Kurt Raab
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.
Escape from Sobibor
as Oberscharführer Karl FrenzelThe 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 MechanicEmmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
as Insp. Fritz HaarmannA German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
as Mr. R.The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
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Fox and His Friends
as Wodka-PeterFox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and...
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Martha
as SecretaryAfter the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a...
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Love Is Colder Than Death
as Aufsichtsperson im KaufhausSmall-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a...
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Mussolini and I
as Adolf HitlerA compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Kurt, Hans's brother-in-lawHans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family,...
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Whity
as Pianist (uncredited)"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in...
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Feel the Motion
as MephistoYoung Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
as FredTensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Barkeeper GustavAfter a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to...
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Satan’s Brew
as Walter KranzA famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of...
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Boarding School
as FletcherThis film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school....
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Group Portrait with a Lady
as ParteifunktionärLeni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the...
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Out of Order
as FahrstuhlmonteurIt's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on...
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Angry Harvest
as MaslankoIn the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are...
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Jail Bait
as FabrikleiterBased on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer...
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The Coffee House
as Don MarzioAvant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee...
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Ticket of No Return
as ChefA sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest...
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The Magic Mountain
as Dr. KrokowskiHans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the...
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The American Soldier
as Ricky's BrotherRicky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
as Aufseher WupkeBorn into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after...
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as Self (archive footage)A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation
as BevneyA women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
as Xaver Ferdinand Maria Bolwieser - Station MasterThe lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren;...
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Rio das Mortes
as TankwartMichel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried...
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Fear of Fear
as Herr BauerAfter having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before...
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Bella Donna
as uncreditedThis film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length...
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My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the...
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The Niklashausen Journey
as BischofCan a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather...
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Like a Bird on a Wire
as Audience MemberA pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte...
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Parker
as HaagAn Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later...
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Angels of Iron
as ChauffeurThe subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949....
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Cheaters
as JörgSwaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the...
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Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
as Walter HahnTogether with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career...
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
as uncreditedBerta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
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Mathias Kneißl
as Fritz Rechthaler, JungbauerInspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from...
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Liebeskonzil
as GerichtspräsidentOskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first...
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Fire and Sword
as GanelonThe young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde....
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Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
as IntendantTeenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant
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Bremen Freedom
as ZimmermanA very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture...
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Adolf and Marlene
as AdolfWhen Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to...
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Yearning for Sodom
as SelfMade during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked...
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The Ghost
as PoliJesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes...
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Bel Canto, or May a Hooker Sob?
as ArthurA film by Robert van Ackeren.
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Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen
as HitlerA biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world...
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End of the Commune?
as Self (uncredited)"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about...
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The Atlantic Swimmers
as PolizistMunich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across...
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Frankfurt: The Face of a City
as OssiBored with her stuffy village life, teenager Susanne decides to run away to the bright lights...
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Wie die Weltmeister
as OberamtmannA man moves to Berlin after relationship trouble.
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Nur ein kleines bißchen Liebe
as uncreditedAn early short by Wolfgang Büld, in which he wanted to depict the pleasant, mundane songs and...
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Derrick
as uncreditedDerrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association...
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Kir Royal
as Michel, ButlerKir Royal – Aus dem Leben eines Klatschreporters is a six-part television series by Helmut Dietl...
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World on a Wire
as Mark HolmCybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual...
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Confessions of Felix Krull
as Sally MeerschaumBased on unfinished 1954 novel by the German author Thomas Mann. It is a parody of Goethe's...
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Der ganz normale Wahnsinn
as FranzDer ganz normale Wahnsinn is a German television series.
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Die schwarzen Brüder
as Mann mit NarbeDie schwarzen Brüder is the best-known story of German writer Lisa Tetzner and one of the most...
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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as HaraldCommissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director...
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