Willy Harlander

Acting

Willy Harlander

Born — Died

1931-04-30 — 2000-04-20

Place of birth

Regensburg, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

100 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

Schtonk! poster
6.9

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.

Schtonk!

1992

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NR

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Der Komödienstadel - Der müde Theodor

1995

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4.7

For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.

Success

1991

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7.0

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Der Komödienstadel - Der verkaufte Großvater

1998

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NR

A crime comedy directed by Thomas Engel.

Der Struppi ist weg

1992

1980s · 15 titles

Lili Marleen poster
6.5

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.

Lili Marleen

1981

The Beginner poster
5.7

Movie fan Mike has invented a machine with which he is able to take part in every movie which is currently running on his video tape recorder. But he and his friend Tommy are watched while trying out this new device and soon two electronic companies are on their trail to discover the secret of this invention.

The Beginner

1985

Rosalie Goes Shopping poster
5.8

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

Rosalie Goes Shopping

1989

Piratensender Powerplay poster
5.4

Tommy and Mike operate a famous pirate radio station, Germany's most listened-to radio station. The police and the operators of the Bavarian Broadcast Company try to stop their illegal broadcast.

Piratensender Powerplay

1982

Der falsche Pass für Tibo poster
4.7

Thibaut Fismard from Munich has a hard time. His mother had married a Belgian engineer during the war, who disappeared immediately after the war. His mother raised her young son alone. Even at school and with neighbors, and later when looking for an apprenticeship, the fact that he was not German in the sense of the paragraphs stuck to him like a stigma. The opportunities open to his peers are closed to him, "the Belgian". The people of Munich dub his strange name "Tibo". When Tibo is suspected of stealing a moped and ends up in front of the juvenile court, the course is set for him to slip away. Tibo does not receive a work permit and certainly not German citizenship. But suddenly new paths open up for Tibo...

Der falsche Pass für Tibo

1980

Master Eder and his Pumuckl poster
6.9

The adventures of an old-fashioned master cabinet maker in Munich and the tiny red-haired goblin Pumuckl, who becomes visible to him when he gets stuck to the pot of glue in his workshop. The tiny creature is visible to nobody else and full of mischief, and hilarity ensues as objects are seen moving around and the elderly craftsman seems to be talking to thin air.

Master Eder and his Pumuckl

1982

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Glockenkrieg

1983

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wie im Paradies oder Ein gnadenloser Tag im Leben des Alois B.

1984

Early Frost in Munich poster
6.0

A Croatian guest worker who worked in Germany for many years, builds a house and a workshop for his 20 year old son back in their country of origin. However the son plans to marry his German girlfriend, and doesn't even think of returning to their land.

Early Frost in Munich

1984

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NR

A comedy directed by Olf Fischer.

Der Komödienstadel - Die Tochter des Bombardon

1982

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

O du fröhliche – Besinnliche Weihnachtsgeschichten

1981

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vergiftet oder arbeitslos?

1982

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Und ab geht die Post

1981

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3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tipfehler

1981

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NR

Physics professor Sophie and divorce lawyer Stefan have been living together as a couple for 15 years. Sophie would like to get married, but because of Stefan's experience with his clients, he doesn't believe in long, happy marriages. The two make a bet: If Sophie shows him a truly happy couple that has been married for more than five years, he will marry her.

Ehe oder Liebe

1982

1970s · 26 titles

Love Bavarian Style poster
5.4

Vittorio pretends to be gay so he can chaperone a rich man's daughter on vacation in Germany. Unfortunately his driver really is gay and Vittorio has a problem.

Love Bavarian Style

1973

The Stationmaster’s Wife poster
5.7

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.

The Stationmaster’s Wife

1977

Secrets of Sweet Sixteen poster
4.6

Another Ernst Hofbauer schoolgirl exploiter in the same vein as his Schoolgirl Report films, but for this one he raised the sleaze level to new heights with non-pornographic scenes of rape, pedophilia, satanic rituals, virgin sacrifice and golden showers. Despite how it sounds, these acts are played for silly comedy rather than any harsh depictions.

