Barbara Sukowa

Barbara Sukowa

Born: February 2, 1950
in Bremen, Germany
Barbara Sukowa (born 2 February 1950) is a German theatre and film actress. She is known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the film Rosa Luxemburg (1986). Her other film appearances include Lola (1981), Europa (1990), M. Butterfly (1993), and Hannah Arendt (2012).

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Title: Constellation
Character: Irena Lysenko
Released: February 21, 2024
Type: TV
When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.
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Enkel für Fortgeschrittene
Title: Enkel für Fortgeschrittene
Character: Philippa
Released: September 7, 2023
Type: Movie
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Air
Title: Air
Character: Kathy Dassler
Released: April 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
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Title: The Swarm
Character: Prof. Katherina Lehmann
Released: March 6, 2023
Type: TV
Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of scientists undertakes a terrifying mission to the depths of the Arctic Ocean to confront a deadly intelligent life force bent on human extinction.
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White Noise
Title: White Noise
Character: Sister Hermann Marie
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
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Dalíland
Title: Dalíland
Character: Gala Dalí
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
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Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein
Title: Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein
Character: Voice of Lilo Stein
Released: July 7, 2021
Type: Movie
The life of German photographer Fred Stein, whose street scenes from 1930s Paris and 1940s New York are well known. While caught up in the darkness of World War II, Fred Stein creates thousands of photographs.
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Two of Us
Title: Two of Us
Character: Nina Dorn
Released: February 12, 2020
Type: Movie
Nina and Madeleine have been sharing their lives and the landing between their two apartments for decades. After more than 20 years of loving in the shadows, Madeleine promises Nina she will tell her family the truth. It takes an unexpected event to show her the importance of living your truth.
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Granny Nanny
Title: Granny Nanny
Character: Philippa
Released: February 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Retirees Karin, Gerhard and Philippa are not in the mood for Nordic walking and seniors' courses at the university. When Philippa, who is living life to the full as Leonie's godmother, helps the two to unexpected grandparenthood, they suddenly have two "lively" god-grandchildren to look after, a huge bouncy castle standing in the garden and Lego bricks stuck to their feet.
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Title: Servant
Character: Aunt Josephine (voice)
Released: November 28, 2019
Type: TV
A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.
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Title: Servant
Character: Aunt Josephine
Released: November 28, 2019
Type: TV
A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.
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Rocca Changes the World
Title: Rocca Changes the World
Character: Dodo
Released: March 21, 2019
Type: Movie
11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.
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Gloria Bell
Title: Gloria Bell
Character: Melinda
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
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Native Son
Title: Native Son
Character: Peggy
Released: January 24, 2019
Type: Movie
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
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Atomic Blonde
Title: Atomic Blonde
Character: Coroner
Released: July 26, 2017
Type: Movie
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
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My Art
Title: My Art
Released: September 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent.
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Title: Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Character: Friderike Zweig
Released: June 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
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The Misplaced World
Title: The Misplaced World
Character: Caterina Fabiani / Evelyn Kromberger
Released: May 7, 2015
Type: Movie
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.
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Title: 12 Monkeys
Character: Katarina Jones
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: TV
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.
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Salomea's Nose
Title: Salomea's Nose
Character: Salomea (voice)
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Salomea remembers the day her beloved brothers, Max and Karl, disfigured her and themselves for life. The Day of Tragedy, is what their mother called it, and blamed it on the fate of her children. Though fate and tragedy have a different meaning by the end of her tale. A tragicomedy about sibling rivalry, disfigurement and the pain that binds us.
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The Sky is Blue
Title: The Sky is Blue
Character: Marquez
Released: March 15, 2014
Type: Movie
On vacation from Mexico, wealthy man-children Oscar and Arturo are causing havoc in New York City, partying like there’s no tomorrow. Their sense of entitlement is only outmatched by their unchecked stamina. Amidst the debauchery, the two get caught up in a Homeland security investigation that threatens to derail their amusement. This rambunctious comedy of mistaken identities and sexual promiscuity is a riot from start to finish.
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Hannah Arendt
Title: Hannah Arendt
Character: Hannah Arendt
Released: September 11, 2012
Type: Movie
HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.
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Nacht ohne Morgen
Title: Nacht ohne Morgen
Character: Katharina
Released: November 30, 2011
Type: Movie
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Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
Title: Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
Character: Hildegard von Bingen
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
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Veronika Decides to Die
Title: Veronika Decides to Die
Character: Mom
Released: May 16, 2009
Type: Movie
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
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Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
Title: Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
Character: Lena Brücker
Released: September 11, 2008
Type: Movie
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
Title: Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
Character: Self
Released: November 13, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.
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Title: Thadeusz
Character: self
Released: December 5, 2005
Type: TV
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Romance & Cigarettes
Title: Romance & Cigarettes
Character: Gracie
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval. Kitty kicks Nick out of the house, and he is forced to make some difficult decisions.
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The Other Woman
Title: The Other Woman
Character: Vera Glaubitz
Released: January 14, 2004
Type: Movie
A German couple travels, shortly after reunification, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter from an unknown woman.
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Barbara Sukowa on Lola
Title: Barbara Sukowa on Lola
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Actress Barbara Sukowa began her career in the German theater. In this 2003 interview she discusses her move into film under the direction of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In 1981, Sukowa starred in Fassbinder’s LOLA, as well as Margarethe von Trotta’s MARIANNE AND JULIANE. She has since worked with Lars von Trier, Michael Cimino, and David Cronenberg.
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A Birthday to Remember
Title: A Birthday to Remember
Character: Rosemarie
