Maria Simon
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Biography: Maria Simon (born February 6, 1976) is a German actress. Simon's German father originally hailed from Leipzig and studied mathematics in Leningrad. There he met Simon's Russian-Jewish mother, Olga, who studied electronics and originally hailed from Kazakhstan. The couple married while studying. Maria Simon is the younger sister of actress Susanna Simon, who was born on 23 July 1968, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Maria was born and brought up in the former East Germany, but moved to New York City in 1990 to live with her father, a computer expert with the United Nations, and her sister Dalena Simon. She also has a sister named Alyssa. Simon has four children, the first from a former relationship with the actor Devid Striesow, and three with her ex-husband, the actor Bernd Michael Lade. After finishing school she moved back to the newly reunited Germany to study acting at the Academy of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin where she received her diploma in 1999. She won the award for Best Actress for her role in the film Zornige Küsse at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival in 2000. Simon was nominated as the best supporting actress in the 2003 German Film Awards, and was named European Shooting Star (i.e., best newcomer) at the 2004 Berlinale. In the same year she played Polly in Bertolt Brechts Dreigroschenoper at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Her TV movie Kleine Schwester was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Awards in 2005.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany
Birthday: February 06, 1976
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Gender: Female
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Good Bye, Lenin!
Overview: Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-02-13
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Distant Lights
Overview: Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-02-11
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Nichts als Gespenster
Overview: Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-29
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Luther
Overview: During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-29
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Fürchte dich nicht
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-01-22
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The Countess
Overview: Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Erste Ehe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-07-10
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Zwerg Nase
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Genres: TV Movie Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-12-24
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Kongo
Overview: Nicki Ziegler, Oberleutnant der Feldjäger, wird zu einem Auslandseinsatz in den Ostkongo geschickt. Gemeinsam mit ihrem forschen Kollegen Werner Malinckrodt soll sie den Selbstmord des Soldaten Wenz klären. Tatsächlich deutet zunächst alles auf Selbstmord hin: Wenz kam mit den verstörenden Verhältnissen in dem afrikanischen Krisengebiet nicht klar und zudem wollte ihn offenbar seine Frau verlassen. Als Nicki auf dem Handy des Toten ein sonderbares Video findet, tendiert zu allerdings zu Mord...
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-18
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Es war einer von uns
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Die Tote im Moorwald
Overview: After the surprising death of her mother, budding artist Josefine hastily leaves the city of Munich and moves to an old, abandoned dairy farm in the countryside. She also escapes from her friend Simon, who, contrary to his assurances, has still not separated from his wife. And Josefine finally wants to find out who her father was. Her mother had left the village and raised Josefine in the city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-11-12
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Against All Evidence
Overview: Police arrest a woman for the murder of his five years son. She claims to have drunk the night before and not knowing what happened to his small son, but the gun crime appears in her bed and have their fingerprints. Everyone, including the husband, who that morning was on duty in the hospital, it suspect.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Wolfsjagd
Overview: Wildlife ranger Sara Jahnke prefers to live in the solitude of Canada's forests rather than among people. In her home in Brandenburg, with her father Robert Jahnke and her grown-up daughter Julia, she can only manage for a limited time. Shortly before her return to Canada, Sara is commissioned to track down and remove a wolf that has become conspicuous. When she finds the body of a Romanian seasonal worker, an outrageous suspicion arises. Is Silvana the first victim of a fatal wolf attack in several hundred years?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Not All Were Murderers
Overview: Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Mord im Swingerclub
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-11-07
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Der Geruch von Erde
Overview: While Dr. Ellen Bischoff celebrates success in her career, her family life is not at its best. Once she quarreled with her father Anton and turned her back on the local dairy farm. But now Anton is in the hospital after a severe heart attack. Ellen returns home to keep the operation going. There she meets her childhood sweetheart Felix again, whom she never forgave that he cheated on her with her former best friend Karin. In addition, Ellen struggles with serious problems: The father's farm is highly indebted and should be auctioned. The situation seems hopeless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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Civil Courage
Overview: For almost 30 years, bookseller Jordan has lived and worked in a neighborhood in Berlin that has become a social hotbed. As Jordan witnesses a teenager brutally beating up an older man, he intervenes and files a complaint - with unimaginable consequences ... Director Dror Zahavi ("Everything for my father", "My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki") succeeded after a screenplay by Jürgen Werner ("Tatort - With a steady hand", "Schimanski - layer in the pit", also with Götz George) an atmospherically tightly staged and outstandingly played portrait of a so-called problem district. Here nothing is glossed over, but instead the reality shown and the powerlessness of our judicial system mercilessly layed bare. A highlight of 2010!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-27
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Death on the Baltic
Overview: A man goes over a girl and is in a village on the Baltic Sea henceforth as a "murderer" - until he lies dead in his garden. An accident, everyone says. But the autopsy shows that Ralf Kossak was killed. The police consider Stefan Hansen, the father of the dead Lisa, for the murderer, because he has the strongest motive: revenge. But Hansen was not, his wife Meike not. In the village begins a veritable witch hunt on Kossak's widow and her sons. The police discover what a shattering drama is in the Kossak family.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-06-28
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Tod in der Eifel
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-09
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Verbotene Küsse
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Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-12
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Jonathan's Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-13
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Masserberg
Overview: With provocative dresses and a lot of make-up, the 19-year-old Melanie defies her bleak hospital stay in Masserberg in Thuringia. For years, she suffers from a very serious eye disease that will lead to blindness without expensive therapy and expensive drugs. Mel dreams of freedom in the West and is convinced that they could be treated there as well. So you only the new doctor Carlo Sanchez remains as a worldly glimmer of hope. As their escape plans fly up and Carlo is to spy on behalf of the Stasi, begins for the unequal pair a race for life and death, love and freedom.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-05-19
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Romeo und Jutta
Overview: Jürgen Stoll is not only a Filou and life artist, but the darling of many women. When the marriage swindler is given the choice, prison in the GDR or a career as "Romeo" in the FRG, he decides to go to the West. Stoll now plays in the big game of secret agents until he realizes that the Stasi still has very different plans with him.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-02
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Engel der Gerechtigkeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-10-06
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Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-07-02
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Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-03-25
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Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-01-30
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Amerika
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-27
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A Hidden Life
Overview: Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-27
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Ich gehöre ihm
Overview: 15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-08-30
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Im Tunnel
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-04-24
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Das Geständnis
Overview: In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do not exist in socialism.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-09-15
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Blessed Events
Overview: A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering her to move into his fine home. While Hannes devotes himself further to terminal hospital patients, Simone lazily renovates the house, but somehow gets jealous of the neighbors and compromises everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-06-19
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Carola Stern - Doppelleben
Overview: Autobiographical movie about the publicist Carola Stern.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-08
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Herzversagen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-22
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Break-Out to the Unknown
Overview: In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-02-14
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Fast perfekt verlobt
Overview: Best prospects for young Nika Kreschinski: She is an assistant in the PR department of the renowned Seckbach Bank and is engaged to Fritz , the son of the house. But shortly before the planned wedding , the orderly life of the career woman is thoroughly shaken up: her father Herby,an old hippie, appears on the scene because the Seckbach Bank wants to turn his Greek dropout island into an amusement park ...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-04-17
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Der Zeuge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-03-02
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Curling für Eisenstadt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Passing Summer
Overview: A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways with friends, family, and lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-20
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Alle Jahre wieder
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Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-12-04
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