Lina Carstens
Birthday: Born in 1892-12-06 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Deathday: 1978-09-22
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Der Kommissar
Character: Mutter Malott
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....
Der Bastian
Character: Oma Guthmann
Der Bastian is a German television series written by Barbara Noack, broadcast in 13 episodes between 1972 and 1973 on ZDF....
Derrick
Character: Mrs. Manger
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....
Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi
Character: Mersina
Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi is a German television series broadcast from 1973 through 1975 in 26 parts and two seasons. It featured an adventurer probably inspired by British explorers Richard Francis Burton and T. E. Lawrence. The scripts were faithful to Karl May's Orient novels and the score is from Martin Böttcher who previously had composed the music for ten very successful Karl May films in cinema and in 1998 also for the two parts of Winnetous Rückkehr, also being aired by the German station Z...
Tom Sawyers und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer
Character: Tante Polly
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Resurrection
Character: Matrjona
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence....
She Walks by Night
Character: Frau Huber
Based on an actual post-war murder in Frankfurt, this standard docudrama by Rudolf Jugert is a serious treatment of the story as compared to the earlier, satirical film The Girl Rosemarie. The history of the case of Rosemarie, a hooker, and how she came to be strangled in her apartment is not completely clear. One of the suspects in the case was first charged, later acquitted, but never really free of an aura of culpability. British actress Belinda Lee plays the title role with her voice dubbed ...
Fireworks
Character: Tante Paula
The quiet life of an extended family is shaken up when a circus comes into town....
Aren't We Wonderful
Character: Vette
Kurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates - Hans and Bruno. They could not be more different. While Hans is ambitious and must always work hard for his career, it seems that the happy go lucky Bruno is carefree....
Holidays in Tyrol
Character: Frau Kramer
10-year-old Rosmarin von Stetten lives with his widowed father Robert in the big city. During the holidays one day in the morning Rosmarin goes to the lake near the castle and meets Thymian, the poorest boy of the village, whose mother did not come back from the war and who has to do several jobs in the village for his living. The boys enter a boat, but both fall into the lake. Thymian crawls out of the water first and is found by a servant from the castle, who thinks he is Rosmarin and bring hi...
The Death of Joe the Indian
Character: Aunt Polly
The film is a continuation of the story of Tom Sawyer and his friends, the second part of the Romanian screenplay after the famous novel by Mark Twain. The three friends Tom, Huck and Becky continue their adventures full of puzzles and suspense....
The Black Sheep
Character: Mrs. Smith
Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest playing detective....
Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
Character: Großmutter
The robber Hotzenplotz shows no mercy and steals Grandma's music-making coffee grinder. Naturally, Kasperl and Seppel have something against this and set off in pursuit. But Hotzenplotz overpowers them. Trapped in the robbers' den, one of them is even to be sold to the mysterious magician Petrosilius Zwackelmann......
Lina Braake
Character: Lina Braake
After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves ...
Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
Character: Frau Höppke - eine alte Frau
Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him....
The Broken Jug
Character: Marthe Rull
The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one....
Sky Without Stars
Character: alte Frau
Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love....
Fanfaren der Ehe
Character: Mrs. Yell
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Gustav Adolfs Page
Character: Therese
Gustl Leubelfing, daughter of the mayor of Nuremberg adores the king of the Swedes. So she happily substitutes her brother as Gustav Adolf's page instead of marrying her fiancée Roland. Of course she has to hide that she's a woman, especially when they go into war against Wallenstein....
Der arme Mann Luther
Character: Luthers Mutter
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Berlinger
Character:
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Dr. Holl
Character: Frau von Bergmann
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Drei Männer im Schnee
Character: Frau Tobler
This film adaptation of Erich Kästner's book is about a millionaire who wants to travel to a hotel under a false name and test how "normal people" are treated. The hotel staff receive a warning, but mistake another man for the fake millionaire and treat him like God in France, while he doesn't feel the slightest bit of even luxurious treatment...
April, April!
Character: Mathilde Lampe
Douglas Sirk's first feature film....
