Christine Kaufmann
Birthday: Born in 1945-01-11 in Lengdorf, Styria, Austria
Deathday: 2017-03-28
Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured. Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared in Escape from East Berlin. In 1963 Kaufmann married Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Bulba (1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (born July 19, 1964) and Allegra (born July 11, 1966). They divorced in 1968. Kaufmann resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage. Kaufmann is also a successful businesswoman, promoting her own cosmetics products line that sells well in Germany. She has written several books about beauty and health, as well as two autobiographies. She speaks three languages: German, English, and French. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Kaufmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Character: Hermine Danglars
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Die Geschichte eines Abends
Character: Self
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Monaco Franze
Character: Olga Behrens
A Munich detective falls into various misadventures as he pursues criminals and tries to evade women across the city....
Der Kommissar
Character: Eva Raßner
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 ganz normale Wahnsinn
Character: Violetta
Der ganz normale Wahnsinn is a German television series....
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde
Character: Tante Hortensie
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde is a television movie series that has been produced since 2006. It features characters that are exclusively portrayed by German and Austrian comedians and actors. The series is shot in Prague. The screenplays have - amongst others - been written by Tommy Krappweis, Erik Haffner and Norman Cöster who came up with the stories of Bernd das Brot. Additionally, they are directing and have cameo appearances. Many actors use their respective dialect. Die ProSieben Märchens...
Wenn das die Nachbarn wüßten
Character: Kaufhausdirektorin
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Joséphine, ou la comédie des ambitions
Character: Mme Hosten-Lamothe
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Derrick
Character: Marion Kless
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....
Missione d'amore
Character: Valery
After the death of her boyfriend, Stella travels to India and decides to become a nun and help the poor....
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall
Character: Frau Jensen
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995....
Einsatz Hamburg Süd
Character: Frau Duenser
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Tiere bis unters Dach
Character: Frau von Werther
With a woof-woof here and a baaa-baaa there and a quack-quack, oink-oink everywhere, there's always some furry or feathered creature demanding attention from the Hansens. It's partly because Dr. Philipp Hansen is a veterinarian who's just opened a practice in the big old villa he's moved into with his family. But it's mostly because of ten-year-old daughter Greta, who never saw an animal she didn't want to adopt....
Stars in der Manege
Character: Self
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Balko
Character: Frederike Kogel
Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards....
Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?....
SOKO München
Character: Margit Finneisen
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
Character: Frau von Drossel
Für 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 Golden...
Heiter bis tödlich - Fuchs und Gans
Character: Diana Bootz
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Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
Character: Self
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Lockruf des Goldes
Character: Labiskwee
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Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
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Wie ein Blitz
Character: Diana Valesco
It all begins when the wealthy real estate shark Gordon Stuart (Albert Lieven) is murdered in a lonely villa by his wife Diana (Ingmar Zeisberg) and his closest collaborator Mark Paxton (Peter Eschberg). When Mark wants to get rid of the corpse, it suddenly disappears. A nerve-wracking game of "cat and mouse" turns the perpetrators into victims. Inspector Clay (Horst Bollmann) investigates and soon stumbles across more corpses...
Nachtcafé
Character: Self
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Harald und Eddi
Character:
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Willkommen Österreich
Character: Self
Austrian Talk Show with Gags Gags Gags and two fantastic guests....
Riverboat
Character: Self
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Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
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alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Character: Self
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Markus Lanz
Character: Self
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics....
Kölner Treff
Character: Self
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DAS!
Character: Self
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NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Beckmann
Character: Self
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show....
Welt am Draht
Character: Party Guest
Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project....
Abendschau
Character: self
The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin....
Dancing Stars
Character: Self
Dancing Stars is the Austrian version of Dancing with the Stars and is shown on "ORF eins" in Austria....
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Lili Marleen
Character: Miriam
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”....
Lola
Character: Susi
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute...
Bagdad Cafe
Character: Debby
A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis....
Girls in Uniform
Character: Mia
In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg....
Day of the Idiots
Character: Ruth
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital....
Die singenden Engel von Tirol
Character: Evi Kramer
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Die Winzerin von Langenlois
Character: Christel
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Witwer mit fünf Töchtern
Character: Ulla Scherzer
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The Swordsman of Siena
Character: Serenella Arconti
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side....
Winter Holidays
Character: Florence
Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel....
