyone capable of doing anything bad. Little Red Riding-Hood often visits her grandmother who lives in the depths of the forest. But her way there is a dangerous one: the wolf and its lackey, the fox, terrorize everyone with their evil deeds. One day, Little Red Riding-Hood is caught in their net.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-07-12
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Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Overview: The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-05-07
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The Architects
Overview: The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-06-21
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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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Coming Out
Overview: Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-11-09
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Optimistische Tragödie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-05
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Späte Ankunft
Overview: In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the Prussian district of Westprignitz from the late Dr. Tochtenhagen. His decision was met with incomprehension everywhere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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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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Ernst Thälmann
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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The Captain from Cologne
Overview: Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage and becomes the Director of the Montan Corporation, and a member of the West German Parliament. Herr Karjanke, the real Captain, learns of Albert’s ruse, and wants to claim his "rightful" position in Parliament. But Karjanke cannot come forward until his politicking "Doppelganger" succeeds in passing an amnesty law for war criminals. When Albert is finally brought before a judge on charges of fraud, he learns that this own amnesty law does not apply to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-12-07
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Der Prozeß wird vertagt
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-09-25
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Everything's a Lie
Overview: Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful businessman, while Kasulke tries to continue working on the comedy circuit - without success. When his wife also cheats on him, he decides to start a new life in Berlin. There he quickly meets his old friend Portmann, who has built up a huge company. He offers him a job. But Erich puts the entire company in danger...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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Before lightning strikes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-03
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Black Panthers
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Martina has a paralyzing fear of heights, which prevents her from fulfilling her father’s wish that they perform a tightrope act together. As she is quite taken with the black panthers in the circus, as well as their trainer Dittrich, she decides to be an animal trainer instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-04
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Zeitzünder
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Andy
Overview: A drama directed by Ralph Bohn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-11-02
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Picknick im Schnee
Overview: Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, is confronted with his real life on a New Year's Eve. His wife is cheating on him, his partner Losfeld has betrayed him and his company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Deeply depressed and desperate, he rents a hotel room on the 32nd floor. He writes a farewell letter to his wife and opens the window to jump into the depths. A young woman is standing on the window sill next door, apparently up to the same thing. With the promise to spend the last evening of the year with her, he manages to save her and himself for the time being. This is the beginning of a strange, romantic, comical story that takes place on a single New Year's Eve and in which two people change their lives
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-01-13
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Unser Haus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-29
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Verlorene Landschaft
Overview: Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician, but thirty years ago he had fled from his home and parents in the East to seek a new life in the West. The return to his parental home causes Elias a sense of unease and disturbs the rigid order and complacency of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-10-31
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Der Magdalenenbaum
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-13
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Die Tage der Commune
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-16
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Nachts schlafen die Ratten
Overview: A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Ärzte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-02-02
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Kindheit
Overview: Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII. He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband dies. But everything changes after the appearance of a traveling showman in the xenophobic village.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-08-25
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Naked Among Wolves
Overview: Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-10
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Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
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Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-03-22
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Albert Einstein
Overview: Two part movie about Einstein's escape from Germany in 1932 and his influence in the invention of the nuclear bomb in 1939.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Das wirkliche Blau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-04
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Just Don't Think I'll Cry
Overview: High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider to be a challenge to the state. Just Don't Think I'll Cry became one of twelve films and film projects-almost an entire year's production-that were banned in 1965-1966 due to their alleged anti-socialist aspects. Although scenes and dialogs were altered and the end was reshot twice, officials condemned this title as "particularly harmful." In 1989, cinematographer Ost restored the original version, and this and most of the other banned films were finally screened in January 1990. Belatedly, they were acclaimed as masterpieces of critical realism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-10-25
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Till Eulenspiegel
Overview: In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.
