Theo Lingen
Birthday: 1903-06-09
Place of Birth: Hannover, Germany
Biography: Theo Lingen (* 10. Juni 1903 in Hannover; † 10. November 1978 in Wien; eigentlich Franz Theodor Schmitz) war ein deutscher Schauspieler, Regisseur und Buchautor. Er war seit 1928 mit der Sängerin Marianne Zoff verheiratet, der ersten Frau Bertolt Brechts.
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A Mad Idea
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle i...
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Hurra, die Schule brennt
A new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the Mommsen ...
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Zur Hölle mit den Paukern
Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get ...
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Zum Teufel mit der Penne
Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his class...
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Pepe, der Paukerschreck
Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of Pepe...
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Betragen ungenügend!
A German comedy from 1972 directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft reminisc...
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Morgen fällt die Schule aus
Pepe Nietnagel's father has a valuable stamp collection stolen in Amsterdam. Street musician Pit rec...
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Tante Trude aus Buxtehude
The down-and-out private detectives Rudi and Moritz join Karin and Gerda on the hunt for an inherita...
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Trees Are Blooming in Vienna
Beautiful Vienna during the Austro-Hungarian era. Lixie, a court councilor's daughter raised in a mi...
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Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne
Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking his...
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Die Sklavenkarawane
The dreaded slave hunter Abu el Mot attacks the caravan and abducts the travelers, including Kara Be...
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Der Löwe von Babylon
In the ruins of Nim Bis Rub, in Babylon, is a band of smugglers den. There goes Nemsi Kara Ben and h...
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Wer zuletzt küßt...
On the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned. Misunder...
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All for Veronica
Veronika, a saleswoman at the Tutzinger department store, is in love with Paul, who also works there...
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The Man Who is Talked About
The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitution...
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Unfaithful Eckehart
An exchanged suitcase and a burglary with an actress give occasions to whirl a family with daughters...
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Spring Parade
This Hungarian musical comedy (English title: Spring Parade) was produced by Joseph Pasternak, who l...
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Unentschuldigte Stunde
When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident fr...
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Die verschwundene Frau
An official justice assistant supposes behind a letter which falls to him by chance in the hands, a ...
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The Restless Girls
Four orphaned friends move after the Abitur, supported by the janitor of her school, together in a f...
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Waltz Melodies
The big revue star Marietta falls in love and gives up the stage career. The theatre stands before t...
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Opera Ball
After the operetta of the same name of Richard Heuberger in 1890-1914 all kinds of situation comic f...
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Winter Night's Dream
The wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story is ...
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Heaven on Earth
A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the money, n...
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Heidi
Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to...
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Hauptsache Ferien
On the last day of school, teachers and students have only one thing on their minds: finally, vacati...
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The Heathens of Kummerow
Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive co...
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The Model Boy
Since Benno Geyer fails to pass his Abitur due to his panicky exam anxiety, Dr. Fritz Geyer enrolls ...
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The Fire Tongs Bowl
The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene...
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Jetzt schlägt's 13
A powerful storm is brewing at Villa Sonnenschein. Mr. and Mrs. Jaconis have declared total marital ...
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Schäm' dich, Brigitte!
When the mathematics teacher discovers a love letter from his daughter, family father Felix Schneide...
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Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten
The days of the Schlosshotel Seefels appear to be numbered. Hotelier Theo Frobenius is forced to sel...
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Immer Ärger mit Hochwürden
A new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol....
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The Tiger of Eschnapur
After a passionate affair in Paris, adventurer Sascha Demidoff can no longer forget Sitha, the beaut...
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The Indian Tomb
After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planne...
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Lady Dracula
A beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon she...
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Into the Blue
A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a free-spirited,...
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Vienna Blood
Young Count Georg Wolkersheim is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his co...
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Almenrausch und Edelweiß
Friedl Meier, owner of a country hotel, inherits a large sum of money in dollars – but the problem i...
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Die Nacht vor der Premiere
Carola Lorm, a celebrated revue star from South America, is not thrilled that her daughter Barbara w...
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Liebe muss verstanden sein
The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but s...
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The Flute Concert of Sans-souci
In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinric...
