Maria Simon

Maria Simon

Born: February 6, 1976
in Leipzig, Germany
Maria Simon (born February 6, 1976) is a German actress.

Simon's German father originally hailed from Leipzig and studied mathematics in Leningrad. There he met Simon's Russian-Jewish mother, Olga, who studied electronics and originally hailed from Kazakhstan. The couple married while studying.

Maria Simon is the younger sister of actress Susanna Simon, who was born on 23 July 1968, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Maria was born and brought up in the former East Germany, but moved to New York City in 1990 to live with her father, a computer expert with the United Nations, and her sister Dalena Simon. She also has a sister named Alyssa. Simon has four children, the first from a former relationship with the actor Devid Striesow, and three with her ex-husband, the actor Bernd Michael Lade.

After finishing school she moved back to the newly reunited Germany to study acting at the Academy of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin where she received her diploma in 1999.

She won the award for Best Actress for her role in the film Zornige Küsse at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival in 2000. Simon was nominated as the best supporting actress in the 2003 German Film Awards, and was named European Shooting Star (i.e., best newcomer) at the 2004 Berlinale. In the same year she played Polly in Bertolt Brechts Dreigroschenoper at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Her TV movie Kleine Schwester was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Awards in 2005.

Movies for Maria Simon...

Wolfsjagd
Title: Wolfsjagd
Character: Sara Jahnke
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Everyone is f*cking crazy
Character: Jella
Released: August 11, 2023
Type: TV
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Der Zeuge
Title: Der Zeuge
Character: Reporterin
Released: March 2, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Gestern waren wir noch Kinder
Character: Anna Klettmann
Released: January 9, 2023
Type: TV
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Zwerg Nase
Title: Zwerg Nase
Character: Hanne
Released: December 24, 2021
Type: Movie
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A Hidden Life
Title: A Hidden Life
Character: Resie
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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Title: Erzgebirgskrimi
Character: Tanja Rossner
Released: November 9, 2019
Type: TV
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Curling für Eisenstadt
Title: Curling für Eisenstadt
Character: Petra Glewitz
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
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Break-Out to the Unknown
Title: Break-Out to the Unknown
Character: Sarah Schneider
Released: February 14, 2018
Type: Movie
In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...
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Ich gehöre ihm
Title: Ich gehöre ihm
Character: Anna
Released: August 30, 2017
Type: Movie
15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person
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Im Tunnel
Title: Im Tunnel
Character: Maren Adam
Released: April 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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Das Geständnis
Title: Das Geständnis
Character: KGB
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do not exist in socialism.
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Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
Title: Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
Character: Silvia Schubert
Released: July 2, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Murder by the Lake
Character: Verena Garchinger
Released: November 3, 2014
Type: TV
Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.
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Der Geruch von Erde
Title: Der Geruch von Erde
Character: Ellen Bischoff
Released: January 17, 2014
Type: Movie
While Dr. Ellen Bischoff celebrates success in her career, her family life is not at its best. Once she quarreled with her father Anton and turned her back on the local dairy farm. But now Anton is in the hospital after a severe heart attack. Ellen returns home to keep the operation going. There she meets her childhood sweetheart Felix again, whom she never forgave that he cheated on her with her former best friend Karin. In addition, Ellen struggles with serious problems: The father's farm is highly indebted and should be auctioned. The situation seems hopeless.
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Title: Stadt, Rad, Hund
Character: Self
Released: August 8, 2013
Type: TV
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Death on the Baltic
Title: Death on the Baltic
Character: Evelyn Kossack
Released: June 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A man goes over a girl and is in a village on the Baltic Sea henceforth as a "murderer" - until he lies dead in his garden. An accident, everyone says. But the autopsy shows that Ralf Kossak was killed. The police consider Stefan Hansen, the father of the dead Lisa, for the murderer, because he has the strongest motive: revenge. But Hansen was not, his wife Meike not. In the village begins a veritable witch hunt on Kossak's widow and her sons. The police discover what a shattering drama is in the Kossak family.
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Die Tote im Moorwald
Title: Die Tote im Moorwald
Character: Josefine Mehdorn
Released: November 12, 2012
Type: Movie
After the surprising death of her mother, budding artist Josefine hastily leaves the city of Munich and moves to an old, abandoned dairy farm in the countryside. She also escapes from her friend Simon, who, contrary to his assurances, has still not separated from his wife. And Josefine finally wants to find out who her father was. Her mother had left the village and raised Josefine in the city.
