Karl Merkatz
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Biography: Karl Merkatz (17 November 1930 – 4 December 2022) was an Austrian actor. Merkatz was born on 17 November 1930 in Wiener Neustadt, the son of a toolmaker. He first wanted to become a carpenter. After World War II he was an active Boy Scout in Wiener Neustadt. However, later he started to enroll in acting lessons in Salzburg, Vienna and Zurich. Then he found employment in theatres, most notably in Munich, Salzburg, Hamburg and Vienna. During his later career he starred in several roles in television and motion pictures. In the role of Edmund Sackbauer (Mundl) in the 1970s, he became famous as the typical Viennese. Another big success came with the films "Bockerer" starring as a naive Viennese during the Second World War in Vienna (the later films are set in the subsequent years to 1945). From 1999, Merkatz was chairman of the human rights group SOS Mitmensch. Merkatz died in Straßwalchen on 4 December 2022, at the age of 92. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Birthday: November 17, 1930
Deathday: December 04, 2022
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Gender: Male
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Bockerer
Overview: A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-19
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Der Bockerer II - Österreich ist frei
Overview: Vienna, 1947. Bockerer and his wife Binerl have survived the war, though his butcher's shop was destroyed by bombs. Karl Bockerer opens up a new establishment in the center of the city. Post-war Vienna is divided into four zones in which the Allies run things and ensure that law and order prevails. This is the story of two lovers: Gustl, just returned form a POW camp, and the Russian interpreter Elena. Bockerer becomes the patron of their love. Elena's father was executed by Stalin, and the only way she can escape a similar fate is to marry an Austrian. Bockerer "buys" a husband for Elena and, full of tricks as ever, he succeeds in pulling the wool over the Russian occupier's eyes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-10-26
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Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
Overview: It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-19
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Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling
Overview: In the year 1968, the “Bockerer” has decided, after many attempts, to marry his long-time widowed housekeeper, Anna. Gustl, whom he as taken in like a son after the war, will open a butchery in the Czech small town Kostelec and invites the Bockerers to spend their wedding journey with him and his Elena. The “Prague Spring”, of which everywhere is talked so much about, promises a nice honeymoon, and their friend Hatzinger is taken along on the journey as well. Soon after their arrival, the Bockerer has to realize that “Communism with a human face” is still an idle wish.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Lethal Obsession
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Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls
Overview: Advertising designer Joe is having financial trouble. His girlfriend Mary convinces him to accept a job from her aunt, Mrs. Devil. Joe's assignment: to develop an interactive computer game that introduces the new drug Peps'. Jack, a henchman of Mrs. Devil, is entrusted with overseeing this diabolical undertaking. In Joe's game, Ali - an alien - goes searching for Mozart and the drug, Peps' in Salzburg in the year 2026 with the help of the inventor Einstein and Frau Müller. Throughout his quest through this strange world, All is pursued by authorities and ticks off a drug dealer. As things progress, the realms of reality and computer fiction become so intertwined that Joe is on the verge of losing his mind. Suffering and passion take their toll... After all, a pact with the devil always has its price.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-10-21
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Drei Herren
Overview: Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a heart attack. The three men quite naturally assume that they have reached their destination and find somewhere to stay in the nearest village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-11-20
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The Unfish
Overview: Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-09-20
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Move On
Overview: Move On is a road movie like no other, because it is inspired by film fans from all over Europe! This breath-taking movie directed by Asger Leth features Mads Mikkelsen on a secret mission in 8 episodes, each taking place in a different European country.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-05
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Das ewige Lied
Overview: Assistant Pastor Josef Mohr arrived in Oberndorf in 1818. In a time of political upheaval and economic hardship he writes a Christmas carol together with the teacher Franz Gruber. The main roles in Franz Xaver Bogners fictive history of the most famous Christmas song in the world "Das ewige Lied" play Tobias Moretti, Heio von Stetten and Erwin Steinhauer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-12-22
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The Lenz Papers
Overview: Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-04
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The Secret of Loch Ness
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-02-05
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Vor Gericht seh'n wir uns wieder - Skurriles aus dem schönen Wien
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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The Living Corpse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Ein Hund kam in die Küche
Overview: The teacher Senta falls in love with the award-winning chef Stefan, who rents out his romantic winegrower's house in southern Styria to her during the summer holidays. She soon notices that a quirky gendarmerie inspector is keeping the property under surveillance. Senta finds out too late that the policeman thinks Stefan is a multiple woman murderer and that she is trapped like bait.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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Frechheit siegt
Overview: cheek wins! According to this motto, Conny Herzog is very successful in life and usually achieves her goals, which are often very high. After the successful conclusion of the "father search" operation, the cheerful woman wants to really get going. With an invention by her father Paul, great business ideas and a good deal of courage in her luggage, she dares to pull off the big coup with the help of her friends Freddy, René and Susanne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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Der Rausschmeisser
Overview: The story of the 18 year old prostitute Fanny who falls back into her old life after being released from a reform school run by nuns. The feeble-minded Frieder tries to liberate her, fails, and pays for it with his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-07-31
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Zwei Väter einer Tochter
Overview: The furniture manufacturer Albert and the doorman Paul could both be Conny's fathers, the result of a long-suppressed affair between both men and the same woman. This is becoming a huge problem, because Conny is demanding unpaid alimony - from 30 years. Paul's marital happiness and Albert's business future are at stake. A large-scale cover-up begins and leads to complete chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-02-21
