Rainer Bock

Rainer Bock

Born: July 31, 1954
in Kiel, Germany
After graduating from high school, Rainer Bock ran a café in his hometown, which also had a cabaret programme. After studying acting at a private acting school in Kiel, he made his debut as a theater actor on the stages of the state capital of Kiel in 1982. He came to Heidelberg and the National Theater Mannheim via the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater. From 1995 to 2001 he had an engagement at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Until 2011 he was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Bock often appears in supporting roles, including his initially rare appearances in film and television. The part of the doctor in Michael Haneke's award-winning drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009) earned him a nomination for the German Film Prize. In 2011 he was represented at the Berlinale with four films. Bock is also active as an audio book speaker.

Movies for Rainer Bock...

The Investigation. Oratorio in Eleven Songs
Title: The Investigation. Oratorio in Eleven Songs
Character: Richter
Released: July 25, 2024
Type: Movie
An in-depth docufiction about the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial from 1963 to 1965.
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Vorübergehend glücklich - Opimaral
Title: Vorübergehend glücklich - Opimaral
Character: Clemens Stellbrink
Released: March 22, 2024
Type: Movie
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Vorübergehend glücklich - Vredenhorst
Title: Vorübergehend glücklich - Vredenhorst
Character: Clemens Stellbrink
Released: March 15, 2024
Type: Movie
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Zwei Weihnachtsmänner sind einer zu viel
Title: Zwei Weihnachtsmänner sind einer zu viel
Character: Wilfried Schneider
Released: December 11, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: The Seed
Character: Jon Hoffmann
Released: December 9, 2023
Type: TV
The German inspector Max Grosz sets off with the Norwegian policewoman Thea Koren to Spitsbergen in search of his missing nephew. In the process, they delve deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and political interests, because the disappearance is apparently connected to the controversial takeover of an agricultural company.
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Title: Alice
Character: Ernst Schwarzer
Released: November 30, 2022
Type: TV
Almost half a century ago, a young woman dared to speak out publicly with pointed theses on gender roles or abortion laws. The reactions were violent.
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Title: Süßer Rausch
Character: Hans
Released: October 16, 2022
Type: TV
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Der Irland-Krimi: Preis des Schweigens
Title: Der Irland-Krimi: Preis des Schweigens
Character: Erik Bell
Released: October 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Life seems to be kind to criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake: a tender love affair has developed from the acquaintance with the charming Matt. Professionally, however, Cathrin faces a tricky case: A year and a half ago, the renowned psychologist Helen Bell disappeared without a trace.
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Mittagsstunde
Title: Mittagsstunde
Character: Sönke Feddersen (1965 - 1984)
Released: September 22, 2022
Type: Movie
When his grandmother Ella becomes increasingly confused and his grandfather Sönke simply doesn't want to part with his pub, the Dorfkrug, 47-year-old Ingwer Feddersen sees the time has come to return to his home village Brinkebüll. The village tavern isn't what it used to be - but that's also true for the whole village. Ingwer wonders when exactly was the point in time when the village of Brinkebüll went downhill? Was it in the 1970s when the hedges disappeared after the land consolidation and then the birds too? When larger and larger farms were built so that smaller ones had to give way? Is it perhaps his fault because he left his grandfather alone with gastronomy to study in Kiel? Based on Dörte Hansen's 2018 novel of the same name.
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Title: Your Honor
Character: Muhr
Released: April 2, 2022
Type: TV
An incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, the tables are turned when his son is guilty of a hit-and-run case.
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Rückkehr nach Rimini
Title: Rückkehr nach Rimini
Character: Peter Cerny
Released: March 19, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Westwall
Character: Berthold Roosen
Released: November 20, 2021
Type: TV
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MuM Calls It Quits
Title: MuM Calls It Quits
Character: Dr. Rudi Lutz
Released: July 22, 2021
Type: Movie
Carla Michelsen has had enough. Each of her three children will get 250,000 euros if they sign a contract she’s drawn up to disown them. Will they go for it? Philipp, the youngest, desperately needs the money, as he’s lost a fortune through speculation. Rita takes a while to decide, but eventually also accepts this sudden break. The only one who vehemently resists it is Doro, the middle child; she values the family unit. While the siblings can’t handle staying with their mother and prefer to stay in a hotel, Doro’s daughter, Joe, stays with her grandmother. The two get along well. When Joe confesses to being pregnant, however, Carla straightforwardly advises the granddaughter to have an abortion. Joe is horrified. In a rash move, she takes off with some of the money — with unforeseen consequences.
