Erwin Leder

Erwin Leder

Born: July 30, 1951
in St. Pölten, Austria
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Erwin Alois Robert Leder (born 30 July 1951 in St. Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria) is an Austrian actor. He is best known for his role as Chief Mechanic Johann in Das Boot, a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen about a mission of one World War II U-boat and its crew.

In 2003, Leder appeared as the lycan scientist Singe in the gothic horror/action film Underworld. He reprised his role in the sequel in a brief cameo as a corpse.

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Rock ‘N’ Roll Ringo
Title: Rock ‘N’ Roll Ringo
Character: Father Petrus
Released: September 5, 2024
Type: Movie
Scaffolder Ringo loses his job. To fulfill the greatest wish of his deaf daughter Mia, he starts working at the local fair and accepts to be a funfair boxer.
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Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
Title: Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
Character: Self - Das Boot Actor
Released: January 10, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.
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At the Back of the Screen
Title: At the Back of the Screen
Released: April 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A documentary about Malga Kubiak and her team. It's not only a movie about her, but also about the situation of independent, lesbian and queer cinema in Poland, Europe and all over the world. Malga is a director, activist, mother, daughter and grandmother. Her family is constantly engaged in her work. She made over 40 movies about such queer icons as Pasolini, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, F.G. Lorca, Andy Warhol or Lizzie Siddal, the muse of Pre-Raphaelites.
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Portae Infernales
Title: Portae Infernales
Character: Inspector Faber
Released: October 5, 2019
Type: Movie
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Goliath96
Title: Goliath96
Character: Straßenprediger
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
In her desperate longing for sympathy and understanding, a single mother tries to get back in touch with her grown-up son, who locked himself up in his room since two years. She doesn't sense that she runs the risk of loosing him forever.
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Ungehorsam
Title: Ungehorsam
Character: Monsignore
Released: December 6, 2016
Type: Movie
"Disobedience" - tells of the loss of illusions and utopias. Growing up in a Viennese family, marked by the father's vivacious dominance and public fame as editor-in-chief of the 'press', as well as by the mother's puzzling grief for husband and children, Terese seeks another life and joins the commune of action artist Otto Mühl. However, the initially seemingly free love and life experiment fails increasingly.
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The Chronicles of Melanie
Title: The Chronicles of Melanie
Character: Jakob
Released: November 1, 2016
Type: Movie
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Aleksandr, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.
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The White Snake
Title: The White Snake
Character: Friedrich
Released: December 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Endres wants to be more than just a farmer's son. He wants to be able to read and write, wear clothes without holes and sleep in a proper bed. He goes to the court of the King, who is said to be the cleverest man in the land. Endres becomes his personal servant and every day after dinner brings him a mysterious golden bowl. No-one knows what the bowl contains, not even Princess Leonora. When the queen's ring goes missing, suspicion falls on Endres.
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Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe
Title: Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe
Character: himself
Released: October 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Depicts Carl Andersens uncommon art and life. Born in Vienna, the capital of Austria in 1958, he participated in the development of Viennas subculture through his bar called "Fun Factory". It was a unique place to have some cheap drinks, see strange movies and join concerts in the cellar. He also influenced the Viennese film community by bringing art house and underground movies, like "Liquid Sky" (1982), or "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1973) in uncut versions to the theaters. As he was a film maniac he started to direct movies by himself. His first two movies "I was a Teenage Zabbadoing" (1988) and "Mondo Weirdo - a Trip to Paranoia Paradise"(1990) became underground classics. In the late 80's Andersen went to Berlin. There he directed and produced more than 10 No-Budget movies. Diffic ult relationships and the process of filmmaking itself were his main themes. He got lost in alcoholism and committed suicide in August 2012.
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PPPasolini
Title: PPPasolini
Character: Pasolini
Released: April 23, 2015
Type: Movie
This film shows the last days of Pasolini’s life that he spent in Stockholm. He was invited to visit the Institute of Culture and give an interview in the Swedish Film Institute. Together with his boyfriend Ninetto they stayed in Diplomat Hotel. Where he was murdered at 1.30 a.m. on 2nd November; 1975.
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Voices
Title: Voices
Character: director of orchestra
Released: November 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Opera countertenor Alex Gottfarb is not alone – his inner self is crowded. Some other personae live within him – shy Alexander, sexy Sandra, teenager Lex and a seven-year-old prodigy Xandi. Each one of them has different ideas of what life should look like and yet they are all extremely dependent on each other. With the help of Helene, who loves him, Alex succeeds to get in touch with his cohabitants. Cascades of turbulent events and tragicomic misunderstandings accompany Alex’ struggle for identity, love and freedom.
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The Burrow
Title: The Burrow
Character: Penner
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
KAFKA'S THE BURROW tells the story of a man's "metamorphosis" (as Kafka would put it) in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man (Axel Prahl), who has seemingly achieved everything, ensconces himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. But no matter how hard he tries to keep the outside world at a distance, he gets more and more entangled in his own web of fear and paranoia: those outside know he is there, they want him, they want his wealth, and they are inevitably going to get him ...
