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Goldene Zeiten
''Goldene Zeiten'' (''Out of Bounds'') is a German film released in 2006. It is the last film in director trilogy of films set in his hometown Unna, and was preceded by '' Bang Boom Bang'' (1999) and ''If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer ''If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer'' (german: Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht) is a 2002 German comedy film directed by . Plot Kümmel, Kalle and Horst work for the contractor Werner Wiesenkamp, who runs a small construction company ...'' (2002). It did not meet the box office expectations with less than 100,000 viewers in German cinemas (''Bang Boom Bang'' attracted 460,000, ''If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer'' 670,000). The film was released on DVD on 26 October 2006, both as a Single DVD and Double DVD Special Edition. Dirk Benedict appears in a double role as former TV celebrity Douglas Burnett, whose vanishing fame is based on his role as the lead character in fictitious 1980s TV series ''John Striker'', and as his Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner; March 1, 1945) is an American film, television and stage actor, philosopher and author. He is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Starbuck in the original ''Battlestar Galactica'' film and television series and Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in ''The A-Team'' television series. He is the author of ''Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy'' and ''And Then We Went Fishing''. Early life Benedict was born Dirk Niewoehner in Helena, Montana, the son of Priscilla Mella (née Metzger), an accountant, and George Edward Niewoehner, a lawyer. He grew up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. He graduated from Whitman College in 1967. Benedict allegedly chose his stage name from a serving of Eggs Benedict he had prior to his acting career. He is of German extraction. Career Benedict's film debut was in the 1972 film ''Georgia, Georgia''. When the New York run for ''Butterflies Are Free'' ended, he received an offer to repeat his performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wotan Wilke Möhring
Wotan Wilke Möhring (born 23 May 1967) is a German actor. Biography Möhring was born in Augustdorf near Detmold and grew up in Herne. His father was an army officer and his mother worked as a teacher. He has a sister and two brothers. One of them, Sönke Möhring, is also an actor. After receiving a Waldorf education in Herne and finishing high school with the ''Abitur'' diploma, Möhring took vocational training to become an electrician, but then worked as a club owner, doorman, and model. He studied communication at the Berlin University of the Arts, joined actors workshops in Cologne and Los Angeles, and lived for two years in New York City. He was also an army officer for two years. Together with Gabi Delgado-López, Möhring founded the band DAF/DOS. Furthermore, he has produced soundtracks. Möhring had his first screen appearance in the 1998 television film ', a bio-pic about a German boxer, which also featured Benno Fürmann and Götz George. Since then he has p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Roth
Wolf Roth (born August 30, 1944) is a German theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ... and television actor. Early life and education Roth was born in Torgau, Germany, where his family had fled during World War II. He was raised and educated in Bremen. In 1961 he moved to the United States and graduated from the Edsel Ford High School in Detroit, Michigan. He spent the next months travelling through the Midwest of the U.S. Career Having returned to Germany, he graduated in Bremen and went on to the Free University of Berlin, Freie Universität in Berlin. He took courses in sociology and economics, but found his vocation when he was taken by friends to the entrance examinations of the famous Max Reinhardt Seminar for actors. He was discovered by the actress Hilde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Neldel
Alexandra Monika Neldel (born 11 February 1976) is a German actress from Berlin. Career Neldel worked as a dental assistant before she was discovered by the boss of a Berlin casting agency during a polo competition. He helped her audition for daily soap opera ''Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten'' and Neldel, barely experienced in acting, immediately landed the role of Katja Wettstein. After leaving ''GZSZ'' in 1999 Neldel starred in several German motion pictures and TV films, including '' Lammbock'', ''Samba in Mettmann'' and Emmy-winning ''Berlin, Berlin''. In 2005 Neldel made her breakthrough as Lisa Plenske, the leading role in the Sat.1 telenovela '' Verliebt in Berlin''. She decided to leave the series after the final episode of season one. Filmography Cinema * 1999: '' Bang Boom Bang'' * 2000: ' * 2000: ' * 2001: '' Lammbock'' * 2003: Der letzte Lude * 2003: ' * 2004: Samba in Mettmann * 2004: ' * 2005: ''Barfuss'' * 2006: ''Goldene Zeiten'' * 2007: '' Messy Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Richter (actor)
