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Eiger (1974)
Character: Gast
Conquering the 1,800-meter-high north face of the Eiger is a test of endurance for mountaineers. Tiger and Simmi have also set their sights on this tour.
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Unser täglich Brot (1949)
Character: Harry Webers
A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.
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Krieg im dritten Stock (1973)
Character: Dr. Emil Blaha
One night, a letter carrier appears in the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Blaha, who don't know what hit them. Mr. Blaha is told to acknowledge receipt. The contents of the letter tell him to go home and await further instructions. Suddenly, the doctor appears in Blaha's apartment on the third floor, claiming that he has also been called up for an "exercise". Blaha's confusion grows. He gradually learns that his apartment is to be "conquered" by the wine merchant Müller, who thinks Blaha wants to murder him. The absurdity reaches its climax when Müller turns up heavily armed in Blaha's apartment - an attack that Blaha doesn't understand until his last breath...
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Das Freudenhaus (1971)
Character: Mr. Silberstein
A former prostitute and a failed circus clown set up a brothel, but he becomes a scoundrel and ends up disappearing with 70000 DM.
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Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz (1958)
Character: Heino
A fairground in a small town in northern Germany: a young woman named Margret Winter enjoys herself there with a friend. She has 900 D-Mark in her pocket, which she should pay in for her superior. Paul Lohmann, one of three clowns, addresses the two ladies and invites them together with his colleagues Heino and Kallweit to visit the show. While Margret's girlfriend refuses, the later murder victim joins them. Afterwards there is no trace of her. The police interrogate Kallweit, who saw her last. One day later Margret is found dead in the forest, the money has disappeared without a trace together with a piece of jewellery. Is one of three clowns from the circus the murderer? Commissioner Bergmann investigates and scrutinises the three men...
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Symphonie einer Weltstadt (1950)
Character: voice
Documentary about the life in Berlin in 1941. The planned premier was stopped by the national party due to the damages and painful changes to the city that soon followed. It thus premiered in 1950.
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Hunger (1948)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The film opens with a montage - scenes of hungry people in one city after another.We imagine we are seeing Germany, but then realize we are looking at Paris, London, Naples. The reveal is shocking. The film was made to help Germans realize that they were not the only ones to suffer from the food shortages caused by the war. Its other message was to encourage German farmers to sell their agricultural products instead of hording them.
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Fabrik der Offiziere (1960)
Character: Oberfeldrichter Wirrmann
An army war school during the WWII: first Lieutenant Krafft has a strong sense of justice. This has often brought him into disrepute with his previous superiors and he has been transferred several times as a result. With his new position in an officer's school, he hopes to survive the war and tries to avoid further conflicts. However, Krafft is entrusted with an investigation by his general - a supervising officer has been blown to pieces by an explosive charge during an engineer exercise. Although the chief field judge rules the man's death an accident, Krafft reconstructs the events and proves that it was a case of murder. Ensign Hochbauer, who was in the party's favor, is said to have deliberately shortened the fuse during the explosive exercise, as a result of which the supervising officer was unable to get to safety in time.
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...und über uns der Himmel (1947)
Character: Werner Richter
Hans Albers plays returning war veteran Hans Richter who has trouble finding work. With nowhere else to turn, Richter gets involved with black market activities. This so disgusts Richter's son, blind ex-soldier Edwin (Paul Edwin Roth), that the boy literally disowns his father. Hans eventually mends his ways, but not before several other devastating setbacks.
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Unser Wunderland bei Nacht (1959)
Character: Otto Lürmann
Three 1950s city stories: In Hamburg, Sergeant Siegel tackles St. Pauli’s crime, from prostitution to deadly domestic fights. In Munich, teenager Helga Barufka teeters on the edge of nightlife’s dangers. In Düsseldorf, escort “Fräulein Doktor” outsmarts her boss by poaching his VIP clients.
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Memento Mori (1975)
Character: Eric
The writer Charmain Colson entertains a circle of old friends. One day, when the group receive an anonymous message saying Memento Mori/Remember you must die, they all panic in fear and angst.
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Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (1971)
Character: Direktor Friedjung
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much futher, to a court hearing during the Third Reich...
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Seitenstechen (1985)
Character: Norberts Vater
Norbert actually loves Monika, and she loves him. But he is also tempted to have a fling with Ulla. And one day, he gets a huge stitch in his side and an enormous appetite to boot. A visit to the doctor reveals that Norbert is pregnant. Initially shocked, he quickly comes to terms with his new role...
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Der Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind (1972)
Character: Oswald Seerose
Germany during the Cold War, a boy has fled Czechoslovakia. Star reporter Walter Roland investigates the background. In the process, he uncovers a plot: Western and Eastern agents are on the hunt for the Warsaw Pact's deployment plans against NATO, which a Czech officer has taken out of the country.
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Gestehen Sie, Dr. Corda! (1958)
Character: Dr. Schimmer
A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer?
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Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher (1983)
Character: Gabillard
The story of François Perret-Latour, a formerly successful banker and member of Parisian high society. His exciting life is long gone, and despite having a large family, he now spends most of his time alone in his Paris apartment on Place Vendôme. But then, within a very short time, a series of events breathe new life into the old, lonely man. His 16-year-old granddaughter, who turns to him in desperation because she is pregnant, plays a key role in this...
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4 Schlüssel (1966)
Character: Konrad von Brenken
Bank director Ernst Rose, owner of the Hamburg bank Traven & Co., is asked to go to the airport earlier than expected to pick up his daughter Silvia. When he arrives, he realizes too late that he has walked into a trap. He is overpowered by kidnappers and abducted. The gang around Alexander Ford and his men want to rob three and a half million from the bank vault at the weekend. But it can only be opened with four keys, which are in the hands of four so-called key holders. Under the direction of criminal Ford, all those involved become puppets in a game of life and death.
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Das Wunder des Malachias (1961)
Character: N/A
The ardent prayer of a monk brings about a true miracle in a West German industrial town, which, however, is not understood by the people but only exploited as a lucrative sensation.
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Kinder, Mütter und ein General (1955)
Character: N/A
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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Drei Schwedinnen auf der Reeperbahn (1980)
Character: Jens-Uwe
Three Swedish girls are at boarding school and a bit bored with their lessons, so they travel to Hamburg to have a few adventures. Lil tries to get her teacher, who is staying with his girlfriend, around and the others have fun in the city's red light district. They want to spend the night with their sister, one of the Swedes, who supposedly works there as a secretary. Soon everything ends in turbulent entanglements...
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The Longest Day (1962)
Character: Col. Schiller (uncredited)
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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Born for Hell (1976)
Character: N/A
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
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