Karl Stepanek

Karl Stepanek

Though born in Czechoslovakia, actor Karel Stepanek was generally regarded as a German actor due to his extensive film work in Germany (as Karl Stepanek) in the years before World War II. Stepanek fled to England in 1940, where, like many European refugee actors, he specialized in portraying Teutonic villains. He tried to stay away from out-and-out Nazi roles, but his predilection for wearing black uniforms and barking out guttural commands left little doubt as to the political preferences of Stepanek's screen characters. One of his most typical characterizations could be found in the 1946 POW drama, The Captive Heart; Stepanek also registered well as a friendlier foreigner in The Fallen Idol (1949). Commuting between London and Hollywood, Karel Stepanek continued to fight World War II, usually on the wrong side, into such '60s films as Sink the Bismarck! (1960), I Aim at the Stars (1960) and Operation Crossbow (1965).

  • Title: Karl Stepanek
  • Popularity: 2.468
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1899-10-27
  • Place of Birth: Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
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  • Also Known As: Karl Stepanek, Karel Štěpánek, Karel Stepanek
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Karl Stepanek Movies

  • 1955
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    Man of the Moment

    Man of the Moment

    6.4 1955 HD

    Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a...

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  • 1967
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    Murderers Club of Brooklyn

    Murderers Club of Brooklyn

    8.7 1967 HD

    Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter.

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  • 1948
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    The Fallen Idol

    The Fallen Idol

    7.153 1948 HD

    Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...

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  • 1964
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    Devil Doll

    Devil Doll

    4.6 1964 HD

    An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.

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  • 1965
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    Operation Crossbow

    Operation Crossbow

    6.7 1965 HD

    Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between...

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  • 1952
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    Affair in Trinidad

    Affair in Trinidad

    6.3 1952 HD

    A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

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  • 1956
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    Anastasia

    Anastasia

    6.8 1956 HD

    Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the...

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  • 1955
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    The Cockleshell Heroes

    The Cockleshell Heroes

    5.889 1955 HD

    During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

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  • 1953
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    Never Let Me Go

    Never Let Me Go

    5.6 1953 HD

    An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

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  • 1953
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    City Beneath the Sea

    City Beneath the Sea

    5.1 1953 HD

    Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.

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  • 1960
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    Sink the Bismarck!

    Sink the Bismarck!

    6.777 1960 HD

    The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World...

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  • 1969
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    The File of the Golden Goose

    The File of the Golden Goose

    5.5 1969 HD

    U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the...

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  • 1937
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    Die Fledermaus

    Die Fledermaus

    4 1937 HD

    The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production. For starters, a framing device...

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  • 1946
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    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    6.2 1946 HD

    A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part...

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  • 1943
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    They Met in the Dark

    They Met in the Dark

    6.3 1943 HD

    A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court...

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  • 1949
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    Conspirator

    Conspirator

    5.9 1949 HD

    A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

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  • 1952
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    Walk East on Beacon

    Walk East on Beacon

    5.1 1952 HD

    An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.

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  • 1966
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    The Frozen Dead

    The Frozen Dead

    5 1966 HD

    A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the...

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  • 1955
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    Secret Venture

    Secret Venture

    1 1955 HD

    An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries...

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  • 1966
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    Sperrbezirk

    Sperrbezirk

    3 1966 HD

    The story of a pimp who falls in love with one of his victims, is "purified" by it, but also perishes. A colportage that vacillates between...

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  • 1955
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    A Prize of Gold

    A Prize of Gold

    5.4 1955 HD

    A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.

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  • 1969
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    Before Winter Comes

    Before Winter Comes

    5.9 1969 HD

    Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and...

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  • 1954
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    Tale of Three Women

    Tale of Three Women

    1 1954 HD

    A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling...

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  • 1965
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    Licensed to Kill

    Licensed to Kill

    5.5 1965 HD

    An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.

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  • 1954
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    Dangerous Cargo

    Dangerous Cargo

    5.2 1954 HD

    Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a...

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  • 1950
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    Cairo Road

    Cairo Road

    5.8 1950 HD

    In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.

