Hilde Sessak

Acting

Hilde Sessak

Born July 27, 1915 · Berlin, Germany

Died April 17, 2003 · aged 87

No biography available.

Known For

The Gorilla GangThe Gorilla Gang · 1968
The Gorilla Gang
★ 5.21968
MovieCrime
When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins.
The Man BetweenThe Man Between · 1953
The Man Between
★ 7.21953
MovieThriller
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
The Punch BowlThe Punch Bowl · 1944
The Punch Bowl
★ 7.21944
MovieComedyFamily
Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
The Hunchback of SohoThe Hunchback of Soho · 1966
The Hunchback of Soho
★ 6.01966
MovieCrimeMystery
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
Long Legs, Long FingersLong Legs, Long Fingers · 1966
Long Legs, Long Fingers
★ 8.01966
MovieCrimeComedy
Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
GleisdreieckGleisdreieck · 1937
Gleisdreieck
★ 5.81937
MovieDrama
Dark love story.
The Mysterious MagicianThe Mysterious Magician · 1964
The Mysterious Magician
★ 6.71964
MovieCrimeThriller
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
The RothschildsThe Rothschilds · 1940
The Rothschilds
★ 6.11940
MovieDrama
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

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AlarmAlarm · 1941
Alarm
★ 6.81941
MovieDrama

Platzanweiserin Helene Hoesch

Who Drove the Grey Ford?Who Drove the Grey Ford? · 1950
Who Drove the Grey Ford?
★ 8.01950
MovieCrimeDrama
"Who Drove the Grey Ford?" ("Wer fuhr den grauen Ford?") is a 1950 West German crime film directed by Otto Wernicke, marking his only directorial effort, and starring Wernicke as Kriminalkommissar Thieme alongside Ursula Herking, Hilde Sessak, and Wolfgang Neuss. The movie was filmed at numerous original locations in post-war Mannheim. It draws directly from a real-life 1949 post office robbery in Mannheim, exploring the social dislocations of the era through a documentary-style depiction of petty crime and moral dilemmas among young survivors of World War II. The plot centers on three young men scraping by through car stunts and minor cons in the uncertain landscape of Nachkriegsdeutschland, where one sensitive outsider, Peter "Penny," seeks to leave the life behind for love but is coerced into participating in a high-stakes robbery of a money transport. The heist unfolds according to plan, but Penny's well-intentioned yet careless action alerts the police...

Kellnerin bei Edu Schröder

JungensJungens · 1941
Jungens
★ 5.61941
MovieDrama
The keywords for this film are comradeship and trust among the youth of a small village on the Baltic which is firmly under the control of an innkeeper, Ottokar Waschke. Waschke owns the only tugboat in town, which the town's fishermen, who make up the majority of the employed, need to transport their catch. So he forces them to sell their fish for a pittance, which Waschke then re-sells at an enormous profit. In the meantime, a big-city teacher, Helmut Grundel, comes to the village and discovers Waschke's little game. Grundel wants to form a collective, so that the fishermen can become independent from Waschke and this makes Waschke into a dangerous enemy. When the young Heini, son of a dune-patrolman, discovers that canisters of liquour are being smuggled into Pommern under Waschke's watchful eye, Waschke threatens Heini, that he'll turn his father into the police, with the baseless accusation that daddy is behind the smuggling operation.

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