"Best german portrait in a movie." Topic

Are there any better thant Sargent Steiner?

He was/is the best german soldier I has seen in a WW2 movie till today. (smile).

Do you have another better?

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Try "Das Boot."

Yes, I agree it's another good one.
And the Captain is german, but I still vote for Sgt. Steiner. (smile).

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James Coburn made a better Steiner than Richard Burton. Mind you, Breakthrough wasn't as good a movie.

The Madonna with the Big Boobies

Steiner is hard to beat.

Other noble heroes are Major Paul Wagner (Robert Vaughn) in A Bridge at Remagen, Captain 'Van der Poel' (Anthony Quale) in Ice Cold in Alex and Paul Baumer (Lew Ayres) in All Quiet on the Western Front.

I like the Austrian Anton Walbrook as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."

It's a different story for whom gives the best Nazi portrayal and I'll have to have a long hard think on that one.

Although the movie wasn't particularly good, I enjoyed Marlon Brandon's portrayal of the WWII German lieutenant in "The Young Lions."

Steiner gets my vote. Das Boot and Stalingrad (1993) get high marks as well.

I like the portrayal of Adolf Galland in Battle of Britain, and Robert Shaw's driver in Battle of the Bulge.

"Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter"
Anyone here seen this yet? Looks promising to me. I have been looking for it everywhere on the North American side of the pond with no luck, online or otherwise. It is on German Youtube sites, but I cannot view them. Anyway, I bet there are some good Germans there.

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Mason as the fox
Caine the daring eagle
Curt Jurgens below
And Ed Harris sniping at the gates ,how about those guys Tango1 ?
Can you guess the films from the clues?

Ralph Fieennes in Schlinder's List, cultured, educated, nasty, hateful.

Antoine Saint-John as von Roerkel in The Wind and the Lion.

Gert Frobe in "The Longest Day" and "Is Paris Burning". Also as Colonel Manfred von Holstein in "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" :)

Another vote for Gerd Frobe, you beat me to it

Anyone have ever seen the french movie "Un taxi pour Tobrouk" starring Hardy Kruger as a captured german Hauptmann?

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And what about him?

Also honorable mention to Hardy Kruger in a bridge too far….

Also honorable mention to Hardy Kruger in a bridge too far….

Agreed, but I think Maximillian Schell was even better in that film.

Shaw as Col Hessler

Coburn as Steiner was hard to beat

But I did really like both Schell and Hardy in A Bridge Too Far

Mason as the fox
Caine the daring eagle
Curt Jurgens below
And Ed Harris sniping at the gates ,how about those guys Tango1 ?
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The Desert Fox
The Eagle Has Landed
The Enemy Below
Enemy at the Gates

I have to admit that those are really GREAT!
Thanks for the good memories boys!. (smile).
Still, my vote goes for Steiner! (smile).

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Christoph Waltz as Col. Landa

I know it is TV, but no love for Lt Gruber and his "little tank"? What about Herr Flick or Von Smallhausen and of course the lovely Helga who always looked good in her underwear! :-)

Maximillian Schell in Bridge Too Far. Also in Cross of Iron. Agree 100% with Robert Duval in The Eagle Has Landed. Just my opinion.

Agreed, but I think Maximillian Schell was even better in that film.

The bit when the Brit Paras in Arnhem have refused the offer to surrender and when he asked what to do now he says "flatten Arnhem"!

I forgot a really good one Anthony Quayle , Ice cold in Alex

Madeline Kahn as Lili von Shtupp in 'Blazing Saddles.'

BG Solo: BWAAHAAHAAHAAA.

thosmoss: Great deadpan. I couldn't have done it.

Anton Diffring,

Usually played the stern aristocratic officer type:

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Just some of the films he was in:

Heroes of Telemark
Blue Max
Where Eagles Dare
Operation Daybreak (One of the best movies ever)

Not a movie, but:

Or maybe

OK, he's from Illinois rather than Germany, but he is undeniably a Nazi.

There can only be one:

Karl Otto Alberti:

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The SS Tiger Tank officer in Kelly's Heroes

Charlie Chaplin

Otto Preminger as Oberst von Scherbach in Stalag 17.

And the winner is:

For best german portait of THE real german dillema in war movies….. And sporting the german cultural value of philosphy in utter armagedon… and for being the real hero of that movie and the only one you deserves to stay alive….

Hptm Kiesel!!!!

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PS:
Fw Steiner has many points for performance and efficency but the negative points for demotivation and not following orders make it impossible to consider him …

Good choice Rudi, Kiesel is also my favourite character in CoI.

Agree.

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But Lt Gruber had a Little Tank…

But Lt Gruber had a Little Tank…

And, apparently, a Ritterkreuz.

Yes I know it was TV.
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Great part of the movie!
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