Towje Kleiner

Acting

Towje Kleiner

Born 1948-04-04 · Föhrenwlad, Germany

Acting credits

The Odessa File poster
6.6

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.

The Odessa File

1974

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9.3

No synopsis available yet.

LH 615 – Operation München

1975

Concert for Alice poster
6.5

Even with good acting, pleasant music, and artistic photography, this "love-boat" story of romance is more like Alice in Wonderland rather than Alice on the streets of Zurich. The Zurich Alice is a flautist who plays for the passersby like many another street or Metro musician. While so engaged, she meets a VIP Russian flautist who has defected and is living in the city. He falls in love with her and as a gesture of his devotion decides to arrange her solo concert debut. Meanwhile, Alice easily figures out what his plans are and devises her own secret scheme. When the day of the performance arrives, her Russian heartthrob is in for a flattering surprise, sure to end his bachelor status. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Concert for Alice

1985

Schöner Abschied poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schöner Abschied

1970

The Mysterious Stranger poster
7.5

The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.

The Mysterious Stranger

1982

No artwork available
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

In Zeiten wie diesen

1989

The Shadowed Mind poster
4.7

A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution.

The Shadowed Mind

1988

The Galoshes of Happiness poster
7.7

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy tales. After Slovak folk tales [The Greatest Peck in the World, Salt Over Gold] and the works of German fairy tale writers Wilhelm Hauff [The False Prince] and the Brothers Grimm [The Land of the Thrush's Beard, Perinbaba], screenwriter Alex Koenigsmark and director Juraj Herz were inspired by the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It tells the story of slippers that the Fairy of Fortune enchanted so that they would fulfill every human wish and thus bring people happiness. The filmmakers humorously transferred the plot from Copenhagen to old Prague.

The Galoshes of Happiness

1987

The Man on the Wall poster
9.3

An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.

The Man on the Wall

1982

The Train Killer poster
7.5

Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the most famous trains in history, the Orient Express.

The Train Killer

1983

A Man Like Eva poster
4.9

A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has many unpaid bills and little cash on hand. EVA throws a fit and fires him. He then proceeds to play one person off against another, dismiss with cruelty his recent lover Ali, sleep openly with his leading lady Gudrun, and make a direct and public play for his leading man, Walter. He's mercurial, dictatorial, and manic. Will he finish the film, having drawn great performances from his actors through his manipulations, or will his antics set events in motion that spin out of his control?

A Man Like Eva

1984

Carlos poster
10.0

In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poors in his silver mines. But Carlos' indecision and his love for his young and beautiful stepmother leads into a failure.

Carlos

1971

No artwork available
NR

Mattress dealer Moses Köhler, plagued by customer complaints of insomnia, skips early to a Cologne fair to study sleep habits. Concluding that modern life itself causes sleeplessness, he conceives the “disposable bed,” becoming the unlikely prophet of his own dream-induced nightmare.

Amelie, ich komme...

1986

The Snowman poster
6.2

Dorn, a young adventurer and survivalist, is trying to sell 50,000 porn magazines in a flophouse in Malta when he is interrupted by the police. On the run, he finds a luggage storage ticket from Frankfurt Central Station. Together with his friend Lazlo, he sets out to retrieve the contents of the locker - 5 kilograms of pure cocaine. Dorn, who is completely out of his mind, does not hesitate for a second to turn the substance into money. In doing so, he completely overlooks the danger he is putting himself in. Two rival gangs are hunting him down and trying to seize the drugs with all their might.

The Snowman

1985

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Paul Esbeck

1971

Der Durchdreher poster
9.0

The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the day of his divorce, he meets a new woman in a rear-end collision, who has also just been divorced and with whom he plunges headlong into a new relationship.

Der Durchdreher

1979

Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter poster
6.3

Pumuckl meets the blue Klabauter to learn magic. But he has bad intentions for the little goblin. Nevertheless, Pumuckl still finds enough time for his funny pranks. Will he survive his new adventures?

Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter

1994

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Fall Eleni Voulgari

1971

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Karussells werden im Himmel gemacht

1973

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wer einsam ist, der hat es gut weil keiner da, der Ihm was tut

1986

Beule oder Wie man einen Tresor knackt poster
7.0

Heinz Borbet, also known as "Beule" because of his dented car, finds a red safe hidden in the dung heap of an allotment garden: the two thieves Bruno and Fred have stored it there for the time being because they couldn't get the safe open. The safe is almost impossible to crack. Heinz is not the only one to feel this in the episode, who is delighted with his supposed, unexpected wealth, but also around a dozen other candidates. Then the police get involved in the form of Inspector Fleischhauer ...

Beule oder Wie man einen Tresor knackt

1987

Hiob poster
NR

In war-torn Galicia, devout Jew Mendel Singer’s family faces hardship: his eldest sons are conscripted - one flees to Austria, then America - while their frail newborn Menuchim is deemed unfit to emigrate. Torn between love and survival, Mendel must choose who goes to the New World.

Hiob

1978

Die Momskys oder Nie wieder Sauerkraut poster
7.0

The Momskys are not only messy, they also need money. Cunningly, they plan to kidnap the son of a millionaire. But their scheme doesn't exactly go according to plan.

Die Momskys oder Nie wieder Sauerkraut

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Wasserball von Schildershausen

1981