Fred Düren

Fred Düren

Born: December 2, 1928
Died: March 2, 2015
in Berlin, Germany

Movies for Fred Düren...

Title: End of Innocence
Character: Albert Einstein
Released: April 3, 1991
Type: TV
End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II. At Farm Hall in England, the ten German nuclear scientists interned there as part of Operation Epsilon learn of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. In flashbacks, the development of the German uranium project is recapitulated chronologically from the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn to the work of Kurt Diebner at the Heereswaffenamt to the experiments of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Haigerloch research reactor in spring 1945.
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Monolog für einen Taxifahrer
Title: Monolog für einen Taxifahrer
Character: Herr D., Taxifahrer
Released: April 26, 1990
Type: Movie
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Käthe Kollwitz – Pictures of a Life
Title: Käthe Kollwitz – Pictures of a Life
Character: Karl Kollwitz
Released: April 23, 1987
Type: Movie
Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.
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Der Schimmelreiter
Title: Der Schimmelreiter
Character: Oberdeichgraf
Released: November 12, 1985
Type: Movie
German-Polish adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella.
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Die Grünstein-Variante
Title: Die Grünstein-Variante
Character: Grünstein
Released: April 19, 1985
Type: Movie
The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".
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The Turning Point
Title: The Turning Point
Character: General Eisensteck
Released: January 20, 1983
Type: Movie
In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
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Berühmte Ärzte der Charité: Der Mann aus Jena
Title: Berühmte Ärzte der Charité: Der Mann aus Jena
Character: Christian Wilhelm Hufeland
Released: June 20, 1981
Type: Movie
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Suturp - eine Liebesgeschichte
Title: Suturp - eine Liebesgeschichte
Character: Dinkbühl
Released: June 7, 1981
Type: Movie
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Levin's Mill
Title: Levin's Mill
Character: Prediger Feller
Released: November 13, 1980
Type: Movie
In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.
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Am grauen Strand, am grauen Meer
Title: Am grauen Strand, am grauen Meer
Character: Hans Kirch
Released: April 5, 1980
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".
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Solo Sunny
Title: Solo Sunny
Character: Arzt
Released: January 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life as a whole. She begins a relationship with the amateur saxophonist and studied philosopher Ralph who writes her a very personal song - but his obsession with death and unfaithful lifestyle is not for her. After getting into a quarrel with a band member who harasses her and telling off a show-host she is thrown out of the band. Abandoned, she struggles to regain control over her life.
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Fleur Lafontaine
Title: Fleur Lafontaine
Character: Eberhard Lafontaine
Released: December 25, 1978
Type: Movie
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Auftrag für M & S
Title: Auftrag für M & S
Released: July 18, 1977
Type: Movie
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Die Überlebende
Title: Die Überlebende
Character: Schriftsteller
Released: December 21, 1975
Type: Movie
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Orpheus in the Underworld
Title: Orpheus in the Underworld
Character: Styx
Released: February 7, 1974
Type: Movie
This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.
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The Devil's Elixirs
Title: The Devil's Elixirs
Released: March 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie (Jaroslava Schallerová), whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin (Andrzej Kopiczynski) intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie (Milena Dvorská).
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The Little Prince
Title: The Little Prince
Released: May 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.
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Der kleine und der große Klaus
Title: Der kleine und der große Klaus
Character: Kleiner Klaus
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: Movie
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Title: Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Character: Agustin Esteve
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.
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Das letzte Wort
Title: Das letzte Wort
Released: July 17, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Dr. Boellsen
Released: June 27, 1971
Type: TV
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Franz Werker
Released: June 27, 1971
Type: TV
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
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The Lost Angel
Title: The Lost Angel
Character: Ernst Barlach
Released: April 21, 1971
Type: Movie
August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach lives in the small town of Güstrow, keeping to himself and wanting to steer clear of politics. On this day he learns that the Nazis have dragged his famous 1927 sculpture The Hovering Angel out of the Güstrow Cathedral. Barlach begins to reflect on his life of “inner emigration” and on his work.
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Anlauf
Title: Anlauf
Character: Werkleiter Dr. Schliemann
Released: January 31, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Character: Emil Borkhausen
Released: September 12, 1970
Type: TV
Jeder stibt für sich allein is a German television miniseries produced by DEFA in the former German Democratic Republic. The story was adapted from the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone, known in the UK as Alone in Berlin. It was directed by Hans-Joachim Kasprzik and starred Erwin Geschonneck.
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Netzwerk
Title: Netzwerk
Released: September 2, 1970
Type: Movie
Film by Ralf Kirsten.
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Junge Frau von 1914
Title: Junge Frau von 1914
Character: Hugo Wahl
Released: January 17, 1970
Type: Movie
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Shots Under the Gallows
Title: Shots Under the Gallows
Character: Bauer Scott
Released: June 22, 1968
Type: Movie
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
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Die Räuber
Title: Die Räuber
Character: Pater
Released: June 14, 1967
Type: Movie
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Doppelt oder nichts
Title: Doppelt oder nichts
Released: May 2, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Flying Dutchman
Title: The Flying Dutchman
Character: Der Holländer
Released: December 25, 1964
Type: Movie
A surrealistic adaptation of Wagner's opera.
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Mir nach, Canaillen
Title: Mir nach, Canaillen
Character: Baronin Lübbenau
Released: July 31, 1964
Type: Movie
