Helmut Berger

Helmut Berger

Born: May 29, 1944
Died: May 18, 2023
in Bad Ischl, Austria
Helmut Berger (born Helmut Steinberger, 29 May 1944) was an Austrian-born German film and television actor. He was most famous for his work with Luchino Visconti, particularly in his performance as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig, for which he received a special David di Donatello award.

He appeared primarily in European cinema, but also acted in films such as The Godfather Part III and Iron Cross.

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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Title: The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
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Fireflower: The Two Lives of Marisa Mell
Title: Fireflower: The Two Lives of Marisa Mell
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Who was Marisa Mell? The personae Marisa Mell and Marlies Theres Moitzi, the famous Graz actress’ real name, are juxtaposed in the documentary Feuerblume several companions, such as Christine Kaufmann, and her friend Erika Pluhar, remember the actress. The film is also an attempt to illuminate and question the role of women in the film business of the 1960s and 1980s from a contemporary gaze and feminist perspective, and against the backdrop of the MeToo movement.
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Ludwig: A Journey to the End of the Night
Title: Ludwig: A Journey to the End of the Night
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2022
Type: Movie
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The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Title: The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.
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Portae Infernales
Title: Portae Infernales
Character: Professor Schneider
Released: October 5, 2019
Type: Movie
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Liberté
Title: Liberté
Character: Duke of Walchen
Released: September 4, 2019
Type: Movie
1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the legendary Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign. Their mission is to export libertinage, a philosophy of enlightenment founded on the rejection of moral boundaries and authorities, but moreover to find a safe place to pursue their errant games, where the quest for pleasure no longer obeys laws other than those dictated by unfulfilled desires.
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Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
Title: Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo, filmmakers Sergio Garrone, Mariano Caiano, Rino Di Silvestro, Liliana Cavani, Bruno Mattei, and many more.
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Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me
Title: Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: Movie
My mother googles the film hero of her youth: Helmut Berger. She is shocked: only an addicted shadow of the former icon seems to be left. She decides to halt the obvious catastrophic decline of the once “most handsome man in the world”. As a consequence, this one-time god of the screen is suddenly sitting on my mother’s sofa in Nordsehl in Lower Saxony. And he stays put - for several months. While he trustingly rolls out his whole life before us, the dividing lines between film team, world star and family intermingle. This is a film about ageing, rising and falling - and about the fact that it is sometimes possible to regain an element of dignity in life.
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Timeless
Title: Timeless
Character: Professor Martin
Released: November 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Time travel comedy with an international cast: In 1932, Arnold disappears and suddenly finds himself in 2020. After many hilarious encounters he meets Konstantin, a womanizer and anarchist artist. They become roommates, but their free bohemian lifestyle ends suddenly: Arnold gets seduced by attractive Lizzy, while Konstantin starts regarding a political revolution as the ultimate piece of art...
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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Title: Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in opulence and idleness, but Luchino wanted a different destiny. This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian Dumais-Lvowski wanted to tell. Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life. This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life, dedicated to art; theater, opera, and cinema. This artistic work is also that of a committed man, who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party, and who resisted fascism.
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Helmut Berger, Actor
Title: Helmut Berger, Actor
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
An intimate portrait of the legendary actor and former Luchino Visconti "muse" Helmut Berger, who – after decades of movie stardom and jet set extravaganza – has settled for a more secluded and modest lifestyle in his hometown Salzburg, Austria.
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
Title: Fifty Shades of Erotica
Released: April 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fifty Shades of Erotica. Now, in the privacy of your own home and as a consenting adult, you can succumb to trailers from carnal classics like The Libertine, Story of O, Venus In Furs, Cruel Passion, Gwendoline, Education Anglaise, Dressage and many, many more as you enter the timeless world of fetishistic fantasy, deviant desires and pulsating pleasure! Submit yourself to the salacious sensations and cruel caresses of this mind-blowing collection of curated carnality, the rare and raunchy, re-mastered from the finest available materials. So, lie back, relax and prepare to enter the sensual world of Fifty Shades of Erotica...
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Saint Laurent
Title: Saint Laurent
Character: Yves Saint Laurent en 1989
Released: September 23, 2014
Type: Movie
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
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Luchino Visconti: The Quest for the Impossible
Title: Luchino Visconti: The Quest for the Impossible
Character: Self
Released: July 18, 2013
Type: Movie
A Dominique Maillet's documentary about Visconti in the set of "Conversation Piece".
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The Devil's Violinist
Title: The Devil's Violinist
Character: Lord Burghersh
Released: January 30, 2013
Type: Movie
The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.
