Karl Markovics

Karl Markovics

Born: August 29, 1963
in Vienna, Austria
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Karl Markovics (born August 29, 1963) is an Austrian actor.

He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year. Prior to that, his most notable appearances have been in the highly-acclaimed Austrian (Viennese) black comedy Komm, süßer Tod (2001), his role as far-right terrorist Franz Fuchs in the 2007 TV movie Franz Fuchs - Ein Patriot, and in the police drama television series Inspector Rex. His character from Inspector Rex had his own spin-off series, Stockinger.

Markovics remains a frequent stage actor, and in April 2010 played the non-singing role of Samiel in Counterfeiters-director Ruzowitzky's first opera production, Der Freischütz at Vienna's Theater an der Wien.

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Movies for Karl Markovics...

Your Christmas or Mine 2
Title: Your Christmas or Mine 2
Character: Rudolf / Rudolf's Brother
Released: December 7, 2023
Type: Movie
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?!
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The Fox
Title: The Fox
Character: Josef Streitberger
Released: April 13, 2023
Type: Movie
At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger’s great-grandfather.
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Das Schweigen der Esel
Title: Das Schweigen der Esel
Character: Jonas Horak
Released: March 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Fake detective Jonas Horak is now in custody after being arrested by police officer Sophie Landner. A series of murders has Horak on edge, and he fears a serial killer is targeting him.
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What You Can See from Here
Title: What You Can See from Here
Character: Optiker
Released: December 29, 2022
Type: Movie
On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal again – an okapi. All the village knows this means someone is about to die. Selma’s granddaughter, 11-year-old Luise, and her best friend Martin look on as fears of being the victim of the prophecy throw the village into a frenzy of confusion. But when the premonition comes true, it is young Luise’s world that is suddenly turned upside down. Ten years on from the event that changed her life, Luise lives a quiet life working in a bookstore, until the arrival of an unexpected guest enables her to rediscover how powerful and life-giving love can be.
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A Rose in Winter
Title: A Rose in Winter
Character: Eugene Breitling
Released: October 5, 2020
Type: Movie
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
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Resistance
Title: Resistance
Character: Charles Mangel
Released: March 27, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
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The Final Problem
Title: The Final Problem
Character: Jonas Horak
Released: December 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole hotel knows about it. Among the guests is an inspector - or at least he convincingly claims to be - who, together with his assistant who has travelled with him, undertakes extensive investigations. Then even a second murder takes place!
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A Hidden Life
Title: A Hidden Life
Character: Mayor of St. Radegund
Released: December 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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How I Taught Myself to Be a Child
Title: How I Taught Myself to Be a Child
Character: Roman Silberstein
Released: March 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities. Based on the motives of the short story with the same name by André Heller.
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Shillings from Heaven
Title: Shillings from Heaven
Character: Michael Unterguggenberger
Released: December 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Tyrol, 1932: The world economic crisis is at its peak, radical political movements emerge. In a small Austrian community, the engine driver Michael Unterguggenberger accepts the mayor's office against better knowledge. But how is he supposed to save Wörgl? The power of despair and the support of his wife Rosa form the breeding ground for a daring experiment: Unterguggenberger wants to print his own money without further ado - so-called work confirmation notes. For this he not only has to convince the community of his city, but above all to rebel against the mighty banking.
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Title: Perfume
Character: Pedell
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: TV
When a singer is found murdered, with her scent glands excised from her body, detectives probe a group of friends who attended boarding school with her.
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Title: Beat
Character: Dr. Brandt
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: TV
Robert Schlag, nicknamed "Beat", is a Berlin club promoter who lives for the excesses of sex, drugs and the city nightlife. His connections to the underworld lead the police to use Beat to try and infiltrate a notorious organ smuggling ring.
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The Dark
Title: The Dark
Character: Josef Hofer
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: Movie
A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.
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Playmaker
Title: Playmaker
Character: Wirt
Released: April 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Ivo is a former pro footballer and jailbird with nothing to lose. He is a betting natural and his talent and background attract the interest of Dejan, the leader of a dangerous underworld family.
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Murer - Anatomy of a Trial
Title: Murer - Anatomy of a Trial
Character: Simon Wiesenthal
Released: March 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, although the evidence is overwhelming, the desire to close this obscure chapter of history seems to surpass the desire for justice.
