Gottfried John

Gottfried John

Born: August 29, 1942
Died: September 1, 2014
in Berlin, Germany
Gottfried John (German: [ˈjoːn];[1] 29 August 1942 – 1 September 2014) was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in many of the filmmaker's projects between 1975 and his death in 1982, including Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun , and Berlin Alexanderplatz. His distinctive, gaunt appearance saw him he frequently cast as villains, and he is best known to audiences for his role as the corrupt General Arkady Orumov in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and for his comedic turn as Julius Caesar in Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar, the latter for which he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Movies for Gottfried John...

Emerald Green
Title: Emerald Green
Character: Dr. White (archive footage)
Released: July 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.
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A World Beyond
Title: A World Beyond
Character: Dr. Jan Kersebohm
Released: March 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Hans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the Second World war comes untied. In this paradise Hans finds an employment as municipal police, but his wife, always unsatisfied, turns into one addicted to the opium. One day Hans knows Helen, the daughter of an important businessman, with whom he falls in love almost to the instant. But Fridel is his major worry, and can´t leave her, though it will not be able to forget Helen either.
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Ruby Red
Title: Ruby Red
Character: Dr. White
Released: March 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Gwendolyn Shepherd is a normal 16-year-old, but her family holds a secret: A time-travel gene is expressed in the clan inherited, but not every member of the family is blessed with. Everyone is certain that Gwen's cousin Charlotte has the gene. However, someday Gwendolyn suddenly finds herself in London at the end of the 19th century and realizes that it is her, who was born a time traveler. While she is not very enthusiastic about it, she will do everything possible to solve the ancient mysteries of the red ruby.
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Die Löwin
Title: Die Löwin
Character: Jo
Released: January 2, 2012
Type: Movie
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Life Is Too Long
Title: Life Is Too Long
Character: Georg Maria Stahl
Released: August 26, 2010
Type: Movie
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Aghet
Title: Aghet
Character: Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: Movie
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.
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Rumpelstilzchen
Title: Rumpelstilzchen
Character: König Gustav
Released: December 26, 2009
Type: Movie
The king locks the miller’s daughter, Lisa, in a room full of straw to turn into gold in just one night. If she doesn’t succeed she would be executed.
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Black Flowers
Title: Black Flowers
Character: Curtis
Released: September 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Following the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking along Elena, the daughter of a Russian spy who died under strange circumstances. They settle in Barcelona and open a restaurant, to help them to forget about the past. Nevertheless, his former colleagues reappear alleging there are still some matters yet to be settled.
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John Rabe
Title: John Rabe
Character: Dr. Oskar Trautmann
Released: April 2, 2009
Type: Movie
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
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The Papal Council
Title: The Papal Council
Character: Paolo Naldini
Released: March 16, 2008
Type: Movie
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
Title: Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
Character: Self
Released: November 13, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.
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Flood
Title: Flood
Character: Arthur Moyes
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
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Das zweite Leben
Title: Das zweite Leben
Character: Robert Kreutzer
Released: April 25, 2007
Type: Movie
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A Pirate's Heart
Title: A Pirate's Heart
Character: Konrad von Wallenrod
Released: April 15, 2006
Type: Movie
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. Only thanks to the loyal monk Wigbold Klaus managed to survive the shock. A few years later Klaus Störtebeker finds his brother Jan and his long-time friend Elizabeth Pren in Hamburg. From her, he learns that she is expected to marry Simon von Wallenrod, whose father Klaus suspects of killing his parents. But the Pranks and the Wallenrods are rich and respected people, and Klaus is a poor man. And now he becomes a pirate...
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Title: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Character: Dr. Emmanuel Droz
Released: September 9, 2005
Type: Movie
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Title: Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Character: Henri, duc d'Armagnac
Released: January 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
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Cowgirl
Title: Cowgirl
Character: Hans Krahl
Released: December 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs into her childhood sweetheart Max at their 10-year class reunion. In order to save him from Hamburg's underworld, she turns - to her own surprise - from a plain country bumpkin into a tough lady.
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Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
Title: Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
Character: Aldo Caldini
Released: June 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Sylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed masquerades, she wages a merciless campaign of revenge. Anyone who gets too close will succumb to an insidious murder. The marriage swindler's preferred victims are men worth millions. Barbara Lahn and Til Wegner from the BKA are facing a huge challenge. They are supposed to collect evidence against the angel of death.
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Renzo e Lucia
Title: Renzo e Lucia
Character: Innominato
Released: January 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, including the Plague.
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Sams in Gefahr
Title: Sams in Gefahr
Character: School Inspector
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the household, which, however, is kidnapped shortly afterwards by the sports teacher because of his special skills.
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Augustus: The First Emperor
Title: Augustus: The First Emperor
Character: Cicero
Released: November 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
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Title: Augusto - Il primo imperatore
Character: Cicerone
Released: November 30, 2003
Type: TV
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Entrusted
Title: Entrusted
Character: Thomas von Gall - grandfather
Released: July 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
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Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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The Gathering Storm
Title: The Gathering Storm
Character: Friedrich von Schroder
Released: April 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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Der Solist - In eigener Sache
Title: Der Solist - In eigener Sache
Character: Martin Krohn
Released: April 20, 2002
Type: Movie
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Proof of Life
Title: Proof of Life
Character: Eric Kessler
Released: December 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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Title: Donna Leon
Character: Carmello La Capra
Released: October 12, 2000
Type: TV
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.
