Peter Kern
Iconoclastic Austrian indie director and former New German Cinema actor Peter Kern isn't just the subject of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's "Kern," but also the low-fi film's strongest creative force. He appeared in more than 70 feature films and directed a further 25. At his peak, Kern worked with the best directors of his era, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Fox and His Friends, The Stationmaster's Wife), Hans-Jurgen Syberberg (Hitler: A Film From Germany) and Wim Wenders (Wrong Move).
“When I yell at you, please do not be immediately hurt. If I insult you, take it as proof of love. Remember, I'm Austrian, insane, hysterical, hypocritical and undemocratic.”
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.052 |
| Birthday | 1949-02-13 |
| Place of Birth | Wien, Austria |
| Also Known As |
1977
Wrong Move
6.768/71
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. O...
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Wrong Move
1978
Despair
6.487/39
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his te...
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Despair
2011
Rent Boys
5.6/11
Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active prostitutes, the realities of male prostitutes in Be...
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Rent Boys
1997
Die Oma ist tot
5.7/5
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Die Oma ist tot
1989
Virgin Machine
4.5/9
A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.
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Virgin Machine
1992
Terror 2000
5/13
Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker...
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Terror 2000
1983
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
4.2/5
A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guard...
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1994
Burning Life
5.8/4
Anna and Lisa, two young women, meet by chance in the vestibule of a bank, and decide after that to go on together leaving a successful trail of bank-...
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Burning Life
1983
Die wilden Fünfziger
2/1
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Die wilden Fünfziger
1977
The Stationmaster’s Wife
5.1/9
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
1975
Fox and His Friends
7.315/119
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb...
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Fox and His Friends
1977
Our Hitler: A Film from Germany
7.1/22
This inventive, exhaustive seven-hour film looks at the rise, reign and demise of Adolf Hitler. German director Hans Jürgen Syberberg, who was a child...
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Our Hitler: A Film from Germany
1974
Karl May
5/7
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By...
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Karl May
1976
The Wild Duck
0/0
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, w...
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The Wild Duck
1979
News from Robber Hotzenplotz
0/0
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News from Robber Hotzenplotz
1976
The Sternstein Manor
7/1
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The Sternstein Manor
1977
Group Portrait with a Lady
5.1/10
Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.
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Group Portrait with a Lady
1991
Malina
6/29
An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under his...
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Malina
2002
Himmel, Polt und Hölle
9/1
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Himmel, Polt und Hölle
1975
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
7.846/26
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1974
La Paloma
5.7/6
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dy...
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La Paloma
1970
Seventeen and Anxious
5.4/5
Zbynek Brynych's forgotten masterpiece "Oh Happy Day" is best described as coming-of-age-psychedelia.
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Seventeen and Anxious
1979
Son of Hitler
5.2/5
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
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Son of Hitler
1984
Rambo Zambo
0/0
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Rambo Zambo
1981
Today We're Playing Boss
4.5/2
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
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Today We're Playing Boss
1989
Johanna d‘Arc of Mongolia
6.1/6
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
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Johanna d‘Arc of Mongolia
1973
Tonight or Never
2.6/5
Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.
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Tonight or Never
2012
Kern
1/1
Two directors shoot a documentary about the controversial director and pugnacious actor Peter Kern. But he cannot be easily rammed into the classical...
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Kern
1977
Die Geisel
0/0
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Die Geisel
1972
Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
5.8/10
Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century Ger...
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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
1977
Kleinhoff Hotel
6.1/6
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. K...
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Kleinhoff Hotel
1972
Adele Spitzeder
0/0
The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. In...
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Adele Spitzeder
1978
Flaming Hearts
5/3
When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with...
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Flaming Hearts
2005
Berlin Nights: Grand Delusions
3.2/5
Claire, Romy, Magali, Loete, and Jim are typical Brienen’s characters: their excessive lifestyle rhythmed by sex and drugs puts them in the margins of...
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Berlin Nights: Grand Delusions
1986
Der wilde Clown
7/1
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Der wilde Clown
2010
Die verrückte Welt der Ute Bock
7/2
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Die verrückte Welt der Ute Bock
1983
Bella Donna
0/0
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose nu...
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Bella Donna
1986
Das Totenreich
0/0
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awake...
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Das Totenreich
1991
Street Kid
4.3/3
Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuses him. He is sent to a bar to pick up customers. T...
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Street Kid
2011
Monkey Sandwich
0/0
Meet Jerry, an obsessive but frustrated director who decides to turn his back on the theatre in favour of a controversial new project. But things soon...
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Monkey Sandwich
1986
Zischke
0/0
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Zischke
1982
Cinématon XVIII
0/0
Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon XVIII
2012
Belief, Love, Death
0/0
When 82-year-old Mary takes her 63-year-old disabled son on a houseboat vacation on Lake Lychen in Brandenburg, things quickly go south as the boat be...
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Belief, Love, Death
2010
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
5.8/4
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence h...
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
5.5/2
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mike...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2020
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
6/7
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work...
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
1996
Wenches
4/1
Esther and Sophie are BFF! When it comes to men, they however differ fundamentally . While the career woman Esther is on uncomplicated sex and therefo...
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Wenches
2007
Die toten Körper der Lebenden
0/0
Two men break out of prison and go on a killing spree.
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Die toten Körper der Lebenden
2009
Initiation
4.7/11
16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he re...
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Initiation
1994
Erotique
4.1/11
The sexual fantasies of women are explored by three female directors.
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Erotique
2012
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
0/0
Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for p...
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
1999
Visionary Filmmaker - Marilou Diaz-Abaya
0/0
Potrait of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya
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Visionary Filmmaker - Marilou Diaz-Abaya
1983
The Swing
5.8/4
Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.
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The Swing
1971
Jakob von Gunten
0/0
Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.
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