Franz Peter Wirth

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Franz Peter Wirth

Born September 22, 1919 · München, Germany

Died October 17, 1999 · aged 80

No biography available.

Known For

Arms and the ManArms and the Man · 1958
Arms and the Man
★ 6.61958
MovieComedyRomance
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkHamlet, Prince of Denmark · 1961
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
★ 2.81961
MovieFantasyDrama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle.
Bekenntnisse eines möblierten HerrnBekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn · 1963
Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
★ 7.01963
MovieComedy
Munich-based graphic artist Lukas is an artist with no fixed abode and no desire for commitment, who never stays in the same place for long. His only possessions are his duck, his clothes and a few everyday objects with which he moves from apartment to apartment as a lodger. There he prefers to devote himself entirely to his amorous adventures. With his unconventional manner, he drives philistines, aristocrats and the nouveau riche up the wall.
Girl from Hong KongGirl from Hong Kong · 1961
Girl from Hong Kong
★ 10.01961
MovieDrama
Unusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a Chinese woman while on leave in Hong Kong, only to meet with disapproval from his family and friends when the couple returns to Europe.
Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan! · 1973
Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!
★ 6.01973
MovieComedy
Mathias KneißlMathias Kneißl · 1971
Mathias Kneißl
★ 6.51971
MovieDrama
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole from the rich to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.
Ein Mann im schönsten AlterEin Mann im schönsten Alter · 1964
Ein Mann im schönsten Alter
★ 4.01964
MovieDrama
Richard Mertens, a successful magazine editor with a cold, empty marriage to Lucy, seeks excitement through an affair with younger colleague Eva. Yet his need for status traps him in superficiality, undermining genuine connection. A legal battle with old friend Ferrow, won through perjury, reveals Mertens’s moral emptiness, shattering his relationship with Eva. Alone, he finds solace only in listening to bartender Brigitte.
Der Richter und sein HenkerDer Richter und sein Henker · 1957
Der Richter und sein Henker
★ 6.51957
MovieDramaCrime
The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle of the country road.

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Adieu, Mon AmiAdieu, Mon Ami · 1996
Adieu, Mon Ami
★ 5.01996
MovieDrama
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack. Together with a young girl who worked in the bakery of Dagmar's parents they escape to Bavaria and find shelter at some far relatives of Dagmar's family. The little girl just doesn't feel comfortable in the strange family but soon finds a good friend: Laurent, a 17-year old French alien employee. Laurent is tormented by August, the "head of the family", but cannot defend himself because as soon as he causes a conflict he will be sent into an approved school in France which is even worse. Dagmar and Laurent become very close and become almost like brother and sister, they are all they have and Dagmar even falls a bit in love with Laurent. One day August sees how Laurent hugs Dagmar, he provokes a conflict and at the end Laurent is sent back to France...

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The Red ChapelThe Red Chapel · 1972
The Red Chapel
★ 8.01972
SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Leopold Trepper, a colonel in the Red Army, travels to Belgium under a false name and sets up a spy ring there. Together with his employees Viktor Sukulow-Gurewitsch, Johann Wenzel, Hillel Katz and Michail Makarow, he succeeds in establishing a spy network throughout Belgium and France in a very short time. With the help of his cover companies - a chain of raincoat shops and later the import-export company Simexco ”- Trepper can collect information from the economy and the Wehrmacht, about Atlantic Wall construction sites and railway lines, and send it to Moscow. The agents also get help from patriots who want to free their countries from the occupation by the Germans.

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