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IA in Oberbayern (1956)
Character: Generaldirektor Bullerjahn
Her father urges Greta to marry the noble lawyer Dr. Hans von Spoerling. But her former boyfriend Fred Roland is informed of the planned engagement and arrives from America just in time. Put under pressure from both parties, Greta leaves and hits the road. She ends up in Schlaffenhofen, a small village in Southern Bavaria. The attractive woman and her modern car - with Berlin's number plate 'IA' on it - is a small sensation. But the two fiancée haven't given up on her, especially since her father promised her to the first who finds her.
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Königin einer Nacht (1951)
Character: Alexander, Erbherzog von Novara-Liechtenstein
Duke Ferdinand of Novara-Liechtenstein flees the duchy to avoid an arranged marriage with princess Anna Silvana of Este-Parma. He loses his papers on the flight and is treated as an imposter at the inn where he stays. The princess is hot on his heels, and ends up staying at the same inn under an assumed name. Mayhem ensues.
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Frech und verliebt (1950)
Character: Boxer Lemke
Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an unemployed actor against the will of her parents.
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Rote Orchideen (1938)
Character: Reno, Diener bei Castro
In a made-up country somewhere in northern Europe: In the armaments factory F.N.G., an important drawing is copied and passed on to the enemy. Suspicion falls on the chief engineer Alexander Nica and his assistant Laurenz. Both are placed before the court; accused by the night watchman Bruns; and sentenced to death for industrial espionage. Before sentencing, however, Nica succeeds in getting away. Now he’s trying to find proof to convince the court of his and Laurenz’ innocence.
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Die verschwundene Miniatur (1954)
Character: Fleischermeister Külz
Master butcher Külz from Hanover meets the young and beautiful Irene Trübner, private secretary to the wealthy art collector Steinhövel, in Copenhagen. She asks him to help her transport a miniature recently acquired by her employer at an auction in Copenhagen to Hanover. The newspaper has just reported on the theft of some of the art objects sold at the same auction and she is afraid of being robbed as well. The two agree that Külz should discreetly give her the miniature at the station the next morning in order to deceive any robbers. However, Miss Irene does not give Mr. Külz the original, but a copy. During the train journey, the miniature is stolen from Mr. Külz...
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Wie sag' ich's meinem Mann? (1932)
Character: Fahrlehrer Adolf Schott
The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Frankfurt to Berlin, nice atmospheric shots of sleeper and dining car in the morning. The action continues in the luxury villas and apartments of Berlin, Renate Müller wears a string of very elegant outfits. Misunderstandings, jealousies, temporary separation of husband and wife, a few songs, wicked humour.
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Andreas Schlüter (1942)
Character: Gießmeister Wenzel
Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
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Familie Buchholz (1944)
Character: Carl Buchholz, ihr Mann
Based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde, it is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Berlin.
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Inge und die Millionen (1933)
Character: Chauffeur Fritz, Angestellter der Spedition
A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.
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Die Liebe und die erste Eisenbahn (1934)
Character: Eckensteher Nante
'Love and the First Railway' is what this movie's title would mean in English. This is one of those films that depicts fictional characters participating in an historic incident. The actual first railway was built in England, of course. But according to this movie, the first railway (in Germany, at least) was built from Berlin to Potsdam, in 1838. I haven't the faintest idea if that's correct, but the people who made this movie do seem to take a great deal of interest in historical accuracy, so I'll take their word for it. Anyway, a title at the beginning establishes that this movie is set in 1838.
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Die Zwei vom Südexpress (1932)
Character: Mayer, ein Konfektionsreisender
A story of friendship, love, betrayal and jealousy, which the locomotive driver Karl and his coalman Hans experience. They’re both let down by the same girl and their old friendship, which soon almost develops into hate, blooms anew in the end.
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Rätsel um Beate (1938)
Character: Fabriksarbeiter und Meister
After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is connected to his demise.
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Lockvogel (1934)
Character: Robert
Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Delia, with whom Viktor is in love, is used as bait. His boyhood friend Sibyl, who is in love with Viktor, warns him of the criminal ship owner and the captain, who intend to steal the jewel during a masked ball on board. Shortly before reaching the coast of France, an explosion causes the ship to capsize.
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Jakko (1941)
Character: Stupat
In this Nazi propaganda film, a troubled young boy joins the Hitler Naval Youth, where he finds meaning and purpose in his life.
