Volker Prechtel Trailers
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Volker Prechtel (born August 9, 1941, in Hopfen am See; died August 7, 1997, in Gröbenzell) was a German theater, film, and television actor.
Prechtel initially studied pedagogy and worked as a schoolteacher for several years before finding his way to professional acting through amateur theater stages. With his striking face and distinctive nose, he became a sought-after character actor in film and television, appearing in more than one hundred productions.
Prechtel was also a regular presence on the theater stage. He performed at venues including the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Münchner Volkstheater, the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, and the Münchner Theater für Kinder.
He achieved international recognition in 1986 for his role as the monk Malachias in *The Name of the Rose*, based on the novel by Umberto Eco. In that film, he acted alongside Sean Connery and Helmut Qualtinger. Additionally, he appeared as a public bus driver in the crime series *Der König*.
Volker Prechtel died in 1997—two days before his 56th birthday—from complications related to cancer.
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25 October 1989
Because she believes she is standing in the way of her parents' happiness, seven-year-old Sarah runs away from home.
24 September 1986
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances.
24 December 1981
Flo, a young woman from the province, moves to Berlin to become a photo model.
26 December 1991
A TV special about the christmas celebrations of the most popular TV characters in the ZDF at that time.
17 October 1974
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander.
09 October 1974
When a hunter returns home after two years, he finds nothing is like it used to be, as his cruel rival has stolen his bride.
01 November 1974
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
15 January 1979
A tramp tries to trick the community into paying for the funeral of his fellow tramp who was found frozen to death.
26 April 1985
Bernhard "Big Mäc" Maurer, an ex-motorcycle freak and bored piano teacher, is voted the "perfect motorcyclist" by the trade magazine Motorrad after quitting his job as a music teacher at a Munich high school.
19 September 1991
The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around women but (according to this film) was constantly being propositioned, lewdly or otherwise, by ambitious courtesans.
13 April 1989
For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his childhood in the 1920s, he commemorates the death of his great love as well as he recalls the legal battle with his illegitimate daughter.
14 November 1996
After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail.
03 October 1991
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber.
25 May 1979
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them.
12 November 1976
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
30 May 1988
Fred is a journalist who investigates the death of a man in room 36. He interviews the man's widow and her deranged mother for clues as to how the man died in a hotel room that is rented by the hour.
19 May 1976
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
24 March 1994
Pumuckl meets the blue Klabauter to learn magic. But he has bad intentions for the little goblin. Nevertheless, Pumuckl still finds enough time for his funny pranks.
14 January 1982
Tommy and Mike operate a famous pirate radio station, Germany's most listened-to radio station. The police and the operators of the Bavarian Broadcast Company try to stop their illegal broadcast.
02 April 1992
The four young snoopers Tim, Karl, Kloesschen and Gaby by chance discover a hidden cave near an old castle.
31 January 1991
The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives.
06 February 1976
Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.
11 October 1986
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose".
26 February 1981
Down-on-his-luck private detective Harry Werner just wants a quiet life, but trouble always finds him.
11 January 1986
During the WW2, a Swiss mountain farmer, refuses to follow the government policy to increase self-sufficiency with produce.
01 January 1983
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.
16 September 1993
TV superstar Claudia Fischer basks in the fame she has earned with her erotic “Domino Show.” On her show, she mercilessly exposes her contestants' most intimate feelings.
13 May 1977
Super agents from East and West have 24 hours to foil an assassination attempt on Brezhnev. Together they hunt the terrorist No.
20 February 1982
In the 1930s, three unsuccessful variety artists dream of making it big. When they hear about the rise of sound films in Hollywood, they see their chance: a language school for silent film stars will bring them fame and success.
25 July 2022
An oral history of the 1986 film adaptation of "The Name of the Rose", gathering together the memories of several members of the surviving cast/crew.
10 April 1997
Eleven-year-old Lorenz ends up on a strange island: everything here is upside down. Pears are called apples, dogs meow, cats bark and people wish each other goodbye, hopefully never to see each other again.
12 May 1988
The film consists of several small episodes that take place in and around Munich.
