Wolfgang Preiss

Wolfgang Preiss

Born: February 27, 1910
Died: November 27, 2002
in Nuremberg, Germany
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Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 at Nuremberg - 27 November 2002 at Baden-Baden) was a German theatre, film and television actor.

The son of a teacher, in the early 1930s Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932. He went to appear in various theatre productions in Heidelberg, Königsberg, Bonn, Bremen, Stuttgart and Berlin.

In 1942 he made his film début - he was exempted from military service specifically - in the UFA production Die grosse Liebe with Zarah Leander. After the end of the Second World War Preiss returned to the theatre, and from 1949 worked extensively dubbing films into German.

In 1954 he returned to film acting, appearing in Alfred Weidenmann's Canaris. The following year Preiss played the lead role of Claus von Stauffenberg in Falk Harnack's film Der 20. Juli, which dramatised the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. This role brought Preiss to popular attention and also the 1956 Federal Film Award.

From now on Preiss was largely typecast in the role of the upright and obligation-conscious German officer to the other A-list actor playing the Fanatic (I.E. Paul Scofeld in The Train) a part he played in many films, later reprising it in numerous international productions, predominantly in Italy and the USA, while occasionally playing a more typically cynical or brutal Nazi officer.

Preiss appeared in such productions as The Longest Day (1962), Otto Preminger's The Cardinal (1963), and with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Is Paris Burning? (1966). He starred alongside Burt Lancaster in John Frankenheimer's The Train (1964), Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express (1965), Robert Mitchum in Anzio (1968), with Richard Burton, in the title role of Erwin Rommel in Raid on Rommel (1971), and The Boys From Brazil (1978) with Gregory Peck. He also appeared in several Italian language films, credited as "Luppo Prezzo", and played Field Marshal Von Rundstedt in Richard Attenborough's all-star war epic A Bridge Too Far (1977).

In addition, for the cinema-going public of West Germany he became the epitome of the evil genius in his role as Doctor Mabuse, a role he first played in 1960 (following Rudolf Klein-Rogge) in Fritz Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. He went on to play the role four more times.

In the 1980s Preiss turned to television, notably playing General Walther von Brauchitsch in the American TV mini-series Winds of War and War and Remembrance, based on the books of Herman Wouk.

In 1987 received a second Federal Film Award for his outstanding work in film.

In film dubbing Preiss provided the voice for such actors as Lex Barker, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Richard Widmark, as well as that of Conrad Veidt as "Major Strasser" in the remastered version of Casablanca.

