Axel Werner
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: January 01, 1945
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Male
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Wengler & Sons
Overview: A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work for a precision mechanics and optical company, where he soon becomes a master craftsman. Wengler loyally promises the owner on his deathbed that his sons and grandsons will also stand by the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-05-14
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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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Tuition for Dad
Overview: A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their absent father for an extended vacation and so he has to learn how to be a proper Dad to them. Meanwhile, the kids do their best to bring the family back together.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Späte Ankunft
Overview: In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the Prussian district of Westprignitz from the late Dr. Tochtenhagen. His decision was met with incomprehension everywhere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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Notes of Berlin
Overview: A film inspired by one of Germany's most visited blogs. The author of the site www.notesofberlin.com, Joab Nist, posts pictures of real announcements, notes, information that people leave in the streets of Berlin. The film follows 15 genuine notes and protagonists. The result is 15 funny, tragic, fascinating episodes about people and the city they live in. Twenty-four hours from the life of the city. The story begins with a note attached to a street lamp, with the message “For one minute please just stand here in silence, look at the sky and contemplate how amazing life is”. Is it possible that only a very drunk young man notices the text and looks upwards? An extraordinary mood picture of present-day Berlin and a declaration of love for the city.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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Sprachlos in Irland
Overview: For Connie, things have been going to plan for many years, both professionally and in her private life. That is, until the son of the CEO takes over the business, forcing new demands on the workforce. In future, English is to be the business language. English? Fluently? Not wanting to lose her job, Connie immediately signs up for an intensive English language course in Ireland. But the perfectionist is totally unprepared for her teacher Gillian, the warm-hearted, yet slightly chaotic and young-looking woman, who sees her main job as funeral director as a vocation. Connie also has her problems with her co-student, Max, a Tom Jones imitator, who is currently in Ireland to visit his 16-year-old daughter, Amy. Much to Connie's displeasure, the bon vivant is not interested in rules and regulations. Connie soon realizes that she is missing something more in her perfect life than speaking perfect English. But can she leave her life behind and risk taking the plunge into the great unknown?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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Brothers
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-06-02
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Dörte muss weg
Overview: Werner, Ralle and Tarik are a well-coordinated trio at Berlin's waste disposal service. Werner has been with the company for a long time and is a real leader - someone who says when he doesn't like something. This doesn't always go down well with his superior Dorn - a former refuse collector who has made it to the top. What nobody suspects yet: Dorn is planning modernization measures.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-03-29
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The Swapped Queen
Overview: A tale about the evil queen who gets swapped with a simple and nice woman.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-05-13
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Atkins
Overview: A Western set in the US around the turn of the century. Atkins leaves the city to return to the valley where he formerly lived. There he meets Native Americans who learn to trust him. They ask Atkins to buy weapons for them. On his journey Atkins meets Morris, whose interest in mineral resources puts Atkins loyalty to the Native Americans to the test.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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Tamara
Overview: Mother and daughter, both from the GDR: one experienced it, the other did not. Tamara was born in 1990. Like many of the post-reunification generation, she left her homeland and only comes to visit for her milestone birthday. But everything that seemed secure crumbles within a few days: Tamara (Linda Pöppel) and her mother Barbara (Lina Wendel) are left. The two struggle to maintain their relationship, which cannot be detached from the social developments in which the family was born, grew and disintegrated. Now Tamara must face what she has been running away from: her own history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-11-19
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Und dann steht einer auf und öffnet das Fenster
Overview: Karla, a strong, sensual and experienced woman, learns that she has terminal cancer. She only has a few months left. After a wild life as a photographer of music bands, full of touring, joints and rock 'n' roll, the woman in her mid-sixties has no desire for sentimentality. She wants to be left alone with her fate and plans a dignified exit. She refuses the help of voluntary euthanasia assistant Fred, a single-parent traffic planner who always means well. But Fred's son Phil, a shy teenager with a great sense of poetry, manages to get in touch with the terminally ill artist. He is allowed to archive their concert photos for posterity - and in the process gets to know the funky student Rona. As Fred, Phil and Karla open up to each other, a wonderful friendship develops. While father and son initially believed that they would accompany Karla when she died, the opposite suddenly happened: they both learned to live from her
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-08-31
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Platonow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - (K)eine saubere Sache
Overview: "Captain" Werner Träsch is quite astonished: the fresh wind of social change is also blowing among the tradition-conscious Berlin garbage workers. His boss, Dorn, has got it into his head that women should finally be employed as refuse collectors.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Zu gut für die Tonne
