
Vera Tschechowa
Actor · 1940 – 2024 · Berlin, Germany
Vera Tschechowa was a German actress, producer, director, and screenwriter from a distinguished artistic family. She was the daughter of actress Ada Tschechowa and the granddaughter of Russian-born actors Olga Tschechowa and Michael Chekhov; her great-great-uncle was the famous playwright Anton Chekhov. She became known as “The Girl with the Cat Eyes” after starring in Eugen York's film of the same name. Tschechowa began her career in film and theater in the late 1950s, making her screen debut in 1957. She appeared in over 90 film and television productions, earning critical recognition for roles such as Ulla Wickweber in Das Brot der frühen Jahre. In addition to acting, she co-founded Atossa Filmproduktion in 1980 and later focused on directing documentaries and television portraits of notable figures from politics and the arts. Her autobiography Überwiegend heiter: Mein ziemlich bewegtes Leben was published in 2022.
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Movie6.7DramaRomanceLove at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Movie6.5RomanceDramaA young electrical engineer, engaged to his boss's daughter and on the way to a secure existence, breaks out of his usual life when he meets a childhood friend.
Movie7.5DramaWarDr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russian doctor Alexandra Kasalinskaja, Schultheiss not only endangers his own life - because Alexandra is the lover of First Lieutenant Markow.
Movie5.7CrimeMobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
Movie4.1DocumentaryDramaRex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his life in the context of the gay pride movement, the normative pressures of the Schlager music industry, and the profound changes currently underway.
Movie8.0DocumentaryDocumentary about Anton Chekhov and his descendants in Moscow. Vera Tschechowa, who is the great-grandniece of the poet and writer, meets with family members, writers, and theater professionals. Past and present merge into a poetic journey of discovery into a country that, until then, had been little known in the realm of artistic sensibilities.
Tschechow in meinem Leben
1985 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ThrillerCorinna witnesses how three guys chase and shoot a man in front of her lonesome house. As only witness, they force her to come with them and care for the guy's wound. But she manages to flee shortly after and takes Blondi to a doctor. He tells her his story, how he used to smuggle drugs, but one day fled with a suitcase full of money. Corinna inexplicably falls in love with him and decides to accompany him on his further flight. But the villains are close behind them.
Movie6.1ComedyFather Scherzer generally buries himself in the books of the castle library, which he is responsible for managing. He is a warm-hearted but somewhat overwhelmed father to his five daughters, ranging from a preschooler to two teenage girls to a successful press photographer who flirts with a dashing dentist. While he is trying to sell the castle to an overbearing American millionaire, the housekeeper quits, and the youth welfare office insists on discipline and order in the five-girl household.
Witwer mit 5 Töchtern
1957 · 17 votes
Movie10.0DramaMunich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello player Nancy. They feel compelled to pursue a passion in spite of their careers. But does romantic love have a place in such convoluted, contesting times?
Movie5.7DramaCrimeAfter the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Vera's colleague Sonja reports on wild sex parties of the murdered and mentions names, prominent names.
Movie5.5DramaRomance
Movie8.0MusicAdventureFreddy can hardly believe his good fortune: His uncle has left him some land in the Rocky Mountains, and, together with orphan Stefan, he's taking off for Canada. However, the great inheritance turns out to be a decrepit, old log cabin in the middle of nowhere. Nevertheless, an unusual number of people seem to be way too interested in the rundown ranch.
Freddy unter fremden Sternen
1959 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyFantasyMarietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a beautiful opera house dancer, Camilla, and is convinced that she is her mother.
MovieDocumentaryOne of Germany's stars of cinematography, embarks on the journey through his life. The film begins in the US and Hollywood - where Ballhaus established his international fame.
- Movie8.0Comedy
Nachbarn und andere nette Menschen
1979 · 1 votes
Movie9.5CrimeDramaA police commissioner investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an inspector.
Movie8.0ComedyIntended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays home and rebels by playing with toys and joining in on a radio concert with his own instruments. His erratic behavior does not go unnoticed and soon a winsome psychiatrist whom he knows and secretly admires, is right there trying to help him. The newly liberated bank manager logically grasps this opportunity to press forward his innermost feelings.
Movie4.0RomanceAfter the German reunification: A widowed, unemployed archaeologist with two children and a single futurologist with a little daughter in Berlin fall in love at first sight and persistently and unwaveringly develop a life together. An equally unspectacular and rigorous examination of love as a crucial basis for private and political action.
- Movie7.0Drama
Olifant
1973 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaThe story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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- Movie10.0Comedy
Polly oder Die Bataille am Bluewater Creek
1975 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
Movie10.0DramaThe social worker Luise Gottschalk dedicates all her passion to the Viennese caretakers and derailed young people. Tirelessly, she advertises to adults for understanding the needs of adolescents. She is particularly committed to a girl named Elfie Breitner who is at risk of drifting into prostitution.
Unter Achtzehn
1957 · 1 votes
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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.
TV6.6Talk ShowNDR Talk Show
1979 · 5 votes
TV5.7DramaCrimeEin Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
TV5.2Talk ShowRiverboat
1992 · 4 votes
- TV7.2Talk Show
3 nach 9
1974 · 5 votes
TV3.7CrimeWolffs Revier is a German television series.
Wolffs Revier
1992 · 7 votes
TV9.3RealityDalli Dalli
1971 · 3 votes
TV7.3CrimeDer Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.
Der Fahnder
1984 · 10 votes
- TV7.5Reality
Die Pyramide
1979 · 2 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
- TV9.0DramaFamily
Mit Leib und Seele
1989 · 1 votes
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Insel der Träume is a German television series.
Insel der Träume
1991
TV9.0CrimeCliff Dexter was a detective series in the ZDF 1966 until 1968. It produced two seasons each with 13 episodes each 25 minutes, lead actor was Hans von Borsody. Other performers have included Hans Schellbach as Commissioner Meinert, Sabine Bethmann as Jacqueline and Andrea Dahmen as Carrol. In two episodes occurred Günter Strack. Cliff Dexter is a former FBI agent who - working as a private investigator - in a German city. Parts of the series were filmed in Hamburg, including the startup sequence, runs in his Mercedes Benz Dexter Cliff SEb convertible through the Wallringtunnel to his office. The series was, although popular with audiences, not continued after 26 episodes, probably partly because the critics little good at the 'pocket-Bond' was. Yet in this series broadcast period 1966-1968 reached regularly 36-38 million viewers.
Cliff Dexter
1966 · 1 votes
- TV7.0Crime
Jörg Preda berichtet
1966 · 1 votes
- TV7.0Drama
Losberg
1986 · 1 votes
- TV7.0Crime
Die Fälle des Herrn Konstantin
1974 · 1 votes
- TVComedy
TV6.0CrimeInterpol
1963 · 1 votes
- TV10.0Family
Duell zu Dritt
1971 · 1 votes
TVComedyDrama- TVCrime
- TV8.5Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Geschichten aus der Zukunft
1978 · 2 votes
- TV7.0Drama
Frau über vierzig
1981 · 1 votes