Balduin Baas

Acting

Balduin Baas

Born — Died

1922-06-09 — 2006-05-22

Place of birth

Gdańsk, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 3 titles

1970s · 14 titles

Orchestra Rehearsal poster
6.7

An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.

Orchestra Rehearsal

1979

Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne poster
5.0

Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking his death and promising a large inheritance to the Mommsen-Gymnasium and the principal. Of course, the inheritance is tied to many embarrassing conditions.

Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne

1970

Wer einmal in das Posthorn stößt poster
4.7

Things may not be fast at the German post office, but they're a lot of fun: postal supervisor Max Sparwein knows a thing or two about it, because he really can't complain about boring and monotonous service on his tour through the city. This is also the experience of journalist Mara Schönwetter, who accompanies him on his walks up and down the stairs to write a report.

Wer einmal in das Posthorn stößt

1973

Willi wird das Kind schon schaukeln poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Willi wird das Kind schon schaukeln

1972

To the Bitter End poster
4.2

15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from showbiz and married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick of it and wants to work again. A romantic affair with his stepdaughter, Shirley, gives him the guts to ask for a role. His former agent gets him one but it's with a small company in Vienna, Austria. The stress worsens his alcoholism; the tablets he takes to hide the effects lead him to hallucinations. When his wife and girlfriend appear at the same time, he's no longer capable of handling the situation.

To the Bitter End

1975

Morgen fällt die Schule aus poster
5.2

Pepe Nietnagel's father has a valuable stamp collection stolen in Amsterdam. Street musician Pit recovers it. To show his gratitude, Pit is invited to Baden Baden and enters the Mommsen Gymnasium. There, he joins Pepe in his pranks.

Morgen fällt die Schule aus

1971

Slap in the Face poster
9.0

Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slapped the wrong man and pursued tangible own interests in the form of inherited shares ...

Slap in the Face

1970

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mein Onkel Benjamin

1973

No artwork available
7.0

In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages the idea of anyone being different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in society.

Bend Sinister

1970

Betragen ungenügend! poster
4.8

Due to a plot by the teaching staff, headmaster Taft is forced into early retirement and Knörz is appointed headmaster. However, they didn't count on class 13a, and especially not on their spokesperson Pepe Nietnagel. They are anything but happy about losing Taft, their favorite enemy. Without further ado, Pepe and his friends join forces with Taft and hatch a series of daring pranks to get back at Knörz.

Betragen ungenügend!

1972

Hauptsache Ferien poster
6.3

On the last day of school, teachers and students have only one thing on their minds: finally, vacation. Corinna, the daughter of a prefabricated house manufacturer, has failed to pass her exams despite all her father's attempts to bribe her. With a little trick, her classmates want to fulfill the greatest dream of Corinna's teacher, Dr. Markus. A quick spin of the wheel of fortune and he has won a prefabricated house in a competition. Everything seems to be going well, but suddenly the deception is revealed.

Hauptsache Ferien

1972

Zwanzig Mädchen und die Pauker: Heute steht die Penne kopf poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zwanzig Mädchen und die Pauker: Heute steht die Penne kopf

1971

No artwork available
7.0

Insurance clerk Paul Montag is assigned to investigate the death of Magdalene Gard. The 28-year-old sportswoman died in the middle of a tennis tournament under unclear circumstances - allegedly of heart failure. Shortly before her death, she had taken out a disproportionately high life insurance policy worth DM 100,000, which was not paid to her mother but to a mysterious organization called “Cumulus”...

Unendlich tief unten

1977

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Moral

1979

1960s · 21 titles

Lausbubengeschichten poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lausbubengeschichten

1964

Ich suche einen Mann poster
7.5

Somehow it doesn't work out with marriage, so the charming and extremely pretty fashion designer Barbara Schönfelder, in her late 20s, entrusts herself to a marriage planning institute - and experiences many an amusing adventure on her 'blind dates', but everything goes wrong. Only when the right man, her boss who is secretly in love with her, takes the initiative do the wedding bells finally ring.

Ich suche einen Mann

1966

Das Liebeskarussell poster
3.3

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.

Das Liebeskarussell

1965

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern poster
6.1

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting system. They succeed in sending their teacher to a sanatorium and get a replacement that turns out to not be so bad after all.

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

1968

Zum Teufel mit der Penne poster
5.5

Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his classmates scheme to get around doing any actual school work by cheating or sending their teachers to the sanatorium. A Swiss documentary film maker disguises himself as his brother in law, who got a position as an exchange teacher, to aid his project of making a movie about the current youth.

Zum Teufel mit der Penne

1968

They're Too Much poster
4.8

Three crooks come out of jail on probation and, taking advantage of the economic boom in Germany, they continue their shady business quite legally this time.

They're Too Much

1965

The Liar poster
6.2

When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the easiest way for her to accept that her mother is now gone. But this was only the beginning of a lot of lies he tells her continuously, mostly about himself and his job. This way he also tries to hide away from her the fact that he had to quit his job as a traveler and is now paid much less than before.