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Herzversagen
Title: Herzversagen
Character: Ellen Roth
Released: October 22, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Letzte Spur Berlin
Character: Swantje Holthusen
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: TV
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Engel der Gerechtigkeit
Title: Engel der Gerechtigkeit
Character: Sonja Danner
Released: October 6, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Frühling
Character: Sonja Feichtmayr
Released: June 19, 2011
Type: TV
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Kongo
Title: Kongo
Character: Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
Released: October 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Nicki Ziegler, Oberleutnant der Feldjäger, wird zu einem Auslandseinsatz in den Ostkongo geschickt. Gemeinsam mit ihrem forschen Kollegen Werner Malinckrodt soll sie den Selbstmord des Soldaten Wenz klären. Tatsächlich deutet zunächst alles auf Selbstmord hin: Wenz kam mit den verstörenden Verhältnissen in dem afrikanischen Krisengebiet nicht klar und zudem wollte ihn offenbar seine Frau verlassen. Als Nicki auf dem Handy des Toten ein sonderbares Video findet, tendiert zu allerdings zu Mord...
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Es war einer von uns
Title: Es war einer von uns
Character: Johanna Schröder
Released: October 7, 2010
Type: Movie
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Blessed Events
Title: Blessed Events
Character: Susa
Released: June 19, 2010
Type: Movie
A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering her to move into his fine home. While Hannes devotes himself further to terminal hospital patients, Simone lazily renovates the house, but somehow gets jealous of the neighbors and compromises everything.
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Masserberg
Title: Masserberg
Character: Tinka Sanchez
Released: May 19, 2010
Type: Movie
With provocative dresses and a lot of make-up, the 19-year-old Melanie defies her bleak hospital stay in Masserberg in Thuringia. For years, she suffers from a very serious eye disease that will lead to blindness without expensive therapy and expensive drugs. Mel dreams of freedom in the West and is convinced that they could be treated there as well. So you only the new doctor Carlo Sanchez remains as a worldly glimmer of hope. As their escape plans fly up and Carlo is to spy on behalf of the Stasi, begins for the unequal pair a race for life and death, love and freedom.
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Civil Courage
Title: Civil Courage
Character: Monika Keller
Released: January 27, 2010
Type: Movie
For almost 30 years, bookseller Jordan has lived and worked in a neighborhood in Berlin that has become a social hotbed. As Jordan witnesses a teenager brutally beating up an older man, he intervenes and files a complaint - with unimaginable consequences ... Director Dror Zahavi ("Everything for my father", "My life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki") succeeded after a screenplay by Jürgen Werner ("Tatort - With a steady hand", "Schimanski - layer in the pit", also with Götz George) an atmospherically tightly staged and outstandingly played portrait of a so-called problem district. Here nothing is glossed over, but instead the reality shown and the powerlessness of our judicial system mercilessly layed bare. A highlight of 2010!
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Romeo und Jutta
Title: Romeo und Jutta
Character: Dr.Annette Meerkatz
Released: September 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Jürgen Stoll is not only a Filou and life artist, but the darling of many women. When the marriage swindler is given the choice, prison in the GDR or a career as "Romeo" in the FRG, he decides to go to the West. Stoll now plays in the big game of secret agents until he realizes that the Stasi still has very different plans with him.
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The Countess
Title: The Countess
Character: Helena
Released: March 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.
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Tod in der Eifel
Title: Tod in der Eifel
Character: Lona Schanz
Released: February 9, 2009
Type: Movie
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Fürchte dich nicht
Title: Fürchte dich nicht
Character: Katrin Bischof
Released: January 22, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Der Kriminalist
Character: Bettina Winkler
Released: December 8, 2006
Type: TV
Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.
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Nichts als Gespenster
Title: Nichts als Gespenster
Character: Ellen
Released: November 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love.
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Not All Were Murderers
Title: Not All Were Murderers
Character: Lona Furkert
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...
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Title: Unter anderen Umständen
Character: Rike Kramer
Released: October 23, 2006
Type: TV
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Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
Title: Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
Character: Leo Herzog
Released: January 30, 2006
Type: Movie
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Carola Stern - Doppelleben
Title: Carola Stern - Doppelleben
Character: Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
Released: September 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Autobiographical movie about the publicist Carola Stern.
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Luther
Title: Luther
Character: Hanna
Released: October 29, 2003
Type: Movie
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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Title: K3 – Kripo Hamburg
Character: Kathrin Leutgeb
Released: August 24, 2003
Type: TV