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Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Title: Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Character: Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Florian III
Character: Max Friedmann
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
Released: February 17, 1991
Type: TV
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Dr. M
Title: Dr. M
Character: Kessler
Released: May 24, 1990
Type: Movie
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
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Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
Title: Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
Character: Bernauer
Released: April 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.
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Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
Title: Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
Character: Earl of Wereford
Released: February 22, 1989
Type: Movie
A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.
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Title: War and Remembrance
Character: Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: TV
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
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Title: Die Männer vom K3
Character: Bodo von Heysen
Released: September 24, 1988
Type: TV
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series.
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Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
Title: Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
Character: Earl of Wereford
Released: December 12, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Second Victory
Title: The Second Victory
Character: Father Albertus
Released: June 4, 1987
Type: Movie
After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
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Lang soll er leben
Title: Lang soll er leben
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: Movie
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Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
Title: Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
Character: Earl of Wereford
Released: February 2, 1987
Type: Movie
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Title: Ein heikler Fall
Released: June 5, 1986
Type: TV
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Forget Mozart
Title: Forget Mozart
Character: Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Released: September 12, 1985
Type: Movie
In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, who considered Mozart a potential revolutionary. Over the corpse, he interrogates them, trying to discover the true cause and significance of Mozart's demise.
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Title: Ein Heim für Tiere
Character: Prof. Alf Dobner
Released: January 23, 1985
Type: TV
Ein Heim für Tiere is a German television series.
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Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
Title: Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
Character: Earl of Wereford
Released: December 25, 1984
Type: Movie
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Ein Mann namens Parvus
Title: Ein Mann namens Parvus
Character: Brockdorff-Rantzau
Released: April 10, 1984
Type: Movie
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Die Dame und die Unterwelt
Title: Die Dame und die Unterwelt
Character: Berthold Kampe
Released: February 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: The Winds of War
Character: Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch
Released: February 6, 1983
Type: TV
Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
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Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
Title: Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
Character: Earl of Wereford
Released: December 29, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Die Schraiers
Character: Jean Schraier
Released: April 7, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Unheimliche Geschichten
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: A Case For Two
Character: Alfred Rohloff
Released: September 11, 1981
Type: TV
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
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Ghost of Love
Title: Ghost of Love
Character: Zighi
Released: April 3, 1981
Type: Movie
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
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Title: Ringstraßenpalais
Character: General Prettwitz
Released: December 25, 1980
Type: TV
Ringstraßenpalais is an Austrian television series.
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The Formula
Title: The Formula
Character: Franz Tauber
Released: December 19, 1980
Type: Movie
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
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Title: Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse
Character: Louis Tonard
Released: September 25, 1979
Type: TV
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Bloodline
Title: Bloodline
Character: Julius Prager
Released: June 29, 1979
Type: Movie
When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
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Ike
Title: Ike
Character: FM Alfred Jodl
Released: May 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
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Wallenstein
Title: Wallenstein
Character: Thurn
Released: November 19, 1978
Type: Movie
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Title: Wallenstein
Character: Thurn
Released: November 19, 1978
Type: TV
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Die Anstalt
Title: Die Anstalt
Character: Dr. Reinecke
Released: October 27, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Boys from Brazil
Title: The Boys from Brazil
Character: Lofquist
Released: October 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Title: SOKO 5113
Character: Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg
Released: January 2, 1978
Type: TV
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.
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The Standard
Title: The Standard
Character: Oberst
Released: November 25, 1977
Type: Movie
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
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A Bridge Too Far
Title: A Bridge Too Far
Character: Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
Released: June 15, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
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Title: Hungária kávéház
Released: September 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Der Anwalt
Character: Richter
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: TV
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Die Insel der Krebse
Title: Die Insel der Krebse
Character: General
Released: November 11, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Eurogang
Character: Frank Allen
Released: September 24, 1975
Type: TV
Eurogang is a German television series.
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The Big Delirium
Title: The Big Delirium
Character: Artmann
Released: April 30, 1975
Type: Movie
A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie, who invite him to their home. Pierre soon falls in love with Emily, John's mistress. After the death of the father of his hosts, he has the idea of ​​transforming their peaceful house into a brothel.
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Title: La Cloche tibétaine
Character: Georges-Marie Haardt
Released: December 17, 1974
