Karl-Otto Alberty
Actor · 1933 – 2015 · Berlin, Germany
Karl-Otto Alberty (also Karl Otto Alberty, 13 November 1933 – 25 April 2015) was a German actor. Alberty was born as Karl-Otto Poensgen in Berlin on 13 November 1933. He started out as an amateur boxer before discovering a talent for acting, making his début at the City Theatre in Konstanz in 1959. He then began to take supporting roles in films. He made his first appearance in English language films as an SD officer (who captures Richard Attenborough) in The Great Escape (1963). With his broad face, broken nose and distinctive white-blond hair, he would go on to play variations of the role of German officers in a series of films, notably Battle of the Bulge (1965), Andrew V. McLaglen's The Devil's Brigade (1968), Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969), and as a Waffen-SS tank commander of a Tiger I tank from the 1st SS Panzer Division LSSAH in Kelly's Heroes (1970). He played a Luftwaffe general in Battle of Britain (1969). He also continued to work in both Germany and Italy in a wide variety of films from dramas and comedies to spaghetti westerns. He also made regular appearances on German television. His last appearance was in the TV series War and Remembrance (1988). He was variously credited as Charles Albert, Charles Alberty and Carlo Alberti. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies24
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 · 2.9K votes
Movie7.4AdventureComedyA misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Kelly's Heroes
1970 · 858 votes
Movie7.2WarDramaNear the end of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he's unable to maintain control of the city. After much contemplation, Choltitz ignores orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, alongside Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a leader organise his forces.
Movie6.8WarHistoryIn 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.
Battle of Britain
1969 · 362 votes
Movie6.9DramaHistoryIn the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Battle of the Bulge
1965 · 291 votes
Movie6.5DramaScience FictionBilly Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · 265 votes
Movie7.3DramaHistoryIn the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Movie7.1WesternA scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Movie6.3ActionDramaAt the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
The Devil's Brigade
1968 · 93 votes
Movie6.9ComedyDramaDuring World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970 · 67 votes
Movie6.6ThrillerHistoryDarien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival. Once Sadiel arrives in Paris, Darien realizes he has been manipulated. He tries to turn back the clock, not realizing what or who he’s truly dealing with.
Movie8.0ThrillerTV MovieUndercover agent, using his bar as a front, battles three killers to find a stolen fortune.
Assignment: Munich
1972 · 1 votes
Movie5.4ThrillerHorrorBaron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
Bluebeard
1972 · 57 votes
Movie6.2ActionComedyInspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.
Movie5.8WarActionCaptain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
Raid on Rommel
1971 · 57 votes
Movie7.6AdventureDramaAfter fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Ithaca. [Theatrical version of the 1968 mini-series.]
Movie6.3ThrillerActionPhilip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Assignment K
1968 · 9 votes
Movie4.7CrimeDramaA veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
Midas Run
1969 · 6 votes
Movie4.3ThrillerCrimeA women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guards. However, one of the guards falls in love with a beautiful inmate, and decides to help her and all the other prisoners escape.
Movie6.4RomanceCrimeMunich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother's apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert's parents who are searching as well...
Movie8.3CrimeSeafarer Hannes Teversen helps his friend Pit to get his pub on the Reeperbahn going again...
Movie5.3DramaRomanceA wealthy couple and their adult son invite a motorcycle stuntwoman from a local circus back to their castle, thinking she is an actress from a pornographic film they've just watched.
The Lickerish Quartet
1970 · 57 votes
Movie6.0ComedyActionJimmy Bondi and his miracle beetle Dudu are on their way to Portugal by sea. In the Algarve, they are witness to a dispute in which ex-inmate Plato and the attractive Tamara have to do with Marchese de la Sotta and his henchmen.
Movie7.2RomanceComedyGiovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her mother.
Series6
TV7.9DramaWar & PoliticsFollowing the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.
War and Remembrance
1988 · 37 votes
TV6.9CrimeMysteryGraf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967 · 9 votes
TV8.5DramaAction & AdventureOdysseus' journey, told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
TV7.3CrimeDie seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger is a German television series.
Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
1965 · 3 votes
TV9.0CrimeDie Karte mit dem Luchskopf
1963 · 1 votes
TVDramaThe miniseries depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also the owners of a stationery shop, who are driven to ruin by the German occupiers. The caretaker Glaser, who is of German descent, also comes under pressure when his son is arrested in a communist pub. To save his own skin, he informs on two young people who are active in the resistance.