
Miguel Herz-Kestranek
Actor · b. 1948 · St.Gallen, Switzerland
Movies24
Movie6.5DramaWarIn the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Uprising
2001 · 94 votes
Movie6.6AdventureDramaDrama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
Nanga Parbat
2010 · 62 votes
Movie5.2DramaRomanceA portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Klimt
2006 · 78 votes
Movie4.8ComedyInken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desperately search for money, an apartment and love. But because each individual point is difficult to realize on its own, the girls decide to kill all three birds with one stone for the sake of simplicity. The solution: they need rich, nice boys with suitable living space - and they need them now! But until then, horrendous rents, false identities and sleazy neighbors put their friendship to the test.
MovieDocumentarySchönbrunn is a world of marvels and mystery, of public glamour and curious secrets. The wealth of its building and landscape architecture, the grand views and hidden details, the wildlife, tamed nature as well as its past and present human population supply more stories and images than even the most insatiable camera can record.Schönbrunn in the protean succession of the seasons, of light and shadow, day and night is presented by Sir Peter Ustinov and was broadcasted in the “ORF-UNIVERSUM”-series for the 250th anniversary of the Schönbrunn Zoo.
- MovieTV MovieFantasy
A fantasy movie directed by Ernst Wolfram Marboe.
Movie3.4Science FictionActionScientists try to simulate the Big Bang and the experiment gets out of control. While satellites come down and chaos arises, the stories of several people trying to survive is told.
Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht
2013 · 18 votes
Movie6.3RomanceDramaTo their big surprise, the capable waitress Gundula Kirchner receives from the estate owner Xaver Schönborn the offer to manage his stud as managing director. Gundula, who has some qualifications, seizes the opportunity and has the business under control after only a short time. But Xavers spoiled daughter Helen and especially the ambitious, but incompetent son-in-law René try by all means to drive the dedicated Gundula from the court. No one, least of all Gundula herself, suspects that Xaver is really her father.
Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003 · 3 votes
- MovieComedy
Das Kapital
1997
Movie4.0RomanceTV MovieFlorian König is in his early 20s and lives with his mother. He assists her whenever he can. In the weekly newspaper "Alt Ausseer Bote" he reports on a foundling that has been handed in at the baby hatch of Bad Aussee hospital, and is subsequently dismissed by editor-in-chief Anton Grimmeisen. But when the editor Caroline Moosbichler hears about it, she demands Florian's immediate reinstatement. He is to stay on the story. In the process, he finds out that the mother acted out of pure desperation, and he gets on the trail of the love between Jutta Lechner and Thomas Gschnitzer. This love is the origin of the child.
König der Herzen
2006 · 1 votes
Movie5.3AdventureThe end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. Only thanks to the loyal monk Wigbold Klaus managed to survive the shock. A few years later Klaus Störtebeker finds his brother Jan and his long-time friend Elizabeth Pren in Hamburg. From her, he learns that she is expected to marry Simon von Wallenrod, whose father Klaus suspects of killing his parents. But the Pranks and the Wallenrods are rich and respected people, and Klaus is a poor man. And now he becomes a pirate...
Movie7.0RomanceTV MovieThe marine doctor Dr. med. Karen Stendal is assigned to the sailing training ship Albatros, which heads her great love Gregor Simonis as captain. But contrary to expectations Gregor behaves emphatically cool and dismissive to the attractive doctor. During a trip ashore in Lisbon, Karen indulges in an affair with the charming journalist Thomas Sand. But when Karen learns the reason for Gregor's peculiar restraint, she knows he needs her more than ever.
Liebe unter weißen Segeln
2001 · 3 votes
Movie6.6DramaThe film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we encounter the couple in the lovely springtime weather their future is full of promise. They are determined to stay clear of politics. Yet in the climate of the time, nobody of her prominence or his religion can remain apolitical. Although Martin's journalist friend, Drechsler, calls to inform them that the Nazis plan to take over Austria soon, they concentrate on their work and their private happiness and dismiss the warnings.
Movie6.0DramaTV MovieCarola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola finds out that he was gay and had been in a relationship with the much younger lawyer Tobias Volperius for six years. Deeply shaken by this discovery, she withdraws from the outside world and tries to drown her sorrow in alcohol. When she attempts suicide, it is Tobias who finds and saves her. As a result, the two become friends, and Tobias is able to help Carola save her late husband's furniture business, which has been run down by fraudulent proxy Viktor Lipinski and is about to be taken over by another company.
Zwei Seiten der Liebe
2002 · 3 votes
Movie4.5ComedyThree seasoned women, successful and in the prime of their years, have had enough of the masters of creation. Maria finally leaves her husband Josef, to whom she led the common starred restaurant in Vienna in spite of his affairs during the marriage. The family judge Steffi wants to find a new beginning after their early retirement, and the pharmacist Carola is tired of being the eternal lover of her married friend. The trio travel from Vienna to Saxony, where Maria inherited a small castle-like estate.
Herzdamen
2006 · 2 votes
- MovieHistory
Weltuntergang
1984
Movie5.4DramaBrothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his hands full. In the meantime, the police have also become aware of the brothers. Pursued by Detective Fabich, they get deeper and deeper into criminal circles. A man called Adolf demands that the Sass brothers work for him. He blackmails them and has their father beaten to death. The brothers then agree to work together. However, Adolf plans to have them killed after the coup. The two brothers manage to escape; they are also able to flee from the police, who catch them while they are still breaking into the bank.
