Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

Born: March 22, 1941
Died: February 16, 2019
in Zürich, Switzerland
Bruno Ganz (March 22, 1941 – February 16, 2019) was a Swiss actor who debuted at the theatre in 1961 and gained there a good reputation as a solid, young actor. In 1970 he founded with 'Peter Stein' the theatre company "Schaubuehne" of Berlin. His debut at the movies was early and unsuccessful in 1960. Only in 1975 after "Sommergaeste (1975)" he could show his talent as a reflexive actor with tendencies towards introspection.

Movies for Bruno Ganz...

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Title: Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Character: Lui-même
Released: September 25, 2022
Type: Movie
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Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
Title: Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 8, 2020
Type: Movie
A 90'- documentary about Roger Raymond Rossmeisl (1927-1979), the most overlooked great guitar maker of all time. Roger's voice is spoken by Bruno Ganz
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
Title: Wim Wenders, Desperado
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 16, 2020
Type: Movie
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never before shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer and author.
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A Hidden Life
Title: A Hidden Life
Character: Richter
Released: December 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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Winter Journey
Title: Winter Journey
Character: George Goldsmith
Released: November 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.
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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
Title: The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
Character: Narrator German (voice)
Released: September 12, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King of Kings,” in Iran. Mass strikes and the foundation of Solidarność (Solidarity) in Poland. What was in the minds of the young women and men who fomented revolution in their own country? What did they think when their revolution was quelled, or – as in Iran – an authoritarian regime was instituted under the name of an “Islamic Republic”?
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The Witness
Title: The Witness
Character: Nikola Radin
Released: January 17, 2019
Type: Movie
An action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of justice.
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The Tobacconist
Title: The Tobacconist
Character: Sigmund Freud
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.
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Fortuna
Title: Fortuna
Character: Brother Jean
Released: September 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic monastery. While she waits for her fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna finds out she is pregnant. The choice she will have to make and the arrival of the refugees will give rise to concern within the religious community and will challenge their concept of Christian charity.
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The House That Jack Built
Title: The House That Jack Built
Character: Verge
Released: July 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.
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The Party
Title: The Party
Character: Godfried
Released: July 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
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In Times of Fading Light
Title: In Times of Fading Light
Character: Wilhelm Powileit
Released: June 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.
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A Jew Must Die
Title: A Jew Must Die
Character: Arthur Bloch
Released: September 15, 2016
Type: Movie
A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and Bruno Ganz as Arthur Bloch, Swiss Jew killed by Swiss Nazis.
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Heidi
Title: Heidi
Character: Alpöhi, Heidi's grandfather
Released: December 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
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Title: Spiel für dein Land
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2015
Type: TV
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Remember
Title: Remember
Character: Rudy Kurlander #1
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: Movie
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
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Amnesia
Title: Amnesia
Character: Bruno
Released: August 19, 2015
Type: Movie
A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, including her native language.
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Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
Title: Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
Character: Voice of Segantini
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime, he climbed ever higher in search of more light, finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m. The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood, shares his inner processes and crises as a painter, as well as his contradictory dealings with motherly love and eroticism – and ultimately his desperate struggle against death…
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In Order of Disappearance
Title: In Order of Disappearance
Character: Papa
Released: February 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”
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The Counselor
Title: The Counselor
Character: Diamond Dealer
Released: October 25, 2013
Type: Movie
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Title: Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Character: The Governor
Released: August 14, 2013
Type: Movie
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.
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Night Train to Lisbon
Title: Night Train to Lisbon
Character: Older Jorge O'Kelly
Released: March 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Title: Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Character: (archive footage)
Released: February 4, 2012
Type: Movie
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
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Of Women and Horses
Title: Of Women and Horses
Character: Franz Mann
Released: January 25, 2012
Type: Movie
This microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent, her fiercely stubborn character, and, most particularly, her determination to succeed. A high tension wire who's ready to stand up to Franz Mann and to face any obstacle, even if it means stepping outside the law, she pursues her sole obsession: to have a horse to call her own that she will take to the top.
