Ruth Leuwerik

Acting

Ruth Leuwerik

Born 1924-04-23 · Essen, Germany

Acting credits

Goodnight Mommy poster
6.7

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

Goodnight Mommy

2015

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7.5

A young man practices medicine without a licence.

Die große Versuchung

1952

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6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die goldene Brücke

1956

Königin Luise poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Königin Luise

1957

Auf Engel schießt man nicht poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Auf Engel schießt man nicht

1960

The Dream of Lieschen Müller poster
8.3

Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more exciting life. In a vivid, lucid dream she happens upon a gigantic fortune, allowing her to live out her wildest fantasies. Quickly, however, she realizes that that's not what makes her happy.

The Dream of Lieschen Müller

1961

Geliebtes Leben poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Geliebtes Leben

1953

The Trapp Family poster
6.8

A true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1956, some years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music".

The Trapp Family

1956

Sweetheart of the Gods poster
7.5

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.

Sweetheart of the Gods

1960

Goodbye, Francesca! poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Goodbye, Francesca!

1957

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7.0

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

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9.0

A girl from a wealthy industrial family falls in love with a car mechanic. He is not interested in her, so she follows him and his friends on a group tour and goes to great lengths to finally win his affections.

Dreizehn unter einem Hut

1950

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7.5

Everything seems perfect in the lives of Andreas and Garda. They have a happy marriage and up-and-coming talent Andreas is constantly striving to reach the top of his sport. But their happiness is suddenly clouded when the racing driver suffers a serious accident at the Nürburgring. He is sent to Switzerland to recover. There, however, a second shadow looms over the couple's idyll, this time in the form of the beautiful, rich Argentinian widow Joan de Portago. When Garda finds out about her husband's flirtations, she becomes jealous and begins to fake an affair of her own in return. When Joan's old admirer Dr. Albys joins the triangle, the web of love becomes increasingly tangled.

Muss man sich gleich scheiden lassen?

1953

Ludwig II poster
7.1

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Ludwig II

1955

The House in Montevideo poster
6.7

A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way.

The House in Montevideo

1963

Dorothea Angermann poster
6.5

Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby.

Dorothea Angermann

1959

Redhead poster
5.9

Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.

Redhead

1962

Father Needs a Wife poster
6.8

A widowed father advertises for a new maid, but his children secretly seek a woman to be his new wife.

Father Needs a Wife

1952

Königliche Hoheit poster
8.0

An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.

Königliche Hoheit

1953

An Alibi for Death poster
7.5

Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the case, the more she notices inconsistencies. Her husband Günther is also behaving more and more strangely. It seems that he was also involved in the accident...

An Alibi for Death

1963

And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot poster
4.3

The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much futher, to a court hearing during the Third Reich...

And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot

1971

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Meine beste Freundin

1976

Rosen im Herbst poster
6.3

Prussia in the late 19th century: Eighteen-year-old Effi Briest, the daughter of a middle-class family, marries District Administrator Geert von Innstetten. But her marriage to this much older, highly dutiful man does not make her happy. In the small town where Innstetten serves, Effi is socially isolated. Then she meets the charming Major von Crampas...

Rosen im Herbst

1955

The Trapp Family in America poster
6.4

The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they start performing more upbeat Austrian folk songs and even some American numbers do they become a success and finally find security and a new home.

The Trapp Family in America

1958