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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Linz, Austria
Birthday: September 28, 1945
Deathday: November 19, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Overview: A feature film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was murdered in 1990 and who tried all his life to hide his homosexual tendencies from the public. The life story is told from the perspective of his professional environment and - sometimes in a documentary style - his fellow actors report on him. His sexual preferences in the BDSM area are also discussed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-05-13
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Overview: Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Overview: This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have unexpected costs. Ferdinand's Jewish wife, Anna (Martina Gedeck), is sent to a concentration camp, and as World War II intensifies, he rebels against the Nazis, leading to the destruction of his career.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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Overview: 16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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Overview: In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to have a tryst with a gigolo he meets in the lobby, a carniverous condom bites off his right testicle and flees, which sets the detective off on a quest to stop the predatory prophylactic once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-08-29
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Overview: After the last concert of a long tour, Dr. Kurt Ostbahn retires to his favorite café to relax. He is suddenly dragged into a bizarre criminal case. His vacation then fills with vice, perversion and murder. Of course, this is not just a story; Dr. Kurt Ostbahn experienced everything himself! The characters are not inventions; they are personal acquaintances of Dr. Ostbahn. Only the names and details have been changed so as to make them barely recognizable. And the story is more exciting than real life.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-10-13
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Overview: The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you’d least expect it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-09-12
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Overview: This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-02-14
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Overview: Deals with the life, work, and tragic death of Johann "Falco" Hölzel. The biopic portrays his work through his early days, as member of the Viennese band "Drahdiwaberl", and later with his own hits as solo artist, like "Der Kommissar", "Wiener Blut", and his worldwide smash-hit "Rock Me Amadeus".
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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Overview: Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-24
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Overview: This documentary feature addresses the question of how gay men lived and could live their lives under 'real socialism'...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Overview: A journalist bites off more than she can chew investigating a deadly secret.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-03-19
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-02
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Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Overview: Brand, an author, who falls in love with Angela, his terminally ill wife's nurse and blunders into a dangerous spiral of passion and jealousy. A vindictive husband, an insistent chief inspector, a farsighted priest and a proud wife entrap Brand in a maelstrom of persecution, destruction and obliteration which can only end in life or death. It's a quest for redemption, the force which drives us all.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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Overview: Young director Honza David films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva the love of his life he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the director of the Austrian Television Helmut Zilk. He knows Eva very well but the Czech Secret Service even better ...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-07-15
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Overview: Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "Die vier Gerechten" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More honorable personalities must die before the perfume Higgins betrays the murderer and exposes the honorable personalities as heads of the organized trafficking of girls.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-04-20
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Overview: Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a summer holiday on the Baltic coast of what is now Lithuania, as well as the twilight of a social order and its mores in a world soon to be plunged into the cataclysm of world war.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-08-07
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-08-24
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Overview: An old man is to be evicted from his home. He is the last tenant in an old house. He refuses to leave the flat in which he has passed his whole life. All appeals asking him to be 'reasonable' are of no use. And when he finally gets out his shotgun, the cops appear and use tear gas to drive him out of his flat. He is put into a straitjacket and carried out of the house as someone who's 'aggressive and always grousing'. 'The film is a bitter elegy for the unknown Vienna, seen with the eyes of an old man. A remarkable Austrian film.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-19
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Overview: It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiancé, as Henry once betrayed his lost love Anna. In memory of Anna and his cruel Dickensian childhood, Henry challenges Lys to a duel to try to appease his guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-12-20
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