Erwin Geschonneck
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Erwin Geschonneck (December 27, 1906 – March 12, 2008) was a German actor. His biggest success occurred in the German Democratic Republic, where he was considered one of the most famous actors of the time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erwin Geschonneck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5157 |
| Birthday | 1906-12-27 |
| Place of Birth | Bartoszyce, Poland |
| Also Known As | Эрвин Гешоннек, |
1974
Jacob the Liar
6.914/29
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making sl...
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Jacob the Liar
1960
Five Cartridges
7.6/9
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), five International Brigade soldiers of different nationalities are given a crucial assignment as their comma...
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Five Cartridges
1967
A Lord of Alexander Square
6.625/4
Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again start...
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A Lord of Alexander Square
1963
Naked Among Wolves
6.3/25
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
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Naked Among Wolves
1958
Die Geschichte vom armen Hassan
10/1
The land in poor Hassan's Central Asian homeland is stony and lacks water. Every day, he gazes longingly at the well in the garden of the rich merchan...
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Die Geschichte vom armen Hassan
1950
Heart of Stone
6.2/27
Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holl...
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Heart of Stone
1963
Carbide and Sorrel
6.917/12
After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to tra...
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Carbide and Sorrel
1967
Love-Letters 66
0/0
Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.
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Love-Letters 66
1962
Ach, du fröhliche
5.5/6
It was supposed to be a cozy Christmas evening with the family. Labor Director Walter Lörke was particularly looking forward to it. But then his daugh...
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Ach, du fröhliche
1987
Like Father, Like Son
5.333/6
Grandpa Lörke is preparing for a contemplative, quiet Christmas Eve. But nothing comes of it, because his daughter Anne informs him that his 17-year-o...
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Like Father, Like Son
1978
Anton the Magician
3.714/7
A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.
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Anton the Magician
1985
Goethe in D. oder Die Blutnacht auf dem Schreckenstein oder Wie Erwin Geschonneck eine Hauptrolle spielt
8/1
Survivors of the concentration camp Dachau are recounting their limited cultural activities they had access to due to smuggling.
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Goethe in D. oder Die Blutnacht auf dem Schreckenstein oder Wie Erwin Geschonneck eine Hauptrolle spielt
1979
The Thing in the Castle
7.5/2
A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore the...
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The Thing in the Castle
1972
Sun Seekers
4.944/9
A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.
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Sun Seekers
1956
Bold Adventure
5.8/12
In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, D...
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Bold Adventure
1951
The Axe of Wandsbek
7.75/4
Hamburg, Germany 1934: An executioner is needed. Teetjen makes the biggest mistake of his life. Because his butcher shop is facing bankruptcy, he agre...
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The Axe of Wandsbek
1980
Levin's Mill
9/1
In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, s...
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Levin's Mill
1995
Matulla und Busch
7/1
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Matulla und Busch
1957
Castles and Cottages
8/1
Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the...
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Castles and Cottages
1975
Bankett für Achilles
5/7
For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He...
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Bankett für Achilles
1966
Berlin Around the Corner
5.143/7
Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack...
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Berlin Around the Corner
1976
Ein altes Modell
0/0
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Ein altes Modell
1949
The Beaver Coat
6.3/3
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...
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The Beaver Coat
1956
The Captain from Cologne
7.125/4
Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage a...
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The Captain from Cologne
1953
Die Unbesiegbaren
7.2/4
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat m...
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Die Unbesiegbaren
1985
A Wigwam For The Storks
7.5/2
In the village of Medela, the village elder Fritz Schmal is buried with great sympathy. Beforehand, Till goes with his father to his property to check...
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A Wigwam For The Storks
1977
The Island of the Silver Herons
7/2
The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them. Hein...
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The Island of the Silver Herons
1976
The Light on the Gallows
6.5/2
Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organi...
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The Light on the Gallows
1974
The Sinking of Emma
6.4/5
A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.
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The Sinking of Emma
1981
Meschkas Enkel
7/2
Eight-year-old Christian lives with his grandparents after the death of his mother. When his grandmother falls ill, grandfather Meschka wants to take...
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Meschkas Enkel
1959
Musterknaben
8.25/2
Two young building workers are more interested in girls than their work; complications ensue at home.
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Musterknaben
1954
Alarm at the Circus
10/2
Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves for tra...
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Alarm at the Circus
1981
Asta, mein Engelchen
10/1
Old Otto Gratzick is a porter at DEFA and a great admirer of Asta Nielsen. When the famous actor Hermann Gschwindner dies shortly before the end of hi...
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Asta, mein Engelchen
1960
People with Wings
5.6/5
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Ges...
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People with Wings
1958
Der Lotterieschwede
9/1
Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and children. He hopes to escape his poverty by winnin...
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Der Lotterieschwede
1967
The Banner of Kryvyi Rih
7.5/2
In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, give their flag as a gift to the locals of...
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The Banner of Kryvyi Rih
1967
Stories of That Night
6.667/3
Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There...
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Stories of That Night
1959
SAS 181 antwortet nicht
8/1
Kurt, an apprentice in a fish combine, is an ambitious loner. He wants to show what a good sailor he is at a regatta, but fails because of his reckles...
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SAS 181 antwortet nicht
1957
Katzgraben
9/1
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Katzgraben
1977
Tambari
7.333/3
Tambari - it's a name of an old boat which children of a small village on a Baltic sea shore got from an old fisherman Luden. But not all the village...
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Tambari
1970
We Buy a Fire Truck
9/1
Little Matti and his friends are restoring the old abandoned fire truck .
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We Buy a Fire Truck
1979
Herbstzeit
8/1
A retired head cashier, lonely after the death of his wife, lives in the hope of being able to move in with his son and his family after the latter bu...
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Herbstzeit
1982
Benno Makes Stories
3/3
Benno (Torsten Rennert), a bright boy from Berlin, is not really a problem case, although his parents have enough trouble with him. But that's not jus...
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Benno Makes Stories
1979
Plantagenstraße 19
5/3
Normal everyday life in an apartment building on Plantagenstraße in East Berlin is disrupted when a truck pulls up with the new tenants' furniture. An...
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Plantagenstraße 19
1965
Tiefe Furchen
6/2
Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red S...
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Tiefe Furchen
1932
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
6.889/27
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....
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Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
1947
In Those Days
6.9/12
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
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In Those Days
1948
Finale
9/1
The fate of a pianist who returns from the Second World War with a wound to his right hand.
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Finale
1949
The Last Night
7/2
Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
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The Last Night
1949
Love '47
7.667/3
A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
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Love '47
1982
Der Mann von der Cap Arcona
9/1
1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 - a...
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Der Mann von der Cap Arcona
1979
Verlobung in Hullerbusch
10/1
In 1960, farmer Walter Wagemühl learns from the West that his life is coming to an end. In order to pass the farm into loyal hands, he sends his adopt...
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Verlobung in Hullerbusch
1952
Schatten über den Inseln
10/1
On the Faroe Islands, people eke out a meagre existence by catching birds. Merchant Brause pays them little and does a good business. This comes under...
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Schatten über den Inseln
1977
Die Millionen des Knut Brümmer
0/0
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Die Millionen des Knut Brümmer
1964
Der Andere neben dir
7/1
Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully they are linked by events from a dark past. A tri...
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Der Andere neben dir
1975
Looping
3.333/3
The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the explos...
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Looping
1988
Mensch, mein Papa...!
9/1
Pensioner Erich Zarling loves two things: his daughter Ulrike and his dog sports club, of which he is chairman. But this position is in danger, so he...
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Mensch, mein Papa...!
1978
The Big Ride of a Little Train Driver
9/1
Six years old Dirk wants to be a train driver, just like his grandfather. He is seriously impressed with all of the exciting rides through the desert...
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The Big Ride of a Little Train Driver
1975
Censored: Kuhle Wampe
10/1
A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932). Directed...
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Censored: Kuhle Wampe
1975
Im Schlaraffenland
7/1
Who hasn't dreamed the sweet dream of the land of milk and honey, where roast pigeons fly into your mouth? But even the fairy tale makes it clear that...
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Im Schlaraffenland
1996
The Cap Arcona Case
8/1
On May 3, 1945, with Hitler already dead and Hamburg and Berlin having surrendered, the Royal Air Force launched its last major air raid. The target w...
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