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of the Alps her family lives on the lonely farm “Hierankl”.
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Title: Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Character: Barbara Landau
Released: January 3, 2002
Type: TV
The renowned Viennese fashion designer Franz Steiniger learns that he has a fatal illness and then retires to Italy with his lover Barbara Landau. During the absence of the CEO, his unsuspecting wife Elisabeth and son Albert and daughter-in-law Alpha fight against the hostile takeover by a solvent American cheap-fashion empire.
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Title: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Character: Helen
Released: September 2, 2001
Type: Movie
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
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Urbania
Title: Urbania
Character: Clara - The Married Woman
Released: January 24, 2000
Type: Movie
A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Rachel Singer
Released: December 12, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Det. Tony Rossini investigates, along with Larry "Cash" Carter, a theatre director connected to Mrs. Sachs and her family.
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Cradle Will Rock
Title: Cradle Will Rock
Character: Sophie Silvano
Released: December 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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The Third Miracle
Title: The Third Miracle
Character: Helen O’Regan
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
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Nightworld: Lost Souls
Title: Nightworld: Lost Souls
Character: Sheila Robinson
Released: March 1, 1999
Type: Movie
As a family moves into their new country home, strange events occur, making them believe that their autistic daughter is somehow communicating with the victims of an unsolved murder 8 years earlier.
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Title: Beckmann
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1999
Type: TV
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
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The Port of Last Resort
Title: The Port of Last Resort
Character: herself
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.
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Office Killer
Title: Office Killer
Character: Virginia Wingate
Released: December 3, 1997
Type: Movie
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
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In the Name of Innocence
Title: In the Name of Innocence
Character: Anna Loeser
Released: October 11, 1997
Type: Movie
The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.
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Johnny Mnemonic
Title: Johnny Mnemonic
Character: Anna Kalmann
Released: May 26, 1995
Type: Movie
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
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M. Butterfly
Title: M. Butterfly
Character: Jeanne Gallimard
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
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Title: Colpo di coda
Character: Regina
Released: April 13, 1993
Type: TV
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Europa
Title: Europa
Character: Katharina Hartmann
Released: June 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.
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Voyager
Title: Voyager
Character: Hannah
Released: March 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.
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Title: DAS!
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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The African Woman
Title: The African Woman
Character: Martha
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A dying woman, who stole her best friend's lover, is convinced that a spell has been cast on her, so she orchestrates her former friend's return from a self-imposed exile in Africa in the hopes of breaking the spell.
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The Sicilian
Title: The Sicilian
Character: Camilla, Duchess of Crotone
Released: October 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
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Days to Remember
Title: Days to Remember
Character: Katharina
Released: February 27, 1987
Type: Movie
They meet in Yugoslavia. Katharina, daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant worker, has grown up in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is a confident, energetic career woman who has managed to work her way up to become a successful television journalist. She goes to visit her parent's country, to do a story about the children of immigrant workers in their home country. Although she says she doesn´t need a "home" any more, even she feels strange in her own country. Peter is a rather "untypical" sort of man: a dreamer, a thinker. He has given up his steady job as a composer for advertising films and is divorced. He goes to Jugoslavia to find something out about the past. He travels to the places where his father was stationed during the Second World War.
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Rosa Luxemburg
Title: Rosa Luxemburg
Character: Rosa Luxemburg
Released: April 10, 1986
Type: Movie
Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.
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Title: Space
Character: Liesl Kolff
Released: April 14, 1985
Type: TV
Space is a television mini-series. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982.
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Un dimanche de flics
Title: Un dimanche de flics
Character: Patricia
Released: October 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.
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Equator
Title: Equator
Character: Adele
Released: August 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.
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Deadly Game
Title: Deadly Game
Character: Daniela Mathiesen
Released: September 3, 1982
Type: Movie
A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party had “accidentally” shot and killed her first husband some time ago.
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Marianne and Juliane
Title: Marianne and Juliane
Character: Marianne
Released: September 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.
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Lola
Title: Lola
Character: Lola
Released: August 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
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Title: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Character: Mieze
Released: October 12, 1980
Type: TV
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
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Title: Bayerischer Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken
Released: November 1, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
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Heinrich Heine
Title: Heinrich Heine
Character: Amalie Friedländer
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Women in New York
Title: Women in New York
Character: Crystal Allen
Released: June 21, 1977
Type: Movie
The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the manicurist, the governess, the teacher, the tailor etc. – who work for them. Naturally, the wives themselves do not pursue careers, they depend on their husbands’ money. This is why most of their thoughts revolve around the husband. And because the husband only appears as “the” man, there is no man in this film. All women fight for the same man. Those who have one, want to keep him no matter what. And those who do not have one yet only have one goal: To take away somebody else’s husband.
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Title: Kölner Treff
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
Character: Viktoria Herbst
Released: January 17, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Babsi Meyer
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1964
Type: TV
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Klandestin WT
Title: Klandestin WT
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Richard, an artist, now lives in Tangier. With his help, the young Moroccan Malik manages to reach Europe, the destination of his dreams. That's where Mathilda, a conservative politician, hides him. Amina, Mathilda's assistant, who finally wants to leave her Moroccan roots behind, is called in as a "mediator" to resolve the problem.