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Günter Meisner is a Actor Allemand born on 18 april 1926 at Bremen (German)
Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German TV and film character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Mr. Slugworth in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-, German- and French-language films.
Notamment vu au cinéma dans de nombreux rôles secondaires d'officiers nazis, il l est principalement connu en France pour avoir joué le double rôle d'Hitler et de sa sœur dans le film L'As des as. Il a ensuite interprété le dictateur dans la saga Le Souffle de la guerre et d'autres téléfilms.
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Il meurt à l'âge de 68 ans, le 5 décembre 1994 à Berlin.
(1982)
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Nationality German
Birth 18 april 1926 at Bremen (German)
Death 5 december 1994 (at 68 years) at Berlin (German)
Birth 18 april 1926 at Bremen (German)
Death 5 december 1994 (at 68 years) at Berlin (German)
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CarrièreNotamment vu au cinéma dans de nombreux rôles secondaires d'officiers nazis, il l est principalement connu en France pour avoir joué le double rôle d'Hitler et de sa sœur dans le film L'As des as. Il a ensuite interprété le dictateur dans la saga Le Souffle de la guerre et d'autres téléfilms.
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Il meurt à l'âge de 68 ans, le 5 décembre 1994 à Berlin.
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The Violin Player (1994)
, 1h34Directed by Charles Van Damme
Origin France
Themes Films about music and musicians, Violon
Actors Richard Berry, François Berléand, Bernard Ballet, Inês de Medeiros, John Dobrynine, Hanns Zischler
Rating71%
Un violoniste virtuose va jouer du Bach dans le métro, pour faire un break dans sa carrière et défier le silence et l'indifférence.
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
, 2h24Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Heinz Rühmann, Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski, Willem Dafoe
Roles Forger
Rating71%
Cassiel and Raphaella, two angels, observe the busy life of reunited Berlin. Due to their divine origin, they can hear the thoughts of the people around them, and try to console a dying man. Cassiel has been following his friend Damiel (a former angel), who senses his presence and talks about his experiences as a human. He owns a pizza parlor named Casa dell'angelo (Angel's House) and has married Marion, a trapeze artist whom he met when an angel. She works in a local bar in West Berlin, and the two have a young daughter, Doria.
Moon Child (1992)
, 1h58Directed by Agustí Villaronga
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Actors Maribel Martín, Lisa Gerrard, Lucia Bosè, Günter Meisner, Jack Birkett, Lluís Homar
Roles Abuelo militar
Rating60%
Les aventures d'un enfant qui fuit une organisation secrète et dont l'unique obsession est d'arriver en Afrique pour l'accomplissement d'une ancienne prophétie. La lune et deux femmes vont l'aider à réaliser son destin.
Ruby Cairo (1992)
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Chad Power, Jack Thompson, Günter Meisner
Roles Herr Bruchner
Rating50%
When Bessie Faro's (Andie MacDowell) husband Johnny (Viggo Mortensen) dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline's terminal in Veracruz, she finds a packet of baseball cards that have been marked up by Johnny. Recognizing his system for marking betting slips at race tracks, she decodes the cards and realizes that they indicate a bank account. When she tries to withdraw money from the account, she is denied. She realizes that the account is in the name of the player on the card, Onix Concepción.
The Man Inside (1990)
, 1h33Directed by Bobby Roth
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Coyote, Nathalie Baye, Dieter Laser, Monique van de Ven, Philip Anglim
Roles Richter
Rating53%
Un journaliste allemand, Günter Wallraff, est victime d'une machination.
Roselyne and the Lions (1989)
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Circus films, La provence
Actors Isabelle Pasco, Gérard Sandoz, Guillaume Briat, Gabriel Monnet, Günter Meisner, Philippe Clévenot
Roles Klint
Rating60%
Thierry fait des petits boulots dans un zoo en échange de leçons que lui donne le dresseur de lions Frazier. Il rencontre Roselyne, et ils partent ensemble pour trouver du travail. Ils finissent par être engagés dans un cirque de Munich, elle comme dresseuse et lui comme entraîneur.
Bride of the Orient (1989)
, 1h38Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Wolfram Berger, Werner Herzog, Mathias Gnädinger, Günter Meisner, Helen Vita, Errol Morris
Roles Priest Barmettler
Rating65%
C’est avec beaucoup d’impatience que l’agriculteur Windleter attend à l’aéroport de Zurich l’arrivée de la Thaïlandaise Arunotai censée vivre avec lui dans son village perdu. Après des difficultés initiales à se comprendre, le couple s’entend de mieux en mieux, mais les mauvaises langues du village vont bon train et ne baissent pas la garde à l’encontre de l’étrangère.
