Kurt Raab
Kurt Raab was a West German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on 31 film projects.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4736 |
| Birthday | 1941-07-20 |
| Place of Birth | Bergreichenstein, Sudetenland [now Kasperské Hory, Czech Republic] |
| Also Known As | Curd Melber, |
1985
Feel the Motion
2.7/10
Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she meet...
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Feel the Motion
1970
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
7.3/90
Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to p...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1982
The Magic Mountain
6/12
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachi...
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The Magic Mountain
1983
Bolero
3.3/3
Pete is no stranger to success, delivering hit series as a musician in a rock group. When he parts ways with his band and produces his first solo LP,...
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Bolero
1984
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
4.8/6
Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant.
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Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
1975
Fox and His Friends
7.2/150
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive r...
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Fox and His Friends
1976
Satan’s Brew
6.258/33
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his d...
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Satan’s Brew
1984
Cheaters
4.8/21
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the y...
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Cheaters
1975
Fear of Fear
6.2/29
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed menta...
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Fear of Fear
1978
Boarding School
4/15
This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...
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Boarding School
1979
Ticket of No Return
6/14
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
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Ticket of No Return
1977
The Stationmaster’s Wife
5.2/12
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
6.4/10
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1973
Tenderness of the Wolves
5.6/45
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, a...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
1982
The Ghost
6.3/5
Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun, arguing that they are marrie...
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The Ghost
1983
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
3.7/6
A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guard...
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1976
The American Soldier
6.2/23
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
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The American Soldier
1980
Slow Attack
6/1
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her famil...
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Slow Attack
1972
Bremen Freedom
6/5
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery i...
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Bremen Freedom
1970
The Coffee House
5.3/3
People meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse; the conversations are mostly about money, but also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity a...
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The Coffee House
1971
The Ancestress
0/0
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The Ancestress
1984
Out of Order
5.9/42
It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the buil...
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Out of Order
1971
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
0/0
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
7.737/451
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she...
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1985
Angry Harvest
6.2/12
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's n...
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Angry Harvest
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
6.6/79
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After r...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
1970
The Niklashausen Journey
5.4/8
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket? The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to ha...
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The Niklashausen Journey
1974
The Brutalization of Franz Blum
5.2/13
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. Fo...
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
1980
Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen
7/1
A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world wants to get hold of the product.
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Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen
1973
Jail Bait
5.8/13
In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the constraints...
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Jail Bait
1971
Mathias Kneißl
5/1
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole from the...
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Mathias Kneißl
1976
The Atlantic Swimmers
7/1
Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.
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The Atlantic Swimmers
1977
Adolf and Marlene
6/2
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arri...
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Adolf and Marlene
1979
Der Durchdreher
0/0
The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper a...
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Der Durchdreher
1975
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
7.6/34
Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1983
Traumlage
0/0
The farm that Barthel and his sister run near Munich is in a dream location. But it is unprofitable and is rapidly falling into disrepair. Barthel's s...
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Traumlage
1970
Love Is Colder Than Death
6.2/57
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.
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Love Is Colder Than Death
1989
Yearning for Sodom
0/0
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with Fassbinder,...
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Yearning for Sodom
1981
Frankfurt: The Face of a City
4.6/11
Bored with her stuffy village life, teenager Susanne decides to run away to the bright lights Frankfurt, while her boyfriend does his military. Caught...
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Frankfurt: The Face of a City
1971
Whity
5.1/22
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive yo...
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Whity
1982
Liebeskonzil
0/0
Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satiricall...
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Liebeskonzil
1977
Nur ein kleines bisschen Liebe
0/0
A young sex worker in search of love...
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Nur ein kleines bisschen Liebe
1981
Angels of Iron
5.8/4
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the charac...
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Angels of Iron
1984
Rambo Zambo
0/0
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Rambo Zambo
1981
Today We're Playing Boss
3.7/3
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
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Today We're Playing Boss
1983
Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
0/0
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Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
1982
Dr. Margarete Johnsohn
10/1
The divorced and emancipated Margarete Johnson falls in love with her young and extremely medical bandaged nephew.
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Dr. Margarete Johnsohn
1975
Like a Bird on a Wire
5.8/6
A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and joke,...
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Like a Bird on a Wire
1974
Martha
6.9/67
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous hus...
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Martha
1971
Beware of a Holy Whore
6.2/60
Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a purposeful way to spend their time waiti...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
1983
Hauptsache: Leben..
0/0
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Hauptsache: Leben..
1987
Escape from Sobibor
7.213/204
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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Escape from Sobibor
1982
Ich werde warten
0/0
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Ich werde warten
1983
Consistency Is Key
0/0
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Consistency Is Key
1979
The Fall
0/0
Film adaptation of the last part of Martin Walser's "Kristlein Trilogy": After the perpetually failing intellectual Anselm Kristlein had to make a liv...
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The Fall
1989
Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja
7.5/2
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Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja
1971
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
5.1/13
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1981
Total vereist
2/2
The extravagant funeral for a suddenly deceased family man is attended not only by his bizarre relatives, but also by a frozen pilot from World War I...
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Total vereist
1985
Parker
5.3/3
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
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Parker
1974
Der Verfolger
0/0
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Der Verfolger
1981
Die Fahrt nach Schlangenbad
0/0
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Die Fahrt nach Schlangenbad
1983
Bella Donna
0/0
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose nu...
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Bella Donna
1988
Wohin?
0/0
Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovered to be the mastermind behind a terrori...
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Wohin?
1986
Das Totenreich
0/0
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awake...
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Das Totenreich
1989
Motten im Licht
0/0
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Motten im Licht
1990
Transitträume
0/0
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Transitträume
1985
Die Komplizen
0/0
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Die Komplizen
1984
Der Rekord
0/0
Rico Moreno is trying to break the world record for continuous television in order to finance an illegal private broadcasting project on the high seas...
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Der Rekord
1983
The Olympic Champion
0/0
Dentist Adi has an extraordinary dream: a boy appears to him and asks to become his father. The unknown boy has chosen the most beautiful woman in Mun...
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The Olympic Champion
1983
Der Zappler
0/0
Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illness is met with hostility and rejection by the chil...
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Der Zappler
1981
Wie die Weltmeister
0/0
Franz Bielek is a bailiff by conviction. However, his overzealousness is increasingly a thorn in the side of his superiors, so they transfer him from...
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Wie die Weltmeister
1979
Victor
0/0
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Victor
1977
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
0/0
An unsuccessful artistic director tries to raise money for a new opera house at a gala with celebrities from the worlds of culture and finance (and th...
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Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977
Group Portrait with a Lady
4.7/12
Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.
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Group Portrait with a Lady
1986
Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
5.5/2
Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that has so far failed to materialize.
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Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
1970
Weg vom Fenster
0/0
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Weg vom Fenster
1969
Die Revolte
0/0
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Die Revolte
2011
My Name Is Not Ali
5.8/5
Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interv...
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My Name Is Not Ali
1971
Rio das Mortes
5/15
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's gi...
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Rio das Mortes
1984
Humus
0/0
A German short starring Kurt Raab.
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Humus
1982
Fire and Sword
4.4/5
The young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde. He falls in love with her, unaware that she is the da...
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Fire and Sword
1970
End of the Commune?
0/0
A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of...
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End of the Commune?
1977
Eierdiebe
0/0
The story of two small-time crooks in the Frankfurt underworld who would like to make it big, but fail time and again.
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