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Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
Title: Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 15, 2011
Type: Movie
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Unknown
Title: Unknown
Character: Ernst Jürgen
Released: February 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
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Colors in the Dark
Title: Colors in the Dark
Character: Fred
Released: January 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Anita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They have two grown children, and their grandchildren are finishing school. Both can look back at a fulfilling past, but their lives are still rich and vibrant. The fact that Fred is terribly ill has been hidden from the family. For the first time in all these years, Fred takes some liberties, which his wife interprets as an affront. Never before has she felt so abandoned. Although she starts to question her relationship, a love like theirs cannot end so easily. Indeed it should never end.
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The End Is My Beginning
Title: The End Is My Beginning
Character: Tiziano Terzani
Released: October 7, 2010
Type: Movie
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press correspondent in Southeast Asia, about the political and social changes which he has seen, and about the spiritual transformation he has experienced in recent years. But for him the most important is to show his son how he is preparing for the last great adventure of a lifetime.
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Taxiphone
Title: Taxiphone
Character: Stranger
Released: March 2, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Day of the Cat
Title: The Day of the Cat
Character: Kater
Released: January 21, 2010
Type: Movie
The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good. From a meeting with the Spanish royal couple, he hopes media attention and a popularity boost. He does not suspect that his closest confidant Pfiff, of all people, is intriguing against him in order to come to power himself. But he does not even shy away from misusing his family for his own purposes. Soon, the president has to fight not only for his political position, but also for his marriage.
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Julia's Disappearance
Title: Julia's Disappearance
Character: John
Released: October 8, 2009
Type: Movie
A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party. They wait for her in a restaurant, all dressed up and groomed, lively debating the years that have passed. The truths and wisdom of Julia's closest friends on aging and growing old are drowned increasingly in sufficient quantities of alcohol. In the mean time, on her eightieth birthday, Leonie, sulking over the loss of youth, is rebelling against her daughter, the senior citizen's home, conventions, and old age in general - and joyfully sabotaging the party in her honor.
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The Reader
Title: The Reader
Character: Professor Rohl
Released: December 10, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
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The Dust of Time
Title: The Dust of Time
Character: Jacob
Released: November 22, 2008
Type: Movie
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Title: The Baader Meinhof Complex
Character: Horst Herold
Released: September 25, 2008
Type: Movie
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
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Ein starker Abgang
Title: Ein starker Abgang
Character: Heinz Kilian
Released: July 25, 2008
Type: Movie
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Copacabana
Title: Copacabana
Character: Herbert Schubert
Released: May 14, 2008
Type: Movie
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One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
Title: One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
Character: Self
Released: January 24, 2008
Type: Movie
The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became foundations of the German New Wave and cemented the reputation of their director. In One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years Marcel Wehn explores the background to these films. Through personal recollection and rare home movie footage, it documents the director's early life, from experiments with his first camera, via his deviation from a career in medicine in favour of art and film, through to international recognition for the Road Trilogy. Central to these were themes that became cornerstones of all his work: national identity, the importance of personal relationships and the allure of the road. With contributions from the director and the many collaborators who helped define his vision, One Who Set Forth is a compelling account of Wim Wenders' life and work.
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Coda: Thirty Years Later
Title: Coda: Thirty Years Later
Character: Self
Released: December 9, 2007
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (2007).
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Youth Without Youth
Title: Youth Without Youth
Character: Professor Stanciulescu
Released: October 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
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The Ode to Joy
Title: The Ode to Joy
Character: Kurt Heinrich
Released: June 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, in Japan.