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Mutter und Kind (1934)
Character: Larsen
Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won’t be able to feed the newborn. Thus, they strike a deal with the Petersens, which works for both couples: Anna and Jurgen will receive a farm from the Petersens, free and clear; and the two will allow the Petersens to adopt the child. Anna and Jurgen marry and are quite happy; but when the child is finally born, Anna doesn’t wish to surrender him and flees with the child into the Wattenmeer.
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Mutter und Kind (1934)
Character: Larsen, Tischlermeister
Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won’t be able to feed the newborn. Thus, they strike a deal with the Petersens, which works for both couples: Anna and Jurgen will receive a farm from the Petersens, free and clear; and the two will allow the Petersens to adopt the child. Anna and Jurgen marry and are quite happy; but when the child is finally born, Anna doesn’t wish to surrender him and flees with the child into the Wattenmeer.
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Autobus S (1937)
Character: Jule Pelsch - Wirt
Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance fraud he decides to leave town and sign up on a ship as a sailor.
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Torreani (1951)
Character: N/A
Acrobat assumes identity of jailed fellow-artist to take over a theatre which had been bequeathed to him. He is suspected of murdering the acrobat but is cleared in the end.
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Almenrausch und Edelweiß (1957)
Character: Generaldirektor Ferdinand Meyer
Friedl Meier, owner of a country hotel, inherits a large sum of money in dollars – but the problem is that the inheritance certificate is issued in the name Meyer with a “y,” the surname of Friedl's former fiancé Ferdinand, who later made a career for himself in the USA. As luck would have it, Ferdinand is spending his vacation at a nearby hotel – together with his butler Leo, who causes some confusion in the affair.
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Es wird schon wieder besser (1932)
Character: Gefängniswärter
The fast-driving daughter of a car manufacturer keeps Berlin's most pricey lawyer busy as she keeps getting into scrapes.
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Der Lachdoktor (1937)
Character: Josef Brandl
Because the soulful county doctor in a small spa town in the mountains has interfered with the business of selling "healing waters", he incurs the enmity of the local shopkeepers. And for that reason, his candidacy for the post of District Medical Officer is thwarted.
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Fräulein Liselott (1934)
Character: Knoblauch, Gerichtsvollzieher
Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.
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Immer nur Du (1941)
Character: Herr Pingel
The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.
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Frau Luna (1941)
Character: Mechaniker Scholte
Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offensive. The president of the Thusneldenbund has taken it upon himself to alert everyone about the growth of immorality in the capital. The theatre director Knopp has come up with an idea to convince these "fine" gentlemen to let the operetta go onstage again: He intends to win over the friendship of the moral police and then nothing will stand in the way of "Frau Luna" once more being performed.
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Der Bauerndoktor von Bayrischzell (1957)
Character: Doctor
In spite of his blustering manner and his refusal to listen to what the patients have to say, Dr. Doppelsieder is highly respected in the Upper Bavarian town of Bayrischzell, because he (almost) always has the right remedy and effective advice ready for the sick. The only person he can't help is Pfundtner, the rich Guldenhof farmer. He wants a remedy that, after seven daughters, will finally help him and his wife to the longed-for farm inheritance.
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Der kleine Seitensprung (1931)
Character: Tänzer in der Bar
A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is preparing a divorce for a client, decides to start divorce proceedings himself. The wife then realises she has gone too far.
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Von Liebe reden wir später (1953)
Character: N/A
The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but there is a catch: Hollmann is still married to his somewhat annoying wife Margot. Angela, however, has to get married as soon as possible because as a foreigner she will lose her work permit if she does not become a German citizen soon. The couple then come up with the idea of marrying Angela to the German bachelor Jonny Pitter, a writer - a sham marriage with no dishonorable consequences, of course. What neither Angela nor Prof. Hollmann suspect is that Jonny has been in love with Angela for some time
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Columbus entdeckt Krähwinkel (1954)
Character: Maier, Bürgerrmeister
Two GIs haven fallen in love with "Fräuleins", decide to stay in Germany and open a typically American drugstore in the center of the small town where their girlfriends live.
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Zapfenstreich am Rhein (1930)
Character: Fritz
Musical comedy set in the scenic Rhine country, in which dashing officers and enlisted men pursue various kinds of women.
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Der Stern von Valencia (1933)
Character: Sergeant Savedra
White slave traders kidnap a cabaret singer aboard a ship headed for South America,but they have not counted on her husband aboard a nearby coast guard cutter.
