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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

film and stage actor (1930-2014)
December 8, 1930 (February 1, 2014)
U.S. 2008. Adventures by Rian Johnson with Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo. A wealthy heiress joins forces with two brothers who are burglars, unaware that they intend to defraud her.
Runtime: 113 min.

House of the Sleeping Beauties

V.O.: Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen
All. 2006. Mores drama by Vadim Glowna with Vadim Glowna, Angela Winkler, Maximilian Schell. A wealthy old man who has never recovered from the death of his wife and daughter becomes a regular customer of a strange brothel.
Runtime: 99 min.

For the Love of a Priest

V.O.: Die Liebe eines Priesters
All. 2005. Sentimental drama by Franz Josef Gottlieb with Erol Sander, Sonsee Neu, Maximilian Schell. A former con man about to become a priest stumbles upon the woman he saved from drowning six years earlier and falls in love with her.
U.S. 2001. Mores comedy by Henry Jaglom with Anouk Aimée, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell. Various dalliances take place between representatives of the film industry gathered in Cannes for the film festival.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2001. Musical drama by Karen Arthur with Alison Elliott, Maximilian Schell, Tony Goldwyn. In the 1890s, a young woman leaves her small Colorado town to pursue a career as an opera singer in Chicago.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1998. Disaster movie by Mimi Leder with Téa Leoni, Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood. Americans are preparing for a terrible cataclysm when a giant comet heads toward Earth.
Runtime: 157 min.
U.S. 1998. Mores drama by Jeroen Krabbé with Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Maximilian Schell. In 1972, in Antwerp, a young Jewish woman gets a job as a housekeeper with a traditional Hasidic family, where she becomes attached to a withdrawn child.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 1997. Mores drama by Guy Ferland with Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Calista Flockhart.
Runtime: 101 min.
All. 1994. Biblical drama by Joseph Sargent with Richard Harris, Barbara Hershey, Maximilian Schell.
Runtime: 175 min.
U.S. 1991. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Kyra Sedgwick, Maximilian Schell, Amanda Plummer. In 1947, a young Jewish woman working in the New York fashion industry finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her sister who survived the Holocaust.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Rose Garden

V.O.: Der Rosengarten
Runtime: 112 min.
U.S. 1985. History by Marvin J. Chomsky, Lawrence Schiller with Jan Niklas, Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave. The life of Tsar Peter I, the contested ruler of Russia in the early eighteenth century.
Runtime: 371 min.

Man Under Suspiction

V.O.: Morgen in Alabama
All. 1984. Social drama by Norbert Kuckelmann with Maximilian Schell, Lena Stolze, Robert Aldini. A lawyer assigned to defend a young man discovers that he is part of a neo-Nazi group.
Runtime: 126 min.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1983. Horror by Robert Markowitz with Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York. A disfigured musician takes refuge in the basement of a theatre and becomes the protector of a young singer.
All. 1983. Documentary by Maximilian Schell. A profile of the life and career of actress Marlene Dietrich.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1979. Spy drama by Mark Robson with Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Maximilian Schell.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1979. Science-fiction by Gary Nelson with Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux.
Runtime: 97 min.
G.-B. 1977. War drama by Sam Peckinpah with James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason. In 1943, on the Eastern Front, the shenanigans of an ambitious captain to obtain an important military decoration.
Runtime: 124 min.
U.S. 1977. Psychological drama by Fred Zinnemann with Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards. Shortly before World War II, an American playwright reunites with an idealistic childhood friend in Germany who was involved in the anti-Nazi resistance.
Runtime: 116 min.

End of the Game

V.O.: Der Richter und sein henker
All. 1975. Crime drama by Maximilian Schell with Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt. A commissioner finds an opportunity to punish a murderer who had escaped justice.
Runtime: 103 min.
G.-B. 1974. Thriller by Ronald Neame with Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell. A journalist tries to unmask the members of a secret association of former SS guards.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1974. Psychological drama by Arthur Hiller with Maximilian Schell, Lawrence Pressman, Lois Nettleton. A Jewish financier is revealed to be a former Nazi death camp officer who stole the identity of one of his victims.
Runtime: 117 min.

The Pedestrian

V.O.: Der Fussganger
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1972. Psychological drama by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli with Olga Karlatos, Maximilian Schell, Michel Bouquet. A passionate young girl is torn between mystical impulses and guilty love.
Runtime: 111 min.

First Love

V.O.: Erste Liebe
All. 1970. Psychological drama by Maximilian Schell with Maximilian Schell, John Moulder-Brown, Dominique Sanda. While on a summer vacation in the country with his parents, a teenager is attracted to the beauty of a young neighbour.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1968. Drama by Bernard L. Kowalski with Maximilian Schell, Brian Keith, Diane Baker. Treasure-seekers are endangered by the eruption of a volcano in the Pacific.
Runtime: 135 min.

The Castle

V.O.: Das Schloß
All. 1968. Thriller by Rudolf Noelte with Maximilian Schell, Cordula Trantow, Trudi Daniel. A land surveyor who arrives to work in a village tries in vain to contact the lord who hired him.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Desperate Ones

V.O.: Mas alla della montana
Esp. 1968. Drama by Alexander Ramati with Maximilian Schell, Raf Vallone, Irène Papas. After escaping from a labour camp, two brothers arrive in Uzbekistan where they try to cross the border despite the suspicions that hang over them.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1967. War drama by Ralph Nelson with Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays. The escape of members of an American orchestra who are taken prisoner by the Germans.
Runtime: 105 min.
G.-B. 1966. Spy drama by Sidney Lumet with James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell. A British intelligence employee investigates the suicide of a senior civil servant.
Runtime: 107 min.
G.-B. 1965. Crime drama by Jack Lee Thompson with Ingrid Thulin, Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar. A man wants to get rid of his wife who recently came out of a concentration camp.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 1964. Police comedy by Jules Dassin with Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov. A woman organizes the theft of a precious object from a museum in Istanbul.
Runtime: 118 min.

The Condemned of Altona

V.O.: I Sequestrati di Altona
It. 1963. Psychological drama by Vittorio De Sica with Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Sophia Loren. The son of a German industrialistis locked in an attic since the end of the war.
Runtime: 112 min.
U.S. 1962. Psychological drama by Daniel Mann with Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins, Maximilian Schell. The presence of a young tutor in a family helps the family members to understand each other better.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 1961. Biography by Edward Dmytryk with Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban, Lea Padovani. The story of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, a simple monk gifted with the gift of levitation.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1961. Social drama by Stanley Kramer with Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell. The fictionalized story of a trial brought by Americans against Nazi leaders.
Runtime: 189 min.

Hamlet

V.O.: Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark
All. 1960. Drama by Franz Peter Wirth with Maximilian Schell, Hans Caninberg, Wanda Roth. Convinced that he must kill his uncle to avenge his father, a Danish prince cannot bring himself to do so.
Runtime: 152 min.

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