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Ein himmlisches Weihnachtsgeschenk
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-12-14
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Ene mene muh – und tot bist du
Overview: A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The police's secret investigation concentrates on the nursing staff at first. But the new medical director, Dr. Klein, discovers that one of the patients is the culprit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-08-10
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Stürmische Begegnung
Overview: The young bookseller Rebecca Bayliss was setting up her new apartment in London when she received news of her mother Lisa's serious illness. Rebecca rushed off to her mother in Ibiza and heard the terrible news: leukemia. During the last hours together, Lisa Bayliss tells her daughter the truth about her origins.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau
Overview: Vienna, 1956. Viennese butcher Karl Bockerer goes to Hungary to buy meat. Along with his foster son and grandchild, he is caught up in the turmoil of the Hungarian revolt against the Soviet occupiers. With some luck and a great deal of cunning, Bockerer and his family manage to escape, but the Austrian border is closed - except for the bridge to Andau...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-07-13
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Little Big Voice
Overview: In Austria 1955, the emotional story of a ten-year-old boy, Ben, who after the death of his mother tries to fulfill his dreams in post-war Europe, but faces many problems.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-12-08
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Die Erben des tollen Bomberg
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-11-06
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König Ottokars Glück und Ende
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-11
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Das Duell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-06
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Der Waldbauernbub - Weihnacht in der Waldheimat
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Genres: Family Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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Die hundertste Nacht
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-26
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In Zeiten wie diesen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-12
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Young Dr. Freud
Overview: A portrait of Sigmund Freud as a young man.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-31
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Esch oder Die Anarchie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Der Blunzenkönig
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-08-26
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Franz Antel - Meister der Unterhaltung
Overview: A documentary directed by Wolfgang Liemberger.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-06-20
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Coming of Age
Overview: Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno’s marriage, which has long been routine, and Rosa’s illness; she has cancer and not long left to live. Despite the difficult circumstances, the two decide to breakaway – Bruno from his relationship and Rosa from her retirement home. Against the advice of carers, doctors and relatives, the pair moves into a new apartment together. ANFANG 80 shows with a great deal of unequivocal humour how insensitively and sometimes desperately overburdened society reacts to love among the elderly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-30
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Egmont
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-12-03
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On the Other Side of the Bridge
Overview: Vienna in 1931. Fanny, the daughter of a Vienna police trainer, meets the Chinese police officer Ma Yunlong, who is completing specialist training in Vienna. The shy acquaintance quickly turns into great love. Against the will of her parents, Fanny travels to China on her 18th birthday to marry Yunlong. At his side, Fanny begins a new life in the Middle Kingdom, which is characterized by deprivation and painful turns due to the multiple political upheavals.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-11-06
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Jakob der Letzte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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König Johann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-20
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Da wo es noch Treue gibt
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-03-10
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Totstellen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-04-24
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Mord im Wald
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Der Mann von La Mancha
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Romeo und Julia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-05-16
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Feuer!
Overview: A historical drama about the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian empire.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-27
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Der Bienenkönig
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Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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Junger Frühling
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-04-18
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Mundl - Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter
Overview: A faithful family has gathered around "Mundl": his wife Toni, who says little but always has the last word; his son Karli, who marries Irmi, a woman from "higher circles", and his parents-in-law, the Werners, who have some difficulty in getting accustomed to the coarse tones of the Sackbauer family. Then Mundl's daughter Hanni brings home a bespectacled intellectual, of all people, and altogether, everyday life in Vienna can be rather exciting.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-10-19
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Karl Merkatz - Vom Tischler zum echten Wiener
Overview: Documentary about the life and works of legendary Austrian actor Karl Merkatz.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-11-13
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Summer With The Ghosts
Overview: A young girl and her new friend investigate a series of supernatural happenings in the Austrian children's film SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS. Caroline departs from her home in Montreal to join her father a famous film director on the set of his latest film in Austria. When she arrives however she learns of a series of accidents and problems on the film set with everyone at odds to explain how they happened. Suspecting that someone means to sabotage the film she begins to investigate the ancient castle being used as the set. Along with her newfound friend Jakob she discovers that the film's difficulties may in fact have a supernatural cause.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-25
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