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Title: Mária Terézia
Character: Eugen of Savoy
Released: December 27, 2017
Type: TV
The young Maria Theresia sees her life clearly in front of her: she will marry Franz Stephan of Lorraine and start a family of many with him. Even if Franz Stephan is not quite sure of his luck and her father, Emperor Charles VI, and his powerful advisor Prince Eugene of Savoy forge quite different plans for them. It looks quite as if the young archduchess must sacrifice her happiness to the cause of the state
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Title: Babylon Berlin
Character: Samuel Katelbach
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: TV
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
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Title: Dokumente, die die Welt bewegen
Character: Self
Released: April 18, 2017
Type: TV
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End of the Season
Title: End of the Season
Character: Dahlmann
Released: March 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Becker is a German ex-con trying to hold down a job as a night watchman, but a chance encounter with the man whose family Becker killed 18 years earlier sends his new life spiraling out of control.
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The King's Choice
Title: The King's Choice
Character: Curt Bräuer
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: Movie
On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.
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Fog in August
Title: Fog in August
Character: Christian Lossa
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: Movie
A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director, the lives of the child victims, and the struggles of the child protagonist. More than five thousand children died in the Nazi euthanasia program.
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The Devil's Mistress
Title: The Devil's Mistress
Character: Joseph Goebbels
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her passionate relationship with the sinister Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich.
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Me and Kaminski
Title: Me and Kaminski
Character: Twin
Released: September 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
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The Mystery of Snow Queen
Title: The Mystery of Snow Queen
Character: Andersen
Released: June 30, 2015
Type: Movie
A new interpretation of the most known and beloved fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen - "Snow Queen"
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Title: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character: Wolf
Released: February 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
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Mord in den Dünen
Title: Mord in den Dünen
Character: Dominik Hofer
Released: October 15, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Stöckl
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 2013
Type: TV
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Measuring the World
Title: Measuring the World
Character: Lehrer Büttner
Released: October 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
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Eastalgia
Title: Eastalgia
Character: Vladan
Released: October 23, 2012
Type: Movie
When Ruslana floods her Munich flat, Vladan, a former Boxer from Serbia, comes to her rescue. It is the night when Ruslana's son Bogdan should finally come from Kiev. He rather falls in love with the spoiled pop-starlet Maria, for whom he is working. Both, however, are depending on Maria's rich patron Jora. The same night in Belgrade Vladan's son Zoran meets Jelena. But she intends to leave her homeland the next day, forever. Three cities. Three Love-Stories. One night in Europe.
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Süskind
Title: Süskind
Character: Ferdinand Aus der Fünten
Released: January 19, 2012
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
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Black Brown White
Title: Black Brown White
Character: Jimmy
Released: November 3, 2011
Type: Movie
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Unknown
Title: Unknown
Character: Dr. Farge
Released: February 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
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Title: Erlesen
Character: self
Released: November 3, 2010
Type: TV
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Mahler on the Couch
Title: Mahler on the Couch
Character: Sigmund Freud
Released: June 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
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Kennedy's Brain
Title: Kennedy's Brain
Character: Mikael Rossberg
Released: April 3, 2010
Type: Movie
A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death.
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Henri 4
Title: Henri 4
Character: Coligny
Released: March 4, 2010
Type: Movie
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a little bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late 16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots were at war. Seemingly seeking peace, the French dowager queen, Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to have him marry her daughter, uniting the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry-now married-must use all his guile to both stay alive and maneuver for the throne. [Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival]
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Nanga Parbat
Title: Nanga Parbat
Character: Karl Maria Herrligkoffer
Released: January 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
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Die verrückte Welt der Ute Bock
Title: Die verrückte Welt der Ute Bock
Character: Fremdenpolizist
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Little Robbers
Title: Little Robbers
Character: Bank Director
Released: March 26, 2009
Type: Movie
Can you honestly swear that at least once in your life you have not thought that robbing a bank is a good idea? Especially, if you're five years old and that bank has just thrown your parents out of a brand new apartment, because your father has lost his job. Five year old Robby is no Zorro, but he'd like to be. His seven year old sister Louise thinks he's too childish, but can't resist the game of robbing a bank. Together they can pull off just about anything. Getting away with it is the hard part.
