Armin Mueller-Stahl Movies
A musical prodigy, East Prussian-born Armin Mueller-Stahl was a noted concert violinist while still in his teens. Mueller-Stahl turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950, later launching a 25-year stint as a repertory performer at Theater aum Schiffbaurdamm. The winner of the GDR State Prize for his film work, Mueller-Stahl became persona non grata with the communist regime in 1977, due to his activism in protesting government suppression of performing artists. He relocated to the West in 1980, where he recouped his film stardom in such productions as Fassbinder's Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982) and Agnieszka Holland's Angry Harvest (1985), winning the Montreal Festival "Best Actor" prize for his performance in the latter. Most American viewers first became aware of Mueller-Stahl through his portrayal of Russian general Samanov in the controversial miniseries Amerika (1987). He then gained perhaps his greatest recognition to date by U.S. film fans for two radically different characterizations: aging Nazi war criminal Mike Laszlo in Costa-Gavras' The Music Box (1989) and Jewish grandpa Sam Krischinsky in Barry Levinson's Avalon (1990). He spent the rest of the decade working steadily in Hollywood and abroad, appearing in such films as Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth (1991), The X-Files (1998), and Jakob the Liar (1999). In 1996, he earned particular acclaim and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of pianist David Helfgott's domineering father in Scott Hicks' Shine. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide- 1972
This documentary covers the Democratic National Convention of 1972. ~ All Movie Guide
In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit (Jutte Hoffman) has two affairs which don't work out, and one lesbian friendship which she retains. She is looking for a husband, though, and thinks she has spotted a candidate in her fellow factory worker (Rolf Ludwig). As she contemplates marrying him, her story is told in a series of flashbacks. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp risk their lives by taking in a young Jewish boy rescued from a Polish ghetto. The camp commander hears about the boy and tightens up on the already cruelly treated prisoners. They whisk the boy away from being discovered, always staying one step ahead of the Nazi guards and the livid commandant. The boy is eventually discovered and both he and the prisoners now face certain death. Only the Allied invasion and subsequent tank patrols can save the prisoners and their young friend from doom. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fred Delmare, Erwin Geschonneck, (more)
- 1962
Three childhood friends each walk down a separate path in life in this standard East German wartime drama by director Frank Beyer about conflicting politics. When the three friends reach adulthood, the two men are diametrically opposed on philosophical and political grounds. One is a Communist who also happens to be in love with the third member of the trio, a young woman who later opts to go for training in Russia. The other is a Nazi. But in spite of their differences, the two men end up in the same German battalion on the Russian front as they risk their lives -- one of them fighting for a cause he opposes. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thein, (more)
