Erwin Geschonneck
Birthday: 1906-12-27
Place of Birth: Bartoszyce, Poland
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Erwin Geschonneck (December 27, 1906 – March 12, 2008) was a German actor. His biggest success occurred in the German Democratic Republic, where he was considered one of the most famous actors of the time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erwin Geschonneck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Jacob the Liar
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio...
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Five Cartridges
It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an internation...
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A Lord of Alexander Square
Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, w...
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Naked Among Wolves
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy...
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Die Geschichte vom armen Hassan
The land in poor Hassan's Central Asian homeland is stony and lacks water. Every day, he gazes longi...
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Heart of Stone
Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the u...
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Carbide and Sorrel
After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory ...
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Love-Letters 66
Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work,...
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Ach, du fröhliche
It was supposed to be a cozy Christmas evening with the family. Labor Director Walter Lörke was part...
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Like Father, Like Son
Grandpa Lörke is preparing for a contemplative, quiet Christmas Eve. But nothing comes of it, becaus...
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Anton the Magician
A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some un...
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Goethe in D. oder Die Blutnacht auf dem Schreckenstein oder Wie Erwin Geschonneck eine Hauptrolle spielt
Survivors of the Concentration camp Dachau are recounting from their limited cultural activities the...
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The Thing in the Castle
A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked...
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Sun Seekers
A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Sov...
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Bold Adventure
In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to ...
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The Axe of Wandsbek
Hamburg, Germany 1934: An executioner is needed. Teetjen makes the biggest mistake of his life. Beca...
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Levin's Mill
In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as n...
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Castles and Cottages
Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anto...
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Bankett für Achilles
For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now h...
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Berlin Around the Corner
Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues w...
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The Beaver Coat
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get throu...
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The Captain from Cologne
Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of ...
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Die Unbesiegbaren
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government t...
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A Wigwam For The Storks
In the village of Medela, the village elder Fritz Schmal is buried with great sympathy. Beforehand, ...
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The Island of the Silver Herons
The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, alth...
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The Light on the Gallows
Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends th...
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The Sinking of Emma
A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their fr...
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Meschkas Enkel
Eight-year-old Christian lives with his grandparents after the death of his mother. When his grandmo...
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Musterknaben
Two young building workers are more interested in girls than their work; complications ensue at home...
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Alarm at the Circus
Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save...
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Asta, mein Engelchen
Old Otto Gratzick is a porter at DEFA and a great admirer of Asta Nielsen. When the famous actor Her...
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People with Wings
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the...
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Der Lotterieschwede
Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and ...
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The Banner of Kryvyi Rih
In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, U...
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Stories of That Night
Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has en...
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SAS 181 antwortet nicht
Kurt, an apprentice in a fish combine, is an ambitious loner. He wants to show what a good sailor he...
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Tambari
Tambari - it's a name of an old boat which children of a small village on a Baltic sea shore got fro...
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We Buy a Fire Truck
Little Matti and his friends are restoring the old abandoned fire truck ....
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Herbstzeit
A retired head cashier, lonely after the death of his wife, lives in the hope of being able to move ...
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Benno Makes Stories
Benno (Torsten Rennert), a bright boy from Berlin, is not really a problem case, although his parent...
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Plantagenstraße 19
Normal everyday life in an apartment building on Plantagenstraße in East Berlin is disrupted when a ...
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Tiefe Furchen
Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. ...
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Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...
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In Those Days
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich....
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Finale
The fate of a pianist who returns from the Second World War with a wound to his right hand....
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The Last Night
Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer ...
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Love '47
A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and ...
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Der Mann von der Cap Arcona
1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the...
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Verlobung in Hullerbusch
In 1960, farmer Walter Wagemühl learns from the West that his life is coming to an end. In order to ...
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Schatten über den Inseln
On the Faroe Islands, people eke out a meagre existence by catching birds. Merchant Brause pays them...
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Der Andere neben dir
Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully...
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Looping
The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic even...
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Mensch, mein Papa...!
Pensioner Erich Zarling loves two things: his daughter Ulrike and his dog sports club, of which he i...
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The Big Ride of a Little Train Driver
Six years old Dirk wants to be a train driver, just like his grandfather. He is seriously impressed ...
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Farewell to Peace
Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Y...
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Censored: Kuhle Wampe
A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuh...
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Im Schlaraffenland
Who hasn't dreamed the sweet dream of the land of milk and honey, where roast pigeons fly into your ...
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The Cap Arcona Case
On May 3, 1945, with Hitler already dead and Hamburg and Berlin having surrendered, the Royal Air Fo...
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