Klaus Löwitsch

Acting

Klaus Löwitsch

Born 1936-04-08 · Berlin, Germany

Klaus Löwitsch (8 April 1936 – 3 December 2002) was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television detective series Peter Strohm. He appeared in several films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, beginning with Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971) and notably including World on a Wire (1973) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). His English language films include Cross of Iron (1977), The Odessa File (1974), Firefox (1982) and Fassbinder's Despair (1978). He was born in Berlin. He died in Munich from pancreatic cancer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acting credits

Firefox poster
6.1

The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.

Firefox

1982

Cross of Iron poster
7.1

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

Cross of Iron

1977

The Odessa File poster
6.6

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.

The Odessa File

1974

Gotcha! poster
5.9

A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.

Gotcha!

1985

Extreme Ops poster
4.8

While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.

Extreme Ops

2002

Night Crossing poster
6.1

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

Night Crossing

1982

The Marriage of Maria Braun poster
7.4

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979

The Brutes poster
7.1

On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like the girl. Mike manages to separate Alice from her group and get into the car with Werner. It had been decided to go to a lake with the others to take a bath at night. Too late Alice realizes that Mike and Werner did not drive to the agreed lake, but to a lonely gravel pit. The friends will not come anymore. And she realizes the intentions of her companions.

The Brutes

1970

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NR

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Ein Riß im Eis

1967

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe für Liebe

1967

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9.0

Ernst Busch, singer and actor, was a political artist. For the 20th anniversary of his death on June 8, 2000, Peter Voigt embarked on an unusual search for clues. The focus of his film about the idiosyncratic artist is not biographical details, but the central conflicts in the field of tension between politics and culture that determined Busch's life.

Ich bin Ernst Busch

2000

Scherben bringen Glück poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Scherben bringen Glück

1957

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10.0

An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.

Im Dickicht der Städte

1968

Der Jäger von Fall poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Der Jäger von Fall

1957

The Brothers poster
3.0

Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.

The Brothers

1977

Rosebud poster
5.1

In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.

Rosebud

1975

Despair poster
6.5

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

Despair

1978

Breakthrough poster
5.8

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.

Breakthrough

1979

Heißes Pflaster Köln poster
5.9

Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.

Heißes Pflaster Köln

1967

The Merchant of Four Seasons poster
6.7

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However, the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.

The Merchant of Four Seasons

1972

Desideria poster
3.1

All her life, an overweight girl has been ignored by her rich and attractive mother. But when the ugly duckling becomes a swan, she turns into a world-class tease, exacting her revenge by seducing her mother's boyfriend...

Desideria

1980

The Judgement poster
6.8

The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify as the principal witness in a murder case. During a stop-over, an airport hostess talks him into giving up his seat on the connecting flight to another passenger. While Rabinovicz is waiting in the VIP lounge, he gets into a conversation with a stranger who is remarkably well informed about the murder Rabinovicz is going to testify about.

The Judgement

1997

Schloß Hubertus poster
4.5

For Count Egge, there is only one meaningful way of life: living in the magnificent natural surroundings of his mountains. Only hunting matters to him; he even neglects his own children for its sake. Inevitably, this leads to conflicts that result in tragic alienation within the family. These conflicts continue even after the youngest son, Willy, is found dead and Count Tassilo, the eldest, breaks with his father, whose stubbornness he can no longer bear.

Schloß Hubertus

1973

Kaminsky poster
3.3

Crime scene: 10th police station. A desolate place on the outskirts of Berlin. Two cops are on duty here. Dieter Stecker - young and hopeful - and Rolf Kaminsky - scrapped and bitter. Kaminsky was once a good cop, but because of a crime he was sent to this deserted precinct. Now he is obsessed with just one idea: to get back at those who hurt him. The compulsion to demonstrate his dwindling strength and vitality turns him into an animal, a devil in human form who only follows his animalistic instincts...

Kaminsky

1986