Günther Simon

Günther Simon

Born: May 11, 1925
Died: June 25, 1972
in Berlin, Germany
Günther Simon (1925–1972) was a German actor. He came to prominence through roles in several DEFA films.

Movies for Günther Simon...

Ripe Cherries
Title: Ripe Cherries
Character: Helmut Kamp
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of a son, the tragic death of his wife, the relationship of his daughter Ingrid with Dr. Beißert coincided with the need to move to an uninhabited area where a nuclear power plant will be built. Kamp, Ingrid and the members of the friendly brigade decide to act as the duty and the feeling of partnership prompts them, and gradually they all become participants in the new construction...
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Hammer or Anvil
Title: Hammer or Anvil
Character: Pastor
Released: September 8, 1972
Type: Movie
This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having set the Reichstag on fire were brought against him. At the trial Dimitrov exposed the machinations of the Nazis and turned from a defendant into an accuser. Central to the story is the face-to-face political duel between Dimitrov and Goering. Dimitrov's interactions with ordinary Germans, the memories of his wife Lyuba Ivoshevich, and the meetings with his mother Parashkeva alternate with documentary shooting scenes from the time of Nazi Germany.
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Der Regimentskommandeur
Title: Der Regimentskommandeur
Character: Wallenstock
Released: April 3, 1972
Type: Movie
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Sun Seekers
Title: Sun Seekers
Character: Franz Beier
Released: March 26, 1972
Type: Movie
A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.
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KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
Title: KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
Character: John Sieg
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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Verdacht auf einen Toten
Title: Verdacht auf einen Toten
Released: November 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Film by Rainer Bär.
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Title: Krupp und Krause
Character: Fred Krause
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: TV
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Heroin
Title: Heroin
Character: Zollkommissar Peter Zinn
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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Brot und Rosen
Title: Brot und Rosen
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: Movie
Film by Thiel and Brandt.
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Irrlicht und Feuer
Title: Irrlicht und Feuer
Character: Jürgen Fohrmann
Released: August 21, 1966
Type: Movie
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Reise ins Ehebett
Title: Reise ins Ehebett
Character: Kapitän
Released: April 7, 1966
Type: Movie
The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a different girlfriend in every harbour. But his friends think that he should change his way of life. Thus, they take the lovely reporter Eva on board for a trip to Leningrad. But at first, Eva′s presence causes a lot of upheaval on board.
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Alfons Zitterbacke
Title: Alfons Zitterbacke
Character: Vater Zitterbacke
Released: February 24, 1966
Type: Movie
Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various mishaps.
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When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam
Title: When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam
Character: Minister
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965/66 due to the film's political content. Only in 1989/90 could the director reconstruct the film, where missing sounds and images are replaced with script inserts.
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Spring Takes Time
Title: Spring Takes Time
Character: Erhard Faber
Released: November 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and accused of approving a defective pipeline that caused a half million loss to his company. At first, the case seems clear-cut for the state prosecutor, but when he probes deeper, he discovers that Solter had acted against his better judgment due to the pressure from his career-driven and authoritarian boss.
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Ballade vom roten Mohn
Title: Ballade vom roten Mohn
Released: September 14, 1965
Type: Movie
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Lot's Wife
Title: Lot's Wife
Character: Richard Lot
Released: August 26, 1965
Type: Movie
The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days. The children greet him with joy, but she greets him only with anxiety because their marriage is missing its key ingredient: love. She wants a divorce, but he refuses mainly out of comfort as well as due to pressure from the party. Katrin finds a strange solution: she shoplifts and is put on probation for three months. This is enough to force Richard into a divorce because he is concerned about the "moral liability" of his wife.
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Der Reserveheld
Title: Der Reserveheld
Character: Oberst
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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The Song of the Trumpeter
Title: The Song of the Trumpeter
Released: November 5, 1964
Type: Movie
Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World War I veteran, gives him a trumpet as a gift, Fritz seems to come closer to fulfil his dream. But then, Fritz realizes that after the end of the German empire workers still have to desperately fight for their rights, and decides to use his instrument for political means: At a meeting of militant workers, he uses his trumpet as a signal horn. But Fritz suffers a severe setback when a comrade dies in the fight for an arms depot because of his fault.
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Preludio 11
Title: Preludio 11
Character: Palomino
Released: March 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.
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Schwarzer Samt
Title: Schwarzer Samt
Character: Manfred Sibelka
Released: February 27, 1964
Type: Movie
Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.
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Das russische Wunder
Title: Das russische Wunder
Character: (narrator)
Released: May 7, 1963
Type: Movie
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Secret Archives on Elbe
Title: Secret Archives on Elbe
Character: SS-Gruppenführer Upitz
Released: April 12, 1963
Type: Movie
The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued from the east during the retreat, near a small German town Ostburga.
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Fog
Title: Fog
Character: Verteidiger
Released: March 14, 1963
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in Rocksmouth, but first, the German envoy has to salvage an old ship wreck. In 1942, the "Princess of India" was supposed to bring children to safety in Canada but was sunk by a German submarine at departure. 58 people were killed, most of them children.
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At a French Fireside
Title: At a French Fireside
Character: General Rucker
Released: September 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ordered to be kind to the populace, since the West German High Command wishes the French to forget the atrocities that were committed during the Second World War. Klaus falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of the local mayor. He discovers that his commanders intend to demolish the ruins of a local church, in which civilians were murdered by the German occupation forces at 1944. A local journalist who researches the event discovers that West German General Rucker ordered the massacre, but he is mysteriously murdered. Klaus defies his commanding officer Siebert, who instructs him to steal the documents indicting Rucker, and hands the evidence over to Jeanne.