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Die Luft, die wir atmen
Title: Die Luft, die wir atmen
Character: Klaus Bronstein
Released: July 7, 2021
Type: Movie
On a freezing cold winter day, several guests visit their relatives in an old people's home in the Frankfurt area. When the weather changes shortly afterwards and black ice falls over the area, the guests unexpectedly get stuck.
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Wo ist die Liebe hin?
Title: Wo ist die Liebe hin?
Character: Bernhard
Released: September 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Agnes and Gregor have had a happy marriage for 15 years. No crises, no affairs, no weariness. They looked for each other and found each other, say their friends Conny and Bernhard, who fight a lot and often. If a marriage is harmonious, it is this one. However, when Agnes became socially involved in addition to her job, the distribution of roles in the family, which had worked well for years, was thrown out of balance. The change in their relationship leads Agnes and Gregor into their first major crisis, which neither of them can deal with. They are shocked to find that they are about to lose love.
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Exile
Title: Exile
Character: Urs
Released: August 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Exil tells the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who feels discriminated and bullied at work, plunging him into an identity crisis.
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Mein Altweibersommer
Title: Mein Altweibersommer
Character: Markus
Released: August 12, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: The Turncoat
Character: Willi Stehauf
Released: April 8, 2020
Type: TV
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
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The Turncoat
Title: The Turncoat
Character: Wilhelm „Willi“ Stehauf
Released: April 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Walter Proska is a young Wehrmacht soldier who begins to question the purpose of the war, who the real enemy is and whether his real duty should be to his fatherland or his own conscience.
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Title: Freud
Character: Theodor Meynert
Released: March 15, 2020
Type: TV
Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.
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Title: Das Mädchen am Strand
Character: Johannes Christensen
Released: January 6, 2020
Type: TV
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Weihnachten im Schnee
Title: Weihnachten im Schnee
Character: Henri Johnen
Released: December 15, 2019
Type: Movie
A family celebrates Christmas in a Norwegian log cabin. Old conflicts and a tragic secret cloud the mood.
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Der König von Köln
Title: Der König von Köln
Character: Josef Asch
Released: December 11, 2019
Type: Movie
A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few super rich. They want to make quite a lot of profit from a planned large-scale building project. Quicker than anticipated, the father-to-be gets surprised by a couple of amenities and notices that life isn’t too bad in the sphere of these semi-legal affairs. Soon, however, he has a prosecuting attorney on his tails and has to decide himself for a side.
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Lara
Title: Lara
Character: Paul
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
It's Lara's 60th birthday, and she has every reason to celebrate: this evening, her son Viktor will be giving the most important piano concert of his career. Lara was, after all, the one who'd mapped out and driven his musical career. Yet Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and nothing indicates that Lara will be welcome at his debut performance. Without further ado, she buys up all the remaining tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets. The more Lara strives to make the evening successful, however, the more events get out of control.
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Dengler - Brennende Kälte
Title: Dengler - Brennende Kälte
Released: October 7, 2019
Type: Movie
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Blochin: Das letzte Kapitel
Title: Blochin: Das letzte Kapitel
Character: Shukshin
Released: August 5, 2019
Type: Movie
After two years, after a tip from Shukshin, Blochin finally got the chance to lure the child murderer Kyrill to Berlin. In addition, the self-proclaimed avenging angel takes his lover Pheline hostage, who is found shot shortly afterwards.
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The Collini Case
Title: The Collini Case
Character: Staatsanwalt Dr. Reimers
Released: April 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
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Rate Your Date
Title: Rate Your Date
Character: Bruno
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Teresa und Patricia are best friends. Despite the big differences between date-experienced Teresa and romantically predisposed single-mother Patricia, they have one thing in common: they have enough of bad dates and are sick of stupid dudes, bad surprises and broken hearts. When Teresa meets the neurotic programmer Anton, who is completely inexperienced in the field of romance, they come up with a genius business idea: together with the womanizer and start-up founder Paul, they develop an app with which potential dates can be categorized. In this manner, users can paint a picture of what they're getting themselves into. However, quite quickly they find out that people can't be easily fit into boxes and that matters of the heart shouldn't be left to an algorithm...
