Maximilian Schell
Was an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961. He is also a writer, director and producer of several films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maximilian Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.763 |
| Birthday | 1930-12-08 |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Also Known As | Максимилиан Шелл, |
1979
Avalanche Express
4.8/45
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to...
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Avalanche Express
2000
I Love You, Baby
0/0
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I Love You, Baby
1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
8.042/800
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chie...
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Judgment at Nuremberg
1985
To Be Hamlet
0/0
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play...
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To Be Hamlet
1993
Abraham
7/38
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank...
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Abraham
1977
Cross of Iron
7.1/418
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews betw...
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Cross of Iron
1983
Les Îles
0/0
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Les Îles
1964
Topkapi
6.5/187
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal...
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Topkapi
1977
A Bridge Too Far
7.2/826
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...
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A Bridge Too Far
1974
The Odessa File
6.603/184
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration cam...
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The Odessa File
2008
The Brothers Bloom
6.596/628
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take...
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The Brothers Bloom
1998
Deep Impact
6.2/2996
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to sav...
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Deep Impact
2007
The Shell Seekers
7.167/6
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives...
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The Shell Seekers
1981
The Chosen
7.2/24
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.
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The Chosen
1979
The Black Hole
5.8/488
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposed...
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The Black Hole
1998
Vampires
6.3/1248
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist...
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Vampires
1997
The Eighteenth Angel
5/32
Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld...
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The Eighteenth Angel
1958
The Young Lions
6.8/133
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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The Young Lions
1977
Julia
6.5/147
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
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Julia
1973
The Pedestrian
6.4/5
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find caus...
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The Pedestrian
1967
The Deadly Affair
6.3/88
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife...
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The Deadly Affair
1976
St. Ives
5.702/47
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
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St. Ives
1975
The Man in the Glass Booth
6/21
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charli...
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The Man in the Glass Booth
1968
Krakatoa, East of Java
5.9/37
A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.
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Krakatoa, East of Java
1999
On the Wings of Love
4/1
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On the Wings of Love
1998
Left Luggage
6.4/29
While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his...
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Left Luggage
1965
Return from the Ashes
6/23
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that...
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Return from the Ashes
1980
The Diary of Anne Frank
5.5/12
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
1992
Stalin
5.3/34
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
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Stalin
2009
Darkness
3.9/7
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events...
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Darkness
2001
Festival in Cannes
6/1
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Mi...
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Festival in Cannes
1962
The Reluctant Saint
7.6/5
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challeng...
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The Reluctant Saint
2006
House of the Sleeping Beauties
5.4/16
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alon...
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House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007
Die Rosenkönigin
5.6/5
The Weidemann have a perfume factory but the business goes bad and blindly trust Marie, a young woman with a gift for the fragrances, to launch a new...
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Die Rosenkönigin
1960
The Fifth Column
9.5/1
A TV film made as part of The Buick-Electra Playhouse.
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The Fifth Column
2004
The Return of the Dancing Master
4.8/8
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town...
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The Return of the Dancing Master
1979
Tales from the Vienna Woods
6/7
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the bu...
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Tales from the Vienna Woods
1962
The Condemned of Altona
7/15
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughte...
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The Condemned of Altona
1967
Counterpoint
6.2/19
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-libe...
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Counterpoint
1979
Together?
4.8/4
Louise has left her husband, launched a career as a dress designer, and together with her son moved in with Giovanni, a lawyer. Despite the emancipate...
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Together?
2002
My Sister Maria
6/5
Maximilian Schell's portrait of his sister Maria.
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My Sister Maria
1985
Man Under Suspicion
5/1
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Man Under Suspicion
1968
The Castle
6.2/5
A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be m...
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The Castle
1970
First Love
5.2/6
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
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First Love
1993
Justice
5.4/5
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Fe...
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Justice
1969
Simon Bolivar
5.5/6
Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.
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Simon Bolivar
1991
Why Havel?
0/0
The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile (2020) authored by the film historian Jiří Voráč....
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Why Havel?
1979
Players
4.1/4
A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love.
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Players
1985
The Assisi Underground
5.5/4
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
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The Assisi Underground
1962
Five Finger Exercise
4.8/3
The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
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Five Finger Exercise
1989
The Rose Garden
6.4/9
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that...
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The Rose Garden
2005
Die Liebe eines Priesters
0/0
Franz Josef Gottlieb's last movie.
