Sylvester Groth
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Sylvester Groth was born in Jerichow, German Democratic Republic on March 31st, 1958. He is an actor with an extensive television and theater career, well known for portraying Goebbels in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Clausen in Dark (2019) and starring in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Stalingrad (1993) and Deutschland 83 (2015).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jerichow, Germany
Birthday: March 31, 1958
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Gender: Male
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Momo
Overview: Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction Family Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-07-16
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Zerbrechliche Zeugin
Overview: A male prostitute and a handicapped girl witness a murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-19
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Stalingrad
Overview: A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-20
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Fleisch ist mein Gemüse
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-04-17
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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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Inglourious Basterds
Overview: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-02
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The 355
Overview: A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-05
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Zarte Parasiten
Overview: Jakob and Manu have developed their own specific survival strategies. Without a permanent home or steady job, they live in a makeshift camp in the woods and use the municipal swimming pool when they need to shower. Always short on cash, they make a living as providers of human services. They notice what is missing in other people′s lives and make a living by satisfying others′ desires and giving them what they need or what they lack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-07
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Plankton oder das Wunder der Anpassung
Overview: A 40-minute German film from 1980.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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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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The Weekend
Overview: Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. Back with his family, friends, and ex-comrades, including his former lover Inga, Jens’ unexpected arrival disrupts their lives, forcing them to re-examine the violent idealism of their youth, especially as he insists on learning who had betrayed him to the police years before in this intense, gripping drama
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-26
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The Turning Point
Overview: In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-20
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A Pact
Overview: A dark psychological thriller, A Pact tells the twisted story of a contentious love triangle. As teenagers, Paul tricked Georg into handing over his girlfriend Anna to him. Georg agrees, on the condition that he can have her back whenever he wishes. After decades of silence, when Anna and Paul have a family together, Georg suddenly re-appears. Strange things start happening to Paul, and it soon becomes clear that Georg has not forgotten the pact.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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Kolle - Ein Leben für Liebe und Sex
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-05-22
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Lulu
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-03-27
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Whiskey with Vodka
Overview: A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-03
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Beate Uhse - das Recht auf Liebe
Overview: Beate Uhse was a German pilot and entrepreneur. The only female stunt pilot in Germany in the 1930s, after World War II she started the first sex shop in the world. The company she started, Beate Uhse AG, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and is the world leader in sales of sexual aids. The company also started a television channel on the Premiere network of television channels.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-10-09
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Hilde
Overview: A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-03-11
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben
Overview: The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in great danger. Nevertheless, he returned to Germany with his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-10
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Berlin, I Love You
Overview: An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-04
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Ihr Brief zur Hochzeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-12-17
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The House on the River
Overview: 1942. The members of the Voß family, mother, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and a son-in-law, are living in a house at the river. A fellow soldier of son Paul, who fights at the eastern front, delivers his greetings and an embroidered Russian blouse for Emmi, Paul′s wife. Daughter Agnes, whose husband is also fighting in the war, receives a fur vest from the junior partner who is stalking her. Obviously, the vest is also loot from the eastern front. When the family receives news that Emmi′s husband has been killed in action, the war finally enters the house at the river. Emmi commits suicide while Agnes′s husband returns as a cripple from the war front. At home, he has to learn what a price his wife had to pay for the "Russian fur".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-16
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Tom Sawyer
Overview: Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-17
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Der Verleger
Overview: "The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, which quickly reaches millions of copies. His greatest publishing invention is a daily newspaper with which he wants to give the common man on the street a voice. But the publisher is not only successful in business, he also knows how to please women.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-10-09
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The Reader
Overview: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Die Weisheit der Wolken
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-07-11
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Das Wunder von Lengede
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-11-09
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Der Briefbomber
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Junge Leute in der Stadt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-11-21
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The Last U-Boat
Overview: Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, the Nazi Party members wanting to continue to Japan since they are still at war, while the others just want to surrender or return home.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Nevermore
Overview: One night he will fetch the silver from the night sky Jonas loves his fathers magical stories. When Helge dies, Jonas ends up in an orphanage whereupon dreariness and discipline rule his life until a group of circus performers appear in the village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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Requiem for a Romantic Woman
Overview: In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws herself at him with such terrifying brutality, is called Auguste Bussmann.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-03-18
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Romeo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-29
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The Volcano
Overview: A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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Aghet
Overview: 2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Keiner geht verloren
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-07-02
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Die Geisel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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Bittere Kirschen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Der Kronzeuge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-12-12
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Inspektor Barbarotti - Mensch ohne Hund
Overview: Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on, is just right for the Italo-Swedes: after a birthday party in the idyllic town of Kymlinge, two members of the Hermanssons are missing. One is the black sheep of the family, a hapless aesthetic who achieved notoriety as "Wichs-Walter" after a lewd TV appearance in a jungle camp.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-11
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Liebe. Macht. Blind.
