Siegfried Wischnewski

Acting

Siegfried Wischnewski

Born — Died

1922-04-15 — 1989-01-24

Place of birth

Saborowen, Kreis Lyck, Ostpreußen

Known for

Acting

Credits

90 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

Non Stop Trouble with Spies poster
6.7

The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert brings the "passenger" to East Berlin. There Boeckmann falls into the clutches of the KGB, who considers him a top agent of the CIA. As Herbert eventually returns to the western part of the city, the CIA waiting for him to be the taxi driver again suspected of being a top agent of the KGB. To prove his innocence, Herbert must find the real killer of Stravinsky. Herbert is given mysterious vials to which he sniffs in extreme situations, helping them not only to amazing powers and unsuspected abilities. As Super Agent "Herbie Melbourne" mixed Herbert on the agent scene. But between the lines he gets in the line of professional killer.

Non Stop Trouble with Spies

1983

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10.0

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Der Thronfolger

1980

Das Gesicht auf der Wand poster
NR

It is an eerie, cold evening, with the wind whistling through the trees. In a remote pub, a few people have gathered around a single candle and are telling each other scary stories. A man from the next table joins them and tells them about a mysterious apparition. An eerie face regularly appears on the wall of his room, giving him the creeps. The stranger recounts in detail how this gruesome occurrence is bringing him to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Whose face is it? Is it that of a dead person?

Das Gesicht auf der Wand

1983

The Return of the Time Machine poster
6.3

The Time Machine is purchased from an antiques store by a physician from Berlin. Much of the script plays out in one room in the Berlin villa of Dr. Erasmus Beilowski. He and his well-educated friends have an intelligent discussion about the world and the future, with a view to the Time Machine. What to use it for?

The Return of the Time Machine

1984

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NR

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Funkeln im Auge

1984

1970s · 24 titles

Es begann bei Tiffany poster
4.8

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Es begann bei Tiffany

1979

Die Quelle poster
8.5

A sailing boat takes package tourists in a party mood to various Spanish islands. One of them is desert-like, barren and barely habitable. Away from a small village stands an abandoned, dilapidated villa. It arouses the curiosity of Wolf, a young man in his mid-thirties. He spontaneously has the idea of buying it as a vacation home. So, gripped by a thirst for adventure, he stays behind on the island alone to make detailed inquiries. However, he has no idea that the few inhabitants of the island have mistaken him for the heir to the villa. But before he can clear up the misunderstanding and uncover the secret of the only freshwater well hidden in this house, a nightmare begins: he becomes embroiled in a fight to the death...

Die Quelle

1979

The Devil's Bed poster
7.0

A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsychological occurences released by an elderly man, who also seems to dominate Walpurga, a young woman the engineer falls in love with.

The Devil's Bed

1978

Das Schwert der Nibelungen poster
10.0

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Das Schwert der Nibelungen

1976

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NR

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Miks Bumbullis

1971

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NR

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Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen!

1970

Zwei himmlische Dickschädel poster
6.2

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Zwei himmlische Dickschädel

1974

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7.0

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Das Doppelleben des Wilfried E.

1978

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NR

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Rosenmontag ist kein Feiertag

1978

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8.0

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Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee

1976

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NR

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Die Erzählungen Bjelkins

1976

Strongman Ferdinand poster
6.0

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe: satire of the rise of private security.

Strongman Ferdinand

1976

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NR

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Seine Majestät Gustav Krause

1971

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7.0

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Nathan, der Weise

1979

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NR

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Timon von Athen

1976

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8.0

The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.

Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht

1977

Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuß poster
NR

Anselm Kiwitt, a television reporter, accompanied by two of his colleagues, Jochen and Harry, go to the small island of Mellog in order to film the behavior of the seagulls during the breeding season. They are joined by an elderly biologist, Dr. Schlinz, who is interested in the island's fauna. During their first report, they discover how aggressive seagulls can be during the nesting season, when they feel threatened. But a much more dramatic event happens: they discover the body of a man.

Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuß

1976

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10.0

The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire family estate is for sale. This not only attracts the attention of her money-hungry relatives, but also a whole host of potential buyers, from porn factory owners to a retirement home company.