Type: TV
Miniseries about the Citroen expeditions in 1931/1932 across Asia.
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Die Kriegsbraut
Title: Die Kriegsbraut
Character: von Bogendorf
Released: November 2, 1974
Type: Movie
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Title: Die Montagsmaler
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 1974
Type: TV
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Eine ungeliebte Frau
Title: Eine ungeliebte Frau
Released: January 5, 1974
Type: Movie
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Title: Okay S.I.R.
Character: Forestié
Released: October 26, 1973
Type: TV
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Diamantenparty
Title: Diamantenparty
Character: Konsul Eduard van Düren
Released: June 10, 1973
Type: Movie
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Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
Title: Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
Character: General
Released: March 23, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Master Touch
Title: The Master Touch
Character: Miller
Released: December 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.
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The Salzburg Connection
Title: The Salzburg Connection
Character: Felix Zauner
Released: August 30, 1972
Type: Movie
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he senses that something is wrong when the photographer seems to have vanished, leaving a near panic-stricken wife and a sinister, secretive brother. Before he knows it, the lawyer finds himself mixed up with spies, assassins, and the hunt for a list made up by the Nazis during World War II of people who collaborated with them.
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Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
Title: Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
Released: August 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Educational film about variants of sexuality.
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The Bloodstained Butterfly
Title: The Bloodstained Butterfly
Character: The Prosecutor
Released: September 10, 1971
Type: Movie
When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye...
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The Fifth Cord
Title: The Fifth Cord
Character: Police inspector
Released: August 17, 1971
Type: Movie
A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.
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Title: Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 1971
Type: TV
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Raid on Rommel
Title: Raid on Rommel
Character: Gen. Erwin Rommel
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
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Der Minister und die Ente
Title: Der Minister und die Ente
Character: Minister
Released: December 31, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Friedrich von Ribnitz
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: Stockinger
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: Cantz sr.
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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Sir Henri Deterding
Title: Sir Henri Deterding
Character: Sir Henri Deterding
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
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General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
Title: General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
Character: Generalmajor Oster
Released: August 27, 1970
Type: Movie
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Peenemünde
Title: Peenemünde
Character: Oberst Dornberger
Released: August 11, 1970
Type: Movie
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Das Haus Lunjowo
Title: Das Haus Lunjowo
Character: Generalmajor Lattmann
Released: January 29, 1970
Type: Movie
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Playgirl 70
Title: Playgirl 70
Released: November 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Italian comedy.
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Title: Familie Mack verändert sich
Character: Robert Mack
Released: October 12, 1969
Type: TV
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Battle of the Commandos
Title: Battle of the Commandos
Character: Colonel Ackerman
Released: August 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.
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Title: Gestern gelesen
Character: Staatsanwalt
Released: June 6, 1969
Type: TV
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Liebe, Love, l'Amour
Title: Liebe, Love, l'Amour
Released: March 11, 1969
Type: Movie
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Hürdenlauf
Title: Hürdenlauf
Character: Exzellenz Lohmüller
Released: February 20, 1969
Type: Movie
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Hannibal Brooks
Title: Hannibal Brooks
Character: Col. von Haller
Released: January 18, 1969
Type: Movie
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Direktor Abel
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Title: Schatzsucher unserer Tage
Character: Jan van Dongen
Released: September 30, 1968
Type: TV
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Anzio
Title: Anzio
Character: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Released: July 24, 1968
Type: Movie
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
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Meinungsverschiedenheiten
Title: Meinungsverschiedenheiten
Character: Anthony Wilcox
Released: April 23, 1968
Type: Movie
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Der Fall Petkov
Title: Der Fall Petkov
Character: Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Released: February 23, 1968
Type: Movie
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Tamara
Title: Tamara
Character: Father Bricks
Released: January 25, 1968
Type: Movie
A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany.
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Title: Ein Mann namens Harry Brent
Character: George Conway
Released: January 15, 1968
Type: TV
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Flachsmann als Erzieher
Title: Flachsmann als Erzieher
Character: Flachsmann
Released: January 14, 1968
Type: Movie
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Jack of Diamonds
Title: Jack of Diamonds
Character: Wilhelm Von Schenk
Released: November 10, 1967
Type: Movie
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.
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Death on a Rainy Day
Title: Death on a Rainy Day
Character: Dr. Angus Cromwell
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: Movie
Two French agents fight a Chinese sect that aims to control the American Secretary of Defence via high-tech medicine, so that he would start a world war.
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Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
Title: Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
Character: Sebastian (BND chief)
Released: August 11, 1967
Type: Movie
Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the American Government for a huge amount of money. German secret service (BND) agent 'Dynamite' will use his fists, guns and more to try to stop them.
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Dead Run
Title: Dead Run
Character: Noland
Released: August 10, 1967
Type: Movie
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
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Wo liegt Jena?
Title: Wo liegt Jena?
Character: Robert
Released: June 16, 1967
Type: Movie
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Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