Secrets of Sweet Sixteen

1973

Further Confessions of a Sixth Form Girl poster
5.8

After the big success of the first part the film-makers apparently felt pressured to launch a new "investigation" and gather new material. Therefore, Friedrich von Thun again ventures out into the streets, this time of Berlin, to ask schoolgirls about their sexual experiences. The invinted guests talk about (allegedly) true events. Schoolgirls that seduce their teachers, runaway girls that have been robbed and who have to prostitute themselves or innocent girls that have been drugged and raped...

Further Confessions of a Sixth Form Girl

1971

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria poster
5.6

Otto runs a hotel for tourists in Tyrol but has troubles both with the economy and with his wife Olga. After a trip to Stockholm he imports three Swedish blondes who eventually save Otto from disaster, both marital and financial.

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

1977

The Pussy in the Bathhouse poster
3.5

Three Bavarians travel to Bangkok, allegedly to start exporting German beer there. But the local vicar hears that they only go there to have fun and follow them to watch over them.

The Pussy in the Bathhouse

1976

Alpine Passion poster
3.9

Village elders attempting to upgrade their village status to 'Marktgemeinde' - which for some unexplained reason would resolve their financial difficulties. To achieve this they need to increase the number of village inhabitants...

Alpine Passion

1974

Die Jugendstreiche des Knaben Karl poster
7.5

At the behest of his father, the young Karl Valentin is to complete a carpentry apprenticeship. When the father gets into a financial mess by a strict creditor, the boy works with growing success as a comedian to support his parents financiall

Die Jugendstreiche des Knaben Karl

1977

Crazy - Total verrückt poster
9.0

A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb

Crazy - Total verrückt

1973

Das gelbe Haus am Pinnasberg poster
4.5

The story of a Hamburg brothel in which the wealthy female clientele spend a lot of money on the male employees. When the boss of the house has happily married off his daughter, he sells his establishment - just in time before it literally collapses.

Das gelbe Haus am Pinnasberg

1970

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Löwe gesucht

1970

Zwei Rebläuse auf dem Weg zur Loreley poster
3.2

Two dumb blokes are searching for the illegitimate sons of an old captain. But it soon turns out, that the sons are daughters...

Zwei Rebläuse auf dem Weg zur Loreley

1975

Mensch, ärgere dich nicht poster
4.5

The clumsy manager of a milk advertising company is suddenly treated with excessive friendliness by the people around him because they believe he has won a million dollars.

Mensch, ärgere dich nicht

1972

The Bed Student, or What Do I Do With the Girls? poster
3.8

Christof Müller continues as a prospective student with the train from Augsburg to Munich. Already when Enrolling he is intercepted by the artist life “sports fan”, who introduced him to so many university internals. Along with “Justus von Liebig,” he runs a practice for student hardship cases, but is mostly just drunk and fooling around. Christof lives with his cousin Brigitte, who is behind him, and with him is intimate. In between, he will perform the little fairy and goes with her to the zoo. Because the girl wants not just to the ladies room, he must call and reap evil suspicions of passers-by.

The Bed Student, or What Do I Do With the Girls?

1970

Schoolgirl Report Part 5: What All Parents Should Know poster
5.2

Seven more first-hand accounts of sexual awakening amongst school girls in the early Seventies.

Schoolgirl Report Part 5: What All Parents Should Know

1973

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hahnenkampf

1975

Wetterleuchten über dem Zillertal poster
7.0

The forester Auer is found killed on a Sunday in the forest, and the police begin a feverish search for the culprit. Only Pastor Gruber already knows who it is. It is Hannes Reyer, son of the richest farmer in the region, who has confessed the act of murder to him. Gruber, however, is bound to his obligation to secrecy. But when the young Ernst Nortinger is arrested on suspicion for murder, he knows what he has to do and relinquishes his priesthood in order to report Hannes to the police. But things don’t get so far, as Hannes dies in an accident during an altercation with the priest. Nonetheless, Gruber does not return to his office. In quiescence, he wants to find out whether he still can handle the burden of the priesthood. Senior Pastor Bachmayer, however, is convinced that he will return.

