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Lockvogel der Nacht (1959)
Character: Zanecki
The unscrupulous Klaus Petzold has developed a very special business model: with his company, which outwardly presents itself as a normal detective agency, he is the logical consequence and at the same time the counterpoint to the institution of marriage agencies. While some people work to bring two people together, Petzold's Frankfurt establishment offers a service designed to make it easier for clients to get a divorce.
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Lovec senzací (1989)
Character: Chief Editor
Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the years before World War I and recorded in his reports and stories: he participated in the discovery of the real murderer of a rich innkeeper, attended the wedding of a beggar's son with the daughter of a complacent rich man, and witnessed the mysterious murder of a money-changer's uncle.
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Zuřivý reportér (1988)
Character: Chief Editor
Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” Kisch goes undercover in a poverty lodging house, uncovers a tattoo’s dark backstory and deciphers a secret telegram hinting at war via the legend of the black rose; in “Lovci senzací,” he pursues sensational leads and exposes hidden truths, proving why he was rightly called “the raging reporter.”
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Schwarze Nylons – Heiße Nächte (1958)
Character: Ricardo
Reporter Heinz Wöhler is sent to find dancer Cilly, who vanished on tour. He discovers her dead under suspicious circumstances linked to her exploitative manager, Sabri. As Heinz digs deeper, he’s framed and kidnapped. Undercover Interpol agent Vera intervenes, leading a daring rescue from Sabri’s ringleader’s yacht and exposing the trafficking scheme.
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Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr (1976)
Character: Bongartz
Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.
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Ein Sarg aus Hongkong (1964)
Character: Mr. Belling (voice) (uncredited)
A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.
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Unendlich tief unten (1977)
Character: Kammer
Insurance clerk Paul Montag is assigned to investigate the death of Magdalene Gard. The 28-year-old sportswoman died in the middle of a tennis tournament under unclear circumstances - allegedly of heart failure. Shortly before her death, she had taken out a disproportionately high life insurance policy worth DM 100,000, which was not paid to her mother but to a mysterious organization called “Cumulus”...
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Die goldene Pest (1954)
Character: N/A
At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking.
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Weg ohne Umkehr (1954)
Character: Direktor Berger
A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.
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Alle Menschen werden Brüder (1973)
Character: Delacorte
The unsuccessful writer Ritchie can't stand his brother, a criminal businessman. When both fall in love with the beautiful Lilian, a dangerous game of revenge begins.
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Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind (1974)
Character: Hellmann
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
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Der rote Kreis (1960)
Character: N/A
A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to blackmail and murder.
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Das Totenschiff (1959)
Character: Kapitän der Yorikke
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
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Viele kamen vorbei (1956)
Character: Kreitz
Attempted murder told from three perspectives: that of the offender, the (prospective) victim and the investigating officer.
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Son of Hitler (1979)
Character: Judge
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
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Die Bande des Schreckens (1960)
Character: Richard Shelton aka Richard Cravel
The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
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