Christine Kaufmann
Date of birth: 1945-01-11
Place of birth: Lengdorf, Styria, Austria
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Cristine Kofmann
Biography
Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured. Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared in Escape from East Berlin. In 1963 Kaufmann married Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Bulba (1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (born July 19, 1964) and Allegra (born July 11, 1966). They divorced in 1968. Kaufmann resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage. Kaufmann is also a successful businesswoman, promoting her own cosmetics products line that sells well in Germany. She has written several books about beauty and health, as well as two autobiographies. She speaks three languages: German, English, and French. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Kaufmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Lili Marleen
1981-01-14
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je
Lola
1981-08-20
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a
Bagdad Cafe
1987-11-12
A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her un
Girls in Uniform
1958-07-07
A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she f
Day of the Idiots
1981-10-31
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
Die singenden Engel von Tirol
1958-09-19
Die Winzerin von Langenlois
1957-03-28
Witwer mit fünf Töchtern
1957-09-06
The Swordsman of Siena
1962-10-19
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than ea
Winter Holidays
1959-06-18
Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest,
Taras Bulba
1962-11-21
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a C
The Last Days of Pompeii
1959-11-12
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of bl
A Man Named Rocca
1961-11-17
Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971-07-21
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue
Hard to Be a God
1990-01-25
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
1980-10-28
In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphe
The Last Pedestrian
1960-09-15
Heinz Erhardt wanders through the Black Forest as a photographer for a magazine. On the train he mee
Town Without Pity
1961-10-10
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and ar
Constantine and the Cross
1961-02-02
Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to
The Excluded
1982-03-26
Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each fo
Fireflower: The Two Lives of Marisa Mell
2023-03-25
Who was Marisa Mell? The personae Marisa Mell and Marlies Theres Moitzi, the famous Graz actress’ re
Willow Springs
1973-06-12
Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of t
The Death of Maria Malibran
1972-03-02
A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singe
Gold Flakes
1976-05-20
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in betwe
The Story Teller
1989-05-26
In this mystery/thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Nico Thomkins (Udo Schenk), a write
Alle lieben Peter
1959-06-03
Liebesticket nach Hause
2008-09-22
33-year-old Jackie has a real problem: Frederik Forster, the son of a rich and powerful Munich publi
The White Horse Inn
1952-12-19
Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only
Fahr zur Hölle
2011-02-13
Escape from East Berlin
1962-10-22
East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a t
Rosen-Resli
1954-05-04
The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to
Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n
1955-09-22
Salto Mortale
1954-12-17
90 Minuten nach Mitternacht
1962-10-25
Die wilden Fünfziger
1983-09-23
Der Klosterjäger
1953-08-28
Blackmail Chase
1976-04-02
A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss wh
Höllische Nachbarn
1998-10-01
Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer
2000-04-07
Embezzled Heaven
1958-10-02
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
1956-09-26
Toller Hecht auf krummer Tour
1961-12-22
Via Mala
1961-08-09
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen
1995-12-02
Christmas is just around the corner, but Lieschen has nothing to look forward to. Unless a miracle h
Love Birds
1969-11-07
Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered.
First Love
1959-02-04
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leave
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
2008-09-21
Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form
Die Schläfer
1998-11-22
Claire suffers from memory loss, but is constantly tormented by fragmentary memories. The search for
Bend Sinister
1970-01-07
In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a
Der schweigende Engel
1954-10-20
The deaf-mute little girl Angelika is a talented dancer and is trained by a ballet mistress so that
Immobilien
1973-02-21
The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire
Ein Herz schlägt für Erika
1956-02-23
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
2014-10-23
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t
Staatsanwältin Corda
1953-03-04
Stille
2013-02-13
Harry Cliewer, a famous television journalist, is at the height of his career. His daring interview
Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
1998-07-08
The Wolters have lived with the Grabowskis as neighbors for 10 years. But everything suddenly comes
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990-01-22
Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
1978-02-19
Das Double
1993-12-30
Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris
2003-01-19
Gestrickte Spuren
1971-08-12
Inflation im Paradies
1983-05-05
Four-part episodic film about the everyday lives of young people. The focus is on a café as a commun
Julius Caesar
1988-11-22
Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar
Tender Sharks
1967-03-10
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
Birkenhof & Lerchenau
1994-01-01
Bent or Broken
1975-11-14
A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a mi
Red Lips
1960-05-14
A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite som
Wild and Wonderful
1964-06-09
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pr
Das Männerquartett
1978-01-16
Ziemlich weit weg
1983-09-28
A struggeling TV documentarian's personal and professional life crumbles as he moves between the cit
The Swing
1983-10-14
Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the da
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
1960-08-18
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeat
The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave
1994-04-29
What are the Knickerbocker Band doing at midnight in the cemetery? Is a spirit really speaking form
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff
1994-12-22
The shaggy poodle-bobtail mix Willy Wuff rescues two small puppies and ends up with them involuntari
Haider lebt - 1. April 2021
2002-11-07
Vienna in 2021. Europe is divided into American sectors. The currency is being converted from the eu
Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen
1974-04-17
Pankow ’95
1983-10-27
Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious econ
The Gold of Love
1983-02-25
Young Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence
Rings of Fear
1978-08-19
Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a
Joan's Dream
1975-01-01
With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visi
Un trono para Cristy
1960-06-02