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Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
Title: Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
Character: Rolf (segment "Schieflage")
Released: February 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
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Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book
Title: Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book
Character: Alfred
Released: February 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". With the help of her new friend and the book, Lilly has the ability to time-travel and truly satisfy her adventure- lust!.
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M/S Gustloff
Title: M/S Gustloff
Character: Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri
Released: March 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
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Franz Fuchs – A Patriot
Title: Franz Fuchs – A Patriot
Character: Franz Fuchs
Released: October 2, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Counterfeiters
Title: The Counterfeiters
Character: Sorowitsch
Released: March 22, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
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Title: Lutter
Character: Waller
Released: February 24, 2007
Type: TV
Lutter is a German television series.
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Mein Nestroy
Title: Mein Nestroy
Character: Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
Released: January 13, 2007
Type: Movie
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Daniel Käfer - Die Schattenuhr
Title: Daniel Käfer - Die Schattenuhr
Character: Huber Schlömmer
Released: May 31, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Kronprinz Rudolf
Character: Bombelles
Released: April 30, 2006
Type: TV
Drama about the last ten years of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria.
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Title: Die ProSieben Märchenstunde
Character: Dr. Däumling
Released: March 20, 2006
Type: TV
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde is a television movie series that has been produced since 2006. It features characters that are exclusively portrayed by German and Austrian comedians and actors. The series is shot in Prague. The screenplays have - amongst others - been written by Tommy Krappweis, Erik Haffner and Norman Cöster who came up with the stories of Bernd das Brot. Additionally, they are directing and have cameo appearances. Many actors use their respective dialect. Die ProSieben Märchenstunde was nominated for the German Comedy Award in the category Best Comedy in 2006. It is also broadcast on Austrian television channel ORF, which is co-producing the series, airing the programme as Die ORF Märchenstunde.
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Die Schrift des Freundes
Title: Die Schrift des Freundes
Character: Jussuf
Released: October 12, 2005
Type: Movie
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Daniel Käfer - Die Villen der Frau Hürsch
Title: Daniel Käfer - Die Villen der Frau Hürsch
Character: Hubert Schlömmer
Released: May 31, 2005
Type: Movie
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Mein Mörder
Title: Mein Mörder
Character: Dr. Mannhart
Released: March 22, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall
Character: Dr. Stefan Auinger
Released: February 17, 2005
Type: TV
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall is an Austrian crime television series, first aired on the Austrian television channel "ORF eins" in 2005. The show also aired in Switzerland on "SF1", in Germany on RTL Crime and on the Franco-German TV network "arte" - dubbed in French. The sending-rights were sold to Slovenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukranie and Russia.
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Familie auf Bestellung
Title: Familie auf Bestellung
Character: Jürgen Platzer
Released: September 21, 2004
Type: Movie
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Dinner for Two
Title: Dinner for Two
Character: Georges Haider
Released: July 7, 2004
Type: Movie
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Zuckeroma
Title: Zuckeroma
Character: Anton Seeberg
Released: May 2, 2004
Type: Movie
The Seebergs are a happy family - until Melanie's mother moves in. The old lady's malice plunges the once sweet home into chaos and discord. When the "sugar granny" even puts her tolerant son-in-law to flight, Melanie resorts to extreme measures to get her perfect world back.
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Annas Heimkehr
Title: Annas Heimkehr
Character: Gregor Brunner
Released: November 12, 2003
Type: Movie
In WWII Munich, Anna works for a Nazi family as a nanny but secretly steals food and cigarettes and bring those to a Jewish family, who hides from the Nazis. One day, the family is discovered and only by chance can Anna save the family's only daughter, Franziska. Together they escape to Anna's native village where Anna tells everybody that Franziska is her daughter...
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Title: Kommissarin Lucas
Character: Heinrich Braun
Released: March 1, 2003
Type: TV
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Die Wasserfälle von Slunj
Title: Die Wasserfälle von Slunj
Character: Chwostik
Released: December 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Briton Robert Clayton's business flourished and when his son Donald reached the right age he became a partner. The Claytons have found irreplaceable help and a friend in the board of directors and authorized signatory Josef Chwostik. But gradually the authorized signatory is drawn into the private life of father and son. An orderly world - or so it seems. You make a career, maintain business relationships, win or lose a lover - and don't want to see the cracks and voids in the foundation of society.
