Günther Simon
Acting
Biography
Günther Simon (1925–1972) was a German actor. He came to prominence through roles in several DEFA films.
Born: May 11, 1925
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
At a French Fireside
Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ordered to be kind to the populace, since the West German High Command wishes the French to forget the atrocities that were committed during the Second World War. Klaus falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of the local mayor. He discovers that his commanders intend to demolish the ruins of a local church, in which civilians were murdered by the German occupation forces at 1944. A local journalist who researches the event discovers that West German General Rucker ordered the massacre, but he is mysteriously murdered. Klaus defies his commanding officer Siebert, who instructs him to steal the documents indicting Rucker, and hands the evidence over to Jeanne.
The Russian Miracle
A two-part East German documentary tracing Russia’s transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union, from the 1917 October Revolution to the achievements of the space program. Directed by Andrew Thorndike and Annelie Thorndike, the film assembles extensive archival footage to chart political upheaval, ideological consolidation, and technological ambition in twentieth-century Russia. Produced by DEFA and first broadcast on East German television in 1963.
Das Kleid
Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally make it inside, the tyrannical Emperor Max demands they make him new clothes that would "bring all creatures to their knees." Hans and Kumpan claim only intelligent people can see the robe, and in order to prove himself clever, the emperor haughtily displays himself before his subjects wearing his new invisible regalia.
Tinko
After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any collective farming activities. He desperately wants a large-scale farm like Kimpel's in order to pass it on to his adored grandson, Tinko. When Kraske's son Ernst returns from a POW camp and gives his support to the new communal project, tensions arise within the family and little Tinko is caught in the middle.
Der Reserveheld
The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy about the army. So Horricht believes it a joke, when he receives an induction-order as reserve-officer... but the captain tries his best to make him realize this is no laughing matter.
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
The Sailor's Song
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
Sheriff Teddy
A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.
Alfons Zitterbacke
Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various mishaps.
Filmography
as Fleischer
as Helmut Kamp
as Pastor
as Wallenstock
as Franz Beier
as John Sieg
as Fred Krause
as Zollkommissar Peter Zinn
as Jürgen Fohrmann
as Kapitän
as Vater Zitterbacke
as Minister
as Erhard Faber
as Richard Lot
as Oberst
as Ernst Thälmann
as Palomino
as Manfred Sibelka
as (narrator)
as SS-Gruppenführer Upitz
as Verteidiger
as General Rucker
as Heinz Lippert
as Dr. Brehm
as Paul Steinmetz
as Dr. Cramm
as Parteisekretär Reichert
as Richard Wagner, Kommandant
as Oberleutnant Suter
as Richard Bertram
as Robert Brinkmann, deutscher Pilot
as 1. Sekretär der SED-Kreiparteileitung
as Max Matuschek
as Tex Stankowsky
as Erich Steigert
as Gerhardt
as Gustl Wagner
as Lehrer Freitag
as Ernst Kraske
as Georges
as Kommissar Wendt
as Kapitän Franz Müller
as Ernst Thälmann
as Ernst Thälmann
as Orje
as Heinz Weimann