The Angel and the Lyre
Character: Maria Theresia, seine Schwester
Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get into their first serious argument on how they should spend New Year's Eve. Vera wants to celebrate with friends, while Achim wants to go off to a lonely mountain hut. And so, he goes off alone into the mountains. In the hut, he meets the student Susanne, with whom he spends New Years' Eve; gets to know well; and falls in love with. Unfortunately, through misfortune, they lose sight of each other afte...
Er kanns nicht lassen
Character: Mrs. Smith
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 co...
Homeland
Character: Fränze von Klebs
In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer....
Heute heiratet mein Mann
Character: Tante Erna
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Hochzeit auf Bärenhof
Character: Fränze von Hanckel
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My Name is Niki
Character: Frau Altmann
Winnie is desperate and doesn't know what to do next. She is about to marry her lover Paul, who has returned from war captivity. Both want to emigrate to America short after marriage. But the young woman has an illegitimate one-and-a-half-year-old son, whom she has kept secret from her fiancé. The short-tempered Paul would never understand that. When she is on her way to the orphanage, the grumpy senior civil servant Hieronymus Spitz and his little dog Tobby get into her train compartment. After...
Der Schimmelreiter
Character: Trin Jans
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The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch
Character: Oberschwester der Chirurgie
Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a desperation she shared with many in the post-war period. Fortunately, Privy Councillor Sauerbruch is at the scene of the incident, ordering her to be admitted to his clinic after a brief examination. Sauerbruch works both as a university lecturer and as a surgeon, a famous doctor who not only helps his patients physically but also gives them spiritua...
Die verschwundene Miniatur
Character: Frau Külz
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Ein Windstoß
Character: Frau Galassi
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The Last Illusion
Character: Emma
Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching post, but the rejection and petty intrigues of his reactionary colleagues and students make his work almost unbearable....
Doctor Without Scruples
Character: Frau Kleinhans
A renowned physician falls under scrutiny when it's discovered his assistant is a former Nazi....
Der grüne Salon
Character: Klara, 'das Pferd', Haushälterin bei Anna Bütow
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Character: Mutter Christmann
A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh....
Arlette Conquers Paris
Character: Concierge Frau Pézat
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Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte
Character: Mrs. Feuerhake
A comedy directed by Kurt Hoffmann....
Illusion in Moll
Character: Bertha
After the death of her husband (Albrecht Schoenhals) wealthy but lonely hotel owner Maria Alsbacher (Sybille Schmitz) falls in love with a charming bandleader and singer (Maurice Teynac) without realizing that he is only behind her money. When she decides to marry him, her son (Hardy Krüger) enlists the help of his tragically ill fiancee Lydia (Hildegard Knef) to unmask this man for the villain he really is....
Kleines Zelt und große Liebe
Character: Fraeulein Saint-Cyr
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Wie konntest Du, Veronika!
Character: Fräulein Schwertfeger
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Tod auf der Themse
Character: Elisabeth Tufts
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Bal paré
Character: Gemischtwarenhändlerin Lina Brunnhuber
At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son....
Kriminalkommissar Eyck
Character: Mrs. Filter
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Geliebtes Fräulein Doktor
Character: Oberin des Klosters
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The Curtain Falls
Character: Frau Florian
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Ich war ihm hörig
Character: Frau Mertens
Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows how to cuddle up to her. But in reality the man is an unscrupulous fraudster who is after Anette's money....
Heinrich
Character: Dienerin Riebisch
The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist....
Die Ilse ist weg
Character: Oma Janda
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It Happened on July 20th
Character: Frau des Küsters
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed....
The Spessart Inn
Character: Köchin
Countess Franziska "is kidnapped" by a band of robbers. However, her father is not willing to pay the ransom so Franziska changes sides....
Zum goldenen Ochsen
Character: Frau Mäglin
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Leidenschaft
Character:
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Für die Katz'
Character: Katrin Geerken
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Der dunkle Punkt
Character: Frau des Hauswirts
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Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg
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Bluebeard
Character: Amme
Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when...
Eurydike oder Das Mädchen von Nirgendwo
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