Hans Zesch-Ballot

Hans Zesch-Ballot

Born: May 19, 1896
Died: September 1, 1972
in Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Movies for Hans Zesch-Ballot...

Title: Alpha Alpha
Character: Professor Schreiber
Released: May 3, 1972
Type: TV
Alpha Alpha was a 1972 German science fiction fantasy television series which aired on ZDF. It starred Karl Michael Vogler, Lilith Ungerer, Arthur Brauss and Horst Sachtleben. Each episode was only 25 minutes long, the series lasted only one season. Karl Michael Vogler played agent alpha of an unnamed secret organization, investigating mysteries, technical and psychic phenomena and even alien encounters. Alpha Alpha's tenor is comparable to the later X-Files drama television series.
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Hugo, the Woman Chaser
Title: Hugo, the Woman Chaser
Character: Eckehard Dingelfing
Released: April 24, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Lord Anthony Timberly
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
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Witness Out of Hell
Title: Witness Out of Hell
Character: Dr. Berger
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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Stine
Title: Stine
Character: Baron
Released: June 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Pauline Pittelkow, a widow in her prime, lives in Berlin with her daughter Olga and her younger, still unmarried sister Stine. No one takes offense at the fact that the righteous woman has had an older count as a lover for years. For an evening together, the count brings a baron friend, his nephew Waldemar von Haldern and the actress Wanda. Waldemar, raised in a cold home, and the smart, solid Stine develop a deep, earnest affection for each other. The wise-beyond-life Mrs. Pittelkow does not look kindly on this ill-mannered union. She thinks that a light love affair is acceptable, but deep feelings cause pain. Despite all tradition, Waldemar wants to take Stine as his wife. The resistance of his family and Pauline drives him to take a momentous step.
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Kein Freibrief für Mord
Title: Kein Freibrief für Mord
Character: Ernest Gowan
Released: March 9, 1966
Type: Movie
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Der Komödienstadel - Die Entwicklungshilfe
Title: Der Komödienstadel - Die Entwicklungshilfe
Character: Direktor Zistelmann
Released: May 23, 1964
Type: Movie
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Title: Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Chefarzt
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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Title: Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Pollmann
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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Title: Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Dr. Martin Nova
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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Title: Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Prokurist Borda
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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Secret of the Red Orchid
Title: Secret of the Red Orchid
Released: March 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
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Die Kuh
Title: Die Kuh
Character: Chefredakteur
Released: December 17, 1961
Type: Movie
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Der Flüchtling
Title: Der Flüchtling
Character: Grenzerchef
Released: November 17, 1961
Type: Movie
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Der Mann von drüben
Title: Der Mann von drüben
Character: Chefredakteur Peters
Released: April 26, 1961
Type: Movie
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Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: Rough, Kriminalkommissar
Released: September 15, 1960
Type: Movie
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Title: Der Andere
Character: Ralph Merson
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
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Der Andere
Title: Der Andere
Character: Ralph Merson
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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Eine schwere Entscheidung
Title: Eine schwere Entscheidung
Character: Herr Hinsch
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
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Doctor Crippen Lives
Title: Doctor Crippen Lives
Released: February 20, 1958
Type: Movie
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Rosenmontag
Title: Rosenmontag
Character: Oberstleutnant Wilhelm von Friese
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Title: The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Character: Generalleutnant Erich Hoepner
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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Das Streichholz unterm Bett
Title: Das Streichholz unterm Bett
Character: Jérome Vieuxtemps
Released: April 21, 1955
Type: Movie
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Ein Mann aus einer großen Stadt
Title: Ein Mann aus einer großen Stadt
Character: Schmidt
Released: February 7, 1954
Type: Movie
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Elephant Fury
Title: Elephant Fury
Character: A. R. Thiele
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
German big game hunter brings elephants back from Africa safely through enemy lines, but they go on a stampede in Berlin. Filming began during WWII in Germany, but production was stopped because story showed Third Reich police and military having problems coping with an elephant stampede; after the War, it got completed by its originator, and exported to the US with English dubbed, while removing all references to its 1940s German origins!
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Nights on the Road
Title: Nights on the Road
Character: Kriminalinspektor Busch
Released: January 14, 1952
Type: Movie
An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.
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Primanerinnen
Title: Primanerinnen
Character: Ursulas Vater
Released: November 30, 1951
Type: Movie
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Verführte Hände
Title: Verführte Hände
Character: Kommissar Meiners
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
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Neigungsehe
Title: Neigungsehe
Released: March 24, 1944
Type: Movie
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Familie Buchholz
Title: Familie Buchholz
Released: March 3, 1944
Type: Movie
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When the Young Wine Blossoms
Title: When the Young Wine Blossoms
Character: Dr.Hall
Released: September 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An interfering mother plans husbands for her three daughters as they come of marriageable age. However she pays no attention to her daughters own feeling until the eventual intervention of her husband manages to bring things to a happy conclusion.
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Der dunkle Tag
Title: Der dunkle Tag
Character: Dr. Fabricius
Released: February 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Wolf Burkhardt, who has acquired mining rights in Africa, returns home to get financing for his project. At the same time, he'd like to renew his youthful love for Georgia, but is eventually, and falsely, suspected of fraudulent activities and returns back to Africa. It is only with the passing of five years that he sees his beloved once more. In the interim, she has married a state's prosecutor and they have a daughter.
