Rolf Wanka

Acting

Rolf Wanka

Born — Died

1901-02-14 — 1982-11-28

Place of birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Rolf Wanka (14 February 1901 – 30 November 1982) was an Austrian actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rolf Wanka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort 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

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der 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

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

Stahlnetz poster
7.5

Stahlnetz is a German television series.

Stahlnetz

1958

M poster
8.1

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

M

1931

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Okay S.I.R.

1973

Film credits

1970s · 6 titles

The Desert of the Tartars poster
6.8

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

The Desert of the Tartars

1976

The Internecine Project poster
5.9

Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.

The Internecine Project

1974

Josefine Mutzenbacher II - Meine 365 Liebhaber poster
3.6

Vienna: Wedding dreams draw Adrian, the rich son of a Hamburg merchant dynasty, to Vienna. His chosen one is a countess whose parents pretend to be rich but are in fact desperately poor. The meticulously planned wedding intrigue culminates in a duel to which Adrian is challenged by his bride's brother. Adrian is shot and left dying to the vultures, but is fortunately found by Josefine and her friend Zenzi. With their charm, the two whores persuade a doctor to operate the bullet out of the unknown man's chest and nurse him back to health. Especially the erotic stories Josephine told Adrian to keep him alive after the operation fascinated the latter. And he develops a plan to take revenge on the family of his chosen one. Adrian decides to introduce Josephine and Zenzi to the finest Viennese society

Josefine Mutzenbacher II - Meine 365 Liebhaber

1971

In Trouble poster
3.3

This movie chronicles several pregnant women on their quest to have an abortion. Some got pregnant by accident, others were raped. Sure to offend anti-abortionists, pro-lifers, feminists and chauvinists alike. The portions of the movie that deal with European folk remedies to pregnancy are especially interesting.

In Trouble

1971

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Pedell

1971

No artwork available
4.8

A comedy directed by Rudolf Lubowski.

He's at It Again

1970

1960s · 15 titles

Captain Sindbad poster
4.9

After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.

Captain Sindbad

1963

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Biographie und Liebe

1961

Drei Mann in einem Boot poster
6.8

Three men want to escape their troubles with women by taking a boat tour on the Rhine river.

Drei Mann in einem Boot

1961

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Kamel geht durch das Nadelöhr

1960

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Nashörner

1961

Die blonde Frau des Maharadscha poster
8.0

Maharaj Gowan is in love with the blonde circus rider Yrida. However, the son of the Maharaj also have strong feelings for her.

Die blonde Frau des Maharadscha

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aimée

1961

No Survivors, Please poster
7.0

Aliens attempt to take over the Earth by taking over the bodies of humans at the moment of their death, and using them as tools for their invasion plans.

No Survivors, Please

1964

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mein oder Dein

1964

Sünde mit Rabatt poster
5.5

Three murdered prostitutes, a perplexed commissioner, a trap for the killer and good atmosphere in the Apollo nightclub.

Sünde mit Rabatt

1968

Der Komödienstadel - Der Schusternazi poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Komödienstadel - Der Schusternazi

1963

No artwork available
6.7

Cupid's arrow strikes Andreas, a hunter by profession, quite unexpectedly when he meets the sophisticated Italian Manuela, who has inherited a castle in his hometown. It is love at first sight for both of them. Manuela invites her admirer to come with her to Italy. A charming romance in which even the setting is enough to fall in love with.

Auf Wiedersehn am blauen Meer

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Klassische Frauen und andere

1964

Der Schwierige poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Schwierige

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flucht über die Ostsee

1967

1950s · 19 titles

Der Besuch der alten Dame poster
6.4

An enormously wealthy woman returns to her hometown with a dreadful bargain: She wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her in exchange for enough money to revitalize the town.

Der Besuch der alten Dame

1959

Der schweigende Engel poster
8.0

The deaf-mute little girl Angelika is a talented dancer and is trained by a ballet mistress so that she gets the leading role in an opera despite the intrigues of a rival. Angelika's brother gets out of prison and wants to build an honest life for himself, but falls back into the clutches of his former gang, who use him and the unsuspecting Angelika to circulate counterfeit money.

