Norbert Christian

AKA:

0.5047

1925-12-05

Berlin, Weimar Republic [now Germany]

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {66}

Professor Hülsenbeck

1972-09-01 0

Janus Head

World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being used to harm humanity, he immigrates to the USA in 1933 in ...

Genre :Drama

Psychiater

1976-09-24 6.5

Carnations in Aspic

A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived innovation leads to rapid advancement in an ad agency. Mueller-Stahl shines in this biting critique o ...

Genre :Comedy

Pfarrer Eccelius

1973-11-16 5

Unterm Birnbaum

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame. She is a "newcomer" t ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1975-07-25 0

Dass ihnen der arme Mann Feind wird

This documentary shows the German Peasants’ War between 1524 and 1525 and looks at the role of Thomas Müntzer in it. Müntzer, who was a follower and admirer of Martin Luther, directed his resistance n ...

Genre :Documentary

1970-08-28 0

Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

Four-part television film about the theologian Thomas Müntzer, who became a revolutionary and opponent of Luther during the Peasant War in 1525. December 1520: Martin Luther publicly burns the papal ...

Genre :Drama

1971-06-05 0

Optimistische Tragödie

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section”. This regiment emerged from an anarchist division of the ship of ...

Genre :Drama

General Jean-Paul Grémillom

1962-12-21 0

Fortress on the Rhine

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however ...

Genre :Drama

1961-04-07 0

Das Stacheltier - Ein Pferd müßte man haben

Psichinski rings Mr. Semmler's doorbell and alerts him to strange noises in the attic. Together they sneak upstairs and discover a full-grown horse, which they report to the police officer. He trigger ...

Genre :Comedy

Narrator (voice)

1963-04-19 0

Arnold Zweig

A short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media. ...

Genre :Documentary

1965-09-09 10

As Long as There’s Life in Me

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat, workers’ leader and a virulent antimil ...

Genre :Drama

Vater von Susanne

1974-04-24 5.5

Für die Liebe noch zu mager

At the textile company, everyone appreciates the work of 18-year-old Susanne, but nobody really considers her a woman—including Lutz, with whom she is in love. She sets about to make a change, but it ...

Genre :Drama

1976-11-21 0

Der Weg ins Nichts

In 1923, Judge Böhnsdorf and Inspector Dumke convict 22-year-old Fritz Bondersen of treason, accused of selling military secrets on the testimony of General Director Gotthardt, and sentence him to 15 ...

Genre :Crime

1965-06-17 8.5

Entlassen auf Bewährung

After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing apprenticeship and is released early for good behavior. While h ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1968-06-02 0

Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to be shot as a spy. This decision is controversial. The dispute continues. Grisha is execu ...

Genre :Drama

Pastor

1954-04-18 0

Kein Hüsung

Mecklenburg, 19th century. For generations, the Brand family of farmers has worked a piece of land as tenants of the baron, who owns almost all of the village's land. The baron himself comes from a fa ...

Genre :History

Krause

1953-03-13 7

Die Unbesiegbaren

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement. ...

Genre :Drama

Gerichtsherr

1964-07-31 6.2

Mir nach, Canaillen

A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and devise clever plots. As a result, he is able to clim ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Vater Bergschicker

1968-02-02 5.2

The Russians Are Coming

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During the hunt for a forced labourer who is on the run, Günter catche ...

Genre :Drama, War

náměstek

1975-07-11 3.3

Abenteuer mit Blasius

Ten-year-old Frantisek is traveling to Leipzig to visit his German friend Egon. On the train, he shares the compartment with three men. One of them, the bearded, hefty Blasius is polite but at times a ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Family

Oberrat Kleinert

1972-03-30 4.786

The Zernik Murder Case

After meeting the woman on the train Erwin Retzmann kills her in the forest. ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Parteisekretär

1957-10-19 0

Katzgraben

Genre :Drama

Dramaturg

1956-03-29 0

Junges Gemüse

At a GDR farm, VEAB chief Amann bans cabbage in favor of cauliflower, enraging LPG accountant Gritt. Mistaking visiting writer Hans Brauer for a high-level inspector, Amann backpedals, clearing the ha ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Josef Stein

1972-03-26 4.688

Sun Seekers

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control. ...

Genre :Drama

Simon Renard

1977-01-02 0

Die Liebe und die Königin

In England in 1553, the marriage of Queen Mary Tudor to the Spanish crown prince Philip II is being considered. It is Simon Renard's task to force the issue. Maria, however, has lost her heart to Fabi ...

Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

Splitgerber

1971-06-25 6.5

Husaren in Berlin

Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War. ...

Genre :Comedy, History

Registrator

1967-04-13 7.3

Frozen Flashes

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so call ...

Genre :Drama, War, Thriller

Sigi

1959-03-06 5

Ware für Katalonien

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same tim ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Egon Ziesemaus

1975-09-11 0

Eine Stunde Aufenthalt

A disruption on the Berlin S-Bahn: passengers have an involuntary one-hour layover at Frankfurter Allee S-Bahn station and use the time to take a closer look at their fellow passengers. Alice Räppel, ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator

1974-11-15 0

Das Geschenk – eine beinliche Geschichte

How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era. ...