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Mary Magdalene
Title: Mary Magdalene
Character: Erode Antipa
Released: April 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene is overwhelmed by John's powerful message of the coming of the Messiah. Gazing into John's eyes before he dies, Mary is left with the certainty that her place is at the side of this great man, Jesus Christ.
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Balzac: A Life of Passion
Title: Balzac: A Life of Passion
Character: Count Hanska
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.
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Title: Balzac
Character: le comte Hanski
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: TV
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Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt
Title: Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt
Character: Max Beckmann
Released: June 26, 1999
Type: Movie
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Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
Title: Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
Character: Jules César
Released: February 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.
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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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Die Fremde in meiner Brust
Title: Die Fremde in meiner Brust
Character: Richard Keller
Released: October 14, 1998
Type: Movie
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Am I Beautiful?
Title: Am I Beautiful?
Character: Herbert
Released: September 17, 1998
Type: Movie
German people having trouble with love and identity.
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Title: Die Cleveren
Character: Dr. Brendel
Released: March 10, 1998
Type: TV
Die Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nation wide special unit of the German Bundeskriminalamt, dealing with serial offenders. The main characters are the profiler Dr. Dominik Born and a policewoman of the BKA, who co-ordinates the necessary steps to be taken by the local police authorities.
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Life, Love & Celluloid
Title: Life, Love & Celluloid
Character: Self
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Mein zweites Leben
Title: Mein zweites Leben
Character: Richard Keller
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Glatteis
Title: Glatteis
Character: Kurt Wallmann
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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La casa dove abitava Corinne
Title: La casa dove abitava Corinne
Character: Michele Wolf
Released: November 28, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of Doriana, a young lawyer, who moves to Rome, because a criminal she convicted has escaped prison and threatens to kill her. But the flat she takes in Rome doesn't bring her any luck either: In her new flat, unbeknownst to her, a call girl called Corinne has been stabbed to death almost a year ago, and the killer has never been caught. As soon as she lives there, she gets anonymous telephone calls and other hints to the murder. When she learns about the unsolved case, she starts to investigate by herself.
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Title: Millennium
Character: Josef Heim
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: TV
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
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Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle
Title: Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle
Character: Kommissar Beckmann
Released: September 21, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Ogre
Title: The Ogre
Character: Chief Forester
Released: September 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
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GoldenEye
Title: GoldenEye
Character: General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov
Released: November 16, 1995
Type: Movie
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Title: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Character: Herr Benjamenta
Released: August 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?
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Brüder auf Leben und Tod
Title: Brüder auf Leben und Tod
Character: Renato Calvi
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Die Zeit danach
Title: Die Zeit danach
Character: man from Klagenfurt
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
An economics expert from the West is contracted by a large firm to assist in the reorganization of a debt-ridden steel plant in the former Eastern Bloc. Believing himself to be eagerly awaited, he finds that his position has already been taken: Another man has already begun the job in his name, obviously with official approval. What first appears to be a strange mix-up soon turns into a threat to his existence when he discovers that not only his professional, but also his private identity has been assumed by the stranger.
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Deadly Web
Title: Deadly Web
Character: Kommissar Max Beckmann
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Ein letzter Wille
Title: Ein letzter Wille
Character: Paul Elling
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Abraham
Title: Abraham
Character: Eliezer
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.
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Das Sahara-Projekt
Title: Das Sahara-Projekt
Character: Collani
Released: October 24, 1993
Type: Movie
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Novalis - Die blaue Blume
Title: Novalis - Die blaue Blume
Character: Sophies Vater
Released: October 12, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: Colpo di coda
Character: Pierre
Released: April 13, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Space Rangers
Character: Erich Weiss
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
Space Rangers is an American futuristic science fiction drama. The short lived series aired on CBS in 1993. The show was created by Pen Densham and Trilogy Entertainment Group.
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Title: Wolffs Revier
Character: Johnny Reschke
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: TV
Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
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The Mistake
Title: The Mistake
Character: Jacob Alain
Released: March 19, 1992
Type: Movie
It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. Critics note that in this film, director Heiner Carow revisits the themes of his 1972 smash hit, The Legend of Paul and Paula, which became a cult film throughout Germany.
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Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne
Title: Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne
Character: Robert Dallburg
Released: December 19, 1991
Type: Movie
An eccentric pop singer from a dreary social background in a Munich suburb turns men's heads by the dozen and makes an unexpected career when a serious businessman asks for her hand in marriage. This could put her life in new order, but the practicing tantric, whose top priority is always to say yes, is only at the beginning of her complicated existence.
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Elfenbein
Title: Elfenbein
Character: Nicholas Messier
Released: June 23, 1991
Type: Movie
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Night of the Fox
Title: Night of the Fox
Character: Hofer
Released: November 27, 1990
Type: Movie
An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German EBoats. and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey Islands. The Allies hatch a plot to rescue him by sending a British SOE agent impersonating an SD officer.
