Bernhard Wicki

Bernhard Wicki

Born: October 28, 1919
Died: January 3, 2000
in St. Pölten, Austria
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Bernhard Wicki  (28 October 1919 in St. Pölten, Austria - 5 January 2000 in Munich) was an Austrian actor and film director.

Wicki studied in the city of Breslau such topics as Art History, History und German Literature. In 1938, he transferred to the Schauspielschule des Staatlichen Schauspielhauses (drama school) in Berlin. In 1939, because of his membership in the Bündischen Jugend he was imprisoned for many months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After his release he moved to Vienna, and then in 1944 to Switzerland.

After the end of World War II, he starred in many films, like Die letzte Brücke (1953) and Es geschah am 20. Juli (1955). He was also a photographer. His first attempt at directing came three years later with the documentary Warum sind sie gegen uns? (1958). He became internationally famous with his anti-war film of 1959 called Die Brücke. In 1961, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival for his film The Miracle of Father Malachia.

After his death in 2001, a fund was started and named after him in Munich, the Bernhard Wicki Memorial Fund. Since 2002, it has awarded a film prize, The Bridge, considered a peace prize. A further prize was endowed in 2006 with 15,000 euros, a prize given in the city of Emden since 2000. He was a patron of the International Film Festival in Emden-Norderney which first started in 1990.

He first married Agnes Fink, a fellow acting colleague, and later married Elisabeth Endriss, also a colleague. In the documentary Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie (June, 2007), Elisabeth Wicki-Endriss portrayed the life and work for Wicki.

He is buried at the Nymphenburger cemetery in Munich (grave number 4-1-23).