Genre :Animation

Thälmanns Vater

1975-02-15 0

Aus meiner Kindheit

Ernst is a student in Hamburg around 1900 and leads a life like many other young people. In his free time, he roams the colorful metropolis with his buddy Karl. After school, he helps his father, whos ...

Genre :Drama

Gerichtsvorsitzender

1968-01-11 0

Der Mord, der nie verjährt

In 1929 Berlin, the progressive editor-in-chief Bornstein is on trial for libel. An article in his magazine attempted to uncover the role that Reichsanwalt Jörns had played ten years earlier in the "c ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Schilles

1970-01-17 6

Junge Frau von 1914

In 1914 Berlin, bank heiress Leonore Wahl and struggling Munich student Werner Bertin fall passionately in love, defying class and her parents’ expectations. Their idyll is shattered by the outbreak o ...

Genre :Drama

1972-01-13 6.5

Despite It All!

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. Th ...

Genre :Drama, War

Narrator

1963-09-01 0

Carl von Ossietzky

The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938). ...

Genre :Drama

1977-01-26 1.667

Dagny

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief a ...

Genre :Drama

1973-03-09 5

The Devil's Elixirs

Young seminary student Franziskus has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monas ...

Genre :Drama, History

1975-01-16 1

Looping

The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the explosion of a carbide furnace in operation, a colleague ...

Genre :Drama

Professor Meyer

1975-05-15 5.2

Lotte in Weimar

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. T ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1961-02-10 7

Mother Courage and Her Children

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wagon. She does not care if it's Catholics or Protesta ...

Genre :Drama

Abate Chiari

1961-06-08 10

Italienisches Capriccio

Biography of the comic poet Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793). ...

Genre :Drama

1960-08-11 6.5

Seilergasse 8

The young lady Lisa Gau probably took her own life at Seilergasse 8 in Rostock, at least that's what it looks like. Captain Schirding, who has been assigned to the case, sees things differently. Toget ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1967-02-16 5

The Girl on the Diving Board

The 18-year-old Katharina Jens is a high diving champion and succeeds in everything she does. When she enters an international contest in place of her team colleague Claudia, expectations are accordin ...

Genre :Drama

1958-12-26 0

Geschwader Fledermaus

An American transport squadron led by former General Lee supports the French colonial army in Vietnam in return for high pay. Originally their mission was only to help the wounded, but as the advance ...

Genre :Drama, War

1965-11-12 0

Ohne Paß in fremden Betten

Czech tourist Jelinek decides to take a ride on the "Ferris wheel" in Berlin, and as a result he lags behind the train and is left without his belongings and documents. ...

Genre :Comedy

1960-04-28 0

Einer von uns

A wrestler finds his political interest and activism through sport. However, this is extremely dangerous during the Nazi era and the workers' sports movement starts a resistance against the Nazi regim ...

Genre :Drama

1960-10-20 0

Die heute über 40 sind

Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen. ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1962-10-19 0

Unbändiges Spanien

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War. ...

Genre :Documentary

1957-10-24 5

Der Fackelträger

Senior public prosecutor Sänger from West Berlin has only one goal in mind: to finally be appointed to the Federal Court of Justice. ...

Genre :Drama

1955-03-25 4

Once is Never

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local dance band, leaving him with no time to relax. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

1979-09-19 2

Farewell to Peace

Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Year's dinner, moves along convoluted and secretive paths in everyday life. Granddaughter Wally is im ...

Genre :Drama

Albert

1976-04-01 1

Rotfuchs

Letter carrier Eva is in her late twenties, unmarried and the mother of a twelve-year-old son. She falls in love with Jon, a bargeman who is unfortunately already engaged. This spurs Eva on to turn he ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, TV Movie

1970-11-20 0

Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

Paul Pospischiel loses his job in the great colliery collapse in the Ruhr, retrains and builds a new life for himself. One day, he receives a letter from his mother, which tears him from his comfort z ...

Genre :Drama

Studienrat Knaack

1965-02-04 7.8

The Adventures of Werner Holt

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the front, Werner begins to understand the senselessness ...

Genre :Drama, History

1976-01-04 0

Jede Woche Hochzeitstag

The widowed registrar Robert Zimmermann reconciles divorcing couples and finds happiness in love once again. ...

Genre :Comedy

Coroner

1970-04-15 5

On the Way to Lenin

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home ...

Genre :Drama, History

1960-08-24 5

People with Wings

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber ...

Genre :Drama, War

voice

1960-04-01 7

Necessary Years of Learning

Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking feature of his later films becomes apparent: Jürgen Böttcher g ...

Genre :Documentary

Dr. Starke

1960-06-30 0

Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall

Under political pressure, a West German radio station stages a radio play about a Russian invasion of West Germany. A handsome fee convinced the unemployed Anton Wiesel to take on the direction. At th ...

Genre :Comedy

1958-10-31 0

Das Stacheltier - Der junge Engländer

Genre :Comedy

1977-02-24 3.6

Mama, I’m Alive

In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists? Although they go to the frontlines, their new Russ ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

Hinrich Springer

1968-03-17 0

Ich-Axel Cäsar Springer

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Gustav Gomolla

1976-04-12 2

Daniel Druskat

Large-scale, five-part film about the relationship between two men caught between friendship, rivalry and hatred during the first decades of GDR in the countryside. ...

Genre :Drama

Otto Bigalke

1971-06-27 6.2

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der ...