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S.A. Mann Brand (1933)
Character: Frau Brand
This Nazi propaganda film tells the story of a young truck driver who is having trouble making ends meet until he is exposed to the teachings of Adolf Hitler, and he joins the S.A., aka Storm Troopers, and manages to convert his father--a former soldier with Marxist leanings--and his girlfriend of the rightness of the Nazi cause.
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Fahrendes Volk (1938)
Character: Die Löwenfellgerberin
Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son, now grown up, Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father. Marcel loves Yvonne, the daughter of director Barlay. He is against the connection, sends his daughter to Italy and convinces Marcel that Yvonne does not return his feelings.
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Peer Gynt (1934)
Character: Ingrids Mutter
Fun-loving Peer Gynt lives carefree on his parents' farm. Only his mother is a fixed point of reference; he doesn't think much of regular work and an orderly life. His mother's death brings him closer to the young Solveig, but he leaves her and his homeland to make his fortune in America.
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Die Jugendsünde (1936)
Character: Horlacherin, genannt Mahm
Farmer Grillhofer is slowly getting old and sickly. His housekeeper Rosl takes care of him, while foreman Wastl takes care of the farm. Grillhofer's brother-in-law Dusterer knows that twenty-five years ago the farmer got involved with his maid, Riesler Magdalen, who then disappeared. He uses this knowledge to get Grillhofer to hand over his estate to him and his family.
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Peterle (1943)
Character: Therese Enzinger
Josef Brandlmeier is a true Munich original. He is a beer delivery man, a stately figure, not so young anymore and often a little grumpy. He is not married, but he harbors a secret love for the widow Therese Enzinger, who reciprocates his feelings.
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Die heimlichen Bräute (1942)
Character: Vroni
Uncle Ludwig’s childless estate hinges on his nephews: Peter studies agriculture and is engaged to Inge, while Paul, a court assessor, loves Marianne, whose father disdains “judges.” Both women secretly visit Bainingen, but Ludwig mistakes Inge for Marianne and vice versa, triggering a cascade of romantic mix-ups.
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Aufruhr der Herzen (1944)
Character: Maria Atzinger
A small, mountain town. The populace here has long lived off the artisanal production of axes. But due to a glut of cheap, factory goods, the business magnate Brugger is no longer able to sell his axes and he dies before a complete economic collapse. His daughter Anna wants to marry Thomas Volderauer, a friend of her father's, who wishes to once more bring work to the town by moving his metal working factory there. Thus Franz, the son of old Atzinger, has no chance with Anna; especially as his father implores Anna to marry Volderauer. Embittered, Franz leaves the town. In order to earn money, Franz ends up as a tourguide for wealthy tourists and notices that their ice picks aren't good for anything, except maybe cutting ice for their fancy cocktails. He realizes that the manufacture of high quality ice picks, for example, could be good business for his town. He therefore returns there and organizes resistance to the demolition of the town forge.
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Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary (1948)
Character: Frau Seelenmayr
In 1933, a family is divided when the father and one son emigrate to democratic Switzerland while the mother and other son remain in Nazi Germany. The two branches of the family develop along very different paths.
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Du bist mein Glück (1936)
Character: N/A
Tenor Mario Monti is searching for his wife Bianca's daughter, who is believed to be dead. Before Mario, Bianca was married to Carlo Scarpia, Mario's patron. When Carlo discovered that his wife and Mario were having an affair, he left them both and, as he was leaving, told Bianca that their daughter Mary had died. In reality, she grew up without knowing her real parents. Mario tracks Mary down in Munich, where she works as a ballerina at the State Opera.
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Man rede mir nicht von Liebe (1943)
Character: Rosi Machatschek
Painter rookie Pamela plans to work in advertising but established artist Alwin falls for her and urges her to hone her craft. He guides her to fragile success, she detests being dependent on him and tries to succeed on her own.
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Krambambuli (1940)
Character: Crescentia Sonnleitner
A hunter buys a fine hunting dog from a drunkard for twelve bottles of "Krambambuli" schnapps and forcibly impresses upon the animal that from now on it must obey only him. When he catches the dog's former owner poaching, the dog runs irritably back and forth between the two men until it decides in favor of the gamekeeper - who is shot by the hunter the next moment.
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Der Edelweißkönig (1939)
Character: Mutter
A farmer shelters his brother, a wood carver, from the police who want him for the murder of a local official. In a subplot, a mountain girl finds her soulmate in a young forester.
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Der ewige Quell (1940)
Character: Moosbäuerin
The farmers on the Lohhof, the largest farm in the area, are well known all around and have the highest prestige amongst their peers, not the least, because they never suffer any shortage of water. When in times of drought the water everywhere else has dried into nothingness, the water on the Lohhof is abundant and fresh. But one very dry summer, the drought comes to the Lohhof, too, and this time, the source of the water has dried up. And so, with diving rod in hand, one of the farm's old peasants goes on his merry little way to find a new source of water. At one point, the diving rod bends so strongly, that it almost slips out of the old man's hands. Convinced that there must be a huge source of water nearby, all the farmers of the Lohhof bend their backs to find the new well. They dig long, but they dig in vain: no water is found, only a strange sand, which is yellowish, shiny and flickers golden in the sun.