A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and devise clever plots. As a result, he is able to climb the ladder from herder to chamber master, where he makes a fool of the feudal lords.
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Preludio 11
Title: Preludio 11
Character: Pater Leon (voice)
Released: March 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.
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Das russische Wunder
Title: Das russische Wunder
Character: (narrator)
Released: May 7, 1963
Type: Movie
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Fortress on the Rhine
Title: Fortress on the Rhine
Character: Sergeant Vannier
Released: December 21, 1962
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.
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Title: The Green Monster
Character: Coronel Castillo Larbas
Released: December 18, 1962
Type: TV
On the run from police in America, Antonio Morena, a former World War II aviator and black-marketeer, finds himself in South America working for the all-powerful United Fruit Company, known to the natives as "the Green Monster".
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Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück
Title: Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück
Character: Riccaut
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm. After the war, the King - in an unwarranted move - deprives the major of his honor. Von Tellheim becomes impoverished and, filled with shame, breaks off his relationship to Minna. An innkeeper in Berlin, who is a police informer, makes the Major move to a shabby little attic because he cannot pay his debt. In the meantime, Minna has also arrived at the inn. She and her lady's maid Franziska are questioned and spied on by the nosy innkeeper. Minna has followed her beloved Tellheim and she now cunningly manages to elicit a new declaration of love from him...
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Guten Tag, lieber Tag
Title: Guten Tag, lieber Tag
Released: November 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concentrate on their marks. Consequently, Strebel is anything but delighted with his pupil. To top it all, a TV show becomes interested in a performance by Strebel′s apprentices. To calm down their teacher, Jutta Fröhlich, who has already cast an eye on Strebel, makes him an offer: When they better their marks, Strebel would permit them to make a performance on television.
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The Dream of Captain Loy
Title: The Dream of Captain Loy
Released: August 23, 1961
Type: Movie
An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and the United States Air Force Corporal Doris Graves. During the flight, the two become closer, and they regret that the trip will end that evening. But everything turns out differently. The flight captain has received orders to pick up an agent at a German NATO airport, who is to be dropped off again on a Soviet island …
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Italienisches Capriccio
Title: Italienisches Capriccio
Released: June 8, 1961
Type: Movie
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I Survived Certain Death
Title: I Survived Certain Death
Character: Georg
Released: November 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.
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What Would Happen If...?
Title: What Would Happen If...?
Character: Regisseur Binz
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
In the late 1950s, the collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen on the German-German border. Those in charge have to face many obstacles, especially from a large-scale farmer who is unwilling to join the co-op. All of a sudden, mysterious men in a fancy car appear in the village and show an interest in the rundown manor house. Gossip spreads quickly, and some villagers think there will be a re-parceling of properties and a land swap with West Germany. They assume everything will go back to how it used to be and even expect the count to return to his manor. In preparation, the situation in the village escalates at a fevered pitch.
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Hatifa
Title: Hatifa
Character: Zadok
Released: July 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Hatifa is tired of her difficult fate and escapes from the place of her enslavement, a quarry in the desert. There she wanders around in freedom, but ultimately helpless, without water or food. Shortly before dying of thirst, she is saved by the sage Simsal, who is traveling with a caravan of the merchant Ganem. Hatifa quickly makes many friends, including the young servant Hodja. Only to him she confides her secret. The girl had to keep the fact that she was a slave to herself. After all, anyone who helps escaped slaves is mercilessly threatened with the death penalty. Out of consideration for the caravan, they both flee, but are soon picked up by Ganem. When he realizes that he can make a lot of money with Hatifa, he sells her again to a quarry.
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Toter Winkel
Title: Toter Winkel
Character: François
Released: May 2, 1960
Type: Movie
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They Called Him Amigo
Title: They Called Him Amigo
Character: Peter „Pepp“ Grosse
Released: January 22, 1959
Type: Movie
A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him with food and help him to continue his flight. Later one of the boys, the son of a communist, is charged with theft, arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
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Tilman Riemenschneider
Title: Tilman Riemenschneider
Released: December 5, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Sailor’s Song
Title: The Sailor’s Song
Character: Major Mörs
Released: November 9, 1958
Type: Movie
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
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Die Mutter
Title: Die Mutter
Character: Pawel Wlassow
Released: November 7, 1958
Type: Movie
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Der Herr aus Zürich
Title: Der Herr aus Zürich
Character: Willy Bellmann
Released: January 9, 1958
Type: Movie
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Sheriff Teddy
Title: Sheriff Teddy
Character: Konsumpacker
Released: November 29, 1957
Type: Movie
A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.
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Spielbank-Affäre
Title: Spielbank-Affäre
Character: Reporter
Released: September 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In a casino in a We'5t German health resort, one often sees Sybille - an attractive young student actress. With her winnings from the roulette table, she attempts to finance her studies. Despite a rather lucky streak, her winnings are a little on the lean side. She doesn't, however, gamble with her own money but with that of Dr. Busch, a lawyer, who likes to stay in the background with the argument that gambling houses are not the proper turf for a serious lawyer. From him, Sybille receives only a small share of her winnings later, and only through the intervention of Gerhard Fischer, a journalist, does Sybille come to realize her role in Dr. Busch's fraudulent scheme.
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Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
Title: Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
Character: officer
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie