Acting
Sigfrit Steiner
Born — Died
1906-10-31 — 1988-03-21
Place of birth
Basel, Switzerland
Known for
Acting
Credits
101 titles
Sigfrit Steiner (31 October 1906 – 21 March 1988) was a Swiss actor. His first stage performance was in 1928 in Gera. He performed in more than one hundred films. He was married to journalist and author Anne Rose Katz. Source: Article "Sigfrit Steiner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
No synopsis available yet.
German Film Award
1951
8.0Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Commissioner
1969
10.0Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.
Polizeiinspektion 1
1977
Film credits
1980s · 8 titles
5.4When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts suicide.
Duet for One
1986
6.3Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to the West, where representatives of an American record company are eagerly awaiting him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as in the East, is reluctant to be an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he departs for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who left East Berlin when Klaus was young. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who claims to have knowledge of where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade.
Fatherland
1986
5.5In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
A Love in Germany
1983
No synopsis available yet.
Preußische Nacht
1981
An oily careerist for whom becoming the highest earner is not enough: now he also wants a title of nobility.
Der Snob
1984
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel
1981
8.0A remarkable approach to Goethe's novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther": on the one hand, a film adaptation that strives to remain faithful to the work and its words; on the other hand, an examination of Goethe's authentic story, his experiences that inspired his writing, and his retrospective comments as an old man. The dialectical connection between these two models brings to life experiences of love, loneliness, and deadly despair, leading in one case to desperate suicide and in the other to poetic processing.
Die Leidenschaftlichen
1981
No synopsis available yet.
The Woman with the Carbuncle Stones
1985
1970s · 18 titles
5.4General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.
Brass Target
1978
5.3A fur hunter living as a hermit in the Alaskan mountains is mistakenly suspected of the murder of a gold prospector. The murdered man's sister hires a gunslinger to catch the hunter, but after a dramatic confrontation, the two men become friends. Adventure movie based on Jack London's novel "Son of the Wolf".
Cry of the Black Wolves
1972
NRBerner police sergeant Studer celebrates his daughter's wedding at the inn of an old friend. When a murder occurs outside the restaurant late at night, he takes charge of the investigation. Strong debut performance by Hans Heinz Moser in the role of Glauser's brooding investigator Studer.
Krock & Co.
1976
No synopsis available yet.
Der Nagel
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Iwanow
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Elsa Brändström
1971
7.0A small farmer's struggle for survival against the odds.
Bread and Stones
1979
Every year, 17-year-old Wolfgang from Hesse spends his summer vacation with his grandfather in Fischerhude in Schleswig-Holstein. In the north, he always meets his childhood sweetheart Nanni, whom he wants to marry soon. But the two of them are not destined for happiness. The war throws a spanner in the works. Love must fail.
Eine Jugendliebe
1977
7.0When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.
The Pedestrian
1973
9.0The 23-year-old Bruno accidentally clashes with society, the judicial and the police. Once he has exceeded the legal limits, he is stuck to the wrong side of the law.
Fluchtgefahr
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Der Mann am Strick
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Frohe Ostern
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Das Herz aller Dinge
1971
5.2A tramp tries to trick the community into paying for the funeral of his fellow tramp who was found frozen to death.
The Frozen Heart
1979
5.3The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
Heinrich
1977
7.0The Zurich social welfare office sends a young worker to look after a 75 year old man thinking about suicide: His wife is suddenly paralyzed and his dwelling and work place change hands, forcing him to deal with relocating as well.
Die plötzliche Einsamkeit des Konrad Steiner
1976
NRGreat excitement in the Principality of Allegretto. Professor Sound, owner of a sanatorium for musical instruments, has come up with a sensational invention: the music pill. Once swallowed, it transforms the worst sourpuss into a cheerful singing and dancing contemporary. The success is astounding, as is the response in the international media. The pill produces satisfied tax officials, happy drivers, cheerful police officers and smiling burglars. Tourism flourishes, as a trip to Allegretto soon becomes more popular than a vacation in Hawaii. But dark clouds gather over the dwarf state when Field Marshal Heinz mobilizes his troops in neighbouring Moderato.
