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Belgien, Deutschland2002Dokumentarfilm… so as to penetrate the enemy′s inner workings. In this way, knowledge is gained regarding the thoughts, … under the former repressive East German regime. However, this prison - the subject of Nina Toussaint and Massimo … - was no ordinary detention center. The building - which never figured on maps of East Berlin and which, today, still …
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DDR1965/1966Spielfilm… breaks and a lack of context in the plot. The film was never completed at the time. It was not until 1990 that it …
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… entertainment particular to the new German middle class." This "particular style" would be developed in countless … from contemporary popular culture all left their mark on this form of musical sound-film. Its variety was reflected in … comedies from the early years of sound film vanished, never to return — not even after World War II, in the …
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*25.03.1908 Düsseldorf †20.04.1980 Castellina, Italien
… Käutner wrote the screenplay "Anno 1948", but the film was never realized. He then produced and co-wrote the first film … Wer will unter die Soldaten ... …
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*08.05.1908 Leipzig †05.08.1984 Berlin (Ost)
… who falls in love with her teacher and perishes from this 'forbidden' love. The play was a great success and … a film in which only women act is thrilling, because this film concerns everyone, because it uses a human theme … - an actress who, due to historical circumstances, was never really able to make the most of her great talent. …
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*04.09.1952 Lüdenscheid
… a Schwabing disco. The New German Wave film "Gib Gas - Ich will Spaß" ("Hangin’ Out", 1983), starring the pop stars Nena … the West Berlin underground music scene of the 1980s - this film is best known for its rare and intense concert … Go". A more personal project was the documentary "I'll Never Get out of this World Alive" (1992), about country …
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*13.07.1938 Berlin †22.04.2024
… the Oberhausener Manifest, Verhoeven was strangely enough never really counted among the filmmakers of the 'Neuer … the subject matters treated in his films. One reason for this could be the fact as that as an autonomous producer, he …
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*01.10.1973 Bergen auf Rügen
… (2004) und in "Der Untergang" ("Downfall", 2004). For this role, Striesow won the German film award for Best … tragical comedy "So glücklich war ich noch nie" ("I've Never Been Happier"), all 2009. For his role of an impostor …
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*13.12.1940 Berlin
… where she studied acting from 1961 to 1963. Already during this time Wachowiak played small roles in film and … Potsdam, where she stayed for five years, but never really felt at home: in an interview in 1981 she … in which she played the writer's wife - for many years this remained her last feature film role. At the Deutsches …
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Senta Verhoeven (Weiterer Name)
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*13.05.1941 Wien, Österreich
… played the mother of the titular family. Fittingly for this big-screen triumph, she was awarded the Honorary Award … Akademie für Fernsehen. Retirement, however, was never on her mind. In early 2026, Berger returned to the … comedy "Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke" ("Oh, This Void, This Dreadful Void") – a performance that once …
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Johann Zischler (Weiterer Name)
Cast, Director, Screenplay, Director of photography, Production design, Music, Unit production manager
*18.06.1947 Nürnberg
… acclaimed "Im Lauf der Zeit" ("Kings of the Road", 1976). This was followed by prolific parts in Peter Handke's "Die … "Der Himmel über Berlin" ("Wings of Desire", 1987). Never afraid to also appear in lighter entertainment fare, …
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… but also in Turkey. Even so, since the end of the 1990s, this double background is generally depicted as something … commonplace, auxiliary to the film. Thomas Arslan put it this way when discussing his film " Der schöne Tag ": … invoked clash between cultures is something she has never experienced herself. [...] She feels absolutely at home …
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Deutschland2002/2003Spielfilm… he realizes the carefree life of the past has vanished, never to be repeated. His friends have gone their own way, … people without a plan. Like American Graffiti defined this feeling for the rock’n’roll generation, we (myself and …
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*14.12.1954 Tegernsee
… In the course of the following years, Mattes who never received any formal actor's training would work … also played the lead in Percy Adlon's "Celeste" (1980). This title role won her the Bayerischer Filmpreis. In 1983, … In 2002, she was awarded another Deutscher Filmpreis, this time as Best Supporting Actress in the children's movie …
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*21.01.1976 Berlin
… emotional meltdown of his parents during a weekend stay. This performance and his turn in "Tabu" ("Tabu: The Soul Is a … he starred opposite Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart . This was followed by leading roles in "Sworn Virgin" … In Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "Werk ohne Autor" ("Never Look Away", 2018), he played a visitor guide in a Nazi …
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Kurt Bertrand Paul Hoffmann (Geburtsname)
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*12.11.1910 Freiburg im Breisgau †25.06.2001 München
… already temporarily exempted the following year. During this time he directed three films: the two Rühmann comedies … Globe and received a German Film Prize in silver. In this film Hoffmann traced German history between 1913 and … other film prizes and his box office successes, he has never received the same recognition from critics and film …
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D. W. Buck (Weiterer Name)
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*01.12.1962 Bad Segeberg
… he completed an apprenticeship as a farmer. Parallel to this, he applied to an acting school in Hamburg, but was … Through cameraman and director Wolfgang Fischer , in whose never publicly shown feature film "Was sein, muß sein" Buck … the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. During this time he made several short films, for example "Eine …
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… in Germany were made as early as the early 1960s. This was at the very beginning of the wave of immigration of … mentalities and the Central European way of life could never generate anything but conflict, so insurmountable were … primarily German directors portrayed their parents' lives. This second-generation cinema started out with documentaries …
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… in Germany were made as early as the early 1960s. This was at the very beginning of the wave of immigration of … mentalities and the Central European way of life could never generate anything but conflict, so insurmountable were … primarily German directors portrayed their parents' lives. This second-generation cinema started out with documentaries …
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… reflects the radical, antidemocratic transformation of this time—the end of the Weimar Republic. Two weeks earlier, … that of any historical period or national cinema — was never an entirely uniform and isolated corpus. The … apotheosis " Triumph des Willens " (Triumph of the Will, 1935), and " Ewiger Wald " (Enchanted Forest, 1936), …