Wetterleuchten über dem Zillertal

1974

Die Münchner Räterepublik poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Münchner Räterepublik

1971

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5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kennwort: Fasanenjagd München 1945

1975

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Birnbaum und Hollerstauden

1971

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

… von Herzen mit Schmerzen

1978

Lady Dracula poster
5.6

A beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon she goes on a killing spree.

Lady Dracula

1977

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10.0

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Der Komödienstadel - Mattheis bricht's Eis

1972

Der Komödienstadel - Josef Filser poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Komödienstadel - Josef Filser

1972

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mensch Adam Deigl und die Obrigkeit

1974

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Leute von Feichtenreut

1976

1960s · 13 titles

Der Hochtourist poster
8.0

About a Cologne sparkling wine manufacturer who is pretending to be passionate about mountaineering in order to be able to devote himself to his real passion, theater.

Der Hochtourist

1961

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Millowitsch Theater - Der kühne Schwimmer

1960

Degree of Murder poster
6.3

After accidentally killing her ex-lover during a fight, Marie enlists the help of a stranger and his friend to dispose of the body while becoming intimate with both men.

Degree of Murder

1967

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10.0

Two boys try out a home-made flying machine in their children's room at night. For another test, a rat that the boys keep as a pet is thrown out of the window with a small rocket. After this has also worked, the first boy stands on the windowsill ready to jump into the yard. At this moment, a man suddenly flies into the children's room from outside through the window, introducing himself as an inhabitant of Mars.

Der Test

1964

The Honors of War poster
5.5

One morning in August 1944, the inhabitants of a French village are celebrating their premature liberation. The festivities are interrupted by the arrival of an exhausted, leaderless German detachment. A few kilometers away, the inhabitants of the village of Muzière negotiate with the Germans and agree to a truce. But the arrival of a Wehrmacht captain, anxious to regain control of the men, puts an end to this fragile peace process. The captain suggested meeting the Americans and surrendering to regular troops rather than civilians. The inhabitants of Muzière, believing the truce to be broken, fire on the Germans and, on this misunderstanding, the guns start talking again.

The Honors of War

1962

Der Komödienstadel - Der Schusternazi poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Komödienstadel - Der Schusternazi

1963

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Komödienstadel - Das Wunder des heiligen Florian

1969

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Unbekannte aus der Seine

1968

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10.0

For decades, the villagers of Haselbach have argued and fought with those of Banzing. But this should finally come to an end: The local councillors decide to reconcile the two villages and the mayors want to seal the peace by marrying off their children. They agree that they don't want to marry each other and that their fathers are only acting out of greed. When they decide to revolt against their elders, they are unexpectedly supported by a "stranger" who brings the reason for the dispute between Haselbach and Banzing out of the dark: the Holledauer Schimmel. Plots are forged, tender bonds of love are forged and in the end everyone ends up where they belong.

Der Holledauer Schimmel

1968

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Madame Legros

1968

Kurzer Prozeß poster
6.7

District Inspector Pokorny was transferred some time ago from Vienna to the fictional Upper Austrian town of Mühlstadt after assaulting a suspect while on duty. There, as he says, he has to deal with "idiotic scoundrels who steal each other's chickens." Police officer Janisch was given a quick trial and sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing the post office in Litzelsdorf. His colleagues do not believe he is capable of such a crime and try to catch the real perpetrators. At the same time, they have to deal with a multitude of other cases.

Kurzer Prozeß

1967

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Trauerspiel von Julius Caesar

1969

No artwork available
NR

Short educational film about sexual abuse at the workspace.

Thema Nr. 1

1963

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 Old Fox poster
6.3

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

The Old Fox

1977

SOKO München poster
5.9

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

SOKO München

1978

SOKO München poster
5.9

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

SOKO München

1978

SOKO München poster
5.9

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

SOKO München

1978

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Zum blauen Bock

1957

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

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

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

Polizeiinspektion 1 poster
10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

Polizeiinspektion 1

1977

Polizeiinspektion 1 poster
10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

Polizeiinspektion 1

1977

Polizeiinspektion 1 poster
10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

Polizeiinspektion 1

1977

Der Bergdoktor poster
4.8

Der Bergdoktor is a German-Austrian medical drama television series, broadcast in 96 episodes between 1992 and 1997.