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Title: Drehort Pfarrhaus
Character: Achim Hollweg
Released: May 24, 1990
Type: TV
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Wings of Fame
Title: Wings of Fame
Character: Zlatogorski
Released: March 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.
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Death Has A Bad Reputation
Title: Death Has A Bad Reputation
Character: Rodimstev
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.
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Title: Blaues Blut
Character: Herr Mannheim
Released: March 9, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Game, Set, and Match
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.
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Title: Game, Set, and Match
Character: Erich Stinnes
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.
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Schön war die Zeit
Title: Schön war die Zeit
Character: Franz Bauer
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Pattberg's Legacy
Title: Pattberg's Legacy
Character: Ulrich Vogtmann
Released: May 31, 1987
Type: Movie
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Title: Nachtcafé
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1987
Type: TV
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Der Fall Franza
Title: Der Fall Franza
Character: Captain
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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Of Pure Blood
Title: Of Pure Blood
Character: Paul Bergmann
Released: October 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of her job in NYC to investigate what happened to her son Mark (Browning) in Germany. Her persistence uncovers perplexing details that lead to the discovery of some very unsettling, and dark personal memories!
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Mata Hari
Title: Mata Hari
Character: Wolff
Released: September 5, 1985
Type: Movie
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.
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Otto - The Movie
Title: Otto - The Movie
Character: Sonnemann
Released: July 19, 1985
Type: Movie
East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.
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Die Mitläufer
Title: Die Mitläufer
Released: June 7, 1985
Type: Movie
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Verworrene Bilanzen
Title: Verworrene Bilanzen
Character: Karl M. Kronen
Released: May 22, 1985
Type: Movie
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Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
Title: Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
Character: Bartolomé de las Casas
Released: March 24, 1985
Type: Movie
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Chinese Boxes
Title: Chinese Boxes
Character: Zwemmer
Released: November 29, 1984
Type: Movie
An American in West Berlin finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue after his associate is killed and a diplomat's daughter is found dead in his room.
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Super
Title: Super
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sky shimmers dark gray.
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Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
Title: Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
Character: Petritschenko
Released: September 19, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Die Priwalowschen Millionen
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: A Case For Two
Character: Markus Meyer
Released: September 11, 1981
Type: TV
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
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Title: A Case For Two
Character: Hans Beckers
Released: September 11, 1981
Type: TV
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
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Lili Marleen
Title: Lili Marleen
Character: Aaron
Released: January 14, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
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Title: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Character: Reinhold Hoffmann
Released: October 12, 1980
Type: TV
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
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Title: Bayerischer Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: The Great Runaway
Character: Herr Adam
Released: September 30, 1979
Type: TV
A miniseries about a pair of teenagers living in a slum at the fringes of Berlin. Alcoholism, prostitution, and violence are just a few of the themes of the three movies.
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Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie
Title: Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie
Character: Clemens Koch
Released: May 13, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Title: The Marriage of Maria Braun
Character: Willi Klenze
Released: March 23, 1979
Type: Movie
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
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Die Ratten
Title: Die Ratten
Character: Bruno Mechelke
Released: February 18, 1979
Type: Movie
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Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
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Wo die Liebe hinfällt
Title: Wo die Liebe hinfällt
Released: January 28, 1979
Type: Movie
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In a Year with 13 Moons
Title: In a Year with 13 Moons
Character: Anton Saitz
Released: November 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
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1982: Gutenbach
Title: 1982: Gutenbach
Character: Peter Kessel
Released: October 21, 1978
Type: Movie
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Despair
Title: Despair
Character: Perebrodov
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
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Marija
Title: Marija
Character: Filipp
Released: September 17, 1978
Type: Movie
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Fedora
Title: Fedora
Character: Kritos
Released: June 29, 1978
Type: Movie
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
Title: The Stationmaster’s Wife
Character: Finkelberger
Released: July 31, 1977
Type: Movie
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
Title: The Stationmaster’s Wife
Released: July 31, 1977
Type: Movie
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Title: Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Character: Jörg Niemeyer
Released: July 1, 1975
Type: Movie
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
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Title: III nach neun
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Derrick
Character: Krummbach
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: World on a Wire
Character: Einstein
Released: October 14, 1973
Type: TV
Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.
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Title: Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Character: Jochen Epp
Released: October 29, 1972
Type: TV
Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.
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Carlos
Title: Carlos
Character: Carlos
Released: November 20, 1971
Type: Movie
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poors in his silver mines. But Carlos' indecision and his love for his young and beautiful stepmother leads into a failure.
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Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
Title: Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
Character: Jaider
Released: July 9, 1971
Type: Movie
When Jaider has to illegally poach in order to feed the citizens of a poor Alpine town, he gets into a blood-soaked conflict with the German authorities.
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Hellwig
Released: June 27, 1971
Type: TV
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Harry Mucher
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Werner Stimmel
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Title: Jörg Preda berichtet
Character: Rolf
Released: January 10, 1966
Type: TV
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Café Oriental
Title: Café Oriental
Released: February 16, 1962
Type: Movie