Helmut Griem

Helmut Griem

Born: April 6, 1932
Died: November 19, 2004
in Hamburg, Germany
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Helmut Griem (born April 6, 1932 in Hamburg – November 19, 2004 in Munich) was a German actor.

Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich.

Among his many film and TV appearances (a quite memorable one being NBC's mini-series Peter the Great, portraying the formidable Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell), the Oscar-winning film Cabaret (1972), in which he played the rich "Baron Maximilian von Heune" is probably the best-known; other internationally-known performances include his work in The Damned, The McKenzie Break, and Ludwig. Griem starred in the television mini-series "The Devil's Lieutenant" directed by John Goldschmidt, adapted by Jack Rosenthal and based on the novel by M Fagyas, for Channel 4 and ZDF.

Despite his success in film, the theatre remained at the heart of Griem's work, and he performed in many classic roles from both the German and English-language repertoire. Later in his career Griem turned to theatre direction, including Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. Before his death, Griem had planned to direct the Botho Strauss play Die eine and die andere (This One and The Other).

Griem twice won the Bambi Award: in 1961 and in 1976.

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Liebe auf Bewährung
Title: Liebe auf Bewährung
Character: Albert Tieck
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Character: Maximilian Fox
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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Amokfahrt zum Pazifik
Title: Amokfahrt zum Pazifik
Character: Oscar
Released: January 4, 2001
Type: Movie
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Der Mörder in dir
Title: Der Mörder in dir
Character: Günther Lehmann
Released: December 7, 2000
Type: Movie
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Lourdes
Title: Lourdes
Character: Auguste La Fontaine
Released: May 29, 2000
Type: Movie
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
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Die Stunde des Löwen
Title: Die Stunde des Löwen
Character: Professor Winterfeld
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: SK Kölsch
Character: Willi Haller
Released: January 11, 1999
Type: TV
SK Kölsch is a German television series.
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Title: Der letzte Zeuge
Character: Karl Axer
Released: March 23, 1998
Type: TV
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Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
Title: Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
Character: Romulka
Released: May 3, 1997
Type: Movie
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The Lost Daughter
Title: The Lost Daughter
Character: Rolf Sutter
Released: March 11, 1997
Type: Movie
The rich Westerner embarks on a journey to find his daughter who vanished in Montreal and Zurich. The disappearance is linked to a sect that selects its followers for its heritage, education and physical beauty.
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Der gefälschte Sommer
Title: Der gefälschte Sommer
Character: Stefan Hansen
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Die Grube
Title: Die Grube
Character: Helmuth Groscurth
Released: October 28, 1995
Type: Movie
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Burning Heart
Title: Burning Heart
Character: Gustav Regler
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.
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Missus
Title: Missus
Character: Monsignor Kastner
Released: December 20, 1994
Type: Movie
Italian Made-for-TV film by Alberto Negrin.
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1945
Title: 1945
Character: Public prosecutor
Released: May 23, 1994
Type: Movie
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Verlassen sie bitte ihren Mann
Title: Verlassen sie bitte ihren Mann
Character: Pertussini
Released: September 29, 1993
Type: Movie
Henriette, the buoyant wife of a politician leaves her ambitious husband in the middle of an election campaign and begins a new life. The fact that, as the still legally married wife of a public figure, she takes a job as a model for lingerie just can't go well.
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Title: Charlemagne
Character: Widukind
Released: February 28, 1993
Type: TV
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.
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Title: Detective Extralarge
Released: November 12, 1991
Type: TV
Extralarge is a television series starring Bud Spencer, Michael Winslow and Philip Michael Thomas.
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Hard Days, Hard Nights
Title: Hard Days, Hard Nights
Character: Kronschneider
Released: August 16, 1990
Type: Movie
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Shooting Stars
Title: Shooting Stars
Character: Gutke
Released: May 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Drama set around the kidnapping of a footballer.
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
Title: The Plot to Kill Hitler
Character: Erwin Rommel
Released: January 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
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A proposito di quella strana ragazza
Title: A proposito di quella strana ragazza
Character: Ugo
Released: May 13, 1989
Type: Movie
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Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle
Title: Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle
Character: Dr. Heinrich Faust
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: Anwalt Abel
Character: Senftleben
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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The Second Victory
Title: The Second Victory
Character: Karl Fischer
Released: June 4, 1987
Type: Movie
After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
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Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
Title: Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
Character: Carl Gustav Carus
Released: October 22, 1986
Type: Movie
A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.
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Title: Peter the Great
Character: Alexander Menshikov
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: TV
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
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The Devil's Lieutenant
Title: The Devil's Lieutenant
Character: Judge Advocate Kunze
Released: January 11, 1984
Type: Movie
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Les Affinités électives
Title: Les Affinités électives
Character: Edouard Otto
Released: January 22, 1983
Type: Movie
On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childhood friend of Edouard's called the Captain, and despite Charlotte's ominous premonition, Ottilie, Charlotte's beautiful and orphaned niece...
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The Passerby
Title: The Passerby
Character: Michel Wiener
Released: April 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
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Title: The Original Trap
Character: Benno
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
A man wakes up in the hospital without remembering anything. He does not know who he is. But evidently, his identity is known by two killer of color who seek out without respite.
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The Magic Mountain
Title: The Magic Mountain
Character: James Tienappel