Overview: During their tour, Werner and his colleagues Tarik and Ralle get in the way of a young man who wants to "steal" expired groceries from a supermarket container
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Overview: In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-08-05
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Der Tölpelhans
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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Heroes Like Us
Overview: A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-11-08
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The Kangaroo Conspiracy
Overview: The cabaret artist Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo are faced with a problem: Lisbeth, the mother of Maria has taken a wrong turn somewhere and is now denying the climate crisis on the Internet. How can she be brought to her senses? The two make a bet with each other: If they don't manage to bring Maria's mother to her senses, they will lose their apartment. So Marc-Uwe and the marsupial embark on a trip to the Conspiracy Convention in Bielefeld and shortly thereafter become part of a tangible conspiracy led by conspiracy guru Adam Krieger and his followers. As the two flatmates talk their heads off, it's no longer just about their apartment for Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo, it's more than that: it's a matter of life and death!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-08-25
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Unexpected
Overview: Marie is a successful designer and has a loving husband and two children. But fate offers more. When she meets the fiancée of their friend Dom, the two women fall for each other. This comes out and life gets out of control. Can there be a long-term solution?
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-07-02
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Hüpf, Häschen, hüpf
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-10-02
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Altlasten
Overview: Garbage manager Rüdiger Dorn wants to move into his parents' house after the death of his mother - but that has to be brought into shape first. It goes without saying that Werner pitches in.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Arbeit am Limit
Overview: Water pipe burst and bomb alarm - Berlin in a state of emergency: Dorn and Gerald don't know where their heads are. The routes for the garbage collectors have to be reworked due to numerous road closures, chaos rages.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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Adamski
Overview: Horst Adamski takes a job as a department store detective and promptly falls in love with busy shoplifter Lili. His special approaches, however, rather intimidate Lili and call her unscrupulous boyfriend Wolf into action. To make the chaos perfect, the co-worker Erika also falls in love with Adamski...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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Mensch Kotschie
Overview: A well-placed site manager and father slips into a midlife crisis and recalls promptly to a former lover. Satirical comedy that finds compelling cinematic narrative technique for the feeling of comprehensive alienation and emotional state of emergency worded precisely in images that make over room poetics, dramaturgy and color perspectivization experience the world of heroes transparent. The fact that the terseness is sometimes applied a little thick, weight to a minimum.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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The Land Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-03-19
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Schutzgeld
Overview: The three garbage collectors accidentally get on the trail of a protection racket in the Neukölln neighborhood: Snack bar owner Mohammed has to fend off an aggressive gang of youths and eventually resorts to drastic measures - but Werner discovers that the situation is not quite as clear-cut as it seems. Meanwhile, Tarik's extreme jealousy puts his relationship with Werner's daughter Annika at risk.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-03-14
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While All Germans Sleep
Overview: After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 – a few days before their evacuation to Auschwitz – to go get the toys they forgot at the ghetto. Based on Becker's personal memories and his 1980 short story "The Wall."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-07-31
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Herzentöter
Overview: The mechanic Kobja wants to start a new life in New Zealand. But the necessary money for the overflight is missing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-18
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Im Netz der Gier
Overview: Anna Grawe is the right-hand woman of Bea Kober, a member of the Bundestag. When she learns that the public prosecutor's office is investigating her boss, she becomes suspicious. The connection to oligarch Parygin makes everything even more complicated. What Anna doesn't realize is that her daughter Larissa had an affair with Parygin.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Ein Goldfisch unter Haien
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-06-02
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Nick: Off Duty
Overview: Day in, day out, Niklas ‘Nick’ Tschiller and his partner Yalcin Gümer investigate crimes that are happening in Hamburg. But at some point even the policeman needs a break to spend time with his daughter Lenny. Then it says: Tschiller a.D. - out of service - goodbye to Hamburg. However, simply relaxing is easier said than done, because crime never sleeps and a new, very personal case throws a spanner in the works for Nick's plans for a well-deserved break. Even on vacation, the criminal investigator is not sure about his job and so a wild journey soon takes him across Europe, including to Istanbul and Moscow.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-02-04
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Noch ein Seufzer und es wird Nacht
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-10-31
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Spuk aus der Gruft
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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Weg!
