Karl John

Karl John

Birth : 1905-03-24, Köln

Death : 1977-12-22

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Karl John

Movies

Sorcerer
'Marquez'
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Entführung
v. Weizsaecker
Dandelions
Ricks Vater
Land
Albrecht Rotter
Peenemünde
General von Axthelm
So war Mama
Onkel Chris
Der spanische Bürgerkrieg
Largo Caballero
Die Flucht nach Holland
Bill Drews
Wenn der junge Wein blüht
Propst Hall
Verbotenes Land
Dr. Joseph Breuer
Hinter diesen Mauern
Rees Mathry
Oberst Wennerström
Verteidiger
Die Heirat
Director
Again the Ringer
Dr. Mills
Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.
The Ringer
Shelby
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.
Detective Story
Lieutenant Monoghan
The Longest Day
Gen. Wolfgang Hager
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
This Time it Must Be Caviar
Debras
Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, France or even communist Russia! To save his skin, he'll do - almost - anything, to anyone...
Hermann und Dorothea
Apotheker
Hoffnung ist ein Ding mit Federn
Steve
Fabrik der Offiziere
Major Frey
Sacred Waters
Seppi Blatter
Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs.
Madame Sans-Gêne
Lefèbvre
Schatten der Helden
László Rajk
2 x Adam, 1 x Eva
Wickström
Die gute Sieben
Jonny Roland
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Generaloberst Hoth
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Möwen über Sorrent
Cleland
Schiff ohne Hafen
Schiffarzt Richters
Furlough on Word of Honor
Köhler
Das heilige Experiment
Ladislaus Oros
The Devil's General
Ingenieur Karl Oderbruch
Curt Jurgens stars as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service, even though he barely tolerates the Hitler regime. Sickened by wartime Nazi atrocities, Jurgens renounces his government, and is imprisoned and tortured as a result. Once released, the general takes pity on a downtrodden Jewish family. This isolated act of kindness is a point in his favor when Jurgens stands before Satan himself for his final judgment. The Devil's General was based on an immensely successful postwar play by German author Carl Zuckmeyer.
Jeden die Seine
Lorenz, der Schauspieler
The Man Between
Inspector Kleiber
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
No Way Back
Friedrich Schultz
A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.
Smuggler's Ball
Hans
Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operation, all the while romancing Siska (Christian Lenier), the daughter of a local customs official. Various subplots and secondary characters weave in and out as the plotline guides the viewer through the WW II years. Towards the end, the story shifts gears when the Benelux Frontier Agreement eliminates all government regulations. The film's screenplay is by Charles Spaak, himself the descendant of a Belgian political family, and thus well-versed in bureaucracy and red tape.
The Lost One
Hösch, alias Nowak
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
Love '47
Beckmann
A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
The Last Night
Harald Buchner, Oberleutnant
Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
Unser Mittwochabend
In Those Days
Peter Keyser
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
Melody of a Great City
Klaus Nolte
A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.
Andreas Schlüter
Bildhauer Martin Böhme, ihr Bräutigam
Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
Two in a Big City
Bernd Birckhoff
A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her.
Stukas
Oberleutnant Lothar Loos
This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
U-Boat, Course West!
Matrosenobergefreiter Drewitz
This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.
Der Weg ins Freie
Fritz
In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...
Über alles in der Welt
Oberleutnant Hassenkamp
Nazi cinema produced numerous WW2 military epics, one of the most impressive of which is Ufa's first-rate 1941 production, Uber Alles in der Welt,directed by Karl Ritter (Stukas). Ritter customarily produced morale-building propaganda pictures, and this, his first propaganda film to deal with the war, as well as his finest effort, was one of the highest-grossing pictures of the Third Reich. Set largely in France, England, and Spain, the film chronicles the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle. All of Germany's enemies receive equal disdain. The British, the French, the Poles, and the Jews are portrayed respectively as warmongers, profiteers and cowards. In the end, all that is important is returning to Germany.
My Life for Ireland
Raymond Davitt
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
Kora Terry
Chef der Kraftmännertruppe
Die unvollkommene Liebe
Gustl
Bal paré
Franz Stanglmayer
Fahrt ins Leben
Seekadett Gerhard Bartels
The Laugh Doctor
Peter Karst
Because the soulful county doctor in a small spa town in the mountains has interfered with the business of selling "healing waters", he incurs the enmity of the local shopkeepers. And for that reason, his candidacy for the post of District Medical Officer is thwarted.
Unternehmen Michael
Leutnant Hassenkamp
During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
White Slaves
Graf Kostja Wolfgoff
Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship becomes a dancehall. Bloodbath, pillage and kidnapping follows. A Nazi/Germany propaganda film.
Wenn der Hahn kräht
Piepers Gustav
Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
The White Demon
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.