
Acting
Alexander May
Born — Died
1927-07-08 — 2008-05-02
Place of birth
Görlitz, Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
100 titles
Known for
No synopsis available yet.
Volle Kanne
1999
6.2Tatort 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
6.2Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.6A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
5.7Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
A Case For Two
1981
6.0Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
Großstadtrevier
1986
Film credits
2000s · 5 titles
9.0Mozart, a cute little dog, has inherited a fortune. You'd think a heavenly dog's life was certain. But trouble threatens the little treasure, because the wicked Titus, disinherited by his deceased mother, has hatched a diabolical plan to get his hands on his mother's inheritance after all. Fortunately, Mozart has good friends in the four children Alexander, Robby, Hedwig and Lilly, who do everything they can to protect their four-legged friend from Titus' malice.
4 Freunde und 4 Pfoten
2003
No synopsis available yet.
Die Rückkehr des Vaters
2004
No synopsis available yet.
Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell
2002
No synopsis available yet.
Trau' niemals deinem Schwiegersohn
2006
7.0Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney from Hamburg travels back to her home village to make up with her dying mother. She learns that her daughter Christina lives with Alex, a past love of Anke's and Christina's real father. Old wounds break up again and long forgotten feelings of hate as well as love flare up again. Anke leaves her fiancé to face up to her past. She decides in favour of her child and of a life with Alex.
Liebesschuld
2001
1990s · 14 titles
At the funeral of her murdered friend, a young woman meets a charming man. They quickly become a couple, but then the man comes under suspicion of murder and rape. Charges cannot be brought due to lack of evidence, but the woman, growing suspicious, turns away from him and begins investigating her lover’s past—an endeavor that puts her in grave danger.
Eiskalte Liebe
1997
7.6Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it’s time for him to retire early. Heinrich suddenly finds himself with nothing to do—except micromanage his household, much to the dismay of his wife Renate and their son Dieter
Pappa ante Portas
1991
1984 in the GDR. Jürgen and Vera Färber spend their vacation with their children Martha and Mischa in the eastern Harz Mountains. Shortly before returning home, they all play hide-and-seek together in the great outdoors. Mischa disappears without a trace! The police search is fruitless. A few days later, the authorities close the investigation and demand that the Färbers declare their son dead. But Vera and Jürgen refuse to give up.
Ich klage an
1994
7.0Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline Ebner). But Nazi propaganda has gripped the small community and poisoned it forever. Now, Levi and Lisbeth are targets of hate in this provocative and shocking drama.
Jew-boy Levi
1999
5.0The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.
Willi und die Windzors
1996
No synopsis available yet.
Schwarzes Blut
1999
6.2Willi Kritz earns his living as a night watchman and corpse washer at the East German Pathological Institute at the Berlin Clinic. In the process, he found another source of income: he steals pathological exhibits and smuggles them to West Berlin disguised as a Berlin bear. His customer is Frundsberg, and the delivery always takes place in his Yankee sleigh.
Bei mir liegen Sie richtig
1990
3.8In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
A Minute of Silence
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Verliebte Feinde
1995
8.0East Berlin, 1973. Eighteen-year-old Hans Bronstein and his girlfriend arrive at his parents’ summer house to find a former Nazi camp Kapo chained there—employed when Hans’s father Arno and his friends were prisoners. Hans demands legal justice; Arno insists on his own retribution. Sister Elle, traumatized into institutionalization, cannot mediate. When Arno forces a confession, Hans frees the prisoner, confronting their irreconcilable pasts.
Bronstein's Children
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Sommerliebe
1993
No synopsis available yet.
Dizzy, lieber Dizzy
1997
No synopsis available yet.
Sommergewitter
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Ein anderer Liebhaber
1990
1980s · 10 titles
9.0This bizarre comedy demonstrates - as a convincing example - how TV-commercials may be produced, sacrificing extensive amounts of money, bottomless creativity and even human life without any respect right to the finish.
Der Spot oder Fast eine Karriere
1981
6.5Fictional story of a traffic accident that triggers a catastrophe near a small village in 1990. A liquefied gas truck collides with a transport truck carrying radioactive material for reprocessing. An accident that was never thought possible by human standards. The radioactivity released must be contained at all costs. Not only the catastrophic consequences of the radiation, but also the panicked, irrational and inhumane behavior of those trapped in the village and the German army are portrayed in an almost unbearable way in this film.
In the Sign of the Cross
1983
9.0Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded car to Sardinia.
Sting in the Flesh
1981
A young hitchhiker is picked up by an ageing gangster on his journey south and slowly becomes familiar with his mysterious past. But their journey together ends in death.
Ein Treffen mit Rimbaud
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Manfred Krug: Krumme Touren
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Wer einsam ist, der hat es gut weil keiner da, der Ihm was tut
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Der Schatz des Priamos
1981
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Ami Go Home oder Der Fragebogen
1985
No synopsis available yet.
Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl
1983
No synopsis available yet.
Alberta und Alice oder Die Unterwerfung
1981
1970s · 21 titles
9.0On his wanderings, Tom meets young Lizzi and accompanies her to the vacation resort "Im Sonnengrund". The residents there are threatened by a huge garbage dump that will bury them all.
Die Halde
1975
6.1A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
Dream City
1973
5.5A group of vampires terrorizes a small village on the German North Sea Coast. The young Jonathan joins a group of fellow students and locals, who plan an uprising against the vampires.
