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Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister (1937)
Character: Baroche
Sylvia has succeeded in making her son Robert a minister in the French Republic. His old servent, Gabriel, interrupts the young man during an "erotic" conference with the singer Betty. She's there, because her politically inappropriate songs is about to get her banned from the stage, which the minister would like to prevent. A fight breaks out between Robert and Gabriel and Sylvia, his mother, has to confess to Robert, that Gabriel is actually his father. When the minister once again misbehaves, this time at a ball, his servant and father Gabriel decides that the time has come to slap his son in everyone's presence. Robert is forced to resign and a journalist from the People's Front suggests Gabriel for the post of minister. - The film was classified after the end of the german third empire as a reservation film.
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Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935)
Character: Direktor
Mrs. Erlynne, a mistress once expelled by London society, returns from America after years with the desire to regain a foothold in these circles.
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Unter heißem Himmel (1936)
Character: Calfa
In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking.
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Anschlag auf Baku (1942)
Character: Mamulian, Armenian Oil Tycoon
Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates.
(Description from Wikipedia)
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Wenn die Abendglocken läuten (1951)
Character: Musikverleger
A woman marries a rich landowner, by request of her parents, instead of her lover who's child she's expecting. After a couple of years, the father of the child returns.
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Menschen untereinander (1926)
Character: Alfons Mellentin
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
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Rembrandt (1942)
Character: Saskias Vetter Ujlenburgh
Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon completion of the picture, the men of the guild feel duped, because they don't consider themselves flatteringly depicted in the painting. They therefore decline to pay for the work. During this dispute, the painter finds out his wife is close to death. He finds himself terribly lonely after her passing and suffers from depression until he decides once more to marry.
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Stadt Anatol (1936)
Character: ein Melonenhändler
Based on a 1932 novel City of Anatol by Bernhard Kellermann. The film is set in a small city in the Balkans, where the discovery of oil leads to a major boom.
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Die Zaubergeige (1944)
Character: Archivrat Mittenzwey
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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…heute abend bei mir (1934)
Character: Customer
A very naive Viennese vinyl records saleswoman falls in love with a well-mannered young man. Due to a combination of circumstances, she was involved in the endless series of accidents, intrigues and piquant situations perfectly emphasized by the morals of those times, a subtle satire on the bourgeoisie and an atmosphere of innocent romance.
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Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (1934)
Character: Theaterdirektor Sebaldus Manzetti
The brilliant violinist Paganini was not only in demand in the concert hall, but also with women. When the jealous duke of Toscana suspects that Paganini is having an affair with his wife, he sics his henchmen on the musician. Paganini flees and finds refuge with a theatrical troupe. The artiste Bella falls in love with the violinist and helps him flee into the duchy of Napoleon’s sister, Anna Elisa. When she, in turn, hears him play, she summons him to her castle and it’s not long before she forgets all affairs of state because of Paganini.
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Henker, Frauen und Soldaten (1935)
Character: Generaldirektor Brosuleit
Nazi propaganda film with Hans Albers starring in a dual role as a daring German airman and a Russian general, two cousins who find themselves facing each other in bitter enmity after the end of World War I.
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Ein seltsamer Gast (1936)
Character: Rompon
The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be actually a police detective.
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Die unheimlichen Wünsche (1939)
Character: Vignon
After losing almost all of his money, a young marquis discovers that among his few remaining possessions is a magical piece of leather which is capable of fulfilling any wish. However, every use of it will make it less effective and furthermore will shorten the life of its user. Nevertheless, the marquis uses the magical object ruthlessly in order to regain his wealth and especially to get the love of Feodora, an actress. But all his efforts only seem to lead to doom…
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Stradivari (1935)
Character: Carnetti
In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the First World War, and he is badly wounded.
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Liselotte von der Pfalz (1935)
Character: Chevalier de la Lorraine
The film portrays the life of the Heidelberg-born Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, who married into the French royal family during the reign of Louis XIV.
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Jakko (1941)
Character: Zaballo
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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Eine Stadt steht kopf (1933)
Character: N/A
In the style of Gogol's Inspector General: When a traveling salesman arrives in the car of a government official, the powers that be of a small town think he's the auditor and try to throw him off the track about their disorderly finances.
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Brillanten (1937)
Character: Diener Wells
Two mysterious events, both surrounding valuable diamonds, occur a decade and an ocean apart. Can a jeweler's assistant uncover the truth?
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Der Erbförster (1945)
Character: Direktor Borgmann
For many years, Ulrich, the hereditary forester, and Steinbach, the landowner, were the best of friends. But one day, this friendship is put to a severe test: Driven by financial need, Steinbach wants to have the forest cleared, which Ulrich condemns as brutal exploitation of nature – and therefore refuses to grant permission for the project. To clear the way for his plan, Steinbach ensures that Ulrich is dismissed as forester. When, a few days later, the dam built by Steinbach is blown up and the floodwaters inundate Steinbach's sawmill, suspicion immediately falls on Ulrich. The hereditary forester is ostracized, threatened, and even fears for his life.