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Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
Title: Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
Character: Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
Released: February 24, 2006
Type: Movie
The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatican" before ascending to the papal throne to usher Catholicism into the 21st century. Born in Poland and forced to carry on following the untimely death of his family, Karol Wojtyla endured both personal hardships and the rape of his homeland by the Third Reich to spread the word of God through the Catholic Church. Later, as Pope John Paul II, Wojtyla was beloved by millions of Catholics worldwide. From the sexual-abuse scandal that shook the American Catholic Church in the later-20th century to the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and the near-fatal assassination attempt made on his own life, Pope John Paul II endured to bridge the gap between various faiths until his death resulting from Parkinson's disease in April of 2005.
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Vitus
Title: Vitus
Character: Grandfather
Released: February 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
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Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
Title: Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
Character: Peter (archive footage)
Released: November 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary about the personal and professional life of Pablo G. del Amo. He is the most influential movie editor in Spain.
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Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film
Title: Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'
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Alias Kurban Saïd
Title: Alias Kurban Saïd
Character: Narrator
Released: February 24, 2005
Type: Movie
The mystery of the author of the 1937 cult novel Ali and Nino - a recently-rediscovered Romeo and Juliet of the Caucasus - is explored in Alias Kurban Saïd. Renowned Dutch documaker Jos de Putter travels from Azerbaijan to Austria to the U.S., chasing down who wrote the book under the pseudonym Kurban Saïd.
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Downfall
Title: Downfall
Character: Adolf Hitler
Released: September 16, 2004
Type: Movie
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
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The Manchurian Candidate
Title: The Manchurian Candidate
Character: Delp
Released: July 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
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Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
Title: Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Unsere Besten
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 2003
Type: TV
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Luther
Title: Luther
Character: Johann von Staupitz
Released: October 29, 2003
Type: Movie
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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Title: Menschen bei Maischberger
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 2003
Type: TV
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Title: Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and in detail about how the award-winning film was devised, cast, filmed, scored and edited.
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Epsteins Nacht
Title: Epsteins Nacht
Character: Adam Rose
Released: November 10, 2002
Type: Movie
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The Power of the Past
Title: The Power of the Past
Character: Bogliasco
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 2002
Type: TV
"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the interaction with the history of the past hundred years is also shown.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
Title: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
Character: Faust
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Second part of Goethe's Tragedy
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
Title: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
Character: Faust
Released: February 16, 2001
Type: Movie
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Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Title: Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.
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Bread and Tulips
Title: Bread and Tulips
Character: Fernando Girasoli
Released: March 3, 2000
Type: Movie
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
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WhoAfraidWolf
Title: WhoAfraidWolf
Released: February 16, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of actors making their way to Rome ends up losing its way due to the fog, the darkness, the ice and their own feelings of guilt, suddenly getting completely lost in the hills.
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You Can't Go Home Again
Title: You Can't Go Home Again
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A 1998 Dutch documentary about Klaus Mann, the son of novelist Thomas Mann. An openly bisexual writer who spent World War II in Amsterdam, Klaus suffered from depression, marginalization, and drug addiction; he attempted suicide several times and died in his early 40s, though his famous father was too busy doing a reading for Swedish radio to attend his son’s funeral.
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The End of an Eternity
Title: The End of an Eternity
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and actors.
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Eternity and a Day
Title: Eternity and a Day
Character: Alexandros
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
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Gegen Ende der Nacht
Title: Gegen Ende der Nacht
Character: Fehleisen
Released: April 29, 1998
Type: Movie
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St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
Title: St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
Character: Narrator (German voice)
Released: December 23, 1997
Type: Movie
St. Stephen’s Cathedral ranks amongst Austria‘s most famous cultural monuments. Yet, one would not think of that Cathedral being one of the most astonishing natural areas in Austria.Georg Riha and his team have explored the Cathedral from its foundations to the top of its 136 meter spire and discovered a true botanical and zoological garden: wild animals, exotic butterflies, kestrels, moss, lichen and even trees.
