Kurt Raab
Birthday: 1941-07-20
Place of Birth: Bergreichenstein, Sudetenland [now Kasperské Hory, Czech Republic]
Biography: Kurt Raab (20 July 1941 – 28 June 1988) was a West German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on 31 film projects.
Movies
Feel the Motion
Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her lu...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son....
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The Magic Mountain
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Be...
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Bolero
Pete is no stranger to success, delivering hit series as a musician in a rock group. When he parts w...
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Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant...
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Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things ...
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Satan’s Brew
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan Ge...
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Cheaters
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the cas...
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Fear of Fear
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplic...
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Boarding School
This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Acros...
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Ticket of No Return
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of he...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his tr...
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
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Tenderness of the Wolves
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the ...
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The Ghost
Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up ...
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation
A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherw...
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The American Soldier
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer....
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Slow Attack
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refu...
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Bremen Freedom
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in ...
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The Coffee House
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffeehouse and...
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Out of Order
It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. ...
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970....
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...
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Angry Harvest
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separat...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau...
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The Niklashausen Journey
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacke...
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating f...
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Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen
A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world want...
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Jail Bait
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Wern...
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Mathias Kneißl
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria...
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The Atlantic Swimmers
Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the...
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Adolf and Marlene
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come...
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Der Durchdreher
The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answ...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a ...
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Traumlage
The farm that Barthel and his sister run near Munich is in a dream location. But it is unprofitable ...
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Love Is Colder Than Death
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady...
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Yearning for Sodom
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in bo...
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Frankfurt: The Face of a City
Bored with her stuffy village life, teenager Susanne decides to run away to the bright lights Frankf...
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Whity
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 187...
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Liebeskonzil
Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recor...
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Angels of Iron
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played a...
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Today We're Playing Boss
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to ...
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Dr. Margarete Johnsohn
The divorced and emancipated Margarete Johnson falls in love with her young and extremely medical ba...
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Like a Bird on a Wire
A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira...
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Martha
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange,...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and st...
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Escape from Sobibor
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates a...
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The Fall
Film adaptation of the last part of Martin Walser's "Kristlein Trilogy": After the perpetually faili...
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge....
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Total vereist
The extravagant funeral for a suddenly deceased family man is attended not only by his bizarre relat...
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Parker
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released...
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Bella Donna
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort re...
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Wohin?
Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman i...
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Das Totenreich
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. T...
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Der Rekord
Rico Moreno is trying to break the world record for continuous television in order to finance an ill...
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The Olympic Champion
Dentist Adi has an extraordinary dream: a boy appears to him and asks to become his father. The unkn...
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Der Zappler
Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illne...
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Wie die Weltmeister
Franz Bielek is a bailiff by conviction. However, his overzealousness is increasingly a thorn in the...
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Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
An unsuccessful artistic director tries to raise money for a new opera house at a gala with celebrit...
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Group Portrait with a Lady
Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fasci...
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Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that ...
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My Name Is Not Ali
Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unkn...
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Rio das Mortes
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasu...
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Fire and Sword
The young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde. He ...
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End of the Commune?
A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a m...
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Eierdiebe
The story of two small-time crooks in the Frankfurt underworld who would like to make it big, but fa...
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