Helmut GriemFilmography

Born:: April 6, 1932 in Hamburg, Germany
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Born and educated in Hamburg, handsome blonde German actor Helmut Griem first appeared in European films in 1961 and exploded onto the international film scene as the bisexual Aschenbach in Visconti's The Damned(1969). In roughly the same vein, he was cast as the elegantly debauched aristocrat...Read More

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Verlassen Sie Bitte Ihren Mann!

Actors: Helmut Griem

Synopsis: This Austrian comedy features the lovely, zaftig actress Elfi Eschke. In the story, years ago, while attempting to photograph herself in the nude on a beach, a group of mischevious boys stole her clothes, her camera - everything. A pleasant man who turned out to be rich came to her rescue, and she Read More

1993
Portrait of an Artist: Caspar David Friedrich - The Boundaries of Our Time

Actors: Helmut Griem, Sabine Sinjen, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Walter Schmidinger, Hans Quest

Synopsis: This dramatic presentation is the story of the landscapes that inspired Caspar David Friedrich. Narrated by Friedrich's friend and pupil, Carl Gustav Carus (played by Helmut Griem) this takes place on location throughout Europe. Mr. Friedrich's will not appear, except with his back to the camera Read More

1991
Escape

Synopsis: The Canadian-financed Escape was directed by TV veteran Lamont Johnson. Brian Keith plays a deceptively happy-go-lucky Irish officer put in charge of a Scottish POW camp during World War II. The toughest and most fearsome of the prisoners (Helmut Griem), makes no secret of his escape plans. The Read More

1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler

Actors: Brad Davis, Madolyn Smith, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Inspired suave aristocrat Col. Claus von Stauffenberg's ingenious plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during the waning days of World War II, director Lawrence Schiller's historical war drama traces the remarkable events that unfolded as the Third Reich's Operation Valkyrie emergency plan was Read More

1990
The Second Victory

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Max von Sydow, Helmut Griem, Mario Adorf, Birgit Doll

Synopsis: The first victory in The Second Victory is the Allied triumph in World War II. British major Anthony Andrews, in charge of the occupation troops in a remote Austrian village, must deal with the uncooperative attitude of the locals when one of his men is killed by a deranged Axis soldier. Andrews Read More

1986
Versuchung

Actors: Maja Komorowska, Helmut Griem, Eva-Maria Meineke, Rolf Becker, Ellen Frank

Synopsis: Ludwig (Helmut Griem) loves his wife Martha (Maja Komorowska) very much, something that is first apparent when they leave their home in Poland to venture into the unknown, capitalist "West." Maria has her own inner worries and fantasies that always lead to her taking most unusual action: dancing Read More

1982
La Passante Du Sans-Souci

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Wendelin Werner, Mathieu Carrière, Gerard Klein

Synopsis: A man's tragic past leads him to take justice into his own hands in this troubling look at life in Europe after WWII. Max Baumstein (Michel Piccoli) is a well-known human rights activist and avowed pacifist who, to the shock and puzzlement of many, murders a politician from South America. As Read More

1982
Malou

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Grischa Huber, Helmut Griem, Ivan Desny

Synopsis: In this drama, a young wife leaves her German home to discover the identity of her mysterious late mother who married a Jewish German during WW II. Her mother was French, and soon after she married her aristocratic husband, Hitler came to power, causing the couple to flee to Argentina. Later he Read More

1981
Stachel Im Fleisch

Actors: Helmut Griem, Barbara Lass, Jane Tilden

Synopsis: A married couple decide to take their family vacation in Sardinia - the whole family, meaning the grandmother, teenage children, and a small tot. The combination is soon to develop problems in togetherness as their interests are worlds apart: the father has his TV show tapes to watch, while one of Read More

1981
Kaltgestellt

Actors: Helmut Griem, Ángela Molina, Martin Benrath, Hans-Günther Martens

Synopsis: Injustices and misdemeanors in agencies like the local police and the National Security Bureau (West Germany's equivalent of the American FBI) are featured in this highly politicized drama about Brasch, a teacher (Helmut Griem) and Koerner (Martin Benrath), a NSB agent. A polarized society is, at Read More

1981
Les Affinites Electives

1981
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Actors: Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's sweeping 16-hour-long drama Berlin Alexanderplatz is an adaptation of the novel by Alfred Doblin. Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) is released from prison as the film opens; he had been jailed for four years after killing his girlfriend Ida. Franz becomes involved with Read More

1980
Die Hamburger Krankheit

Actors: Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Ulrich Wildgruber

Synopsis: An imaginative, symbolic drama with political overtones, Die Hamburger Krankheit postulates an affliction that is attacking the citizenry in Hamburg and threatening to spread like the bubonic plague. By coincidence, there is a medical conference taking place in the city at the time of the Read More