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Fast perfekt verlobt
Title: Fast perfekt verlobt
Character: Nika Kreschninski
Released: April 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Best prospects for young Nika Kreschinski: She is an assistant in the PR department of the renowned Seckbach Bank and is engaged to Fritz , the son of the house. But shortly before the planned wedding , the orderly life of the career woman is thoroughly shaken up: her father Herby,an old hippie, appears on the scene because the Seckbach Bank wants to turn his Greek dropout island into an amusement park ...
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Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
Title: Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
Character: Andrea Bär
Released: March 25, 2003
Type: Movie
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Good Bye, Lenin!
Title: Good Bye, Lenin!
Character: Ariane
Released: February 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
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Distant Lights
Title: Distant Lights
Character: Sonja
Released: February 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
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Erste Ehe
Title: Erste Ehe
Released: July 10, 2002
Type: Movie
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Against All Evidence
Title: Against All Evidence
Character: Stefanie
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Police arrest a woman for the murder of his five years son. She claims to have drunk the night before and not knowing what happened to his small son, but the gun crime appears in her bed and have their fingerprints. Everyone, including the husband, who that morning was on duty in the hospital, it suspect.
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Jonathan's Liebe
Title: Jonathan's Liebe
Character: Nina Buchwald
Released: November 13, 2001
Type: Movie
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Verbotene Küsse
Title: Verbotene Küsse
Character: Andrea
Released: November 12, 2001
Type: Movie
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Passing Summer
Title: Passing Summer
Character: Johanna
Released: September 20, 2001
Type: Movie
A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways with friends, family, and lovers.
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Mord im Swingerclub
Title: Mord im Swingerclub
Character: Susanna Bach
Released: November 7, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Einsatz in Hamburg
Character: Tanja Schulz
Released: October 28, 2000
Type: TV
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Amerika
Title: Amerika
Character: Mädchen mit Kind
Released: January 27, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Volle Kanne
Character: Self
Released: August 30, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
Character: Biene Virchow
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: TV
HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin is a German television series.
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Title: Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
Character: Dorkas Schlüter
Released: October 16, 1997
Type: TV
Dr. Sommerfeld – Neues vom Bülowbogen is a German television series.
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Title: Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Character: Laura Friedrich
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: Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1995
Type: TV
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
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Title: Für alle Fälle Stefanie
Character: Helena Klamerski
Released: May 15, 1995
Type: TV
Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.
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Title: Balko
Character: Marischka Frankovka
Released: March 19, 1995
Type: TV
Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards.
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Title: Im Namen des Gesetzes
Character: Lydia Stein
Released: September 13, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Ein starkes Team
Character: Stefanie Lentz
Released: March 28, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Riverboat
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: DAS!
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: SOKO 5113
Character: Tamara Lanz
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: The Old Fox
Character: Katrin Schwab
Released: April 11, 1977
Type: TV
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
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Title: The Old Fox
Character: Anna Sophie Belitz
Released: April 11, 1977
Type: TV
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
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Title: The Old Fox
Character: Anke Flemming
Released: April 11, 1977
Type: TV
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: KHK Olga Lenski
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: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Hauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
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: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski
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: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
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: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Olga Lenski
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: Sabine Gerber
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: Scene of the Crime
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: Scene of the Crime
Character: Sylvia Keller
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: Scene of the Crime
Character: Lisa Mattern
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: Scene of the Crime
Character: Hannah Siems
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: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV