Werner Peters

Werner Peters

Born: July 7, 1918
Died: March 30, 1971
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Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971.

Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany.

His film career started with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's Der Untertan, produced in the young German Democratic Republic. Peters then worked in West-Germany, appearing mostly in supporting roles in popular movies. He also established himself in the European and international film industry by frequently playing sinister German or Nazi characters.

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Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Title: Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Character: Hans-Martin Lamparter (archive footage)
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Graf Luckner
Character: Otto Bräker
Released: February 20, 1973
Type: TV
Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman.
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Angels of Terror
Title: Angels of Terror
Character: William Baxter
Released: March 30, 1971
Type: Movie
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head.
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Hard Women
Title: Hard Women
Character: Heinz-Fritz Bottke
Released: April 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage parlor he meets industrialist wife Claire Imhoff, who knows more about the crime than she wants to admit.
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Title: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Character: Antique Dealer
Released: February 27, 1970
Type: Movie
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
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Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
Title: Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
Character: Hausach
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Rival gangs are fighting for control of Hamburg's notorious harbor district, spreading fear and terror in the process. In the streets, houses and clubs, the thriller shows the lives of a handful of people whose fates will be decided within 24 hours.
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Death Knocks Twice
Title: Death Knocks Twice
Character: Charly Hollmann
Released: November 25, 1969
Type: Movie
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
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Spion unter der Haube
Title: Spion unter der Haube
Character: Teddy Surkoff
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: Movie
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Zehn kleine Negerlein
Title: Zehn kleine Negerlein
Character: William Blore
Released: July 4, 1969
Type: Movie
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Istanbul Express
Title: Istanbul Express
Character: Dr. Lenz
Released: March 7, 1969
Type: Movie
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.
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Fragestunde
Title: Fragestunde
Character: Runge
Released: March 6, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Novellen aus dem wilden Westen
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: TV
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The Killer Likes Candy
Title: The Killer Likes Candy
Character: Guardino
Released: April 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late.
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg
Title: The Secret War of Harry Frigg
Character: Maj. von Steignitz
Released: February 29, 1968
Type: Movie
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...
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Assignment K
Title: Assignment K
Character: Kramer
Released: February 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
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Dead Run
Title: Dead Run
Character: Bardieff
Released: August 10, 1967
Type: Movie
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
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Title: Dem Täter auf der Spur
Character: Pierre Morestel
Released: July 15, 1967
Type: TV
Dem Täter auf der Spur is a German television series.
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Title: Dem Täter auf der Spur
Character: Charles Buffet
Released: July 15, 1967
Type: TV
Dem Täter auf der Spur is a German television series.
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Witness Out of Hell
Title: Witness Out of Hell
Character: Von Walden
Released: June 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years later, German war crimes prosecutors hope she will be their star witness. But can she stand up to the shame, the publicity, and the reliving of those experiences?
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Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
Title: Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
Character: Charlie Lee
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Corrupt Ones
Title: The Corrupt Ones
Character: Pinto
Released: January 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure when he accidentally acquires the key to its location, the Peking medallion.
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I Deal In Danger
Title: I Deal In Danger
Character: Elm
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Compilation of the show Blue Light.
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A Fine Madness
Title: A Fine Madness
Character: Dr. Freddie Vorbeck
Released: June 29, 1966
Type: Movie
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
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Title: Pater Brown
Character: Senior Mendozza
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: TV
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Battle of the Bulge
Title: Battle of the Bulge
Character: Gen. Kohler
Released: December 16, 1965
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
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The Wild Men of Kurdistan
Title: The Wild Men of Kurdistan
Character: Mütesselin
Released: October 6, 1965
Type: Movie
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
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Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
Title: Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
Character: Commander Stevens
Released: May 3, 1965
Type: Movie
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Black Eagle of Santa Fe
Title: Black Eagle of Santa Fe
Character: Morton
Released: March 11, 1965
Type: Movie
When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the undermanned fort to lend advice and support. He learns that the Comanches have been stirred up by local rancher Morton who wants to take control of the oil under the Indians' reservation.