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Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-12-13
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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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Jenseits
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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The Trouble with Jessica
Overview: Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along. After a seemingly trivial argument, Jessica hangs herself in the garden. Tom goes to call the police when Sarah realizes if the buyer finds out, the sale will collapse, meaning definite financial ruin. The only solution - to convince Richard and Beth to take Jessica’s body to her flat and make it look like she killed herself there. If they’re clever enough about it, what could possibly go wrong?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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Käthchens Traum
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-12-21
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Schuld und Unschuld
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-04-26
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Gesche's Poison
Overview: Gesche's Poison is a psychological portrait loosely based on the true story of Gesche Gottfried who became notorious in 19th century Bremen for killing fifteen people with arsenic. Known by her neighbors and friends as a merciful Christian, loving mother and devoted wife, she poisoned within fifteen years her parents, her brother, two husbands, three children and numerous friends. When caught, she never denied her deeds, but could not give any reason.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Overview: At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-13
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Outside Time
Overview: Outside Time is the second feature film of Andreas Kleinert, a German director who grew up in the GDR and who started making films at the time of the fall of the Wall. The film is set in a small town somewhere in Brandenburg, a place which is rapidly falling "outside time"; since it cannot keep pace with the changes brought about by unification and the transformation of the former GDR. The Russian troops stationed there have withdrawn and their barracks have turned into rat-infested ruins; the intercity trains do not stop there any more and even the regional railway link to Berlin is going to be suspended. Most young people are leaving. When Sophie introduces her lover to her mother and her brother, Sergej becomes embroiled in the incestuous tensions underlying the relationship between Sophie, her brother, Georg, and her mother. The arrival of the Russian implodes the claustrophobic sham existence that held this dysfunctional family together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-10-26
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Die Mutter des Mörders
Overview: Single mother Maria falls from the clouds when the police come: She does not believe for a second that her son, Matis could have killed the pretty Lea from next door. He is in his early 20s, but still thinks and feels like a child - right? After his arrest, Simon finds a sex booklet belongs to him that the bus driver Bacher sold him. Matis actually makes a confession, to which, however, the psychologist Benjamin doubts. In the meantime, mother Maria is investigating on her own. The thriller gradually increases its level and excitement.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-09-14
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Journey to Weimar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-10-03
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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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Verzweiflung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-10-12
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Frisch gepresst
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Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-08-23
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Farewell to Agnes
Overview: A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic Republic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-12
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Der Preis der Sehnsucht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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Kati: A Freestyle That Stays
Overview: Four years after the end of the German Democratic Republic, Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic champion, is planning her comeback to prove to herself and to a united Germany that she still has what it takes. To do this, she has to team up with her former coach Jutta Müller and complete the toughest training of her life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-07-01
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Der Schimmelreiter
Overview: German-Polish adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-11-12
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In Times of Fading Light
Overview: Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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Ein Kommissar kehrt zurück
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-28
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Buddenbrooks
Overview: Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Zorn - Kalter Rauch
Overview: In the fifth film in the series, the two chief commissioners Zorn and Schröder again investigate a truly tricky case in Halle. The script was written by Stephan Ludwig, who wrote the novel as in the previous productions. Directed by the crime-experienced Andreas Herzog. In addition to the two proven chief commissioner actors Stephan Luca and Axel Ranisch play again u. a. Alice Dwyer the prosecutor Borck and Katharina Nesytowa Zorn's girlfriend Malina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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The New End
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Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-07-01
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Ein glücklicher Tag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-10-16
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Meines Vaters Straßenbahn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-12-28
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Breathe
Overview: Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Die Vergebung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Kaisersturz
Overview: While World War One is coming to an end, the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert is trying to maintain political stability in Berlin. In the haughty Prince Max of Baden he finds an ally who offers him government participation under his chancellorship. In the meantime, discontent with the monarchy is steadily increasing in the last days of the war, but Emperor Wilhelm II remains steadfast in his throne.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-01
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BFF Detectives
Overview: Friends Franzi, Marieave and Kim planned to spend the summer rehearsing for a Peter Pan play, but when strange things start to happen at the theatre they take on the role of investigators.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-07-25
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Die geheime Inquisition
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Master Butcher
Overview: After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-12-27
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The Third Wave
Overview: Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-10-15
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Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
Overview: As a young missionary, Richard Wilhelm in 1899 to China, which was then exploited by the colonial powers. He lived there revolts against foreigners, the end of the imperial dynasties and the First World War. In these times of turbulent upheavals he was indefatigable in search of the deepest truth that helps people deal with change and able to shape their own lives. Richard Wilhelm baptized not only Chinese, but accomplished one of the largest translation services of the 20th century: Confucius, LAOTSE the most important texts of Daoism and especially the I CHING THE BOOK OF CHANGES. The book also served many readers in the West as inspiration. Wilhelm is still one of the most important mediators of Chinese culture in Europe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-19
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Dog
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-01-21
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