Peter Marx

Peter Marx

Born: November 22, 1914
Died: February 2, 1978
in Cologne, Germany

Movies for Peter Marx...

Title: Ernst Schneller
Character: Max Strötzel
Released: September 11, 1977
Type: TV
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KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
Title: KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
Released: March 25, 1971
Type: Movie
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
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Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel
Title: Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
East German television film.
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Weil ich dich liebe …
Title: Weil ich dich liebe …
Released: September 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about his ideas and modification proposals. Thus, the pretty and confident veterinarian Sabine Ladenbach becomes his only ally and soon they fall in love with each other. When Thiessen’s wife Eva notices that her husband is growing away from her, she starts to fight for him. Eventually, Thiessen realizes that Eva is the woman of his life, both privately and professionally. At the same time, he figures out that he needs the support of his team to achieve success in his field.
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Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Title: Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Character: Theodor Busse
Released: May 7, 1970
Type: Movie
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
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Title: Ways across the Country
Character: Kaderleiter
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
East German TV miniseries about the young maid Gertrud Habersaat, who marries, moves from Mecklenburg to Poland in the early 1940s, has to come back to Mecklenburg as a refugee during World War II and finally finds her place during the 1950s.
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Title: Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
Character: Meister Frenzel
Released: October 21, 1965
Type: TV
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort was an East German television series.
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For Eyes Only
Title: For Eyes Only
Character: Hartmann
Released: July 19, 1963
Type: Movie
The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage, sabotage, and diversion operations originated from here in order to undermine the Socialist Republic of Germany. A favorable moment for a military attack approaches and plans are developed. These plans are placed in the hands of Major Collins, who keeps them in a safe. Hansen has worked for him for many years, but also for the Stasi as a double agent. Security Chief Colonel Rock knows there is a leak, but Hansen has passed every test thrown at him. He is trying to deal with his current assignment: acquiring the plans so they can be made public. His mission is to get them out of the safe and into the GDR without getting caught.
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Schritt für Schritt
Title: Schritt für Schritt
Released: October 6, 1960
Type: Movie
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What Would Happen If...?
Title: What Would Happen If...?
Character: LPG-Bauer Grollmann
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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Musterknaben
Title: Musterknaben
Released: November 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Two young building workers are more interested in girls than their work; complications ensue at home.
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Die Feststellung
Title: Die Feststellung
Released: September 19, 1958
Type: Movie
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Der Hauptmann von Köln
Title: Der Hauptmann von Köln
Released: December 7, 1956
Type: Movie
Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage and becomes the Director of the Montan Corporation, and a member of the West German Parliament. Herr Karjanke, the real Captain, learns of Albert’s ruse, and wants to claim his "rightful" position in Parliament. But Karjanke cannot come forward until his politicking "Doppelganger" succeeds in passing an amnesty law for war criminals. When Albert is finally brought before a judge on charges of fraud, he learns that this own amnesty law does not apply to him.
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Anna Susanna
Title: Anna Susanna
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
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Sein großer Sieg
Title: Sein großer Sieg
Character: Hassler
Released: August 7, 1952
Type: Movie
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Die letzte Heuer
Title: Die letzte Heuer
Character: Schorsch
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
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The Blue Swords
Title: The Blue Swords
Released: December 30, 1949
Type: Movie
The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equipped with everything he would need for the task, but he has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain—white porcelain, as the Chinese are said to possess. In 1709, he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," the first white porcelain made in Europe, he hopes for freedom.
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Rotation
Title: Rotation
Released: September 16, 1949
Type: Movie
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
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Girls in Gingham
Title: Girls in Gingham
Released: July 8, 1949
Type: Movie
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and family work in tandem to face the tragedies of war, economic hardship and death.
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The Bridge
Title: The Bridge
Released: February 27, 1949
Type: Movie
This is the directorial debut of Artur Pohl and tells the story of war refugees as they try to settle in a small town in Germany.
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Morituri
Title: Morituri
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.
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Free Land
Title: Free Land
Character: Altbauer Schulzke
Released: October 18, 1946
Type: Movie
After World War II, scores of refugees leave in search of a new home. They now stand in the hall of a large mansion, waiting to receive their deeds of ownership for sections of land that the lord of the manor had left behind after he fled. Among them is young Jeruscheit who, during her travels, had to bury one of her own children. Her husband has been declared missing, and up until now she has had little purpose in life. But then she discovers it: to work, to build, and to help others. And maybe someday Jeruscheit will find her family.