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Christine Kaufmann
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Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured.
Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared in Escape from E…
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Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured. Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared in Escape from East Berlin. In 1963 Kaufmann married Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Bulba (1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (born July 19, 1964) and Allegra (born July 11, 1966). They divorced in 1968. Kaufmann resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage. Kaufmann is also a successful businesswoman, promoting her own cosmetics products line that sells well in Germany. She has written several books about beauty and health, as well as two autobiographies. She speaks three languages: German, English, and French. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Kaufmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Christine Kaufmann's Filmography
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Feuerblume - Die zwei Leben der Marisa Mell
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
as Aunt Polly
Stille
as Adele Vio
Fahr zur Hölle
as Lilith
Liebesticket nach Hause
as Marianne Forster
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
as Self
No Poster
Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris
as Adlaya
Haider lebt - 1. April 2021
as Newssprecherin
No Poster
Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer
as Ingelore Merk
No Poster
Die Schläfer
as Stationsleiterin
No Poster
Höllische Nachbarn
as Ingelore Merk
Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
as Karin Wolters
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen
as Gräfin
Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff
as Countess
The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave
as Annie Kramer
No Poster
Birkenhof & Lerchenau
as Theres
No Poster
Das Double
as Jutta Eck
Hard to Be a God
as Okana
No Poster
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
as Self
The Story Teller
as Clara Lilienthal
Julius Caesar
as Portia
Bagdad Cafe
as Debby
Pankow ’95
as Laura Zart
The Swing
as Mme. Lautenschlag
Ziemlich weit weg
as Christel
The Roaring Fifties
as Natascha
No Poster
Inflation im Paradies
as Laverne Schuhmann (segment "Testschock")
The Gold of Love
as Patricias Mutter
The Excluded
as Ms. Pachthofen
Day of the Idiots
as Ruth
Lola
as Susi
Lili Marleen
as Miriam
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
as Edith Harms-Schiele
Rings of Fear
as Christina, Di Salvo's girlfriend
No Poster
Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
No Poster
Das Männerquartett
as Nina Huf
Gold Flakes
Blackmail Chase
as Sekretärin
Bent or Broken
Joan's Dream
No Poster
Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen
Willow Springs
as Christine
No Poster
Immobilien
as Jasmin Strothmann
The Death of Maria Malibran
No Poster
Gestrickte Spuren
as Fanny Elßler
Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Madeleine Charron
No Poster
Bend Sinister
as Mariette
Love Birds
as La Contessa
Tender Sharks
Wild and Wonderful
as Giselle Ponchon
Taras Bulba
as Natalia Dubrov
No Poster
90 Minuten nach Mitternacht
as Julie Elgin
Escape from East Berlin
as Erika Jürgens
The Swordsman of Siena
as Serenella Arconti
No Poster
Toller Hecht auf krummer Tour
as Inge
A Man Named Rocca
as Geneviève Adé
Town Without Pity
as Karin Steinhof
Via Mala
as Sylvia Lauretz
Constantine and the Cross
as Livia
The Last Pedestrian
as Christine Cornelius
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
as Gabriella Cocozza
Un trono para Cristy
as Christine Wilkens
Red Lips
as Baby
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Elena / Ione
Winter Holidays
as Florence
Alle lieben Peter
as Kitty Steiner
First Love
as Silvia
Embezzled Heaven
as Doris
Die singenden Engel von Tirol
as Evi Kramer
Girls in Uniform
as Mia
Witwer mit 5 Töchtern
as Ulla Scherzer
Die Winzerin von Langenlois
as Christel
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
as Eva
Ein Herz schlägt für Erika
as Erika Kayser
Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n
as Christine
Salto Mortale
as Dascha
Der schweigende Engel
as Angelika Helmer
Rosen-Resli
as Resli
Der Klosterjäger
as Vronerl
Staatsanwältin Corda
as Berta Neidhart
The White Horse Inn
as Child