1979
Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna

Actors: Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Lea Massari, Magali Noël, Helmut Griem

Synopsis: Anna (Aurore Clement) is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents with her, despite her obvious Read More

1978
Die Glaeserne Zelle

Actors: Helmut Griem, Brigitte Fossey, Dieter Laser, Walter Kohut

Synopsis: When a school crashes down around the children inside for no apparent reason, architect Phillip Braun (Helmut Griem) is quickly apprehended and tried for having condoned inferior design and construction of the building. He is sentenced to prison. After he has already served his sentence, his Read More

1978
Sergeant Steiner

Actors: Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Helmut Griem

Synopsis: Also released as Sergeant Steiner, Breakthrough is a German war flick helmed by western specialist Andrew McLaglen. Richard Burton stars as Sgt. Steiner, a German who doesn't subscribe to the Nazi party line. When the plot to kill Hitler is hatched, Steiner is persuaded to join the conspiracy by Read More

1978
Deutschland im Herbst

Actors: Caroline Chaniolleau, Lisi Mangold

Synopsis: This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Read More

1978
Black Sun

Actors: Helmut Griem, Slobodan Dimitrijevic, John Hamill, Gunnel Fred, Richard Warwick

Synopsis: While living in a Spanish fishing village, a German painter kills a fisherman in revenge, ostensibly, for the violation and killing of a Scandinavian girl who has been his boarder. The locals more or less felt that the girl had the rape coming to her, because she spent so much of her time parading Read More

1978
Le Désert des Tartares

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked the fort years ago. One young soldier (Jacques Perrin), however, can't wait for the boredom to end and the fighting to begin. Ennio Morricone provided the musical score. Read More

10/29/76
Voyage of the Damned

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

1976
Ansichten Eines Clowns

Actors: Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, Eva-Maria Meineke, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Read More

1975
Children of Rage

Actors: Richard Alfieri, Helmut Griem, Olga Georges-Picot, Cyril Cusack, Simon Ward

Synopsis: An Israeli doctor (Helmut Griem) is working with guerrillas at an enclave when the Palestinians attempt to blow up a dance-hall. The doctor is stunned to discover an old friend among the terrorist dead. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Ludwig

Actors: Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: Luchino Visconti (Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone) was a film director, true, but he was also a nobleman and a grand patron of traditional European culture: opera, art, music, crafts and literature. These interests enliven many of his films, but few have been so inspired as the four-hour Read More

3/7/73
Cabaret

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper

Synopsis: Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking Bob Fosse musical was in turn based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as I Am a Camera with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. Fosse uses the decadent and vulgar cabaret as a mirror image of Read More

2/13/72
Der Moral der Ruth Halbfass

Actors: Senta Berger

Synopsis: Der Moral der Ruth Halbfass is based on a true story, but modifies the facts slightly for cinematic purposes. The mores of the patriarchal German haute bourgeoisie regarding women are satirized here. Ruth (Senta Berger) has grown weary of being dependent on her wealthy husband, a playboy in his Read More

1972
The McKenzie Break

Actors: Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Patrick O'Connell, Caroline Mortimer

Synopsis: The McKenzie Break is an unusual POW escape drama in that the would-be escapees are German prisoners, held in a Scottish camp. When a Luftwaffe pilot is murdered in the compound, British major Ian Hendrey investigates. He suspects that the killing is tied in with a complex escape plan, engineered Read More

1970
The Damned

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: In 1969, The Damned (La caduta degli dei) was director Luchino Visconti's most controversial film to date. Set in the 1930s, the film zeroes in on a Krupp-like family of German munition manufacturers. The Essenbeck clan is headed by the Baron (Rene Kolldehoff), but daughter Sophie (Ingrid Thulin) Read More

10/14/69
Der Traum Von Lieschen Muller

Actors: Sonja Ziemann, Martin Held, Helmut Griem, Cornelia Froboess, Peter Weck

Synopsis: This routine fantasy-drama that centers on a woman's dream is directed by Helmut Kaeutner and begins when Lieschen Mueller (Sonja Ziemann) gets an unbelievable job offer. As her name suggests to a German audience, she is one of those women -- a bank teller in this case -- who want their romantic Read More

1962
Bis Zum Ende Aller Tage

Synopsis: Originally released in Germany as Bis Zum Ende Aller Tage, this film stars Chinese actress Akiko in the title role. Helmut Griem plays a German sailor on leave in Hong Kong who falls in love with Akiko. Despite her questionable past, Griem marries her and brings her home. When Griem's family gives Read More

1961
Fabrik Der Offiziere

1960
East Zone, West Zone

1958