In a Glass Cage (1987)
, 1h50Directed by Agustí Villaronga
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Rape in fiction, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about pedophilia, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about child abuse, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Günter Meisner, Marisa Paredes
Roles Klaus
Rating67%
Klaus, a former Nazi German doctor who practiced horrific experiments with children during World War II, has continued with his sick attraction for torturing and killing young boys during his exile in a remote village in Catalonia. His latest victim is a child he has tortured and later kills with a blow to the head, taking photographs of the crime. This sadistic act has been witnessed by Angelo, another of Klaus' victims, who has spied him from a window, later stealing the tortured incriminating writings and photographs of the doctor's crimes. Klaus tries to commit suicide jumping from a tower, but he survives. As a result of his failed attempt he is now unable to breathe on his own and is immobile, confined permanently in an iron lung to survive.
Under the Volcano (1984)
, 1h52Directed by John Huston, Danny Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado, Ignacio López Tarso, James Villiers
Roles Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)
Rating68%
Cuernavaca, capitale de l'État de Morelos au Mexique, le 1er novembre 1938 traditionnel jour des Morts, fêté en grande liesse par toute la population locale. Geoffrey Firmin, ancien consul britannique, qui a (été) démissionné de sa fonction, déambule, copieusement imbibé, de cantinas en cervecerias, de souvenirs en palabres, parmi l'étrange liesse mortuaire. Son épouse a quitté le Mexique, depuis presque une année. Ils semblent désormais, d'après un vague courrier d'avocat, officiellement divorcés. Anis, brandy, tequila, whisky, mezcal (la boisson des damnés), la brûlure de l'alcool lui permet d'oublier cet invivable abandon et de survivre à sa déchéance, (« les tremblements, voilà ce qui rend cette vie insupportable. Mais ils s'apaisent, si on s'y prend bien, avec la nécessaire lampée, la dose thérapeutique »).
Night Crossing (1982)
, 1h46Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Children's films
Actors John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Beau Bridges, Doug McKeon, Glynnis O'Connor, Klaus Löwitsch
Roles Major Koerner
Rating64%
The film opens with a brief summary of 1961's then-current conditions in East Germany and nature of the border zone, featuring stock footage such as Conrad Schumann's jump over barbed wire in Berlin.
Ace of Aces (1982)
, 1h36Directed by Gérard Oury
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about the Olympic Games, Hitler
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Günter Meisner, Rachid Ferrache, Florent Pagny, Yves Pignot
Roles Adolf Hitler / Angela Hitler
Rating66%
In 1916, during the thick of World War I, a German and a French fighter ace by the names of Gunther von Beckman (Hoffman) and Jo Cavalier (Belmondo) manage to drag each other out of the sky. An argument and subsequent fistfight about who is to be whose prisoner is rudely interrupted by an artillery barrage, forcing both to stick together in order to survive. In a humorous side scene, corporal Adolf Hitler (Meisner) is berated by his frustrated First Lieutenant Rosenblum for his clumsiness.
, 3h52Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Gedeon Burkhard, Karlheinz Lemken, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Günter Meisner, Michael Habeck
Rating73%
Breakthrough (1979)
, 1h52Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Michael Parks, Helmut Griem, Curd Jürgens, Klaus Löwitsch
Roles SS Officer
Rating50%
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.
Avalanche Express (1979)
, 1h28Directed by Monte Hellman, Mark Robson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Horst Buchholz, Mike Connors
Roles Muehler
Rating49%
Russian general Marenkov (Robert Shaw) decides to defect to the West, and CIA agent Harry Wargrave (Lee Marvin) leads the team that is to get him out. Wargrave decides that Marenkov should travel across Europe by train, on the fictional "Avalanche Express". The idea is to lure the Russians into attacking the train, and thus discover who their secret agents in Europe are. Consequently, during the train journey they must survive both a terrorist attack and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin (Maximilian Schell).
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
, 2h3Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Clonage, Films based on science fiction novels, Hitler, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott
Roles Farnbach
Rating69%
Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and finds that Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is with them. He phones Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), an aging Nazi hunter living in Vienna, Austria, with this information. A highly skeptical Lieberman tries to brush Kohler's claims aside, telling him that it is already well known that Mengele is living in Paraguay.