This lighthearted comedy finds a grandfather (Werner Hinz) trying to cope with his family at his country home. His elderly...
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Grandfather
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1969
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This situation comedy begins when a Pentecostal family tries to go on vacation. Three young relatives are sent to visit,...
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Grandfather
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1969
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Claire's father
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1967
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This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and...
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Consul Kroger
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1965
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Dr. Praetorius (Heinz Ruehmann) is a successful physician and philanthropist in this routine drama, a remake of the 1949 film...
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Hoellriel
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1965
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Excellently directed by Ladislao Vajda, this combination of gentle comedy and children's film stars Heinz Ruehmann as...
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1962
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German...
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Council of the Court
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1961
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Thomas Mann's sprawling German novel Buddenbrooks could hardly be confined to a "conventional" film length, thus it's no...
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1959
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In this drama, following the retreat of the Germans from Stalingrad, a deserter is sentenced to die. A pastor speaks to the...
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1959
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In this version of the popular Swedish romantic novel by Selma Lagerlof, a maid tries to commit suicide after her sleazy...
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1958
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1958
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1957
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1956
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Released one day before G. W. Pabst's Es Gescham am 20 Juli, Der 20 Juli was one of two concurrently produced German films...
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Generaloberst Beck
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1955
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1954
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Gestaeden Unter Vier Augen (Confession Under Four Eyes) stars Hildgarde Knef as an investigative reporter named Hilde. While...
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Jorga
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1954
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1954
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Albert Oberholzer
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1953
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1951
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Originally In Jenen Tagen, In Those Days was the first postwar directorial contribution by Germany's Helmut Kautner. The film...
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1947
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Jan Krüger
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1941
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The remarkable story of how one man unified the many states of Germany into one nation under the rule of the Kaiser between...
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1940
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Though it was accepted as standard entertainment upon its first release, the German Jugend (Youth) has in recent years been...
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Chaplain
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1938
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Considering Germany's own treatment of Poland in 1939, it is ironic in the extreme that the 1938 German film Um Freiheit und...
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Konrad
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1938
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Alte und Junge Kaiser is "blood-and-honor" Nazi propaganda travelling under the guise of historical pageantry. The great Emil...
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Crown Prince Frederic
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1935
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