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Casanova heiratet (1940)
Character: Emil Hartmann
The actor Ralph Gregor plays "Casanova" on the stage and everyone expects, that he also lives out the role in real life. Johanna Brinkmann, known as "Joe", tries everything to make her husband jealous of Ralph. Ralph, however, is actually dating his colleague Steffie. After a fight with her, he takes off on a short trip into the countryside and there gets to know the attractive Gertrude, with whom he falls in love. In short order, he proposes to and marries her. Soon, however, Gertude gets to know Steffie and Joe, who appear to know Ralph much better than they do, and Gertrude loses it.
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Hummel - Hummel (1936)
Character: Bohnenstengel
The maid of a paintbrush manufacturer gives birth to twins. The father is first suspected to be the master of the house and then his son-in-law.
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Mädchenräuber (1936)
Character: Hippodrombesitzer
Pat and Patachon stage a kidnapping in hopes of uniting their friend Erik with his love interest Lissy.
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Onkel Bräsig (1936)
Character: Rektor Baldrian
The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young people, so that by the end of the film, there's a double marriage.
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Kyritz - Pyritz (1931)
Character: Waldemar Schwefelmann
Errant Husbands (German: Kyritz - Pyritz) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Carl Heinz Wolff and starring Max Adalbert, Hansi Arnstaedt and Henry Bender.
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Geld aus der Luft (1954)
Character: Heinrich Michels
After three months of secret marriage to his wife Helga, Stefan Gregor, propagandist for a record company, is already back in front of the divorce judge. His profession is to blame, as it has brought him into disrepute with his wife. It is the nightly negotiations with the artists in his friend Alfred's bar over champagne and wine - and he is already accused of infidelity. But he is no different with Helga, because as soon as she has become rich through a secret lottery win, her lifestyle makes him just as suspicious and jealous. But when he discovers that she has become a singing star, he is proud of her and she finally realizes what "sacrifices" his profession entails.
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Die schwebende Jungfrau (1931)
Character: N/A
In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiancé.
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Teure Heimat (1929)
Character: N/A
A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.
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Strafsache van Geldern (1932)
Character: N/A
Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
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Der Bettelstudent (1931)
Character: Oberst Ollendorf
First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist.
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Die Frau am Scheidewege (1938)
Character: Johann
Following the breakdown of her marriage to an artist, a female doctor goes back to her position at a hospital.
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Das Geheimnis der roten Katze (1931)
Character: Pitou - Apache
“The Red Cat” is a seedy dive. The rich American, Jefferson, who shows up there one day with his family and who recently became the proud owner of the famous Halifax emerald, particularly attracts the attention of the patrons of the “Cat”. One of them approaches the Americans disguised as a marquis, but he has not reckoned with Jefferson’s daughter, Jessie.
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Die spanische Fliege (1931)
Character: Burwig
As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the “Spanish Fly”. The dancer had a son and Klinke has been secretly paying maintenance ever since. Wimmer and Tiedemeier also had a relationship with the dancer. With the appearance of the dancer's supposed son, Heinrich Meisel, chaos breaks out.
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Liebe streng verboten (1939)
Character: N/A
In the eve of the war between Vienna and Berlin playing dear comedy with then popular occupation: The mother wants to marry her daughter to the lord of the manor, but the daughter prefers the elegant hoteliers.
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Eine Reise ins Glück (1958)
Character: Gastwirt Eberwein
Together with her uncle and waiter Otto, young Renate runs a guesthouse high above the Rhine, which hardly any guests ever visit. When she suddenly inherits a vineyard in Tuscany one day, the three of them set off full of hope on the arduous journey south. However, the inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated estate, whose valuable wines stored in a secret cellar are known only to the devious wine merchant Brandolini. Fortunately, he has a nice brother who falls in love with Renate and helps her out.
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Agnes Arnau und ihre drei Freier (1918)
Character: Tony 2
Two rich men decide that their son and daughter will marry when they're grown. Now, as adults, the fathers decide the two should meet. It doesn't go quite as planned due to the mischievous ways of the daughter.
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Alraune (1930)
Character: von Walter
A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
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Nanon (1938)
Character: 1. Corporal
An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.
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Symphonie in Gold (1956)
Character: Charles Bierwirth
Revue film on ice. An excellent figure skater did not qualify for the European Championships, but as a participant in show programs he became known as "Mr. X." Funds from an unknown benefactor began to arrive at the small club in the town where he trained...
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Die klugen Frauen (1936)
Character: The Butcher
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic, the brave female citizens decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet. (German version of the French film La Kermesse héroïque, 1935.)
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Der Kongreß tanzt (1955)
Character: Franz
Congress of Vienna, 1815: In order to lure certain monarchs away from the conference, the Austrians instigate a ceaseless sequence of operas and balls. Indeed, Russian Czar Alexander is distracted when he falls for a beautiful salesgirl.