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Rosamunde Pilcher: Wilder Thymian
Title: Rosamunde Pilcher: Wilder Thymian
Character: Sir Kenneth
Released: October 22, 1994
Type: Movie
Victoria Bradshaw was still very young when she fell in love with the playwright Oliver Dobbs. He left her one day for another woman and disappeared from her life. But the memory of him always stayed alive. Many years later, Oliver suddenly appears again, together with his little son ...
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Das Geheimnis
Title: Das Geheimnis
Character: Dr. Virgil Schwarz
Released: January 9, 1994
Type: Movie
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Royal Baths
Title: Royal Baths
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Prinzenbad gives us a microcosm of a society dominated by male power plays, wheeling and dealing, corruption, love, and eroticism.
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Success
Title: Success
Character: Bichler
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
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Title: I promessi sposi
Character: padre gentiluomo
Released: November 12, 1989
Type: TV
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Spider's Web
Title: Spider's Web
Character: Herr Waizenbaum
Released: September 21, 1989
Type: Movie
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
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Pattberg's Legacy
Title: Pattberg's Legacy
Character: Herr Pattberg
Released: May 31, 1987
Type: Movie
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Title: The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Character: Frederico Torres
Released: January 29, 1987
Type: TV
Das Erbe der Guldenburgs is a German television series.
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Killing Cars
Title: Killing Cars
Character: Von der Mühle
Released: February 13, 1986
Type: Movie
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for testing, he is confronted by ominous men, eager to get their hands on his patent. Evil Arab petroleum lords also want to stop this threat to the gasoline market any way they can.
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Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Title: Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Character: George Abbot
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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Eine Art von Zorn
Title: Eine Art von Zorn
Character: Philipp Sanger
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: Movie
An Iraqi secret service agent is murdered. The only witness is a woman, but she disappeared without a trace. The journalist Piet Maas actually tracks down Lucia, the murdered man's lover, and does a sensational interview with her. Piet should stick to the matter. He has the feeling that Lucia is hiding the important thing. His suspicions are confirmed. She is in possession of the murdered man's valuable records, which she wants to sell. Piet offers himself to Lucia as a broker...
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Paris, Texas
Title: Paris, Texas
Character: Doctor Ulmer
Released: July 16, 1984
Type: Movie
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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The Shore
Title: The Shore
Character: Weber, Verleger
Released: June 6, 1984
Type: Movie
A former Soviet officer returns to Germany forty years after WWII...
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Dangerous Moves
Title: Dangerous Moves
Character: Pühl
Released: April 15, 1984
Type: Movie
World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.
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A Love in Germany
Title: A Love in Germany
Character: Dr. Borg
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
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Spring Symphony
Title: Spring Symphony
Character: Baron von Fricken
Released: April 8, 1983
Type: Movie
"Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara Wieck was a master technician in the playing of the piano, a composer (probably not at Schumann's level), and was a child prodigy.
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The Mysterious Stranger
Title: The Mysterious Stranger
Character: Heinrich Stein
Released: October 11, 1982
Type: Movie
The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.
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Domino
Title: Domino
Character: Lehrter
Released: June 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A young actress in Cold War Berlin struggles to decide whether or not to accept a new role, working with an old leftist director in a deserted theatrehouse. Caught between her painful childhood - loss of the mother - and the confusing and instable present political and social situation, she engages with prostitutes, penniless playwrights and postmen of the split Berlin city.
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Title: A Case For Two
Character: Professor Kaiser
Released: September 11, 1981
Type: TV
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
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Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
Title: Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
Character: Bankier James Türkheimer
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Death Watch
Title: Death Watch
Character: Katherine's Dad
Released: January 23, 1980
Type: Movie
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
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Title: Bayerischer Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: TV
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Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie
Title: Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie
Character: Helmberger
Released: May 13, 1979
Type: Movie
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Title: Kidnapped
Character: Hoseason
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: TV
David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.
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Der Mann im Schilf
Title: Der Mann im Schilf
Character: Sir Gerald
Released: October 30, 1978
Type: Movie
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Despair
Title: Despair
Character: Orlovius
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
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The Glass Cell
Title: The Glass Cell
Character: Polizeikommissar Österreich
Released: April 6, 1978
Type: Movie
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
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The Left-Handed Woman
Title: The Left-Handed Woman
Character: The Publisher
Released: October 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.
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Curd Jürgens - Der Filmstar, der vom Theater kam
Title: Curd Jürgens - Der Filmstar, der vom Theater kam
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: The Old Fox
Character: Dragan Janczak
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: Hans Pagel
Released: April 11, 1977
Type: TV
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
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Glücksucher
Title: Glücksucher
Character: Kurt Siebold
Released: February 8, 1977
Type: Movie
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Three Paths to the Lake
Title: Three Paths to the Lake
Character: Branco Trotta
Released: December 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Elisabeth, a fifty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.
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Crime and Passion
Title: Crime and Passion
Character: Rolf
Released: February 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.
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Title: Derrick
Character: Dr. Lechner
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: Derrick
Character: Karl Yurowski
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: Je später der Abend
Character: Self
Released: March 18, 1973
Type: TV
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Title: Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen
Character: König Edward VII.
Released: January 20, 1972
Type: TV
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Carlos
Title: Carlos
Character: Philipp
Released: November 20, 1971
Type: Movie
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poors in his silver mines. But Carlos' indecision and his love for his young and beautiful stepmother leads into a failure.
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Die Enthüllung
Title: Die Enthüllung
Character: Prof. Karl Jordan
Released: November 27, 1969
Type: Movie
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Your Caresses
Title: Your Caresses
Character: Vater
Released: November 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Johannes Berneis
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Dr. Wolfgang Brandes
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Graf Öderland
Title: Graf Öderland
Character: Staatsanwalt
Released: December 8, 1968
Type: Movie
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Der Feldmarschall
Title: Der Feldmarschall
Character: Baron
Released: November 21, 1968
Type: Movie
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Affäre Dreyfuss
Title: Affäre Dreyfuss
Character: Emile Zola
Released: November 8, 1968
Type: Movie
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Ostwind
Title: Ostwind
Character: Konarski
Released: October 8, 1967
Type: Movie
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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1964
Type: TV
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Portuguese Vacation
Title: Portuguese Vacation
Character: Bernard
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
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Elf Jahre und ein Tag
Title: Elf Jahre und ein Tag
Character: Karl Rodenbach
Released: September 5, 1963
Type: Movie
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Sex Can Be Difficult
Title: Sex Can Be Difficult
Character: Hans (segment "Il serpente")
Released: December 24, 1962
Type: Movie
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
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Die Nashörner
Title: Die Nashörner
Character: Herr Behringer
Released: March 2, 1961
Type: Movie
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La Notte
Title: La Notte
Character: Tommaso Garani
Released: January 24, 1961
Type: Movie
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
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Lampenfieber
Title: Lampenfieber
Character: Rohrbach
Released: March 3, 1960
Type: Movie
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Title: Stars in der Manege
Character: Self
Released: April 11, 1959
Type: TV
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Frau im besten Mannesalter
Title: Frau im besten Mannesalter
Character: Tex Richards
Released: January 29, 1959
Type: Movie
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Frauensee
Title: Frauensee
Character: Karl Anton Graf Chur
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Restless Night
Title: The Restless Night
Character: Priest Brunner
Released: October 29, 1958
Type: Movie
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Am Set von
Title: Am Set von "Warum sind sie gegen uns?"
Character: Self
Released: June 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Short television report about the filming of the movie "Warum sind sie gegen uns?"
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Flucht in die Tropennacht
Title: Flucht in die Tropennacht
Character: Robert
Released: June 3, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Cat
Title: The Cat
Character: Bernard Werner
Released: April 19, 1958
Type: Movie
During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...
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Escape from Sahara
Title: Escape from Sahara
Character: Luigi Locatelli
Released: January 21, 1958
Type: Movie
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Es wird alles wieder gut
Title: Es wird alles wieder gut
Character: Dr. Johann Krapp
Released: October 23, 1957
Type: Movie
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The Zurich Engagement
Title: The Zurich Engagement
Character: Paul Frank
Released: April 16, 1957
Type: Movie
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
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Königin Luise
Title: Königin Luise
Character: Zar Alexander
Released: February 15, 1957
Type: Movie
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Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen
Title: Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen
Character: Dr. Jan Vlimmen
Released: September 6, 1956
Type: Movie
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Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben
Title: Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben
Character: Dr. Grüter
Released: April 11, 1956
Type: Movie
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Frucht ohne Liebe
Title: Frucht ohne Liebe
Character: Dr.Kolb
Released: January 26, 1956
Type: Movie
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Rosen im Herbst
Title: Rosen im Herbst
Character: Geert von Innstetten
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: Movie
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Du mein stilles Tal
Title: Du mein stilles Tal
Character: Erik Linden
Released: September 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with a musician she was dating shortly before their marriage. Now this man, by now a famous concert pianist, enters her life again. Elisabeth resists the temptation to sink once again into the arms of her romantic lover. Since she loves her husband, she stays with him and continues to keep her secret...
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It Happened on July 20th
Title: It Happened on July 20th
Character: Oberst Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
Released: June 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
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Children, Mother, and the General
Title: Children, Mother, and the General
Character: Hauptmann Dornberg
Released: March 4, 1955
Type: Movie
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children left for the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back.
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Double Destiny
Title: Double Destiny
Character: Rainer von Hohenburg
Released: November 12, 1954
Type: Movie
A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in Germany.
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Die Mücke
Title: Die Mücke
Character: Hugo
Released: October 17, 1954
Type: Movie
A female spy accepts a bid by an arms dealer in order to find out if wife is unfaithful to him.
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Circus of Love
Title: Circus of Love
Character: Franz
Released: August 20, 1954
Type: Movie
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Ewiger Walzer
Title: Ewiger Walzer
Character: Johann Strauss Sohn
Released: August 4, 1954
Type: Movie
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Prisoners of Love
Title: Prisoners of Love
Character: Franz Martens
Released: July 28, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Last Bridge
Title: The Last Bridge
Character: Boro
Released: February 11, 1954
Type: Movie
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II.
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Junges Herz voll Liebe
Title: Junges Herz voll Liebe
Character: Vitus Zingerl
Released: September 3, 1953
Type: Movie
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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The Fallen Star
Title: The Fallen Star
Character: Otto
Released: August 12, 1950
Type: Movie
The Falling Star (German: Der Fallende Stern) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by Harald Braun. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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The Postmaster
Title: The Postmaster
Character: Statist
Released: April 23, 1940
Type: Movie
When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her.