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Werner Dissel is a Actor Allemand born on 26 august 1912 at Cologne (German)

Werner Dissel

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Birth name Werner Friedrich Dissel
Nationality German
Birth 26 august 1912 at Cologne (German)
Death 22 january 2003 (at 90 years)

Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor and director.

Biography

Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra.

After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions.

He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986.

Best films

Les Misérables
Les Misérables
(1958)
(Actor)

Usually with

Hannjo Hasse
Hannjo Hasse
(6 films)
Gerhard Bienert
Gerhard Bienert
(6 films)
Peter Sturm
Peter Sturm
(5 films)
Siegfried Weiss
Siegfried Weiss
(5 films)
Erika Dunkelmann
Erika Dunkelmann
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Werner Dissel (24 films)

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Actor

Anatomy
Anatomy (2000)
, 1h43
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
Origin German
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Rüdiger Vogler, Anna Loos, Traugott Buhre, Werner Dissel
Roles Paulas Großvater
Rating60% 3.000983.000983.000983.000983.00098
Medical student Paula Henning (Franka Potente) wins a place in a summer course at the prestigious University of Heidelberg Medical School. Her grandfather had a great name there before retiring, including being the discoverer of a useful drug, Promidal. They are tutored by Professor Grombek, who announces the hard work ahead. He also tells them that he will be using the elimination system, where the six lower grades will be periodically discarded. During one of their courses on anatomy, the body of David, a young man that Paula met and helped on the train trip, turns up on her dissection table. She is then humiliated by Professor Grombek, who dares her to cut and dissect the heart. She remarks that the body presents strange cuts, but this is dismissed as bad handling by the morgue caretaker. She decides to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. When she goes to cut a sample for an independent test she is amazed to find a triple "A" mark near David's ankle. She is then startled by the medical school's mortuary preparetor, who wants to know if Professor Grombek is aware of her acts.
The Architects
The Architects (1990)
, 1h47
Genres Drama
Actors Werner Dissel, Jörg Schüttauf, Judith Richter
Roles Alter
Rating69% 3.4783453.4783453.4783453.4783453.478345
Daniel Brenner is an architect in his late thirties. Despite a top university degree, he has to spend his professional life with bus shelters and telephone booths. Then he receives the appealing commission to design a cultural center for a satellite town. Brenner accepts under the condition that he will be allowed to select his own team. Their plan to create a non-conventional construction fails. His wife and their common daughter leave the country for West Germany. Broken and desillusioned, Brenner collapses in front of the project’s inauguration tribune.
Coming Out
Coming Out (1989)
, 1h53
Directed by Heiner Carow
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, Coming out, LGBT-related film
Actors Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Michael Gwisdek, Werner Dissel
Roles Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Rating69% 3.49143.49143.49143.49143.4914
The story revolves around a young high-school teacher, Philipp Klahrmann, who during his first day at work collides with a fellow teacher, Tanja, in one of the school's corridors. As Phillip insists on making sure the Tanja is okay, there is an obvious connection between the two that is much more than a simple friendly co-worker relationship. As a result of the brief accident in the hallway, Philipp ensures Tanja is okay and later on takes Tanja out for a drink. A romance quickly develops between the two. That same night, back at Tanja's apartment, the two engage in a frank discussion. Tanja reveals that they attended the same university and that she had a crush, as did most of her female classmates, on Philipp who was at that time "going steady" with another classmate. Eventually, the two partake in their first physical display of affection, and after sleeping together Philipp bluntly asks if Tanja would want him as her husband.
Beethoven - Tage aus einem Leben
Beethoven - Tage aus einem Leben (1976)
, 1h48
Directed by Horst Seemann
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors Donatas Banionis, Leon Niemczyk, Hannjo Hasse, Werner Dissel
Rating57% 2.882582.882582.882582.882582.88258
Le film relate la période de la vie de Beethoven entre 1813 et 1819.
Liberation (film series)
Liberation (film series) (1969)
, 1h10
Directed by Youri Ozerov
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Nikolay Olyalin, Larisa Golubkina, Boris Seidenberg, Vsevolod Sanaïev, Vasily Shukshin, Fritz Diez
Roles Alfred Jodl.
Rating76% 3.836133.836133.836133.836133.83613
After the Soviets are alerted to the imminent German offensive in Kursk, they launch a preemptive artillery strike, delaying the enemy. The battalion of Lieutenant Colonel Lukin – led by officers Tzvetaev, Orlov, and Maximov – participates in the battle, as well as the tank of Lieutenant Vasiliev.
As Long as There’s Life in Me
As Long as There’s Life in Me (1965)
, 1h54
Directed by Günter Reisch
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Albert Hetterle, Erika Dunkelmann, Siegfried Weiss, Hans Finohr, Adolf Fischer, Werner Dissel
Rating72% 3.6424853.6424853.6424853.6424853.642485
The film opens in Berlin in 1914, as Germany is preparing for World War I. Liebknecht (Schulze) receives a call from a fellow lawyer and revolutionary, Mr. Rauch, that documents have been found proving the German heavy arms industry's secret involvement in the buildup to the war. He brings these documents to a meeting of the Reichstag, accusing Gustav Krupp and his company of bribing officials to release military secrets. In addition to this, Krupp and his company wrote to ask the French media to state that the French military has twice as much artillery as they actually possess so that they may provoke a surge in militarism. Afterward, while celebrating a friend's wedding, Liebknecht learns of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, recognizing that this is the war the German imperialists were seeking. However, the resources for war still need to be approved. Liebknecht immediately begins campaigning among the public, denouncing the war as a means to secure profit for the capitalists. In an SPD party meeting, Liebknecht is one of only fourteen members to vote against the war credits. In the subsequent Reichstag meeting, he votes with the party discipline in favor of the war credits, to the public's surprise. He announces in the party meetings that he will no longer yield to party discipline and will stand by his anti-militarist principles even if the party leadership will not do the same. Liebknecht is the only one of the Reichstag — including 111 SPD representatives — to vote against the war loans, resulting in a number of death threats and work bans. Despite his immunity as a Reichstag member, Liebknecht is called to serve on the front as a sapper. It is here that he writes his 1915 manifesto, "The main enemy is at home!" The manifesto is passed among his fellow soldiers on the front before returning home. While he is away, Paul Schreiner, whose wedding Liebknecht attended earlier in the film, dies on the front. This leaves his wife Käthe to raise their newborn child alone and make Liebknecht's manifesto public.
Naked Among Wolves
Naked Among Wolves (1963)
, 1h56
Directed by Frank Beyer
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Viktor Avdyushko, Peter Sturm, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Werner Dissel
Roles Otto Lange
Rating71% 3.5838953.5838953.5838953.5838953.583895
Buchenwald concentration camp, early 1945. A Polish prisoner named Jankowski, who has been on a death march from Auschwitz, brings a suitcase to the camp. When the inmates in the storage building open it, they discover a three-year-old child. Jankowski tells them he is the son of a couple from the Warsaw Ghetto, both of whom perished. Prisoner Kropinski becomes attached to the boy, and begs Kapo André Höfel to save him. Höfel, who is a member of the camp's secret communist underground, consults with senior member Bochow. He is instructed to send the child on the next transport to Sachsenhausen. Höfel cannot bring himself to do so, and hides him. Jankowski is deported to Sachsenhausen alone.
The Opportunists
The Opportunists (1960)

