Martin Held
Also Known As: Мартин Хельд
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: November 11, 1908
Deathday: January 31, 1992
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Captain from Kopenick
Overview: A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-08-15
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The Serpent
Overview: Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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Gentlemen in White Vests
Overview: Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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Main Thing Holidays
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-14
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Roses for the Prosecutor
Overview: April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-09-24
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Canaris
Overview: Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Still he's a thorn in the side of the Nazi chiefs, since he's not as unscrupulous as they want him and is known to criticize their ideology.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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The Fox of Paris
Overview: Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Black-White-Red Four Poster
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-22
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Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin
Overview: Dr. Fabian is the good soul at the University Surgical Clinic. Nicknamed "Paulchen" by his famous boss, Professor Spalke, the demigod in white brings joy to the lives of his patients with his cheerful disposition and is also tireless in his support and advice for his students. It's no wonder that women would love to get their hands on this dream man. But Dr. Fabian remains steadfast - until he meets the attractive anaesthetist Inge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-06-15
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Long Legs, Long Fingers
Overview: Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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Dark Eyes
Overview: Violin virtuoso Fedor Varany meets on the train from Nice to Vienna Helene Samboni, the lover of the Chamber of Commerce President Alexander Grabner and still-wife of the artist Samboni. Fedor falls in love with her without betraying his identity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-12-25
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The Dream of Lieschen Müller
Overview: Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more exciting life. In a vivid, lucid dream she happens upon a gigantic fortune, allowing her to live out her wildest fantasies. Quickly, however, she realizes that that's not what makes her happy.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-19
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90 Minuten nach Mitternacht
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-25
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Alibi
Overview: An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-06-23
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An Almost Decent Girl
Overview: An almost decent girl is a German-Spanish Romance of Ladislao Vajda from 1963. In Spain he was entitled Una chica casi formal on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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Almost a Hero
Overview: Towards the end of World War II, the fictitious French mountain village of Molinette is occupied by German troops. Because of sleep aid, served by his French girlfriend Hélène, the German corporal Karl Küppers misses the departure of his company to Russia. With the help of the purposeful Frenchwoman he becomes Ortskommandant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-08-21
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Frau Cheneys Ende
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-09-27
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The Last Witness
Overview: Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-30
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Liebe will gelernt sein
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-02-27
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Wet Asphalt
Overview: In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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Der Pfingstausflug
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Unordnung und frühes Leid
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-02-27
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Was zu beweisen war
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Genres: TV Movie Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-09
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Condemned to Sin
Overview: After World War II, a lot of people, who lived in the eastern parts of the Third Reich had to be relocated. One of them is Hugo Starosta (Martin Held) with his family. They live in a fortress. Hugo is unemployed, his children don't seem to like school, but somehow they managa to get through.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-25
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Heinrich Zille
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-11-16
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Before Sundown
Overview: Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen (Albers) and young, beautiful Inken Peters (Annemarie Dueringer).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-07-06
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Meine Tochter Patricia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-05-21
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Die Mission
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-29
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Gespenster
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-12
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Bumerang
Overview: The paths of three men cross for a short time in post-war Berlin. Robert and Willy are unattached and unemployed, Georg has joined them from Hamburg, he has a family and occasionally does something crooked. That's what the three of them are up to together: A safe is to be cracked, the plan comes from Robert. Then Else shows up, a former girlfriend of Robert's who now lives with his buddy Willy. She is interested in Robert again, but he turns her down. Blind with jealousy, Willy nevertheless feels betrayed and rats out their joint scheme to the police. As they stand in front of the strongbox, they are surrounded by police officers. One of them, Inspector Stern, suddenly recognizes in Robert the man who saved his life during the war.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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Spätsommer
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-04-05
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Friederike von Barring
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-08-16
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Niemandsland
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Spy for Germany
Overview: The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-12-04
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Der Walzer der Toreros
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-02-20
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Bank Vault 713
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Homesick for You
Overview: Five musicians form in pre-war Berlin a dance band, which is largely successful thanks to the singer Marion. When love rivalries break out among the musicians and the Second World War begins, they are scattered in all directions. After the war, a coincidence brings them together again.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-09-23
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And So to Bed
Overview: Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-12
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Kortnergeschichten
Overview: Documentary about director Fritz Korner
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-08-13
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Einmal Moskau und zurück
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-11-12
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Michael Kramer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-13
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The Oldest Profession
Overview: A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-07
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Der Biberpelz
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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Strychnin und saure Drops
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-12-26
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Niemandsland
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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Flint
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-08-14
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Die Schule der Väter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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Der große Karpfen Ferdinand
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Frohe Ostern
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-27
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Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-08-24
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Berlin zur Kaiserzeit - Glanz und Schatten einer Epoche
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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