Kurt Raab

Born: 1941-07-20

Kurt Raab (20 July 1941 – 28 June 1988) was a West German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on 31 film projects.


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Escape from Sobibor

as Oberscharführer Karl Frenzel
Released: 1987-04-12

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate...

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

as Car Mechanic
Released: 1974-06-05

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her...

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Love Is Colder Than Death

as Aufsichtsperson im Kaufhaus
Released: 1970-01-16

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a...

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The Merchant of Four Seasons

as Kurt, Hans's brother-in-law
Released: 1972-02-10

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family,...

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Fox and His Friends

as Wodka-Peter
Released: 1975-06-06

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and...

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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

as Mr. R.
Released: 1970-06-28

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

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Martha

as Secretary
Released: 1974-05-28

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange,...

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The Magic Mountain

as Dr. Krokowski
Released: 1982-02-25

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the...

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Tenderness of the Wolves

as Insp. Fritz Haarmann
Released: 1973-07-12

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between...

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Satan’s Brew

as Walter Kranz
Released: 1976-10-07

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of...

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Beware of a Holy Whore

as Fred
Released: 1971-08-28

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director...

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Angry Harvest

as Maslanko
Released: 1985-02-20

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are...

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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1992-06-11

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

as Barkeeper Gustav
Released: 1975-07-01

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to...

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Whity

as The Pianist (uncredited)
Released: 1971-06-02

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in...

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Boarding School

as Fletcher
Released: 1978-04-14

This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school....

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Fear of Fear

as Herr Bauer
Released: 1975-07-08

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before...

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Ticket of No Return

as Chef
Released: 1979-10-27

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest...

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Fire and Sword

as Ganelon
Released: 1982-01-15

The young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde....

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Bella Donna

as uncredited
Released: 1983-03-26

This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length...

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The Stationmaster’s Wife

as Xaver Ferdinand Maria Bolwieser - Station Master
Released: 1977-07-31

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren;...

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Jail Bait

as Fabrikleiter
Released: 1973-01-09

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer...

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The American Soldier

as Ricky's Brother
Released: 1970-10-09

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

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Mussolini and I

as Adolf Hitler
Released: 1985-04-14

A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days...

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Group Portrait with a Lady

as Parteifunktionär
Released: 1977-05-25

Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the...

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The Island of the Bloody Plantation

as Bevney
Released: 1983-01-27

A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and...

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Cheaters

as Jörg
Released: 1984-02-08

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the...

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Rio das Mortes

as Tankwart
Released: 1971-02-15

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried...

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Out of Order

as Fahrstuhlmonteur
Released: 1984-05-04

It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on...

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The Coffee House

as Don Marzio
Released: 1970-05-18

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee...

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Mathias Kneißl

as Fritz Rechthaler, Jungbauer
Released: 1971-05-27

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from...

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Pioneers in Ingolstadt

as uncredited
Released: 1971-05-19

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

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Feel the Motion

as Mephisto
Released: 1985-07-05

Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries...

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Bremen Freedom

as Zimmerman
Released: 1972-11-12

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture...

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The Niklashausen Journey

as Bischof
Released: 1970-10-26

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather...

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My Name Is Not Ali

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2011-11-07

Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the...

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Der Durchdreher

as Mann von Glorias Freundin
Released: 1979-03-08

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Frankfurt: The Face of a City

as Ossi
Released: 1981-10-01

Bored with her stuffy village life, teenager Susanne decides to run away to the bright lights...

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Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars

as Walter Hahn
Released: 1986-05-30

Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career...

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Im Himmel ist die Hölle los

as Intendant
Released: 1984-10-31

Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant

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The Brutalization of Franz Blum

as Aufseher Wupke
Released: 1974-03-26

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after...

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Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen

as Hitler
Released: 1980-04-18

A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world...

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Adolf and Marlene

as Adolf
Released: 1977-03-15

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to...

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Parker

as Haag
Released: 1985-05-03

An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later...

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Liebeskonzil

as Gerichtspräsident
Released: 1982-03-12

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first...

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The Atlantic Swimmers

as Polizist
Released: 1976-02-27

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across...

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Angels of Iron

as Chauffeur
Released: 1981-04-23

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949....

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Der Rekord

as P.K. Wütrich
Released: 1984-05-28

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The Fall

as Theopont Dirlewanger
Released: 1979-01-18

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End of the Commune?

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1970-06-05

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about...

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The Ancestress

as Pfarrer
Released: 1971-12-20

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Nur ein kleines bißchen Liebe

as uncredited
Released: 1977-10-30

An early short by Wolfgang Büld, in which he wanted to depict the pleasant, mundane songs and...

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Bel Canto, or May a Hooker Sob?

as Arthur
Released: 1977-11-03

A film by Robert van Ackeren.

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Die Olympiasiegerin

as uncredited
Released: 1983-10-19

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Like a Bird on a Wire

as Audience Member
Released: 1975-05-05

A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte...

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The Ghost

as Poli
Released: 1982-10-30

Jesus (played by the director) returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat...

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Wie die Weltmeister

as Oberamtmann
Released: 1981-07-09

A man moves to Berlin after relationship trouble.

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Yearning for Sodom

as Self
Released: 1989-03-21

Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked...

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NDR Talk Show

as Self
First aired: 1979-02-09

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Derrick

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-10-20

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association...

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World on a Wire

as Mark Holm
First aired: 1973-10-14

Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual...

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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

as Harald
First aired: 1972-10-29

Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director...

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Kir Royal

as Michel, Butler
First aired: 1986-09-22

Kir Royal – Aus dem Leben eines Klatschreporters is a six-part television series by Helmut Dietl...

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Der ganz normale Wahnsinn

as Franz
First aired: 1979-01-01

Der ganz normale Wahnsinn is a German television series.

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Münchner Geschichten

as Peter Pickl
First aired: 1974-11-26

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Confessions of Felix Krull

as Sally Meerschaum
First aired: 1982-01-24

Based on unfinished 1954 novel by the German author Thomas Mann. It is a parody of Goethe's...

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Die schwarzen Brüder

as Mann mit Narbe
First aired: 1984-03-07

Die schwarzen Brüder is the best-known story of German writer Lisa Tetzner and one of the most...

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