Axel Scholtz

Acting

Axel Scholtz

Born 1935-03-01 · Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Swidnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]

Acting credits

Killing Cars poster
3.7

In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for testing, he is confronted by ominous men, eager to get their hands on his patent. Evil Arab petroleum lords also want to stop this threat to the gasoline market any way they can.

Killing Cars

1986

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9.5

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His nun-in-training sister Isabella is very persuasive at pleader, but when she goes to Angelo, instead of freeing her brother, he offers to save his life if she sleeps with him. Isabella's only sympathetic friend is a priest who is actually the Duke in disguise, and he has a plan.

Zweierlei Maß

1964

Munich Mambo poster
4.5

After his wife is murdered Karl loses his fire and disappears into underground Munich. He resurfaces as a hired snoop for Earth Now, a radical ecology group. Enter the beautiful and mysterious Petra Schmitt. She hires Karl to find her missing sister and Karl soon finds himself drawn into a world of half-truths and lies as his simple missing-person case develops into a murder case that quickly becomes international in scope. Petra and Karl must work together in order to thwart Petrov, a cold-blooded gangster who will kill anyone who gets in his way. While fighting to save themselves, they must prevent Petrov from getting a stolen computer chip containing the international banking codes for the new Euro.

Munich Mambo

2005

Men in the City 2 poster
6.3

The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.

Men in the City 2

2011

Der schwarze Fluch poster
8.0

A reporter becomes embroiled in a deadly game when researching a series of murders on a South American island.

Der schwarze Fluch

1995

The White Rose poster
6.1

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.

The White Rose

1982

No artwork available
6.0

After many years away, development aid worker Peter Kessel returns to his home town of Gutenbach in 1982. He is astonished to discover that a lot has changed there. Cashless payments are used everywhere and facilities such as screen journals and video telephones have become a matter of course. Kessel tries to adapt to the changed circumstances and encounters difficulties in the process.

1982: Gutenbach

1978

Fanfares of Love poster
5.0

Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.

Fanfares of Love

1951

Paths in Twilight poster
10.0

Three homeless youths commit petty crimes to get by in the difficult time just after the end of WW2 in Germany. When they become suspects in a murder case, a witness of the events comes forward with evidence that they are innocent of the crime. He offers them a chance to break with their ways and make a new beginning in his village, not knowing what this will ultimately cost him.

Paths in Twilight

1948

My Mother's Courage poster
5.7

The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you’d least expect it.

My Mother's Courage

1995

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow poster
6.7

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

1947

Farewell Mister Grock poster
5.8

The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the framework of world history. Lots of children, wars, an eccentric Russian countess, Countess Barinoff, who grows old admiring the clown, and a very long quibble about a party wall, all serve to highlight the star's final number.

Farewell Mister Grock

1950

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Blitzlicht

1973

Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included poster
8.3

An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget that he has unfinished business with them.

Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included

1966

No artwork available
8.0

Aging actor Hieronymus agrees to coach amateur Hans in his craft, but Hans doesn't live up to the demands of theater pros although he is supported by actress Ina who then helps him to break into the movies - but not as he expected.

Ein ganz grosses Kind

1952

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schloßpension Fürstenhorst

1965

No artwork available
8.0

14-year-old Benjamin Holberg has once again escaped from a reform school. But this time too he was found and sent to another home. The boys housed there immediately put pressure on “the new guy” and assign him tasks such as cleaning toilets and the like. They comply with her request by using physical violence against Ben. When Ben talks to another boy named Manfred and tells him that he wants to run away again, he says that he cannot escape the police in the long term because they would organize a real hunt for him. But that doesn't stop the two boys from trying to escape from the home again

Das Ende vom Anfang

1984

After Midnight poster
4.5

The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.

After Midnight

1981

Ihr schönster Tag poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Ihr schönster Tag

1962

Peter Steiners Theaterstadl - Liebestropfen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Peter Steiners Theaterstadl - Liebestropfen

1998

No artwork available
7.0

The tranquil family life of a police officer is disrupted when a colleague on duty goes berserk and expects him to make a false statement. A question of conscience? But how does one live with a guilty conscience if one violates the unwritten laws of the police?

Gegen die Regel

1987

Die Brücke des Schicksals poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Brücke des Schicksals

1960

No artwork available
5.5

Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl becomes pregnant by Manfred, has an abortion and is sent to a reformatory for it. Manfred gets her pregnant again and then leaves her; desperate and humiliated, she shoots him. In court she remains defiant and silent. On the last day of the hearing, a deus ex machina appears: the figure skater Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Sonja's great idol, descends from the sky and floats with her over the roofs of Regensburg.

Ein unheimlich starker Abgang

1973

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Faust auf eigene Faust

1970