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Die Reise nach Marrakesch (1949)
Character: Prof. Colbert
Armande, the wife of surgeon Colbert, has numerous love affairs and pursues Jacques, whom Armande’s girlfriend Liliane has in her sights.
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Der Fuchs von Glenarvon (1940)
Character: Baron John Ennis of Loweland
An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle. Anti-Britsh propaganda film.
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Im Geheimdienst (1931)
Character: Wasiljeff
During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
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Es geht um mein Leben (1936)
Character: Rechtsanwalt Dr. Edmund Lessner
The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie star Christa (Kitty Jantzen), allegedly had an affair with singer Juan Navarro (Harry Hardt), who was found dead in front of Dr. Lessners house. Christa is arrested ...
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Die unsichtbare Front (1933)
Character: Erik Larsen
During World War I, Ellen Lange runs away from boarding school to her brother Rolf in Kiel. Rolf, a vice-helmsman, tries to send her back, but she goes to Berlin and finds a job at a music store through “Aunt Jenny.” Her boss sends her to Copenhagen with a false passport to deliver a violin containing stolen papers. In Copenhagen, she meets Erik Larsen, a German secret service agent, and joins the service to atone for her mistake.
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Eine Liebesgeschichte (1954)
Character: Kessler
During a New Year's Eve ball, Prussian cavalry officer Jost von Fredersdorff falls in love with Lili, the lover of his superior. When they decide to get married, their plans are opposed by Jost's family and his superiors in the army and he is denied permission to wed Lili. When Jost insists on going through with the marriage and is even willing to leave the army, he is ordered to the capital where he is locked up. Lili sees that they cannot be together and leaves Jost so that he can remain an honorable soldier in the service of his king.
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Der Schritt vom Wege (1939)
Character: Baron von Instetten
Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to suffer the consequences years later should be well known.
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Das große Spiel (1942)
Character: SS-Mann
A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to a big problem: who would be the perfect man to replace him? Werner Fehling appears to be the perfect replacement for the sick man. The problem is, he's a bitter rival of the goalkeeper, Jupp Jaeger. Both men love the same girl, Grete Gabler. Grete is the daughter of a senior member of the sports club, which is why she feels doubly under pressure not to do anything to jeopardize the success of the team.
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Rosenmontag (1930)
Character: Oberleutnant Ferndinand von Grobitzsch
Due to an intrigue spun by his grandmother and two cousins, the engagement between the officer Hans and his fiancée Traute breaks up. His fiancée is said to have been unfaithful during his 4-week absence on official business. The fabricated rumors allege an affair between Traute and Oberleutnant Grobitzsch.
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Der grüne Domino (1935)
Character: Dr. Bruck
The film The Green Domino is adapted from the 1933 stage play Der Fall Claasen by German dramatist Erich Ebermayer, whose works often examined criminal cases and moral dilemmas. Ebermayer's play, premiered at Vienna's Akademietheater, centers on a mysterious figure linked to a green domino mask during a pivotal event, blending elements of intrigue and personal reckoning.
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Die Stadt ist voller Geheimnisse (1955)
Character: Prof. Siebrecht
An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the dismissed employees deal with the new situation?
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Das Geheimnis um Johann Orth (1932)
Character: Johann Salvator
A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, and then disappears with her on a South American ocean voyage.
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Andere Welt (1937)
Character: Prinz Selim
Escaping her school teacher life, a lady marries a British military doctor who takes her to Malaysia. But realizing there that the marriage isn't working, she turns to an Oriental prince instead.
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Der stählerne Strahl (1935)
Character: Michael Tetjus
Racing driver Michael Tetjus returns from America to Berlin having broken a world record. His relationship with his wife the film actress Katja is strained due to their respective focus on work. Michael is intrigued by a new turbine being designed by his friend the engineer Zöger ANZ his assistant Enja.
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Ein idealer Gatte (1935)
Character: Lord Robert Chiltern
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
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The Love Waltz (1930)
Character: Lord Chamberlain
Originally Liebeswalzer, this German operetta was the third talkie vehicle for the effervescent Lillian Harvey. The plot is a typical Graustarkian affair, with Princess Eva (Harvey) preparing to marry a duke whom she's never met. Getting cold feet, the duke ducks the wedding, persuading a handsome young commoner named Bobby (Willy Fritsch) to take his place. The wedding goes on as planned, with Eva never suspecting that her new hubby is a ringer. Eventually, the false duke confesses everything, leading to all sorts of intrigue before a happy ending can be realized. Love Waltz was simultaneously filmed in an English-language version, which posed no problem for the British-born Harvey but caused a few uncomfortable moments for her Teutonic co-stars (eventually, Willy Fritsch was replaced by John Batton, who'd played a bit role in the German version).