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Andreas Hofer
Title: Andreas Hofer
Character: Erzherzog Karl
Released: June 29, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Edel & Starck
Character: Plastinator Lange
Released: February 4, 2002
Type: TV
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Love Letters - Liebe per Nachnahme
Title: Love Letters - Liebe per Nachnahme
Character: Karl Kunert
Released: November 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Postal worker Jenny finds and reads the letters that the little girl Lilly sent to her dead mother. Jenny decided to help Lilly and gets involved with her father Matthias.
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All the Queen's Men
Title: All the Queen's Men
Character: Hauptsturmführer
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: Movie
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
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Blumen für Polt
Title: Blumen für Polt
Character: Rudi Riebl
Released: September 27, 2001
Type: Movie
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Come, Sweet Death
Title: Come, Sweet Death
Character: Jäger
Released: December 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organizations.
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Title: Trautmann
Character: Ludwig „Vickerl“ Stedronsky
Released: December 21, 2000
Type: TV
Trautmann is an Austrian television series.
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Hirnschal gegen Hitler
Title: Hirnschal gegen Hitler
Character: Willi
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Lumpazivagabundus
Title: Lumpazivagabundus
Character: Zwirn
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Born in Absurdistan
Title: Born in Absurdistan
Character: Stefan Strohmayer
Released: November 12, 1999
Type: Movie
It all begins with a mistake, an error with serious consequences: in a hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immigrant workers are mixed up and go home with the wrong parents. By the time the mistake comes to light, it emerges that the Turkish family, including the baby, has been deported. The despairing Austrian couple begins a confusing odyssey through Turkey in order to track down the unsuspecting family to their native village. But they are not at all convinced that the babies have been mixed up. It is decided that the only way to know for sure is to have a blood test done. It is decided that the blood work is done in Vienna due to the better medical resources, but that will be far from simple. It will involve an illegal smuggling of the Turks across the Austrian border.
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All About Bob
Title: All About Bob
Character: Herr Mack
Released: June 24, 1999
Type: Movie
Bob, a sympathetic young man, keeps telling women what they want to hear to have a good time. Just as he is about to marry the daughter of a very wealthy banker, her father does a little research on his future son-in-law and finds out the truth about Bob. He forces Bob to marry his daughter and behave like the perfect husband, or else... Unfortunately, Bob meets "The One" just a few days before the wedding and had also told her what she wanted to hear, all of this unbeknownst to his future wife. Then right as he's trying to extricate himself from those dilemmas, two very protective Turkish brothers of one of his past affairs are after him to take revenge for taking her virginity!
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Die blaue Kanone
Title: Die blaue Kanone
Character: Carlo Carnetti
Released: April 4, 1999
Type: Movie
A crime comedy directed by Otto W. Retzer.
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Und alles wegen Mama
Title: Und alles wegen Mama
Character: Rudnik
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: Movie
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Das Callgirl
Title: Das Callgirl
Character: Professor Nadler
Released: February 3, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: MA 2412
Character: Herr Senatsrat
Released: December 31, 1998
Type: TV
MA 2412 is an Austrian television series.
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Drei Herren
Title: Drei Herren
Character: Herr Ivo
Released: November 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a heart attack. The three men quite naturally assume that they have reached their destination and find somewhere to stay in the nearest village.
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Hinterholz 8
Title: Hinterholz 8
Character: Jäger
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Herbert Krcal (Roland Düringer) and his wife Margit (Nina Proll) dream of owning a home. They prefer to do this in the "Blue Lagoon", a prefabricated house park in the south of Vienna, where they regularly go on pilgrimage with their son Philipp. Just as regularly, they have to recognize the bitter truth that they cannot actually afford the dream house they have visited.
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Trouville Beach
Title: Trouville Beach
Character: Nachtkellner
Released: May 7, 1998
Type: Movie
Young Piano teacher Lukas accidentally meets DJ Nathalie, the love of his life. After losing her telephone number, he starts looking for her. Finally, he finds her place and stays with friends of hers while she is abroad. Now Lukas falls in love with Alice, but does not want to admit it. And while his relationship with Alice is in doubt, Nathalie comes back home. Trouble had been breeding all along.
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Kreuzfeuer
Title: Kreuzfeuer
Character: Konrad
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Olivia - Ein Kinderschicksal bewegt die Welt
Title: Olivia - Ein Kinderschicksal bewegt die Welt
Character: Dr.Zim
Released: November 27, 1996
Type: Movie
When six year old Olivia is diagnosed with the Wilms tumor in her kidney, the doctors suggest an immediate operation and chemotherapy. Healing chances would be 95%, but when her parents learn how other children suffer from the procedure, they're terrified and refuse to expose their daughter to such a torture. Instead they consult faith healer Hamer, who claims to be able to heal cancer without drugs. When the youth welfare office attempts to force them to have Olivia medicated properly, the family flees from Germany. So Olivia's condition worsens, and a great press campaign is started to change the parent's mind...
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Title: Stockinger
Character: District Inspector Ernst Stockinger
Released: October 23, 1996
Type: TV
Stockinger is an Austrian-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997. The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama Inspector Rex, and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the Homicide division or Mordkommission in German. Stockinger leaves the series to return to Salzburg where his wife has inherited a dental practice from her late father . He is appointed a Bezirksinspektor at the Landes Gendarmerie, sharing an office with District Inspector Antonella Simoni. Unlike the members of the team in 'Rex', who appear to be self-directed and are seldom seen to answer to senior management, Stockinger reports to Dr Brunner, a philosophising burecratic senior police inspector. Stockinger is portrayed as a clumsy, almost Inspector Clouseau-like character, driving a clapped-out 1973 VW Variant, but single-minded when following up clues.
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Ein Anfang von etwas
Title: Ein Anfang von etwas
Character: Schurl
Released: February 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.
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Auf Teufel komm raus
Title: Auf Teufel komm raus
Character: Weghofer
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Leo Strobl, called "Turbo-Leo", is the fastest photographer around. When a tragedy takes place, he is the first one on his way to cover it. Then a young photographer shows up and a deadly race between the two commences.
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Title: Inspector Rex
Character: Stockinger
Released: November 10, 1994
Type: TV
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.
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Mother's Day
Title: Mother's Day
Character: Schaffner
Released: December 1, 1993
Type: Movie
48 hours in the life of the Neugebauer family. The May weekend with a small family celebration, which was planned as peaceful and contemplative, turns out to be a kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show in Vienna's municipal housing estate. Just like the other residents, the Neugebauers are preparing for the impending Mother's Day.
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Half the World
Title: Half the World
Character: Taxifahrer
Released: November 3, 1993
Type: Movie
The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture based on various languages and lifeforms has grown rampant. Everyone is looking for a way to survive.
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India
Title: India
Character: Kirchingerwirt
Released: October 7, 1993
Type: Movie
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.
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Das Grau des Himmels
Title: Das Grau des Himmels
Character: Concierge
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Two men and a young woman who recently met spend a night together at a secluded mountain inn. It soon turns out that one of the two men could be a dangerous psychopath who is wanted by the police. The woman is torn between her emotions and what she should actually believe. A long night takes its course, at the end of which there will be no winner.
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Der unverwüstliche Geist der heiligen Liebe
Title: Der unverwüstliche Geist der heiligen Liebe
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
"The title says everything."
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Title: Wolffs Revier
Character: Hydrotectures Boss
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: TV
Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
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Hund und Katz
Title: Hund und Katz
Character: Zeno
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Die Täuschung des Auges durch das Ohr
Title: Die Täuschung des Auges durch das Ohr
Released: December 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A documentary look behind the scenes at dubbing voices and sound effects. A scene is filmed and then copied three times with different sound effects and dialogues, thereby telling thre different stories.
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Himmel oder Wienerstadt
Title: Himmel oder Wienerstadt
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Four men on a roofl. One of them wants to jump off, while the others are singing a fare-the-well song.
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Title: Romy Award
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Blauer Panther – TV & Streaming Award
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: SOKO 5113
Character: Lorenz
Released: January 2, 1978
Type: TV
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Jens Baumann
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: Peter Jensch
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: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Blindgänger
Title: Blindgänger
Character: Viktor Knigge
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie