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Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛlmʊt ˈʃmɪt]; born 23 December 1918) is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting Foreign Minister. He is the oldest surviving German Chancellor and the last surviving person to have been solely Chancellor of West Germany (Helmut Kohl was Chancellor of both West Germany and reunified Germany). He is also the oldest living Federal German Minister, after the death of his Interior Minister Werner Maihofer.
Helmut Schmidt was born in Hamburg, as son of two teachers. He studied at Hamburg Lichtwark School, graduating in 1937. He was conscripted into military service and began serving with an anti-aircraft battery at Vegesack near Bremen during World War II. After brief service on the Eastern Front he returned to Germany in 1942 to work as a trainer and advisor at the Reichsluftfahrtministerium. Also in 1942, on 27 June, he married his childhood sweetheart Hannelore "Loki" Glaser (3 March 1919 – 21 October 2010), with whom he fathered two children: Helmut Walter (26 June 1944–February 1945, died of meningitis), and Susanne (b. 1947), who works in London for Bloomberg Television. Toward the end of the war, from December 1944 onwards, he served as an Oberleutnant in the artillery on the Western Front. He was captured by the British in April 1945 on Lüneburg Heath and was a prisoner of war until August. During his service in World War II Schmidt was awarded the Iron Cross.
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger ( /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/; born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American writer, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many subsequent presidents and many world leaders.
A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. Various American policies of that era, including the bombing of Cambodia, remain controversial to many.
Kissinger is still a controversial figure today. He is the founder and chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm.
Actors: Ulrich Tukur (actor), Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey (actor), Christiane Paul (actress), Florian Lukas (actor), Jan Zigulla (miscellaneous crew), Jan Zigulla (miscellaneous crew), Tom Jahn (actor), Helmut Schmidt (actor), Walter Gontermann (actor), Ulrich Lenze (producer), Christian Blümel (actor), Hans-Peter Ströer (composer), Michael Benthin (actor), Wolfgang Kaven (actor), Jan Peter Heyne (actor),
Genres: Drama, History,Actors: Siemen Rühaak (actor), Dieter Pfaff (actor), Michael Mendl (actor), Martin Lüttge (actor), Ulrich Mühe (actor), Rudolf Kowalski (actor), Siegfried Kernen (actor), Dieter Kirchlechner (actor), Michael Brandner (actor), Michael Gahr (actor), Matthias Brandt (actor), Robert Giggenbach (actor), Heinz-Josef Braun (actor), Johanna Gastdorf (actress), Jürgen Hentsch (actor),
Plot: The movie depicts the final days of Willy Brandt as the chancellor of Germany in 1974. It shows how his advisor Guillaume was responsible for Brandt's fall and how political interests by other colleague further lead to the end of Brandt's career.
Keywords: 1970s, based-on-true-story, betrayal, bodyguard, cold-war, crisis, election-campaign, espionage, family-relationships, german-politicsActors: Dieter Mann (actor), Claudia Michelsen (actress), Carla Hagen (actress), Sebastian Koch (actor), Hans Brenner (actor), Horst Königstein (producer), Bernd Tauber (actor), Manfred Zapatka (actor), Karoline Eichhorn (actress), Susanne Schäfer (actress), Birol Ünel (actor), Dirk Martens (actor), Konstantin Graudus (actor), Gebhard Henke (producer), Stefan Gebelhoff (actor),
Plot: A thrilling documentary with fictional elements based on the true story of the abduction of the president of the employer's association, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, by terrorists in the autumn of 1977.
Keywords: 1970s, automatic-weapon, blackmail, border-crossing, crisis, firearm, gunfire, hiding-place, hijack, hostageActors: Lena Stolze (actress), Horst Königstein (producer), Ulrich Tukur (actor), Gustav-Peter Wöhler (actor), Gennadi Vengerov (actor), Lotte Loebinger (actress), Ulrike Kriener (actress), Ulrich Mühe (actor), Heinz Baumann (actor), Hans-Michael Rehberg (actor), Udo Samel (actor), Hans Peter Hallwachs (actor), Hermann Lause (actor), Horst Hiemer (actor), Peter Sodann (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,