Title: Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
Character: Leiter der Mordkommission
Released: March 29, 1967
Type: Movie
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Is Paris Burning?
Title: Is Paris Burning?
Character: Capitaine Ebernach
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
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Title: The Rat Patrol
Character: General Von Helmreich
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps".
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To Skin a Spy
Title: To Skin a Spy
Character: Chalieff
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
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Das Leben in meiner Hand
Title: Das Leben in meiner Hand
Character: Minister
Released: June 13, 1966
Type: Movie
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Samba
Title: Samba
Character: Parisius
Released: May 9, 1966
Type: Movie
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Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
Title: Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
Character: Kapitän Behrens
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Spy Who Went Into Hell
Title: The Spy Who Went Into Hell
Character: Captain Parker
Released: August 13, 1965
Type: Movie
CIA agent Jeff Larson is sent to investigate suspicious activities at a U.S. base located in southern Spain. He discovers the base is being heavily monitored by the KGB via hidden cameras and moles within the base, and he must find a way to ferret the traitors out whilst avoiding discovery of his investigation.
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Von Ryan's Express
Title: Von Ryan's Express
Character: Major Von Klemment
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
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X-Ray of a Killer
Title: X-Ray of a Killer
Released: March 31, 1965
Type: Movie
The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.
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100 Horsemen
Title: 100 Horsemen
Character: Sheik Abengalbon
Released: December 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.
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The Train
Title: The Train
Character: Maj. Herren
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: Movie
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Title: The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Character: Dr. Mabuse
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: Movie
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
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Backfire
Title: Backfire
Character: Grenner
Released: September 4, 1964
Type: Movie
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
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Die erste Legion
Title: Die erste Legion
Character: Dr. Peter Morell
Released: August 27, 1964
Type: Movie
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Frühstück mit dem Tod
Title: Frühstück mit dem Tod
Character: Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Released: June 4, 1964
Type: Movie
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Cave of the Living Dead
Title: Cave of the Living Dead
Character: Prof. von Adelsberg
Released: April 9, 1964
Type: Movie
The German police cannot solve the mystery of the seven murders which have alarmed the local villagers. They call in Inspector Doren of Interpol, and the only clue the Chief Constable can give the detective is the fact that, each time a murder was committed, the electric lights in the whole neighborhood went out. The locals believe that the killings of the young girls are linked to the vague shadows in the caves under the local castle and to the mysterious Curse of the Green Eyes.
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Title: Einer wird gewinnen
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1964
Type: TV
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The Cardinal
Title: The Cardinal
Released: December 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
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Title: Zwischenmahlzeit
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 1963
Type: TV
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The Mad Executioners
Title: The Mad Executioners
Character: Morel Smith
Released: November 22, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
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Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
Title: Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
Character: Geist von Dr. Mabuse
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: Movie
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
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Das tödliche Patent
Title: Das tödliche Patent
Character: Charles Reese
Released: July 16, 1963
Type: Movie
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Title: Die fünfte Kolonne
Character: Hauptmann Seewald
Released: June 6, 1963
Type: TV
Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.
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The Black Cobra
Title: The Black Cobra
Character: Stanislas Raskin
Released: May 16, 1963
Type: Movie
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence.
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Leb wohl, mein Traum
Title: Leb wohl, mein Traum
Character: James Merrill
Released: April 5, 1963
Type: Movie
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Title: Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Konrad Pachmayr
Released: April 4, 1963
Type: TV
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Title: The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Character: Dr. Mabuse
Released: September 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Title: The Counterfeit Traitor
Character: Colonel Nordoff
Released: April 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Title: The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Character: Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
Released: March 30, 1962
Type: Movie
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
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Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
Title: Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
Character: Staatsanwalt Soldan
Released: March 8, 1962
Type: Movie
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Lafayette
Title: Lafayette
Character: Baron Kalb
Released: February 16, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
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Riviera-Story
Title: Riviera-Story
Character: Arthur Dahlberg
Released: December 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg home and go on vacation to the Côte d'Azur to revitalize their relationship. But Arthur Dahlberg, even on vacation, is obsessed with running his business. Meanwhile, Anya meets the young writer Roy Benter.
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Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
Title: Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
Character: Günther Brandt
Released: January 27, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Title: The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Character: Dr. Mabuse
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
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The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Title: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Character: Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
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Mill of the Stone Women
Title: Mill of the Stone Women
Character: Doctor Loren Bolem
