Therese Affolter

Therese Affolter

Born: November 28, 1951
in Bern, Switzerland

Movies for Therese Affolter...

Title: Labyrinth of Peace
Character: Elsie Leutenegger
Released: November 8, 2020
Type: TV
1945 Zero hour. Europe is reduced to rubble. Thirty million displaced and uprooted people. At the heart of this ravaged continent lies Switzerland. This small neutral country, which has been all but spared by the war, becomes a hub for Nazi war criminals, Allied Secret Services and Holocaust survivors.
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Open Season
Title: Open Season
Character: Sandra Walter
Released: February 20, 2020
Type: Movie
As CFO, Alexander Meier fights for the survival of the long-established Walser company – dutifully, quickly and perfectionist to the point of self-abandonment. When Hans-Werner Brockmann, an unscrupulous top manager, is appointed, he gets involved in a power struggle that increasingly throws him off track. Before the ruins of his existence, Alexander sees only one possibility left to take revenge on Brockmann.
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Bloody Marie
Title: Bloody Marie
Character: Mother Marie
Released: February 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors, forces her to take action.
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The Little Witch
Title: The Little Witch
Character: Upper Witch
Released: February 1, 2018
Type: Movie
The little witch is only 127 years old – too young for the annual coven of witches. Although she is not yet old enough to be a real witch she wants to become a really good one. This decision causes trouble inside her magic world.
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Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt
Title: Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt
Character: Dr.Selge
Released: August 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Under the auspicious name "Magical Mystery" the Berlin techno label BummBumm Records wants to go on a rave tour. Karl Schmidt aka Charly himself was once an aspiring artist on the scene, until he retired after a nervous breakdown five years ago. Since then he lives in a supervised withdrawal WG in Hamburg. Now, as a driver and custodian for the party-loving DJs and their producers, he becomes part of "Magical Mystery", trying to lead a self-determined life after years of patronizing and well-intentioned advice.
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The Divine Order
Title: The Divine Order
Character: Dr. Charlotte Wipf
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
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A Decent Man
Title: A Decent Man
Character: Therapist
Released: February 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning. In an effort to repair his own family ties and to impress his boss, he takes his family and his employer's daughter with him. Tragedy strikes and Thomas feels responsible. Should he be his typical passive self? Or risk doing the right thing at the expense of his relationships with his family and employer?
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Title: Murder by the Lake
Character: Gabriele Garchinger
Released: November 3, 2014
Type: TV
Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.
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Title: About:Kate
Character: Dr. Luise Desmarin
Released: April 27, 2013
Type: TV
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Frühling im Herbst
Title: Frühling im Herbst
Character: Leni
Released: November 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Leni, in her mid-fifties, runs the local bakery with her son in a small Swiss town. When she falls in love with a much younger Argentinean dance teacher, her world is turned upside down.
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Title: Schnell ermittelt
Character: Petra Werner
Released: April 21, 2009
Type: TV
Angelika Schnell is the head of homicide and living proof that chaos is just another form of order. Nevertheless, she is a brilliant investigator - even if her methods are sometimes quite unconventional: In addition to hard facts, she also allows her distinctive inner voice to apply, which often leads to incomprehensible but very important conclusions...
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The Friend
Title: The Friend
Character: Emils Mother
Released: January 17, 2008
Type: Movie
In reality Emil and Larissa would never have been a couple she is an idolized singer, he is a shy outsider. Ironically, Emil is just getting to know Larissa when she dies unexpectedly. He pretends to have been her boyfriend and finally gets the recognition he has always yearned for, with the added bonus of a surrogate family in the form of Larissas. Things would be just great if Emil didnt fall in love - with Larissas sister Nora. The more he gets to know her, the harder it becomes for him to pretend.
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Title: Vienna Crime Squad
Character: Maria Eder
Released: October 11, 2005
Type: TV
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
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the Detour
Title: the Detour
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It is based on meetings between goatherd Joanna and Austrian author and playwright Thomas Bernhard. Joanna is lost after her boyfriend dumps her at a Women's Relief Centre in Rotterdam. She works in a library and visits the theatre, where she first sees a play by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard's philosophy permeates Joanna's thoughts. When Camille invites her to visit the French Pyrenees, she accepts. On the way, she decides to visit Bernhard in Austria. She attempts to start a relationship with him and thereby finds herself.
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Es war doch Liebe
Title: Es war doch Liebe
Released: April 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Jan, a freelance journalist, and Sabine, the mother of his two children and a textile designer, have no money. Sabine is abandoned by her husband and then gets caught up in the bureaucracy. A sober psychogram of a woman who is fighting and hoping for her life and everyday life.
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Lisa und die Säbelzahntiger
Title: Lisa und die Säbelzahntiger
Character: Uli
Released: September 29, 1995
Type: Movie
Lisa has grown up in an orphanage. She is looking forward to her adoption, as she doesn't know that her new parents are about to divorce. The Saber-toothed cat which she meets in a museum intervenes as a "feles ex machina".
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Kilometer 123,5
Title: Kilometer 123,5
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A cheerless petrol station buffet. A woman creates for herself her own dream world, far away. A stranger only wants some petrol.
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Schartl
Title: Schartl
Character: rau Wimmer II / Schwester Oberin / Madame Clerie
Released: December 31, 1993
Type: Movie
A series of short, absurd, humouristic episodes taking place in Passau, Bavaria. There is, among others, a documentary piece describing a drinking contest, a clerk's day-dreaming Hitler fantasies, a shy nun struggling to get oriented in a city (then turning into a pianist) during an orgy, a showmaster killing his guests with a thresher... All episodes are loosely glued together by a variation of always the same scene: an annoyed TV show / TV movie producer trying to convince both director and female main character that the last episode is unacceptable with respect to consumer needs and professional standards.
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Dead Flowers
Title: Dead Flowers
Character: Lady in Nightgown
Released: October 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Alex (Thierry Van Werveke), a pest exterminator who lives with his grandmother, picks up a stranded woman (Kate Valk) who claims to be the American daughter of a spy.
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Heldenplatz
Title: Heldenplatz
Character: Hertha
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.
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Komplizinnen
Title: Komplizinnen
Released: October 26, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial
Title: The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial
Character: Ulrike Meinhof
Released: January 30, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff’s controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Meinhoff, Ensslin, and Raspe. The trial that started in May 1975 in the Stammheim maximum-security prison extended over 192 days and ended with a lifetime sentence for all defendants.
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Title: Der Fahnder
Character: Conny Sinner
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: TV
Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.
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Sheer Madness
Title: Sheer Madness
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
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Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe
Title: Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe
Character: Johanna Dark
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Letzte Liebe
Title: Letzte Liebe
Character: Therese
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Depicts a murky masochistic relationship.
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Das Dorf an der Grenze
Title: Das Dorf an der Grenze
Character: Ada Schellander
Released: May 8, 1979
Type: Movie
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Minetti
Title: Minetti
Character: Mädchen
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Martina Widmer
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Kinderärztin
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Andrea Schiemer
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Annemarie Weigand
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.