Immobilien

1973

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9.0

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Der tödliche Schlag

1975

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NR

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Wunnigel

1978

Schmetterlinge weinen nicht poster
4.3

Cilly is too young for compromises. The man she loves is much older than her. Although he too is overwhelmed by his passion, he hesitates to burn all his bridges. When he is finally ready to end his marriage for this relationship, the conflicts between the lovers become increasingly intense...

Schmetterlinge weinen nicht

1970

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NR

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Das höfliche Alptraumkrokodil

1977

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8.0

Drama about the shipwreck of the frigate "Méduse" off the coast of Senegal. In France, the commander responsible, Chaumarey, is finally put on trial.

Prozeß Medusa

1976

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NR

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Maestro der Revolution?

1971

1960s · 29 titles

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2 poster
6.5

Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen, more bloody revenge is inevitable. Hagen steals the Nibelungen-treasure to sink it in the stream and manages to kill Alberich and seize his invisibility-cap. Queen Kriemhild is packed of to an abbey so her son may grow up to become a prelate, but Hagen's men raid them and kill the child. She now accepts to become the wife of Etzel, king of the truly barbaric Hun nomads and invites the Burgund court nomenclature at their Danube court for their heir's baptism a few years later, but prepared a bloody conspiracy with her xenophobic brother-in-law behind her surprisingly chivalric husband's back, while Gunther accepts, hoping to avoid a far bloodier war, despite the danger for his party of knights, which materializes...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2

1967

The Threepenny Opera poster
5.8

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

The Threepenny Opera

1963

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy poster
6.4

Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunther marry Brunhild will he be allowed to marry Kriemhild. He fulfills this condition, but the two women bring ruin upon Xanten and Burgundy...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

1966

Er kann's nicht lassen poster
6.9

Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That's why the clergyman is transferred to a sleepy island called Abbott's Rock. At first, nothing happens there, but somehow Father Brown seems to be attracted to crime: Soon a gang of thieves is up to no good on the island. So Brown makes the headlines again, and is punitively transferred once more. This time he finds himself in a quiet Irish millionaire community.

Er kann's nicht lassen

1962

The Last Witness poster
6.4

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.

The Last Witness

1960

The Squeaker poster
6.5

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

The Squeaker

1963

The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield poster
10.0

Inspector Blomfield catches a thief who has a fatal accident while trying to escape in his car. A short time later, his drug-addicted brother Johnny enters the police station while Blomfield is investigating a murder and threatens to blow himself and everyone else up with a bottle of nitroglycerine.

The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield

1968

Rotmord poster
9.0

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Rotmord

1969

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7.0

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Das Land der Verheißung

1960

Dead Run poster
5.1

A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.

Dead Run

1967

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7.0

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Die Nashörner

1961

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9.0

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Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder

1962

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8.0

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In der Sache I. Robert Oppenheimer

1964

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7.0

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Der Sommer der 17. Puppe

1968

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7.0

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Das Leben in meiner Hand

1966

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NR

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Sir Basil Zaharoff - Makler des Todes

1969

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10.0

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Der Prozeß Carl von O.

1964

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7.0

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Mauern

1963

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8.0

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Keiner ist wie der andere

1960

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NR

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Romeo und Julia

1964

Der arme Bitos... oder Das Diner der Köpfe poster
7.0

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Der arme Bitos... oder Das Diner der Köpfe

1963

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NR

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Der Teufel und der liebe Gott

1967

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NR

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Burschenherrlichkeit

1962

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7.0

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Das Attentat - Schleicher: General der letzten Stunde

1967

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NR

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Kapitän Brassbounds Bekehrung

1967

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9.0

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Vom Teufel geholt

1969

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7.0

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Nathan der Weise

1967

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NR

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Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

1964

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10.0

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Die Katze

1968

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ein Heim für Tiere poster
9.0

Ein Heim für Tiere is a German television series.

Ein Heim für Tiere

1985

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8.0

V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and Folge 37 - Final Show last aired on Fri May 09, 1980.

V.I.P. Schaukel

1971

Die fünfte Kolonne poster
8.0

Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.