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Mord ohne Sühne
Title: Mord ohne Sühne
Character: Heinz Lippert
Released: June 27, 1962
Type: Movie
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Ärzte
Title: Ärzte
Character: Dr. Brehm
Released: February 2, 1962
Type: Movie
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Eine Handvoll Noten
Title: Eine Handvoll Noten
Character: Paul Steinmetz
Released: December 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plans: As a passionate trumpeter, he wants to study music in Berlin. His father is less than thrilled and wants his son to take over the bakery. Therefore, Andreas decides to try his luck in Berlin and starts working in a wholesale bakery together with his friend Paul. Incidentally, the in-house band is looking for a trumpeter.
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Der Tod hat ein Gesicht
Title: Der Tod hat ein Gesicht
Character: Dr. Cramm
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Dream of Captain Loy
Title: The Dream of Captain Loy
Released: August 23, 1961
Type: Movie
An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and the United States Air Force Corporal Doris Graves. During the flight, the two become closer, and they regret that the trip will end that evening. But everything turns out differently. The flight captain has received orders to pick up an agent at a German NATO airport, who is to be dropped off again on a Soviet island …
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Das Kleid
Title: Das Kleid
Character: Fleischer
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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Der Fremde
Title: Der Fremde
Character: Parteisekretär Reichert
Released: March 3, 1961
Type: Movie
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Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Title: Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Character: Richard Wagner, Kommandant
Released: January 27, 1961
Type: Movie
Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in fact an "aircraft commander". This assertion brings about an embarrassing situation, for he suddenly meets her onboard his new work place, an IL-14 charter plane where Ilse acts as a stewardess. It gets worse, however: During a stop in Varna the police appear because Horst’s former lover Madelon has vanished. At home, meanwhile, his landlady has her hands full with her lodger’s current and former playmates. Ilse decides to put an end to this mixup and since the dull captain of the plane, Richard, makes no move to confront his co-pilot about his unstable private life, the smart stewardess appeals to the rest of the crew to help her teach Horst a few lessons in love.
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The Moorhound
Title: The Moorhound
Character: Oberleutnant Suter
Released: December 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Two boys are helping the border guards to find a mysterious moor hound used by spies to transfer messages across the border.
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Kein Ärger mit Cleopatra
Title: Kein Ärger mit Cleopatra
Released: December 6, 1960
Type: Movie
Film by Helmut Schneider.
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Die heute über 40 sind
Title: Die heute über 40 sind
Released: October 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.
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Einer von uns
Title: Einer von uns
Character: Richard Bertram
Released: April 28, 1960
Type: Movie
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First Spaceship on Venus
Title: First Spaceship on Venus
Character: Robert Brinkmann, deutscher Pilot
Released: February 26, 1960
Type: Movie
A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
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An Old Love
Title: An Old Love
Character: 1. Sekretär der SED-Kreiparteileitung
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: Movie
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Senta auf Abwegen
Title: Senta auf Abwegen
Character: Max Matuschek
Released: July 16, 1959
Type: Movie
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Der kleine Kuno
Title: Der kleine Kuno
Released: June 11, 1959
Type: Movie
What do grown-ups actually do at night? Little Kuno has been asking himself this question a lot lately. One day, the curious six-year-old decides to get to the bottom of it and sneaks outside his house at night. He wanders around the streets aimlessly and experiences some very exciting things.
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Geschwader Fledermaus
Title: Geschwader Fledermaus
Character: Tex Stankowsky
Released: December 26, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Sailor’s Song
Title: The Sailor’s Song
Character: Erich Steigert
Released: November 9, 1958
Type: Movie
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
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Der Lotterieschwede
Title: Der Lotterieschwede
Released: September 11, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Black Battalion
Title: The Black Battalion
Character: Gerhardt
Released: June 13, 1958
Type: Movie
A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.
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Meine Frau macht Musik
Title: Meine Frau macht Musik
Character: Gustl Wagner
Released: April 2, 1958
Type: Movie
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Sheriff Teddy
Title: Sheriff Teddy
Character: Lehrer Freitag
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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Don’t Forget My Little Traudel
Title: Don’t Forget My Little Traudel
Released: November 15, 1957
Type: Movie
17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.
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Tinko
Title: Tinko
Character: Ernst Kraske
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any collective farming activities. He desperately wants a large-scale farm like Kimpel's in order to pass it on to his adored grandson, Tinko. When Kraske's son Ernst returns from a POW camp and gives his support to the new communal project, tensions arise within the family and little Tinko is caught in the middle.
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Damals in Paris
Title: Damals in Paris
Character: Georges
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
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Treffpunkt Aimée
Title: Treffpunkt Aimée
Character: Kommissar Wendt
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: Movie
DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.
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Das Traumschiff
Title: Das Traumschiff
Character: Kapitän Franz Müller
Released: April 26, 1956
Type: Movie
The two half-orphans Reni and Rolf are 13 and 10 years old and they live with their grandmother in Berlin. Their father has died during the war, their mother works at a Baltic Sea port. Here she meets a captain who wants to marry her. When their mother tells them about the planned wedding, Reni and Rolf are reluctant to meet the captain.
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Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Title: Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Character: Ernst Thälmann
Released: October 6, 1955
Type: Movie
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Title: Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Character: Ernst Thälmann
Released: March 9, 1954
Type: Movie
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.
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Jacke wie Hose
Title: Jacke wie Hose
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
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Anna Susanna
Title: Anna Susanna
Character: Orje
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
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The Condemned Village
Title: The Condemned Village
Character: Heinz Weimann
Released: April 14, 1952
Type: Movie
East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.