Directed by Louis Daquin
Genres Drama
Actors Jean-Claude Pascal, Madeleine Robinson, Harry Riebauer, Gerhard Bienert, Clara Gansard, Werner Dissel
Roles Fario
Rating55% 2.770432.770432.770432.770432.77043
Agathe Bridau, née Agathe Rouget, déshéritée par son père au profit de son demi-frère Jean-Jacques, est restée veuve avec ses deux fils Philippe et Joseph. Le premier, ancien soldat de Napoléon n'est plus que demi-solde à la chute de l'Empire. Il s'adonne au jeu et fait des dettes, tandis que le second, peintre, travaille et essaie de pourvoir aux besoins de la famille. Cependant, madame Bridau lui préfère Philippe qui pourtant se voit infligé un exil à Issoudun pour avoir comploté contre le nouveau régime du Louis XVIII. Dans cette ville, il retrouve son très riche oncle dont la servante Flore Brazier (la Rabouilleuse), lui fait rédiger un testament en sa faveur avec l'espoir, à la mort du vieil homme, de vivre richement avec son amant Max. Mais Philippe provoque Max en duel et le tue. À la mort de son oncle, il épouse Flore qu'il emmène à Paris, puis qu'il délaisse. Flore devient alcoolique et meurt. Héritier de sa femme, Philippe spécule et il est ruiné lors d'une liquidation du baron de Nucingen.