Ralf Richter (born 17 August 1957 in Essen) is a German actor. He debuted as the crude sailor "Frenssen" in the Academy Award-nominated 1981 film ''Das Boot ''Das Boot'' (, English: "The Boat") is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as ...'' and frequently appeared in German TV series. He played main roles in German films such as ''Bang Boom Bang'' (1999), ''Fußball ist unser Leben'' (1999) or ''If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer'' (2002). His younger brother Frank is known as musician FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten). Selected filmography External links * 1957 births German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors Living people Actors from Essen {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unna
Unna is a city of around 59,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the seat of the Unna district. The newly refurbished Unna station has trains to all major cities in North Rhine Westphalia including Dortmund, Cologne, Münster, Hamm, Düsseldorf and Wuppertal. There is also the Regional-Express 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express), which runs from Rheine via Cologne to Krefeld. Geography Unna is situated on an ancient salt-trading route, the Westphalian Hellweg. Trade on this route and during the period of the Hanseatic League came from as far as London. The city is located at the eastern extremity of the Ruhr district, about east of the centre of Dortmund. Unna also serves as a dormitory city, being home to many commuters who work in Dortmund and other nearby cities. Local dialects of German include Westfälisch and Ruhrpott. The recreational district of Sauerland is nearby. The River Ruhr runs just south of Unna through Fröndenberg, before heading through the main part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang Boom Bang
''Bang Boom Bang – A Sure Thing'' (german: Bang Boom Bang – Ein todsicheres Ding) is a German comedy film from 1999. The movie is set in Unna, Westphalia. It was filmed in Unna as well as in Dortmund. Plot The part-time criminal Keek has lost most of the money from a bank robbery that he committed together with the now jailed Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Grabowski. When Kalle watches a porn-movie in jail, shot by Keek's friend Franky, he sees his wife Manuela starring in the movie, Kalle goes crazy and escapes from prison. Before killing Franky, the escaped Kalle unexpectedly appears at Keek's door and demands his money. The next day, the alcoholic "Schlucke" is forced by his boss Werner Kampmann, to break into his transport company to pretend a burglary because of insurance fraud. Schlucke, however, has talked boastfully about his plan, so that Keek sees a chance to get the money for Kalle. Together with his friend Andy, Schlucke and Ratte (another fellow criminal) break into the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If It Don't Fit, Use A Bigger Hammer
''If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer'' (german: Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht) is a 2002 German comedy film directed by . Plot Kümmel, Kalle and Horst work for the contractor Werner Wiesenkamp, who runs a small construction company in Bergkamen in the district of Unna. Since Kümmel, Kalle and Horst are underpaid, and their boss lives large, the three employees persuade the boss on his garden party to hire Marek, a Polish illegal worker. However, Wiesenkamp sets up the young architecture student Philipp as an additional worker (much to Horst's unwillingness), who actually only needs an internship certificate for his new employer in Asia. Philipp hopes to get this certificate without real work, with the help of his uncle, a city councilor. The following day Philipp appears on the construction site, still assuming that he only has to wait for Wiesenkamp's signature. First, however, he lands on the neighboring construction site, run by Wiesenkamp's brother Ernst. The mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doppelgänger
A doppelgänger (), a compound noun formed by combining the two nouns (double) and (walker or goer) (), doppelgaenger or doppelganger is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is often portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon and usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck. Other traditions and stories equate a doppelgänger with an evil twin. In modern times, the term twin stranger is occasionally used. Spelling The word ''doppelganger'' is a loanword from the German. The singular and plural forms are the same in German, but English writers usually prefer the plural "doppelgangers". The first known use, in the slightly different form ''Doppeltgänger'', occurs in the novel ''Siebenkäs'' (1796) by Jean Paul, in which he explains his newly coined word in a footnote; the word also appears in the novel, but with a different meaning. In German, the word is written (as is usual with German nouns) with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Comedy Films
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