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36 Hours
Title: 36 Hours
Character: Otto Schack
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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The Racetrack Murders
Title: The Racetrack Murders
Character: Mysteriöser Partygast
Released: November 7, 1964
Type: Movie
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
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Title: Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1964
Type: TV
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Three for a Robbery
Title: Three for a Robbery
Character: Peter Weimer
Released: August 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In agreement with Nicola, Mario and Hans, they prepare and carry out a robbery which, however, will have consequences for all of them.
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Dog Eat Dog!
Title: Dog Eat Dog!
Character: Jannis, Xenia's Butler
Released: June 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of demented residents.
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The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Title: The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Character: Spedding
Released: April 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
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The Phantom of Soho
Title: The Phantom of Soho
Character: Dr. Dalmar
Released: February 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
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The Secret of the Black Widow
Title: The Secret of the Black Widow
Character: William Osbourne
Released: November 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer and some police detectives investigate.
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Title: Hafenpolizei
Character: Frederick Offenbach
Released: October 7, 1963
Type: TV
Hafenpolizei is a German television series.
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Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
Title: Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
Character: Inspektor Vulpius
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: Movie
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
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The Black Abbot
Title: The Black Abbot
Character: Fabian Gilder
Released: July 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.
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The Endless Night
Title: The Endless Night
Character: Herbert
Released: May 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Berlin.
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Die weiße Spinne
Title: Die weiße Spinne
Character: Sergeant Meals
Released: April 5, 1963
Type: Movie
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a comic con convention and every single one of them was a white spider sitting on or nearby the body.
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Title: Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Kriminalkommissar Walther
Released: April 4, 1963
Type: TV
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.
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Das Feuerschiff
Title: Das Feuerschiff
Character: Trittel
Released: March 5, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Curse of the Yellow Snake
Title: The Curse of the Yellow Snake
Character: Stephan Narth
Released: February 22, 1963
Type: Movie
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
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Hypnosis
Title: Hypnosis
Character: Detective Superintendent
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Erik, the hypnotist Georg's assistant, is in love with Magda, Georg's fiancée, and secretly sends her roses every night. Chris, the guy delivering the flowers, who is also an amateur boxer down on his luck, takes advantage of the empty dressing room to steal the trio's bankroll, but he is caught by Georg, who is knocked out by Chris during a brief struggle.
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The Carpet of Horror
Title: The Carpet of Horror
Character: Crayton
Released: July 31, 1962
Type: Movie
An evil genius uses poison gas to avenge himself on his enemies.
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Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Title: Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Character: Kriminalkommissar Escherich
Released: July 18, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Door with Seven Locks
Title: The Door with Seven Locks
Character: Bertram Cody
Released: June 18, 1962
Type: Movie
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Title: The Counterfeit Traitor
Character: Bruno Ulrich
Released: April 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Title: The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Character: Martin Droste, aka Bobo the Clown
Released: March 30, 1962
Type: Movie
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
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Auf Wiedersehen
Title: Auf Wiedersehen
Character: Paul Blümel
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
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Operation Caviar
Title: Operation Caviar
Character: Zumbusch
Released: October 18, 1961
Type: Movie
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
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Blind Justice
Title: Blind Justice
Character: François Lacroix
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: Movie
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Denn das Weib ist schwach
Title: Denn das Weib ist schwach
Character: Vigulla
Released: August 16, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Title: The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Character: Böhmler
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Title: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Character: Obermüller
Released: December 15, 1960
Type: Movie
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Hauptmann - deine Sterne
Title: Hauptmann - deine Sterne
Character: Willi Sommer, Autogroßhändler
Released: October 13, 1960
Type: Movie
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The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Title: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Character: Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
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Ein Herz braucht Liebe
Title: Ein Herz braucht Liebe
Released: March 18, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Cat Shows Her Claws
Title: The Cat Shows Her Claws
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by the Germans, Dr. von Hollwitz brainwashed her to control her and use her as a counter-espionage. In the spring of 1944, her escape was faked so that she could resume contact with the Resistance. She has to scupper the mission of Charles, an engineer with the SNCF, to blow up a train loaded with V1s intended to power the launch pads set up on the French coast to bomb London. But at the last moment, La Chatte regains her lucidity.
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Punishment Battalion
Title: Punishment Battalion
Character: Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.
