Bernhard Wicki
Also Known As: Bernard Wicki, Бернхард Викки
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bernhard Wicki (28 October 1919 in St. Pölten, Austria - 5 January 2000 in Munich) was an Austrian actor and film director. Wicki studied in the city of Breslau such topics as Art History, History und German Literature. In 1938, he transferred to the Schauspielschule des Staatlichen Schauspielhauses (drama school) in Berlin. In 1939, because of his membership in the Bündischen Jugend he was imprisoned for many months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After his release he moved to Vienna, and then in 1944 to Switzerland. After the end of World War II, he starred in many films, like Die letzte Brücke (1953) and Es geschah am 20. Juli (1955). He was also a photographer. His first attempt at directing came three years later with the documentary Warum sind sie gegen uns? (1958). He became internationally famous with his anti-war film of 1959 called Die Brücke. In 1961, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival for his film The Miracle of Father Malachia. After his death in 2001, a fund was started and named after him in Munich, the Bernhard Wicki Memorial Fund. Since 2002, it has awarded a film prize, The Bridge, considered a peace prize. A further prize was endowed in 2006 with 15,000 euros, a prize given in the city of Emden since 2000. He was a patron of the International Film Festival in Emden-Norderney which first started in 1990. He first married Agnes Fink, a fellow acting colleague, and later married Elisabeth Endriss, also a colleague. In the documentary Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie (June, 2007), Elisabeth Wicki-Endriss portrayed the life and work for Wicki. He is buried at the Nymphenburger cemetery in Munich (grave number 4-1-23). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernhard Wicki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Pölten, Austria
Adult: No
Birthday: October 28, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 03, 2000
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Paris, Texas
Overview: A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-16
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A Love in Germany
Overview: In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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The Glass Cell
Overview: A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-04-06
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La Notte
Overview: A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-24
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Dangerous Moves
Overview: During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-15
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The Cat
Overview: During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-19
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It Happened on July 20th
Overview: A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-06-18
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The Last Bridge
Overview: A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-11
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The Shore
Overview: A former Soviet officer returns to Germany forty years after WWII...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-06-04
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The Zurich Engagement
Overview: Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-04-16
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Crime and Passion
Overview: Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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The Restless Night
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Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-29
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Rosen im Herbst
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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Du mein stilles Tal
Overview: Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with a musician she was dating shortly before their marriage. Now this man, by now a famous concert pianist, enters her life again. Elisabeth resists the temptation to sink once again into the arms of her romantic lover. Since she loves her husband, she stays with him and continues to keep her secret...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-09-23
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The Mysterious Stranger
Overview: The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.
Genres: Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-11
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Escape from Sahara
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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Carlos
Overview: In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poors in his silver mines. But Carlos' indecision and his love for his young and beautiful stepmother leads into a failure.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-11-20
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Your Caresses
Overview: Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-11-06
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Killing Cars
Overview: In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for testing, he is confronted by ominous men, eager to get their hands on his patent. Evil Arab petroleum lords also want to stop this threat to the gasoline market any way they can.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-02-13
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Children, Mother, and the General
Overview: As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children left for the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-04
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Es wird alles wieder gut
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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Spring Symphony
Overview: "Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara Wieck was a master technician in the playing of the piano, a composer (probably not at Schumann's level), and was a child prodigy.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-04-08
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The Left-Handed Woman
Overview: Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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Circus of Love
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-08-20
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Frau im besten Mannesalter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-29
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Success
Overview: For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Ewiger Walzer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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Am Set von "Warum sind sie gegen uns?"
Overview: Short television report about the filming of the movie "Warum sind sie gegen uns?"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-06-13
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Flucht in die Tropennacht
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-06-03
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Prisoners of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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Affäre Dreyfuss
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-11-08
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Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-13
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Junges Herz voll Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-09-03
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Königin Luise
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-02-15
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Lampenfieber
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-03
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Eine Art von Zorn
Overview: An Iraqi secret service agent is murdered. The only witness is a woman, but she disappeared without a trace. The journalist Piet Maas actually tracks down Lucia, the murdered man's lover, and does a sensational interview with her. Piet should stick to the matter. He has the feeling that Lucia is hiding the important thing. His suspicions are confirmed. She is in possession of the murdered man's valuable records, which she wants to sell. Piet offers himself to Lucia as a broker...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-09-18
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Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-06
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Graf Öderland
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-08
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Frauensee
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Overview: The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer in Walloon France, where she joined the Order of St. Clare, later returning to England to found her own order and devote her life to helping others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-05-02
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Double Destiny
Overview: A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-11-12
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The Mosquito
Overview: A female spy accepts a bid by an arms dealer in order to find out if wife is unfaithful to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-17
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Spider's Web
Overview: Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-09-21
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Pattberg's Legacy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-05-31
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Domino
Overview: A young actress in Cold War Berlin struggles to decide whether or not to accept a new role, working with an old leftist director in a deserted theatrehouse. Caught between her painful childhood - loss of the mother - and the confusing and instable present political and social situation, she engages with prostitutes, penniless playwrights and postmen of the split Berlin city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-06-11
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Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Glücksucher
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-02-08
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Wilder Thymian
Overview: Victoria Bradshaw was still very young when she fell in love with the playwright Oliver Dobbs. He left her one day for another woman and disappeared from her life. But the memory of him always stayed alive. Many years later, Oliver suddenly appears again, together with his little son ...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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The Postmaster
Overview: When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-04-23
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Der Feldmarschall
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-11-21
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Royal Baths
Overview: Prinzenbad gives us a microcosm of a society dominated by male power plays, wheeling and dealing, corruption, love, and eroticism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Elf Jahre und ein Tag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-09-05
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Der Mann im Schilf
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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Curd Jürgens - Der Filmstar, der vom Theater kam
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-05-29
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Three Paths to the Lake
Overview: Elisabeth, a fifty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-12-18
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Ostwind
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-10-08
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Die Nashörner
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-03-02
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Frucht ohne Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-01-26
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The Fallen Star
Overview: The Falling Star (German: Der Fallende Stern) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by Harald Braun. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-08-12
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Die Enthüllung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-11-27
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Das Geheimnis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-09
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Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-04-11
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Sex Can Be Difficult
Overview: A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-24
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Death Watch
Overview: In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-23
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Portuguese Vacation
Overview: Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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Despair
Overview: Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-20
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