Sonja ZiemannFilmography

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The Bridge at Remagen

Actors: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This bleak World War II action drama, directed by John Guillermin, concerns the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen -- the last remaining span across the Rhine into Germany during the final days of the war in 1945. German General von Brock (Peter Van Eyck) is ordered to blow up the bridge rather than let Read More

1969
De Sade

Actors: Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer, Anna Massey, Sonja Ziemann

Synopsis: Keir Dullea dives into a bevy of babes with an open wine bottle as the notorious Marquis de Sade in this low-budget debauch from American International Pictures -- purveyors of fine entertainment morsels for the connoisseur. The film takes place as an extended flashback after de Sade has escaped Read More

1969
Josephine

1967
Battle Inferno

1964
Journey into Nowhere

Synopsis: Filmed in South Africa, Journey into Nowhere stars Tony Wright as a compulsive gambler. Heavily in debt to the mob, Wright has 48 hours to pay off, lest he lose the use of his life. He meets Sonja Ziemann, a blind girl who is contemplating suicide. Wright talks Ziemann into taking out an insurance Read More

1963
Ihr Schoenster Tag

Actors: Inge Meysel, Rudolf Platte, Sonja Ziemann, Brigitte Grothum

Synopsis: Adapted from a successful stage play, ~Window to the Hall~, this standard comedy centers on the gradual disillusionment of Annie Wiesner (Inge Meysel) who works in a Berlin rooming house as a cross between a door guardian and a receptionist. She has great hopes for her two daughters and one son Read More

1962
Axel Munthe - Der Arzt Von San Michele

Actors: O.W. Fischer, Rosanna Schiaffino, Sonja Ziemann, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: This routine, slow-paced biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. The drama follows the physician, psychiatrist, and adventurer as he travels the distances from Lapland to his Villa San Michele on Capri, with special Read More

1962
A Matter of Who

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Sonja Ziemann, Alex Nicol, Richard Briers, Honor Blackman, Guy Deghy

Synopsis: The "WHO" in A Matter of Who isn't a "who" but a "what". The word is an anagram for the World Health Organization, a curious subject for a British comedy--especially one which utilizes a communicable disease as a plot device! WHO operatives Terry-Thomas and Alex Nicol trace the outbreak of a Read More

1962
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
The Secret Ways

Actors: Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Charles Regnier, Walter Rilia, Howard Vernon

Synopsis: Shortly after Soviet tanks crush the 1956 Hungarian uprising, adventurer for hire Mike Reynolds (Richard Widmark) goes to communist Budapest to rescue one of the revolt's leaders, Professor Jansci. There's just one big problem; the professor doesn't want to go. While the plot is minimal, this Read More

1961
Denn Das Weib Ist Schwach

1961
Strafbataillon 999

Actors: Sonja Ziemann

Synopsis: One of the worst of many inhuman aspects of World War II were the "penalty" battalions in the German army, dramatized in this excellent film about several men serving in these units. Director Harald Phillipp spares no ounce of realism in first relating what kinds of men are conscripted, and then Read More

1960
Nacht Fiel Uber Gotenhafen

Actors: Sonja Ziemann, Gunnar Moeller, Erik Schumann, Brigitte Horney, Mady Rahl

Synopsis: This is a well-wrought, World War II drama with a pacifist message, centered on the sinking of the German cruise ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" in the Baltic Sea on January 31, 1945. The luxury liner had just taken on 6,000 refugees from the area of eastern Prussia, under invasion by Russian forces and Read More

1960
Menschen Im Hotel

Actors: O.W. Fischer, Michèle Morgan, Sonja Ziemann

Synopsis: This is a remake of the award-winning 1932 classic Grand Hotel with Michele Morgan in the role of Grusinskaya (originally portrayed by Greta Garbo). Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in the course of one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying Read More

1959
Liebe Auf Krummen Beinen

1959
Abschied von den Wolken

Actors: Sonja Ziemann, Peter Van Eyck, Christian Wolff

Synopsis: This is an unexceptional story of an attempted hijacking of a Latin American plane bound for Madrid. As the drama winds its way through the passengers and crew of the ill-fated aircraft, several subplots spring up like weeds after a shower. There is a love triangle between the pilot, a flight Read More

1959
Tabarin

Actors: Sylvia Lopez, Sonja Ziemann, Michel Piccoli, Annie Cordy

Synopsis: Though much of its glory had faded by 1958, France's Tabarin nightclub still held a fascination for tourists and patrons. Filmed on location at the fabled nightspot, Tabarin is a colorful 110-minute dramatized documentary. Its narrative is held together by the efforts of American choreographer Lee Read More