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Murder Sisters
Title: Murder Sisters
Character: Dr. Schleier
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
After 20 years in prison, the former angel of death at Lainz hospital has been released, and she now works in the Prater amusement park, at a restaurant that specializes in roast knuckle of pork. Observing the guests and how they behave reawaken old emotions, and she poisons a pork knuckle to punish the happy people. The movie audience can use their remote control devices to decide who dies.
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Iron Cross
Title: Iron Cross
Character: Shrager / Vogler
Released: December 15, 2009
Type: Movie
Joseph, a retired New York police officer and Holocaust survivor, travels to Nuremberg to visit his son Ronnie years after turning his back on him for rejecting a promising career in the NYPD and marrying a local artist, Anna. No sooner does Joseph attempt to heal the rift with Ronnie then he swears that living in the apartment above, under the false name of Shrager, is the now aging SS Commander who slaughtered his entire family during World War II. With little hope of seeing him stand trial, Joseph talks Ronnie into exacting justice - and vengeance - and together they set out to kill him.
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Initiation
Title: Initiation
Character: Gustav Tritzinsky
Released: November 4, 2009
Type: Movie
16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.
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Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls
Title: Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls
Character: Jack / 00Y / Georg II
Released: October 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Advertising designer Joe is having financial trouble. His girlfriend Mary convinces him to accept a job from her aunt, Mrs. Devil. Joe's assignment: to develop an interactive computer game that introduces the new drug Peps'. Jack, a henchman of Mrs. Devil, is entrusted with overseeing this diabolical undertaking. In Joe's game, Ali - an alien - goes searching for Mozart and the drug, Peps' in Salzburg in the year 2026 with the help of the inventor Einstein and Frau Müller. Throughout his quest through this strange world, All is pursued by authorities and ticks off a drug dealer. As things progress, the realms of reality and computer fiction become so intertwined that Joe is on the verge of losing his mind. Suffering and passion take their toll... After all, a pact with the devil always has its price.
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Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection
Title: Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection
Character: Self (video 'Erotica')
Released: September 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Celebration: The Video Collection is a greatest videos DVD compilation by American singer-songwriter Madonna. Released by Warner Bros. Records on September 29, 2009, the release accompanied the greatest hits Celebration. The collection follows on from her other greatest videos compilations The Immaculate Collection (1990) and The Video Collection 93:99 (1999).
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Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Title: Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona.
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Title: Markus Lanz
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 2008
Type: TV
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
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Damals warst Du still
Title: Damals warst Du still
Character: Fabian Plessen
Released: May 26, 2005
Type: Movie
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Helmut Berger - Mein Leben
Title: Helmut Berger - Mein Leben
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Honey Baby
Title: Honey Baby
Character: Karl / Hades
Released: June 26, 2004
Type: Movie
An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the likes in Germany. Then he gets an offer to tour in East Europe. During his travels he gets insight and finds true love.
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Title: Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 2004
Type: TV
A batch of more or less known celebrities, ready to expose themselves to a large amount of viewers, have to spend about two weeks in an Australian jungle camp. Each day, the viewers vote for the celebrity they would like to face a difficult task and later vote for their favorite to become the “Queen” or “King of the Jungle”. Based on the British reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
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Best of Harald Schmidt - Respektlos und Rezeptfrei
Title: Best of Harald Schmidt - Respektlos und Rezeptfrei
Released: May 29, 2000
Type: Movie
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The Kiss (let's Play Dynasty)
Title: The Kiss (let's Play Dynasty)
Character: Alexis Carrington
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Written as a reading of a screenplay of the popular soap opera Dynasty, “The Kiss (let’s play Dynasty!)” stars Francesco Vezzoli and actor Helmut Berger, who appeared in several episodes as a conniving playboy. The artist gives the part of Alexis Carrington, made famous by Joan Collins, to Berger while he plays her son Steven, the first bisexual character in American television. After a heated argument about Steven’s love affairs and the extended family, the pair reconcile with a kiss. The act combines the fantasy of Oedipus with the artist’s deep interest in filmmaker Luchino Visconti, Berger’s mentor and romantic partner.
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Under the Palms
Title: Under the Palms
Character: David
Released: September 22, 1999
Type: Movie
This film was shot entirely in Rotterdam and shows the German couple David (Helmut Berger) and Tanya (Sheri Hagen) who are kept by Ludwig (Udo Kier), David's half-brother. Ludwig has some dubious business to do and so he is staying in the port for a while. David and Tanya have followed him and are staying in a hotel. They pass the time committing robberies. When David finds a photo of an attractive young man among the booty of a robbery, his life is turned upside down. He will have to close the door on a suffocating past.
