Michael Wittenborn

Michael Wittenborn

Born: May 31, 1953
in Bielefeld, Germany

Movies for Michael Wittenborn...

Kommt ein Vogel geflogen
Title: Kommt ein Vogel geflogen
Released: November 2, 2023
Type: Movie
When the animal keeper Birgit gifts her daughter Sarah a parrot, the joy is great. While Sarah is teased at school because of her speech impediment, the parrot provides her with a sense of security. But when the parrot suddenly begins to constantly spout Nazi slogans, it not only causes problems with Birgit's Jewish in-laws, but also puts her in the crossfire of the media.
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Merz gegen Merz - Hochzeiten
Title: Merz gegen Merz - Hochzeiten
Character: Ludwig Reichert
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
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Simply Nina
Title: Simply Nina
Character: Thilo
Released: July 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Born in the wrong body? A child rebels. 8-year old Nina is confident and fun-loving. She’s convinced that a mistake was made at her birth: she was born a Niklas. Nina plucks up her courage and informs her family that she has always felt like a girl and would like to live as one. Her grandpa Thilo supports her. But her parents Simone and Martin cannot agree and with her brother Ben need time to deal with the new situation. Old conflicts flare up. There are problems in Nina’s social environment and at school. Can the family stick together despite the problems? A fictional contribution to a very topical subject.
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Coming home
Title: Coming home
Character: Werner
Released: June 15, 2023
Type: Movie
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Principal
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
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Die Luft zum atmen
Title: Die Luft zum atmen
Released: April 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Miriam Maertens falls ill with cystic fibrosis and struggles quietly with the disease. Mastering a double life she falls in love and achieves her professional goals. When Miriam gets pregnant, everyone is shocked. When her lungs malfunction, it is a race against time to find a suitable donor.
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Auf dem Grund
Title: Auf dem Grund
Character: Helmut
Released: March 23, 2022
Type: Movie
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And Tomorrow the Entire World
Title: And Tomorrow the Entire World
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Luisa, a 20-year-old law student, joins a cell of the Antifa group when she and her friends Alfa and Lenor get to know about an upcoming attack planned by a local neo-Nazi gang. As they try to find out more, the three youngsters delve deeper into the scene linked to right-wing movements and their political connections, to the point where they will understand how much they are willing to go further, in order to defend their own beliefs.
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Title: Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Character: Justizrat Labude
Released: August 5, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
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Da kommt noch was
Title: Da kommt noch was
Released: July 5, 2021
Type: Movie
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Curveball
Title: Curveball
Character: Retzlaff
Released: April 9, 2021
Type: Movie
Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name “Curveball”.
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Title: Unter Freunden stirbt man nicht
Character: Friedrich
Released: December 17, 2020
Type: TV
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Das Gesetz sind wir
Title: Das Gesetz sind wir
Character: Jan Bender
Released: March 25, 2020
Type: Movie
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Irgendwann ist auch mal gut
Title: Irgendwann ist auch mal gut
Character: Theodor Heller
Released: January 23, 2020
Type: Movie
The life of Karsten, a mortician, isn’t going that well at the moment. Just in time for Christmas, his parents inform him during the festive dinner that they want to commit suicide together. In five days. Usually used to death, he tries everything to convince the dear mother Marion and the father Theodor, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, not to pursue their plan. But the conflict about the self-determined death opens up old wounds – and as Karsten’s own health deteriorates rapidly, it is no longer clear who needs to be saved.
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The German Lesson
Title: The German Lesson
Character: Pastor Treblin
Released: October 3, 2019
Type: Movie
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
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Hartwig Seeler – Gefährliche Erinnerung
Title: Hartwig Seeler – Gefährliche Erinnerung
Character: Felix Kepler
Released: May 11, 2019
Type: Movie
The missing person case of a young woman leads Seeler to a Croatian island to a mysterious connection that uses hypnosis to treat people with mental trauma. The investigator experiences for himself how dangerous "false" memories that feel "real" can be when he dives into his subconscious.
