
Christine Kaufmann
Actor · 1945 – 2017 · Lengdorf, Styria, Austria
Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured. Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared in Escape from East Berlin. In 1963 Kaufmann married Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Bulba (1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (born July 19, 1964) and Allegra (born July 11, 1966). They divorced in 1968. Kaufmann resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage. Kaufmann is also a successful businesswoman, promoting her own cosmetics products line that sells well in Germany. She has written several books about beauty and health, as well as two autobiographies. She speaks three languages: German, English, and French. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Kaufmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie7.2RomanceComedyA boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Movie7.2ComedyDramaA German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
- MovieDrama
Movie6.9DramaGermany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Lola
1981 · 143 votes
Movie5.2CrimeHorrorIn Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · 51 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarThe story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Lili Marleen
1981 · 93 votes
- Movie4.2Comedy
Höllische Nachbarn
1998 · 6 votes
Movie6.1DramaA new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her.
Movie5.3AdventureDramaConstantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
Movie5.4FamilyActionTom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
2014 · 39 votes
Movie6.3AdventureHistoryGlaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
Movie7.5DramaStaatsanwältin Corda
1953 · 2 votes
Movie6.9DramaFour American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.
Town Without Pity
1961 · 23 votes
Movie6.3AdventureRomanceUkraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
Taras Bulba
1962 · 84 votes
Movie6.0DramaAdventureAnother planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
Movie10.0Science FictionFuturistic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.
Pankow ’95
1983 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ActionComedyWhile an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
Movie5.6DramaLiving together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.
Willow Springs
1973 · 8 votes
Movie4.1AdventureDramaA 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
Movie8.4DramaWerner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films.
Movie9.0ComedyCrimeA couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.
Movie8.0DramaWith the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. - MoMA
Movie5.3MysteryThrillerAngela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virginia (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis." Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virginia nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angela Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours..."
Movie6.2DramaCrimeRoberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...
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- TV4.4News
Volle Kanne
1999 · 7 votes
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
TV5.5Talk ShowTV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
Markus Lanz
2008 · 14 votes
- TVTalk Show
Alpha Forum
1998
TV6.8Talk ShowKölner Treff
1976 · 4 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
TV6.6Talk ShowNDR Talk Show
1979 · 5 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
TV4.3Talk ShowThe Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
Abendschau
2000 · 3 votes
TV5.2Talk ShowRiverboat
1992 · 4 votes
TV4.5Talk ShowReinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
Beckmann
1999 · 4 votes
TV4.7Talk ShowNachtcafé
1987 · 3 votes
TV7.0Talk ShowZimmer frei!
1996 · 13 votes
- TV7.2Talk Show
3 nach 9
1974 · 5 votes
- TV6.0News
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989 · 1 votes
TV5.6DramaRealityA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · 24 votes
TV6.0Talk Showalfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994 · 2 votes
TV2.5DramaSoapFür alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
1995 · 4 votes
- TV6.0Talk Show
Menschen der Woche
2000 · 1 votes
- TV9.0Talk Show
Tietjen und Bommes
1997 · 1 votes
- TV7.2CrimeDrama
Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994 · 4 votes
TV9.3RealityDalli Dalli
1971 · 3 votes
TV8.0DramaCrimeDer Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
TV6.0Talk ShowRealityDas perfekte Promi-Dinner
2006 · 1 votes