Anton Diffring

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway (2003)

Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions. Mann talks about his filmmaking philosophy and the challenges of shooting in such rugged locations, and share ...

Anna (1988)

This film is the theatrical follow-up to a very popular German TV-series (also called "Anna"), about a young girl who wants to make it as a prima ballerina. ...

Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis (1988)

The arrival of a mysterious comet heralds impending danger from enemies both old and new. As Ace helps the Doctor defend Earth, she is confronted with a dangerous question..."Doctor Who? ...

Faceless (1988)

A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon's horrifying secret. ...

Der Sommer des Samurai (1986)

In Hamburg, the police are faced with a mystery after a series of burglaries: there are no clues at the crime scene except for a Japanese character. The characters are soon found all over the city. A retired detective and a journalist finally uncover a hug ...

Wahnfried (1986)

Lake Lucerne in 1868: a passionate and forbidden affair flares up between the gifted composer Richard Wagner and the much younger Cosima von Bülow - the aristocrat is already married and the mother of four children. Contrary to all conventions, the two pu ...

Operation Dead End (1986)

Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie (1985)

The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer in Walloon France, where she joined the Order of St. Clare, later returning to England to found her own o ...

The Masks of Death (1984)

Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him a ...

Weltuntergang (1984)

Der Besuch (1984)

The son of actor Robert Drury is kidnapped, and a strange visitor arrives. ...

S.A.S. San Salvador (1983)

Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounte ...

Non Stop Trouble with Spies (1983)

The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert brings the "passenger" to East Berlin. There Boeckmann falls into the cl ...

Escape to Victory (1981)

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime. ...

Tusk (1980)

An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny... ...

Der Durchdreher (1979)

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 and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the da ...

Son of Hitler (1979)

The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. ...

Das Einhorn (1978)

A copywriter gets famous with his first book. When asked to write a new novel about love for his publisher, he urgently needs tutoring since he doesn't know the first thing about it. His way through the beds leads him to the very young Orli. In her he disc ...

Plutonium (1978)

Camouflaged as a political suspense documentary, Plutonium demonstrates the theft of highly enriched nuclear material from a Third World Country nuclear power plant - enough for five bombs of the Hiroshima type. Is this material now in the hands of terrori ...

Io sono mia (1977)

Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her husband Giacinto, he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction. ...

Waldrausch (1977)

No overview found. ...

Valentino (1977)

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom. ...

The Indians Are Still Far Away (1977)

A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland. ...

Vanessa (1977)

Following her parents' death, Vanessa was raised in a convent. Due to an inheritance, she travels to Hong Kong to learn that she inherited a chain of bordellos. Soon, Vanessa has trouble coping as she's thrust into her new world of carnal delights. ...

Montana Trap (1976)

Potato Fritz and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a g ...

The Swiss Conspiracy (1976)

A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christop ...

Operation: Daybreak (1975)

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich. ...

Lehmanns Erzählungen (1975)

H.P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Out of Time (1975)

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for f ...

Shatter (1974)

Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of p ...

Only the Wind Knows the Answer (1974)

The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa ...

Borsalino and Co. (1974)

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man. ...

The Beast Must Die (1974)

Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf. ...

Kiss Me and Die (1974)

When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation leads him to the mansion of Jonathon Lanceford, a man obsessed with the Gothic works of Edgar Allen Poe, and ...

Tony Arzenta (1973)

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue. ...

The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska. ...

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (1973)

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat. ...

Mark of the Devil Part II (1973)

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition. ...

Little Mother (1973)

Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election. She's no stranger to assassination to get what she wants, so some suspect she'll kill her own husband after the ...

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972)

A private detective infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians. ...

The Day the Clown Cried (1972)

An unfinished and unreleased Swedish-French comedy-drama about a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. ...

The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)

In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the p ...

Zeppelin (1971)

The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffre ...

Piggies (1970)

The writer, the publisher, the just-famous poet, the once-famous film director, the dreaded critic, the educated dentist and the half-educated goldsmith are at home in the culture industry, they know their way around, and they have learned to be wary of ea ...

Kill Rommel! (1969)

During WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel. ...

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel (1969)

In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment for crossing his land. Upon returning, he finds his horses near death, and when the noble refuses to compensate him, the merchant fights unsuccessfully against t ...

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too la ...

Counterpoint (1967)

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by ...

The Double Man (1967)

In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a one of its own. ...

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen," to perform the necessary book burnings. ...

The Blue Max (1966)

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills. ...

The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark. ...

Geld, Geld, Geld - 2 Milliarden gegen die Bank von England (1965)

Shots in 3/4 Time (1965)

B 501, a newly developed controller for missiles, has disappeared despite the strict surveillance. Phillippe Tissout is sent by his boss to Paris to take over the case. ...

Operation Crossbow (1965)

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and d ...

Lana: Queen of the Amazons (1964)

A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure. ...

Vorsicht Mister Dodd (1964)

Incident at Midnight (1963)

In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader. ...

Enter Inspector Duval (1961)

Inspector Duval comes to London to help crack the case of a socialite murdered during a jewel heist. ...

Circus of Horrors (1960)

A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents. ...

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200. ...

Mark of the Phoenix (1958)

A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands. ...

A Question of Adultery (1958)

Mark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an automobile accident, she loses her unborn child, and Mark becomes sterile. His father, Brit-stuffy Sir John Loring, has never approved of the marriage and, again, tri ...

Tales of Frankenstein (1958)

In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. ...

Seven Thunders (1957)

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France. ...

Lady of Vengeance (1957)

When publisher William Marshall learns his young ward Melissa Collins has committed suicide, he sets in motion a plan to murder the man who drove Melissa to kill herself. Mistakenly believing that singer Larry Shaw is his intended target, Marshall unwittin ...

The Crooked Sky (1957)

An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang. ...

The Traitor (1957)

One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit ...

House of Secrets (1956)

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them. ...

Reach for the Sky (1956)

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II. ...

Seven Years in Tibet (1956)

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama. ...

The Black Tent (1956)

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - promp ...

Doublecross (1956)

A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies. ...

I Am a Camera (1955)

Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until thei ...

The Colditz Story (1955)

The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisone ...

The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about the ...

Operation Diplomat (1953)

A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances. ...

Albert R.N. (1953)

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards. ...

Park Plaza 605 (1953)

Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the myst ...

The Red Beret (1953)

Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the ...

Never Let Me Go (1953)

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer. ...

Top Secret (1952)

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin do ...

The Woman's Angle (1952)

The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable l ...

Bachelor in Paris (1952)

An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle. ...

Appointment with Venus (1951)

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under ...

Hotel Sahara (1951)

In World War II, desert hotel proprietors Emad and Yasmin are caught between the warring armies and have to constantly shift their political allegiance to whichever army happens to control the area. ...

Highly Dangerous (1950)

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country. ...

State Secret (1950)

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of poli ...

Neutral Port (1940)

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy. ...

Convoy (1940)

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII. ...