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Fridericus (1937)
Character: Musketier Mampe
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
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Die göttliche Jette (1937)
Character: Herr Bankdirektor
Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.
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F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932)
Character: Mann mit den Schiffbrüchen
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.
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Die Reise nach Tilsit (1939)
Character: Ausrufer
A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.
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Drillinge an Bord (1959)
Character: Kapitän
Househusband Heinz lives with his two brothers Otto and Eduard. When Heinz wins a luxury cruise in a pop song contest, Otto and Eduard don't want to stay at home. The two decide to secretly go along as stowaways...
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Morgenrot (1933)
Character: Bordfunker Jaul
Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise. On patrol Captain Liers and his submarine crew sink an important British ship, but while returning to harbour, they're lured into a trap by a British vessel disguised as a neutral Danish one. They sink it after it attacks them without warning, but while they prepare to rescue survivors, a British destroyer sinks the sub. On the sea bed 60 feet down, with all but the bridge flooded, the 10 surviving crew have only 8 rescue devices. Liers orders the crew to use them, but they disobey - either all escape or nobody does.
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Durch dick und dünn (1951)
Character: Onkel Ottokar Kühlfuß
Theo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its own, fixing the family troubles and some romances with a series of guardian angel and/or matchmaking shenanigans.
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April, April! (1935)
Character: Finke
Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools’ Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince intends to personally inspect his pasta factory.
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Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936)
Character: Schlittenkutscher
A Moscow hotel waiter, found at the scene of a murder, tries to locate the real killer among a series of suspects.
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Blutsbrüderschaft (1941)
Character: Fritz Blunck
On November 11, 1918, the last day of the First World War , Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Olden desperately tried to hold a lost post with his unit. The rescue appears in the form of pilot Jochen Wendler, who shows up with his plane and drops ammunition. When Jochen's machine is shot down immediately, Klaus manages to pull him out of the wreck at the last second. Both are injured and taken to the hospital , where they are cared for by the attractive nurse Barbara, a childhood friend of Jochen. The two men form a blood brotherhood and drive together with Barbara to East Prussia , where they want to visit relatives of Jochen on their estate . But the relatives' yard was destroyed in the war. The post-war period turns out to be an economic disaster.
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Sein bester Freund (1937)
Character: Emil Kruppack / William Hopkins
Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog.
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Die Rothschilds (1940)
Character: N/A
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
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Im weißen Rössl (1952)
Character: Giesecke
Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would rather see his daughter married to Sigismund.
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Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931)
Character: Henschke
Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
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Kleiner Mann - ganz groß (1957)
Character: Wendland
His grandpa gives the orphan boy Robbie a foal that they call "little brother". The boy loves the animal and wants to train it as a racing horse - but then his grandpa dies. Robbie's sister isn't old enough to care for themselves, so they get a guardian who decides to sell all the horses. Robbie hides his "little brother" at a farm, but it's hard for him to come up with the rent regularly..
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Wir Kellerkinder (1960)
Character: Porter
During the Third Reich, Macke played the drums for the Hitler Youth, but also had a "dangerous" penchant for jazz. After the war, he came under ideological fire in the Soviet zone. Finally in West Germany, he ends up in an institution.
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Des Teufels General (1955)
Character: Otto Korrianke, Fahrer von Harras
The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.
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Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1938)
Character: Otto Hübner - Kellner
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
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Quick (1932)
Character: Clock
Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a heavily made-up clown called Quick. Quick takes a shine to her and tries to woo her without make-up and masquerading as the theatre's manager. Unable to resolve her feelings for Quick and the theatre manager, Eva is angered when she finally learns that they are one and the same.
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Die Frauen des Herrn S. (1951)
Character: ein Seemann
The action is relocated to occupied Athens after the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), where Mr. S. (= Socrates, played by Paul Hörbiger) proposes double marriage for men to the Athenian parliament and the four occupying powers for hidden personal reasons. Outwardly, he is concerned with providing for the many war widows. His deeper intention is to free the beautiful slave Euritrite as a concubine alongside the quarrelsome Xanthippe. The four occupying powers of the Macedonians (= US Americans), Persians (= Russians), Cretans (= English) and Corinthians (= French) are gently teased. On Socrates' advice, the law is adopted with an anonymous dissenting vote so that everyone at home can claim that it was him. Socrates can marry Euritrite. Xanthippe, however, favors the mutual infatuation of Euritrite and Socrates' student Plato (who had already invented Platonic love out of sheer desperation), and the other women also know how to spoil their husbands' pleasure in the new law.
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