Acting

Friedrich Maurer

Born April 17, 1901 · Mannheim, Germany

Died March 2, 1980 · aged 78

No biography available.

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The Kaiser's Lackey

The Kaiser's Lackey · 1951

The Kaiser's Lackey

MovieDramaHistory

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...

The Blum Affair

The Blum Affair · 1948

The Blum Affair

MovieDramaHistory

Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.

As Long as the Heart Still Beats

As Long as the Heart Still Beats · 1958

As Long as the Heart Still Beats

Heart of Stone

Heart of Stone · 1950

MovieFamilyDrama

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.

Destination Death

Destination Death · 1964

Destination Death

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war.

The Sonnenbrucks

The Sonnenbrucks · 1951

The Sonnenbrucks

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.

The Grapes Are Ripe

The Grapes Are Ripe · 1952

The Grapes Are Ripe

The Star of Africa

The Star of Africa · 1957

The Star of Africa

Biographic movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.

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The Kaiser's Lackey

The Kaiser's Lackey · 1951

The Kaiser's Lackey

MovieDramaHistory

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...

Göpel

The Blum Affair

The Blum Affair · 1948

The Blum Affair

MovieDramaHistory

Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.

As Long as the Heart Still Beats

As Long as the Heart Still Beats · 1958

As Long as the Heart Still Beats

Mr. Stubenrauch

Heart of Stone

Heart of Stone · 1950

MovieFamilyDrama

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.

Destination Death

Destination Death · 1964

Destination Death

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war.

Studienrat Karl Samuth

The Sonnenbrucks

The Sonnenbrucks · 1951

The Sonnenbrucks

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.

Tourterelle

The Grapes Are Ripe

The Grapes Are Ripe · 1952

The Grapes Are Ripe

Dr. Unkelhäuser

The Star of Africa

The Star of Africa · 1957

The Star of Africa

Biographic movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.

Lehrer

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again · 1943

An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.

Büroangestellter bei Friedrich 2

Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter

Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter · 1950

Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter

In the middle of the 19th century, almost one in three women who gave birth died of puerperal fever. The Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis also observed these terrible occurrences in his clinic in Vienna. He came to the conclusion that it was primarily the unhygienic conditions in the clinic itself that led to this disease, as his colleagues were constantly shuttling back and forth between the anatomy department and the delivery room. He tries to convince the doctors of the absolute necessity of thorough disinfection by washing their hands with chlorinated lime. He meets with fierce resistance from his colleagues until he himself sets up an exemplary clinic in Budapest.

The Dismissal

The Dismissal · 1942

MovieDramaHistory

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end.

August Bebel

Alibi

An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder.

Escape from Sahara

Escape from Sahara · 1958

Escape from Sahara

MovieAdventureDrama

Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.

The Night of the Storm

The Night of the Storm · 1957

The Night of the Storm

Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified.

Prokurist Wechsler

The Castle

The Castle · 1968

MovieMysteryDrama

A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.

Mayor

Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas

Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas · 1970

Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas

MovieComedyDrama

Christopher Columbus's crazy idea of traveling to India can only be realized because the Spanish treasury is empty and Queen Isabella, who rules the country, is charmed by the charming, profit-seeking son of a poor weaver. With the ulterior motive of becoming the ruler of new lands and at the same time being able to polish up the ailing finances a little, Isabella commissions the navigator Columbus to set sail for the Spanish crown.

Erzbischof

Spy for Germany

Spy for Germany · 1956

Spy for Germany

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.

Ivar Kreuger der Zündholzkönig

Ivar Kreuger der Zündholzkönig · 1967

Ivar Kreuger der Zündholzkönig

In the 1920s, Swedish engineer and industrial magnate Ivar Kreuger was one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. At the height of his success, the match manufacturer owned 260 factories and was the boss of 75,000 employees. He juggled dizzying sums of money and could afford every luxury. Bankers from all over the world supported his businesses and entrusted him with their money. But then the global economic crisis hit.

Karl Lange

Karriere in Paris

Karriere in Paris · 1952

Karriere in Paris

France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house, where his father Goriot, who has been excluded by his daughters, also lives. The penniless Rastignac is anxious to gain a foothold in Parisian society. His cousin advises him to take the rich banker's wife Delphine, one of Goriot's daughters, as his mistress, which he does. At the same time, however, he falls in love with the laundress Yvette. He is unable to make up his mind when boarding house guest Vautrin suggests a third option: To marry Victorine, the disinherited daughter of a millionaire, and kill her brother in a duel in order to get his inheritance after all. Rastignac agrees. This is his downfall. Instead of high society, he ends up in the gutter.

Poiret

The Sinister Wish

The Sinister Wish · 1939

The Sinister Wish

After losing almost all of his money, a young marquis discovers that among his few remaining possessions is a magical piece of leather which is capable of fulfilling any wish. However, every use of it will make it less effective and furthermore will shorten the life of its user. Nevertheless, the marquis uses the magical object ruthlessly in order to regain his wealth and especially to get the love of Feodora, an actress. But all his efforts only seem to lead to doom…

Nnvalide von der Seinebrücke

The Old Fox

The Old Fox · 1977

SeriesCrimeDrama

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

Herr Bernhard

Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst

Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst · 1962

Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst

After serving five years Willi soon learns that his new life is another kind of prison since no one trusts an ex-convict. His uphill struggle for a job and shattered hopes of a normal existence grind him down to utter despair.

Glasermeister Eugen Harder