Der schweigende Engel

1954

A Gift for Heidi poster
10.0

This movie is about one summer holiday in the life of the famous children's book character Heidi, the orphan girl who lives with her grandfather (whom Heidi, like everybody else including the cast list, calls "Alm Uncle") on the outskirts of a small village in the Alps. Heidi has a gift of three carved wooden figures made by a craftsman neighbour: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. However, rather than gold, frankincense, and myrrh, her grandfather and the village doctor gradually teach Heidi the idea that the gifts they bring are faith, charity and hope.

A Gift for Heidi

1958

No artwork available
7.0

Three 1950s city stories: In Hamburg, Sergeant Siegel tackles St. Pauli’s crime, from prostitution to deadly domestic fights. In Munich, teenager Helga Barufka teeters on the edge of nightlife’s dangers. In Düsseldorf, escort “Fräulein Doktor” outsmarts her boss by poaching his VIP clients.

For Love and Others

1959

La mestiza poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mestiza

1956

Embajadores en el infierno poster
7.0

Four Spanish Blue Division soldiers captured after the German invasion of Soviet territory face a choice in forced labor camps: renounce their Spanish nationality for better conditions. While two accept, Captain Adrados leads a group resisting, labeling those who comply as traitors, showcasing a struggle for loyalty to Franco's values.

Embajadores en el infierno

1956

Viaje de novios poster
5.0

Specialized in arranging weddings, Federico arranges marriage by proxy between Ana and Juan, two friends of his who do not know each other. Juan arrives by plane to Spain after spending ten years of safari in Africa, hoping to meet his wife, who arrives the same day from Buenos Aires. At the airport, Fernando receives him and they go to the bar to wait for Ana. But everything starts badly, because during the wait Juan drinks too much and gets drunk. When Ana arrives, she is displeased to meet her husband in such condition. Then Fernando takes them to a hotel for newlyweds where they meet other happy couples and where a peculiar honeymoon begins.

Viaje de novios

1956

Die Fiakermilli poster
7.5

An incredibly popular stage performer unknowingly falls madly in love with the lone critic that savaged her performance in the press.

Die Fiakermilli

1953

Die schöne Lügnerin poster
6.4

In 1815 Vienna, a corsetmaker falls in love with a valet.

Die schöne Lügnerin

1959

We Are All Necessary poster
6.2

After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child abandoned by his father, a millionaire.

We Are All Necessary

1956

The Priest and the Girl poster
7.0

A priest falls in love with a rich man's daughter.

The Priest and the Girl

1958

Stars Over Colombo poster
10.0

Adventure film in an exotic setting based on the “Indian Tomb”: While visiting a circus in Germany, the Indian maharajah Gowan sees the rider Yrida, who comes from Swedish nobility. The maharajah falls in love with the circus rider and quickly sends the entire circus to Ceylon, where he courts Yrida. But Yrida loves someone else: the student Gowaran, who she does not know is the maharajah's son. In order to get Yrida completely under his control, the maharaja has her drugged and abducted to his castle in India.

Stars Over Colombo

1953

The Shadow Battalion poster
5.8

Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...

The Shadow Battalion

1957

Franz Schubert – Ein Leben in zwei Sätzen poster
7.0

Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandoning a teaching career, he moves in with artist and poet friends, finds inspiration for the “Erlkönig,” and together with Therese sustains himself by performing his songs.

Franz Schubert – Ein Leben in zwei Sätzen

1953

Viennese Women poster
6.2

A mix between Italian neo-realism, German expressionism and Austrian exploitation.

Viennese Women

1952

Gruß und Kuss aus der Wachau poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Gruß und Kuss aus der Wachau

1951

Street Serenade poster
9.0

While on tour somewhere in Italy, a famous German pop singer loses his voice. All tickets for the concerts have long been sold out. Someone from the "Star's" entourage finds a young local guy who used to walk around the city singing in a very similar voice. From then on, the pop star stood on stage in front of the microphone, only opening his mouth, while the unknown street singer sang for him, standing in front of the microphone behind the scenes. At the end of the film, the star's voice returns, and he begins to sing solo and in a duet with the young singer.