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Title: Leute heute
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 1997
Type: TV
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Deadly Silence
Title: Deadly Silence
Character: Hans Plache
Released: May 3, 1997
Type: Movie
A gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events.
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Saint-Ex
Title: Saint-Ex
Character: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Released: November 17, 1996
Type: Movie
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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Lumière and Company
Title: Lumière and Company
Character: Damiel
Released: December 20, 1995
Type: Movie
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
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Il Grande Fausto
Title: Il Grande Fausto
Character: Biagio Cavanna
Released: October 29, 1995
Type: Movie
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Diario senza date
Title: Diario senza date
Released: September 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Night on Fire
Title: Night on Fire
Character: Peter Keller
Released: October 27, 1993
Type: Movie
Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the idyllic village of Schwant in Emmental. But, the more entangled Keller gets in the treads of the apparently clearcut case of sex murder, the more obvious the flaws in the village idyll become. Keller's quest turns into a deadly mission.
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Faraway, So Close!
Title: Faraway, So Close!
Character: Damiel
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.
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The Absence
Title: The Absence
Character: Player
Released: January 20, 1993
Type: Movie
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
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The Last Days of Chez Nous
Title: The Last Days of Chez Nous
Character: J.P.
Released: October 8, 1992
Type: Movie
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
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Prague
Title: Prague
Character: Josef
Released: May 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Alexander is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to scatter her ashes and track down a piece of film that contains the only existing footage of his family.
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Especially on Sunday
Title: Especially on Sunday
Character: Vittorio
Released: September 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed son and daughter-in-law; a German tourist tries to seduce a younger nurse. The fourth segment was cut in the US by its distributor Miramax.
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Title: Boulevard Bio
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 1991
Type: TV
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Children of Nature
Title: Children of Nature
Character: Engill
Released: August 1, 1991
Type: Movie
An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.
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Success
Title: Success
Character: Jacques Tüverlin
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
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Title: Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
Character: Tassilo
Released: February 17, 1991
Type: TV
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The Architecture of Doom
Title: The Architecture of Doom
Character: German narrator (voice)
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational film shows how Adolf Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror. Hitler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age of classical art and monumental architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic Aryans. Degenerated artists and inferior races had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of the Jews.
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Strapless
Title: Strapless
Character: Raymond Forbes
Released: May 14, 1989
Type: Movie
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
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Bankomatt
Title: Bankomatt
Character: Bruno
Released: February 13, 1989
Type: Movie
With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Bruno Ganz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing, but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.
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Title: Anwalt Abel
Character: Crusius
Released: September 4, 1988
Type: TV
Anwalt Abel is a German television film series, broadcast on ZDF between 1988 and 2002. 20 television films were produced, based on the detective novels of Fred Breinersdorfer.
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Love of a Woman
Title: Love of a Woman
Character: Franco Bassani
Released: July 8, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Title: The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Character: Ezra Pound
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
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Wings of Desire
Title: Wings of Desire
Character: Damiel
Released: September 23, 1987
Type: Movie
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
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Title: Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy
Character: Heinrich Beck
Released: November 12, 1986
Type: TV
Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.
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Fathers and Sons
Title: Fathers and Sons
Character: Heinrich Beck
Released: November 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.
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Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
Title: Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
Character: Narrator
Released: September 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Thomas Bernhard in Madrid.
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El río de oro
Title: El río de oro
Character: Peter
Released: February 27, 1986
Type: Movie
During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's uncle, a character who exerts a curious influence on the boys and a morbid and strange attraction the wife. Twelve years after 'Los viajes escolares' (1973), his first commercial feature film, the Madrid director Jaime Chávarri returns to the same estate in the province of Segovia to shoot a new family story, about his own plot and script. Like its predecessor, 'The Golden River' contains a strong autobiographical charge and is full of personal resonances. But this new history of family ties is narrated from a perspective in which adultery manifests itself openly. Endowed with a slow narrative rhythm, the film presents an international cast headed by Ángela Molina, Bruno Ganz, Francesca Annis and Stefan Gubser. The film also has the presence of a very young Juan Diego Botto, in one of his first appearances on the big screen.
