Günter Lamprecht

biography: Günter Hans Lamprecht (21 January 1930 – 4 October 2022) was a German actor, known for his leading role in the Fassbinder miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and as a ship captain in the epic war film Das Boot (1981).

Berlin Alexanderplatz

overview: In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.

character: Franz Biberkopf

original_name: Berlin Alexanderplatz

Das Kriminalmuseum

overview: Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

character: Kriminalbeamter Horn

original_name: Das Kriminalmuseum

Scene of the Crime

overview: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

character: GDR Boarder Guard

original_name: Tatort

origin_country: AT CH DE

character: Curtius

character: Holger Freidahl

character: Willi Mattfeldt

character: Rudi Drabert, Boxtrainer

character: Peter Henje

character: Kriminalhauptkommissar Franz Markowitz

character: Kriminalkommissar Franz Markowitz

character: Alkoholiker Tischer

Das Traumschiff

overview: The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.

character: Rudi Blaschke

original_name: Das Traumschiff

Roncalli

overview: Roncalli is a German television series.

character: Kosinski

original_name: Roncalli

Hamburg Transit

overview: Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970.

original_name: Hamburg Transit

character: Dieter Hohle

Die Männer vom K3

overview: Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series.

character: Wilhelm Geiger

original_name: Die Männer vom K3

The Great Runaway

overview: A miniseries about a pair of teenagers living in a slum at the fringes of Berlin. Alcoholism, prostitution, and violence are just a few of the themes of the three movies.

character: Herr Piesch

original_name: Die große Flatter

The Old Fox

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

character: Konrad Paulsen

original_name: Der Alte

character: Wolfgang Molten

Mordkommission

original_name: Mordkommission

Privatdetektiv Frank Kross

character: Persikow

original_name: Privatdetektiv Frank Kross

Inspektion Lauenstadt

character: Bauer Schlegel

original_name: Inspektion Lauenstadt

Kennen Sie die Lindemanns?

character: Gerhard

original_name: Kennen Sie die Lindemanns?

Gesucht wird...

character: Paul Leppla

original_name: Gesucht wird...

Justitias kleine Fische

original_name: Justitias kleine Fische

Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi

overview: Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi is a German television series broadcast from 1973 through 1975 in 26 parts and two seasons. It featured an adventurer probably inspired by British explorers Richard Francis Burton and T. E. Lawrence. The scripts were faithful to Karl May's Orient novels and the score is from Martin Böttcher who previously had composed the music for ten very successful Karl May films in cinema and in 1998 also for the two parts of Winnetous Rückkehr, also being aired by the German station ZDF.

character: Dschemal

original_name: Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi

Ron und Tanja

character: Karl Schilling

original_name: Ron und Tanja

Scene of the Crime

character: Gast

Das Boot

overview: Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, Das Boot follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey.

character: Kapitän des Versorgungsschiffs "Weser"

original_name: Das Boot

Hafenpolizei

overview: Hafenpolizei is a German television series.

character: Kumpel

original_name: Hafenpolizei

Sie kommen aus Agarthi

overview: Sie kommen aus Agarthi is a German television series.

character: Agent

original_name: Sie kommen aus Agarthi

Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein

overview: Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein is a TV adaption of a novel of the same name by Austrian author Johannes Mario Simmel. Directed by Thomas Engel Siegfried Rauch walks in the footsteps of O. W. Fischer who played the protagonist "Thomas Lieven" already in 1961, just one year after the bestseller had been released. The series is unique for providing a little cooking show at the end of each episode. The book also includes recipes because "Thomas Lieven" is an accomplished amateur cook.

Melissa

overview: Three-part TV crime drama based on Francis Durbridge's novel.

Babylon Berlin

overview: Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Beckmann

overview: Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.

World on a Wire

overview: In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.

Christian Rother – Bankier für Preußen

overview: Prussia is on the brink of national bankruptcy. King Frederick William III unexpectedly appoints the tax official Christian Rother as President of the Royal Prussian Maritime Trade.

Stellenweise Glatteis

overview: Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company’s clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union’s hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realizes the very workers leading protests are its members.

title: The Marriage of Maria Braun

overview: Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

title: Glatteis

title: Der Fährmeister

title: Wedle wyroków twoich...

overview: As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.

character: hauptman Kurt Kleinschmidt, komendant miasta

title: Red Kiss

overview: 1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stéphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalin's anti-Semitism.

title: Baker's Bread

overview: In a small Franconian town, Werner Wild enters Georg Baum's store and wants to become a baker. "I like to eat good bread" - that's all he knows how to say to the sales clerk Gisela. But under the wing of Master Baum, the newcomer quickly becomes familiar with the intricacies of bread and pastry making. Soon the loner Baum finds himself increasingly confronted with a changed economic environment.

