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Werner Pledath is a Actor Allemand born on 26 april 1898 at Berlin (German)

Werner Pledath

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Nationality German
Birth 26 april 1898 at Berlin (German)
Death 5 december 1965 (at 67 years) at Berlin (German)

Werner Pledath (1898–1965) was a German actor who appeared in many films during a lengthy career. He generally played supporting roles such as in Five from the Jazz Band (1932). Pledath specialized in playing powerful, authority figures. Following the Second World War he appeared in several films made in East Germany.

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Filmography of Werner Pledath (38 films)

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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)
, 2h4
Directed by Kurt Maetzig, Konrad Wolf
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Günther Simon, Wolf Kaiser, Werner Peters, Raimund Schelcher, Erika Dunkelmann, Nikolai Kryuchkov
Roles Hauck
Rating62% 3.1249853.1249853.1249853.1249853.124985
After fellow soldier Johannes Harms reports that a revolution has broken out at home, Thälmann - who leads a revolutionary cell on the Western Front - and his friend Fiete Jansen rebel against their officers, Zinker and Quadde, and desert. Harms dies in a shelling. In Berlin, the American capitalist Mr. McFuller demands to crush the Spartacists. Zinker, now a member of the Freikorps, murders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Thälmann hears of it and promises their sacrifice will not be in vain. Jansen falls in love with Harms' daughter, Änne.
Anna Susanna
Anna Susanna (1953)
, 1h32
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Günther Simon, Werner Peters, Arno Paulsen, Maly Delschaft, Michael von Newlinsky, Werner Pledath
Roles Brinkmann

During the Great Depression, a rich businessman named Brinkmann decides sink his ship, Anna Susanna, so he would be compensated by the insurance. He orders its captain, Kleiers, to sabotage it while at sea. When Kleiers carries out his instructions, several sailors and passengers notice him. In a fight that ensues, the captain is killed, but not before he manage to shipwreck Anna Susanna. Only a handful of people survive the incident. After they return home, they discover that Brinkmann's insurance fraud worked and he was compensated. They sue him at court and manage to have him indicted.
The Condemned Village
The Condemned Village (1952)
, 1h47
Directed by Martin Hellberg
Genres Drama
Actors Helga Göring, Günther Simon, Eduard von Winterstein, Friedrich Gnaß, Wolf Kaiser, Werner Pledath
Roles Direktor
Rating62% 3.138833.138833.138833.138833.13883
Farmer Heinz Weimann returns to his small Bavarian village of Bärenweiler after several years in Soviet captivity. He tells his neighbors, who have been subject to anti-Soviet propaganda disseminated by the Nazis and the Americans, that the Soviets have treated him well. His old sweetheart Käthe has married another man, Fritz Vollmer, but he is not concerned with that. His joy on returning home is interrupted when the mayor announces that the American Army intends to destroy the village and to build an airfield on its lands, in preparation for a confrontation with the Soviet Union.
The Benthin Family
The Benthin Family (1950)
, 1h38
Directed by Kurt Maetzig, Slátan Dudow
Genres Drama
Actors Maly Delschaft, Werner Pledath, Ottokar Runze, Erik Schumann, Konrad Petzold, Arthur Wiesner
Roles Gustav Benthin
Rating61% 3.0898353.0898353.0898353.0898353.089835
Theo and Gustav Benthin are two brothers who operate a smuggling network: Theo, a factory director in East Germany, illegally transfers goods to his brother on the other side of the border, and the latter sells them in West Germany. The two also employ another pair of brothers, Peter and Klaus Naumann. Theo is caught by the People's Police; Gustav cannot compete in the wild capitalist market without the cheap merchandise from the East and his business collapses. Peter Naumann moves to the Federal Republic, but there he finds only unemployment and is eventually to join the French Foreign Legion. Klaus remains in the East and finds a promising job as a steel worker.
Council of the Gods
Council of the Gods (1950)
, 1h50
Directed by Kurt Maetzig
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Bildt, Fritz Tillmann, Inge Keller, Agnes Windeck, Brigitte Krause, Arthur Wiesner
Rating65% 3.2760353.2760353.2760353.2760353.276035
In the early 1930s, Dr. Scholz is a chemist working for IG Farben. While he develops new types of rocket fuel and a gas which he believes to be a pesticide, his corporate superiors support Adolf Hitler in his quest to dominate Germany, and subsequently, the whole of Europe. Director General Mauch and his fellow managers, who jokingly call themselves 'the council of the gods', are cleverly using the Second World War to earn a fortune, by supplying the Third Reich and - through their cartel with Standard Oil - the Western Allies. Scholz, fearing to lose his position, turns a blind eye even as he realizes what the gas he developed is used for. Throughout the war, American bombers do not destroy IG Farben plants, as they are pressured by the company's associates in the United States to leave its infrastructure intact. After the war ends, the Americans acquit most of the directors from charges of crimes against humanity and secretly use their experience to produce chemical weapons, that would be deployed against the Soviet Union. After an explosion in a chemical factory kills hundreds, Scholz - who is now a communist - cannot remain silent. He publicizes the truth about IG Farben's wartime activity, warning that they plan yet another to make more money. An immense demonstration takes place outside the firm's headquarters. The American general supervising the managers proposes to disperse them with tanks, but Mauch refuses, fearing the crowd's reaction. The demonstration turns into a May Day rally.