Maria Schell
Birthday: 1926-01-15
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Biography: Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926, Vienna – 26 April 2005, Preitenegg, Carinthia) was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise. The daughter of a Swiss author and an Austrian actress, she was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell, and lesser-known actors Carl Schell and Immy (Immaculata) Schell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a despera...
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Liebe
Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika....
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Superman
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Cla...
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The Passerby
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against ...
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Just a Gigolo
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no ski...
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99 Women
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island pris...
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The Bloody Judge
In 1685 England, an overzealous Lord Chancellor condemns various rebels and "witches" to satisfy his...
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The Hanging Tree
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across ...
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Napoleon
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. T...
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The Brothers Karamazov
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who hol...
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Le Notti Bianche
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return....
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Cimarron
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889....
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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Gervaise
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction ...
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The Last Bridge
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan d...
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L'assassin connaît la musique
Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy envi...
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The Twist
Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brand...
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The Devil by the Tail
In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists ...
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Mothers and Daughters
Relationships between mothers and daughters are often very complex. Love and protective instincts, r...
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The Mark
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of...
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Der Schinderhannes
1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the ...
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King Thrushbeard
When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns dow...
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The Rats
Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfrien...
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The Heart of the Matter
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when h...
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The Sins of Rose Bernd
A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life....
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Das Riesenrad
The story of a marriage over time, based on a play by Jan de Hartog. Maria Schell and O. W. Fischer ...
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Until we meet again
This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer....
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The Angel with the Trumpet
Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly...
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The Angel with the Trumpet
A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is...
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The Odessa File
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hu...
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So Little Time
During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother....
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Steibruch
A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New Worl...
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Dr. Holl
A doctor marries his seemingly incurable patient to fulfill her last wish. A serum he develops saves...
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The First Polka
The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War I...
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Die Pfarrhauskomödie
When Ambrosia, the pastor's cook, leaves the village for a while to give birth to the child she is e...
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As Long as You're Near Me
An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys...
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Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa
Beate Dehn and Klaus Hartmann are two ambitious young architects locked in a fierce professional riv...
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Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen
Four contemplative stories about problems with love: "Profitability" is about money, "The Smile" is ...
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Dust in the Sun
In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother and then ma...
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Only a Woman
A psychotherapist's love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself...
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Frau Jenny Treibel
Jenny Bürstenbinder has climbed the social ladder by marrying Kommerzienrat Treibel. The professor's...
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Master Over Life and Death
Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Thing...
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End of Desire
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her pare...
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Immobilien
The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire...
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Samson and Delilah
A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the...
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Change
Based on the drama by Wolfgang Bauer. Fery Kaltenböck is a painter of the Viennese avant-garde in th...
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Marie
When her father dies unexpectantly, a young woman starts to get suspicious about her mother's behavi...
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Tagebuch einer Verliebten
In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gas...
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As the Sea Rages
After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in pea...
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Voyage of the Damned
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....
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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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Christmas Lilies of the Field
In this belated sequel to 'Lilies of the Field' (1963), jack-of-all-trades Homer Smith revisits the ...
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Nineteen Nineteen
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years ear...
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-th...
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Die Ohrfeige
Mischa Gallé's first film was made in 1971, but not picked up and shown until 1975....
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Der Besuch der alten Dame
As a teenager, Carla Zachanassian had a child with a man named Serge Miller. When he refused to marr...
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Spiel der Verlierer
The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daug...
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So oder so ist das Leben
An entrepreneur of social prestige gets intimate with the housekeeper, while his wife has a lover wh...
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Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
With the help of Hollywood, top Nazi Albert Speer tried to unscrupulously whitewash himself of his c...
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The Western: A Lost TV Special
A 1958 TV special celebrating westerns featuring John Wayne, John Ford, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Gab...
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