Klaus Löwitsch

Klaus Löwitsch

Birth : 1936-04-08, Berlin, Germany

Death : 2002-12-03

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Klaus Löwitsch (8 April 1936 – 3 December 2002) was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television detective series Peter Strohm. He appeared in several films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, beginning with Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971) and notably including World on a Wire (1973) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). His English language films include Cross of Iron (1977), The Odessa File (1974), Firefox (1982) and Fassbinder's Despair (1978). He was born in Berlin. He died in Munich from pancreatic cancer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Klaus Löwitsch
Klaus Löwitsch

Movies

Passion & Poetry: Sam's War
In Memory Of
A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron, shot in Yugoslavia in 1976.
Extreme Ops
Slobodan „Pawel“ Pavlov
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
What to Do in Case of Fire?
Manowsky
What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
Mayday! Überfall auf hoher See
Harris
Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund
Boris Stein
Hostile Takeover
Willi Konrad
The Hostile Takeover is a tale of how an average pizza delivery guy named Jay gets caught in the middle of the largest territorial war in the city's history. As Jay avoids being killed by both sides in this brutal war, he must also prove his innocence to a trigger happy detective who believes he is the catalyst to it all.
Ein Mann wie eine Waffe
David Bornett
Das Urteil
Siegfried Rabinovicz
The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify as the principal witness in a murder case. During a stop-over, an airport hostess talks him into giving up his seat on the connecting flight to another passenger. While Rabinovicz is waiting in the VIP lounge, he gets into a conversation with a stranger who is remarkably well informed about the murder Rabinovicz is going to testify about.
Napoleon Fritz
Napoleon Fritz
Kaminsky
Kaminsky
Hart an der Grenze
Paul Otto
Gotcha!
Vlad
A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.
Eine Art von Zorn
Kai Haller
Firefox
General Vladimirov
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Night Crossing
Schmolk
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Desideria
Tiberi
All her life, an overweight girl has been ignored by her rich and attractive mother. But when the ugly duckling becomes a swan, she turns into a world-class tease, exacting her revenge by seducing her mother's boyfriend...
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Hermann Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Breakthrough
Krüger
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Devil's Island
Njemački narednik
After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge. One partisan boat, filled with refugees, tries to reach a safe area, but because of a storm it must stop near a small island. While the crew tries to repair it, a German gunboat comes from nearby.
Despair
Felix Weber
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
Auf den Hund gekommen
Ernst Luschnat
Cross of Iron
Unteroffizier Krüger
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
Die Brüder
Frank Fachmin
Das Rentenspiel
Shadow of Angels
Jude
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
Der aufregende Fall des Studienrats Adam Juracek
Attempted Flight
Polizist in Wien
The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at home in Croatia, Ivo runs the male household in Vienna alone. Solitude and insults from the locals make the child unhappy. And so Ivo decides on a rainy winter's day to return to his home village on his own.
Eine egoistische Liebe
Baxter Dawes
Rosebud
Hans Schloss
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.
Two Heavenly Stubborns
Kamberger
The Odessa File
Gustav Mackensen
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved with the powerful organisation of former SS members—called ODESSA—as well as with the Israeli secret service. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the SS-Captain, ODESSA and his own family.
Der Jäger von Fall
Lenz
Nora Helmer
Dr. Rank
A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German television.
Schloß Hubertus
Schipper
A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
Hell Hounds of Alaska
Laporte
A fur-trapper battles the elements and robbers when a gold shipment is ambushed - leaving a boy in urgent need of medical attention.
Libero
Himself
This semi-fictional movie portrays the german soccer player Franz Beckenbauer. It shows the ups and downs of being a superstar.
Desaster
Urs Werther
Jail Bait
Polizist
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the anger of her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown unbearable.
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Harry
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
Ball at Savoy
Mustafa
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
The Sergeant
German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma (Irm Hermann) and Berta (Hanna Schygulla) are watching them and musing about their ideas on men and relationships. The soldiers (often referred to as pioneers) have been given the task of building a bridge in the town. Alma seems to understand that the soldiers only want her for short sexual encounters, so she's prepared to live her life accordingly. Meanwhile, romantic Berta falls in love with self-centered soldier Karl (Harry Baer), who all but tells her to get lost. The soldiers get drunk and beat up a random passerby. The women grow to hate Alma for her acceptance of life as a sex object. Naïve Berta is ultimately humiliated.
Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand
Putzer
The Brutes
Werner
On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like the girl. Mike manages to separate Alice from her group and get into the car with Werner. It had been decided to go to a lake with the others to take a bath at night. Too late Alice realizes that Mike and Werner did not drive to the agreed lake, but to a lonely gravel pit. The friends will not come anymore. And she realizes the intentions of her companions.
Erbe gesucht - Theater vorhanden
Gatty
Amerika oder der Verschollene
Delamarche
Tag für Tag
Jimmy Beales
Im Dickicht der Städte
Hotelbesitzer J. Finnay alias 'Der Wurm'
An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.
Bis zum Happy-End
Arnold
Heißes Pflaster Köln
Willy
Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.
Das Attentat - Der Tod des Engelbert Dollfuß
Liebe für Liebe
Benjamin
Der Reichstagsbrandprozeß
Heines
Ein Riß im Eis
Platov
Girls, Girls
Schorsch
An underage girl starts an affair with her much older employer. Then, her lover is sentenced for the seduction of a minor, and the young woman gets involved with his son, the junior head of the company. When his father is released from prison, father and son become rivals for their shared lover.
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
der Arbeiter
Das Märchen
Robert Well
Der Mann aus Brooklyn
Tony Morello
Italienische Nacht
Der Leutnant
Die Reise
Maat Alexander
Machenschaften
Jüngerer Schauspieler
Lydia muss sterben
Ernest Reece
Der Hund des Generals
Leutnant Faber
Die wahre Geschichte vom geschändeten und wiederhergestellten Kreuz
Schoch
The Black Cobra
Boogie
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence.
Höllenangst
Von Thurming - Oberrichter
Ein Tag im Leben von...
Raymond
Schlagerparade 1961
Haifisch
Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben
Willy Heinemann
…und noch frech dazu!
Bulle
Der eingebildete Kranke
Cléante
Der Pauker
Harry Engelmann
Der Page vom Palast-Hotel
Peter
Träume von der Südsee
Percy Remberg
Der Jäger von Fall
Bacchus
Herzogs Sohn
Scherben bringen Glück
Hans Fröhlich
Wo die Lerche singt
Karl