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Title: Die verschwundene Familie
Character: Johannes Christensen
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
Four years after the murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl, fate strikes Nordholm again. A dead man is found on the beach & his wife and daughter have disappeared without a trace. Only the youngest son of the family suddenly turns up at home. Simon Kessler of the Hamburg CID starts the investigation.
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Atlas
Title: Atlas
Character: Walter Scholl
Released: November 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son, Jan. In order to help Jan, Walter has to confront not only his crooked boss but also his own past.
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Title: Das Boot
Character: Heinrich Gluck
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: TV
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
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Never Look Away
Title: Never Look Away
Character: Burghart Kroll
Released: October 3, 2018
Type: Movie
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
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Dengler Fremde Wasser
Title: Dengler Fremde Wasser
Character: Dr. Müller
Released: May 14, 2018
Type: Movie
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Arthur & Claire
Title: Arthur & Claire
Character: Dr. Sebastian Hofer
Released: February 16, 2018
Type: Movie
The chance meeting of two people at the darkest moments of their lives leads to a bright new beginning : Arthur (around 50) and Claire (around 30) pull each other from the abyss – by trying to save the other they see the worth of their own life.
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Luna's Revenge
Title: Luna's Revenge
Character: Behringer
Released: February 15, 2018
Type: Movie
When Luna’s family is killed in cold blood on a mountain vacation, she barely escapes, and has to discover she’s been living a lie: her dad was a Russian secret agent, and her family was just a front. Luna has the opportunity to flee the country. But first she wants revenge.
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The Beginner
Title: The Beginner
Character: Rolf Buschhaus
Released: January 18, 2018
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 years. Back on the ice, she tries to revive long suppressed childhood dreams – and makes a new friend, Jolina Kuhn, Berlin’s youth figure skating champion. Through her new friend, Annebarbel begins to open up and break away from her dominant mother.
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Title: Die Puppenspieler
Character: Kardinal della Rovere
Released: December 27, 2017
Type: TV
Helpless, the young convent student Richard has to watch as his mother Sarazenin Zobeida is condemned by the inquisitor Heinrich Institoris as a witch and burned at the stake. From then on, Richard swears revenge on Institoris for what he did to his family. He can escape and is taken by the merchant Jakob Fugger. He wants to teach him not only to seek blind revenge, but to manipulate people like puppets and thus to reach his goals. The two travel from Florence to Rome to influence the upcoming election of the pope and to witness the power struggle between the Medicis and the Borgias up close.
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Dengler - Die schützende Hand
Title: Dengler - Die schützende Hand
Character: Dr. Müller
Released: November 7, 2017
Type: Movie
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Ich war eine glückliche Frau
Title: Ich war eine glückliche Frau
Character: Hermann Blok
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Since Mrs. Blok suffers from dementia, she rarely leaves the house and spends most of her day watching the family happiness of her neighbors: Eva, her husband and their two teenage children lead a harmonious family life after moving into the house next door and Ms. Blok takes a big emotional part of it. Her health condition improves as a result. But because of her good powers of observation, she also noticed one day as the first fine signs that the family happiness is wavering. Mr Blok, who states that his wife is now doing much worse, then decides to intervene - with fatal consequences for both families.
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Godless Youth
Title: Godless Youth
Character: Trainer
Released: August 31, 2017
Type: Movie
German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.
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Wonder Woman
Title: Wonder Woman
Character: Von Hindenberg
Released: May 30, 2017
Type: Movie
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Sex, Pity and Loneliness
Title: Sex, Pity and Loneliness
Character: Robert Pfennig
Released: May 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.
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Title: SS-GB
Character: Fritz Kellermann
Released: February 19, 2017
Type: TV
Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
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Charlotte Link - Die letzte Spur
Title: Charlotte Link - Die letzte Spur
Character: Nick
Released: January 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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Vive L'Amour
Title: Vive L'Amour
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Winnetou - A New World
Title: Winnetou - A New World
Character: James Bancroft
Released: December 25, 2016
Type: Movie
The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. The Apaches give it the name Old Shatterhand. Together they fight now against the unscrupulous henchmen of the railway company, who wants to lay a route through the Indian area.
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Title: Solo für Weiss
Character: Rainer Weiss
Released: November 7, 2016
Type: TV
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The Verdict
Title: The Verdict
Character: Zeuge Lauterbach
Released: October 17, 2016
Type: Movie
A hijacker threatens to bring down a passenger plane to a crowded football stadium. Fighter pilot Lars Koch decides to shoot down the machine. The court of Berlin should decide whether Lars Koch is a hero or a murderer. The viewers become jurors, and their decision determines the outcome of the film.
