Bruno Ganz

Born: 1941-03-22

Bruno Ganz (March 22, 1941 – February 16, 2019) was a Swiss actor who debuted at the theatre in 1961 and gained there a good reputation as a solid, young actor. In 1970 he founded with 'Peter Stein' the theatre company "Schaubuehne" of Berlin. His debut at the movies was early and unsuccessful in 1960. Only in 1975 after "Sommergaeste (1975)" he could show his talent as a reflexive actor with tendencies towards introspection.


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The Reader

as Professor Rohl
Released: 2008-12-10

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair...

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Luther

as Johann von Staupitz
Released: 2003-10-29

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the...

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The House That Jack Built

as Verge
Released: 2018-07-05

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most...

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as Ernst Jürgen
Released: 2011-02-16

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no...

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Wings of Desire

as Damiel
Released: 1987-09-23

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling...

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Downfall

as Adolf Hitler
Released: 2004-09-16

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from...

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Night Train to Lisbon

as Older Jorge O'Kelly
Released: 2013-03-07

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles...

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The Counselor

as Diamond Dealer
Released: 2013-10-25

A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

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Heidi

as Alpöhi, Heidi's grandfather
Released: 2015-12-10

Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling...

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The Baader Meinhof Complex

as Horst Herold
Released: 2008-09-25

'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody...

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The American Friend

as Jonathan Zimmermann
Released: 1977-06-24

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture...

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The Manchurian Candidate

as Delp
Released: 2004-07-30

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having...

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Nosferatu the Vampyre

as Jonathan Harker
Released: 1979-01-17

Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula...

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A Hidden Life

as Richter
Released: 2019-12-11

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the...

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Faraway, So Close!

as Damiel
Released: 1993-09-01

Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The...

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The Party

as Godfried
Released: 2017-07-27

Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of...

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The Boys from Brazil

as Professor Bruckner
Released: 1978-10-05

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

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In Order of Disappearance

as Papa
Released: 2014-02-21

Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns...

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Youth Without Youth

as Professor Stanciulescu
Released: 2007-10-26

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards...

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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)
Released: 2012-02-04

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look,...

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Bread and Tulips

as Fernando Girasoli
Released: 2000-03-03

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her...

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Eternity and a Day

as Alexandros
Released: 1998-10-23

An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.

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Lumière and Company

as Damiel
Released: 1995-12-20

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe...

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Remember

as Rudy Kurlander #1
Released: 2015-10-23

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with...

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The Tobacconist

as Sigmund Freud
Released: 2018-10-12

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and...

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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

as The Governor
Released: 2013-08-14

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a...

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Vitus

as Grandfather
Released: 2006-02-02

Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu)...

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Amnesia

as Bruno
Released: 2015-08-19

A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an...

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The Marquise of O

as Der Graf
Released: 1976-05-19

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

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The Last Days of Chez Nous

as J.P.
Released: 1992-10-08

The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French...

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Lady of the Camelias

as Count Perregaux
Released: 1981-02-26

A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich...

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In the White City

as Paul
Released: 1983-03-11

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship,...

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The Dust of Time

as Jacob
Released: 2008-11-22

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the...

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In Times of Fading Light

as Wilhelm Powileit
Released: 2017-06-01

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn...

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The Left-Handed Woman

as Bruno
Released: 1977-10-30

Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has...

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Especially on Sunday

as Vittorio
Released: 1991-09-26

Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by...

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Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II

as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
Released: 2006-02-24

The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a...

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One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

as Self
Released: 2008-01-24

The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the...

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The End Is My Beginning

as Tiziano Terzani
Released: 2010-10-07

When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call...

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Strapless

as Raymond Forbes
Released: 1989-05-14

An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling...

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The Architecture of Doom

as German narrator (voice)
Released: 1989-10-13

Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture...

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Wim Wenders, Desperado

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-07-16

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim...

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Circle of Deceit

as Georg Laschen
Released: 1981-10-15

Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut...

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Black and White Like Day and Night

as Thomas Rosemund
Released: 1978-12-02

A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates...

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The Day of the Cat

as Kater
Released: 2010-01-21

The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming...

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Fathers and Sons

as Heinrich Beck
Released: 1986-11-12

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them...

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The Witness

as Nikola Radin
Released: 2019-01-17

An action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of...

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Fortuna

as Brother Jean
Released: 2018-09-19

Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the...

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The Absence

as Player
Released: 1993-01-20

Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a...

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Colors in the Dark

as Fred
Released: 2011-01-13

Anita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They...

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The Ode to Joy

as Kurt Heinrich
Released: 2006-06-17

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the...

