Christoph Engel

Christoph Engel

Birthday: 1925-11-13

Place of Birth: Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Biography: No biography available.

Movies

The Architects
The Architects

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucr...

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Fire Below Deck
Fire Below Deck

Otto Scheidel (Manfred Krug) has been captain of the Elbe steamer Jenissei for over twenty years, bu...

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Verwandte und Bekannte
Verwandte und Bekannte

Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working cl...

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Denn ich sah eine neue Erde
Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

Four-part television film about the theologian Thomas Müntzer, who became a revolutionary and oppone...

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Toggenburger Bock
Toggenburger Bock

His passion for hunting almost spells doom for the sales manager of a GDR convenience store: his amb...

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Späte Ankunft
Späte Ankunft

In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and t...

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Kunstraub
Kunstraub

The director of an art museum in Thuringia and an art dealer from Constance entered into an extremel...

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The Brave Truant
The Brave Truant

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to...

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Die Emser Depesche
Die Emser Depesche

Theme of this scenic documentation is the consistent preparation of the Franco-German War by Bismarc...

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Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa
Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caugh...

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Love at 16
Love at 16

Although at first Ina barely takes any notice of Matti, the two teenagers gradually fall in love at ...

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Black Velvet
Black Velvet

Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage....

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Once is Never
Once is Never

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a...

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Der Nachfolger
Der Nachfolger

The Federal Republic of Germany. Journalist Rohmann, seriously injured in a car accident, is dying i...

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Verlorene Landschaft
Verlorene Landschaft

Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parent...

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Die Beteiligten
Die Beteiligten

The body of young Christa Gellert is fished out of the water in a small town on the Elbe in the spri...

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Junges Gemüse
Junges Gemüse

At a GDR farm, VEAB chief Amann bans cabbage in favor of cauliflower, enraging LPG accountant Gritt....

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The Shadow
The Shadow

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Farewell, Joseph
Farewell, Joseph

Film director Andreas Kleinert belongs to the last generation of filmmakers that emerged in the form...

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Divided Heaven
Divided Heaven

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the...

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The Rabbit Is Me
The Rabbit Is Me

Maria, a young student sees her brother Dieter going to prison for sedition against the state. She s...

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Mohr und die Raben von London
Mohr und die Raben von London

London in 1856. Karl Marx is living in exile in the British capital. One day, "Mohr", as Marx is cal...

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When Unku was Ede's Girlfriend
When Unku was Ede's Girlfriend

Ede falls in love with Unku, a girl from a travelling circus. Love cannot run smoothly however becau...

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Frozen Flashes
Frozen Flashes

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are co...

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Der Reserveheld
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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Naked Among Wolves
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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Apprehension
Apprehension

Inge Herold is in her mid-thirties. She is divorced and lives with her 15-year-old son. She works as...

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Paths in the Night
Paths in the Night

Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations i...

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Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
Wäre die Erde nicht rund...

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student fro...

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A Strange Love
A Strange Love

After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the nig...

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Blond Tango
Blond Tango

For five years Rogelio, a Chilean exile, has been in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technicia...

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Addio, piccola mia
Addio, piccola mia

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow st...

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Woman Doctors
Woman Doctors

Lydia Kowalenko is fired from the pharmaceutical company where she has worked for many years because...

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Eine Handvoll Hoffnung
Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living...

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Brandstellen
Brandstellen

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic...

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Coded Message for the Boss
Coded Message for the Boss

Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of t...

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The Sinking of Emma
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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Jan on the Barge
Jan on the Barge

1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is...

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Wengler & Sons
Wengler & Sons

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns ...

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Stories of That Night
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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Distinguishing marks: none
Distinguishing marks: none

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has...

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Visa für Ocantros
Visa für Ocantros

In the troubled state of Ocantros, the prime minister is assassinated. Martin Katrup, who is respons...

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Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita
Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita

She is called Dona Juanita: the attractive young architect Anita Nachtigall, who manages a departmen...

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Die lange Ankunft des Alois Fingerlein
Die lange Ankunft des Alois Fingerlein

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Für Mord kein Beweis
Für Mord kein Beweis

After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home over ni...

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Holiday Storm
Holiday Storm

Summer holidays are beginning for 13 years old Daniel, a boy from East Berlin. He does not know yet ...

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Tod im Preis inbegriffen
Tod im Preis inbegriffen

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Tote reden nicht
Tote reden nicht

After Elmers, the head of the publishing house, is reported missing, his son-in-law Jürgen Brandt is...

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Die Ritter der Tafelrunde
Die Ritter der Tafelrunde

Aging Knights of the Round Table confront a fading realm as moral decay and disillusionment spread. ...

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Der Menschenfresser
Der Menschenfresser

A crime writer on a train to Berlin shares her compartment with a mysterious man who claims to be a ...

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