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Die Macht der Finsternis
1978
1960s · 22 titles
6.4Norbert Lang inherits a hotel and has to deal with a multitude of problems at the end of the year. There's the pushy singer who wants to get closer to him than he'd like. The staff quickly takes off after arguments. When the heating starts acting up, he has to hire a repairman. But the repairman shows up with unexpected backup and causes even more chaos.
Snow White and the Seven Jugglers
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Bernadette Soubirous
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Betty Blue
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Sie werden sterben, Sire
1964
7.1Cedric "Ceddie" Errol lives with his mother in poor circumstances in New York. The bright child is popular everywhere he goes. The boy's best friends are the shopkeeper Mr. Hobbs and the shoeshine boy Dick. One day, Ceddie receives the news that he is to move in with his grandfather in faraway England. The old Earl of Dorincourt, the father of Ceddie's deceased father, needs an heir and wants to take the boy to his castle. Ceddie is to grow up there as Lord Fauntleroy - but without his mother, as the earl has never got over the fact that his son married an American woman. Despite this downer, Ceddie arrives in England full of anticipation and performs a minor miracle. In no time at all, the little lord manages to turn the bitter old man into a philanthropist and lovable grandfather.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1962
7.4Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high.
Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight
1966
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
1960
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Lydia muss sterben
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Der Blinde
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Ohne festen Wohnsitz
1966
9.0Three bums get played by the devil.
The Devil May Well Laugh
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Die Falle
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Actis
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Die Friedhöfe
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Das Missverständliche im Leben des Herrn Knöbel
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Der Fall Jeanne d'Arc
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Verräterische Spuren
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Der Ritter vom Mirakel
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Der Tanz des Sergeanten Musgrave
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Leb wohl, mein Traum
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Wie ein Dieb in der Nacht
1964
1950s · 8 titles
6.5Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
On Trial
1954
7.4The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
It Happened in Broad Daylight
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Nachtasyl
1959
6.5The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle of the country road.
Der Richter und sein Henker
1957
8.0At the end of the Second World War, orphans of various nationalities come together at the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen. When the order arrives from Poland that the Polish children must return to their country, it comes as a shock to 13-year-old Andrzey: he doesn't want to leave Anja, for whom he has developed a strong affection. The two children decide to flee and go into hiding...
The Village
1953
No synopsis available yet.
Colombe
1958
7.31802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars.
Der Schinderhannes
1958
5.5The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there’s no shortage of love in this small world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place.
Palace Hotel
1952
1940s · 3 titles
6.0Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.
The Last Chance
1945
8.0A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaughter. He retreats to an isolated quarry in the woods he inherited. There he lives like a hermit, gruffly disencouraging anyone to come near the place.
Steibruch
1942
7.5Matthias is the illegitimate son of a factory worker. He lives as an indentured child labourer at his dictatorial aunt’s remote guesthouse. The only thing he knows in life are hard work and hard punches. After a sudden death, the unhappy boy finds the opportunity to make his way to his mother. In collaboration with SRF, Cinémathèque suisse, Memoriav and Praesens Film, ZFF once again presents a freshly restored version of a Swiss cinema classic. This 1941 literary adaptation is an almost forgotten jewel of Swiss film history that offers an impressive insight into Eastern Switzerland’s embroidery industry. Born in 1930, a later chapter of the main actor Röbi Rapp’s life was portrayed in the multi-award winning docufiction DER KREIS.
Das Menschlein Matthias
1941
Series credits
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
No synopsis available yet.
German Film Award
1951
8.0Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Commissioner
1969
8.0Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Commissioner
1969
8.0Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Commissioner
1969
10.0Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.
Polizeiinspektion 1
1977
10.0Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.
