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Sabine (1974)
Character: Dr. Gerd Hesse
This German educational film about sexually transmitted diseases, through a mixture of medical imagery and love making scenes, makes the case for a timely medical treatment of gonorrhea and syphilis, and underpins this plea primarily with blatant clinical evidence of the syphilitic secondary stage.
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Weiße Sklaven (1937)
Character: Graf Kostja Wolfgoff
Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship becomes a dancehall. Bloodbath, pillage and kidnapping follows. A Nazi/Germany propaganda film.
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Der Weg ins Freie (1941)
Character: Fritz
In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...
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Andreas Schlüter (1942)
Character: Bildhauer Martin Böhme, ihr Bräutigam
Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
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Der weiße Dämon (1932)
Character: N/A
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.
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Oberst Wennerström (1965)
Character: Verteidiger
Swedish military attaché Stig Wennerström comes into contact with the US secret service at a party. After a trip to Moscow, he provides the Americans with valuable information about Soviet jets. But Wennerström is playing a double game. Lieutenant General Aratov, a Russian officer, approaches him and becomes his partner in shady dealings. For three years, the double agent game works. But then the Soviet secret service discovers that Colonel Wennerström is also working for the class enemy. The Swede is forced to spy exclusively for the Soviets from then on and goes to the American capital...
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Unternehmen Michael (1937)
Character: Leutnant Hassenkamp
During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
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Über alles in der Welt (1941)
Character: Oberleutnant Hassenkamp
Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle.
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Unser Mittwochabend (1948)
Character: N/A
Berlin, early post-war period. Several friends meet every Wednesday evening to escape the gray monotony of the city and their lives. They are a diverse group of characters with very different destinies. There is, for example, young Grita, who is gradually beginning to separate from her husband Georg because he is becoming increasingly addicted to gambling. She finds new love with the engineer Erik. But the young refugee girl Henny has also fallen in love with the handsome engineer.
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Der Lachdoktor (1937)
Character: Peter Karst
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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Bal paré (1940)
Character: Franz Stanglmayer
At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son.
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Wenn der Hahn kräht (1936)
Character: Piepers Gustav
Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor.
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Fabrik der Offiziere (1960)
Character: Major Frey
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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U-Boote westwärts! (1941)
Character: Matrosenobergefreiter Drewitz
This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.
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Kora Terry (1940)
Character: Chef der Kraftmännertruppe
When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tobs, a friend of their parents. While blonde Mara Terry arrives punctually for the first rehearsal, her dark-haired sister Kora is late like a diva and acts aloof and snippy. At their first performance together the next day, Kora is overtired from partying the night before. During a dangerous act in which she has to balance her upside-down sister on her head, she becomes careless...
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Stukas (1941)
Character: Oberleutnant Lothar Loos
This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
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Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
Character: Raymond Davitt
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
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Le Banquet des Fraudeurs (1952)
Character: Hans
Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operation, all the while romancing Siska (Christian Lenier), the daughter of a local customs official. Various subplots and secondary characters weave in and out as the plotline guides the viewer through the WW II years. Towards the end, the story shifts gears when the Benelux Frontier Agreement eliminates all government regulations. The film's screenplay is by Charles Spaak, himself the descendant of a Belgian political family, and thus well-versed in bureaucracy and red tape.
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Zwei in einer großen Stadt (1942)
Character: Bernd Birckhoff
A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her.
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Die letzte Nacht (1949)
Character: Harald Buchner, Oberleutnant
Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
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Diesmal muß es Kaviar sein (1961)
Character: Debras
Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, France or even communist Russia! To save his skin, he'll do - almost - anything, to anyone...
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In jenen Tagen (1947)
Character: Peter Keyser
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
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Der Hexer (1964)
Character: Shelby
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
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Weg ohne Umkehr (1954)
Character: Friedrich Schultz
A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.
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Pusteblume (1974)
Character: Ricks Vater
Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he was deeply in love, has unexpectedly left him and is now a junkie whore. Devastated, he tries to ease his pain with booze and cheap thrills. His wife's best friend (Dagmar Lassander) makes a move on him, and when he spurns her (after scewing her first, naturally) she plots her revenge. She does so in an ingenious way, by exploiting a fantasy woman of his, but her plan backfires with tragic consequences.
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Sorcerer (1977)
Character: "Marquez"
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
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Neues vom Hexer (1965)
Character: Dr. Mills
Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.
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An heiligen Wassern (1960)
Character: Seppi Blatter
Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs.
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Des Teufels General (1955)
Character: Ingénieur Karl Oderbruch
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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The Man Between (1953)
Character: Inspector Kleiber
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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Der Verlorene (1951)
Character: Hösch, alias Nowak
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
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Liebe 47 (1949)
Character: Beckmann
A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
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Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (1959)
Character: Generaloberst Hoth
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
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The Longest Day (1962)
Character: Gen. Wolfgang Häger
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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