Torsten Michaelis
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: January 31, 1961
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Male
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NVA
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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My Führer
Overview: Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ...
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-01-11
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Toyland
Overview: On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat to find him. The neighbors' door, with a Star of David painted on it, is ajar, the furnishings in disarray, the family gone. She asks passersby, runs to the police then on to the rail yard. Flashbacks show that Heinrich and the neighbors' son Paul are six years old and best friends. Paul's family's deportation is expected soon; Heinrich's mother tells her son that they're going to Toyland. Heinrich wants to go with them, has a bag packed, and listens for their departure. His mother realizes he's joined them, and her resolve becomes more urgent. Will she arrive in time to save Heinrich?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-08-29
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1st of May: All Belongs to You
Overview: An eleven-year-old Turkish boy, two young men from a small town, and a cuckolded policeman from the sticks all find their way to Berlin on May Day, where, in the district of Kreuzberg, emotions come to the boil every year.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Der kleine Herr Friedemann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-03-29
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Unknown
Overview: A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Close
Overview: Jost roams through the streets of Berlin. He opposes the world enraged, aggressively and furiously in a self-destructive way. He continuously provokes situations proving to himself that everybody hates him. He is convinced he does not need anybody and does not let anyone get close to him. Anna is walled in by her fear and unable to leave her apartment. She manages to keep this situation from all the others in a system of lies. Her reserves draw to a close. She heads for a catastrophe. One day, Jost shows up at her door.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-06-27
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Schatten der Gerechtigkeit
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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12 Winter
Overview: Based on one of the most spectacular series of bank robberies in Germany, Zwölf Winter tells the story of Klaus and Mike, two criminals who became friends in prison. When they happen to meet each other again after they have been released they begin to plan the perfect bank robbery, and it seems to work. For twelve years the two keep on robbing banks, always in winter. The police are in the dark for years. But they won't stick to their guns...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-05-01
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Die Stunde des Wolfes
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Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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Trauzeugen
Overview: A divorce lawyer and a couples therapist, both completely different, must, as witnesses, save their best friends' wedding at all costs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-09-14
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Naked Among Wolves
Overview: Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-01
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Kai from the Box
Overview: Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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The Fox - Dark Trail
Overview: Mid-fifties Anne Marie Fuchs lives modestly and withdrawn in Düsseldorf. When a murder happens, it becomes clear that the inconspicuous lady, who is always in short supply, seems to be an absolute investigator with a razor-sharp mind. No wonder, because Anne Marie Fuchs is a former East German spy, especially one who still has a bill from her active time open.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-12-17
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Frantz
Overview: In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-07
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Ein Dorf schweigt
Overview: Spring 1945: After successfully fleeing, Johanna is stranded with her two children and a teenager whom she has taken under her care in a village in northern Hesse.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-09
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The Fox - Traces of Coal Dust
Overview: During their investigation into a toxic waste scandal, Yousseff and Anne Marie Fuchs' client are found dead, and the two detectives find themselves in a life-threatening situation.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-02-23
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The Burrow
Overview: KAFKA'S THE BURROW tells the story of a man's "metamorphosis" (as Kafka would put it) in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man (Axel Prahl), who has seemingly achieved everything, ensconces himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. But no matter how hard he tries to keep the outside world at a distance, he gets more and more entangled in his own web of fear and paranoia: those outside know he is there, they want him, they want his wealth, and they are inevitably going to get him ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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Hotel Lux
Overview: In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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Das Joshua-Profil
Overview: The unsuccessful writer Max Rhode is a law-abiding citizen. But what Max doesn't know yet: In a few days he will commit a crime so horrific that it is hard to imagine for a human being.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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The Fox - Traces of the Past
Overview: Anne Marie Fuchs' ex-husband Konrad Gelden was shot dead in his villa. This shatters the private detective's hope of solving the riddle of the disappearance of her son Florian. Almost thirty years ago, he was kidnapped as a boy to punish Anne for leaving the Stasi. When Anne's business partner Youssef receives a new order, the tide turns.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-05-17
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The Skin of Others
Overview: Marc Deville is an acclaimed author of erotic literature. In his personal life, however, physical closeness with the opposite sex eludes him. Being a porn addict, his sexuality is narrowly defined by the framed images he can masturbate to. One day he meets Justine, a nurse with a fetish of her own: her love for erotic asphyxiaton has estranged her from her husband Eric, a theatre director...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-19
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Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-09-12
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Shark Alarm at Müggel Lake
Overview: A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local festival indefinitely while the city council thinks of what can be done to remove the shark. The public becomes restless having their lake closed for so long and come up with a plan to drive the shark from the lake with large quantities of beer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-03-12
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Five Years
Overview: How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-23
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Shores of Hope
Overview: In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-07-03
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Offroad
Overview: Meike has had enough of a comfortable life and ventures out on a risky off-road adventure in a jeep she bought at auction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-11
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Der Uranberg
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-17
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My Words, My Lies - My Love
Overview: David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-12-17
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Genug ist nicht genug
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-05-13
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Egypt's Sunken City – A Legend Is Revealed
Overview: Looking for a forgotten city: off the coast of Egypt, just a few metres under the surface, but blanketed by sand and mud, slumbers the ancient port of Heracleion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-11-05
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Angst in meinem Kopf
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-08
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Kabale und Liebe
Overview: Ferdinand's father, the president of the residence, can not tolerate a serious relationship between his son and a commoner, and moreover intends to marry him to Lady Milford, the prince's mistress, to increase his own influence at court.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-10-03
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The Unbearable Lightness of the Revolution
Overview: East Germany, 1988. 19-year-old Franka doesn't really care for politics. She prefers going to the disco and dreaming about seeing Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson live in concert. But beneath her carefree façade, she is scarred by the loss of her baby brother. But then she meets Stefan: He's young, idealistic, and part of an environmental activist group. A mix that makes Franka instantly make fall for him – and his group, which welcomes her with open arms. But this wild, revolutionary influence does not stay unnoticed: Her mother, who's with the Party, is worried about Franka. As Stefan's group loses the support of the church, leaving them vulnerable to the state, Stefan and Franka are soon in the government's line of fire…
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-04-28
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