
Robert Graf
Actor · 1923 – 1966 · Witten, Germany
Robert Graf (November 18, 1923 – February 4, 1966) was a German actor who played the role of Werner, "The Ferret" in the 1963 movie The Great Escape. Graf was born in Witten, Germany in 1923. In 1942, after completing his Abitur, he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front. He was wounded in 1944, and assigned to war production duties in Munich, where he began his study of theater.[1] In 1952, Graf married the actress Selma Urfer and had three children. He was the father of the director Dominik Graf. Robert Graf died of cancer in Munich in 1966 at age 42. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies23
Movie7.9AdventureDramaThe Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
The Great Escape
1963 · 3K votes
Movie8.3ComedyDramaIn the midst of World War II, postman Ludwig Fuchs writes a letter to his former school friend Field Marshal Hermann Göring, urging him to work for peace. He is declared mentally incompetent. After the war, he struggles to shake off the stigma of alleged mental illness. Göring is executed. Fuchs forces the court to examine him: he vandalizes the lobby of Post Office 122 in Munich and is rehabilitated (with full salary compensation for lost years).
Mein Schulfreund
1960 · 6 votes
Movie5.8DramaOttomar Domnick′s experimental feature film is a portrait of the print shop employee Jonas who lives in a large city and suffers from feelings of guilt and fear for his existence. When he finds a hat that bears the initials of a friend that he left during the war when he fled from a detention camp, his sense of guilt becomes a severe paranoia.
Jonas
1957 · 5 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaKlaus murders women. After killing another girl, Klaus is spotted by his friend Kersten as he leaves his latest victim's house. Kersten gives him a ride and Klaus begins to plot the man's death. He's a witness, after all. Nobody else can say Klaus was there except Kersten. They decide to head to a party. Klaus' unhappy wife is there. So are a bunch of other people. Killing Kersten will be difficult. Then they all play a game called... Murder Party!
- Movie9.0Drama
The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She manages to keep them together in spite of the fact that their economic situation deteriorates after World War I. Never one to look too critically upon her brood, the woman undergoes a moving and gradual transformation as the adult activities of her children bring home the fact that none of them are what she had once imagined.
- Movie8.0Drama
Wenn beide schuldig werden
1962 · 1 votes
Movie6.9ComedyKurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates - Hans and Bruno. They could not be more different. While Hans is ambitious and must always work hard for his career, it seems that the happy go lucky Bruno is carefree.
Movie5.3CrimeA ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.
- MovieDrama
- Movie7.0Comedy
Der Drache
1965 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ThrillerCrimeTed Talbot is a prosecutor in Newtonville. In the course of his work, he accuses Jim Conley of robbing a bank and killing the cashier. Ted's wife Jane takes over Conley's defense. When the court sentences the defendant to death, she files for divorce. Beth Conley, the wife, goes to see the prosecutor and asks him to postpone the execution of the sentence for thirty days. When he refuses, she threatens him with revelations. Deputy District Attorney Hal Young witnesses this confrontation...
Frühstück mit dem Tod
1964 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryDer Autokult
1964
- Movie9.0Comedy
Beate Dehn and Klaus Hartmann are two ambitious young architects locked in a fierce professional rivalry. When both enter the same high-stakes design competition, their battle of wits turns personal—and seductive. Charming and manipulative, Klaus has a reputation for winning clients with charm, whiskey, and a well-placed sofa, but Beate proves to be a match for his every move.
Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa
1963 · 1 votes
- MovieAdventure
- Movie8.0Drama
Jeanne oder Die Lerche
1956 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
- Movie10.0Drama
Die große Wut des Philipp Hotz
1960 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaDer Fall Klaus Fuchs
1965 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaAfter World War II, a lot of people, who lived in the eastern parts of the Third Reich had to be relocated. One of them is Hugo Starosta (Martin Held) with his family. They live in a fortress. Hugo is unemployed, his children don't seem to like school, but somehow they managa to get through.
- Movie10.0Crime
Porträt eines Helden
1966 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceThe teacher Dorothee Durand, young and single, travels from England to the picturesque south of France to find the remaining remnants of her family. Her search takes her to Nimes, where she meets the likewise single Marius, a hotelier, who immediately falls in love with the beautiful woman. And so it turns out that after traveling through half of France, Dorothy not only finds her relatives, but also ...
Movie10.0Dominik Graf, now a leading filmmaker, revisits his late father Robert Graf’s acting career (1956–1966), during which Robert appeared in 20 features and 25 TV dramas by directors like Hoffmann, Staudte, Siodmak, Sturges, and Comencini. Through archival clips and personal reflections, Dominik “meets” his father and confronts the West German society and film industry of that era, where scripted narratives often outweighed real life.
- Movie7.0Drama
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963 · 2 votes
Series2
- TV8.0DramaCrime
Intercontinental-Express
1966 · 1 votes
TV9.0MysteryDramaZu viele Köche
1961 · 3 votes