Heinz Spitzner
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: October 30, 1916
Deathday: September 14, 1992
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Bridge
Overview: A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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De Sade
Overview: The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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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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Creature with the Blue Hand
Overview: Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-28
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Charleys Onkel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Everyone Dies Alone
Overview: When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-21
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Waldhausstraße 20
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-22
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The Squeaker
Overview: Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-26
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King Thrushbeard
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-08-14
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The Big Softie
Overview: A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he returns to his aunt to live off her money after the model and an old flame rekindle their romance. The story unfolds in a series of flashbacks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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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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Blind Justice
Overview: A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections of the prosecutor, the accused is set free and is found dead shortly thereafter. The prosecutor decides to pursue the case and comes upon a band of criminals, who sell German state secrets. Shortly before the investigation comes to a close, a woman is murdered. When a witness asserts to have seen him near the woman's dead body, the prosecutor himself ends up in court and must now prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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The College Girl Murders
Overview: Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-08-11
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Rebel Flight to Cuba
Overview: A group of criminals hijacks a plane, intending to fly it to Cuba.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-11-05
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Long Legs, Long Fingers
Overview: Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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