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Bravo, kleiner Thomas (1945)
Character: Frau Rennert
Thomas always seems to have bad luck until he is celebrated as a hero after rescuing little Monika from drowning. After the fanfare subsides, he immediately falls back into his old role as a constantly unlucky person.
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Das sündige Dorf (1954)
Character: Therese Stangassinger
No matter how much the pastor rails against it, people in his village love each other left and right. No wonder there are so many illegitimate children. Now Toni, a farmer's son, wants to marry Vevi, a waitress. Toni's father secretly fears that Vevi is the fruit of his loins...
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Der eingebildete Kranke (1952)
Character: Bäuerin
Dr. Hartwig has settled in a small town as a doctor. One day the magical Ursel Daxenmeyer appears in his practice. Dr. Hartwig falls in love with her and wants to marry her. Beforehand, however, various obstacles have to be cleared out of the way. A very special obstacle is Ursula's father, Eusebius Daxenmeyer. He deals with mixed goods and is also a hypochondriac, that is, an ill patient. No one can tell him his imagination that he is deadly ill.
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Der doppelte Ehemann (1955)
Character: Fürsorgebeamtin
Grethe Koblanck and her husband own a successful fur fashion house in Munich. She suspects him of flirting with younger women, including the South American Dolores. She employs a hidden camera to keep an eye on him. Upon discovering this, he gets a doppelganger to take his place. Things go wrong when it turns out his double also has an interest in attractive women.
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Kleine Residenz (1942)
Character: Kammerfrau Mierbach
It’s 1910 and we’re in the duchy of Lauffenburg. Everybody is celebrating the 600th birthday of the local hero, Otto the Ironman, who in his time saved the duchy from annexation and beat the enemy so badly, that he fled ... well, that’s what it says in the history books, at least. Local gossip asserts, however, that Otto wasn’t even part of the battle and was spending his time having fun with a pretty girl. When one day a piece is introduced at the court theatre, which tells the heroic story of Otto, the director rejects the mediocre story.
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Der Dorfmonarch (1950)
Character: Frau Wally Wimpflinger
Alois Wimpflinger is the mayor of a village located in the Bavarian Alps. This grumpy but kind-hearted man is happily married to Wally and the happy father of Stefan, himself happily engaged to a charming village girl. All this sounds too idyllic to last and it doesn't! Put the blame on Christine, an unexpected visitor, who happens to be both a beautiful young woman and a talented dancer. All the men go off their heads and all the women lose their temper as soon as they see her. A cute pink little brassiere lost will be the final straw...
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Die Pfingstorgel (1939)
Character: N/A
The residents of the villages Strasslach and Rott are anything but friends. The residents of the “enemy” town are ridiculed at every chance the residents of the other village can get to do so. And it’s no different, when Rott is getting ready to celebrate the 300th anniversary of its founding. The residents of Strasslach ridicule their neighbors, because the Rotters don’t want to celebrate the anniversary, because it’ll cost money. Even the church doesn’t have an organ, because that would cost money, too.
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Ehestreik (1935)
Character: Annamirl
In a theme reminiscent of the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, wives and sweethearts in a Bavarian village agree to withhold sex from their men, as long as the men keep spending time with a new waitress at the inn.
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Der siebente Junge (1941)
Character: Cordula, Hebamme
The year is 1800. Leopold von Röckl and Ferdinand von Wangenheim, two extremely fun-loving guards lieutenants, before whom no coat is safe, leave the residence of the sovereign for a while - and for good reason: Leopold has begun an affair with Princess Gabriele, the sovereign's daughter, and the excitement surrounding it should subside somewhat in his absence; Ferdinand, meanwhile, travels to see Privy Councillor Krallinger, who is supposed to teach him a little about manners.
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Der verkaufte Großvater (1942)
Character: Mutter Haslinger
The unscrupulous dealer Haslinger has paid off a debt note worth 1000 Mark from the peasant Kreithofer and now wants the man’s farm in return for the debt settlement. Then, suddenly, a rumor pops up that Grandfather Kreithofer is a rich man, who wants to leave his entire estate to his grandchild Lois. Grandpa started the rumor to help his grandson out of the mess, who, as luck would (not) have it, is also in love with Haslinger’s daughter, Ev. But no sooner does Haslinger hear of this rumor, that he wants the old man to move in with him, leave the debt to him and give permission for the kids to marry.
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Ich bitte um Vollmacht (1944)
Character: Vroni Reitmayr
Quirky clerk Gamperl is not at all happy with his new boss, the lawyer Dr. Hartwig. For while Gamperl would love nothing more than to sue everyone in sight for every little thing, Hartwig actually advises a number of potential clients to settle their problems outside of court. This has been the case, too, with chief architect Sterneck, who wants to sue the singer Daniela Dannberg, because her vocal exercises have allegedly been disturbing the peace at his country seat in Fried im Winkel. Gamperl thus decides to take it into his own hands to head off to Fried im Winkel, so as to gather damaging evidence against the singer --- and, in the process, manages to bring the village residents to a state of litigious hysteria. When Hartwig learns of the chaos Gamperl has caused, he immediately departs for the village. Yet while he desperately attempts to put things to right, his wife then starts to think he's having an affair with the singer!
