Gisela May
Birthday: Born in 1924-05-31 in Wetzlar, Germany
Deathday: 2016-12-02
TV Credits
Adelheid und ihre Mörder
Character: Rosa Müller-Graf-Kleditsch
Adelheid und ihre Mörder was a German comedy-drama television series broadcast between 1992 and 2006 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 65, 50 minute episodes in five series were produced. Directors included Ulrich Stark, Arend Agthe, Claus-Michael Rhone, Stephan Meyer and Stefan Bart Mann....
Schauspielereien
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The film is set in the 1930s in Germany. Maria Rheine and Mark Löwenthal, two young actors working in a small theater, are in love with each other. Their love affair is interrupted by Nazi racial policies; Mark is no longer allowed to perform in German theaters because he is a Jew. In order to continue acting, he joins the newly formed Jewish Theater in Berlin. Maria, who is not Jewish, faces no restrictions on her career, and she becomes a successful actress at a big theater in Munich. But her ...
Ein Kessel Buntes
Character: Self
The show was meant to compete with those on West German television. To this end it was fairly successful even attracting a following in parts of West Germany which could receive Eastern TV. Its production values were high. Apart from song and dance numbers and appearances from East German celebrities, almost every broadcast featured well-known stars from the west, often after their popularity had peaked in their home countries....
Drei reizende Schwestern
Character: Vera Unentwegt
Drei reizende Schwestern is a German television series....
Boulevard Bio
Character: Self
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Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
Character: Self
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NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Zur Person
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Brüder und Schwestern
Character: Narrator (voice)
A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against our brothers and sisters in the Zone." Director Walter Heynowski digs into this ubiquitous West German expression, using footage from West German newsreels and TV programs, and compares the life of "brothers and sisters" in East and West Germany. In this propagandistic documentary, the director juxtaposes images of class hierarchy and conflict in the ...
Fleur Lafontaine
Character: Käthe Lafontaine
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Schritt für Schritt
Character: Frau Hellwig
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Life Begins
Character: Chefärztin
A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in Brandenburg, to West Berlin, taking his daughter with him. Her uncle's luxurious house, the turbulence of life in the big city, and her cousin's progressive thinking and quick wit all turn her head at first. But behind all this glitter and tinsel lurks the cold, hard world of money and Erika begins to feel homesick for the town where she grew up and for Rolf, her f...
Die Schönste
Character: Martha Wille
13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman. They get to know each because Hannes sometimes is allowed to polish Berndorf′s Mercedes 300. They make a bet whose mother is the most beautiful. Hannes assumes that Mrs. Berndorf is only admired for her expensive jewellery. Thus, he suggests that Thomas should steal a collier from his mother. Out of solidarity, he also robs a golden brooch from his m...
Die Verführbaren
Character: Adele Fuchs
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Sommerliebe
Character: Lotte
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Treffpunkt Aimée
Character: Erika
DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin....
An Old Love
Character: Frieda Walkowiak
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Die Hallo-Sisters
Character: Maika
A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television......
Hotelboy Ed Martin
Character: Johnny
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Tilman Riemenschneider
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Carl von Ossietzky
Character: Edith Jacobsohn
The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938)....
Das letzte Wort
Character: Anna Rosier
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Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt
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Film by Frank Vogel....
Just a Movie
Character: Péter anyja
Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. Péter leaves for home with his wife, Judit, but as he catches sight of a girl at the station, he cannot resist the temptation and gets off the train....
Seed Corn Should Not Be Ground – A Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz
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Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works, including The Weavers' Revolt (1893-97), The Peasant War (1902-08), Woman with the Dead Child (1903) and War (1922-23), her famous series of seven woodcuts....