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Private Resistance
Title: Private Resistance
Character: Gustav
Released: January 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Otto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. Otto's place soon becomes a microcosm of the city with its German invaders, Dutch collaborators and anti-fascist resistance groups.
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Hands Up!
Title: Hands Up!
Character: Self (1981 footage)
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
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System Without Shadow
Title: System Without Shadow
Character: Faber
Released: August 13, 1983
Type: Movie
Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women, Juliet and falls in love. Her friend convinces Faber to exploit his knowledge to rob a bank.
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Killer aus Florida
Title: Killer aus Florida
Released: August 13, 1983
Type: Movie
A professional killer has been assigned to kill a woman he doesn't know.
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In the White City
Title: In the White City
Character: Paul
Released: March 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
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Logik des Gefühls
Title: Logik des Gefühls
Released: October 14, 1982
Type: Movie
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Krieg und Frieden
Title: Krieg und Frieden
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: Movie
The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.
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Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti
Title: Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti
Character: Self
Released: June 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll
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Circle of Deceit
Title: Circle of Deceit
Character: Georg Laschen
Released: October 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
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The Inventor
Title: The Inventor
Character: Jakob Nüssli
Released: April 7, 1981
Type: Movie
In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti (Walo Luond), but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's eccentricities very well, and regard him as a crackpot. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread. Unfortunately for Jakob, the military have already come up with the same invention: the tank. The discovery finally breaks him, and he is quickly shuttled off to an asylum.
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Title: La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
Character: Count Perregaux
Released: February 26, 1981
Type: TV
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Lady of the Camelias
Title: Lady of the Camelias
Character: Count Perregaux
Released: February 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.
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La provinciale
Title: La provinciale
Character: Rémy Muller
Released: January 21, 1981
Type: Movie
In this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the City of Light to be quite different from what she'd imagined it to be, the girl manages to retain her dignity. It is only after she is thoroughly disillusioned by her experiences there that she returns to her country life.
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Polenta
Title: Polenta
Released: August 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Two men and a young girl meet at the end of the world
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5% de risque
Title: 5% de risque
Character: David
Released: July 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior government official, returning from an evening, has a car accident and his passenger dies in the accident. He puts the corpse in the driver's seat, but there is a witness. To eliminate this annoying witness, he calls on his David, a physicist, who wants to make it a perfect crime by quantifying the risk taken in each of its stages. And compressing it enough to make the execution of the most improbable.
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Lost and Found
Title: Lost and Found
Character: Werner
Released: April 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited with a childhood companion at the central train station in Milan. Throughout 24 hours there, she will experience her particular descent into hell.
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Title: Bayerischer Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: TV
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The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Title: The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Character: Self
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.
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Return to the Beloved
Title: Return to the Beloved
Character: Dr. Stephan Kern
Released: May 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man. He is prepared to go far to make it happen.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
Title: Nosferatu the Vampyre
Character: Jonathan Harker
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.
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Black and White Like Day and Night
Title: Black and White Like Day and Night
Character: Thomas Rosemund
Released: December 2, 1978
Type: Movie
A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top chess pro himself, which the West German media boast will prove the superiority of Germany and democracy. The jowly, white-faced Rosemund believes that the entire Red Communist bloc is out to stop him from vanquishing their atheist pretty boy, Stefan Koruga, to become the next Bobby Fischer and a symbol that capitalism is preferable to socialism.
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Knife in the Head
Title: Knife in the Head
Character: Hoffmann
Released: November 17, 1978
Type: Movie
One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.
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The Boys from Brazil
Title: The Boys from Brazil
Character: Professor Bruckner
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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The Left-Handed Woman
Title: The Left-Handed Woman
Character: Bruno
Released: October 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.
