Gerhard Rachold

Gerhard Rachold

Born: September 3, 1928
Died: May 18, 1993
in Ranis, Thuringia, Germany

Movies for Gerhard Rachold...

Abschiedsdisco
Title: Abschiedsdisco
Character: Pfarrer
Released: April 5, 1990
Type: Movie
A village has to be destroyed for coal mining. Henning, a 15 years old boy, who wants to visit his grandfather one more time, realizes that nothing will be the way it used to be.
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Barbed Wire
Title: Barbed Wire
Released: January 17, 1983
Type: Movie
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A Long Way to School
Title: A Long Way to School
Released: July 13, 1982
Type: Movie
A young boy fantasizes his way to school into a battle between cowboys and Indians, where the bad guys want to steal some gold medals. Real events and fantasy interacts in his mind.
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Ulzana
Title: Ulzana
Released: May 16, 1974
Type: Movie
This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.
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Days of Betrayal
Title: Days of Betrayal
Released: April 27, 1973
Type: Movie
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
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Title: Das Licht der schwarzen Kerze
Character: Cobre
Released: October 27, 1972
Type: TV
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Sechse kommen durch die Welt
Title: Sechse kommen durch die Welt
Character: Obrist
Released: August 18, 1972
Type: Movie
The King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden marshals, he dismisses his army with a low wages. One of his soldiers protest this and is thrown into jail, but he swears to someday return and take all the wealth of the king.
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Herr Uhlig
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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Osceola
Title: Osceola
Character: Joe Hammer
Released: June 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved to reservations. Having retreated to Florida, they live a simple horticultural life. But white plantation owners, angry at the increasing numbers of black slaves fleeing to Seminole protection, want to take their land. Plantation owner Raynes, in particular, has convinced the military to wipe out the Seminoles. His rival Moore, a sawmill owner from the North who has a Seminole wife, is against slavery and considers it unprofitable. Chief Osceola sees the coming danger; he tries to avoid provoking the whites, but cannot prevent the war that breaks out in 1835.
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Pygmalion XII
Title: Pygmalion XII
Released: March 28, 1971
Type: Movie
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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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Androklus und der Löwe
Title: Androklus und der Löwe
Released: October 24, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Neighbours
Title: The Neighbours
Character: Kuno
Released: September 3, 1969
Type: Movie
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
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Im Himmel ist doch Jahrmarkt
Title: Im Himmel ist doch Jahrmarkt
Released: April 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Five young, pretty female athletes are training for an international skydiving contest. From heaven they basically fall straight into the arms of five charming young men. Their coach is less than thrilled about the flirtation and urges his athletes to concentrate on the contest. He is convinced that love-making will put the victory to risk and asks them for sexual abstinence. The power of love turns out to be stronger, however, and soon the first love couples find each other.
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Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle
Title: Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle
Released: November 21, 1968
Type: Movie
This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimbursement is challenged, and he must also pay taxes on his destroyed mill. He resists the tax collectors and takes off to Vienna, where he intends to defend his rights. On the way, he rescues the Duchess of Guastalla from assault. She also wants to go to Vienna, as His Majesty Franz II is trying to contest an heir in her favor. With cunning, luck, and dagger, Florian fights his way through a slew of nobility and their secret police.
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Die Nacht im Grenzwald
Title: Die Nacht im Grenzwald
Released: June 15, 1968
Type: Movie
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Heroin
Title: Heroin
Character: Derec
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin somewhere in the Middle East, and smuggle it in several steps to East Berlin, and from there to France (or so it appears), killing when necessary. The hero is an officer of East German customs, who with detective work, some masquerade, and occasional violent action ultimately unravels the whole network, of course with the support of the local customs departments.
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Tod im Preis inbegriffen
Title: Tod im Preis inbegriffen
Released: January 12, 1968
Type: Movie
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Der Mord, der nie verjährt
Title: Der Mord, der nie verjährt
Character: Vogel
Released: January 11, 1968
Type: Movie
Film by Wolfgang Luderer.
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Marketa Lazarová
Title: Marketa Lazarová
Character: Reiner (voice)
Released: November 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
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Der Revolver des Corporals
Title: Der Revolver des Corporals
Released: May 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Film by Rolf Losansky.
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The Sons of Great Bear
Title: The Sons of Great Bear
Character: Lieutenant Roach
Released: February 18, 1966
Type: Movie
As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Red Fox, who wanted information on where the tribe finds its gold. Two years later, at the height of the Great Sioux War, Tokei-ihto and Red Fox meet again.
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Title: Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
Character: Randolf Gutschke
Released: October 21, 1965
Type: TV
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort was an East German television series.
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Assassination
Title: Assassination
Released: August 20, 1965
Type: Movie
The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
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Der Reserveheld