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Scrappin'
Title: Scrappin'
Character: Herr Seifert
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a nice fist fight. Mirko left all that behind, but his father messes things up big time when he dies and leaves his son the run down scrapyard - together with his brother Letscho. And Letscho is still ticked off that Mirko deserted the clan. But soon the brothers realize that the Talhammers only have a future if they can pull themselves together and fulfill their father's last wish: to rob a train like real professionals! The coup itself is like a suicide mission, but then Kercher, the Talhammer's biggest nemesis, gets wind of things...
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Dengler - Am zwölften Tag
Title: Dengler - Am zwölften Tag
Character: Dr. Müller
Released: March 14, 2016
Type: Movie
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The Most Beautiful Day
Title: The Most Beautiful Day
Character: Dr. Wüst
Released: February 25, 2016
Type: Movie
The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the most awesome day before its too late.
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Hunters in the Night
Title: Hunters in the Night
Character: Claus Rohmüller
Released: February 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Back on duty after alcohol withdrawal, Commissioner Bonì is investigating the case of a missing student. Eddie, a teenager, found a badly abused young woman in a barn. Now he's dead ...
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Title: Fatal News
Character: Attorney General Hasse
Released: February 6, 2016
Type: TV
West Germany, 1987. The politician Uwe Barschel (1944-87), member of the Christian Democratic Union party and Minister-President of the Schleswig-Holstein region, is found dead in very sinister circumstances. Reporter David Burger pledges to find the truth behind one of the most important political scandals in German history, investigating countless speculations and conspiracy theories as he fights his own personal demons.
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Operation Zucker - Jagdgesellschaft
Title: Operation Zucker - Jagdgesellschaft
Character: Staatsanwalt Mack
Released: January 20, 2016
Type: Movie
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Kaltfront
Title: Kaltfront
Character: Erik
Released: January 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Jan meets Judith by accident and realizes that she is the woman who was supposed to have shot and killed his father, who worked as a security officer at the bank.
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The Blue Mauritius
Title: The Blue Mauritius
Character: Detektiv Kirschenbaum
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Five international thieves meet in Cape Town to steal the most valuable stamp in the world.
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Title: Wer weiß denn sowas?
Character: Self
Released: July 6, 2015
Type: TV
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Dengler - Die letzte Flucht
Title: Dengler - Die letzte Flucht
Character: Dr.Müller
Released: April 20, 2015
Type: Movie
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Käthe Kruse
Title: Käthe Kruse
Released: April 5, 2015
Type: Movie
The young actress Käthe is not 18 when she conquered Berlin's theater stages. Privately she finds her luck alongside the famous artist Max Kruse, but the wild marriage is considered scandalous and has a negative effect on the sale of his art. Thus, Käthe moves without him into an artists' colony on Monte Verità on Lake Maggiore. Out of necessity, she creates a doll that has never been seen before: with a natural expression and vivid facial expressions. What follows is a blitz career. But the phenomenal success of their handmade dolls causes unpleasant imitations - their company is about to go out.
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Naked Among Wolves
Title: Naked Among Wolves
Character: Alois Schwahl
Released: April 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
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Die kalte Wahrheit
Title: Die kalte Wahrheit
Character: Wagner
Released: March 23, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Death of a Girl
Character: Johannes Christensen
Released: February 9, 2015
Type: TV
Police officer Hella Christensen is on her way to her new job in Kiel. But she doesn't get far because a dead girl was found at the pier in her hometown. Hella's new superior, Simon Kessler, has already arrived from Kiel and is awaiting her on the bridge. Hella recognizes the dead person immediately: it is 14-year-old Jenni, daughter of her neighboring family. Kessler orders the recently defunct local office to be used to investigate the murder.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: Werner Ziegler
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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Title: Line of Separation
Character: Robert Leonhardt
Released: January 4, 2015
Type: TV
After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly divided between East and West regimes and the town’s inhabitants suffer the consequences. A gripping historical drama exploring the devastating effects decades of conflict had on communities from the end of the Second War War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Open the Wall
Title: Open the Wall
Character: Peter Arndt
Released: November 5, 2014
Type: Movie
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
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Alles muss raus
Title: Alles muss raus
Character: Graf von Langmaak
Released: October 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: 1864
Character: Bismarck
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: TV
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
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The Chosen Ones
Title: The Chosen Ones
Character: Helmut Hoffmann
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respected headmaster Simon Pistorius. But gradually certain incidents at the boarding school begin to unsettle her. Petra then realizes that Pistorius is abusing Frank, a 13-year-old. When Frank is told that he has to spend school holidays with Pistorius, he tries to commit suicide. Petra tells Frank's father (the chairman of the school's governing body) but he believes Pistorius instead of his own son. Petra fails to convince people of the man's true nature. 30 years later, Frank goes to Petra, who has long since left the school and has stopped teaching altogether. He has never been able to speak about what happened but now, after the suicide of another pupil, he is no longer willing to remain silent. He wants Petra to bear witness at the school's forthcoming anniversary celebrations.