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Title: Merz gegen Merz
Character: Ludwig Reichert
Released: April 18, 2019
Type: TV
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Wie gut ist deine Beziehung?
Title: Wie gut ist deine Beziehung?
Character: Harald
Released: February 28, 2019
Type: Movie
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In My Room
Title: In My Room
Character: Vater
Released: July 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared.
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Unterwerfung
Title: Unterwerfung
Character: Walter Zobel
Released: June 6, 2018
Type: Movie
François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and polygamy and loses his job. In his growing loneliness, Rector Rediger's offer to resume his teaching at the Sorbonne reaches him on one condition: he must convert to Islam.
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Du bist nicht allein
Title: Du bist nicht allein
Character: Klaus Widermann
Released: April 1, 2018
Type: Movie
When Eva returns to her house on the day of her divorce, she finds a bouquet of red roses outside the door. Attached is the note: "You are not alone." The sender is anonymous.
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Gefangen: Der Fall K.
Title: Gefangen: Der Fall K.
Released: February 23, 2018
Type: Movie
For a long time, wealth adviser Elke and car mechanic Wastl were happy together. Until Elke gets involved more and more in dubious financial transactions that bring her success down the line. When her husband wants to stop these windy business, she separates from him. And goes even further - the accusation that her husband has beaten her, brings Wastl for a long time in a psychiatric hospital.
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Dinky Sinky
Title: Dinky Sinky
Character: Harmut
Released: February 8, 2018
Type: Movie
Frida wants a baby. But although she forces her boyfriend to follow a strict fertilization regimen, she’s not getting pregnant. Just when she’s about to resort to artificial means, her boyfriend dumps her. Suddenly, she’s missing the most important pregnancy ingredient – the father. But Frida will stop at nothing to get her baby.
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The Carlos Benede Story
Title: The Carlos Benede Story
Character: Herr Jacobs
Released: December 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Carlos Benede is in his thirties, single and helps minors cope with the after-effects of crime. Alexander is a strong-willed and precocious eleven-year-old, who witnesses the horrific death of his mother by his own father. Benede mentors Alexander and the two develop a bond. But when the trial of Alexander’s father is over, it’s time for the two to part. Alexander has been placed in the care of his aunt, but when she is no longer able, a new caregiver must be found. An unconventional counselor from the youth welfare office learns of Alexander’s trust in Benede, who himself grew up in a home, and reunites the two. Although not always easy, the relationship grows and deepens into one of father and son.
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Happy Burnout
Title: Happy Burnout
Character: Günther
Released: April 11, 2017
Type: Movie
An unemployed with diagnosed burn-out is getting a therapy in a clinic.
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Hans im Glück
Title: Hans im Glück
Character: Scherenschleifer
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Jean receives in payment for seven years of work with a master craftsman a gold nugget. He then exchanges this nugget for a horse, then the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, the goose for a sharpening stone. Finally, he loses the stone by dropping it in a well. After losing the sharpening stone, he is relieved because it weighed heavy, and continues his happy journey to his mother's house. On his way home, he keeps running into Knudsen the Merchant and his beautiful daughter Elisabeth.
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Mutter reicht's jetzt
Title: Mutter reicht's jetzt
Character: Richard
Released: November 28, 2016
Type: Movie
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Wellness für Paare
Title: Wellness für Paare
Character: Heinz-Peter Ellerbrook
Released: November 23, 2016
Type: Movie
A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into : relational therapy. It's truth time, for some liberating, forcing others to face their secrets of dysfunctional relationship.
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Nie mehr wie es war
Title: Nie mehr wie es war
Character: Dr. Karoly Gaàl
Released: November 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.
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Toni Erdmann
Title: Toni Erdmann
Character: Henneberg
Released: July 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.
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Die Hochzeit meiner Eltern
Title: Die Hochzeit meiner Eltern
Character: Leo
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: Movie
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Zweimal lebenslänglich
Title: Zweimal lebenslänglich
Character: Beamter
Released: October 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Franziska Dreyer and Sebastian Pauli are a happy couple. When one day the police arrest her boyfriend on suspicion of murder, Franziska assumes it's a mistake. But in a trial marked by circumstantial evidence, Sebastian is tried, convicted and sentenced to life. Franziska believes he's innocent and fights to get him released. This puzzles her parents and friends who advise her to cut all ties to him. Her reaction is to marry Sebastian in prison. Then Franziska discovers completely unknown sides to her husband and now doesn't know who or what to believe any more.
