Date of birth: 1931-01-19
Place of birth: Stolp, Pomerania, Germany (now Slupsk, Pomorskie, Poland)
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Отто Меллис

Otto Mellies was a German actor on stage, in film and television, and a voice actor. He was known for his performance of the title role of Lessing's Nathan the Wise on stage 325 times.

1965-06-17
After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, whe

1991-03-21
Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all hav

1973-12-30
A young couple from the present day is transported by magic to a distant fairy-tale world. There the

1986-11-20
In the GDR, purchasing a car was such a difficult process that many families applied for one years i

2004-09-24
Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flut

2007-06-26
It's mom's birthday and her three daughters want to throw a big party. But everything turns out diff

1967-10-27
Using contemporary artistic representations in words and pictures, the documentary intends to create

1967-01-27
Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

1958-10-31
A young pioneer shows his little sister how to build birdhouses and feeders for the birds to make th

2001-10-25
Lars Schelling runs a sushi bar in Berlin that was financed by the mafia. They now want their money
1970-10-18
A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an u

1991-11-24
A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to

2013-07-23
Kerstin is a successful department head of a tax consulting firm in Berlin. She is respected and fea

2013-10-10
A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.

1997-09-24
Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.

2014-05-02
Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in

2011-12-19
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the subur
1987-04-24
A German scientist drowns while on vacation in Bulgaria. The GDR state security authorities become i

1984-11-18
The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many ye

1962-11-01
This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engage

1959-11-09
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a

1989-10-18
Young Uli Merkel is an engineer and inventor. He has a wife and child and is primarily interested in

1964-12-03
A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people

1957-09-27
In works like “Guide Dog Ruepel” (1962), Bärbl Bergmann was the first feature film director in the G

2007-04-26
Dr. Sonja Martin is a neurosurgeon at a large clinic in Leipzig. She loves her job. But she has bigg

1979-06-03
Professor Wilkers saw the trip to Thailand as a welcome change. But already in Bangkok, the starting

1962-01-01
Documentary on the former border patrol sergeant Klein. Klein deserted in 1961, defected to the enem
1970-01-01
"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropo

1955-08-03
In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Ka
1996-03-31
When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, t
2015-10-19
Eva is a passionate teacher. After the death of her mother, she tries to find a new direction in lif

1977-12-26
Gunnar, a bigmouth, hitchhikes from Berlin to Rostock with his brother's duffel bag. Right at the st

1978-02-03
A group of tourists from the GDR spend their holiday at the coast of Bulgaria. When making a trip to

2010-12-17
1947: the Russians have uranium extracted from the newly founded SAG Wismut mine in the Ore Mountain

2011-03-21
Wealthy sawmill owner Reinhard Lorenz has two daughters who compete for his love: The older Manuela

1982-12-24
Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin.
1976-09-23
Private detective Fritsch from Munich had received a lucrative assignment: he was to obtain proof of

1989-12-10
1523. The Protestant theologian Thomas Müntzer is entrusted with the pastorate by the 'Allstedt Coun
1977-10-19
Single crime writer Tom Clempner receives a delivery of goods that he did not order. Out of the box

1960-12-25
The beautiful and charming laundress Lurette is a well sought-after young woman in Ludwig XV’s Paris

1977-01-02
In England in 1553, the marriage of Queen Mary Tudor to the Spanish crown prince Philip II is being
1982-01-03

1989-12-27
1831. A village schoolteacher Matthias Spitzbart dreams of the ideal school and writes a textbook on

1979-12-26
East Berlin, late 1970s: Because she doesn't really have any particular career aspirations, Marta be

1968-12-08
In spring 1946, Warsaw historian Wojtek arrives in a Polish provincial town to study the Renaissance

1961-06-23
The son of a working-class man, Harry Brenner studied medicine at the ABF and quickly made a career

1988-04-03
In 1787, Friedrich Schiller published his story about a prince who manipulates, seduces, and ultimat
1989-07-02
1990-01-01

1983-01-08
2002-08-09
An ageing genetic scientist recognizes the curse of his own research.
1975-07-06
1990-05-13
On a West German Autobahn, Robert plummets from a bridge and is hospitalized. As he recovers, he fla
1971-11-23
1990-11-25

1959-06-12
A sociohistorical drama about the construction of the Simplon-tunnel: A conflict develops when Germa

1955-04-19
Young, pretty Milli is passionate about winter sports, and of all things, she wins a vacation trip t

1977-04-08
Historical television comedy around Friedrich Alfred Krupp, whose connection to the imperial court a
1969-02-22
1972-02-27
A journey through a nature reserve in the GDR: the island of Hiddensee—with a special focus on the l