
Acting
Wolf Ackva
Born — Died
1911-07-30 — 2000-01-16
Place of birth
Montigny, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
74 titles
Known for
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
6.0Derrick 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
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
6.9Graf 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
1978
8.0Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger is a German television series.
Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
1965
Film credits
1970s · 14 titles
4.2Tis is the 8th part of series. Another story based on what real-life German teenagers schoolgirls of the day were up to...
Naughty Co-Eds
1974
3.3This 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
6.5Super agents from East and West have 24 hours to foil an assassination attempt on Brezhnev. Together they hunt the terrorist No. 1. The race against the clock shows eerily realistic the practices of the secret services.
Natascha - Todesgrüsse aus Moskau
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Der Hitler/Ludendorff-Prozeß
1971
3.0A report style film that focuses on salacious episodes of housewives engaging in infidelity.
Housewives Report
1971
4.5Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.
Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr
1976
No synopsis available yet.
Der Schuft, der den Münchhausen schrieb
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Taxi 4012
1976
7.3A married woman takes her young son to a spa resort in the hope of helping his asthmatic condition. But she falls in love with a dashing baron.
Brennendes Geheimnis
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Protokoll eines Verdachts
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Timon von Athen
1976
No synopsis available yet.
Jedermanns Weihnachtsbaum
1975
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Claus Graf Stauffenberg
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Nachbarn
1970
1960s · 19 titles
4.7Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His disturbing peeping tomism triggers off a whirlpool of emotions due to a childhood episode which punishes voyeurism with pain.
Devil in the Flesh
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Die Bürger von Calais
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Porträt eines Helden
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Der Traum des Eroberers
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Ein Tag ohne Morgen
1966
7.0Peter Pan is an adolescent boy who has escaped from his parents to the dreamland of Nowhere. Peter is determined to remain a little boy forever; because the adult world does not please him at all. Together with the fairy Tinkerbell, Peter Pan lures the girl Wendy and her two brothers John and Michael to Nowhere, where Peter teaches them to fly. They join forces with the Indians, led by the beautiful Tigerlilly, to fight together against the evil Captain Jack Haken and his wild pirates.
Peter Pan
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Rette sich, wer kann oder Dummheit siegt überall
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Und nicht mehr Jessica
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Plädoyer für einen Rebellen
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Keiner ist wie der andere
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Das Trauerspiel von Julius Caesar
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Der Fall Rouger
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Leb wohl, mein Traum
1963
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Alaska – Wildnis am Rande der Welt
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Eine halbe Stunde
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Der Geisterzug
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Nebeneinander
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Flieger Ross
1966
1950s · 17 titles
7.9An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.
Nights on the Road
1952
6.1Hanna Amon and her brother Thomas live on an estate they've inherited from their parents. Local veterinarian Brunner loves Hanna from afar, and Thomas is in love with the daughter of the local mayor. Love, however, doesn't always mean happiness, as both Hanna and Thomas are soon to find out.
Hanna Amon
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
8.7The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators.
Bandits of the Highway
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Das Spinnennetz
1956
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Junges Herz voll Liebe
1953
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Beiderseits der Rollbahn
1953
No synopsis available yet.
Die Caine war ihr Schicksal
1959
4.5In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.
Rommel ruft Kairo
1959
10.0Master butcher Külz from Hanover meets the young and beautiful Irene Trübner, private secretary to the wealthy art collector Steinhövel, in Copenhagen. She asks him to help her transport a miniature recently acquired by her employer at an auction in Copenhagen to Hanover. The newspaper has just reported on the theft of some of the art objects sold at the same auction and she is afraid of being robbed as well. The two agree that Külz should discreetly give her the miniature at the station the next morning in order to deceive any robbers. However, Miss Irene does not give Mr. Külz the original, but a copy. During the train journey, the miniature is stolen from Mr. Külz...
Die verschwundene Miniatur
1954
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Der Hund von Baskerville
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Paul und Julia
1958
Mecki Introduces Himself - This stop motion puppet film explains the making of animated shorts featuring the character Mecki.
Mecki Introduces Himself
1952
No synopsis available yet.
Die schöne Tölzerin
1952
A German doctor who is a prisoner of war inspires her compatriots in a Siberian labor camp to regain their courage and confidence in life.
Taiga
1958
The wife of the English consul in British-occupied Egypt at the turn of the century falls in love with a French foreign legionnaire, and her husband takes advantage of this to spy on secret plans for an uprising instigated by the French. An action by the French in the desert is then bloodily suppressed by the English. The legionnaire survives, but he cannot forgive the woman who loves him for the fact that many of his comrades have died as a result of her betrayal.
Geliebte Feindin
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Die Schwestern
1957
1930s · 6 titles
7.0Peter Ohlsen, a perpetual student, leads a dissolute life and has been living off his filthy-rich father for years. When Peter comes home drunk from a party with his friends yet again, he finds a three-year-old boy in his bed who had been left with his housekeeper along with a letter. The letter states that Peter is the boy’s father and that he is hereby entrusted with the child’s upbringing.
Hurra, ich bin Papa
1939
6.2On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Sister Angelika bids her boss, Professor Reimers, farewell, for she has quit her post. Reimers doesn’t understand the reason for this and since she won’t say a word as to why she’s quit, he asks her to spend the evening with him and his son Konrad. Konrad, however, wanted to take advantage of the holiday to bring his divorced parents back together and sends Angelika packing as soon as she reaches the house. Disappointed and sad, she drives to the airport to meet Captain van Santen, who also invited her to spend the holiday.
Irrtum des Herzens
1939
5.8During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price.
Alarm at Station III
1939
7.0The student Hans Kessler is suspected of having murdered the banker Hergotin, who has been found dead in his hotel in Zurich. When a search is launched for an unknown woman, who was seen in the hotel at the time of the murder, Hans suddenly confesses to the deed. The prosecution is headed by Schweda and Hans is sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Only afterwards does Regine, Hans' sister, find out about the events. She is convinced that her brother is innocent and is covering for the actual murderer.
Anschlag auf Schweda
1935
The great Franz Liszt helps a struggling, unworldly piano tutor advance to a position in Munich, and ward off a villainous foreign competitor for his lady love.
If It Were Not for Music
1935
6.8Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment. Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him. But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher. The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.
Black Roses
1935
Series credits
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
6.0Derrick 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
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
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
6.9Graf 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
6.9Graf 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
1978
8.0Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger is a German television series.
Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
1965
7.5Hafenpolizei is a German television series.
Hafenpolizei
1963
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Der Anwalt
1976
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Pater Brown
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Mordkommission
1973
Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox is a series of crime novels and audio dramas written by the German couple Rolf and Alexandra Becker, later also adapted to a television series and a movie. The series chronicle the adventures of Paul Cox, a professional gambler in London, with a tendency to get involved in intricate murder mysteries, where he often ends up as the main suspect and has to evade police and solve the crime to clear his name. He's aided in all his adventures by his friend Thomas Richardson, a private detective.
Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Die Perle – Aus dem Tagebuch einer Hausgehilfin
1969
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Interpol
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Frühbesprechung
1973

