
Acting
Erwin Strahl
Born — Died
1929-02-12 — 2011-04-20
Place of birth
Vienna, Austria
Known for
Acting
Credits
54 titles
Known for
No synopsis available yet.
Volle Kanne
1999
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Riverboat
1992
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen der Woche
2000
No synopsis available yet.
Zum blauen Bock
1957
9.3No synopsis available yet.
Dalli Dalli
1971
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
Film credits
1970s · 7 titles
10.0The scientist Prof. Dr. Franz Hergarten has to leave his playmate, the blonde Lisa, at home, because he is supposed to bring highly explosive and important documents from Germany to New York as an important secret bearer and courier of a certain organization. An ocean liner is chosen as the means of transportation. German security forces are to accompany him and shield him from unwelcome strangers. Soon Hergarten realizes that some agents of hostile powers, who are also keen on the secret papers, are on him, using every trick and weapon imaginable - including women.
Schwarzer Nerz auf zarter Haut
1970
3.5German sex comedy
The Honest Interview
1971
Dr. Felsner goes on a business trip to Switzerland to flirt with the dashing Gerti. But his clever wife Edith is on guard.
Keine Angst Liebling, ich pass schon auf
1970
NRA humorous promotional and educational film about the construction of the Danube Island and flood protection in Vienna.
Donauzwilling im Doppelbett
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Der Fall Opa
1972
A married fur trader makes advances to a woman who is also married. He offers her a fur coat, which her husband is to buy at a low price so that their true intentions remain hidden. However, the husband wants the expensive item for his own mistress.
Jetzt nicht, Liebling
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Die Zuckerbäckerin
1972
1960s · 13 titles
6.1Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Five Branded Women
1960
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Robert und Bertram
1961
6.8Two rivals are out to recover a cache of stolen jewels. The thief who originally stole them has just gotten out of prison, however, and he is looking for his twin brother, who knows where the jewels are hidden. Complications ensue.
Kill, Panther, Kill!
1968
7.4Shortly before the First World War, the son of a Prague butcher is called up for military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army of Emperor Franz Joseph, proving to be a very incompetent recruit.
Schweik's Years of Indiscretion
1964
10.0On a summer morning, the opening of the trial in the Zurich District Court is scheduled for 8 a.m. The case of Marlene Faber and Nick Merk's divorce is being heard on the grounds of "mental cruelty." The couple is waiting outside the courtroom for their divorce and is reliving their marriage: from the honeymoon to the first quarrels and the end.
Mental Cruelty
1962
3.7Seduction has to be learned: One orders a harem to his hotel to prove that only she is the one. The other slips into boy's clothes to stand her ground. Handsome hotelier James Sander is idolized by pretty girls and earns a lot of money on the side. But the girls are a thorn in the side of his tax consultant Hilde. She has fallen in love with the attractive bachelor and has worked out a perfect plan to win James' heart. Mike's band has also arrived at his hotel. Sweet Bibi slips there into the role of her sick brother, trying to keep the secret of her womanhood and stand her ground as a drummer. Her game of hide-and-seek is in vain - because Mike is not the only one who has his eye on her. The turbulence in the hotel reaches its climax when hotel servant Pankraz smells a crime in James Bond style and stages the total confusion.
Happy-End am Wolfgangsee
1966
7.3The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
1966
5.5One 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
5.7A scientist creates an invisibility formula, but it is stolen by a master criminal who uses it to commit even bigger crimes.
The Invisible Terror
1963
6.5Deeply disappointed by her bridegroom, Andrea flees from Bruggern to the south and experiences a beautiful "Romance in Venice". She falls in love with the boyish-charming pianist Stefan Schröder. But a misunderstanding leads to breakage. Andrea returns pregnant to Germany. Stefan signs a contract for America. And the years go by .