Released: August 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Hans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old windmill that displays famous murderesses and other notorious women from history. Professor Gregorius Wahl, owner of the windmill, warns Hans to stay away from his mysterious daughter Elfi, in order to keep Hans from discovering the horrible secret shared by the Professor and Elfi's Doctor.
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Mistress of the World - Part II
Title: Mistress of the World - Part II
Character: Brandes
Released: April 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals manage to steal Johanson's energy formula. Karin then goes after the thieves, supported by Lundstrom. But he also has his own goals. The hunt takes them around the world. It soon turns out that a certain Madame Latour is behind the sinister machinations. Eventually old Johanson falls into her hands. In Southeast Asia, a showdown ensues between the kidnappers and Lundstrom and Karin.
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Mistress of the World - Part I
Title: Mistress of the World - Part I
Character: Dr. Henrik Brandes
Released: April 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.
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Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Title: Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Character: Dr. Beck
Released: February 25, 1960
Type: Movie
The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacuated by ships. Gotenhafen was the last open port and ships left the town almost by the minute, overloaded by refugees. One of the last ships to leave Gotenhafen was the 'Wilhelm Gustloff', a former 'Kraft durch Freude' pleasure cruiser designed for 1000 passengers. Until today it is unknown how many people were on board but it is said to be around 10.000. The ship sunk without a trace and only a handful of people survived this hellish nightmare.
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Gorilla's Waltz
Title: Gorilla's Waltz
Character: Otto Lohn
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.
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Roses for the Prosecutor
Title: Roses for the Prosecutor
Character: Generalstaatsanwalt
Released: September 24, 1959
Type: Movie
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
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Doctor Without Scruples
Title: Doctor Without Scruples
Character: Dr. Westorp
Released: September 4, 1959
Type: Movie
A renowned physician falls under scrutiny when it's discovered his assistant is a former Nazi.
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Konto ausgeglichen
Title: Konto ausgeglichen
Character: Robert Jacobi
Released: July 25, 1959
Type: Movie
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Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Title: Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Character: Major Linkmann
Released: April 7, 1959
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
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Prisoner of the Volga
Title: Prisoner of the Volga
Character: General Gorew
Released: March 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
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Straße der Gerechten
Title: Straße der Gerechten
Character: Joseph Blake
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Girl with the Cat Eyes
Title: The Girl with the Cat Eyes
Character: Carlo Gormann
Released: November 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A police commissioner investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an inspector.
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Grabenplatz 17
Title: Grabenplatz 17
Character: Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
Released: July 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
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The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
Title: The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
Character: Oberstabsarzt Munkler
Released: April 23, 1958
Type: Movie
German Paratroopers are ordered to hold the line at Monte Cassino in Italy, and halt the allied advance on Rome.
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The Italians They Are Crazy
Title: The Italians They Are Crazy
Character: Hans
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
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Ich war ihm hörig
Title: Ich war ihm hörig
Character: Dr. Leipold
Released: April 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows how to cuddle up to her. But in reality the man is an unscrupulous fraudster who is after Anette's money.
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Eurydice
Title: Eurydice
Character: Dulac
Released: November 26, 1957
Type: Movie
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Der Banditendoktor
Title: Der Banditendoktor
Character: Amerikaner
Released: November 19, 1957
Type: Movie
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Sharks and Little Fish
Title: Sharks and Little Fish
Character: U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive.
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Schinderhannes
Title: Schinderhannes
Character: Gendarm Adam
Released: January 13, 1957
Type: Movie
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Stresemann
Title: Stresemann
Character: Heinz Becker
Released: January 11, 1957
Type: Movie
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Von der Liebe besiegt
Title: Von der Liebe besiegt
Character: Mario Clar
Released: December 20, 1956
Type: Movie
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Johannisnacht
Title: Johannisnacht
Character: Mac Fadden
Released: October 29, 1956
Type: Movie
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Title: Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Character: Ein Journalist
Released: September 26, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
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Like Once Lili Marleen
Title: Like Once Lili Marleen
Character: Alfred Linder
Released: September 20, 1956
Type: Movie
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Before Sundown
Title: Before Sundown
Character: Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen (Albers) and young, beautiful Inken Peters (Annemarie Dueringer).
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Der Cornet
Title: Der Cornet
Character: Freiherr von Pirovano
Released: December 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Title: The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Character: Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Released: June 21, 1955
Type: Movie
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
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Oberarzt Dr. Solm
Title: Oberarzt Dr. Solm
Character: Dr. Hartung
Released: March 17, 1955
Type: Movie
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Canaris
Title: Canaris
Character: Oberst Holl
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Still he's a thorn in the side of the Nazi chiefs, since he's not as unscrupulous as they want him and is known to criticize their ideology.
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Falschmünzer am Werk
Title: Falschmünzer am Werk
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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The Crew of the Dora
Title: The Crew of the Dora
Character: Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together.
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The Great Love
Title: The Great Love
Character: Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.