Cast: Willy Birgel
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Willy Birgel. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Zu Neuen Ufern
1937 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Zarah Leander · Willy Birgel · Edwin Juergenssen · Carola Höhn
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Final Chord
1936 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Willy Birgel · Lil Dagover · Mária Tasnádi Fekete · Maria Koppenhöfer
Plot A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide,...
6.7
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6.7
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
1947 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany
Direction Harald Braun
Cast Hildegard Knef · Winnie Markus · Sybille Schmitz · Willy Birgel
Plot A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the...
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Coffin from Hong Kong
1964 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Manfred R. Köhler
Cast Heinz Drache · Elga Andersen · Ralf Wolter · Sabine Sesselmann
Plot Released in the U.S. as "A Coffin From Hong Kong", this was one of a whole series of relatively low budget German noir/espionage/thriller type films made in the early to...
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The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
1958 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy
Direction Camillo Mastrocinque
Cast Mamie Van Doren · Antonio Cifariello · Rossana Martini · Willy Birgel
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Romanze in Venedig
1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Austria
Direction Eduard von Borsody
Cast Ann Smyrner · Walther Reyer · Willy Birgel · Annie Rosar
Plot Deeply disappointed by her bridegroom, Andrea flees from Bruggern to the south and experiences a beautiful “Romance in Venice”. She falls in love with the boyish-charming pianist Stefan Schröder. But...
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The Blue Fox
1938 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany
Direction Viktor Tourjansky
Cast Zarah Leander · Willy Birgel · Paul Hörbiger · Jane Tilden
Plot Ilona, a beautiful Hungarian woman, is the neglected wife of Stephan Paulus, a scientist who is more interested in the fishes he studies than in his better half. Tibor Varny,...
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Das Mädchen Johanna
1935 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany
Direction Gustav Ucicky
Cast Angela Salloker · Gustaf Gründgens · Heinrich George · René Deltgen
Plot The recount of the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc of the 15th century tinted to the presence of the National Socialist ideology.
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Agent 505 - The Trap Door Falls in Beirut
1966 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Manfred R. Köhler
Cast Frederick Stafford · Chris Howland · Geneviève Cluny · Harald Leipnitz
Plot A couple of beautiful girls are murdered while sunbathing at a luxury hote. The killer too is murdered, but able to reveal – before dying- that they were disposed of...
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No Shooting Time for Foxes
1966 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Peter Schamoni
Cast Helmut Förnbacher · Christian Doermer · Andrea Jonasson · Monika Peitsch
Plot Two boyhood friends from different backgrounds reflect back on their childhood growing up during World War II. Both are nearly 30 years old and share a common mistrust of the...
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Verrater am Werk
1938 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany
Direction Viktor Tourjansky
Cast Willy Birgel · Hilde Weissner · Bernhard Minetti · Otto Wernicke
Plot A patriotic military man foils a plot by anarchists against the government of an unnamed country, in this Nazi era propaganda drama.
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Heidi
1952 · Movie · 97 min. · Switzerland
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Elsbeth Sigmund · Heinrich Gretler · Thomas Klameth · Elsie Attenhofer
Plot Heidi is a little orphan girl who is taken by her aunt to live with her grandfather, who lives in a secluded cabin in the Alps. At first the old...
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Arzt aus Leidenschaft
1959 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Werner Klingler
Cast Adrian Hoven · Willy Birgel · Klausjürgen Wussow · Antje Geerk
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Heidi and Peter
1955 · Movie · 95 min. · Switzerland
Direction Franz Schnyder
Cast Heinrich Gretler · Elsbeth Sigmund · Thomas Klameth · Emil Hegetschweiler
Plot Heidi lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps in the summer, and she and Peter play and tend the goats. In the winter, she stays with Peter's mother, and...
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Die Heilige und ihr Narr
1957 · Movie · 91 min. · Austria
Direction Gustav Ucicky
Cast Gerhard Riedmann · Gudula Blau · Hertha Feiler · Willy Birgel
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Between Time and Eternity
1956 · Movie · 83 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Arthur Maria Rabenalt · José Antonio Nieves Conde
Cast Lilli Palmer · Willy Birgel · Carlos Thompson · Robet Lindner
Plot Story of an incurably ill woman who finally finds the great love of her life with a fisherman while she is on holiday in Mallorca.
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Fanny Elssler
1937 · Movie · 83 min. · Germany
Direction Paul Martin
Cast Lilian Harvey · Rolf Möbius · Willy Birgel · Paul Hoffmann
Plot Prince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt—Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles—son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking...
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Fürst Woronzeff
1934 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany
Direction Arthur Robison
Cast Albrecht Schönhals · Hansi Knoteck · Willy Birgel · Heinrich Berg
Plot Baron Franz von Naydek is confused again and again with the prince Woronzeff, since both are deceptively similar each other. A day comes for Woronzeff this similarity very convenient. Since...
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The Private's Job
1937 · Movie · 82 min. · Germany
Direction Karl Ritter
Cast Heinrich George · Paul Otto · Mathias Wiedman · Ernst Karchow
Plot During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
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Kongo-Express
1939 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany
Direction Eduard von Borsody
Cast Marianne Hoppe · Willy Birgel · René Deltgen · Hermann Speelmans
Plot Renate Brinkmann is a German lady on a railway journey in Africa. She is wooed by two very different men. One is a hard drinking, cocky French aviator, the other...
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