Vera Tschechowa
Acting · Born 1940-07-22 · age 83 at death · Berlin, Germany
Vera Tschechowa was a German actress, producer, director, and screenwriter from a distinguished artistic family. She was the daughter of actress Ada Tschechowa and the granddaughter of Russian-born actors Olga Tschechowa and Michael Chekhov; her great-great-uncle was the famous playwright Anton Chekhov. She became known as “The Girl with the Cat Eyes” after starring in Eugen York's film of the same name. Tschechowa began her career in film and theater in the late 1950s, making her screen debut in 1957. She appeared in over 90 film and television productions, earning critical recognition for roles such as Ulla Wickweber in Das Brot der frühen Jahre. In addition to acting, she co-founded Atossa Filmproduktion in 1980 and later focused on directing documentaries and television portraits of notable figures from politics and the arts. Her autobiography Überwiegend heiter: Mein ziemlich bewegtes Leben was published in 2022.
Titles
Scene of the Crime
Love at Twenty
Euridice BA 2037
A Case For Two
Witwer mit 5 Töchtern
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Cold Blood
Der Fahnder
Call Girls of Frankfurt
Wolffs Revier
The Bread of Those Early Years
The Doctor of Stalingrad
Tausend Augen
Directing Hell
Peter Strohm
Desperado City
Freddy unter fremden Sternen
Tarot
Angel in a Taxi
Love at First Sight
Blaubart
Do You Believe in Swedish Sin?
Melodie und Rhythmus
Devil's Paradise
The Young Sinner
Panic Time
The Girl with the Cat Eyes
Erika's Passions
Verhör am Nachmittag
The First Circle
Geschichten aus der Zukunft
The Axe of Wandsbek
Der Schimmelreiter
And That on Monday Morning
Treffpunkt im Unendlichen
Gerechtigkeit in Worowogorsk
Wassa Schelesnowa
Unter Achtzehn
Suspicion of Guilt
Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle
Polly oder Die Bataille am Bluewater Creek
Die chinesische Mauer
Neptun und Isolde
Zeit der Empfindsamkeit
Nachbarn und andere nette Menschen
Der Schleier fiel…
Olifant
Frei zum Abschuß
Earthbound
Love and So Forth
Reserl am Hofe
Cliff Dexter
Interpol
Die Fälle des Herrn Konstantin
Mit Leib und Seele
Jörg Preda berichtet
Duell zu Dritt
Frau über vierzig
Losberg
The Illegal