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Der Versager (1969)
Character: Bach
A 45-year-old employee‘s future begins to falter. He rightly fears that he will fall victim to his new manager's rationalization measures. But he doesn't want to bow to his "fate" so easily: in the fight for his livelihood, he resorts to dirty means himself.
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Das ausgefüllte Leben des Alexander Dubronski (1967)
Character: Lothar Krake
The municipal gasworks are equipped with ultra-modern electronic booking machines. Lothar Krake, a small employee, is working on such a monster and makes a typo. He doesn't dare admit the mistake for fear of losing his position. With the wrong name, he creates a new customer named Alexander Dubronski, for whom over time Krake manufactures a life of unimagined proportions. Krake lets him live with him, gets him an extra gas meter and one day even writes his memoirs. Money rolls in, but Krake is overwhelmed by the inevitable complications. (via 3sat)
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Einladung zur Enthauptung (1973)
Character: Pierre
Cincinnatus C., a thirty-year-old teacher, has been found guilty of the crime "gnostical turpitude", and will be executed in twenty days' time.
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Die Mitläufer (1985)
Character: Strobel
Combining archival footage with dramatized episodes based on real accounts, this film examines everyday life in Nazi Germany through the experiences of ordinary citizens. Directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz and Erwin Leiser, it traces how conformity, opportunism, fear, and routine compromise drew “ordinary” men and women into complicity with the regime, revealing the banality of evil at work in daily life.
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Mutter, ich will nicht sterben! (1994)
Character: Horst Kastowsky
Shortly before her wedding, Ella learns that she has leukemia. A bone marrow transplant from a blood relative is the only way to save her life. But her mother confesses to her that she was adopted as a baby. Ella sets off in search of her biological mother and begs her: “Mother, I don't want to die!
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Hautnah (1985)
Character: Schober
Private eye Dold, a specialist in surveillance tasks, is sent to investigate a Frankfurt bordello boss. He's a pain in the butt for many in the red-light district and is to be overthrown to pave the way for financially strong speculators to lucratively redevelop the area. Dold, who always saw his work as morally justified, comes to doubt the rightness of his actions far too late.
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Das Millionending (1966)
Character: N/A
In 1951, East Berlin's railroad transportation fund was robbed in a spectacular burglary. The vaults contained the West Marks that the East Berlin Reichsbahn administration collected through its services in the West sectors of Berlin.
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Das Wunder des Malachias (1961)
Character: Pater Malachias
The ardent prayer of a monk brings about a true miracle in a West German industrial town, which, however, is not understood by the people but only exploited as a lucrative sensation.
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Black Coffee (1973)
Character: Hercule Poirot
The inventor Sir Claude Amery wants to give the thief of the formula for his latest invention the chance to return it in the dark without being recognized. He gathers everyone in the house in the library and has the lights switched off for a short time. When the light comes back on, Amery is dead. A case for the Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot.
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Whiteface (2002)
Character: Eddie Shapiro
After a long time, a circus is back in the area of Tidal Basin and already the strange phantom has reappeared: the white clown! He robbed banks and stores without a system and disappeared without a trace. Lane and Higgins, together with the worn-out journalist Shapiro, hunt for the mysterious culprit in the dense London fog.
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