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Endstation Rote Laterne
Title: Endstation Rote Laterne
Character: Van laan
Released: February 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkmann wants to expose the slave trade, disguises herself as an available dancer.
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Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
Title: Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
Character: Alfred Kopetzsky
Released: November 27, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Black Chapel
Title: The Black Chapel
Character: Heinrich Himmler
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: Movie
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
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Roses for the Prosecutor
Title: Roses for the Prosecutor
Character: Otto Kugler
Released: September 24, 1959
Type: Movie
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
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Bobby Dodd intervenes
Title: Bobby Dodd intervenes
Character: Sydows Prokurist
Released: July 22, 1959
Type: Movie
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Court Martial
Title: Court Martial
Character: Brenner, Kriegsgerichtsrat
Released: April 1, 1959
Type: Movie
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tried and subsequently executed.
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Jons und Erdme
Title: Jons und Erdme
Character: Paul Schmidt
Released: March 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.
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The Scarlet Baroness
Title: The Scarlet Baroness
Released: February 20, 1959
Type: Movie
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons program.
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Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen
Title: Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen
Character: Reeder Papas Leonidas
Released: December 18, 1958
Type: Movie
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13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Title: 13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
Character: Oberlehrer Karsten
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Restless Night
Title: The Restless Night
Released: October 29, 1958
Type: Movie
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Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz
Title: Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz
Character: Kommissar Bergmann
Released: September 27, 1958
Type: Movie
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Lightning girls to the front
Title: Lightning girls to the front
Character: Stabsarzt im Wehrkreiskommando
Released: August 21, 1958
Type: Movie
During WWII The German 'Wehrmacht' is heavily under fire after the invasion of Normandy. There are also a lot of women participating in the war, working at the front line as couriers for the air force. In this war, everyday, they put their lives on the line.
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Liebe kann wie Gift sein
Title: Liebe kann wie Gift sein
Character: Kunsthändler Bogolla
Released: July 22, 1958
Type: Movie
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Grabenplatz 17
Title: Grabenplatz 17
Character: Eugen Machon, Buchmacher
Released: July 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
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Schmutziger Engel
Title: Schmutziger Engel
Character: Kalweit
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.
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Rosemary
Title: Rosemary
Character: Nakonski
Released: June 28, 1958
Type: Movie
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
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The Copper
Title: The Copper
Character: Mücke
Released: March 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age. The case is taken over by a new team, including Dennert's son Harry. Convinced that they have arrested the wrong person, Dennert begins investigating by himself with assistance from the criminal underworld.
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Lilli, a Girl From the Big City
Title: Lilli, a Girl From the Big City
Character: Pastor Klinker
Released: March 6, 1958
Type: Movie
The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: She shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Jiu-Jitsu while the guys fall to the ground with just one look from her! Now she is to attend a missionary convention in Sicily. Nothing special? The apparently routine job develops into a murder case...
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Visit from the zone
Title: Visit from the zone
Character: Kleinschmidt
Released: February 23, 1958
Type: Movie
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Escape from Sahara
Title: Escape from Sahara
Character: Brouillard
Released: January 21, 1958
Type: Movie
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Das Herz von St. Pauli
Title: Das Herz von St. Pauli
Character: Tanne
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
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The Devil Strikes at Night
Title: The Devil Strikes at Night
Character: Willi Keun
Released: September 19, 1957
Type: Movie
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.
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Spy for Germany
Title: Spy for Germany
Character: Gefängiswärter Jonny
Released: December 4, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Title: Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Character: Amerikanischer Anwalt
Released: September 26, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
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Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
Title: Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
Character: Manager Pannecke
Released: September 26, 1956
Type: Movie
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Das Sonntagskind
Title: Das Sonntagskind
Character: Mölfes
Released: September 11, 1956
Type: Movie
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Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Title: Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Character: Quadde
Released: October 6, 1955
Type: Movie
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
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Vor Gott und den Menschen
Title: Vor Gott und den Menschen
Character: Anton Mechala
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: Movie
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Star mit fremden Federn
Title: Star mit fremden Federn
Character: Franz Blume / Günther Kolmin
Released: September 8, 1955
Type: Movie
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Hotel Adlon
Title: Hotel Adlon
Character: Kulikowski
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
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Ein Polterabend
Title: Ein Polterabend
Character: Adolf Glasbrenner
Released: August 18, 1955
Type: Movie
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Title: The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Character: Oberstleutnant H.