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Einmal der liebe Herrgott sein
Title: Einmal der liebe Herrgott sein
Character: Clusius - Theaterdirektor
Released: November 8, 1942
Type: Movie
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Attack on Baku
Title: Attack on Baku
Character: Baku's Police Minister Barakoff
Released: August 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates. (Description from Wikipedia)
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....reitet für Deutschland
Title: ....reitet für Deutschland
Character: Brigadekommandeur
Released: August 18, 1941
Type: Movie
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Hauptsache glücklich!
Title: Hauptsache glücklich!
Released: April 2, 1941
Type: Movie
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Zentrale Rio
Title: Zentrale Rio
Character: Kommissar Dossa
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.
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Der Polizeifunk meldet
Title: Der Polizeifunk meldet
Character: Benken, Kriminalkommissar
Released: July 24, 1939
Type: Movie
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Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit
Title: Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit
Character: Kriminalkommissar Schneidereit
Released: July 17, 1939
Type: Movie
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Drei wunderschöne Tage
Title: Drei wunderschöne Tage
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
This is essentially a "Kraft durch Freude" propaganda film though the organization is never mentioned. A company's three day outing might very well be the last because bankruptcy is just around the corner. The people on the trip have all their individual problems and wishes, too. This episodic film might sound quite promising considering the basic idea but its script is determinedly optimistic and leads everything and anything to a happy end. The dramatic parts are finished in a rather implausible way, the comedic are terribly predictable. There's a badly misjudged singing scene in the bus, some bavarian shtick, the Regensburger Domspatzen are singing in Augsburg and so on...
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Die Nacht der Entscheidung
Title: Die Nacht der Entscheidung
Character: Konsul Brückmann
Released: December 22, 1938
Type: Movie
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Fracht von Baltimore
Title: Fracht von Baltimore
Character: William Morris
Released: October 13, 1938
Type: Movie
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Nordlicht
Title: Nordlicht
Character: Staatsanwalt
Released: September 19, 1938
Type: Movie
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Narren im Schnee
Title: Narren im Schnee
Character: Vater Heinemann
Released: August 16, 1938
Type: Movie
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Homeland
Title: Homeland
Released: June 25, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.
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Wie einst im Mai
Title: Wie einst im Mai
Character: Baron von Uhlendorff
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Tiger of Eschnapur
Title: The Tiger of Eschnapur
Released: January 6, 1938
Type: Movie
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Talking About Jacqueline
Title: Talking About Jacqueline
Character: Leslie Waddington
Released: April 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Since her father died, rich and carefree Jacqueline Topelius makes magazine covers and causes social gossip with her flirtatious adventures around Europe, leaving a string of admirers behind without much concern. Her sister June, living in Paris, is all the contrary but they love each other just the same. Everything changes when Jacqueline meets Dr. Michael Thomas, who rejects her at first. Now she must choose, and also face the consequences her past life may have on their future together.
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Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser
Title: Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser
Character: Napoleon I.
Released: December 22, 1936
Type: Movie
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My Life Is at Stake
Title: My Life Is at Stake
Character: Mikhail Stepan
Released: December 5, 1936
Type: Movie
The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie star Christa (Kitty Jantzen), allegedly had an affair with singer Juan Navarro (Harry Hardt), who was found dead in front of Dr. Lessners house. Christa is arrested ...
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The Traitor
Title: The Traitor
Character: Dr. Wehner
Released: August 19, 1936
Type: Movie
This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.
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The Emperor of California
Title: The Emperor of California
Character: Gouverneur Alvaredo
Released: July 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.
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Winter in the Woods
Title: Winter in the Woods
Character: Dr. Fritz Heidecke
Released: July 13, 1936
Type: Movie
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The Czar's Courier
Title: The Czar's Courier
Character: Der Zar
Released: April 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.
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Schloß Vogelöd
Title: Schloß Vogelöd
Character: Johann, Graf von Safferstätt
Released: March 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Remake of the silent film of 1921: The lord of a castle disappears after the return of two feuding brothers from a noble family. Suspicion falls on the recently returned brothers.
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Der Vogelhändler
Title: Der Vogelhändler
Character: Der Kurfürst
Released: September 25, 1935
Type: Movie
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Ferien vom Ich
Title: Ferien vom Ich
Character: John Stone, Generalsekretär bei Steffenson
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
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A Man Wants to Get to Germany
Title: A Man Wants to Get to Germany
Character: English Naval Officer
Released: July 25, 1934
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
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...und es leuchtet die Pußta
Title: ...und es leuchtet die Pußta
Character: Thury
Released: February 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A 1934 film directed by Heinz Hille.
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The Lucky Top Hat
Title: The Lucky Top Hat
Character: Alfred
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Gottfried Jonathan, a small civil servant, lives as a lodger and is roommates with the blonde Käthe. Although she tries very hard, she can’t find a job and can no longer afford her rent of 40 marks. Jonathan secretly loves Käthe and decides to raise the necessary money for her.
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Cadets
Title: Cadets
Character: Oberleutnant von Brünning
Released: December 21, 1931
Type: Movie
The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
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Dolly is making a career
Title: Dolly is making a career
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.