Jonathan
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Auguste Bolte
1974
9.0The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the day of his divorce, he meets a new woman in a rear-end collision, who has also just been divorced and with whom he plunges headlong into a new relationship.
Der Durchdreher
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Im Paß steht Peter Weck
1975
The Torbergs' life follows an orderly course, defined by bourgeois convention. Per-Olof, the son, opposes his father's authoritarianism, and their daughter Monika, the sculptor, has moved out of the family home. However, this has not prompted Mr. Torberg to question the familiar order. One day, Billy, a young outsider, visits the couple. He doesn't say much. His presence alone causes the Torbergs to suddenly talk to each other honestly.
Betreten verboten
1972
7.0When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.
The Pedestrian
1973
Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of 17th-century Sweden.
Grete Minde
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Seniorenschweiz
1976
6.1Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
The Clown
1976
No synopsis available yet.
Kleine Geschichten mit großen Tieren
1978
A baby is delivered to the Hamilton family, triggering a turbulent search for those responsible among six potential fathers.
Baby Hamilton oder Das kommt in den besten Familien vor
1975
No synopsis available yet.
Die Geschichte einer dicken Frau
1973
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Das chinesische Wunder
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Das Paradies auf der anderen Seite
1972
No synopsis available yet.
… von Herzen mit Schmerzen
1978
No synopsis available yet.
Karussells werden im Himmel gemacht
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Ein deutsches Attentat
1975
No synopsis available yet.
Verschwörung in Ulm – Der Reichswehrprozeß 1930
1971
No synopsis available yet.
August der Starke - Ein ganzes Volk nennt ihn Papa
1970
1960s · 10 titles
No synopsis available yet.
La felicità...
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Sie werden sterben, Sire
1964
Beate Dehn and Klaus Hartmann are two ambitious young architects locked in a fierce professional rivalry. When both enter the same high-stakes design competition, their battle of wits turns personal—and seductive. Charming and manipulative, Klaus has a reputation for winning clients with charm, whiskey, and a well-placed sofa, but Beate proves to be a match for his every move.
Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa
1963
9.0A retirement home. An elderly gentleman is conversing with a paralyzed countess. When she asks him why he was awarded the title of advisor and an order, Ziegler modestly replies, "For services to the fatherland and the people." The scene changes, and we see Ziegler no longer in the retirement home, but behind bars. After serving his sentence for defrauding gullible women seeking to get married, the marriage swindler Ziegler accidentally finds himself at the award ceremony. Realizing how attractive the order is to wealthy individuals who have not yet taken their place among the elite, Ziegler decides to end his dangerous and not-so-lucrative "business." He searches his address book for the names of wealthy fellow citizens and, using forged forms, informs them that they will soon be awarded an order and that they must pay 750 marks to cover the costs of the ceremony...
Orden für die Wunderkinder
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Das Haus mit den sieben Stockwerken
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Die Reise um die Erde
1964
6.8A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young boy.
Tattoo
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Versetzung
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Herr Wolff hat seine Krise
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Zaubereien oder Die Tücke des Objekts
1962
Series credits
No synopsis available yet.
Volle Kanne
1999
6.2Tatort 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
6.2Tatort 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
6.2Tatort 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
6.2Tatort 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
6.2Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.2Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.6A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
5.7Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
A Case For Two
1981
6.0Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
Großstadtrevier
1986
2.5Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
1995
No synopsis available yet.
Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994
6.2No synopsis available yet.
The Country Doctor
1987
No synopsis available yet.
German Film Award
1951
6.6The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.
Die Schwarzwaldklinik
1985
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Freunde fürs Leben
1992
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
9.5No synopsis available yet.
Weißblaue Geschichten
1984
9.5No synopsis available yet.
Weißblaue Geschichten
1984
7.3Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.
Donna Leon
2000
8.3Ein Bayer auf Rügen is a German comedy/crime television series, broadcast in 81 episodes between 1993 and 1997.
Ein Bayer auf Rügen
1993
6.8Peter Strohm is a private detective with radical methods. His work begins where police work ends; he takes on sensitive cases that require a certain scale, or explosive situations that can lead to international crises.
Peter Strohm
1989
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Heimatgeschichten
1992
4.8Rosa Roth is a German television series.
Rosa Roth
1994
NRTierarzt Dr. Engel is a German television series.
Tierarzt Dr. Engel
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
1978
5.4Hotel Paradies is a German television series.
Hotel Paradies
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Justitias kleine Fische
1988
8.0No synopsis available yet.
A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft
1995
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Hessische Geschichten
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Sonderdezernat K1
1972
8.0Aus heiterem Himmel is a German comedy television series, broadcast between 1995 and 1999. The series was created by Hannah Hollinger and is about a comic author Tobias and his boat-building friend Christopher who inhabit an old villa and lead a life of promiscuity.
Aus heiterem Himmel
1995
No synopsis available yet.
Mit Leib und Seele
1989
No synopsis available yet.
Glückliche Reise
1992
No synopsis available yet.
Hecht & Haie
1993
2.0Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari is a German television series.
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
1998
8.0Die Straßen von Berlin is a German television series.
Die Straßen von Berlin
1995
8.0The story of the Behringer family and their typical everyday problems.
Die glückliche Familie
1987
8.0The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). The movie tells a story in many different levels about love, friendship, misfortune, loss, art, politics, history with important historic events of the decennium in the background.
Heimat 2: A Chronicle of a Generation
1993