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A Most Wanted Man
Title: A Most Wanted Man
Character: Dieter Mohr
Released: July 25, 2014
Type: Movie
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
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Burning Souls
Title: Burning Souls
Character: Abdias
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: Movie
A story about of one of the darkest periods in German history, an era in which the belief in occult forces was widespread. In Bamberg, witch hunts were fostered by a greedy and delusional Bishop Prince and reached their peak around 1630. This Bamberg ruler used the witch trials to purge his political enemies and enrich himself with their goods. Almost 1000 innocent men, women and children became his victims. BURNING SOULS deals with the era seen through the eyes of Johanna Wolff, a pharmacist's daughter, and the young physician Cornelius Weinmann. To save the innocent, he and a few courageous men revolt against the Bishop Prince.
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Dessau Dancers
Title: Dessau Dancers
Character: Hartmann Dietz
Released: June 29, 2014
Type: Movie
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Stereo
Title: Stereo
Character: Wolfgang
Released: May 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Erik has is own motorbike workshop in a sleepy little town. He may have the telling word ‘scoundrel’ tattooed onto his lower arm but he nonetheless creates an impression of a well-behaved average Joe. His relationship with his girlfriend Julia is going well and her daughter Linda is very fond of her new Dad. But then all of a sudden the mysterious Henry appears and begins following him about like a sinister shadow. The more Erik tries to shake off his diabolical guest the more Henry intrudes into his life. But then when a violent gangster named Keitel enters the fray and threatens not only Erik but Julia and Linda, Erik’s seemingly ideal world begins to run off the rails.
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Tracks
Title: Tracks
Character: Kurt Posel
Released: December 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
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Im Olymp der Kunst
Title: Im Olymp der Kunst
Character: Richard Strauss
Released: November 21, 2013
Type: Movie
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Run Boy Run
Title: Run Boy Run
Character: SS-Offizier
Released: November 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.
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The Book Thief
Title: The Book Thief
Character: Bürgermeister Hermann
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: Movie
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
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Zeugin der Toten
Title: Zeugin der Toten
Character: Quirin Kaiserley
Released: March 25, 2013
Type: Movie
At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her closely guarded secret: Judith had been brought as a child under mysterious circumstances in a DDR children's home. Origin: unknown. Now, 25 years later, Judith has the evidence in her hands that she was swapped as a child. A stranger lived her life. Did this stranger also die of her - Judith's - death?
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Passion
Title: Passion
Character: Inspector Bach
Released: February 13, 2013
Type: Movie
The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Title: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Character: Mayor Engleman
Released: January 17, 2013
Type: Movie
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.
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Two Lives
Title: Two Lives
Character: Hugo
Released: October 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
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Ein Jahr nach morgen
Title: Ein Jahr nach morgen
Character: Jürgen Reich
Released: September 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A german film about a rampage and the consequences in society.
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The Guardians
Title: The Guardians
Character: Karl Falkner
Released: September 18, 2012
Type: Movie
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.
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Russendisko
Title: Russendisko
Character: Herr Kaminer
Released: March 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties.
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München '72 - Das Attentat
Title: München '72 - Das Attentat
Character: Bruno Merk
Released: March 19, 2012
Type: Movie
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Barbara
Title: Barbara
Character: Klaus Schütz
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
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War Horse
Title: War Horse
Character: Brandt
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
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Title: Homeland
Character: BND Officer Keller
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
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Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden
Title: Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden
Character: Prof. Albert Brückner
Released: June 28, 2011
Type: Movie
The Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl was in love with his sister. And she loved him back. Their relationship became sexual and caused quite a stir in the local society. But when his sister asked him to flee with her to Australia where no one knew them and they could live as husband and wife, he refused for he could not live without the beauty of the German language. Torn between his love for words and his love for Grete, Georg turned to drugs and entered a downward spiral.
