Klaus Löwitsch
Birthday: 1936-04-08
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Biography: Klaus Löwitsch (8 April 1936 – 3 December 2002) was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television detective series Peter Strohm. He appeared in several films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, beginning with Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971) and notably including World on a Wire (1973) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). His English language films include Cross of Iron (1977), The Odessa File (1974), Firefox (1982) and Fassbinder's Despair (1978). He was born in Berlin. He died in Munich from pancreatic cancer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
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Shadow of Angels
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves h...
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Rosebud
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires...
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Firefox
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet w...
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Cross of Iron
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front...
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Breakthrough
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...
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What to Do in Case of Fire?
The humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Be...
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Gotcha!
A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy sp...
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Despair
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu...
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The Judgement
The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is a...
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Desideria
All her life, an overweight girl has been ignored by her rich and attractive mother. But when the ug...
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge....
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Schloß Hubertus
For Count Egge, there is only one meaningful way of life: living in the magnificent natural surround...
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Ich bin Ernst Busch
Ernst Busch, singer and actor, was a political artist. For the 20th anniversary of his death on June...
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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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Hell Hounds of Alaska
A fur-trapper battles the elements and robbers when a gold shipment is ambushed - leaving a boy in u...
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Der Jäger von Fall
When a hunter returns home after two years, he finds nothing is like it used to be, as his cruel riv...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau...
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Jail Bait
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Wern...
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The Black Cobra
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to pr...
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Ein Mann wie eine Waffe
Criminal psychologist David Bornett is investigating a series of murders in which a police pen is st...
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The Brutes
On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like ...
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Heißes Pflaster Köln
Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties....
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Amerika oder der Verschollene
Young Karl Roßmann emigrates to the USA, meets a rich man whose money Karl initially lives off, but ...
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Devil's Island
After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast,...
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Kaminsky
Crime scene: 10th police station. A desolate place on the outskirts of Berlin. Two cops are on duty ...
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Eine Art von Zorn
An Iraqi secret service agent is murdered. The only witness is a woman, but she disappeared without ...
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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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Libero
This semi-fictional movie portrays the german soccer player Franz Beckenbauer. It shows the ups and ...
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Mayday! Überfall auf hoher See
The family of crooks around Jonathan Harris has once again reached the end of its financial reserves...
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Extreme Ops
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terroris...
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Girls, Girls
An underage girl starts an affair with her much older employer. Then, her lover is sentenced for the...
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Nora Helmer
A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ib...
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Im Dickicht der Städte
An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairi...
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Attempted Flight
The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and br...
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Schlagerparade 1961
A gang of hoods led by "Shark" tries to extort protection money from bar owner Susanne. She soon for...
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Night Crossing
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can ta...
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Hostile Takeover
The Hostile Takeover is a tale of how an average pizza delivery guy named Jay gets caught in the mid...
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Till the Happy End
Photo dealer Arnold and his wife Frieda live in harmony and wealth with their ten-year-old son Peter...
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Desaster
The film addresses the failure of the individual in anonymous urban society. The film begins as men ...
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