title: Epsteins Nacht

overview: Jochen Epstein is released from prison after serving 15 years for murder. He is determined to emigrate from Germany and leave the past behind him forever. But familiar places, repressed memories and a never-forgotten girlfriend break the armor that the old man has built around himself. It all began on his last night in freedom: during a chance visit to a Christian service, Epstein believes he recognizes his former concentration camp tormentor Giesser in the parish priest.

title: Angst

overview: Seitz has been abusing his underage daughter for years and is the father of her first child. He is a brutal perpetrator of violence and has several relevant criminal records. When Tanja confides in her new boyfriend, he persuades her to go to the police. Seitz is sentenced and threatens to beat Tanja to death while still in court. Tanja and her boyfriend have long been married and have children of their own when, after seven years, fate catches up with them again: they are terrified of Seitz, who is soon released from prison and threatens revenge. Tanja and her family turn to the authorities in vain. They can only intervene if there is a concrete threat. But then it will be too late, Tanja fears. Too late for her children and herself. Together, the family gets a rifle...

title: Gegen die Regel

overview: The tranquil family life of a police officer is disrupted when a colleague on duty goes berserk and expects him to make a false statement. A question of conscience? But how does one live with a guilty conscience if one violates the unwritten laws of the police?

title: Fabian

overview: The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.

title: Martha

overview: After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.

title: Der Vetter Basilio

title: Der Pott

overview: In 1917, the boys from Irish club Avondale United parade through the town with the cup they have just won.

title: Stellenweise Glatteis

title: Die Söhne

title: Tödlicher Ausgang

title: Der Regenmacher

overview: In the summer of 1913, a heat wave threatens the existence of the farm of H. C. Curry and his sons: The cattle die of thirst, the grain dries up. Then the adventurer Bill Starbuck comes to the ranch and claims he can conjure up rain for 100 dollars. The father and daughter Lizzie are believing the swindler.

title: Die Erbschaft

title: Rückfälle

overview: After rehab, Manfred Burger seems to have got his alcohol addiction under control and is trying to reorganize his life. Although he is now sober, he soon realizes that society cannot cope with his illness: His relationship with his wife Eva is on its last legs and he loses his job. Nobody seems to understand Burger and his illness. As his life continues to go off track, the bottle soon becomes his daily companion again...

title: Der Tod zu Basel

overview: Mysterious deaths are occurring in Basel: people are dying out of the blue in public with no apparent cause of death. The coroner, Professor Rüegg, the cantonal doctor Zäslin, and politicians are at a loss and becoming fearful. There are even serious considerations to cancel the upcoming carnival. Rüegg's assistant Andreas Zinstag, who is also dealing with the deaths, lives with his uncle, Jean-Jacques Zinstag, a retired doctor. The latter begins to take an interest in the mysterious deaths. Among his friends, Zinstag develops the theory that people are not dying from a specific disease, but from "death" itself. The Grim Reaper himself is making his presence felt in Basel, as he once did in the Dance of Death.

title: Fleeting Acquaintances

title: Haus ohne Hüter

title: Das leise Gift

title: Schattengrenze

title: Is was, Kanzler?

overview: October 1982: The entire German political scene is corrupt, the German government a puppet of the USA. To play it safe, the CIA replaces German politicians with compliant doubles. When the chancellor's doppelganger, of all people, is to be taken out of circulation, the secret service accidentally kills the real chancellor, who is floating dead in the swimming pool. Agent Erwin of the Federal Criminal Police Office is assigned to solve the case...

title: Die Ratten

title: Friedrich und der verzauberte Einbrecher

overview: 9-year-old Friedrich surprises a burglar.

title: Ein Mann namens Parvus

title: Der letzte Kosmonaut

overview: Shokov is the last cosmonaut of the "Mir" station. On board: the secret satellite weapon "Medusa". A corrupt minister wants to sell them abroad. Shokov, fearing for his life, causes galactic chaos.

title: Notwehr

overview: A rock band moves into a farmhouse in a little village. They are eyed suspiciously by the citizens of the village.

title: Zeitaufnahme

title: Herzsprung

overview: In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it.

title: The Frozen Heart

overview: A tramp tries to trick the community into paying for the funeral of his fellow tramp who was found frozen to death.

title: Die Ilse ist weg

title: Weder Tag noch Stunde

title: Gnadenlos

title: Marija

title: Die Geisel

overview: Former revolutionary Pat and sex worker Meg run a brothel in 1950s Dublin. In addition to five girls and two gay men, the old IRA general Musjö and Mr. Muleady also live in their establishment. One evening, two IRA fighters drag in a prisoner. The hostage is Leslie Williams, a young British soldier who was captured in Northern Ireland and is now to be exchanged for an IRA member...

title: Gefährliche Verbindung

title: Planübung

overview: A fictionalized version of a military training fight.

