Günther Simon
Birthday: 1925-05-11
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Biography: Günther Simon (1925–1972) was a German actor. He came to prominence through roles in several DEFA films.
Movies
Preludio 11
Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revol...
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At a French Fireside
Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldi...
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Ballade vom roten Mohn
Spain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's arm...
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The Silent Star
A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated fro...
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The Russian Miracle
Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by ...
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Secret Archives on Elbe
The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued ...
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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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Der Reserveheld
The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy abou...
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Alfons Zitterbacke
Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full...
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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politicia...
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The Black Battalion
A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam....
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Der Fremde
After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only look...
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Geschwader Fledermaus
An American transport squadron led by former General Lee supports the French colonial army in Vietna...
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Spring Takes Time
Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arr...
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Heroin
This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting...
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Der Tod hat ein Gesicht
Three chemists unveil “Substance L,” a pesticide capable of eradicating all life without harming mat...
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The Sailor's Song
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of...
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Lot's Wife
The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine of...
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Eine Handvoll Noten
Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plan...
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Der Regimentskommandeur
Major Bert Harkus takes over the artillery regiment in Jesnack after graduating from the military ac...
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Das Traumschiff
The two half-orphans Reni and Rolf are 13 and 10 years old and they live with their grandmother in B...
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Meeting Point
DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin....
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Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politici...
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Einer von uns
A wrestler finds his political interest and activism through sport. However, this is extremely dange...
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The Moorhound
Two boys are helping the border guards to find a mysterious moor hound used by spies to transfer mes...
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An Old Love
Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been...
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Ärzte
Professor Heger's son was shot by the Gestapo during the war. Dr. Bram was also responsible for his ...
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Don't Forget My Little Traudel
17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin....
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KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created ...
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My Wife Wants to Sing
Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets...
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Tinko
After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work...
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Reise ins Ehebett
The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a diff...
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Sheriff Teddy
A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East....
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Das Kleid
Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where ever...
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Ripe Cherries
Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted sev...
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Weil ich dich liebe …
Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His re...
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Hammer or Anvil
This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Re...
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When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam
Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Producti...
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Verdacht auf einen Toten
Dr. Roth, a respected veterinarian and head of a state-owned stud farm, had accepted papers from a m...
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Der kleine Kuno
What do grown-ups actually do at night? Little Kuno has been asking himself this question a lot late...
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Senta's Gone Missing
The magnificent cow Senta has escaped from an LPG. Matuschek, a single farmer, joins the search. How...
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Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in f...
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The Dream of Captain Loy
An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to...
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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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Brot und Rosen
At the VII Party Congress of the SED, a delegate tells a reporter his life story: 18-year-old return...
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The Song of the Trumpeter
Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one da...
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Fog
At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Roc...
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Kein Ärger mit Cleopatra
The black cooperative Cornwall boar achieves single-handedly, so to speak, what the LPG functionarie...
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Mord ohne Sühne
Based on an authentic case from the 1920s. The head country constable Heinz Lippert arrests the Poli...
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Damals in Paris
1944: Geneviève and René live in occupied Paris. They love each other, and the young woman looks fea...
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The Condemned Village
East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German ...
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Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel
Paul Pospischiel loses his job in the great colliery collapse in the Ruhr, retrains and builds a new...
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Irrlicht und Feuer
Jürgen Fohrmann works as a hauer underground. In the course of the coal crisis, his mine closes - he...
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