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Drei wunderschöne Tage (1939)
Character: N/A
This is essentially a "Kraft durch Freude" propaganda film though the organization is never mentioned. A company's three day outing might very well be the last because bankruptcy is just around the corner. The people on the trip have all their individual problems and wishes, too. This episodic film might sound quite promising considering the basic idea but its script is determinedly optimistic and leads everything and anything to a happy end. The dramatic parts are finished in a rather implausible way, the comedic are terribly predictable. There's a badly misjudged singing scene in the bus, some bavarian shtick, the Regensburger Domspatzen are singing in Augsburg and so on...
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Herz geht vor Anker (1940)
Character: Fischersfrau
Sailor Fritz corresponds with several women so he won't have to look for girls when on shore leave. All are keen to marry him, and he is busy fending them off while determining that it is Lotte whom he truly loves.
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Grenzstation 58 (1951)
Character: Rosl
Border Inspector Reitlechner fights in vain against a stubborn gang of smugglers led by the pretty innkeeper Retta. When a colleague is shot during an operation, suspicion falls on Reitlechner.
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Im Schatten des Berges (1940)
Character: Johanna Schloißnigg, Gemischtwarenhändlerin
In a village near a deadly mountain ascent the people repeatedly have to help climbers in danger who didn't make it to the top, in fact nobody made it yet up there. Hansi Knoteck can't stand anymore the danger after a member of the rescue party dies and demands from Attila Hörbiger that he steps back from participating in his rescue efforts. Finally he relents but the villagers ostracize them. In the meantime Winnie Markus tries to seduce Richard Häußler who makes the life for his wife Viktoria von Ballasko a hell through his infidelities.
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Venus vor Gericht (1941)
Character: Frau Laura Wimmer
A sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.
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Der Liebesexpreß (1931)
Character: Annies Hausfrau
Musical about a girl typist who leaves Berlin for Venice after winning a contest. A rich bachelor pretending to be poor takes a job with her and competes for her affections with a count and a tenor. No print of the film is known to survive, and it is therefore a lost film. It is based on the operetta Es lebe die Liebe by Alexander Engel and Wilhelm Sterk. It was one of a cycle of operetta films made during the early sound era. A French-language version, Venetian Nights (Nuits de Venise), also directed by Wiene, was released the same year. From Wikipedia.
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Der kleine Muck (1944)
Character: Frau Ahavzie
Princess Mareile and her brother have been kidnapped. Guided by Mr. Moon, Little Muck uncovers the plot of a witch, steals her miraculous running shoes and frees the captive children from the lair of the evil giant Bumbo.
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Die goldene Pest (1954)
Character: Johanna Neureither
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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Wunschkonzert (1940)
Character: N/A
The young, attractive Inge Wagner becomes acquainted with Herbert Koch during the Berlin Olympics, his flight officer insignia having first caught her eye. Sparks fly immediately between the two and they soon decide to marry. But Herbert is called off on a secret mission in Spain.
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Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (1936)
Character: Mrs. Dübol
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.
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Die keusche Sünderin (1944)
Character: Josefa Bimshofer
Xaver Bimshofer is the richest peasant in the village; and therefore, his only daughter Lenerl should marry a guy, who is diligent enough to keep the exemplary farm running. But Bimshofer doesn’t know, that Lenerl has long been a couple with the servant Sepp. So he suspects that every young man in the village wants to conquer his poor, innocent daughter. So that Lenerl really resists all these attempts, he gets a stone statue from Thomas Kammerlehner’s barn, “The Chaste Kunigunde”, which is supposed to protect the girl’s chastity and to protect her from sin by its positive energy.
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Hanna Amon (1951)
Character: Frau Brunner
Hanna Amon and her brother Thomas live on an estate they've inherited from their parents. Local veterinarian Brunner loves Hanna from afar, and Thomas is in love with the daughter of the local mayor. Love, however, doesn't always mean happiness, as both Hanna and Thomas are soon to find out.
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Anuschka (1942)
Character: Maria Nowarek
Vienna during the fin de siecle. Farmer's daughter Anuschka has to sell the farm after her father's death to the rich but mean farmer's wife Nowarek and her friendly son Jaro. Anuschka goes to Vienna and starts to work as a housemaid until she is wrongly accused of theft.
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La Paura (1954)
Character: Martha, Wagners' Housekeeper
Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose this to her husband, hoping to preserve his innocence and their "perfect marriage". This fills her with anxiety and guilt. However, Johanna Schultze, Erich's jealous ex-girlfriend, learns about the affair and begins to blackmail Irene, turning Irene's psychological torture into a harsh reality.
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