Polizeiinspektion 1
1977
6.6The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.
Die Schwarzwaldklinik
1985
8.0Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.
Das Kriminalmuseum
1963
8.0Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.
Das Kriminalmuseum
1963
8.0Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, was the first German science fiction television series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by ARD beginning September 17, 1966 six years before Star Trek first aired in West Germany. Being a huge success with several reruns audience ratings went up to 56%. Over the years, the series acquired a distinct cult status in Germany.
Space Patrol
1966
8.0Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.
Die fünfte Kolonne
1963
8.0Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.
Die fünfte Kolonne
1963
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
1979
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Pater Brown
1966
4.5A story about the life of Maximiliane Irene von Quindt based on a classic novel by Christine Bruckner .
Manure and Gillyflowers
1978
8.2A Munich detective falls into various misadventures as he pursues criminals and tries to evade women across the city.
Monaco Franze
1983
10.0Der Nachtkurier meldet… is a German bi-weekly television series that aired 42 episodes on SDR from October 31, 1964 to July 23, 1966.
Der Nachtkurier meldet…
1964
7.5Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
Buddenbrooks
1979
9.0Lemmi und die Schmöker (English: Lemmi and the Bookworms) was a German children's television series that presented books from 1973 to 1979 and again in a second series in 1983.
Lemmi and the Bookworms
1973
10.0Adapted from Jules Roy's historical novel of the French presence in North Africa, the TV series follows the destiny of two families, the Bouychous and the Parises, from the conquest of Algiers in 1830 to the Independence in 1962.
Les Chevaux du soleil
1980
NRDona Proeza loves the Spanish nobleman Don Rodrigo, the long-standing viceroy of the West Indies, at the end of the 16th century, but is first married to the old judge Don Pelayo and then to Don Camillo, and in between goes on a journey with Don Baltasar.
Der seidene Schuh
1965
7.0The story is set in Victorian England and revolves around two young men, Allan Armadale and Ozias Midwinter, who are connected by their fathers' dark past. Both fall in love with Lydia Gwilt, the mysterious woman with the red scarf, who has her own sinister plans.
Der rote Schal
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Appointment With Destiny
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Unbekannte Bekannte
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Tanz auf dem Regenbogen
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Der Fall Maurizius
1981
With the defeat of the revolution of 1848, the attempt to unite the German states had also failed. An agreement in the spirit of a Greater Germany, as demanded by Emperor Franz Joseph, was out of the question for Bismarck, who had been Prussian Prime Minister since 1862. For him, unity was only conceivable under Prussian leadership and without Austria. The two great powers still fought together in the war against Denmark (1864). Two years later, the separation from Austria was completed in the German War.
Preußen über alles
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Mond Mond Mond
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Flucht mit Luzifer
1989
Behind the camera
8.0A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaughter. He retreats to an isolated quarry in the woods he inherited. There he lives like a hermit, gruffly disencouraging anyone to come near the place.
Steibruch
1942
8.0A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaughter. He retreats to an isolated quarry in the woods he inherited. There he lives like a hermit, gruffly disencouraging anyone to come near the place.
Steibruch
1942
8.5A car crashes, an expensive drill goes missing, systematic theft occurs in the department store, a murder happens. Police officer Wäckerli has his hands full and eventually even finds himself in mortal danger.
Policeman Waeckerli in Danger
1967
8.5A car crashes, an expensive drill goes missing, systematic theft occurs in the department store, a murder happens. Police officer Wäckerli has his hands full and eventually even finds himself in mortal danger.
Policeman Waeckerli in Danger
1967
8.0The film follows a group of 14 Swiss girls during and after their final exams. It shows their little worries, joys, and conflicts during a time of transition from youth to adulthood.
Matura-Reise
1943
8.0The film follows a group of 14 Swiss girls during and after their final exams. It shows their little worries, joys, and conflicts during a time of transition from youth to adulthood.
Matura-Reise
1943