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Franz Nicklisch

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1906-03-08
Wernigerode, Germany

Known For & Full Filmography24 Titles

#1Joan of Arc

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Johann von Metz

6.2 / 10
HistoryDrama

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.

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#2Der Froschkönig

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Diener Heinrich

6.4 / 10
Fantasy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#3Under Blazing Heavens

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as 2. Offizier auf der Gorboduc

8.0 / 10
Adventure

In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking.

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#4Emil and the Detectives

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Desk Sergeant

6.2 / 10
ActionAdventureComedy

When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his family, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. While following the thief, Emil runs into Gustav, a young boy who gathers up all his friends to help Emil find the money. However, they get into more trouble than they bargained for when Emil's pickpocket turns out to be mixed up with a couple of notorious bank robbers.

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#5Krach und GlĂĽck um KĂĽnnemann

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Karl

7.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#6Last Stop Love

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Vater Berger

6.0 / 10
Drama

Young factory worker Mecky Berger doesn't believe in "true love." For him, his female acquaintances are just a pastime. In his eyes and those of his friends, romance is something a man should be ashamed of. But then he meets Christa, who is so different from the women he has had affairs with in the past. His feelings for her are also of a previously unknown, confusing intensity—Mecky has fallen in love. But he first has to learn how to deal with this feeling...

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#7Congress Dances

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.2 / 10
HistoryComedy

An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating table. The Czar, however, has his own plan—he hires a man who is his exact double to impersonate him and confuse the Austrians by appearing to be everywhere at once. In addition, both the Czar and his double fall for the same woman.

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#8Die heimlichen Bräute

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Gendarm Schraml

9.0 / 10
Drama

Uncle Ludwig’s childless estate hinges on his nephews: Peter studies agriculture and is engaged to Inge, while Paul, a court assessor, loves Marianne, whose father disdains “judges.” Both women secretly visit Bainingen, but Ludwig mistakes Inge for Marianne and vice versa, triggering a cascade of romantic mix-ups.

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#9Soldier Comrades

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Gustav Menke

9.0 / 10
Drama

A rich,spoiled young man learns about military discipline after bonding with a more hard working comrade,and helping to rescue a child from a fire.

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#10Spy for Germany

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Mann im Rollstuhl

6.0 / 10
Drama

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.

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#11Dawn

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Petermann

5.6 / 10
WarDrama

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise. On patrol Captain Liers and his submarine crew sink an important British ship, but while returning to harbour, they're lured into a trap by a British vessel disguised as a neutral Danish one. They sink it after it attacks them without warning, but while they prepare to rescue survivors, a British destroyer sinks the sub. On the sea bed 60 feet down, with all but the bridge flooded, the 10 surviving crew have only 8 rescue devices. Liers orders the crew to use them, but they disobey - either all escape or nobody does.

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#12Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.8 / 10
Drama

The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and drills. Conversation, conflict or even critique are discouraged – the oppression insufferable for the young rebel. Disgusted by the brutality, he writes his drama "The Bandit", which he would later publish anonymously. But following a frank conversation with the Duke, Schiller is dishonored and must leave the land.

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#13GlĂĽck im SchloĂź

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Karl Winter

7.0 / 10
Comedy

A Bavarian baron has invited his three illegitimate children to come on a visit. Suddenly, happiness can be seen in this house only recently cut off from the rest of the world. The baron is happy. When two of the children have to leave because of their duties back home, only the daughter stays behind, determined to cure the baron of his quirks.

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#14Inge and the Millions

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Lindemann

9.0 / 10
Drama

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.

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#15Tanz auf dem Vulkan

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
DramaHistory

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.

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#16The Girl with a Good Reputation

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Battista

9.0 / 10
Drama

A travelling cinema arrives in a small, Italian town. The only place suitable for the screenings is the inn run by Mirandolina, a woman with an impeccable reputation. Tino, who works for the cinema, becomes enamoured of Mirandolina but finds his advances to her hindered by her upright reputation and the rivalry of local figures.

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#17Rheinsberg

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

Kurt Hoffmann's film adaptation of Tucholsky's eponymous novella is situated in 1910s Berlin: The aspiring editor Wolf runs into Claire by chance. Both are attracted to one another, yet they are not entirely certain about their feelings. They embark on a trip to Rheinsberg to assure themselves about their sentiments. And indeed, the time spent in the romantic provincial town brings clarity to their situation.

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#18Der eiserne Gustav

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Landpolizist

8.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris.

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#19Wie einst im Mai

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Paul Büttner

10.0 / 10
Comedy

1900: Much to the chagrin of Baron Uhlendorff in Schoneberg, the city of Berlin is expanding. But what is much worse is that his son George is in love with Traute, the daughter of the master carpenter Schradecke. So the son must leave for South America as a diplomat and Father Schradecke has to intercept his letters to his daughter. Traute is inconsolable; 1913: The early days of the small artisans have now given way to them becoming big businessmen. Traute continues to wait for George in spite of the stubborn proposing by the carpenter Paul Buttner.

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#20City in the Fog

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Karl Jensen

8.5 / 10
CrimeMystery

In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and finds that behind the clean facade there are abysses. He has five suspects in mind: the teacher Berling, who is having a relationship with a student, the twin brother and sole heir of the murdered man, the murdered man's shady roommate, the primary school teacher Klaus Erikson and his brother Jakob.

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#21The Tempest

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Willy Prawanzke

9.0 / 10
Crime

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

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#22The Black Whale

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Martin Petersen

8.0 / 10
Drama

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.

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#23Im Namen des Volkes

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Franz Buggisch

8.3 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#24The Unsuspecting Angel

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Hans Markwart

7.0 / 10
Crime

Jozi's aunt runs an inn near the border and has a little side-job: she smuggles. Poor, naive Jozi doesn't know anything about it. Jozi falls in love with the young border patrol officer Hans and her feelings are amply returned. But Hans' supervisor suspects Jozi of smuggling and tries again and again to lead her into illegal temptation. Finally, Hans sees Jozi in a dance bar together with smugglers and believes, too, that she's one of their accomplices.

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