Street Serenade

1953

In the Eddy of Sin poster
7.0

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

In the Eddy of Sin

1954

Der lachende Vagabund poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Der lachende Vagabund

1958

1930s · 18 titles

M poster
8.1

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

M

1931

The College Girl poster
10.0

A sixteen year old co ed falls for her poetic college professor, but a female instructor at the same school is jealous.

The College Girl

1936

Father Vojtech poster
7.0

Vojtěch's beloved Frantina is leaving for Prague to work. Vojtěch promises his dying mother that he will become a priest. His brother Karel is to inherit the mill. However, during the feast, he attacks the weak Josífek and then flees the village. He hides in a quarry with an unknown vagrant. While blasting a stone in the quarry, the vagrant dies, and Karel exchanges his documents for his own. Vojtěch is still thinking about Frantina in the seminary.

Father Vojtech

1936

Buchhalter Schnabel poster
7.8

The young man from Oxford originates from Vienna, where he returned after completing his studies to take over his deceased uncle's construction company. To gain a better overview, he joined the company as a junior employee and, of course, immediately fell in love with a young colleague...

Buchhalter Schnabel

1935

Not a Word About Love poster
8.0

A woman protects the secrets of a Vienna clothing manufacturer for new dress ideas ,from being stolen by a scheming lady thief.

Not a Word About Love

1937

Jägerblut poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jägerblut

1935

Liebe auf Bretteln poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe auf Bretteln

1935

Wild Girl poster
6.8

Mirko, bored with his extravagant life, decides to spend his vacation alone, far from the company of his Prague friends. He even makes a bet with a friend that he will go a month without any funds, luxuries, a car and...without a kiss.

Wild Girl

1936

Srdce v soumraku poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Srdce v soumraku

1936

Hearts in Love poster
9.0

A doctor needs to educate and civilize a young woman before he can marry her.

Hearts in Love

1938

Irca's Romance poster
7.0

Irča Miňovská, the daughter of a car factory director, meets mechanic Lexa Hora by chance. They fall in love, but Irča's father does not want his daughter's unequal relationship and decides to send Irča to a boarding school so that she cannot see Lexa. Lexa leaves the plans for her new engine with her boyfriend Harry Peters at the factory, resigns, and leaves to forget about Irča. Director Miňovský would like to produce a new type of engine, but Lexa is nowhere to be found...

Irca's Romance

1936

Leinen aus Irland poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Leinen aus Irland

1939

S.O.S. Mediterranean poster
6.2

The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French, German and English boats, respectively, unite to rescue the passengers of a neutral boat that is about to be engulfed in a cloud of poison smoke released by a smuggling ship.

S.O.S. Mediterranean

1938

Líza Soars to the Skies poster
5.8

The orphan Eliška Irovská, nicknamed Líza, arrives in her native village of Ptačice. As an orphan she is housed in the local poorhouse and has to go out begging. Her guardian Petr Tumlíř, however, sees that she is competent enough to go to school.

Líza Soars to the Skies

1938

The World's in Love poster
5.5

A Hungarian squire and his son compete for the favour of an operetta diva; the younger makes the running. - Unplausible mistakes, small intrigues and a lot of love in an old-fashioned musical comedy with proven comedians.

The World's in Love

1935

Das Recht auf Liebe poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Recht auf Liebe

1939

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rote Rosen - Blaue Adria

1938

Výdělečné ženy poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Výdělečné ženy

1937

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort 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

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort 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

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der 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

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

Stahlnetz poster
7.5

Stahlnetz is a German television series.

Stahlnetz

1958

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Okay S.I.R.

1973

The Century of Surgeons poster
10.0

A special insight into medicine presented on film: sterile operations, hospitals used to be built by the wind, anaesthesia, surgical gloves, similar to the films Sauerbruch or Kneip.

The Century of Surgeons

1972

Kommissar Freytag poster
10.0

Kommissar Freytag is a German television series.

Kommissar Freytag

1963

Von Null Uhr Eins bis Mitternacht poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Von Null Uhr Eins bis Mitternacht

1967

Das ist Stern schnuppe poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das ist Stern schnuppe

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die sanfte Tour

1963

Behind the camera