Romanze in Venedig
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Freundschaftsspiel
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Die Geschichte der 1002. Nacht
1969
7.0On the way from Mexico City to Caracas, a plane crash-lands on an uninhabited island. The criminal Mario Bertelli terrorizes the other survivors. He prevents them from sending emergency signals.
Isle of Sin
1960
1950s · 17 titles
6.6Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. Murder, kidnapping and seduction ensue.
Fellowship of the Frog
1959
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Verschwender
1953
6.8After many years on the oceans, sailor Hannes Wedderkamp has finally returned to Hamburg. On St. Pauli, Hannes sings songs from the sea in the hippodrome of his best friend Pitter Breuer on the Reeperbahn with the "Quetschkommode" songs and cares for the audience.
Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins
1954
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Adventure in the Castle
1952
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Der Jäger von Fall
1957
8.3The story follows Riccardo, an Austrian pianist studying in Rome and engaged to local woman Fiorella, who has a brief encounter with French tourist Germaine, igniting a love triangle involving misunderstandings, a false arrest, and romantic schemes. Starring Barbara Laage as Germaine, Alberto Sordi as Alberto, Anna Maria Ferrero as Fiorella, and Erwin Strahl as Riccardo, the film blends humor with lighthearted drama set against the backdrop of Rome's iconic landmarks. Paul Hörbiger plays Professor Roth, serving as a stern mentor to the protagonist Riccardo and delivering comic relief via his rigid academic counsel amid the story's chaotic love triangle.
A Parisian in Rome
1954
7.0In the made-up country of Alanien, King Alexander I has been overthrown while abroad. Now, he's in Vienna with his daughter, the city of his fondest memories since studying there as a boy. It doesn't take long for the charm of Vienna to work its magic on the former king: he quickly comes to terms with the new situation and is able to enjoy the Austrian capital sans all the ceremony and trappings which would otherwise accompany him on a state visit. The princess is content with preparing herself for a career as a pianist concert, while the former king takes a job as a chauffeur in the embassy of the country he once ruled. The revolutionaries are shocked; and his days in Vienna are numbered.
Vienna, City of My Dreams
1957
No synopsis available yet.
Dein Herz ist meine Heimat
1953
7.0No synopsis available yet.
I'll See You at Lake Constance
1956
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Dein Mund verspricht mir Liebe
1954
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Südliche Nächte
1953
7.0Franz 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
No synopsis available yet.
Die heilige Lüge
1954
Reporters Peter Drante and Conny roam Hamburg’s Reeperbahn at night, uncovering three intertwined tales: Lilli, a aging dancer, searches for her missing husband who once shot her in a jealous rage; multimillionaire Alexander Borgess faces blackmail over past indiscretions; and Karin Thorwaldt seeks Borgess’s aid to secure her fiancé’s acceptance by her conservative father.
In Hamburg sind die Nächte lang
1956
10.0The mayor of a small garrison town is constantly at odds with the local battalion commander. This does not sit well with the mayor’s wife at all, as she wants to marry her daughter off to a soldier. Things escalate when the mayor’s cook becomes pregnant by an unknown soldier. Although the "culprit" doesn't reveal himself, four men who have confessed to being the "fathers" would love to walk down the aisle with the head cook...
Drei Tage Mittelarrest
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
1956
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Mikosch, der Stolz der Kompanie
1958
Series credits
No synopsis available yet.
Volle Kanne
1999
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Riverboat
1992
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen der Woche
2000
No synopsis available yet.
Zum blauen Bock
1957
9.3No synopsis available yet.
Dalli Dalli
1971
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
7.9Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.
War and Remembrance
1988
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Pater Brown
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Sie und Er im Kreuzverhör
1971
NRDolce Vita & Co is an Austrian television series.
Dolce Vita & Co
2001
No synopsis available yet.
Die Tausenderreportage
1973
10.0Oberinspektor Marek is an Austrian television series.
Oberinspektor Marek
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Duell zu Dritt
1971
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Alarm für Dora X
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Xander Vrüpp
2015