title: Millowitsch Theater - Der Meisterboxer

title: Moebius

overview: A train with all the passengers disappears in the subway. Sometimes the sound of a passing train can be heard in the tunnels, but no one sees it. A young mathematician develops a theory: because of the opening of a new line, the train has fallen into another dimension.

title: Die Tauben

title: Knife in the Back

overview: At night, a violent confrontation between a pimp and a Greek guest worker takes place on Hamburg's Reeperbahn, resulting in the latter's death. In the subsequent trial before a jury, contradictory statements make it difficult to decide whether this was an intentional act or an accident.

title: Der Stumme

title: Das Boot

overview: A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

title: Die Brücke des Schicksals

title: Life, Love & Celluloid

overview: Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

title: Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story

overview: A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

original_title: Fassbinders Berlin Alexanderplatz. Ein Megafilm und seine Geschichte

title: Der Besuch der alten Dame

overview: As a teenager, Carla Zachanassian had a child with a man named Serge Miller. When he refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. Now, many years later, she is a multimillionaire and returns to the town of her childhood, where she is welcomed with open arms. However, she has only one thing in mind: revenge—she wants Serge dead.

title: Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

overview: A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".

original_title: Il était une fois… Le mariage de Maria Braun

title: Der gute Merbach

title: Super

overview: The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sky shimmers dark gray.

title: Love Is Not an Argument

overview: The relationship of a married couple in their 40s is broken when the mother has an affair with her teenage daughter's boyfriend.

title: Die Komplizen

title: Das Käthchen von Heilbronn

title: Milo Barus, der stärkste Mann der Welt

title: Strafsache gegen F.

title: Kleiner Mann, was nun?

overview: Emma Morschel, known as Lämmchen, is expecting a child. So she marries her boyfriend, Johannes Pinneberg. The young marriage gets off to a rocky start: Lämmchen's parents, class-conscious workers, are opposed to their daughter marrying the lowly clerk.

title: Sein Kampf

overview: A boy under the influence of his neonazi-brother witnesses the power of truth when listening to an old survivor of the Shoah.

title: Sohn gegen Vater

title: The Harmonists

overview: Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.

title: Der Galgensteiger

title: Mein großer Freund

title: Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter

overview: Dutch police inspector Piet Van der Valk finds himself repeatedly crossing paths wiht the beautiful yet troubled Lucienne Englebert, the daughter of a famous conductor recently killed in a car accident. Whern the maverick inspector investigates the seemingly senseless killing of a man in Amsertdam, will Lucienne turn up again?

title: Berlin - Moskau

overview: By coincidence, a couple who have just fallen in love are targeted by the Russian mafia, who have made a deal with a shady Berlin businessman and a corrupt politician. When the young woman is kidnapped, her boyfriend sets off on a dangerous search for her.

title: Engel ohne Flügel

overview: A foundling who survived a plane crash as an infant is raised by a hermit in the forest. Seventeen years later, a television reporter lands his hang glider at the girl's feet. While he wants to exploit the story for his lover's reality show, the girl thinks he is an angel who could bring her into contact with her mother and falls in love with him.

title: Gladiatoren

title: The Marriage of Maria Braun

title: Glatteis

title: Der Fährmeister

title: Wedle wyroków twoich...

title: Red Kiss

title: Baker's Bread

title: Epsteins Nacht

title: Angst

title: Gegen die Regel

title: Fabian

title: Martha

title: Der Vetter Basilio

title: Der Pott

title: Stellenweise Glatteis

title: Die Söhne

title: Tödlicher Ausgang

title: Der Regenmacher

title: Die Erbschaft

title: Rückfälle

title: Der Tod zu Basel

title: Fleeting Acquaintances

title: Haus ohne Hüter

title: Das leise Gift

title: Schattengrenze

title: Is was, Kanzler?

title: Die Ratten

title: Ein Mann namens Parvus

title: Der letzte Kosmonaut

title: Notwehr

title: Zeitaufnahme

title: Herzsprung

title: The Frozen Heart

title: Die Ilse ist weg

title: Weder Tag noch Stunde

title: Gnadenlos

title: Marija

title: Die Geisel

title: Gefährliche Verbindung

title: Planübung

title: Millowitsch Theater - Der Meisterboxer

title: Moebius

title: Die Tauben

title: Knife in the Back

title: Der Stumme

title: Das Boot

title: Die Brücke des Schicksals

title: Life, Love & Celluloid

title: Der Besuch der alten Dame

title: Der gute Merbach

title: Super

title: Love Is Not an Argument

title: Die Komplizen

title: Das Käthchen von Heilbronn

title: Milo Barus, der stärkste Mann der Welt

title: Strafsache gegen F.

title: Kleiner Mann, was nun?

title: Sein Kampf

title: Sohn gegen Vater

title: The Harmonists

title: Der Galgensteiger

title: Mein großer Freund

title: Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter

title: Berlin - Moskau

title: Engel ohne Flügel

title: Gladiatoren