Nico Turoff

Nico Turoff

Birthday: 1899-12-06

Place of Birth: Kremenchuk, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Biography: Nico Turoff (Ukrainian: Ніко Турофф; 6 December 1899 – 22 June 1978) was a Ukrainian boxer and actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1926 to 1979. Source: Article "Nico Turoff" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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King Thrushbeard
King Thrushbeard

A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors....

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Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty

On the occasion of their daughter's birth, the king and queen give a lavish feast. Among the guests ...

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Zement
Zement

Early 1921: a man is on his way home. Gleb Chumalov, regimental commander, worker and Hero of the Or...

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Optimistische Tragödie
Optimistische Tragödie

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Fre...

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Wedding Night In The Drizzle
Wedding Night In The Drizzle

This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperat...

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The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he kn...

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Spring Takes Time
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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Maiden, You Please Me
Maiden, You Please Me

A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the vil...

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The Devious Path
The Devious Path

Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evenin...

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Heart of Stone
Heart of Stone

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the u...

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Story of a Young Couple
Story of a Young Couple

A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young ...

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Fatal Error
Fatal Error

At the end of the 19th century, the Wyoming Oil Company has established itself in the vicinity of Wi...

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New Year’s Eve Punch
New Year’s Eve Punch

After their successful May party, now the Lehmann family want to throw a New Year's Eve part with pu...

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Menschen im Feuer
Menschen im Feuer

Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul K...

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Giftgas
Giftgas

Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of...

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Der Ruf des Nordens
Der Ruf des Nordens

Peter Helling, the only survivor of a polar expedition, returns once more to the eternal ice. Why he...

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For Once I'd Like to Have No Troubles
For Once I'd Like to Have No Troubles

Depression musical comedy about an unemployed barber who pretends to be a wealthy automobile magnate...

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Les Misérables
Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

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The Singer
The Singer

A story of Victor Jara - one of the most popular singers in Chile....

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Attack on Baku
Attack on Baku

Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching...

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Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow

Götz von Bredow's elk-leather trousers have their own special meaning: whoever wears them cannot com...

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Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist
Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He dec...

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The Condemned Village
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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Peterle und die Weihnachtsgans Auguste
Peterle und die Weihnachtsgans Auguste

Peterle throws snow from the sidewalk into the open window of his sisters' room and is made to come ...

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Die Tage der Commune
Die Tage der Commune

Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the strugg...

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An Old Love
An Old Love

Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been...

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Star-Crossed Lovers
Star-Crossed Lovers

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to pow...

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Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe
Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe

A celebration of strong Prussian leadership during the reign of Frederick the Great....

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Das Leben ruft
Das Leben ruft

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Der Dieb von San Marengo
Der Dieb von San Marengo

In San Marengo, master thief Cesare Giovanini’s heists leave local merchants profiting from hefty in...

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Capriccio
Capriccio

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfathe...

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Midnight Revue
Midnight Revue

Despite the fact that production manager Kruse doesn't have the actors or the crew for the job, he r...

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Das Mädchen Christine
Das Mädchen Christine

During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, falls in love with the colonel Count Merian. In ...

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Zugverkehr unregelmäßig
Zugverkehr unregelmäßig

After Jochen saves police officer Erich's life, the two men become close friends and Erich helps Joc...

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Das Kleid
Das Kleid

Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where ever...

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Sommerwege
Sommerwege

In the late summer of 1958, party secretary Ernst Wollni is sent from Berlin to the village of Schwa...

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Schüsse unterm Galgen
Schüsse unterm Galgen

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel A...

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Kit & Co.
Kit & Co.

The adventures of Kit Bellew and his friend Shorty during the gold fever at the end of the 19th cent...

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Der rote Reiter
Der rote Reiter

In 1920, Michael, the son of a German laboring man, decides to travel to Russia. As "red horseman" h...

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Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes

Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against...

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The Hunt for the Boot
The Hunt for the Boot

Germany 1932, constant fights between Communists and Nazis tear the country apart. When a Communist ...

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Cyanide
Cyanide

Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have a family with her fiancé P...

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The Elective Affinities
The Elective Affinities

Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that somethin...

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Treasure on the Bottom of the Lake
Treasure on the Bottom of the Lake

A young boy Jampoll is spending the summer in his grandfather village where he fights criminals usin...

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They Called Him Amigo
They Called Him Amigo

A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him...

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The Silent Star
The Silent Star

A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated fro...

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Emilia Galotti
Emilia Galotti

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

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Ohne Paß in fremden Betten
Ohne Paß in fremden Betten

Czech tourist Jelinek decides to take a ride on the "Ferris wheel" in Berlin, and as a result he lag...

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When Martin Was Fourteen
When Martin Was Fourteen

Martin′s and his girlfriend′s Kathrin′s childhood comes to an abrupt end in 1920, when their Mecklen...

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The Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman

In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks r...

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The Song of the Trumpeter
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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The Secret Of The Seventeen
The Secret Of The Seventeen

Lothar, Olaf, Bob and the other pioneers have the task of looking after the castle above the town. H...

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In Love and Previously Convicted
In Love and Previously Convicted

The young architect Hannelore becomes part of the all-male brigade Fröhlich whose members are suppos...

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Peter und das Einmaleins mit der Sieben
Peter und das Einmaleins mit der Sieben

Peter is unwilling to learn the multiplication tables at school. He would rather work as an acrobat ...

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Bahrenburg Stories
Bahrenburg Stories

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a ...

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Gejagt bis zum Morgen
Gejagt bis zum Morgen

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by....

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Rauschende Melodien
Rauschende Melodien

A close film adaptation of Johann Strauss' "Fledermaus". Notary Falke uses Prince Orlofsky's ball, a...

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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
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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My Wife Wants to Sing
My Wife Wants to Sing

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets...

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The Sailor's Song
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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The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker

The Germanic pagan deity, The Rainmaker, has fallen asleep, causing widespread drought and poverty. ...

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Der Hasenhüter
Der Hasenhüter

The young shepherd Konrad wants to ask the princess to marry him. All the exhortations of the kitche...

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Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle
Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle

This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely bas...

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The Blue Swords
The Blue Swords

The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing...

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Schwester Agnes
Schwester Agnes

Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with th...

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Oh, diese Tante
Oh, diese Tante

Heinz is a well-stocked veterinarian in Klückow and his Jana in quite firm, although not always pres...

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Ein Mann und sein Schatten
Ein Mann und sein Schatten

At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a “failure” in...

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Flucht ins Schweigen
Flucht ins Schweigen

During construction work in a small town in Thuringia, the burial of an unidentified man in an SS un...

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Ein Polterabend
Ein Polterabend

Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire maga...

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Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Mata Hari: the Red Dancer

Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mat...

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Der Mann, der nicht liebt
Der Mann, der nicht liebt

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Der Sieg der Jugend
Der Sieg der Jugend

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Ich war in Honolulu – wetten?
Ich war in Honolulu – wetten?

Uwe is a chemistry student and works as an excavator driver on various construction sites at weekend...

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