Genres: Adventure History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-05-23
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Heroin
Overview: This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin somewhere in the Middle East, and smuggle it in several steps to East Berlin, and from there to France (or so it appears), killing when necessary. The hero is an officer of East German customs, who with detective work, some masquerade, and occasional violent action ultimately unravels the whole network, of course with the support of the local customs departments.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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Pension Boulanka
Overview: A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating team.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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Ulzana
Overview: This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-16
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Am Ende der Welt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-26
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Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
Overview: Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives modestly and is dependent upon private patrons. Nagged by his patronizing brothers, spied upon by officials for his republican beliefs and faced by his progressive hearing loss, the composer becomes more and more isolated. Seeman’s poetic film explores the joys, heartbreak and artistic spirit of the great composer as he works on his Ninth Symphony.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-14
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As Long as There’s Life in Me
Overview: This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat, workers’ leader and a virulent antimilitarist, is one among 110 SPD members of Parliament who vote against approving war loans. From then on, he is considered un-German and a traitor to the fatherland, and his own party’s leadership turns against him. Despite threats, Liebknecht speaks up against the war and writes the manifesto “The Main Enemy Is at Home.” Even when he is arrested and charged with treason, he does not surrender.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-09
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Zejście do piekła
Overview: Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-12-02
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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Overview: This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-10-21
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Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
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Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-03-22
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Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-23
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Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Overview: Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi criminal Eichmann. Disgusted by the monstrosities that are revealed, she eventually returns to Germany. There, she wants to cover common cases and trials again. Her first assignment is a murder trial against a man called Ralf Jordan who constantly maintains his innocence. Conradi, who believes Jordan and wants to help him, starts to investigate the case - and thus opens up a political can of worms. The backgrounds of the case reach back to the Nazi period and involve officials of the Third Reich, who in the meantime have returned to their powerful positions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-15
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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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Man against Man
Overview: Robert and Michael meet on their return from captivity. They discover that they are both married to the same woman: After Robert was pronounced dead, Michael married Anna. The decision about the future is left to chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-12-21
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Der Traum vom Elch
Overview: The nurses and friends Anna and Annette grow desperate over men and love. At the hospital, Anna has fallen in love with Markus, whom she lovingly calls "moose", but they only meet twice a year, when Markus has time for her. In the meantime, she keeps afloat with flights of fancy. Meanwhile, Annette clings to the painter Ludwig who cannot stand such a close relationship. Through Annette and Ludwig, Anna meets an attractive married man but her high spirits do not last long.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-12-04
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Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Overview: Everything changes for fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke, a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, when he learns that his father, who died as a war hero, was actually Jewish. Heinz is forced to leave school, loses his friends, and worst of all, his mother dies in a bombing raid. A kind-hearted police officer tries to get him a place at an orphanage in Thuringia, but on the way there, he is picked up by the SS and sent to a training camp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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Fallada: The Last Chapter
Overview: This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is intermittently imprisoned and threatened in order to motivate him to write for the Fatherland. Even the attention of his kind, patient wife and loving children begin to feel oppressive to him. This is one of the few films to take a serious, in-depth look at the tribulations of a creative artist pulled in all different directions by the real world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-05-11
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Entdeckung des Julian Böll
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-07-18
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Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-09-30
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Verwirrung der Liebe
Overview: The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical student Dieter is dating art school student Sonja. Rather unintentionally, they exchange partners. During a carnival ball, Dieter makes out with Siegi because he falls for her her fresh and happy girlish manner. Sonja coolly observes this game and sees this intermezzo as a test for their relationship. While Siegi and Dieter vacation at the sea, Sonja falls in love with Edy. Now the die seems to be cast for new constellations. But when both couples stand in front of the registrar’s office, they finally come to their senses.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-11-13
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Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Overview: Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in fact an "aircraft commander". This assertion brings about an embarrassing situation, for he suddenly meets her onboard his new work place, an IL-14 charter plane where Ilse acts as a stewardess. It gets worse, however: During a stop in Varna the police appear because Horst’s former lover Madelon has vanished. At home, meanwhile, his landlady has her hands full with her lodger’s current and former playmates. Ilse decides to put an end to this mixup and since the dull captain of the plane, Richard, makes no move to confront his co-pilot about his unstable private life, the smart stewardess appeals to the rest of the crew to help her teach Horst a few lessons in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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Der Fremde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Geschichten jener Nacht
Overview: Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
Overview: The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders through the night streets of Berlin and has brief acquaintances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-05-15
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The Opportunists
Overview: The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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Lebende Ware
Overview: In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather private property by offering an insidious choice to the corporation′s Jewish majority shareholder, Dr. Chorin: Either Chorin assigns the company to Becker "on his own free will" – thereby obtaining the permission to travel abroad - or he his family will end up in an extermination camp.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-06-10
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Pułapka
Overview: Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
Overview: The widowed registrar Robert Zimmermann reconciles divorcing couples and finds happiness in love once again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-04
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The Gleiwitz Case
Overview: Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Die Rosenholzmöbel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-05-18
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Ware für Katalonien
Overview: At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, the Volkspolizei - the GDR police force - starts to look into the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases are the starting point for the investigation by second lieutenant Schellenberg of the department for optics racketeering: An old woman who was arrested in the Berlin city railway for trying to smuggle a pair of binoculars to West Berlin, and a dead person in an area of allotments who was involved in obscure dealings with optical devices.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-06
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Scheusal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-05-06
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Ein Sonntagskind, das manchmal spinnt
Overview: 10-year-old Kathy Montag moves to a big city in Brandenburg. Before that, she lived in the Harz Mountains together with her father Peter. Her mother has died a few years ago. The girl finds her new home very exciting, and since Kathy takes an interest in everything she encounters, she keeps finding herself in peculiar situations such as a brigade party or the shooting of a historical epic movie. Her classmates consider her an oddball and even her father is unhappy about his daughter′s development.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-07-07
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Die Schöne und das Tier
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-12-24
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