Ruth Glöss
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dresden, Germany
Birthday: August 02, 1928
Deathday: December 07, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Tunnel
Overview: Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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Die Hochzeit meiner Töchter
Overview: Hilde Reimer is overjoyed when her three grown-up daughters and their partners move into the old family villa. The only thing that really bothers Hilde is that her three girls are still not married, despite having children and being very much in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Alter schützt vor Liebe nicht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-02-25
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A Good Summer
Overview: A tragicomedy about the trials and tribulations of life: three lonely hearts find each other, drift apart and experience the happiness of the moment together
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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Wunschkinder und andere Zufälle
Overview: The childless sisters Regina, Anja and Susanne are outraged. Their wealthy mother is determined to become a grandmother and offers her fancy villa as a reward for the first of the three daughters to give her a grandchild. But Anja has completely different plans: she is going to emigrate to Brazil with Karin, the love of her life.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-11-28
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Meer is nich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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Rapunzel, or The Magic of Tears
Overview: Adaptation of the classic fairytale.
Genres: TV Movie Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-12-26
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Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
Overview: Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, the line is to be electrified and Platow, who cannot cope with the new technology, has to work on a secondary local line. Georg, his son, a railway worker as well, is to attend a training course, but Georg refuses to go. Then his father comes to a surprising and highly unusual decision. He pretends to be Georg Platow, making himself twenty years younger than he really is and registers for the course.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-31
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Exploring the Brandenburg Marche
Overview: On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car. In the conversation that ensues, Menzel and Pötsch quickly discover that they both are great admirers of the early 19th-century writer Max von Schwedenow who was born in the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-04-21
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Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast
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Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-04-21
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Die zertanzten Schuhe
Overview: Twelve princesses sleep in twelve beds in the same room; every night their doors are securely locked, but in the morning their shoes are found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night. The king, in mourning, promises his kingdom and a daughter to any man who can discover the princesses'secret within three days and three nights, but those who fail within the set time limit will be put to death.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-28
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Das Idol von Mordassow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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The Tango Player
Overview: Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-02-18
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Colors in the Dark
Overview: Anita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They have two grown children, and their grandchildren are finishing school. Both can look back at a fulfilling past, but their lives are still rich and vibrant. The fact that Fred is terribly ill has been hidden from the family. For the first time in all these years, Fred takes some liberties, which his wife interprets as an affront. Never before has she felt so abandoned. Although she starts to question her relationship, a love like theirs cannot end so easily. Indeed it should never end.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-01-13
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We Are the Night
Overview: One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, the parties. But soon the murderous blood lust of her comrades in arms proves too much for her, and she falls dangerously in love with Tom, a young undercover cop.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-28
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The Promise
Overview: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-02-16
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Der Lumpenmann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-31
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Altes Herz geht auf die Reise
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-08-23
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Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?
Overview: A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon found – hanged. Sawmill owner Züllich claims that Gäbler committed suicide because he was forced to join an agricultural production cooperative, but others are convinced Gäbler was murdered. Officers Schneider and Anders must navigate their way through a complex maze of personal and political motivations in order to reconstruct the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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