
Helmut Griem
Actor · 1932 – 2004 · Hamburg, Germany
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helmut Griem (born April 6, 1932 in Hamburg – November 19, 2004 in Munich) was a German actor. Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich. Among his many film and TV appearances (a quite memorable one being NBC's mini-series Peter the Great, portraying the formidable Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell), the Oscar-winning film Cabaret (1972), in which he played the rich "Baron Maximilian von Heune" is probably the best-known; other internationally-known performances include his work in The Damned, The McKenzie Break, and Ludwig. Griem starred in the television mini-series "The Devil's Lieutenant" directed by John Goldschmidt, adapted by Jack Rosenthal and based on the novel by M Fagyas, for Channel 4 and ZDF. Despite his success in film, the theatre remained at the heart of Griem's work, and he performed in many classic roles from both the German and English-language repertoire. Later in his career Griem turned to theatre direction, including Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. Before his death, Griem had planned to direct the Botho Strauss play Die eine and die andere (This One and The Other). Griem twice won the Bambi Award: in 1961 and in 1976. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helmut Griem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie7.4MusicRomanceInside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Cabaret
1972 · 1K votes
Movie7.3DramaHistoryIn the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Movie6.0DramaWarA luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Voyage of the Damned
1976 · 77 votes
Movie6.8HistoryDramaLieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
Movie6.2DramaWarA historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990 · 26 votes
- Movie3.0Drama
Landläufiger Tod
1980 · 3 votes
Movie6.2DramaMax Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
Movie6.4DocumentaryDramaNine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.
Movie7.5DramaHistoryHistorical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Ludwig
1973 · 194 votes
Movie9.0DramaFollows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.
- Movie10.0Drama
Die Brüder
1958 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaHistoryStarting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Movie7.0DramaDetached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces, some of whom make personal revelations to her to little affect.
Movie5.9ActionWarA German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
The McKenzie Break
1970 · 34 votes
- Movie8.0TV Movie
Italian Made-for-TV film by Alberto Negrin.
Missus
1994 · 1 votes
Movie8.0RomanceDramaOn the Faroe Islands in the North Sea lives the seductive and mysterious Barbara, who plunges men into misfortune. She is married to the island doctor, but is hopelessly unfaithful. When her husband dies and his successor Dr. Aggersoe arrives on the island, she turns his head too.
Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
1961 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaUnusual 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.
Movie7.2DramaThe young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Lourdes
2000 · 5 votes
Movie5.5DramaTV MovieOn the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childhood friend of Edouard's called the Captain, and despite Charlotte's ominous premonition, Ottilie, Charlotte's beautiful and orphaned niece...
- Movie8.0Crime
Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
1997 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaHans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
- Movie7.0Thriller
Der Mörder in dir
2000 · 2 votes
Movie6.3HistoryWarThe viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
Children of Rage
1975 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Liebe für Liebe
1967 · 1 votes
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TV6.7DramaA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · 54 votes
TV5.0ComedyFamilyThe series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
Das Traumschiff
1981 · 17 votes
TV5.5CrimeSK Kölsch is a German television series.
SK Kölsch
1999 · 2 votes
TV5.0DramaCrimeDer letzte Zeuge
1998 · 7 votes
TV6.9Action & AdventureDramaJack Costello is a retired cop and now private detective who lives in Miami, who handles a myriad of cases for unusual clients. At his side are old police buddy Sam Bosley and cartoonist-turned-amateur sleuth Jean Philippe Dumas, who is using Costello as an influence and has nicknamed the burly detective "Extralarge." In the second series, Costello faces other dangerous cases, again with Bosley and Archibald, the son of an old friend, who Costello amusingly nicknames "Dumas."
Detective Extralarge
1991 · 8 votes
TV7.5DramaCrimeIn 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.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980 · 51 votes
TV8.8Action & AdventureDramaCharlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
1994 · 5 votes
TV7.9War & PoliticsDramaPeter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
Peter the Great
1986 · 9 votes
- TVCrime
Anwalt Abel is a German television film series, broadcast on ZDF between 1988 and 2002. 20 television films were produced, based on the detective novels of Fred Breinersdorfer.
Anwalt Abel
1988
TV3.8FamilyThe renowned Viennese fashion designer Franz Steiniger learns that he has a fatal illness and then retires to Italy with his lover Barbara Landau. During the absence of the CEO, his unsuspecting wife Elisabeth and son Albert and daughter-in-law Alpha fight against the hostile takeover by a solvent American cheap-fashion empire.
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002 · 4 votes
TV7.0DramaThe nobleman Franco Maironi is sailing over Lake Lugano together with his beloved Luisa. Luisa is from a bourgeois family and therefore marrying her would mean going outside his social class. But this is be no problem for the courageous young Italian patriot.
- TVDramaCrime
Kyiv, 1974. Father Pietro, exposed by the KGB as a Vatican spy, flees to Rome. Years later, his past catches up with him. Under the code name “Missus,” he is sent back to the East. His mission is to unmask an agent who has been infiltrated into the Vatican to eliminate a high-ranking official.
Missus
1994
TV8.0MysteryA man wakes up in the hospital without remembering anything. He does not know who he is. But evidently, his identity is known by two killer of color who seek out without respite.