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Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
Title: Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
Character: Dr. Dreier
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though her job is even less prestigious than Johannes's, he falls for her. And then she quits her job to be with him (and be dependent on him) and suddenly things become much more serious. She has fallen for him. But does he still love her? Did he ever? Enter Sarah. Sarah is the daughter of Johannes's boss. He and she have a past. Will Sarah and what she represents be his future, and Ana just a memory, something he'd like to erase?
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If Not Us, Who?
Title: If Not Us, Who?
Character: Verteidiger
Released: March 10, 2011
Type: Movie
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
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My Best Enemy
Title: My Best Enemy
Character: SS-Hauptsturmführer Rauter
Released: February 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.
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Unknown
Title: Unknown
Character: Herr Strauss
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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Picco
Title: Picco
Character: Mr. Reinhard
Released: February 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is dominated by violence and latent aggression. Oppression and beatings are a daily occurence. It is hard for Kevin to establish himself. Especially Marc and Andy are after him. He's afraid of not sticking it out. Only Tommy gives him an amicable advice: In this system, you're either a victim or a culprit. If he doesn't want to be a loser anymore, he has to start fighting... A piece of advice that will trigger most dire consequences
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Title: Die NDR Quizshow
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Klimawechsel
Character: Psychiater
Released: April 7, 2010
Type: TV
Klimawechsel is a German television series.
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In the Shadows
Title: In the Shadows
Character: Nico
Released: February 15, 2010
Type: Movie
"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest job slowly catches up with him.
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The White Ribbon
Title: The White Ribbon
Character: The Doctor
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
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Inglourious Basterds
Title: Inglourious Basterds
Character: General Schonherr
Released: August 2, 2009
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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Title: Polonius Fischer
Character: Neidhard Moll
Released: November 24, 2008
Type: TV
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Todsünde
Title: Todsünde
Character: Neidhard Moll
Released: November 24, 2008
Type: Movie
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A Year Ago in Winter
Title: A Year Ago in Winter
Character: Richard Peters
Released: November 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.
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Einer bleibt sitzen
Title: Einer bleibt sitzen
Character: Reinhold
Released: October 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Michel is paralyzed after a motorcycle accident and has lost sight of the meaning of his life.
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Title: Markus Lanz
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 2008
Type: TV
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
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Title: Der Bergdoktor
Character: Ulrich Kretschmar
Released: February 7, 2008
Type: TV
A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.
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Title: Der Kriminalist
Character: Georg Wagenbach
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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Title: Der Kriminalist
Character: Arbogast
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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Onkel Wanja
Title: Onkel Wanja
Released: May 8, 2004
Type: Movie
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Operation Valkyrie
Title: Operation Valkyrie
Character: General der Infanterie Friedrich Olbricht
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event.
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Getting a Life
Title: Getting a Life
Released: July 2, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: Nachtschicht
Character: Olaf Holtzmann
Released: March 24, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Bloch
Character: Klaus Hollstein
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: TV
Bloch is a German television series.
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Title: For Heaven's Sake
Character: Rolf Hartung
Released: January 8, 2002
Type: TV
Sister Hanna is a spirited, witty, resolute, warm-hearted, and - attractive nun. With her wit and street cred, she takes charge of Kaltenthal Cloister, transforming it into a popular refuge for all those seeking help of one kind or another. She also brings new life to the sleepy provincial community, proving herself quite a match for her great rival and opponent, the mayor Wolfgang Wöller.
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Now or Never
Title: Now or Never
Character: Makowski
Released: November 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Three elderly ladies, Carla, Lilli and Meta, who, after their hard earned holiday money is stolen by bank robbers, decide to steal from their local bank. Along the way their are romances, arguments and a few other unexpected surprises.
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Title: Wilsberg
Character: Müntemeyer
Released: February 20, 1995
Type: TV
Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his friends, especially because of the car.
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Title: Bella Block
Character: Kommissar Schnaak
Released: March 26, 1994
Type: TV
Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.
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Title: Bella Block
Character: Malte Schnaak
Released: March 26, 1994
Type: TV
Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.
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Title: DAS!
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: The Old Fox
Character: Prof. Dr. Werner Schmedtmann
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: PvD Conrad Cassdorf
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: Kapitän Helmut Reinders
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: Werner Krabonk
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: Jost Friedland
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: Augenthaler
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: Bauer's Father
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