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Title: CopStories
Character: Professor Wagenstein
Released: March 5, 2013
Type: TV
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The Legacy of the Siren
Title: The Legacy of the Siren
Character: Diener Hettenheim
Released: November 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Michel must go to dangerous lengths to save his wife and newborn child from the intrigues of the king’s mistress in this historical drama.
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Der Atem des Himmels
Title: Der Atem des Himmels
Character: Ernas Vater
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: Movie
The Austrian musician and author Reinhold Bilgeri produced and directed the film, which is based on his 2005 historic novel of the same name. The events in the movie are based on the worst avalanche catastrophe in Alpine history.
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Da wo wir zu Hause sind
Title: Da wo wir zu Hause sind
Character: Postler Louis
Released: November 10, 2009
Type: Movie
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Da wo die Freundschaft zählt
Title: Da wo die Freundschaft zählt
Character: Postler Lois
Released: November 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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Trick or Treaters
Title: Trick or Treaters
Character: Kutscher (voice)
Released: October 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Three robbers pilfer from the countryside until they are charmed by a young orphan girl.
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Da wo es noch Treue gibt
Title: Da wo es noch Treue gibt
Character: Postler Lois
Released: March 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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Gay Hell at Dante Café
Title: Gay Hell at Dante Café
Character: Talking Vampire
Released: January 31, 2007
Type: Movie
A collage of contemporary queer culture in Poland. Rough, iconoclastic, shocking work and staged excerpts picking up the issue of freedom of expression and sexuality.
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Da wo das Glück beginnt
Title: Da wo das Glück beginnt
Character: Postler Lois
Released: August 8, 2006
Type: Movie
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Klimt
Title: Klimt
Character: Male Nurse
Released: March 3, 2006
Type: Movie
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Title: 8 x 45
Character: Igor
Released: January 12, 2006
Type: TV
8 x 45 is an Austrian television series.
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Title: Vienna Crime Squad
Character: Josef Birkmayer
Released: October 11, 2005
Type: TV
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
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Happy End.
Title: Happy End.
Character: Vater
Released: June 11, 2005
Type: Movie
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Locked Up
Title: Locked Up
Character: Tankwart
Released: May 26, 2005
Type: Movie
In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?
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Underworld
Title: Underworld
Character: Singe
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
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Title: Blond: Eva Blond!
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Eva Blond is a German television series.
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Der Wannsee-Mörder
Title: Der Wannsee-Mörder
Character: Kalle
Released: February 19, 2002
Type: Movie
Johanna, a beautiful brunette, comes back to her father's house after accomplishing a training course in a car factory in Turin. At home, she reads a note her father had ensconced in the welcome bouquet of flowers: «You're back at last.» Then, she meets her best friend, Jasmin, and they go together to see their group of friends # all have grown up together by the lake. It comes up they have all received a message similar to her own. Next evening, these young persons are having a good time, dancing, flirting, drinking a lot, as a retarded person watches them, and evokes a memory of a similar evening years ago... Then, people start dying around, and in the peaceful lake that hides mysteries they share.
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Title: Drehkreuz Airport
Released: January 10, 2001
Type: TV
Drehkreuz Airport is a German television series.
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White Cherries
Title: White Cherries
Character: Orlando
Released: October 23, 2000
Type: Movie
Honest cop Rudi is a new member of a police unit commanded by his brother-in-law Otto which deals with foreigners. Rudi falls in love with Alena, a young Czech living illegally in Austria
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Schande
Title: Schande
Released: April 7, 1999
Type: Movie
TV drama about a young girl who is sexually abused inside her own family
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Happy End
Title: Happy End
Character: Sargtischler
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Happy End is a black comedy by Jochen Alexander Freydank.
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Title: HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
Character: Novak
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: TV
HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin is a German television series.
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Title: Tierarzt Dr. Engel
Released: January 20, 1998
Type: TV
Tierarzt Dr. Engel is a German television series.
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Title: Tierarzt Dr. Engel
Character: Toni Bertsch
Released: January 20, 1998
Type: TV
Tierarzt Dr. Engel is a German television series.
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Debt of Love
Title: Debt of Love
Character: German Policeman
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible. However, she quickly realizes that in fact, she hardly knew her father, and tries to trace the various stages and encounters that made up his life. Much later, she realizes that the search for the identity of her father has actually become a search of her own identity – though still she believes she can get closer to her father after his death.
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The Unfish
Title: The Unfish
Character: Gendarm Hermann
Released: September 20, 1997
Type: Movie
Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village.
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Title: The German Bronx
Character: Kolja
Released: September 9, 1997
Type: TV
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Der Wald
Title: Der Wald
Character: Stuppacher
Released: April 27, 1997
Type: Movie
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Die Superbullen
Title: Die Superbullen
Character: Guftler
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A crime comedy directed by Otto W. Retzer.
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Title: OP ruft Dr. Bruckner
Character: Dr. Arno Seibt
Released: November 14, 1996
Type: TV
OP ruft Dr. Bruckner is a television series that airs in Germany.
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Title: Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Character: Django
Released: March 12, 1996
Type: TV
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Title: Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Character: Harro
Released: March 12, 1996
Type: TV
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Title: Mona M. - Mit den Waffen einer Frau
Character: Norbert Höfel
Released: January 15, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Die Straßen von Berlin
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: TV
Die Straßen von Berlin is a German television series.
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Internationale Zone
Title: Internationale Zone
Released: May 23, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: Inspector Rex
Character: Museumsführer
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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Title: Inspector Rex
Character: Patient
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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1945
Title: 1945
Character: Priest
Released: May 23, 1994
Type: Movie
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The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave
Title: The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave
Character: Rudolfo Conté
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
What are the Knickerbocker Band doing at midnight in the cemetery? Is a spirit really speaking form the sinister grave? Why does Melissa, daughter of the dead sorcerer, receive threats? Has it all to do with the mysterious legacy of the magician?
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So I Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight
Title: So I Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight
Character: o.A.
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
In Garcia Lorca's mother tongue, death is a woman: "la muerte". Daniel slips into the role of "death as a female" and speaks before a video camera on the life and death of the famous Spanish poet. Then the story begins.
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Schindler's List
Title: Schindler's List
Character: SS Waffen Officer
Released: December 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Peasant
Released: November 11, 1993
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu, who secretly hopes to usurp the throne. Fortunately, Athos, Porthos and Aramis have refused to lay down their weapons and continue to protect their king. D'Artagnan joins with the rogues to expose Richelieu's plot against the crown.
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Krücke
Title: Krücke
Character: Betrunkener
Released: January 22, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: Calafati Joe
Released: July 24, 1991
Type: TV
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Sehnsüchte oder Es ist alles unheimlich leicht
Title: Sehnsüchte oder Es ist alles unheimlich leicht
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Im Dunstkreis
Title: Im Dunstkreis
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Eis
Title: Eis
Character: Sandor
Released: March 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Riedau, an idyllic wine-producing village on the Hungarian frontier with Austria. Young Sandor is brought to the local police station by border guards during New Years' celebrations. Next morning he has disappeared without a trace. When Sandor is finally discovered by chance in the stations detention cell he has survived for 18 days, suffering a loss of memory.
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The Mortal Fortune
Title: The Mortal Fortune
Character: Assistent
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
On the basis of the hardy perennial "boss-assistant" relation, "The Mortal Fortune" depicts the passion of worldly existence. The anonymous hero of the story, to which the spectator is introduced, attempts at freeing himself from his enslaved life. He finally has to realize the transience of the creature man and whithdraws from the constraints of worldly existence.
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Intime Distanzen
Title: Intime Distanzen
Character: Peter
Released: June 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Katharina and Sonja meet by chance on a train journey to Klagenfurt. Sonja, who wants to prepare for an exam, invites Katharina to live with her. The two different girls get to know the equally opposing men Thomas and Peter. Beyond the little holiday flirtations, Sonja and Katharina discover that they fell in love with the same man in Vienna...
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Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Title: Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Character: Sterbender Soldat
Released: May 2, 1985
Type: Movie
The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer in Walloon France, where she joined the Order of St. Clare, later returning to England to found her own order and devote her life to helping others.
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Title: Das Boot
Character: Obermaschinist Johann
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: TV
Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, Das Boot follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey.
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Title: Der Fahnder
Character: Klaus Diehl
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: TV
Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.
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Tod eines Lesenden
Title: Tod eines Lesenden
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, except that he is sentenced to death and scheduled to be shot in ten minutes. Obviously, he will not get to the end of the story. Based on an unfinished short story by Arthur Schnitzler.
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Angst
Title: Angst
Character: Psychopath
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
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Herrenjahre
Title: Herrenjahre
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Last Revenge
Title: The Last Revenge
Character: Weltkenner
Released: November 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Die Letzte Rache narrates the eventful tale of Worldly-Wise, an adventurer who enters the service of an aging ruler in order to seek for him a successor. Unable to find a worthy heir, Worldly-Wise succumbs to the temptation to seize power himself.
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Das Boot
Title: Das Boot
Character: Johann 'Das Gespenst'
Released: September 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
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Feuer!
Title: Feuer!
Character: Ferdinand
Released: May 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A historical drama about the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian empire.
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Der Einstand
Title: Der Einstand
Character: Fritz Berger
Released: May 12, 1977
Type: Movie
A young ex-convict returns to his home village. But he soon realizes that nothing is the same for him as before.
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Georges Bottequin
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: Rabe
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.