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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 120 Days of Bottrop
Title: The 120 Days of Bottrop
Character: Self
Released: November 6, 1997
Type: Movie
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.
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Last Cut
Title: Last Cut
Character: Gabo Rey
Released: October 2, 1997
Type: Movie
A group of boys with a strong desire to escape from their hometown and discover the rest of the world. They escape on a boat called "The Last Cut". However, they find a man on board and they hire him as a sailor. The guys ignore the past of the man. The sailor is actually the former owner of the boat, and ten years earlier had allegedly killed his wife...
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Teo
Title: Teo
Character: Signor Mastrovito
Released: March 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Teo is a Somali boy living in Rome, where his mother works in service to a wealthy family. Friendly and outgoing, the young man immediately befriends Mimma when she moves with her family to the neighborhood. Years pass and Mimma begins to suffer the violent attentions of her stepfather. She tired that decided to run away together with Teo. But the two teenagers are tracked down and Teo is accused of the violence. Only with the help of his friends will he succeed in proving his innocence.
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The Shadow of the Pharaoh
Title: The Shadow of the Pharaoh
Released: January 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Under Pharaoh Amemphis III's reign, the most powerful in the kingdom, as vizier Burkis and a fanatic and xenophobic priest, will try to overthrow the Pharaoh. They will even murder the crown prince, Aker. But his twin brother will find a way to foil those fanatical plans.
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Title: Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1995
Type: TV
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
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L'Affaire Dreyfus
Title: L'Affaire Dreyfus
Character: Schwartzkoppen
Released: May 18, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Dreyfus is deported to Devil's Island. In 1896, the Army flushed out the real culprit. The truth broke out in 1898 thanks to the mobilization of intellectuals shaken by Zola's "J'accuse!"
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Title: alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 1994
Type: TV
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Ludwig 1881
Title: Ludwig 1881
Character: Ludwig II
Released: August 11, 1993
Type: Movie
In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef Kainz, to act out the scenes from a story which took place on the lake, at the actual locations.
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Boomtown
Title: Boomtown
Character: Richard Schwarzer
Released: February 14, 1993
Type: Movie
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Adelaide
Title: Adelaide
Character: Gilas
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: Movie
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Title: Boulevard Bio
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 1991
Type: TV
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The Godfather Part III
Title: The Godfather Part III
Character: Frederick Keinszig
Released: December 25, 1990
Type: Movie
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
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Title: I promessi sposi
Character: Egidio
Released: November 12, 1989
Type: TV
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Act of Revenge
Title: Act of Revenge
Character: Dr. Carlo Martora
Released: July 16, 1989
Type: Movie
A dying man gives his lawyer a tape that manipulates her into taking a posthumous revenge on those who made his life Hell.
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Faceless
Title: Faceless
Character: Dr. Frank Flamand
Released: June 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation reveals the horrifying secret behind the Doctor's miracle cures which is blood and organs taken from kidnapped young women. As Morgan's investigation closes witnesses are eliminated, one by one, each in a more horrible way.
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Skipper
Title: Skipper
Character: Hans
Released: June 10, 1987
Type: Movie
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Code Name: Emerald
Title: Code Name: Emerald
Character: Ernst Ritter
Released: September 7, 1985
Type: Movie
In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the details of the operation. When one them is captured by the Germans, a double agent must infiltrate occupied Paris, with the help of a high level German officer and the French resistance.
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Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Title: Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Character: Tinent Rodríguez Haro
Released: February 3, 1984
Type: Movie
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Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Title: Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Character: Tinent Rodríguez Haro
Released: December 6, 1983
Type: Movie
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Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Title: Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Character: Tinent Rodríguez Haro
Released: September 9, 1983
Type: Movie
In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country.
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Great Transport
Title: Great Transport
Character: Pukovnik Glassendorf
Released: July 4, 1983
Type: Movie
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
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Femmes
Title: Femmes
Character: Helmut
Released: June 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her
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Deadly Game
Title: Deadly Game
Character: Boris
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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Title: Dynasty
Character: Peter De Vilbis
Released: January 12, 1981
Type: TV
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
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Title: Ludwig
Character: Ludwig
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: TV
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My Wife is a Witch
Title: My Wife is a Witch
Character: Asmodeo
Released: December 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times.
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Title: Fantômas
Character: Fantomas
Released: May 3, 1980
Type: TV
Master criminal Fantomas kills an ambassador, has an affair with the dead man's wife, sneaks into a rich woman's house handing out vanishing-ink business cards, is arrested and sentenced to death but switches with an actor, who goes to the guillotine.
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Fatal Fix
Title: Fatal Fix
Character: Marco
Released: March 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.
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Le rose di Danzica
Title: Le rose di Danzica
Character: Baron Erich von Lehner
Released: November 23, 1979
Type: Movie
The plagued climate of the era is realized in the encounter and later in the friendship between the general Konrad Von Der Berg, who refused to command a ruthless suppression of opponents and from whose diary the story is drawn, and Eric Von Lehner Baron, who has orders to escort Von Der Berg to a prison camp.
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Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Return of the Saint
Character: Vidal
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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The Fifth Commandment
Title: The Fifth Commandment
Character: Bernhard Redder
Released: August 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A notorious gang of robbers threaten the Ruhr region of Germany in the 1920s.
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The Biggest Battle
Title: The Biggest Battle
Character: Lt. Kurt Zimmer
Released: February 7, 1978
Type: Movie
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
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The Mad Dog Killer
Title: The Mad Dog Killer
Character: Nanni Vitali
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts and defiles frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli. Meanwhile, rugged police inspector Giulio Santini is determined to bag the despicable Vitali.
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Title: Bitte umblättern
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 1977
Type: TV
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Victory at Entebbe
Title: Victory at Entebbe
Character: Wilfried Böse
Released: December 13, 1976
Type: Movie
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
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Salon Kitty
Title: Salon Kitty
Character: Helmut Wallenberg
Released: March 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
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The Romantic Englishwoman
Title: The Romantic Englishwoman
Character: Thomas
Released: June 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
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Order to Kill
Title: Order to Kill
Character: Clyde Hart
Released: April 22, 1975
Type: Movie
An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a homosexual aura.
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Conversation Piece
Title: Conversation Piece
Character: Konrad Huebel
Released: December 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
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Ash Wednesday
Title: Ash Wednesday
Character: Erich
Released: November 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark, and begins getting attention from young men. Her daughter tries to warn her that even though she has had the surgery it might be too late for her marriage, but she clings to the hope that Mark will come back once he sees her new look. Meanwhile, she must decide whether or not have an affair with a young man she's met.
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Reigen
Title: Reigen
Character: Der junge Herr Alfred
Released: October 25, 1973
Type: Movie
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
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La colonna infame
Title: La colonna infame
Character: Il capitano di giustizia Arconati
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
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Ludwig
Title: Ludwig
Character: Ludwig
Released: January 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
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The Voracious Ones
Title: The Voracious Ones
Character: Kosta
Released: January 11, 1973
Type: Movie
On the Côte d'Azur, a rich man wins a large sum of money playing at the casino. As he leaves the establishment, he is assaulted and knocked unconscious, his loot stolen. A few days later, the young croupier who had given him his winnings is involved in a motorcycle accident while avoiding a car. The investigation brings the two men together, but the millionaire's wife falls in love with the handsome young croupier. The plot begins...
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Bailey on Visconti
Title: Bailey on Visconti
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Bailey interviews Italian film director Luchino Visconti.
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The Bloodstained Butterfly
Title: The Bloodstained Butterfly
Character: Giorgio
Released: September 10, 1971
Type: Movie
When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye...
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Title: Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 1971
Type: TV
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Love Me Strangely
Title: Love Me Strangely
Character: Alain Revent
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Title: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Character: Alberto
Released: December 4, 1970
Type: Movie
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.
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Title: Treffpunkte
Character: Self
Released: May 26, 1970
Type: TV
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Dorian Gray
Title: Dorian Gray
Character: Dorian Gray
Released: April 24, 1970
Type: Movie
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral decay.
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The Damned
Title: The Damned
Character: Martin Von Essenbeck
Released: October 30, 1969
Type: Movie
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
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What Did Stalin Do to Women?
Title: What Did Stalin Do to Women?
Character: Aldo
Released: October 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Two young intellectuals of the PCI, former partisans, enter into a deep ideological crisis after the fall of Stalin. One will volunteer for Vietnam. the other will find in Ho Chi Minh a new myth to be inspired.
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The Young Tigers
Title: The Young Tigers
Character: Dario
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Five teenagers decide to steal money from someone who could not accuse them of the theft. Panini, a well-known stockbroker who uses to illeg ally pass money from Italy to Switzerland, is the perfect victim.
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The Witches
Title: The Witches
Character: Hotel Page (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Released: February 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.