Released: February 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
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Versuchung
Title: Versuchung
Character: Ludwig
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Das Traumschiff
Character: Herbert Ernst
Released: November 22, 1981
Type: TV
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
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Sting in the Flesh
Title: Sting in the Flesh
Character: Hans
Released: May 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded car to Sardinia.
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Malou
Title: Malou
Released: March 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation reflected in the unusual destiny of an individual woman. And that of Hannah, an alert, independent, modern woman, seeking after freedom and her own identity, and trying in present-day Berlin to save her shaky marriage.
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Title: Ludwig
Character: Dürckheim
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: TV
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Put on Ice
Title: Put on Ice
Character: Brasch
Released: May 20, 1980
Type: Movie
In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher Brasch implicates secret service agent Körner and the government in the suicide of a young teen. As a result Brasch and the exposed Körner are fired.
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Landläufiger Tod
Title: Landläufiger Tod
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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The Hamburg Syndrome
Title: The Hamburg Syndrome
Character: Sebastian
Released: November 22, 1979
Type: Movie
When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Alois
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Breakthrough
Title: Breakthrough
Character: Major Stransky
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
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The Meetings of Anna
Title: The Meetings of Anna
Character: Heinrich Schneider
Released: October 8, 1978
Type: Movie
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.
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Black Sun
Title: Black Sun
Character: Willi Mohr
Released: September 9, 1978
Type: Movie
A German artist in Spain decides to revenge the death of two Nordic tourists and to defend the strikers in a bloody conflict.
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The Glass Cell
Title: The Glass Cell
Character: Phillip Braun
Released: April 6, 1978
Type: Movie
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
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Germany in Autumn
Title: Germany in Autumn
Character: TV-Redakteur
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Otto Schiendick
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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The Desert of the Tartars
Title: The Desert of the Tartars
Character: Lieutenant Simeon
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
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The Clown
Title: The Clown
Character: Hans Schnier
Released: January 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
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Es fängt ganz harmlos an
Title: Es fängt ganz harmlos an
Character: Dieter Schwarz
Released: September 29, 1975
Type: Movie
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Children of Rage
Title: Children of Rage
Character: Dr. David Shalom
Released: May 28, 1975
Type: Movie
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
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Ludwig
Title: Ludwig
Character: Dürckheim
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 Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Title: The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Character: Franz Vogelsang
Released: April 12, 1972
Type: Movie
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Cabaret
Title: Cabaret
Character: Maximilian von Heune
Released: February 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
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The McKenzie Break
Title: The McKenzie Break
Character: Kapitänleutnant Willi Schlueter
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A German U-Boat commander and 600 prisoners plan a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
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The Damned
Title: The Damned
Character: Aschenbach
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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Bel Ami
Title: Bel Ami
Character: Georges Duroy
Released: March 19, 1968
Type: Movie
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Blick von der Brücke
Title: Blick von der Brücke
Character: Rodolfo
Released: April 10, 1967
Type: Movie
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Liebe für Liebe
Title: Liebe für Liebe
Character: Valentine
Released: April 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Die Ballade von Peckham Rye
Title: Die Ballade von Peckham Rye
Character: Trevor Lomas
Released: March 7, 1966
Type: Movie
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Antigone
Title: Antigone
Character: Hämon
Released: September 5, 1965
Type: Movie
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Christinas Heimreise
Title: Christinas Heimreise
Character: Florindo
Released: March 25, 1965
Type: Movie
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Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien
Title: Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien
Character: Don Carlos
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
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Because, Because of a Woman
Title: Because, Because of a Woman
Character: Johann Muller
Released: August 17, 1963
Type: Movie
A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.
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East Zone, West Zone
Title: East Zone, West Zone
Character: Hans
Released: April 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Defeated Germany has just been divided into two zones ( Soviet and Allied ) when Hans, a young inhabitant of Berlin, decides to cross the demarcation line to join his family.
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Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
Title: Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
Character: Paul
Released: November 28, 1961
Type: Movie
A drama set on Faroe Islands by Frank Wisbar based on the novel by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen.
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Girl from Hong Kong
Title: Girl from Hong Kong
Character: Glenn Dierks
Released: August 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Unusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a Chinese woman while on leave in Hong Kong, only to meet with disapproval from his family and friends when the couple returns to Europe.
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Fabrik der Offiziere
Title: Fabrik der Offiziere
Character: Oberleutnant Krafft
Released: December 29, 1960
Type: Movie
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Zum Geburtstag
Title: Zum Geburtstag
Character: Gabe Darcy
Released: March 10, 1960
Type: Movie
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Der zerbrochene Krug
Title: Der zerbrochene Krug
Released: July 29, 1959
Type: Movie
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Die Brüder
Title: Die Brüder
Character: Jean Roland
Released: December 21, 1958
Type: Movie
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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.