Аватар персоны Helmut Förnbacher

Helmut Förnbacher

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26-01-1936

Birthday

Aquarius

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

58

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Basel, Switzerland

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

58 Works

producer

0 Works

director

10 Works

writer

0 Works

other

0 Works

Youth

Youth

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
6.9

Year:

2015

The Grüninger File

The Grüninger File

1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.
6.2

Year:

2014

Manipulation

Manipulation

Set in Zurich in the 1950s, a special agent who is near retirement receives a major assignment: Bring down Harry Wind, a top PR manager who has been accused of spying.
6.3

Year:

2011

Liebe und Wahn

Liebe und Wahn

0.0

Year:

2007

König der Herzen

König der Herzen

Florian König is in his early 20s and lives with his mother. He assists her whenever he can. In the weekly newspaper "Alt Ausseer Bote" he reports on a foundling that has been handed in at the baby hatch of Bad Aussee hospital, and is subsequently dismissed by editor-in-chief Anton Grimmeisen. But when the editor Caroline Moosbichler hears about it, she demands Florian's immediate reinstatement. He is to stay on the story. In the process, he finds out that the mother acted out of pure desperation, and he gets on the trail of the love between Jutta Lechner and Thomas Gschnitzer. This love is the origin of the child.
4.0

Year:

2006

Grounding: The Last Days of Swissair

Grounding: The Last Days of Swissair

The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland's economy and to the country's morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when the airline's fleet was grounded on 2 October 2001. "Grounding" is set during the last days of the doomed airline, and tells the story of manager Mario A. Corti's unhappy fate, the last, unlucky CEO at the traditional airline company, as well as of all those nameless people who lost almost everything in the maelstrom of Swissair's downfall: their job, home and their belief in Switzerland.
5.6

Year:

2006

Alles wegen Robert De Niro

Alles wegen Robert De Niro

A comedy directed by Helmut Förnbacher.
0.0

Year:

1996

Rosamunde Pilcher: Stürmische Begegnung

Rosamunde Pilcher: Stürmische Begegnung

The young bookseller Rebecca Bayliss was setting up her new apartment in London when she received news of her mother Lisa's serious illness. Rebecca rushed off to her mother in Ibiza and heard the terrible news: leukemia. During the last hours together, Lisa Bayliss tells her daughter the truth about her origins.
6.8

Year:

1993

Das andere Leben

Das andere Leben

0.0

Year:

1987

Gauner im Paradies

Gauner im Paradies

0.0

Year:

1985

Drei Schlafzimmer

Drei Schlafzimmer

0.0

Year:

1980

Die plötzliche Einsamkeit des Konrad Steiner

Die plötzliche Einsamkeit des Konrad Steiner

Directed by Kurt Gloor
0.0

Year:

1976

Parapsycho: Spectrum of Fear

Parapsycho: Spectrum of Fear

Split into three episodes, this film examines extrasensory perception, reincarnation and telepathy.
4.5

Year:

1975

Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
6.0

Year:

1974

She Devils of the SS

She Devils of the SS

In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other, things get complicated. Especially with the increasing danger from the revengeful Soviet army!
5.1

Year:

1973

Annemarie Lesser

Annemarie Lesser

0.0

Year:

1971

Heintje - Einmal wird die Sonne wieder scheinen

Heintje - Einmal wird die Sonne wieder scheinen

When the bank clerk Klaus Helwig is arrested on suspicion of embezzlement, his son Heintje, whose mother died at birth, comes to his grumpy grandfather's house. Heintje manages to win his heart and prove his father's innocence..
5.7

Year:

1970

Kirschen für Rom

Kirschen für Rom

0.0

Year:

1968

Beyond Control

Beyond Control

Germany 1934. In the middle of a southern German forest, a number of mannequins are placed on the two men, Waldemar Velte and Kurt Sandweg from Wuppertal, with their repeating rifles organize shooting practice.
6.0

Year:

1968

Feldwebel Schmid

Feldwebel Schmid

0.0

Year:

1968

Fliegender Sand

Fliegender Sand

0.0

Year:

1967

Prager Legende

Prager Legende

0.0

Year:

1967

St. Pauli Between Night and Morning

St. Pauli Between Night and Morning

Helmut Schmidt is an ambitious Interpol inspector. He follows a trail of dangerous drug dealers that leads to Hamburg. With the colleagues there, he decides to infiltrate the gang. The beautiful dancer Arlette helps him.
5.0

Year:

1967

Murderers Club of Brooklyn

Murderers Club of Brooklyn

Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter.
8.7

Year:

1967

Hassan Ibn Sabbah

Hassan Ibn Sabbah

0.0

Year:

1967

No Shooting Time for Foxes

No Shooting Time for Foxes

Two old school friends, both in their late twenties. One lives on his parent’s rural estate and does nothing; the other half-heartedly pursues work as a journalist in Düsseldorf.
5.8

Year:

1966

The Violin Case Murders

The Violin Case Murders

The first film adaptation of Jerry Cotton. FBI agents Jerry Cotton and Phil Decker are tracing a group of six murderers. Disguised as a vagabond Jerry Cotton infiltrates the gang. Kitty, the leader's girlfriend, soon becomes Jerry's most important helper. With her help, he's able to prevent a bomb's explosion in a school. The deadly attack on a rich collector he can not prevent. The gangsters flee with the loot and a hunt to the death begins ...
7.0

Year:

1965

Asmodée

Asmodée

0.0

Year:

1964

Romeo und Julia

Romeo und Julia

0.0

Year:

1964

Der Fluggast

Der Fluggast

0.0

Year:

1964

Das Glück läuft hinterher

Das Glück läuft hinterher

Follows the life of several different people in 1960s in Germany for a few days. The story begins, when a juvenile criminal steals an old woman's handbag in a post office and throws it into a parking car, when he feels observed. But there was a lot of money in that bag, and thereby a dozen fortunes become entwined.
0.0

Year:

1963

Das Ende vom Lied

Das Ende vom Lied

0.0

Year:

1963

Süden

Süden

0.0

Year:

1962

Der Schlagbaum

Der Schlagbaum

0.0

Year:

1960

Lampenfieber

Lampenfieber

6.0

Year:

1960

Die Räuber

Die Räuber

0.0

Year:

1959

Hinter den sieben Gleisen

Hinter den sieben Gleisen

They live behind the rails of the classification yard in a small and shabby hut. They take the days as they come, refuse to work on principle and pinch together their livelihood. The three tramps Dürst, Barbarossa and Clown are content with what they have and ignore the outside world, and so far they have fared well. Until now...
7.1

Year:

1959