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The American Friend
Title: The American Friend
Character: Jonathan Zimmermann
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
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The Wild Duck
Title: The Wild Duck
Character: Gregers Werle
Released: September 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, who is married to Gina, a former maid of the Werle family. Hjalmar is unaware that Werle had an affair with Gina and that their 14-year-old daughter Hedwig is not his child. Gregers moves in with the Ekdals with the intention of allowing unsuspecting Hjalmar and his family to share in the "happiness of truth". Hedwig is entirely devoted to a wild duck, which lives on a pond outside their house. When Hjalmar learns the truth about his daughter, he wants to leave his family. Gregers advises Hedwig to kill the wild duck so that her father, impressed by this sacrifice, will return home. On the following day, Hedwig's birthday, she doesn't shoot the duck, but shoots herself instead.
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The Marquise of O
Title: The Marquise of O
Character: Der Graf
Released: May 19, 1976
Type: Movie
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
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Lumière
Title: Lumière
Character: Heinrich Grun
Released: March 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…
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Summer Guests
Title: Summer Guests
Character: Jakov Shalimov
Released: January 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.
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Die Bakchen
Title: Die Bakchen
Character: Pentheus
Released: December 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Austrian flmed staged production of Euripedes' The Bacchae, portraying a conflict between the deity Dionysus, son of Zeus, and his cousin Pentheus, ruler of Thebes
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Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
Title: Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
Character: Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
Released: November 25, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Ignoramus and the Madman
Title: The Ignoramus and the Madman
Released: July 22, 1972
Type: Movie
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Die Mutter
Title: Die Mutter
Released: February 8, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Bombadil
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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Eine große Familie
Title: Eine große Familie
Character: Heinz Hallasch
Released: March 10, 1970
Type: Movie
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Im Dickicht der Städte
Title: Im Dickicht der Städte
Character: George Garga
Released: December 21, 1968
Type: Movie
An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.
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Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
Title: Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
Character: Ulrich Braeker
Released: September 9, 1968
Type: Movie
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Der sanfte Lauf
Title: Der sanfte Lauf
Character: Bernhard Krahl
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical altercation with a right-wing extremist, he could no longer continue his engineering studies. Bernhard meets Johanna. She comes from a well-to-do family; her father is a real-estate developer and her brother is in the diplomatic service. Bernhard wants to share his roots with her, so the two go to Prague, where he lived until the end of the war. But her father disapproves of the trip to the Eastern bloc. When Bernhard finds out that he owes his chance to develop new technology, which led to his career advancement, to his girlfriend’s father, he is upset …
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Die Unberatenen
Title: Die Unberatenen
Released: October 25, 1966
Type: Movie
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Frühlings Erwachen
Title: Frühlings Erwachen
Character: Moritz Stiefel
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Der Spaßvogel
Title: Der Spaßvogel
Character: Johnny
Released: October 29, 1964
Type: Movie
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Title: Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1964
Type: TV
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Title: Zur Person
Character: Self
Released: April 10, 1963
Type: TV
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Chikita
Title: Chikita
Character: Jazzfan
Released: April 26, 1962
Type: Movie
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A Roof Over Your Head
Title: A Roof Over Your Head
Character: Fred Weber
Released: March 16, 1962
Type: Movie
A poor family with 6 kids that live in a ramshackle hut are suddenly offered a nice flat for cheap - with the landlord hoping they'll drive away their new neighbors whom he wants out of his building.
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Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
Title: Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
Character: Kammerdiener
Released: August 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Hugo Wiederkehr, as a dutiful bank employee, has to deal with all kinds of customers. Among other things, with the industrialist Meissen and his pretty daughter Christine, with whom he falls in love. However, it remains unmatched because it belongs to a different social class. He also works as a hobbyist and inventor, which also requires a lot of money. When his employer refuses to give him a loan because his father is in prison for fraud, he quits disappointed.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.