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Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone

as Kammerdiener
Released: 1960-08-18

Hugo Wiederkehr, as a dutiful bank employee, has to deal with all kinds of customers. Among...

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Of Women and Horses

as Franz Mann
Released: 2012-01-25

This microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent,...

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La provinciale

as Rémy Muller
Released: 1981-01-21

In this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the...

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Return to the Beloved

as Dr. Stephan Kern
Released: 1979-05-02

Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with...

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Lumière

as Heinrich Grun
Released: 1976-03-24

Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in...

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Children of Nature

as Engill
Released: 1991-08-01

An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the...

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Il Grande Fausto

as Biagio Cavanna
Released: 1995-10-29

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Night on Fire

as Peter Keller
Released: 1993-10-27

Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the...

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Hands Up!

as Self (1981 footage)
Released: 1985-01-21

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

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Saint-Ex

as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Released: 1996-11-17

Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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Summer Guests

as Jakov Shalimov
Released: 1976-01-29

A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and...

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II

as Faust
Released: 2001-03-01

Second part of Goethe's Tragedy

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Julia's Disappearance

as John
Released: 2009-10-08

A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth...

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Love of a Woman

as Franco Bassani
Released: 1988-07-08

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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

as Self
Released: 2003-07-01

This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer,...

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Krieg und Frieden

as uncredited
Released: 1982-09-30

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German...

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Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-05-21

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made...

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System Without Shadow

as Faber
Released: 1983-08-13

Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private...

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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

as Ezra Pound
Released: 1988-01-01

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles...

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A Jew Must Die

as Arthur Bloch
Released: 2016-09-15

A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and...

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Deadly Silence

as Hans Plache
Released: 1997-05-03

A gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events.

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El río de oro

as Peter
Released: 1986-02-27

During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country...

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Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary

as Lui-même
Released: 2022-09-25

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Lost and Found

as Werner
Released: 1980-04-12

Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited...

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The Making of 'Nosferatu'

as Self
Released: 1979-10-06

Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

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Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts

as Voice of Segantini
Released: 2015-06-11

Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He...

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Knife in the Head

as Hoffmann
Released: 1978-11-17

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works....

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Diario senza date

as uncredited
Released: 1995-09-01

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The End of an Eternity

as Himself
Released: 1999-01-01

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998),...

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Prague

as Josef
Released: 1993-02-28

Alexander is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's...

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Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«

as Narrator
Released: 1986-09-12

Thomas Bernhard in Madrid.

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Winter Journey

as George Goldsmith
Released: 2019-11-23

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of...

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A Roof Over Your Head

as Fred Weber
Released: 1962-03-16

A poor family with 6 kids that live in a ramshackle hut are suddenly offered a nice flat for...

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I

as Faust
Released: 2001-02-16

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Bankomatt

as Bruno
Released: 1989-02-13

With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police...

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Copacabana

as Herbert Schubert
Released: 2008-05-14

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5% de risque

as David
Released: 1980-07-01

A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without...

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The Wild Duck

as Gregers Werle
Released: 1976-09-01

Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the ...

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St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

as Narrator (German voice)
Released: 1997-12-23

St. Stephen’s Cathedral ranks amongst Austria‘s most famous cultural monuments. Yet, one would...

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The Inventor

as Jakob Nüssli
Released: 1981-04-07

In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an...

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Alias Kurban Saïd

as Narrator
Released: 2005-02-24

The mystery of the author of the 1937 cult novel Ali and Nino - a recently-rediscovered Romeo...

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Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2020-09-08

A 90'- documentary about Roger Raymond Rossmeisl (1927-1979), the most overlooked great guitar...

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Epsteins Nacht

as Adam Rose
Released: 2002-11-10

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Private Resistance

as Gustav
Released: 1985-01-24

Otto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the...

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Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones

as Peter (archive footage)
Released: 2005-11-18

Documentary about the personal and professional life of Pablo G. del Amo. He is the most...

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Taxiphone

as Stranger
Released: 2010-03-02

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Gegen Ende der Nacht

as Fehleisen
Released: 1998-04-29

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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution

as Narrator German (voice)
Released: 2019-09-12

In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King...

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Scene of the Crime

as Bombadil
First aired: 1970-11-29

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...

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Goldene Kamera Verleihung

as Self
First aired: 1966-01-25

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Bambi Awards

as Self
First aired: 1948-01-01

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...

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Zur Person

as Self
First aired: 1963-04-10

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Boulevard Bio

as Self
First aired: 1991-08-06

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Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy

as Heinrich Beck
First aired: 1986-11-12

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them...

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Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

as Self
First aired: 2002-04-06

"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" -...

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La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie

as Count Perregaux
First aired: 1981-02-26

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