Sass
2001 · 13 votes
Movie6.0DramaDr. David Douglas is about to start his own private clinic and marry architect Jane Merchenson. Then his father dies, leaving debts from a real estate fraud he fell victim to, so selling the mortgaged Cornish family estate Oaktree isn't nearly enough. David cancels the wedding and sells to John Tyson, a friend of Jane's father Michael, who starts renovating it, employing her. Later David discovers Jane gave birth to their son, Nicky, without telling him.
Rosamunde Pilcher: Möwen im Wind
1999 · 3 votes
Movie4.5DramaEva Habermann plays a bright, young woman who has to choose between two very different men. Miguel Herz-Kestranek embodies the charismatic singer Roman and Gunther Gillian the nature-loving veterinarian Christian. The other roles are brilliantly cast with Christina Plate and Antje Hagen. Director Peter Weissflog shot in and around Munich as well as against the background of the picturesque scenery on the Tegernsee.
Utta Danella - Tanz auf dem Regenbogen
2007 · 2 votes
Movie4.7HistoryDramaGenoveva’s 16th‐century Munich family is murdered and her home burned. Violated by masked killers, she vows vengeance. She turns to friend Ernst, unaware he aids her family’s traitors, and to Walpurga, whose true motives shock her. Can she still enact her revenge?
Die Ketzerbraut
2017 · 12 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Mein Mann, mein Leben und du
2003 · 1 votes
Movie5.0RomanceTV MovieSeven months after marrying and settling on Rosa’s Alpine pasture, fishmonger Hannes flees back to Hamburg. Furious, Rosa follows him to the Hanseatic city.
Alpenglühen zwei - Liebe versetzt Berge
2005 · 2 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
In the pre-WWI Austro-Hungarian Empire, an older officer (Capt. Kunze) investigates a brilliant junior officer (Lt. Dorfrichter) suspected of complicity in a murder by poisoning.
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984 · 1 votes
Movie9.0CrimeComedyKarl Hirnschall is in his thirties and is a member of a Viennese avant-garde theatre group in the early seventies. When he is finally fed up with acting for low fees, he goes back to his former life. He becomes the "right man" for a grocery firm whose products he sells with great success. The neo-salesman manages to acquire a furnished appartment for himself and his young girlfriend, Traude. When his income does not keep pace with his expenditures, Karl resorts to shady business deals.
Der richtige Mann
1982 · 1 votes
Series23
TV4.7Talk ShowNewsEvery evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
DAS!
1991 · 6 votes
- TV4.4News
Volle Kanne
1999 · 7 votes
TV6.2DramaCrimeTatort 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.
TV6.3CrimeComedyA team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.
Die Rosenheim-Cops
2002 · 28 votes
TV5.9CrimeSOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.
SOKO München
1978 · 7 votes
TV4.3Talk ShowThe Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
Abendschau
2000 · 3 votes
TV6.0DramaCrimeDerrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974 · 52 votes
TV6.6DramaComedyA long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
TV5.9CrimeDramaSOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
SOKO Leipzig
2001 · 20 votes
TV4.9DramaSeries written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive landscapes, all of which are shot on location in Sweden. Series has no continuous storyline, and each episode is filled with new characters.
Inga Lindström
2004 · 9 votes
TV4.9CrimeSOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
- TV9.0Talk Show
Tietjen und Bommes
1997 · 1 votes
TV5.0DramaCrimeThe unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former colleague of Otto's from the People's Police and is constantly coming up with new business ideas for stores and pubs where the team meets.
Ein starkes Team
1994 · 11 votes
TV7.2CrimeMysteryAfter his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.
TV3.7FamilySchlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series.
Schlosshotel Orth
1996 · 3 votes
TV5.0DramaCrimeDer letzte Zeuge
1998 · 7 votes
TV5.3DramaFamilyLena Lorenz is a captivating drama series that follows the life of a talented and ambitious midwife, Lena Lorenz, who returns to her idyllic hometown in the Bavarian Alps after working for several years in a bustling city hospital. Seeking a quieter and more meaningful life, Lena embarks on a journey of self-discovery, as she navigates the challenges and joys of her new profession in the picturesque rural village.
Lena Lorenz
2015 · 5 votes
TV7.6ComedyDramaVienna suburb. Better society. Appearance and reality. A golden cage. But is everything that glitters really gold? Actually, the five "suburban women" of the title couldn't be doing any better in their supposedly perfect, affluent world – could they?
TV7.3CrimeDramaMurder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.
Donna Leon
2000 · 11 votes
TV6.8CrimePeter Strohm is a private detective with radical methods. His work begins where police work ends; he takes on sensitive cases that require a certain scale, or explosive situations that can lead to international crises.
Peter Strohm
1989 · 4 votes
- TVTalk Show
Erlesen
2010
TV5.9Action & AdventureFamilyDas Traumhotel
2004 · 9 votes
TV5.7Action & AdventureDramaThe vast, unspoiled Valley of the Wild Roses, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is the scenery for separate stories of Western life, family drama and romance. People arrive, leave, return in search of love(rs), riches, redemption, revenge...