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Wenn mein Schätzchen auf die Pauke haut
The composer Kristian Wernher is supposed to transport uranium-containing rock samples from Brazil t...
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Through Thick and Thin
Theo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its own, f...
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An Invisible Man Goes Through the City
A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his...
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes t...
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Rosen in Tirol
Prince Heinrich Dagobert has a weakness for the opposite sex, which his wife, Rosemarie, isn't exact...
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Heidi und Peter
Heidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats. In wi...
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The Charm of La Bohème
René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their...
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The Thief of Bagdad
Fatme has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact. But w...
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Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit a...
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Premiere
As Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of roma...
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Waltz War
The quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss. It ...
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Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone
Since the capable landlady Maria bears a striking resemblance to the ruler of a miniature state, she...
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A Song Goes Round the World
A biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known son...
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Eine Reise ins Glück
Together with her uncle and waiter Otto, young Renate runs a guesthouse high above the Rhine, which ...
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Tonio Kröger
This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) ...
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The Czar's Courier
A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treach...
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M
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...
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No More Love
An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for ...
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Modern dowry
Dan Douglas is a typical Scottish. When his niece Evelyne marries engineer Fred Keller aboard the sh...
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Der Ammenkönig
Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the ...
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Das Einmaleins der Liebe
Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections ...
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Gefährliches Spiel
The formerly wealthy Baron Carl Erich von Wenden is desperate. His debts are out of control and he ...
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I Don't Know You and I Love You
The operetta composer Robert Ottmar is fascinated when he discovers a picture of a young lady in a n...
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My Life Is at Stake
The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie star...
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Die Finanzen des Großherzogs
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service...
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Frau Luna
Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's...
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Was Ihr wollt
Duke Orsino's unhappy love for Countess Olivia and the fate of the twins Viola and Sebastian, who ar...
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Die Unschuld vom Lande
Theater director Werner Sturm was amazed when he arrived in the Bavarian market town of Oberwinkel o...
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakth...
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Dolly is making a career
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfrie...
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It All Started So Gaily
Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it co...
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Das Abenteuer geht weiter
A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce h...
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The Midnight Venus
An inventive small-town tailor rises to international success with his daring and unusual designs....
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A Girl You Don't Forget
A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as back...
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The White Horse Inn
Im weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical com...
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Wo die Lerche singt
The renowned Viennese artist Stefan Helmers spends the summer in a mountain village where he has bee...
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The Ladies Diplomat
Diplomat Fürst Windischberg is known for spending too much time with women, receiving frequent repri...
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Opernring
An ordinary Viennese taxi driver, Toni Kowalski, wanders into a diner, where a singing competition i...
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Ich liebe alle Frauen
Famous 1930's tenor Jan Kiepura doubles as a singing shop-assistant who stands in for a famous but l...
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Two Ties
Opera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape. The waiter ...
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Don't Be Afraid of Love
The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helm...
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The Tsar's Diamond
A Russian lady singer in Germany falls for a countryman working in a car factory there, who unknown ...
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Spell of the Looking Glass
A thief hides a large sum of money he has stolen, behind a looking glass....
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Nur ein Viertelstündchen
A zoologist has housed a wide variety of animals in his apartment and keeps himself busy with them. ...
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Die Kassette
Love or money? When it comes to this question, Heinrich Krull clearly seems to choose money......
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The Great Passion
This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a stor...
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Sieben Jahre Glück
After all the mess, Kersten takes his loyal servant back in. Paul's first job is to deposit a large ...
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The Firm Weds
Remake of a silent Lubitsch: A country girl right out of high school graduates to a place in her aun...
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the A...
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Die Austernlilli
The Parisian restaurant "At the Oyster King's" is looking for a new waitress, whose job would be to ...
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Schuß um Mitternacht
Kathrin von Hagen runs an extremely successful guesthouse in the stylish Löwenberg Castle. Kathrin a...
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The Prodigal Son
Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression...
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Married by the Stork
A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and fi...
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Frederica
Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in l...
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Die Schule der Ehe, die Schule der Gatten, die Schule der Gattinnen, ein Kurs für Fortgeschrittene in 2 Lektionen
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director...
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A Man's a Man
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfe...
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