Top Cast
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Marte Harell
Millie Trampusch
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Anton Walbrook
Johann Strauss (Vater)
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Fritz Imhoff
Oberstrasser
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Lilly Stepanek
Anna Strauss
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Lotte Lang
Frau Riesner
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Eva Leiter
Resi
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Karl Kalwoda
Amon
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Richard Eybner
Haslinger
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Erik Frey
Fürst Metternich
Overview
A biography of the composer Johann Strauss.
Rating
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At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Munich - The Edge of War
In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of tasters responsible for checking that the food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.
The Tasters
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
Adventures of a Mathematician
Jewish aesthete Cioma, 21, does not let anyone take away his joy of life, especially not the Nazis. In 1942, he has to find new ways to make his living in Berlin and escape deportation. In the process he discovers his talent for forgery: not only with passports, but also his own identity.
The Forger
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
Radium Girls
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
Panther
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
Corsage
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.