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Der große Schatten (1942)
Character: Robert Jürgensen
During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older colleague, whose daughter committed suicide years ago after he seduced and abandoned her. The older man finds the strength to reconcile when he is convinced of his adversary's remorse and inner transformation.
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Die Reise (1986)
Character: Jost Voss
An unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin.
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Die tödlichen Träume (1951)
Character: Albert Winter / Sennor Barravas / Florestan
Strange things begin to happen to a student when he rents a room once belonging to the poet ETA Hoffmann.
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Die Zaubergeige (1944)
Character: Andreas Halm
Around 1850, a young violin virtuoso steals a Stradivarius from the museum of a southern German royal residence in order to play for a famous master. By chance, he is able to demonstrate his skills to the sovereign at a court concert.
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G.P.U. (1942)
Character: Peter Aßmus
Olga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.
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Die Lüge (1950)
Character: Harry Altenberger
Three men are planning a balloon ascent into the stratosphere. During the balloon flight, complications arise, the balloon is driven out to sea and the men face death.
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Vergiß die Liebe nicht (1953)
Character: Paul Cornelius
A tenor sparks new hope into the life of a wife,a former piano player whose husband has not been paying enough attention to her.
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Kora Terry (1940)
Character: Michael Varany
When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tobs, a friend of their parents. While blonde Mara Terry arrives punctually for the first rehearsal, her dark-haired sister Kora is late like a diva and acts aloof and snippy. At their first performance together the next day, Kora is overtired from partying the night before. During a dangerous act in which she has to balance her upside-down sister on her head, she becomes careless...
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Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
Character: Michael O'Brien jun.
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
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Schwarze Augen (1951)
Character: Fedor Varany
Violin virtuoso Fedor Varany meets on the train from Nice to Vienna Helene Samboni, the lover of the Chamber of Commerce President Alexander Grabner and still-wife of the artist Samboni. Fedor falls in love with her without betraying his identity.
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Dantes Traum von der Hölle (1989)
Character: Narrator (voice)
An attempt to bring texts from Dante's "Divine Comedy" to life. Nine episodes from the Inferno with a concluding episode from the Purgatorio.
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Faust (1960)
Character: Faust
In 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The brilliant production was a huge success and ran for a couple of years. In 1959 Peter Gorski captured the performance on film in his directorial film debut. Basically it is a registration of the production, but Gorksi did manage to accentuate the details of the acting by using enough medium and close-up shots which give a view on the acting you normally would not able to see in a theater.
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Lola Montès (1955)
Character: Franz Liszt
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
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Das Herz der Königin (1940)
Character: Page Olivier
As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.
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Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer (1953)
Character: Dr. Thomas Arend
Thomas offers Dorette a trip to Moselle that she rejects saying it's short notice, but when Thomas shows at her apartment the next day he finds she's not slept on her bed. He leaves for Dorette alone, and there he meets Angela.
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