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Verena Stadler (1940)
Character: Charles Tossani
The film tells the story of Verena Stadler, a young woman who lives in a small Swiss village. Her mother, Katharina Waser-Stadler, is a strong and independent woman who supports Verena in her development. Verena falls in love with Wilhelm Waser, a man from her community, which leads to conflicts and challenges that they must overcome together.
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Dällebach Kari (1970)
Character: Basler Nationalrat
Karl Tellenbach, called "Dällebach Kari", was one of Bern’s legendary characters at the beginning of the 20th century. Born with a strong hare lip which left him disfigured and gave his voice a peculiarl nasal tone, he devoted his entire life trying to get people to laugh with him instead of at him. Ultimately, his despairing at ever becoming accepted as a fellow man coupled with unrequited love made his life tragic, culminating in his suicide at age 54. His jokes are still well known today.
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Der lebende Leichnam (1981)
Character: Fürst Abreskow
Tsarist Russia: Lisa lives apart from her husband Fedya, who drinks too much, wastes his money and hangs around with gypsies. Her mother is pushing for a divorce, especially as her childhood friend Viktor Karenin, a well-to-do and wealthy man, loves her and would take her as his wife. Lisa's sister Sasha, on the other hand, advises her to keep Fedya...
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Dilemma (1940)
Character: Sterner
17-year-old Edith is celebrating at her friend's house in Zurich when she is dragged to a nightclub by the unscrupulous seducer Jean, who gets her drunk and abuses her. When she becomes pregnant, she asks her father, who is a gynecologist, to perform an abortion. He initially refuses, but eventually agrees to perform the procedure—with fatal consequences.
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Ich war ihm hörig (1958)
Character: Dessouki
Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows how to cuddle up to her. But in reality the man is an unscrupulous fraudster who is after Anette's money.
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Der Himbeerpflücker (1965)
Character: Alexander Kerz
The pub “Zum Weißen Lamm” (the White Lamb) is filled to the brim with nasty bores. The innkeeper, played by a sweat-soaked Helmut Qualtinger, and his self-righteous circle of regulars are thrown into turmoil when a quest who is supposedly “the Rasberry picker,” a former SS officer, checks in.
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Massagesalon der jungen Mädchen (1972)
Character: Maurice
It’s love at first sight when a handsome journalist gets a massage from a beautiful masseuse. But when he discovers she’s left for a job in an unknown country, he sets off on an adventure that takes him around the globe, one massage parlor at a time!
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Der Kongreß amüsiert sich (1966)
Character: Friedrich von Gentz
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, history is in the making. Gathered around the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I, the Kings of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Prussia and Denmark, are persuaded they are building the future Europe whereas they are being manipulated by foxy Chancellor Metternich, he himself under the thumb of cynical Count Talleyrand, the French representative. All those considerations come second though to partying and social life, which is all these aristocrats really want out of this congress.
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Die ideale Frau (1959)
Character: Butler bei Martini
A woman as mayor is quite unusual in Germany in the 1950s, but Dr. Fanny Becker is a lawyer with experience in local politics, which is why she gets elected mayor of Rosenburg.
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Meschugge (1999)
Character: Eliah Goldberg
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s
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Der Zarewitsch (1973)
Character: Ministerpräsident
Lehar romantic operetta set in Russia about a beautiful dancer who is set up to attract a tsar's son, and they fall in love. Beautiful settings and wonderful music.
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Ferien vom Ich (1963)
Character: Dirigent
Ship's doctor Dr. Schumacher dreams of a sanatorium where one can truly escape from all one's obligations.
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Der achte Tag (1990)
Character: Prof. Wagner
A medical doctor who is regarded as a specialist in retort research has been found dead. Science journalist Vera Pukall investigates the alleged suicide and uncovers the ruthless activities of a large pharmaceutical company. She receives help from Dr. Svoboda, of all people, the group's main stockholder.
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Klassezämekunft (1988)
Character: Fritz Erne
Fifty years after graduating from school, Senta von Meissen invites eight former school friends to a class reunion at her castle. The table is set for ten people. One place remains empty: Teddy, the hostess's former school sweetheart, died in an accident on her graduation trip to the Rhine Falls. But was it really an accident? The evening turns into a murderous act of revenge.
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Bel Ami (1955)
Character: Minister Laroche-Mathieu
In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries Duroy.
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Menschen die vorüberziehen (1942)
Character: Blacky
The daughter of a traveling circus director falls in love with a young farmer and finds herself in a life-changing conflict.
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Professor Sound und die Pille (1971)
Character: Hoteldirektor
Great excitement in the Principality of Allegretto. Professor Sound, owner of a sanatorium for musical instruments, has come up with a sensational invention: the music pill. Once swallowed, it transforms the worst sourpuss into a cheerful singing and dancing contemporary. The success is astounding, as is the response in the international media. The pill produces satisfied tax officials, happy drivers, cheerful police officers and smiling burglars. Tourism flourishes, as a trip to Allegretto soon becomes more popular than a vacation in Hawaii. But dark clouds gather over the dwarf state when Field Marshal Heinz mobilizes his troops in neighbouring Moderato.
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Jet Generation (1968)
Character: Inspektor Arnold
In the "Swinging Munich" of the late 1960s: The young millionaire daughter Carroll Buchheim, an American, flew from the United States to Germany to visit her brother, who is missing.
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Un killer per sua maestà (1968)
Character: Faoud
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late.
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Palace Hotel (1952)
Character: N/A
The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there’s no shortage of love in this small world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place.
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I giorni dell'ira (1967)
Character: Judge Cutcher
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
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Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee (1959)
Character: Yugoslavian Lieutenant
Shortly before the end of the war, SS officer Grohmann sinks several crates of counterfeit English money in Lake Toplitz with his comrade Kopetzky. The former Nazi used the money to build a career in business in post-war Germany. His buddy also benefits from this “new beginning”. That's when reporter Wolfgang Löhde gets on their trail...
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Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam (1957)
Character: Public Defender
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.
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Die zwölf Geschworenen (1963)
Character: Zwölfter Geschworener
Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict.
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Fuga dal paradiso (1990)
Character: Mait
In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.
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