Overview: A 16 years old boy from Germany runs away from a boring birthday party and follows a few graffiti artists to the station. When police arrives he escapes in a train and gets over the border to the Czech Republic. There he meets a wild Czech girl and falls in love with her. Together they try to go to Berlin without having money. A fine road movie about two young people trying to find their way.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-05-29
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The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter
Overview: The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-02-02
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Of Dogs and Horses
Overview: To save his deathly ill dog, the unemployed Rolf bets the little money that he has on a horse and hopes for the best. Sometimes even outsiders get a chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-18
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Iron Hans
Overview: In a king's kingdom there is a forest so dangerous that every man who goes into it is never heard from again. Iron Hans, who is responsible for the deaths, is found at the bottom of a lake and locked up in the king's palace
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-09-25
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Die Lügnerin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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Biology!
Overview: A small town shortly before the end of the GDR: 15-year-old Ulla lives with her mother in a dilapidated old building where not even the electricity works properly. Economy of scarcity and national bankruptcy are visible everywhere. Only higher party comrades live in the lap of luxury. When Ulla meets Winfried after a summer bathing trip, the two fall in love. Winfried is the son of an influential general director and owns things from West Germany that others only dream of: a computer, a games console, a walkman. On an excursion with her biology class, the high school student discovers that a dacha is being built in the middle of the nature reserve and the creek has been dammed. Winfried's father turns out to be the culprit, but the mayor is on his side. Ulla rebels against this environmental destruction connected to political corruption and organizes a protest. Her activism not only endangers her own future, but also her first great love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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System Crasher
Overview: Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to change her ways, and has one goal: go back home to her mother. When anger management trainer Micha is hired to help, suddenly there is hope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Early Birds
Overview: Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadness and mundanity of their everyday lives in old-age and poverty. They relish the thought that they could experience one last adrenalin-fuelled thrill during the twilight of their lives. With that motivation in mind, they set about commencing preparations for a big heist. Early Birds is a tragic comedy, a short film about poverty in old age, dignity and death.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-30
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Kassensturz
Overview: Werner Träsch moves into an apartment with his great love Gabi Hertz. However, he can hardly help with the furnishing of her apartment because he is campaigning to save his favorite restaurant "Zur Traube".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-06-05
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The Break
Overview: A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-19
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Ever After
Overview: An apocalyptic female buddy movie. Two years ago zombies took over the earth. Weimar and Jena are the last places of human civilisation. Vivi and Eva have to fight the undead together, as well as the demons of their past.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-08-22
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Der Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-11-20
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Bella Casa: Hier zieht keiner aus!
Overview: Bella is a single mother business and mother trapped in the normal everyday insanity. Nevertheless, she is happy. But from now on, everything gets out of hand. The house, in which the elderly-shared apartment of Bella's father and their own physiotherapy practice are located, is to be sold and renovated. Bella would not be Bella if she was not determined and would fight with all her might against the injustice and sale of the house. But as she juggles with family, her practice, PR campaigns, demos and squatters, Bella needs to realize that even her power is not endless.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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The Kangaroo Chronicles
Overview: A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-03-05
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Operation Miethai
Overview: During their tour, Werner Träsch and his colleagues Ralle Schieber and Tarik Büyüktürk arrive at a housing estate where the businessman Waselitzki draws their attention to graffiti. Waselitzki plans to rent out the apartments in order to then rent them out again at a higher price. Träsch and his colleagues want to prevent this with all their might.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-05-14
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Die Streunerin
Overview: Werner Träsch, who has just moved into an apartment with his great love Gabi Hertz, surprises her with a trip to Fuerteventura on the second anniversary of their meeting. However, this proves to be difficult to implement...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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Brick
Overview: Tim and Olivia's apartment building is suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall. They must work with their neighbors to find a way out.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-07-10
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