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Title: Die Kanzlei
Character: Paul Siemsen
Released: September 8, 2015
Type: TV
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Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf
Title: Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf
Character: Marc Leussot
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: Movie
A peaceful island will do anything to ward off the reputation of 'vacation paradise.'
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Bis zum Ende der Welt
Title: Bis zum Ende der Welt
Character: Igor Goldmann
Released: November 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Maria Nikolai was once a celebrated musician. 20 years ago she came to Hamburg with her husband, who has since died. But her neighborhood, which used to be a neighborly neighborhood, is gradually threatening to turn into a social hotspot: the streets are dirty, young people are killing time in front of the supermarket and alcohol is a constant companion for many. Foreigners have also been increasingly moving to the district for some time.
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Beloved Sisters
Title: Beloved Sisters
Character: Knebel
Released: July 31, 2014
Type: Movie
A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.
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Wir sind die Neuen
Title: Wir sind die Neuen
Character: Johannes
Released: July 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons
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Stromberg – The Movie
Title: Stromberg – The Movie
Character: Klaus Klinkhammer
Released: February 20, 2014
Type: Movie
The celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Capitol-Insurance” is due – that's what the bosses thought. All employees are invited to join the party in a hotel. However, rumors say the company's not doing very well. To avoid unemployment due to the possible shutdown of the smaller branch office the only option is to move to the headquarters. Now that's the ultimate challange for Stromberg, who is notoriously trying to be the example of a department manager, gathering all of his employees behind him.
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Superegos
Title: Superegos
Character: Moderator
Released: February 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the mansion of the famous, now very old philosopher Curt Ledig, who despite the age related forgetfulness and pathological kitchen phobia resists to move to his daughter. Nick is hired by the family as watchdog. Now Curt can work on a presentation for the upcoming symposium, which anybody thinks he's capable of anymore. Nick thinks he has an excellent hiding place. This partnership of convenience of the two individuals quickly develops its own momentum. Curt regards Nick as an exciting research object and subjects him to an absurd therapy. For Nick it's a unique opportunity to fund his finances with Curt's phenomenal library. The strange couple is going through turmoil of incalculable proportions.
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Halbe Hundert
Title: Halbe Hundert
Character: Klaus Kater
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: Movie
At the centre of the comedy ‘Halbe Hundert’ (‘half of hundred’) stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of their generation, the number on their birth certificate seemingly doesn’t fit to their sense of life at all. But all three of them stand before decisive changes. Anne is successful in her professional life as a hand surgeon who is acclaimed all across Germany. The victim of her flawless career is her marriage to Klaus, who had her back with regards to children and household for years and now has left her unexpectedly. Anne reacts with wounded vanity and books a young, attractive male escort for a congress. But the relationship, considered to be professional, throws Anne out of the loop emotionally. Charlotte has worn down herself for the family for years as she is diagnosed with breast cancer. With the illness in front of her eyes, Charlotte finds the courage to break out of old confinements…
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The Case of Jakob von Metzler
Title: The Case of Jakob von Metzler
Character: Fellner
Released: September 23, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Crime Scene Cleaner
Released: December 22, 2011
Type: TV
Heiko Schotte (Schotty) works for a cleaning company, cleaning all kind of crime scenes. There he sometimes meets weird people and tries to solve difficult situations.
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Title: Crime Scene Cleaner
Character: Therapeut Dr. Faltenbach
Released: December 22, 2011
Type: TV
Heiko Schotte (Schotty) works for a cleaning company, cleaning all kind of crime scenes. There he sometimes meets weird people and tries to solve difficult situations.
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If Not Us, Who?
Title: If Not Us, Who?