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Donner, Blitz und Sonnenschein (1936)
Character: Tanzlehrer Sonnweber
Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his son, Franzl, and Huckenbein's daughter, Evi. However, after a situation with a 100 mark note taken from a pair of trousers pressed by Huckebein belonging to Greisinger is resolved, a valuable mineral spring is found on the tailor's property,and the warring fathers become friends and Evi and Franzl are married.
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Sag die Wahrheit (1946)
Character: Nervenarzt Prof. Kiekebusch
Peter's fiancee Maria is chronically lying and hides her little affairs. To change this, Peter bets that he is going to tell everyone the truth for 24 hours. The consequences are catastrophic.
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Donogoo Tonka (1936)
Character: Margajat
Parisians Josette and Pierre are a happy couple, but also a completely broke one. An absurd chain of events leads them to Professor Trouhadec, who is in a predicament.
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Herzkönig (1947)
Character: Papupowitsch
After drinking too much alcohol, King Michael XXXVII promptly forgets his own wedding date! To avoid a scandal, his police minister asks the writer Peter Petroni, who looks deceptively like the king, to stand in for the alcoholic Michael at the ceremony. The only trouble is that the game quickly turns serious - because when Peter catches sight of "his" bride at the altar, it's love at first sight...
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Spaßvögel (1939)
Character: Schliebener
Mayor Eberhorn is known as a womanizer to everyone in the village. Katchen, his wife, is constantly trying to convert him to a proper way of life … but in vain. When one morning, Casanova finds a stroller with a clever slogan referencing his affairs at his front door, Eberborn seeks revenge. Top suspects for the prank? The “Spassvogel”: seven friends led by the former sailor Hannes Strobel.
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Frischer Wind aus Kanada (1935)
Character: Christian Fr. Schulze
A wholesome youth returns from Canada to the Fatherland, to rescue his father's business from a crooked accountant and a scheming lawyer.
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Spiel mit dem Feuer (1934)
Character: Whiteman, Manager
A smart wife cures her husband of his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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Der fesche Husar (1928)
Character: Bürgermeister Velkovicz
The daughter of an American millionaire falls in love with a Hungarian hussar officer during a visit to the Austrian Empire.
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Rund um eine Million (1933)
Character: Direktor Meyer
In this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending to be a millionaire and a woman pretending to be a Russian countess.
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Mordsache Holm (1938)
Character: Torben Jönssen
A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many suspects...
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Alarm auf Station III (1939)
Character: Mister Fields, Krimminalkommissar aus Amerika
During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price.
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Der grüne Kaiser (1939)
Character: Bankier Vandermer
A pilot is suspected of murdering a fraudulent banker who vanished without a trace and is subsequently convicted. After his release, he tracks down the man he was accused of killing, who is living in Brazil under a different identity, and kills him in self-defense during a confrontation.
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Herr Sanders lebt gefährlich (1944)
Character: Kockelkorn
Until now, the detective stories by author Paul Sanders had always sold splendidly – likely due in no small part to the fact that he always tested all his murderous tricks on his long-suffering secretary, and that all the cases came from the archive of his friend Caspar Natter, a retired police detective. Sanders was all the more shocked, therefore, when his publisher informed him that readers were no longer interested in his books, a fact confirmed by the weak sales figures.
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Der Herr der Welt (1934)
Character: Geheimrat Ehrenberg
A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.
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Junge Adler (1944)
Character: Kaffeehausbesitzer Zacharias
Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, he had forbidden his son to take part in the competition, because the son's grades in school are substandard. In the end, Brakke sees no other way than to pull Theo from school and install him as an apprentice in his airplane manufacturing plant. Although Theo is received by the other 150 apprentices in a friendly fashion, he behaves in an arrogant and disrespectful tone towards them. He feels himself to be better than them, because his father is the director of the factory.
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Ehegeheimnisse (1926)
Character: N/A
"How to Stay Young and Beautiful - Marital Secrets" is a German silent film from 1926, directed by Wolfgang Neff. The film, starring Hanni Weisse, William Dieterle, and Walter Rilla, humorously and dramatically explores the preservation of youth and beauty within the context of marriage.
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Die Insel (1934)
Character: Geldverleiher
A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.
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Salonwagen E 417 (1939)
Character: Paule Kuhlemann
In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it served as transport for a princely family; then became the headquarters car for the military high command; and then, most adventurous of all, it ended up with a circus. Converted to a bar, it finally had its day and was supposed to serve as a placard carrier. Luckily, the museum saved it from this sad fate.
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Stärker als Paragraphen (1936)
Character: Bankier Lörik
Renate Hubricht finds her uncle, the money broker Theodor Hubricht, murdered in his villa. That very night, the banker Lorik is arrested, who was last seen in Hubricht’s house. Renate, who doesn’t wish to live alone in the eerie estate lodges with the lawyer Dr. Birk. She doesn’t tell him, that her lover, the musician Robert Wendland, had an argument with her uncle on the evening of the murder. When Lorik is sentenced to 10 years prison, Renate is thrown into a quandary. She believes she’s protecting the real culprit with her silence.