The Liar

1961

Murder Party poster
9.0

Klaus murders women. After killing another girl, Klaus is spotted by his friend Kersten as he leaves his latest victim's house. Kersten gives him a ride and Klaus begins to plot the man's death. He's a witness, after all. Nobody else can say Klaus was there except Kersten. They decide to head to a party. Klaus' unhappy wife is there. So are a bunch of other people. Killing Kersten will be difficult. Then they all play a game called... Murder Party!

Murder Party

1961

Once a Greek poster
7.0

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

Once a Greek

1966

The Fountain of Love poster
3.8

The town leaders of an Austrian mountain village conspire to attract tourists by touting a mythical "fountain of love" that runs nearby the village. When the minister of tourism discovers this, she immediately sends her agents to check out the veracity of the potentially scandalous water. After the village mayor declares a 3-day ban on sexual activity, he then plugs up the fountain. When the agents come, they find nothing. One of the agents wants to have his boss come and check it out personally, but changes his mind after he drinks some of the water. It really is an aphrodisiac! Soon tourists are arriving by the hundreds to sample the mysterious water. Unfortunately, the minister finds out and claims the water for the state.

The Fountain of Love

1966

Die Ente klingelt um halb acht poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Ente klingelt um halb acht

1968

Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen

1964

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jacques Offenbach – Ein Lebensbild

1969

The Mysterious Magician poster
10.0

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.

The Mysterious Magician

1963

No artwork available
NR

German telling of the Igor Gouzenko story

Der Verrat von Ottawa

1966

Devil's Girls poster
8.0

Betty is in jail after a failed raid on a jewelry store while her accomplice Bob escaped. But by chance she finds Bob's hiding place and towers with four other girls. *English title is "The Devil's Girls" not "Devil's Girls"

Devil's Girls

1967

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Valentin Katajews chirurgische Eingriffe in das Seelenleben des Dr. Igor Igorowitsch

1967

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Herren

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die grüne Nacht von Ziegenberg

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats

1967

Genosse Münchhausen poster
8.5

In his film attempt, Berlin cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss strings together various sketches to create a story that deals with the division of Germany based on motifs from the Münchhausen legend. A farmer from the western occupation zone crashes as a reconnaissance pilot over the Soviet Union. He returns to the West via the island of Sylt by miraculous means and finally on the back of a rocket. But he finds his future farmland in the East, on the other side of the fence.

Genosse Münchhausen

1962

1950s · 15 titles

The Devil's General poster
6.9

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.

The Devil's General

1955

The Captain from Kopenick poster
7.3

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...

The Captain from Kopenick

1956

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Geld liegt auf der Straße

1958

The Rest Is Silence poster
6.0

A "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero's father.'

The Rest Is Silence

1959

Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte poster
9.0

A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls.

Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Dreigroschenoper

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perichole

1959

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Biedermann and the firestarters

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die sechste Frau

1959

Die verpfuschte Hochzeitsnacht poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Die verpfuschte Hochzeitsnacht

1957

Drei Birken auf der Heide poster
6.2

After a long absence, forest ranger Hans Freese returns to the heathland village of Undeloh, where he spent his childhood. Here he meets his childhood sweetheart Rose again. A sophisticated publisher from Hamburg and a group of gypsies cause all sorts of complications, but thanks to these, Hans and Rose are finally able to be together.

Drei Birken auf der Heide

1956

Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen poster
7.0

The young veterinarian Dr. Vlimmen settles in a small town on the North Sea coast. When he reports the conditions in the local slaughterhouse as cruelty to animals, he makes an enemy of the influential butcher van Heusden, who launches a smear campaign against him. Vlimmen is only supported by his sister Truus and his friend, lawyer Dacka, who loves Truus. In the end, Vlimmen succeeds in clearing his name. Through a daring operation, he regains his reputation and also finds Nel, the daughter of councillor van der Kalk.

Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen

1956

Der müde Theodor poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Der müde Theodor

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prozeß in Dur

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Walzertraum

1959

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

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick 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

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick 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

Großstadtrevier poster
6.0

Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.

Großstadtrevier

1986

Großstadtrevier poster
6.0

Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.

Großstadtrevier

1986

Unser Charly poster
5.7

The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.

Unser Charly

1995

The Country Doctor poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Country Doctor

1987

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Einer wird gewinnen

1964

Doppelter Einsatz poster
3.4

Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police.

Doppelter Einsatz

1994

Eurocops poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Eurocops

1988

The Legacy of Guldenburgs poster
4.9

The life of the German noble family von Guldenburg.

The Legacy of Guldenburgs

1987

Dem Täter auf der Spur poster
10.0

Dem Täter auf der Spur is a German television series.

Dem Täter auf der Spur

1967

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sonderdezernat K1

1972

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The German Bronx

1997

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zwischenmahlzeit

1963

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kommissariat 9

1975

Hafendetektiv poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hafendetektiv

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Krimi-Quiz - Amateure als Kriminalisten

1964

Ein Fall für Titus Bunge poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Fall für Titus Bunge

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das wissen die Götter

1964

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Miss Molly Mill

1970

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der rasende Lokalreporter

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schusters Gespenster

1978

Behind the camera