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Zwei in einem Auto (1932)
Character: Lord Kingsdale
A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.
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Die Königin einer Nacht (1931)
Character: Adjudant
A navy lieutenant contemplates suicide in his despair but then meets a beautiful stranger, who turns out to be a princess.
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Ruf an das Gewissen (1949)
Character: Kriminalrat Husfeld
Ten years ago, the "Andree case" was seemingly solved. Now criminal investigator Husfeld is to reopen it, as doubts have arisen about the guilt of Helga Andree, who was convicted at the time. She is said to have pushed her former rival, the singer Elinor Gyldenborg, off the roof garden and killed her. Husfeld seeks advice from his friend, the writer Volkmar Hollberg. He turns the case into a radio play, which is broadcast on the radio under the title The Jump from the Roof Garden. The broadcast brings back memories of the night of the crime for those present at the time...
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Täter gesucht (1931)
Character: Dr. Gregor, Redakteur
A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.
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Der 5. Juni (1942)
Character: Generalmajor Lüchten
June Fifth ( Ger: Der 5. Juni) is a 1942 German propaganda war film. The storyline centers on an infantry unit during the French campaign. After the death of a war volunteer's father, the volunteer (Gefreiter Eickhoff) is treated harshly by his superior officer, Feldwebel Richard Schulz, who had been friends with the fallen father. The father had wanted Schulz to make his son a good officer. The film explores their relationship amidst the war.
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Die Entlassung (1942)
Character: Kaiser Friedrich III.
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end.
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Volldampf voraus! (1934)
Character: Axel Gröning
Full Steam Ahead, a propaganda film sponsored by the German military, was produced in 1933 under the direction of Carl Froelich. Two shipyards compete to build the engine room for a new destroyer flotilla. Ferdinand Wölfel, chief designer at the Bodenhardt shipyard, hopes that winning the contract will also win him Jutta, the boss's daughter. However, Jutta loves Axel Gröning, who is promoted to commander after rescuing the crew of a stranded fishing boat with his patrol boat.
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Schatten der Manege (1931)
Character: Luftakrobat
Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the trapeze act angle, combining it with romance and jealousy for a darker plot, it has a lot of the right the ingredients. Does have moments where it spends too long of circus footage, which ruins some of the pacing, but otherwise a fine circus flick.
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Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße (1932)
Character: Maximilian
The street urchin Scampolo (which means, "A Nothing"), who sleeps at night in a telephone booth and earns a little money running errands for a laundry, falls in love with a despondent, out-of-work bank manager in Depression-torn Germany, and thereby becomes a woman in the eyes of other men.
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Annelie (1941)
Character: Dr. Martin Laborius
On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15 minutes will again and again become the girl′s fate.
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Banditen der Autobahn (1955)
Character: Polizeirat Gerber
The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators.
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Episode (1935)
Character: Lehrer Kinz
Vienna, 1922. Due to a sudden financial tragedy, a young woman begins accepting checks from an older, rich gentleman for companionship in order for her to keep attending college. Their relationship is purely platonic, but eventually she begins a romance with the tutor of the older man's sons who has a completely wrong impression as to the nature of her arrangement with his employer.
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On Secret Service (1933)
Character: Captain von Homberg
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
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Es geschah am 20. Juli (1955)
Character: Generaloberst a. D. Ludwig Beck
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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Atto di accusa (1950)
Character: Massimo Ruska
A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.
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Schuß im Morgengrauen (1932)
Character: Petersen
A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member.
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Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen (1932)
Character: Prince Jussupoff
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
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Der höhere Befehl (1935)
Character: Rittmeister von Droste
A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.
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Des Teufels General (1955)
Character: Generaldirektor Hugo Mohrungen
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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Mädchenjahre einer Königin (1954)
Character: Lord Melbourne - Prime Minister
Vickie, short for Victoria, is crowned Queen of England and as such needs to learn the responsibilities of her new post.
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Der Greifer (1930)
Character: Snorri
Inspector Harry Cross is investigating a murder case with a knife throwing killer in the the seedy world of night clubs.
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Anema e core (1951)
Character: il neurologo
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
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Ein Mann will nach Deutschland (1934)
Character: Ingenieur Hagen
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
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