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  • 1957
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    West of Suez

    West of Suez

    1 1957 HD

    In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.

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  • 1959
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    Operation Amsterdam

    Operation Amsterdam

    5.8 1959 HD

    When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond...

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  • 1932
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    Five from the Jazzband

    Five from the Jazzband

    7 1932 HD

    By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows...

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  • 1931
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    Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

    Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

    6.1 1931 HD

    Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

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  • 1943
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    Tomorrow We Live

    Tomorrow We Live

    6 1943 HD

    British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and...

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  • 1949
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    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    7.9 1949 HD

    In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...

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  • 1949
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    Give Us This Day

    Give Us This Day

    5.9 1949 HD

    Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in...

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  • 1953
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    Rough Shoot

    Rough Shoot

    6.2 1953 HD

    An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a...

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  • 1942
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    Secret Mission

    Secret Mission

    4.2 1942 HD

    World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in...

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  • 1939
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    The Leghorn Hat

    The Leghorn Hat

    8.7 1939 HD

    Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

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  • 1951
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    The Third Visitor

    The Third Visitor

    6 1951 HD

    Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a...

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  • 1960
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    Brainwashed

    Brainwashed

    6.8 1960 HD

    Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental...

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  • 1965
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    The Heroes of Telemark

    The Heroes of Telemark

    6.9 1965 HD

    Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy...

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  • 1936
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    The Unknown

    The Unknown

    6 1936 HD

    The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The...

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  • 1943
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    Escape to Danger

    Escape to Danger

    1 1943 HD

    During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.

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  • 1932
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    Here's Berlin

    Here's Berlin

    9 1932 HD

    Story of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.

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  • 1933
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    A Song for You

    A Song for You

    1 1933 HD

    During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a...

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  • 1939
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    War es der im 3. Stock?

    War es der im 3. Stock?

    1 1939 HD

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  • 1935
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    Hermine and the Seven Upright Men

    Hermine and the Seven Upright Men

    5.7 1935 HD

    Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship while the rest of the world is at strife. A conflict arises when the daughter of one...

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  • 1935
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    Der Außenseiter

    Der Außenseiter

    1 1935 HD

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  • 1932
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    Spione im Savoy-Hotel

    Spione im Savoy-Hotel

    5 1932 HD

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  • 1950
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    State Secret

    State Secret

    6.6 1950 HD

    Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is...

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  • 1948
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    Broken Journey

    Broken Journey

    6 1948 HD

    A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged...

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  • 1956
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    The Man in the Road

    The Man in the Road

    6.3 1956 HD

    A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.

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  • 1963
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    Aufstand der Gehorsamen

    Aufstand der Gehorsamen

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Games

    The Games

    7.2 1970 HD

    From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the...

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  • 1938
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    Narren im Schnee

    Narren im Schnee

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1933
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    Waltz War

    Waltz War

    7.7 1933 HD

    The quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss. It comes to a break. Strauss is engaged in London...

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  • 2003
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    The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

    The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

    1 2003 HD

    Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions....

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  • 1960
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    Our Man in Havana

    Our Man in Havana

    6.7 1960 HD

    Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but...

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  • 1949
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    Golden Arrow

    Golden Arrow

    1 1949 HD

    On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.

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  • 1951
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    No Highway in the Sky

    No Highway in the Sky

    6.9 1951 HD

    James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His...

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  • 1939
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    Hotel Sacher

    Hotel Sacher

    6.7 1939 HD

    Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood...

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  • 1938
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    Klatovští dragouni

    Klatovští dragouni

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Traitor

    The Traitor

    7 1957 HD

    One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems...

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  • 1935
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    Na růžích ustláno

    Na růžích ustláno

    1 1935 HD

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  • 1935
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    Pozdní láska

    Pozdní láska

    9 1935 HD

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  • 1948
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    Counterblast

    Counterblast

    6 1948 HD

    An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned...

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  • 1942
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    Our Film

    Our Film

    1 1942 HD

    A British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value...

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  • 1963
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    Das Kriminalmuseum

    Das Kriminalmuseum

    8.5 1963 HD

    Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a...

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