5/21/58
Hunde, Wollt Ihr Ewig Leben

Actors: Horst Frank

Synopsis: Set just outside Stalingrad in the winter of 1942, this compelling wartime drama tells the tale of a contingent of German soldiers caught in a Russian vise. Headed by Gen. Paulus (Wilhelm Borchert), the other officers and foot soldiers are slowly surrounded by Russian troops on the offensive. The Read More

1958
The Affairs of Julie

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a cocquette playfully pursues any man she can find. She is most enamored of a handsome playboy whom she pursues through some of Europe's most scenic sights including St. Moritz, Switzerland, Berlin, and Hamburg. After many adventures, the young flirt finally settles down Read More

1958
Osmy Dzien Tygodnia

Actors: Sonja Ziemann, Zbigniew Cybulski, Ilse Steppat, Tadeusz Lomnicki

Synopsis: Polish writer/director Aleksander Ford's Eighth Day of the Week takes an astonishing anti-Communist stance--the first of many that would compel Ford to leave his homeland after a general governmental crackdown on personal expression in 1968. Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play a married Read More

1958
Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram

1957
Dany, Bitte Schreiben Sie

1956
Kaiserball

1956
Nichts Als Aerger Mit Der Liebe

Actors: Viktor de Kowa, Winnie Markus, Walter Giller, Sonja Ziemann

Synopsis: The plot and comedy of this German effort is summed up by its English-language title: Nothing but Trouble with Love. Based on Herman Bahr's popular stage comedy The Concert, the film stars Victor de Kowa as a naïve music instructor. Trouble ensues when De Kowa invites his pretty pupil Winnie Read More

1956
Der Opernball

Actors: Sonja Ziemann

Synopsis: Austrian audiences never seemed to tire of escapist operettas, and director Ernst Marischka never tired of grinding 'em out. Based on the popular stage attraction of the same name, Der Opernball (The Opera Ball) stars Johannes Heesters as faithful family man Georg Dannhauser. Georg's wife Read More

1956
Das Bad Auf Der Tenne

1955
Liebe Ohne Illusion

1955
Ich War Ein Haessliches Mädchen

Synopsis: This delightful presentation is a variation of the "Ugly Duckling" theme. The wallflower and the actor both decide to change their lives in this German film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1955
Das Leben Beginnt Mit 17

Actors: Sonja Ziemann, Paul Hubschmid, Anne Marie Blanc, Paul Hartmann, Loni Heuser

Synopsis: Das Leben Beginnt Mit 17 (Life Begins at 17) is adapted from a novel by Gabor von Vaszary. Sonja Liebermann plays Madeleine, an unhappy 14-year-old who is habitually neglected by her wealthy mother Aline (Anne-Marie Blanc). When Aline is killed in an accident, her lover Raymond (Paul Humschmid) Read More

1954
Le Tsarevitch

Actors: Luis Mariano, Sonja Ziemann, Ivan Petrovich

1954
Die Grosse Starparade

1954
Meine Schwester und Ich

1954
The Merry Wives of Windsor

Actors: Sonja Ziemann, Camilla Spira, Paul Esser, Claus Holm, Alexander Engel

Synopsis: The Merry Wives of Windsor contains one of those complicated, tangled love plots that are typical of Shakespeare's comedies. In this one, lovely Anne Page is the object of affection of three suitors -- Caius, whom her mother favors; Slender, whom her father favors; and Fenton, whom Anne favors. Read More

1952
Made in Heaven

Actors: David Tomlinson, Petula Clark, Sonja Ziemann, A.E. Matthews, Charles Victor

Synopsis: Made in Heaven is predicated on one of Britain's most curious annual traditions. During the yearly Dunmow Flitch, a side of bacon is awarded to any married couple who can prove at a public trial that their union has been happy and argument-free for a full year. Among the contestants depicted Read More

1952
Am Brunnen Vor Dem Tore

1952
Alle Kann Ich Nicht Heiraten

1952
Eine Nacht Im Separee

1950
Maharadscha Wider Willen

1950
Die Freunde Meiner Frau

Synopsis: In this lively German comedy, a stodgy accountant begins spending a little too much time with his buddies at the local watering-hole while his wife is away on vacation. His poor children begin fearing that their father has taken a mistress and so begin sending him mysterious notes signed by Read More

1949
Wege Im Zwielicht

1948
Sag' Die Wahrheit

1946
Kleine Sommermelodie, Eine

1944
Hundstage

1944
Spuk Im Schloss

1944
Freunde

1943
Die Jungfern Vom Bischofsberg

1943
Geliebter Schatz

1943

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