Taras Bulba
Character: Natalia Dubrov
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman....
The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Elena / Ione
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt....
A Man Named Rocca
Character: Geneviève Adé
Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band......
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Madeleine Charron
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after....
Hard to Be a God
Character: Okana
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. ...
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
Character: Edith Harms-Schiele
In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman and goes to the war....
Der letzte Fußgänger
Character: Christine Cornelius
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Town Without Pity
Character: Karin Steinhof
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant....
Constantine and the Cross
Character: Livia
Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor....
The Excluded
Character: Ms. Pachthofen
Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents who "needs a little dirt in her life". The story provides penetrating insights into the Austria of the 50s, in which some enjoyed the benefits of the "Economic Miracle", while others were shut out. It repeatedly references Austria's Nazi past and the nu...
Fireflower: The Two Lives of Marisa Mell
Character: Self (archive footage)
Who was Marisa Mell? The personae Marisa Mell and Marlies Theres Moitzi, the famous Graz actress’ real name, are juxtaposed in the documentary Feuerblume several companions, such as Christine Kaufmann, and her friend Erika Pluhar, remember the actress. The film is also an attempt to illuminate and question the role of women in the film business of the 1960s and 1980s from a contemporary gaze and feminist perspective, and against the backdrop of the MeToo movement....
The Death of Maria Malibran
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A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer....
Goldflocken
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Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films....
Willow Springs
Character: Christine
Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat....
Alle lieben Peter
Character: Kitty Steiner
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Liebesticket nach Hause
Character: Marianne Forster
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The White Horse Inn
Character: Child
Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would rather see his daughter married to Sigismund....
Fahr zur Hölle
Character: Lilith
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Escape from East Berlin
Character: Erika Jürgens
East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom....
Rosen-Resli
Character: Resli
The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother, from whom she had to leave when she fell ill with a heart condition. With the help of old Jacob, the girl manages to grow a particularly beautiful rose. After some complications, this proves to be a stroke of luck, and not just for her....
Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n
Character: Christine
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Salto Mortale
Character: Dascha
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Die wilden Fünfziger
Character: Natascha
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Der Klosterjäger
Character: Vronerl
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Blackmail Chase
Character: Sekretärin
A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician....
Embezzled Heaven
Character: Doris
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Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
Character: Eva
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Via Mala
Character: Sylvia Lauretz
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Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen
Character: Gräfin
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Love Birds
Character: La Contessa
Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered....
First Love
Character: Silvia
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager....
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Character: Self
Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona....
Der schweigende Engel
Character: Angelika Helmer
The deaf-mute little girl Angelika is a talented dancer and is trained by a ballet mistress so that she gets the leading role in an opera despite the intrigues of a rival. Angelika's brother gets out of prison and wants to build an honest life for himself, but falls back into the clutches of his former gang, who use him and the unsuspecting Angelika to circulate counterfeit money....
Ein Herz schlägt für Erika
Character: Erika Kayser
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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Character: Aunt Polly
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder....
Staatsanwältin Corda
Character: Berta Neidhart
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Stille
Character: Adele Vio
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Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
Character: Karin Wolters
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Julius Caesar
Character: Portia
Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March....
Tender Sharks
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While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship....
Auf Biegen oder Brechen
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Red Lips
Character: Baby
A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his daughter lived within that he knows nothing about, he recruits the help of Irene a close friend of his daughter's. But Irene has plans of her own....
Wild and Wonderful
Character: Giselle Ponchon
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband....
The Swing
Character: Mme. Lautenschlag
Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I....
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Character: Gabriella Cocozza
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage....
The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave
Character: Annie Kramer
What are the Knickerbocker Band doing at midnight in the cemetery? Is a spirit really speaking form the sinister grave? Why does Melissa, daughter of the dead sorcerer, receive threats? Has it all to do with the mysterious legacy of the magician?...
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff
Character: Gräfin
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Haider lebt - 1. April 2021
Character: Newssprecherin
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Pankow ’95
Character: Laura Zart
Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems....
The Gold of Love
Character: Patricias Mutter
Young Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence, gleaming frenzy and dark alleys....
Rings of Fear
Character: Christina, Di Salvo's girlfriend
Angelo Russo, a sixteen year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angelo boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virgina (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis". Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is...
Joan's Dream
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With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. - MoMA...
Un trono para Cristy
Character: Christine Wilkens
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