Released: June 21, 1955
Type: Movie
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
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Sommerliebe
Title: Sommerliebe
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
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Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
Title: Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
Character: Schulze Bangebös
Released: April 6, 1955
Type: Movie
This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, set fire to a forest mill that the farmers used for processing their grain. Without their mill, the farmers must now rely on the millman's services. When the farmhand Anna uncovers the millman’s crimes, he swiftly detains her and a young miller, Jörg. The forest spirits have a different plan, however, and they free the young couple with the charge to rebuild the ruined forest mill and turn things around for the villagers.
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Vom Alex zum Eismeer
Title: Vom Alex zum Eismeer
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocean. The journey to the grounds takes 5,5 days. Day and night the nets are thrown out and pulled aboard again when they are full. After three weeks of hard work the trawler returns to its home port. Here the fish are loaded into refrigerator cars, and the sailors enjoy some days of wll-earned rest.
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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Title: Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Character: Hauptmann Quadde
Released: March 9, 1954
Type: Movie
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.
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The Story of Little Mook
Title: The Story of Little Mook
Character: Unterster Ramudschin
Released: December 23, 1953
Type: Movie
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much like them, but with better manners and a heap of problems. Having lost his father at early age, little Muck is expelled from home by his greedy relatives. He wanders off into the desert hoping to find the merchant who sells good fortune. Amidst the dunes of sand he comes across a small house owned by a wicked woman and her many cats. She wants to make Little Muck her servant, but he manages to escape by stealing a pair of magic shoes which enable him to run faster than any man in the country. From there he heads right into the next set of challenges...
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Die Unbesiegbaren
Title: Die Unbesiegbaren
Character: Köppke
Released: March 13, 1953
Type: Movie
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.
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Anna Susanna
Title: Anna Susanna
Character: Kuddel
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
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Karriere in Paris
Title: Karriere in Paris
Character: Der junge Taillefer
Released: January 25, 1952
Type: Movie
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The Kaiser's Lackey
Title: The Kaiser's Lackey
Character: Diederich Heßling
Released: August 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
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Modell Bianka
Title: Modell Bianka
Character: Hans Obermann
Released: June 14, 1951
Type: Movie
The friends Jochen and Gerd both work at the fashion boutique "Saxonia", which has only recently designed a new collection. Therefore, Jochen and Gerd are shocked when they meet two young ladies during their well-deserved holiday who are already dressed in two of the new pieces. And as if that was not enough, they pass the creations off as their own, even though they are employed at the competing company "Berolina". Naturally, the two men refuse to let the matter rest, although they do not actually want to raise a quarrel with the pretty ladies. After some turbulent entanglements they become aware of the foolishness of their squabbling and, eventually, the four of them present the disputed designs as a co-production at the fashion fair in Leipzig.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
Title: Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
Character: Hugo
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is a row with the new engineer Michel the evening after the first trip. He leaves - out of jealousy. Instead of him, Marianne takes three funny musicians with her who are looking for work. The trip to Hamburg on the Elbe initially ends on a sandbank, from which another barge, the "Petrel", frees them. Michel has now been hired there. After a few complications and pointless fights, because Marianne has long been in love with Michel, there is the well-deserved happy ending.
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The Beaver Coat
Title: The Beaver Coat
Character: Eberhard Schulz
Released: October 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All sorts of crooked deals contribute to the improvement of the daily menu and the increase of household funds. When everyone is searching for pensioner Krueger's missing beaverskin coat, Mother Wolffen and her family are calmly enjoying fresh roast venison.
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Rotation
Title: Rotation
Character: Udo Schulze
Released: September 16, 1949
Type: Movie
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
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Girls in Gingham
Title: Girls in Gingham
Character: Oberleutnant von der Lohe
Released: July 8, 1949
Type: Movie
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and family work in tandem to face the tragedies of war, economic hardship and death.
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The Blum Affair
Title: The Blum Affair
Character: Egon Konrad
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Title: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Released: December 11, 1947
Type: Movie
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.