Der Bergdoktor

1992

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das 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

Master Eder and his Pumuckl poster
7.5

Pumuckl is a Kobold from a German radio play series for children. He is a descendant of the Klabautermänner. He is invisible to people around him except for the master carpenter Eder with whom Pumuckl lives. Pumuckl was invented by Ellis Kaut for a radio play series of the Bavarian Radio in 1961. Later on it was turned into a very successful TV series. Three movies and a musical also deal with the adventures of the little kobold. Pumuckl is one of the most popular characters in children's entertainment in Germany and several generations have now grown up with the cheeky but funny little Kobold.

Master Eder and his Pumuckl

1982

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

Weißblaue Geschichten poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Weißblaue Geschichten

1984

Weißblaue Geschichten poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Weißblaue Geschichten

1984

Ein Bayer auf Rügen poster
8.3

Ein Bayer auf Rügen is a German comedy/crime television series, broadcast in 81 episodes between 1993 and 1997.

Ein Bayer auf Rügen

1993

Ärzte poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Ärzte

1994

Löwengrube poster
8.0

"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.

Löwengrube

1989

Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger

1978

Weißblaue Wintergeschichten poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Weißblaue Wintergeschichten

1994

Weißblaue Wintergeschichten poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Weißblaue Wintergeschichten

1994

Weißblaue Wintergeschichten poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Weißblaue Wintergeschichten

1994

Zwei Münchner in Hamburg poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Zwei Münchner in Hamburg

1989

Zur Freiheit poster
9.0

Zur Freiheit is a German television series.

Zur Freiheit

1987

Der Leihopa poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Leihopa

1985

Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht poster
7.6

Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht is a German comedy television series. It was produced by ZDF in the years 1968 to 1972 and contains 52 episodes. It is set in the German Empire shortly before World War I and revolves around the court proceedings of the Königlich Bayrisches Amtsgericht in the fictional Bavarian small town Geisbach. Almost all actors speak with a Bavarian dialect. The series features many famous Bavarian actors like Gustl Bayrhammer, Hans Baur and Max Grieser.

Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht

1969

Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht poster
7.6

Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht is a German comedy television series. It was produced by ZDF in the years 1968 to 1972 and contains 52 episodes. It is set in the German Empire shortly before World War I and revolves around the court proceedings of the Königlich Bayrisches Amtsgericht in the fictional Bavarian small town Geisbach. Almost all actors speak with a Bavarian dialect. The series features many famous Bavarian actors like Gustl Bayrhammer, Hans Baur and Max Grieser.

Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht

1969

Der Kurier der Kaiserin poster
9.0

Der Kurier der Kaiserin is a German Television series.

Der Kurier der Kaiserin

1970

Die Hausmeisterin poster
7.7

Die Hausmeisterin is a German television series.

Die Hausmeisterin

1987

Der Bastian poster
5.2

Der Bastian is a German television series written by Barbara Noack, broadcast in 13 episodes between 1972 and 1973 on ZDF.

Der Bastian

1973

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mordkommission

1973

Monaco Franze poster
8.2

A Munich detective falls into various misadventures as he pursues criminals and tries to evade women across the city.

Monaco Franze

1983

Unsere schönsten Jahre poster
10.0

Unsere schönsten Jahre is a German television series.

Unsere schönsten Jahre

1983

Der Millionenbauer poster
9.0

Der Millionenbauer is a German television series.

Der Millionenbauer

1979

Kir Royal poster
7.0

A six-part television series, a parody of the Munich newspaper, its gossip reporter Michael Graeter, and its publisher Anneliese Friedmann. The series centres around the tabloid reporter Baby Schimmerlos, who plays in the Munich "Schicki-Micki" scene of the 1980s.

Kir Royal

1986

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NR

Geschichten aus der Heimat is a German television series.

Geschichten aus der Heimat

1983