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Wolf Wirth

Born July 30, 1929 · Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany (age 97)

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Known For

Love at Twenty · 1962

Love at Twenty

★ 6.71962

MovieDramaRomance

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

The young Marion is arrested by the police for pimping, prostitution and indecent exposure. Reporter Axel Rottmann sense a lucrative story for his newspaper. He makes a deal with Marion, to tell her story.

The Bread of Those Early Years · 1962

The Bread of Those Early Years

★ 6.51962

MovieRomanceDrama

A young electrical engineer, engaged to his boss's daughter and on the way to a secure existence, breaks out of his usual life when he meets a childhood friend.

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young boy.

The Death of a Double · 1967

The Death of a Double

★ 8.01967

MovieThriller

The submissive assistant of an abnormal jeweler becomes the victim of a doppelganger who plans the perfect crime.

Documentary about construction work.

Tobby · 1961

Tobby

★ 7.01961

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Fictional film with documentary elements about a jazz musician in Berlin.

Filmography

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Love at Twenty · 1962

Love at Twenty

★ 6.71962

MovieDramaRomance

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Cinematography

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The Bread of Those Early Years · 1962

The Bread of Those Early Years

★ 6.51962

MovieRomanceDrama

A young electrical engineer, engaged to his boss's daughter and on the way to a secure existence, breaks out of his usual life when he meets a childhood friend.

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Death of a Double · 1967

The Death of a Double

★ 8.01967

MovieThriller

The submissive assistant of an abnormal jeweler becomes the victim of a doppelganger who plans the perfect crime.

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Documentary about construction work.

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Tobby · 1961

Tobby

★ 7.01961

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Fictional film with documentary elements about a jazz musician in Berlin.

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Detten Schleiermacher did not start making films until late in life. He was actually a typographer. With “Trab Trab” he made an impish attempt to create a synthesis between Dadaism and New Objectivity. The film is a precise and elegant account of a racecourse. It does so without narration or images of either horses or patrons; everything we see has been captured either pre- or post-race.

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Zum Teufel mit der Penne · 1968

Zum Teufel mit der Penne

★ 5.51968

MovieComedy

Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his classmates scheme to get around doing any actual school work by cheating or sending their teachers to the sanatorium. A Swiss documentary film maker disguises himself as his brother in law, who got a position as an exchange teacher, to aid his project of making a movie about the current youth.

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Potato Fritz and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.

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Das Liebeskarussell · 1965

Das Liebeskarussell

★ 3.31965

MovieComedy

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.

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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 the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks. The highlight of the film is the expert lensing by cinematographer Wolf Wirth. Erika Mann, the daughter of the late poet and author, collaborated with Ennio Flaiano on the screenplay.

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The Liar and the Nun · 1967

The Liar and the Nun

★ 5.01967

MovieComedy

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Documentary short by Bernhard Dörries.

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People at the Espresso Bar · 1958

People at the Espresso Bar

★ 5.01958

MovieDocumentary

Vesely’s study on changing urbanity claims that "the Espresso has a democratic touch." Italy has expanded into Munich and instead of beer hall cellars, there are Cappuccinos, ice creams and tables in the open.

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The Blood of the Walsungs · 1965

The Blood of the Walsungs

★ 8.01965

MovieDrama

The siblings Sieglinde and Siegmund von Arnstatt are inseparable. Their arrogant manner is particularly felt by Sieglinde's fiancé, Lieutenant Justus von Beckerath. Siegmund jealously watches over his sister, with whom he falls into a frenzy of emotion during a performance of Richard Wagner's opera "Die Walküre." Beckerath realizes that he will never be able to break into the incestuous intimacy of the twins. Finally, Siegmund and Sieglinde give themselves over completely to their sensual intoxication...

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Brutality in Stone · 1961

Brutality in Stone

★ 7.11961

MovieWarDocumentary

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.

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The River Line · 1964

The River Line

★ 7.21964

MovieDramaWar

France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the neighborhood Sturgess meets another American and shortly thereafter the British Major Barton, called “Reiher”. He claims to have fled a German prison camp. Shortly before leaving for Spain to escape the Nazis, Sturgess discovers that Barton has written a letter to Germany. This confirms the suspicion that he could be a German spy…

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T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire world, discovers astounding forms of existence, but cannot be hindered from his duty and keeps looking until he finally finds the address. There, he finds out that he has delivered his own judgment.

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Short film about car racing.

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Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and instant censorship. He fled Croatia and lived in Germany; he died there in 2004. Poor People, a “collective scream” of Cold War fear, was produced just after he left his country.

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Madeleine, Madeleine · 1963

Madeleine, Madeleine

★ 9.01963

MovieDrama

Confusion results when a young man walking through a park joins in a game of tennis.

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