Title: Der Reserveheld
Character: Hauptmann Hottas
Released: February 27, 1965
Type: Movie
The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy about the army. So Horricht believes it a joke, when he receives an induction-order as reserve-officer... but the captain tries his best to make him realize this is no laughing matter.
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When Martin Was Fourteen
Title: When Martin Was Fourteen
Released: December 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Martin′s and his girlfriend′s Kathrin′s childhood comes to an abrupt end in 1920, when their Mecklenburg village is drawn into the events surrounding the Kapp putsch. By accident, Martin discovers a charge of weapons that land owner von Bröder had put away for the reactionary forces, and gives them to the workers in the city. When the village starts to organize a strike against the putsch, soldiers arrive at the village to hold down the residents of the village.
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The Golden Goose
Title: The Golden Goose
Character: Prinz Störenfried
Released: September 26, 1964
Type: Movie
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Alaska - Foxes
Title: Alaska - Foxes
Character: Hester
Released: July 24, 1964
Type: Movie
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Viel Lärm um nichts
Title: Viel Lärm um nichts
Character: Don Juan
Released: April 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
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Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Title: Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Character: Assistant to Commissioner Hendrik
Released: November 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi criminal Eichmann. Disgusted by the monstrosities that are revealed, she eventually returns to Germany. There, she wants to cover common cases and trials again. Her first assignment is a murder trial against a man called Ralf Jordan who constantly maintains his innocence. Conradi, who believes Jordan and wants to help him, starts to investigate the case - and thus opens up a political can of worms. The backgrounds of the case reach back to the Nazi period and involve officials of the Third Reich, who in the meantime have returned to their powerful positions.
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The Boxer and Death
Title: The Boxer and Death
Character: Holder
Released: February 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of his friend and co-prisoner leads to open revolt. The film brings a new view of human degradation during fascism by a tragic story of one man whose only chance for survival is to accept the rules of an unequal game.
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Title: The Green Monster
Character: 1. Soldat auf der Insel
Released: December 18, 1962
Type: TV
On the run from police in America, Antonio Morena, a former World War II aviator and black-marketeer, finds himself in South America working for the all-powerful United Fruit Company, known to the natives as "the Green Monster".
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Die schwarze Galeere
Title: Die schwarze Galeere
Character: Leone della Rota
Released: July 9, 1962
Type: Movie
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Mord an Rathenau
Title: Mord an Rathenau
Character: Erwin Kern
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie
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Das Kleid
Title: Das Kleid
Character: Latte
Released: August 15, 1961
Type: Movie
Poor weavers Hans (Horst Drinda) und Kumpan (Werner Lierck) try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally make it inside, the tyrannical Emperor Max demands they make him new clothes that would "bring all creatures to their knees." Hans and Kumpan claim only intelligent people can see the robe, and in order to prove himself clever, the emperor haughtily displays himself before his subjects wearing his new invisible regalia.
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Das krumme Gewerbe
Title: Das krumme Gewerbe
Character: Chick McGuire
Released: December 18, 1960
Type: Movie
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Seilergasse 8
Title: Seilergasse 8
Released: August 11, 1960
Type: Movie
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Erich Kubak
Title: Erich Kubak
Released: October 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Film by Johannes Arpe.
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Title: Blaulicht
Character: Macke
Released: August 20, 1959
Type: TV
Blaulicht is a German crime television drama series, whose 29 episodes were based on crime case files.
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Wenn die Nacht kein Ende nimmt
Title: Wenn die Nacht kein Ende nimmt
Released: February 21, 1959
Type: Movie
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Tatort Berlin
Title: Tatort Berlin
Character: Heinz Mahler
Released: January 10, 1958
Type: Movie
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Sheriff Teddy
Title: Sheriff Teddy
Character: Mucki
Released: November 29, 1957
Type: Movie
A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.
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Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...
Title: Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...
Character: Schläger
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in love with Angela. She, in turn, spends time with the clique whenever her mother is occupied with her new lover. "Kohle" stays away from home to avoid his dad's alcohol problem, and Karl-Heinz is on his way to becoming a small-time criminal. Due to their interest in western music and culture they are regarded as no-goods and rowdies. Things get interesting when an incident forces Dieter and "Kohle" to escape to West Germany. Written by c.winter
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Lissy
Title: Lissy
Character: Junger SA-Mann
Released: May 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Berlin, early 1930s. Lissy, a young woman raised in a socialist working-class family, marries a clerk who promises her a better life. During the depression, however, he gets fired and can’t find a new job. Desperate for companionship and money, he falls for Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers. Lissy's brother, who for a time sympathized with the communists, now also wears the SA uniform. When he is killed by the Nazis—because of hisoppositional ideas—Lissy starts questioning things and makes a difficult and potentially dangerous decision.
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Zwischenfall in Benderath
Title: Zwischenfall in Benderath
Character: Rudolf Hacker
Released: December 27, 1956
Type: Movie