Character: Helmut Ensslin
Released: March 10, 2011
Type: Movie
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
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Ihr mich auch
Title: Ihr mich auch
Character: Matthias Schröder
Released: November 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Homicide Hills
Character: Paul Schönfelder
Released: January 7, 2008
Type: TV
Mord mit Aussicht is a German satirical crime comedy television series, produced by ARD, following the adventures of Sophie Haas, a detective from the city that takes a job in the fictional country village of Hengasch. Much of the humour of the series derives from the clichés of both city and provincial lives, in a similar manner to the English comedy crime series Midsomer Murders.
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Mein alter Freund Fritz
Title: Mein alter Freund Fritz
Character: Zachs Nachfolger
Released: November 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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Yella
Title: Yella
Character: Dr. Schmidt-Ott
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: Movie
A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her.
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Title: Kommissar Stolberg
Character: Burkhard Zwingel
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: TV
Stolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The series is more serious and less flashy than other contemporary German detective series.
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A Friend of Mine
Title: A Friend of Mine
Character: Naumann
Released: October 5, 2006
Type: Movie
An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.
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Außer Kontrolle
Title: Außer Kontrolle
Released: April 25, 2005
Type: Movie
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Sterne leuchten auch am Tag
Title: Sterne leuchten auch am Tag
Character: Chefarzt
Released: December 6, 2004
Type: Movie
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September
Title: September
Character: Waller
Released: June 26, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: Bloch
Character: RA Hermann Lux
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: TV
Bloch is a German television series.
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Title: Die Affäre Semmeling
Character: Ullrich Jansen
Released: January 2, 2002
Type: TV
Die Affäre Semmeling was a 2002 German teleplay, broadcast on ZDF. It starred Mario Adorf as Walter 'Beton-Walter' Wegener, Robert Atzorn as Dr. Klaus Hennig, Heinz Hoenig as Axel Ropert, Stefan Kurt as Sigi Semmeling and Heike Makatsch as Silke Semmeling.
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Die Sekretärinnen
Title: Die Sekretärinnen
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Nine secretaries dream of life and love musically while typing around.
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Title: Doppelter Einsatz
Character: Hans-Jürgen Schuchardt
Released: September 20, 1994
Type: TV
Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police.
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Title: Bella Block
Released: March 26, 1994
Type: TV
Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.
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Title: DAS!
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Rosowski
Character: Max Rosowski
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: Der Fahnder
Character: Jörg Felder
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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Second Sight
Title: Second Sight
Character: Albert
Released: October 27, 1982
Type: Movie
A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.
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Title: The Old Fox
Character: Andreas Wessling
Released: April 11, 1977
Type: TV
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
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Title: Derrick
Character: Udo Engler
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: Derrick
Character: Robert Becker
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Roland Herlau
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: Scene of the Crime
Character: Gerrit Engelbrecht
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: Werner Freden
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: Dr. Lobentag
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: Hans Lüdinghaus
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: Petermann
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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Chaos and Silence
Title: Chaos and Silence
Character: Dr. Wunderlich
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A woman sits silently on a roof. A composer in search of silence. A pianist gives away her piano for free. A city falls into chaos.
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Title: Habibi Baba Boom
Character: Hagen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Spirit in the Blood
Title: Spirit in the Blood
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After a young girl is found dead in a secluded religious mountain community, a pack of teenage girls decide to fight against the evil spirits they believe killed her by embracing their own dark nature
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Merz gegen Merz - Geheimnisse
Title: Merz gegen Merz - Geheimnisse
Character: Ludwig Reichert
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Anne Merz wants to start an event agency with Jonas, the new man at her side. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the money, so her premature inheritance is to be decided at a notary appointment with her father Ludwig, who suffers from dementia. To the horror of Anne's unsuspecting mother Maria, Ludwig drops a bombshell at the appointment: There is an illegitimate daughter who is also entitled to the inheritance. Of course Anne is not going to take this lying down. She steps into the ring - for her money and for her father's love. While ex-husband Erik and his parents Renate and Günter get heavily involved in the family quarrel, son Leon is in trouble with his wife Soraya and her ex Rico.