Die fünfte Kolonne

1963

Die fünfte Kolonne poster
8.0

Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.

Die fünfte Kolonne

1963

Klimbim poster
6.1

A German sketch comedy show that prioritises provocative absurdity above all else.

Klimbim

1973

Gewagtes Spiel poster
NR

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Gewagtes Spiel

1964

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

Molière pour rire et pour pleurer poster
9.5

Molière pour rire et pour pleurer recounts the life of Jean‑Baptiste Poquelin, from his childhood in an artisan family to his rise as Molière, a central figure of French theatre. The series shows his difficult decision to abandon the family trade and join Madeleine Béjart to found L’Illustre Théâtre, marked by debts and repeated setbacks. While touring the provinces, he shapes his style and discovers the power of comedy. Back in Paris, he makes a name for himself with Les Précieuses ridicules, but his sharp satires provoke fierce opposition, especially during the Tartuffe scandal. Supported by Louis XIV, he continues despite attacks, literary rivalries, and tensions within his troupe, particularly with Armande Béjart. The miniseries also follows his growing exhaustion, his determination to perform at any cost, and his final breath after Le Malade imaginaire, the ultimate symbol of an artist who lived — and died — for the stage.

Molière pour rire et pour pleurer

1973

Tim Frazer poster
7.0

Engineer Tim Frazer is hired by the mysterious Mr. Ross to search for his missing business partner Harry Denston. Denston appears to be involved in a case of espionage.

Tim Frazer

1963

Rom ist in der kleinsten Hütte poster
NR

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Rom ist in der kleinsten Hütte

1982

Interpol poster
6.0

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Interpol

1963

Privatdetektiv Frank Kross poster
7.0

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Privatdetektiv Frank Kross

1972

Tim Frazer - Der Fall Salinger poster
NR

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Tim Frazer - Der Fall Salinger

1964

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NR

Lugtal, a town nestled between hills, where the citizens feel at home in their half-timbered houses. A dominant figure: Count Brosch, brewery owner and entrepreneur. He is planning a large-scale housing project in the nearby city forest. Some politicians and many committed citizens are opposed to this, striving instead for the renovation of the old town. Against this backdrop, the story of two contrasting brothers unfolds—the conformist Fridolin and the rebellious Max Fantl.

Die Stadt im Tal

1975

Farmers, Politics and Bombs poster
10.0

The tax officials Thiel and Kalübbe try to confiscate two oxen, but are prevented from doing so by protesting farmers led by the community leader Reimers. The assistant editor Tredup, who takes photos of the incident, is also in the thick of things.

Farmers, Politics and Bombs

1973

Melissa poster
9.0

Three-part TV crime drama based on Francis Durbridge's novel.

Melissa

1966

Lady Audleys Geheimnis poster
NR

After spending six years in Australia, young Englishman George Talboy returns as a successful gold prospector. He wants to start a happy life with his beautiful wife Helen and their son Charles. So the news from his father-in-law that Helen has died comes as a crushing blow. An old friend, Robert Audley, takes George to the mansion of his uncle, Sir Michael Audley, and his wife, Lady Audley. During this visit, George disappears without a trace.

Lady Audleys Geheimnis

1978

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NR

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Rollenbilder im Wandel der Jahrhunderte

1966

Affäre Dreyfuss poster
9.0

The disaster began in the late summer of 1894, when a French staff officer appeared at the military attaché of the German embassy in Paris. He offers important military information at very high prices. A cover letter for this case ends up in the attaché's wastepaper basket. It is stolen. Investigations by the French Ministry of War incriminate Captain Dreyfus.

Affäre Dreyfuss

1968

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NR

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Inspektor Hornleigh greift ein

1961

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NR

With the defeat of the revolution of 1848, the attempt to unite the German states had also failed. An agreement in the spirit of a Greater Germany, as demanded by Emperor Franz Joseph, was out of the question for Bismarck, who had been Prussian Prime Minister since 1862. For him, unity was only conceivable under Prussian leadership and without Austria. The two great powers still fought together in the war against Denmark (1864). Two years later, the separation from Austria was completed in the German War.

Preußen über alles

1971