Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Know for: Acting
Born: 1906-01-29
Place of birth: Köln, Germany
Also know as:
Chingachgook: The Great Snake (1967)
Chingachgook, a Mohawk-born Delaware warrior, strives to rescue his wife Wahtawah from the clutches of an enemy camp of Huron. Joined by his trusted...
And Then the First Rice (1977)
Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam
The Captain from Cologne (1956)
Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage...
Godfather Death (1980)
Once upon a time, there was a poor farmer who had thirteen children. Since the farmer was so poor, there was never anything left for the youngest of...
Austeria (1983)
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified...
Five Cartridges (1960)
It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade is badly wounded he gives his five...
Two Mothers (1957)
The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.
Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist (1973)
Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to...
Am grauen Strand, am grauen Meer (1980)
An adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".
Effi Briest (1970)
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house that she believes has a...
Der Mord, der nie verjährt (1968)
Film by Wolfgang Luderer.
Life Begins (1960)
A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...
Despite It All! (1972)
October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich...
As Long as There’s Life in Me (1965)
This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary...
Hände hoch oder ich schieße (1966)
Small town policeman Holms suffers from a rather unusual problem: Because of the low crime rate, there is simply not enough to do for him. Deadly...
The Opportunists (1960)
The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.
Wo der Zug nicht lange hält (1960)
Film by Joachim Hasler.
What Would Happen If...? (1960)
In the late 1950s, the collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen on the German-German border. Those...
Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957)
Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.
Stronger Than the Night (1954)
The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a concentration camp and tortured....
The Adventures of Werner Holt (1965)
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the...
The Neighbours (1969)
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
Censored: Kuhle Wampe (1975)
A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932). Directed...
The Sons of Great Bear (1966)
As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Red Fox, who wanted...
Men and Beasts (1962)
The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the...
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...
The Student of Prague (1926)
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to...
The Sailor’s Song (1958)
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...