Alfred Maack
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Birthday: April 05, 1882
Deathday: February 14, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Der Etappenhase
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-16
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Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
Overview: This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, set fire to a forest mill that the farmers used for processing their grain. Without their mill, the farmers must now rely on the millman's services. When the farmhand Anna uncovers the millman’s crimes, he swiftly detains her and a young miller, Jörg. The forest spirits have a different plan, however, and they free the young couple with the charge to rebuild the ruined forest mill and turn things around for the villagers.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-04-06
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The Beacon
Overview: On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during winter. But little has been washing ashore of late, and their situation worsens. Elders recall how twenty years ago, when the lighthouse keeper’s beacon went dark, a cargo ship broke apart on the cliffs. It proved a bountiful accident for the fishermen. Today people on the island view the conscientious lighthouse keepers with evil hungry eyes...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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The Mysterious Wreck
Overview: Several children find out what's the matter with a wreck offshore, which puts them into jeopardy.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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Destinies of Women
Overview: Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-06-12
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The Star of Rio
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-03-20
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Hexen
Overview: Germany in 1949: The residents of the Thuringian village Hunsdorf are still heavily influenced by archaic superstition and explain unusual events with preternatural powers. The same happens when pigs again and again disappear from different farmyards. The village residents firmly believe that witches are the reason for this mystery. Not even police detective Kühlemann who is sent to Hunsdorf is able to dissuade them from their superstition. Thus, the farmers think his investigation is aimless and they do not support him at all. With a lot of patience and well-made arguments he finally convinces little Peter that there are no witches. Next, Peter’s grandfather and teacher Marianne take Kühlemann’s side. With their support, the police detective eventually finds out the truth and is able to put a stop to the gang of crooks that had been stealing the pigs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Musketier Meier III
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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Junge Adler
Overview: Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, he had forbidden his son to take part in the competition, because the son's grades in school are substandard. In the end, Brakke sees no other way than to pull Theo from school and install him as an apprentice in his airplane manufacturing plant. Although Theo is received by the other 150 apprentices in a friendly fashion, he behaves in an arrogant and disrespectful tone towards them. He feels himself to be better than them, because his father is the director of the factory.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-05-24
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Old Boat and Young Love
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Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-02-22
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Weiße Wäsche
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-09-22
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Gefährliche Fracht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-05-20
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My Wife Wants to Sing
Overview: Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into her head that she would like a career as a pop star. She had singing lessons in the past and her voice is still beautiful. A chance meeting with the idolized Italian singer Fabiani, revives her stage fever - much to the annoyance of her husband Gustl Wagner, head of the records section at a department store.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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Fracht von Baltimore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-10-13
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A Girl Goes Ashore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-09-29
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Die Degenhardts
Overview: A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once again
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-08-11
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Für die Katz'
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Anna Susanna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
Overview: The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is a row with the new engineer Michel the evening after the first trip. He leaves - out of jealousy. Instead of him, Marianne takes three funny musicians with her who are looking for work. The trip to Hamburg on the Elbe initially ends on a sandbank, from which another barge, the "Petrel", frees them. Michel has now been hired there. After a few complications and pointless fights, because Marianne has long been in love with Michel, there is the well-deserved happy ending.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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Das Mädchen Juanita
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-03-02
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In the Evening After the Opera
Overview: A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-08-31
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The Marriage Swindler
Overview: A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women out of their savings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-02-15
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Vor uns liegt das Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-12-17
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Schüsse in Kabine 7
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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...and the Sky Above Us
Overview: Hans Albers plays returning war veteran Hans Richter who has trouble finding work. With nowhere else to turn, Richter gets involved with black market activities. This so disgusts Richter's son, blind ex-soldier Edwin (Paul Edwin Roth), that the boy literally disowns his father. Hans eventually mends his ways, but not before several other devastating setbacks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-12-09
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Die Meere rufen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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Marriage in the Shadows
Overview: Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her, convinces her to stay with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-10-03
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Rotation
Overview: The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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The Blue Swords
Overview: The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equipped with everything he would need for the task, but he has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain—white porcelain, as the Chinese are said to possess. In 1709, he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," the first white porcelain made in Europe, he hopes for freedom.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-12-30
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The Berliner
Overview: Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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