Brigitte Mira
Date of birth: 1910-04-20
Place of birth: Hamburg, German Empire [now Germany]
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Brigitte Mira (20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Brigitte Mira's mother was German and her father was Jewish Russian. During the Nazi dictatorship, Mira took part in the propaganda series Liese und Miese. She played Miese (germ. bad one)--the bad role model according to Nazi ideology that listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. But her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was soon cancelled for being counter productive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish. Even though she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and the fact she had to hide her identity, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all. Even if Mira was born in Hamburg she early on moved to Berlin and through her TV work came to embody the typical Berlin sense of humor. Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in Fear Eats the Soul (1974), a role for which she won a German Film Award. In the 1980s Mira achieved another big success with the television series Drei Damen vom Grill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Mira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974-03-05
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown
Große Klappe, großes Herz
2018-04-20
Who is the funniest Berliner? Helga Hahnemann or Edith Hancke, Brigitte Mira or Cindy from Marzahn?
Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli
1970-04-09
A murder has taken place in the “Ostend” hotel in St. Pauli and Inspector Canisius is called to the
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974-11-01
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny ce
Schlag auf Schlag
1959-01-29
Chinese Roulette
1977-02-23
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the f
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975-07-07
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a
Fear of Fear
1975-07-08
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplic
Willi und die Windzors
1996-11-27
The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the cou
Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen
1958-10-01
Peter wants to practice for an upcoming jazz competition with his friends Willi, Oskar, and Jupp. Bu
Geschminkte Jugend
1988-01-31
Though originally slated for a 1960 release, the full original film was only released in 1988. A hea
Der Partyphotograph
1968-11-29
A television technician who is mistaken for a star photographer can hardly save himself from girls w
Fabian
1980-04-25
The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collap
After Midnight
1981-09-23
The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi stat
Trouble im Penthouse
1988-12-30
Professor Lichtwitz, a successful architect and notorious womanizer, secretly accesses his penthouse
Prozeß Mariotti
1970-10-15
Zwanzig Mädchen und die Pauker: Heute steht die Penne kopf
1971-02-25
The Secret Carrier
1975-06-29
So ein Millionär hat's schwer
1958-12-18
Edward Collins wants nothing more than to live a modest life. But as a millionaire with a luxurious
Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr
1976-09-08
Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call gir
The Berliner
1948-12-31
Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied b
Die wilden Fünfziger
1983-09-23
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann s
Drei gegen Hollywood
1982-02-20
In the 1930s, three unsuccessful variety artists dream of making it big. When they hear about the ri
Everyone Dies Alone
1976-01-21
When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies,
Du bist wunderbar
1959-10-15
Kamikaze '89
1982-07-16
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a
Girl in a Boot
1985-01-18
An East Berlin woman falls in love with a Swiss cook.
The Tragedy of Silence
1962-01-12
Cautionary drama, with vigorous attack on Germany's laws governing abortion.
Murderous Decisions
1991-12-15
A thriller about a maniac murderer who to the outside world is a celebrity TV presenter. His beautif
Rosamunde
1990-02-01
Berlin at the beginning of the 1930s, economic crisis, chaos: Bruno, Franz and Emil, three unemploye
Satan’s Brew
1976-10-07
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan Ge
Killer kennen keine Furcht
1989-10-08
Three guests in a luxury hotel. The highly respected managing director of a computer company, an act
Der Stern von Santa Clara
1958-10-02
...und abends in die Scala
1958-02-22
The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star.
Wir hau’n den Hauswirt in die Pfanne
1971-04-25
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973-07-12
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the
Sigi, der Straßenfeger
1984-10-18
Street sweeper Sigi finds a box containing not only 300,000 marks, but also a photo of his unsympath
Was zu beweisen war
1986-10-09
Gesucht wird Ricki Forster
1991-01-01
Der Showmaster
1993-01-01
Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen
2000-04-28
Widow Käthe Mühlmann is a little eccentric. Every day she confides her worries to the photo of her h
Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl
1982-01-01
Frau Jenny Treibel
1972-01-01
Set in Berlin in the eighties of the 19th century. The focus is on the upper-class family of Kommerz
Kein Reihenhaus für Robin Hood
1983-06-27
The industrialist Greskämper, who is responsible for mass redundancies, is kidnapped by terrorists.
