Klaus Löwitsch
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Biography: Klaus Löwitsch (8 April 1936 – 3 December 2002) was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television detective series Peter Strohm. He appeared in several films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, beginning with Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971) and notably including World on a Wire (1973) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). His English language films include Cross of Iron (1977), The Odessa File (1974), Firefox (1982) and Fassbinder's Despair (1978). He was born in Berlin. He died in Munich from pancreatic cancer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: April 08, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 03, 2002
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Overview: Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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Shadow of Angels
Overview: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-03
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Rosebud
Overview: In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Firefox
Overview: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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Cross of Iron
Overview: It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
Genres: Drama Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-29
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Breakthrough
Overview: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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What to Do in Case of Fire?
Overview: What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Gotcha!
Overview: A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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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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The Judgement
Overview: The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify as the principal witness in a murder case. During a stop-over, an airport hostess talks him into giving up his seat on the connecting flight to another passenger. While Rabinovicz is waiting in the VIP lounge, he gets into a conversation with a stranger who is remarkably well informed about the murder Rabinovicz is going to testify about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-12-15
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Desideria
Overview: All her life, an overweight girl has been ignored by her rich and attractive mother. But when the ugly duckling becomes a swan, she turns into a world-class tease, exacting her revenge by seducing her mother's boyfriend...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-03
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Overview: Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-05-19
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Schloß Hubertus
Overview: A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-19
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Ich bin Ernst Busch
Overview: Ernst Busch, singer and actor, was a political artist. For the 20th anniversary of his death on June 8, 2000, Peter Voigt embarked on an unusual search for clues. The focus of his film about the idiosyncratic artist is not biographical details, but the central conflicts in the field of tension between politics and culture that determined Busch's life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-07-19
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Scherben bringen Glück
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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The Odessa File
Overview: Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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Hell Hounds of Alaska
Overview: A fur-trapper battles the elements and robbers when a gold shipment is ambushed - leaving a boy in urgent need of medical attention.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-10-16
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Der Jäger von Fall
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-09
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Overview: Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-10
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Der Pauker
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-03
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Jail Bait
Overview: Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the anger of her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown unbearable.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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Ball at Savoy
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Zwei himmlische Dickschädel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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The Black Cobra
Overview: After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-16
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Ein Riß im Eis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-07
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Ein Mann wie eine Waffe
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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The Brutes
Overview: On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like the girl. Mike manages to separate Alice from her group and get into the car with Werner. It had been decided to go to a lake with the others to take a bath at night. Too late Alice realizes that Mike and Werner did not drive to the agreed lake, but to a lonely gravel pit. The friends will not come anymore. And she realizes the intentions of her companions.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-02-19
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Heißes Pflaster Köln
Overview: Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-26
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Amerika oder der Verschollene
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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Liebe für Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Devil's Island
Overview: After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge. One partisan boat, filled with refugees, tries to reach a safe area, but because of a storm it must stop near a small island. While the crew tries to repair it, a German gunboat comes from nearby.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Napoleon Fritz
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-10-08
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Das Märchen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-06-25
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Kaminsky
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-03-13
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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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Der Page vom Palast-Hotel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-24
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…und noch frech dazu!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-01-06
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Wo die Lerche singt
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Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-11-29
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Libero
Overview: This semi-fictional movie portrays the german soccer player Franz Beckenbauer. It shows the ups and downs of being a superstar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-06-06
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Träume von der Südsee
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Der Hund des Generals
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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Mayday! Überfall auf hoher See
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-08-09
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Lydia muss sterben
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-14
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Der Mann aus Brooklyn
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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Der Jäger von Fall
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-11
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Extreme Ops
Overview: While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-27
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Höllenangst
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-09-03
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Auf den Hund gekommen
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-06
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Girls, Girls
Overview: An underage girl starts an affair with her much older employer. Then, her lover is sentenced for the seduction of a minor, and the young woman gets involved with his son, the junior head of the company. When his father is released from prison, father and son become rivals for their shared lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-05
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Nora Helmer
Overview: A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German television.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-03
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Italienische Nacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-17
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Im Dickicht der Städte
Overview: An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Das Rentenspiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Attempted Flight
Overview: The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at home in Croatia, Ivo runs the male household in Vienna alone. Solitude and insults from the locals make the child unhappy. And so Ivo decides on a rainy winter's day to return to his home village on his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-25
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Schlagerparade 1961
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Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-03-02
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Night Crossing
Overview: Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Hostile Takeover
Overview: The Hostile Takeover is a tale of how an average pizza delivery guy named Jay gets caught in the middle of the largest territorial war in the city's history. As Jay avoids being killed by both sides in this brutal war, he must also prove his innocence to a trigger happy detective who believes he is the catalyst to it all.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-31
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Hart an der Grenze
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-06-12
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Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-06-03
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Till the Happy End
Overview: Photo dealer Arnold and his wife Frieda live in harmony and wealth with their ten-year-old son Peter in Bonn, when Arnold's brother Paul and his wife Vera turn up to get his share of the family business. A scuffle leads to Peter falling down a flight of stairs breaking his neck. Although it is clearly an accident, Arnold is prepared ready to pay Vera a sum of money to forget about the rumble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-10-09
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Der aufregende Fall des Studienrats Adam Juracek
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-04-26
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Erbe gesucht - Theater vorhanden
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-29
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Das Attentat - Der Tod des Engelbert Dollfuß
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-08-29
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The Brothers
Overview: Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-11
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Eine egoistische Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-25
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Tag für Tag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-01-02
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Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-11-27
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Der Reichstagsbrandprozeß
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-02-21
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Die Reise
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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Machenschaften
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-03
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Der eingebildete Kranke
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-05-26
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Bacchus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Die wahre Geschichte vom geschändeten und wiederhergestellten Kreuz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-09-09
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Desaster
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Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-19
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Ein Tag im Leben von...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-05-12
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