Birgit Minichmayr
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Biography: Birgit Minichmayr (born 3 April 1977) is an Austrian actress and singer born in Linz, Austria. Birgit Minichmayr studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna. Description above from the Wikipedia article Birgit Minichmayr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Linz, Austria
Birthday: April 03, 1977
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Gender: Female
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Downfall
Overview: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Overview: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Learning to Lie
Overview: 18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend. Helmut studies, literature and politics in his home town and have a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine at the same university but they break up after having an affair with her roommate. Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-07-02
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Cherry Blossoms
Overview: After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don't know the real reason they're visiting -- and the catch is, neither does Rudi...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-03-05
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The Bone Man
Overview: Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway to the countryside. But before long he becomes embroiled in the convoluted world of the locals of a supposedly quiet town.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-09
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Taking Sides
Overview: One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
Genres: Drama War Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-07
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Everyone Else
Overview: While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-03-26
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Andrea Gets a Divorce
Overview: Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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Hotel
Overview: When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-07-25
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You Bet Your Life
Overview: A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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Falling
Overview: Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the director of Free Radicals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Midsummer Madness
Overview: St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern".
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
Overview: Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyramid scheme. With a brilliant appearance and empty promises, she serves the hopes and greed of her fellow human beings with virtuosity. With the help of a never-ending stream of money, she buys her way out of situations that would have landed others in prison long ago. Her enemies are just waiting for the pyramid to collapse and bury Adele - and countless small investors with her.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-11
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Blank
Overview: An aging renowned art history researcher falls in love with a younger woman who struggles and tries to cover his ongoing Alzheimer's's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-05-07
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Daniel Käfer - Die Villen der Frau Hürsch
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-05-31
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Daniel Käfer - Die Schattenuhr
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-05-31
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Unter Feinden
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-07-02
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The Farewell
Overview: A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-05-14
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Wedding Shower
Overview: The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-14
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The White Ribbon
Overview: An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Eine Liebe für den Frieden – Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-10
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Spiel im Morgengrauen
Overview: Austria in the last years of the monarchy: Wilhelm Kasda, Lieutenant of the Infantry, lives the life of a young officer. These include small, irrelevant affairs like those with Steffi. Steffi is a simple young woman. Kasda does not realize that her devotion is real love. After a night at the hotel, Kasda gives her a bill and disappears. A few years later, in June 1914, Kasda was visited by a former comrade, Lieutenant von Bogner. He had to resign years ago for gambling debts, is now married, works as a cashier in an office and has embezzled money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Sleeping with a Tiger
Overview: Sleeping with a Tiger is a hybrid film about the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. A film about her struggle in the male dominated art world and the quest to find her own personal artistic way of expression in which she brings her inner pain on canvas. And of course a film about her great artistic success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-04-12
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Untitled
Overview: More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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My Good Hans
Overview: It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-10-07
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Jack
Overview: Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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Der Zerrissene
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Blood Countess
Overview: The Blood Countess and her maid take us on a wild hunt for blood and secrets from times gone by. On their adventurous journey, they desperately search for the precious lifeblood while also uncovering the dark history of their ancestors. But suddenly a mysterious book appears that poses a threat to their vampire kingdom. As they are pursued by their vegetarian nephew, his psychotherapist, two vampirologists and a tenacious police inspector and his assistant, things spiral out of control.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
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Only God Can Judge Me
Overview: Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky agrees, and gets his brother Rafael on board. Everything runs smoothly, until police officer Diana turns up on the scene. A nerve-wracking cat and mouse game is set in motion. Director Özgür Yildirim’s most recent film offers insight into Frankfurt’s gangster world. As before in CHIKO – which also starred Moritz Bleibtreu – he portrays the daily life of the criminal underground scene in a large German city.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-01-25
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A Summer Without Gitti
Overview: A short film by Maren Ade, using re-cut material from 'Everyone Else'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-03-11
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Animals
Overview: Nick and Anna are off to Switzerland for six months. Nick, a chef, wants to collect recipes of local cuisine and Anna hopes to write a new book. The journey can also be good for their relationship, because Anna suspects that Nick had an affair with other woman. Meanwhile, Mischa will take care of their Viennese apartment.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-09-16
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The Field Guide to Evil
Overview: A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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3 Days in Quiberon
Overview: 1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together, they appear like two regular women who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is supposed to offer the support the sensitive actress needs to be able to truly face her own demons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-12
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The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
Overview: At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man's liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and, being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing far-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a '68 generation in revolt. Written by Novotny & Novotny
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-17
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Jedermann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-08-10
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König Lear
Overview: An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-03-29
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The Disease of Youth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Goldfish
Overview: Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes to an abrupt end, as he builds a self-inflicted accident on highway with 230 km / h and raced through a guardrail. When he wakes up in the hospital again, he faces a devastating diagnosis: paraplegia. Actually, a rehabilitation stay of several months is planned in the hospital, but Oliver soon falls on his head and ends up in a disabled shared flat with the name "Die Goldfische"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-02-28
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Cherry Blossoms & Demons
Overview: When everything in his life seems to be going wrong, downtrodden and alcohol-dependent Karl has a fateful encounter in Munich with Yu, a mysterious Japanese dancer from his father’s past. Unexpectedly, Yu begins to help Karl confront his demons (both literal and figurative) and begin to heal.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-03-07
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Chess Story
Overview: 1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.
Genres: History Drama War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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My Wonderful Wanda
Overview: The Polish woman Wanda, 35, looks after Joseph, 70, in his family villa by the lake. She is there for him around the clock and also helps his wife Elsa, 75. The youngest son Gregi, 28, likes her very much. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money for her own family in Poland. Since everyone lives under one roof, Wanda gets an intimate view of their family life. So intimate that Wanda unexpectedly becomes pregnant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Daughters
Overview: Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepfather Ernesto, who supposedly died years ago.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Mercy
Overview: A German couple, Niels and Maria, and their teenage son Markus move to the Norwegian coastal town of Hammerfest, hoping for a new beginning in the land of endless twilight. Instead they find themselves drifting further apart. Niels submerges himself in his work as an engineer and an affair with a co-worker, Maria works overtime and Markus struggles at school. One night, after a double shift, Maria’s car collides with something – or someone – on the road. But from tragedy comes mercy: the accident catalysing all three family members towards reconciliation.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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Tarantism Revisited
Overview: Apulia, 1959: Women in white dresses dance ecstatically in a small chapel. They jump around, roll on the ground, some even climb the altar. They are said to have been bitten by a spider. Their dancing mania requires a ritual exorcism with music. Pictures like these inspired Italian anthropologists to travel to southern Italy. Equipped with tape recorders, film and photo cameras, they tracked down the phenomenon of tarantism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-29
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