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  • BIRTH 20/04/1910
  • DEATH 08/03/2005
  • Country Germany
  • SHOWS 7
  • MOVIES 16

Brigitte Mira

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Brigitte Mira (20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Brigitte Mira's mother was German and her father was Jewish Russian. During the Nazi dictatorship, Mira took part in the propaganda series Liese und Miese. She played Miese (germ. bad one)--the bad role model according to Nazi ideology that listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. But her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was soon cancelled for being counter productive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish. Even though she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and the fact she had to hide her identity, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all.

Even if Mira was born in Hamburg she early on moved to Berlin and through her TV work came to embody the typical Berlin sense of humor.

Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in Fear Eats the Soul (1974), a role for which she won a German Film Award. In the 1980s Mira achieved another big success with the television series Drei Damen vom Grill.

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Brigitte Mira

Shows (7)

The Clown
The Clown
Hildegard
A Case for Two
A Case for Two
Blumenfrau Moos / Haushälterin Anni
The Old Fox
The Old Fox
Hanna Lubach
Derrick
Derrick
Frau Hässler / Frau Tobbe
The Love Boat (DE)
The Love Boat (DE)
Mrs. Mayer
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Frau Bast
Großstadtrevier
Großstadtrevier
Madame Chantal

Movies (16)

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
Haushälterin Käthe
Faustrecht der Freiheit
Faustrecht der Freiheit
Shopkeeper #2
Angst essen Seele auf
Angst essen Seele auf
Emmi Kurowski
Kleiner Mann, was nun?
Kleiner Mann, was nun?
Berliner Ballade
Berliner Ballade
Dirne
Jack und Jenny
Jack und Jenny
Thea
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Frau Häberle
Satansbraten
Satansbraten
Walters Mutter
Für mich gab's nur noch Fassbinder
Für mich gab's nur noch Fassbinder
Self
Chinesisches Roulette
Chinesisches Roulette
Kast
Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe
Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe
Louise Engel
Quand la peur dévore l'âme
Quand la peur dévore l'âme
Emmi Kurowski (archive footage)
Kamikaze 1989
Kamikaze 1989
Personnel Director
Die Frau gegenüber
Die Frau gegenüber
Simons Mutter
Lili Marleen
Lili Marleen
Nachbarin
Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel
Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel
Emma Küsters