Friedrich Gnaß
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as FranzIn this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes...
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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
as HauswirtThis film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist...
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The Story of Little Mook
as StadtwächterAn old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was...
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I by Day, You by Night
as HelmutA nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by...
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The Kaiser's Lackey
as Napoleon FischerDiederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize...
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The Beaver Coat
as Julius WolffMother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get...
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Harbour Drift
as uncreditedA sordid tale of poverty and greed set within a quayside milieu of crime and prostitution, the...
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F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
as Funker auf der LennatzwerkF.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic...
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Dawn
as JuraczikReleased three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its...
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Once is Never
as HunzeleA musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests...
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Fra Diavolo
as uncreditedA sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King...
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Kautschuk
as Antonio, ein VaqueroAbout how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a...
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Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness
as MaxMutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of...
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Our Daily Bread
as FabrikarbeiterA story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of...
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Raid in St. Pauli
as Matrosen KarlIllustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the...
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The Condemned Village
as Bauer SchefflerEast German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West...
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Rasputin, Demon of the Women
as DerewenkoThe demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this...
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Gejagt bis zum Morgen
as Vater BaumannDrama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.
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Capriccio
as Erster HahnenkämpferLilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her...
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The Beacon
as Alter Mann mit ProtheseOn a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can...
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Die Schönste
as uncredited13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes...
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Destinies of Women
as uncreditedBerlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the...
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Girls in Gingham
as uncreditedA moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years...
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Story of a Young Couple
as HotelportierA young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the...
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