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Reifende Jugend (1933)
Character: Knud Sengebusch, Abiturient
A psychological study of three girls who enter a boys' school to prepare for their final examination.
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Eine Siebzehnjährige (1934)
Character: Walter, ihr Sohn
Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow.
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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941)
Character: German
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
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African Gold (1965)
Character: Karl Du Val
The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.
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El batallón de las sombras (1957)
Character: N/A
Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...
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The Dark Light (1951)
Character: Mark
The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law.
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Anna Karenina (1961)
Character: Alexis Karenin
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
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Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten (1935)
Character: Karl, deren Sohn
Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship while the rest of the world is at strife. A conflict arises when the daughter of one falls in love with the son of another.
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Alle Sünden dieser Erde (1958)
Character: Richter
Regine, a physician, loses her lover in a car crash and carries out an abortion; it's the beginning of her descent into hell.
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Frau Irene Besser (1961)
Character: Dr. Heinz Werther
It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Besser, long believed to be missing, returned from Soviet captivity. But the country and family have become unfamiliar to him. His wife Irene and her daughter Lotte built a new life all by themselves in the tough times of the post-war turmoil in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. With a lot of commitment and dedication, she runs her own department store today and has become an extremely successful businesswoman. Not only as a consultant, the lawyer Dr. Heinz Werther stand her more and more aside. It is becoming increasingly impossible for Irene to do justice to both, men and lover alike. She hopes that even without her, Martin will slowly find his way back in his homeland and open up perspectives for him..
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Reifende Jugend (1955)
Character: Studienrat Dr. Crusius
The trials and tribulations of love in a school community in the still young Federal Republic of Germany.
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Kater Lampe (1936)
Character: Fritz Neumerkel - Schnitzergeselle
In the central mountains, an American lady trying to manufacture snowshoes assists a struggling German toy maker,whose cat becomes a symbol for what binds together the lives of such village folk.
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Klettermaxe (1952)
Character: Max Malien, Schriftsteller
A masked hero scales the walls of buildings and relieves burglars of the money or valuables they've stolen. He donates the stolen goods to charity and turns the criminals over to the authorities. An exotic dancer falls madly in love with this hero whose face she has never seen. But who is hiding behind the mask?
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Fräulein Liselott (1934)
Character: Peter Wendt, Architekt
Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.
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Glückspilze (1935)
Character: Hans Berding
The holidays are over and the students of the Schiller high school in Baldenburg. The new term will wake up with the chorale , my heart, and sing before Director Bartmann reads a deed of gift from Manfred Werner from Bahia in Brazil .
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Ein Idealer Gatte (1958)
Character: Sir 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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Death Trap (1962)
Character: N/A
A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. Namely, was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death.
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...und abends in die Scala (1958)
Character: Pierre de Motestant
The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience.
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Das Lied von Kaprun (1955)
Character: Peter Dahle
Austria, 1950s. Safety engineer Peter Dahle increasingly sees a personal enemy in the construction of the power station and the mountain of Kaprun. To protect his workers, he asks the experienced mountain guide Hans Tribusser for help. For the glockner king, the massive intervention in nature is tantamount to blasphemy and he refuses his support. This brings Dahle's former love onto the scene. The wealthy Barbara Fuller is able to change the nature lover's mind, but her intrusion into the men's domain causes new disasters.
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City of Fear (1965)
Character: Paul
A Canadian reporter gets mixed up in Cold-War politics, romance and espionage in Eastern Europe.
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Kampf um Blond (1933)
Character: Victor
Lotte and Daisy run away from the orphanage and make their way to Berlin, where they meet shady characters. The police are looking for the two of them, especially as several girls have recently disappeared without trace.
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For Freedom (1940)
Character: Fritz
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
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Krach um Jolanthe (1934)
Character: Wesemeier, der neue Lehrer
Comedy about a prize pig, who’s more than a tad responsible for the turbulent adventures in his small town.
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Spy for a Day (1940)
Character: Captain Hausemann
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
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Marry Me (1949)
Character: Louis
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
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The New Lot (1943)
Character: Czech Soldier
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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Die klugen Frauen (1936)
Character: Painter Johann Breughel
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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Neutral Port (1940)
Character: Capt. Grosskraft
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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Hotel Sahara (1951)
Character: Lt. Gunther Von Heilicke
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
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Desperate Moment (1953)
Character: Paul Ravitch, alias Schleger
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
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Der Gorilla von Soho (1968)
Character: Henry Parker
When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins.
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Loser Takes All (1956)
Character: Hotel Manager
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
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Subway in the Sky (1959)
Character: Carl
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.
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The Big Blockade (1942)
Character: Gunter
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
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Beware of Pity (1946)
Character: Lt. Anton Marek
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
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Foxhole in Cairo (1960)
Character: Field Marshal Rommel
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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The Victors (1963)
Character: Herr Metzger
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
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Das Verrätertor (1964)
Character: Trayne
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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The Devil's Agent (1962)
Character: Inspector Huebling
German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub (Christopher Lee), the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a small package to a friend in West Germany, the befuddled Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games.
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Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (1954)
Character: Dr. Pleyer
Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears away at Ina to the point that she contemplates poisoning her husband...
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Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen (1961)
Character: Raymond Lyne
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Character: Commandant
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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English Without Tears (1944)
Character: Felix Dembowski
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
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Schachnovelle (1960)
Character: Hartmann
Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
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Frieda (1947)
Character: Richard
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
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Night Train to Munich (1940)
Character: Paul - KL Guard (uncredited)
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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Ich bei Tag und du bei Nacht (1932)
Character: Wolf
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.
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Victoria the Great (1937)
Character: (uncredited)
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Character: von Ritter
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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Des Teufels General (1955)
Character: Oberst Friedrich Eilers
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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Frühlingslied (1954)
Character: Dr. Andermatt
At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy learns the hard way. The 6-year-old must practice daily 6 hours at the piano and already impresses at famous music parties. When Eduard Fabricius breaks a leg after a concert in Lucerne and must go to the hospital, he can be persuaded by a pediatrician to grant some carefree vacation weeks in a manor for Wolfgang. The manor belongs to the young widow Elisabeth who soon grows very fond of the little boy. Wolfgang makes friends with 11-year-old Heidi and Jöggi, a boy his age who first saw a rival in him...
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Jeannie (1941)
Character: Count Erich von Wittgenstein
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
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Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970)
Character: Mitglied der Tischrunde
The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about their schooldays, the successful young writer Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer realizes he missed out on something because he was taught at home and never attended school. He decides to make up for it by masquerading as a student at a small-town high school. At the school, he quickly gains a reputation as a prankster. Together with his classmates, he torments his professors Crey, Bömmel, and Headmaster Knauer with adolescent mischief. His girlfriend Marion unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to give up his foolish charade. Eventually, he falls in love with the headmaster's daughter and discloses his identity after provoking the teachers into expelling him from school.
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Convoy (1940)
Character: Commander U.37
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Yellow Canary (1943)
Character: Jan Orlock
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
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The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Character: Talleyrand
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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Let George Do It! (1940)
Character: German Radio Operator (uncredited)
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
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Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)
Character: Colonel Horsten
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.
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