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Die Liebe eines Priesters
2002
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
5/1
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Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
1955
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
5.8/7
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1992
Miss Rose White
6/4
Two sisters, one a Polish concentration camp survivor, the other safely relocated to America with her father, are reunited in New York in 1947.
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Miss Rose White
1955
Children, Mother, and the General
5.8/6
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer...
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Children, Mother, and the General
1957
The Last Ones Shall Be First
0/0
The brother of a high ranking lawyer has killed the husband of a Polish woman, with whom he is having an affair. Can the counsel help his brother with...
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The Last Ones Shall Be First
1968
Heidi
6.1/15
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heid...
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Heidi
1956
The Girl from Flanders
8.8/4
A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.
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The Girl from Flanders
1956
Ein Herz kehrt heim
7/1
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Ein Herz kehrt heim
2009
Black Flowers
4.4/8
Following the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking along Elena, the daughter of a Russian spy who died un...
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Black Flowers
1996
The Vampyre Wars
0/0
1996 horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and Robert Englund
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The Vampyre Wars
1961
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
2.5/13
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
2015
Les brigands
4/4
Karl Escher, the son of a prominent banker, was accused of embezzlement and forgery at the bank and went to prison for three years. After his release,...
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Les brigands
1975
The Day That Shook the World
5.9/7
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in...
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The Day That Shook the World
1965
Der seidene Schuh
0/0
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Der seidene Schuh
1956
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
4/1
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Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1958
Die Bernauerin
0/0
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Die Bernauerin
1966
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
0/0
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Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1997
Telling Lies in America
5.8/37
A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment...
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Telling Lies in America
1958
Children of the Mountains
0/0
Josef Rainer is a road worker in a mountain village in Liechtenstein. His wife Marianne works as a waitress in a restaurant to improve the meager hous...
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Children of the Mountains
1955
Ripening Youth
0/0
The trials and tribulations of love in a school community in the still young Federal Republic of Germany.
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Ripening Youth
2003
Alles Glück dieser Erde
4.5/2
To their big surprise, the capable waitress Gundula Kirchner receives from the estate owner Xaver Schönborn the offer to manage his stud as managing d...
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Alles Glück dieser Erde
1993
A Far Off Place
6.2/57
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...
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A Far Off Place
2006
Die Alpenklinik
3/2
After an alleged malpractice that led to the death of his brother, heart surgeon Daniel Guth took the consequences: he gave up his beloved job and ret...
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Die Alpenklinik
1983
The Phantom of the Opera
5.1/7
The Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having rejected his advances but her conductor-husband, believed...
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The Phantom of the Opera
2011
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
0/0
A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron," shot in Yugoslavia in 1976.
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Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
1993
Candles in the Dark
3/1
Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Republic of Estonia. After she arrives, she finds that...
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Candles in the Dark
1966
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
5/3
An overview of John F. Kennedy's political career. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., in 201...
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John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1990
You Can't Live Like That
3/1
A film about the sociopolitical condition of the Soviet society at the end of the eighties.
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You Can't Live Like That
1991
Labyrint
0/0
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Labyrint
1957
Taxichauffeur Bänz
6.8/2
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Taxichauffeur Bänz
1972
Pope Joan
5.9/7
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is...
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Pope Joan
1994
Little Odessa
6.433/201
Long separated from his Russian family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arka...
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Little Odessa
1984
Marlene
7/11
Retrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.
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Marlene
1990
The Freshman
6.3/274
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds h...
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The Freshman
1997
Zwischen Rosen
0/0
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Zwischen Rosen
1959
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
0/0
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Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959
Die sechste Frau
0/0
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Die sechste Frau
1996
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
6.9/18
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1967
The Desperate Ones
0/0
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their...
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The Desperate Ones
1958
Der Meisterdieb
0/0
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Der Meisterdieb
2011
Jedermann Remixed
0/0
Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique cultural-histori...
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Jedermann Remixed
2007
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
0/0
Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.
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Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2004
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
0/0
The actor and the writer reminisce about working on both the Playhouse 90 and Stanley Kramer versions of "Judgment at Nuremberg."
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In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
1972
Paulina 1880
8/2
In 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can jus...
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Paulina 1880
2010
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
0/0
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Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2004
Coast to Coast
7/4
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and the...
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Coast to Coast
1959
Judgment at Nuremberg
0/0
Judgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a co...
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