Der Tod kommt durch die Tür
1983-01-01
Adolf and Marlene
1977-03-15
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come
Primel macht ihr Haus verrückt
1980-02-25
Nine-year-old Primel’s single mother must leave town, so her apartment building’s seven tenants take
Die Liebe des Jahres
1959-12-31
Der Vetter aus Dingsda
1970-03-14
Die beiden Freundinnen
1978-04-09
Berlin 1923: A murder case shakes the city. Carpenter Elli poisoned her husband because he wanted to
Leben im Winter
1982-01-01
Klippen des Todes
1993-01-01
Im Namen einer Mutter
1960-09-01
Der Prozeß Mary Dugan
1960-03-08
Wann heiraten Sie meine Frau?
1978-07-01
The Woman Across the Way
1978-11-24
A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's
Bei Pfeiffers ist Ball
1966-03-05
Im Ballhaus ist Musike
1967-11-18
Ab in den Süden
1982-02-13
Angst isst Seele auf
2002-10-24
Shot with striking immediacy by a subjective camera, “Angst isst Seele auf” assumes the point of vie
Die Spur führt ins Verderben
1993-01-01
Edgar Allen Poe fanatic and literature professor Dudley (Heinz Hoenig) is an extraordinary chamber s
Aszendent Liebe
2001-06-15
The Berlin Observatory is facing the financial end. Against the will of the renowned physicist Rober
Dreißig Silberlinge
1971-01-27
Pension Schöller
1980-01-06
Kleiner Mann, was nun?
1973-12-29
Emma Morschel, known as Lämmchen, is expecting a child. So she marries her boyfriend, Johannes Pinne
Vicky und Nicky
1987-03-16
A movie directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.
Geheimakte Lenz
1992-03-23
Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Ehrenhäuptling der Watubas
1974-05-31
Feuerwerk
1963-06-29
Loriots Telecabinet
1974-11-13
A sharp-witted parody of the talk show format, this self-conceived television special by legendary G
Schwarzer Lohn und weiße Weste
1985-01-01
The head of a newly created office against illegal employment exchange is supposed to stop undeclare
Mrs. Cheney's End
1965-10-13
So toll wie anno dazumal
1962-08-09
Fox and His Friends
1975-06-06
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things
Lili Marleen
1981-01-14
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je
Die Spur der anderen
1985-03-12
Nachbarn und andere nette Menschen
1979-10-06
Bühnenbild mit Dame
1982-01-02
Love Living, Live Loving
1977-01-01
The gentle inhabitants of a quaint Berlin apartment house, damaged by the Second World War but posse
Wie lernt man Reisen?
1966-07-03
Die Geburtstagsfeier
1978-01-01
Fassbinder's Women
2000-11-10
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner
Jack and Jenny
1963-12-25
Saleswoman Jenny is crazy about the painter Jack. But Jack does not want to marry, even though he l
War’n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt?
2006-06-12
"Did you ever fall in love with me?" - that was how the popular comedian Max Hansen ironically yet e
When Fear Eats the Soul
2007-02-01
Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fra
Der Fall Opa
1972-09-13
Schwarzer Peter - Märchenoper für kleine und große Leute
1966-12-25
Dem Tod auf der Spur
1988-01-11
Annie Get Your Gun
1965-04-03
Frau Luna
1964-12-25
Fritz Steppke and his friends Lämmermeier and Pannecke fly to the moon in a steerable balloon. Mrs.
Wie einst im Mai
1961-04-30
1838: Fritz Jüterbog and Ottilie von Henkeshofen love each other, but the difference in status is to
Drei Orangen
1959-01-03
Was nicht im Baedecker steht: Bitte, einsteigen zu Käses Rundfahrt!
1953-04-17
Berlin-Melodie
1963-03-31
Die Belagerung der Josephine
1963-10-01
Bubusch
1962-03-06
Im Ballhaus wird geschwoft
1968-07-05
Die Marquise von Arcis
1961-12-19
Die Murmel
1982-12-24
The sweetness of strangers
1997-08-27
Once upon a time very much alike the twenties in Germany, a little town is frightened to death by an
Like a Bird on a Wire
1975-05-05
A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira
Und ab geht die Post
1981-08-30
1 Berlin-Harlem
1974-01-01
An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, wh
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
1997-10-01
"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who
Kino im Rausch - Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
2022-02-09
Die Computer-Show
1971-01-21