Christine Kaufmann

Christine Kaufmann

Known for: Acting

Born: January 10, 1945 in Lengdorf, Styria, Austria - Died: March 27, 2017

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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Lili Marleen

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6.4
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Lili Marleen

Miriam

1981 Drama
Lola

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6.9
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Lola

Susi

1981 Drama
Bagdad Cafe

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7.2
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Bagdad Cafe

Debby

1987 Comedy
Girls in Uniform

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6.1
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Girls in Uniform

Mia

1958 Drama
Day of the Idiots

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5.5
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Day of the Idiots

Ruth

1981 Drama
Die singenden Engel von Tirol

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4.7
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Die singenden Engel von Tirol

Evi Kramer

1958 Comedy
Die Winzerin von Langenlois

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5.5
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Die Winzerin von Langenlois

Christel

1957 Comedy
Witwer mit 5 Töchtern

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Witwer mit 5 Töchtern

Ulla Scherzer

1957 Comedy
The Swordsman of Siena

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The Swordsman of Siena

Serenella Arconti

1962 Adventure
Winter Holidays

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Winter Holidays

Florence

1959 Comedy
Taras Bulba

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Taras Bulba

Natalia Dubrov

1962 Adventure
The Last Days of Pompeii

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The Last Days of Pompeii

Elena / Ione

1959 Adventure
A Man Named Rocca

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A Man Named Rocca

Geneviève Adé

1961 Drama
Murders in the Rue Morgue

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Murders in the Rue Morgue

Madeleine Charron

1971 Crime
Hard to Be a God

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Hard to Be a God

Okana

1990 Drama
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment

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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment

Edith Harms-Schiele

1980 Drama
The Last Pedestrian

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The Last Pedestrian

Christine Cornelius

1960 Comedy
Town Without Pity

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Town Without Pity

Karin Steinhof

1961 Drama
Constantine and the Cross

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Constantine and the Cross

Livia

1961 Adventure
The Excluded

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The Excluded

Ms. Pachthofen

1982 Drama
Feuerblume - Die zwei Leben der Marisa Mell

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Feuerblume - Die zwei Leben der Marisa Mell

Self (archive footage)

2023 Documentary
The Death of Maria Malibran

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6.5
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The Death of Maria Malibran

1972 Drama
Gold Flakes

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Gold Flakes

1976 Drama
Willow Springs

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Willow Springs

Christine

1973 Drama