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Capriccio (1938)
Character: Präfekt Barberousse
Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...
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Drei Mäderl um Schubert (1936)
Character: Verleger Artaria
Composer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blonds, first one, then the other; but will he notice the quiet brunet third daughter, who has fallen madly in love with him?
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Meine Herren Söhne (1945)
Character: N/A
Landowner Kurt Redwitz lost his wife early and has to raise his two sons Lutz and Lütte, who always like to paint, alone. When Redwitz hires the young pretty Bettina as an educator, everyone is enthusiastic about her. Especially the two boys love them hotly and intimately and from now on even show impeccable behavior. Only the strict housekeeper Mrs. Suhrmöller is jealous and tells Redwitz about the gossip in the village, which says that Bettina only planned to become Redwitz's wife. Redwitz then dismisses Mrs. Suhrmöller. But when Bettina finds out about it, she leaves the property and accepts a job as a social lady in the recreation home "Schloss Sorgenfrei". Now Redwitz slowly realizes what he feels for Bettina, and his sons try everything to bring the father and the educator together.
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Die Kuckucks (1949)
Character: Eberhard Schultz
Berlin, shortly after World War II. Five parentless siblings, led by the oldest sister Inge Kuckert, search for a place to stay and a basis of existence in the destroyed city. A bombed villa in the Grunewald seems to be the right "cuckoo's nest", but an alleged authorised disposal tries to drive the siblings out of the building. Fortunately, the friendly neighbor can help.
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Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (1941)
Character: Landgraf
A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.
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Condottieri (1937)
Character: Cardinal
Returned from exile where he accompanied his mother Caterina Sforza, Giovanni de 'Medici (1498-1526), becomes, under the name of Giovanni delle Bande Nere, captain of fortune at the service of the idea of a united Italy.
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Kleider machen Leute (1940)
Character: Händler Nievergelt
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.
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Der Weg zu Isabel (1940)
Character: N/A
The German estate owner Corner travels to Marseilles, looking for his daughter. He had a relationship with a French aristocrat before the World War and knows she was pregnant, when he had to return to Germany. The War separated them however and the mother died giving birth to his child. He knows neither the name of his daughter, nor where she is living. A lawyer named Beauchamps is tasked with finding her and one days introduces a young singer named Isabel to him. She is with great probability the one, who is being sought. She follows her father back to Germany, but only with great reluctance.
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Die Verrufenen (1925)
Character: Klatte
It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.
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Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-Souci (1930)
Character: Pöllnitz
In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the envoys of Austria, Russia and France with the aim of conspiring against the Prussian King Frederick II. The Prussian envoy, Major von Lindeneck, succeeded in bringing a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king. Friedrich consults with his generals, who urge caution. Friedrich is stunned by the reaction and now develops a counter-plan. To do this, he sends von Lindeneck back to Dresden. However, the latter is not very enthusiastic about this, as he thinks he has reason to doubt his wife Blanche's marital fidelity, and he now has to leave her alone.
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Berliner Ballade (1948)
Character: Anton Zeithammer
Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.
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Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht (1939)
Character: Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin
1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
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Liebe, Tod und Teufel (1934)
Character: Mounier
In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new owner belongs to the devil.
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Bel Ami (1939)
Character: Walter
Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.
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Viktor und Viktoria (1933)
Character: Francesco Alberto Punkertin
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes that she is actually a man. While touring London, complications arise as a local womanizer catches on to her game.
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Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936)
Character: Pavel Pavlovitch
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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Hab’ mich lieb! (1942)
Character: Direktor des Revuetheaters
A showgirl aspiring to greater things endeavours to sort out her financial and romantic problems.
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Madame Bovary (1937)
Character: Charles Bovary
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.
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Amphitryon – Aus den Wolken kommt das Glück (1935)
Character: Thebener Kriegsminister
Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.
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Der höhere Befehl (1935)
Character: Advokat Menecke
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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Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl (1945)
Character: Polizeikommissär
During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Since all his personal documents were in it, he not only looses his money but also his identity. The thief turns out to be a cunning con man, who uses the papers for his criminal schemes. Soon enough, a warrant is issued, and eventually both men – the thief and the innocent guy – are arrested. But since all the red tape of the government causes even more confusion, the odyssey of the victim searching for his lost identity has just started.
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The Man Between (1953)
Character: Halendar
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
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Die gelbe Flagge (1937)
Character: Ramón Orveda -
An adventurer, Peter Diercksen, travels to South America to guide an expedition into the jungle. However, when the ship is quarantined he believes he has a serious disease. He does not accompany the trip, which runs into major problems.
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Die Buddenbrooks (1923)
Character: Office Worker
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
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Das Mädchen Johanna (1935)
Character: Herzog von Alençon
France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.
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Tiefland (1954)
Character: Camillo
In early 20th Century Europe, a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between two men, a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.
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