222:, the first film production company in post-war Germany, since 1946. Müller, still pursuing his dream of a career as an actor, applied to the DEFA for a training, which would have been provided at no cost if his application had been accepted. It was rejected, however. Undaunted, he applied to study music at the "Konservatorium des Nordens", a music conservatory in the western part of the city, becoming a proficient guitarist. He teamed up with friends to provide impromptu music entertainment in Berlin bars and restaurants. The administrative border dividing East Berlin from West Berlin was still not marked by any effective physical barrier, and he was able to combine his music training in "the west" with theatre work at
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461:" was hugely popular. More than nine million East Germans are reported to have seen the film in a cinema: if none had seen it more than once, that would indicate that roughly 50% of the population attended a cinema screening of it. The role established Alfred Müller's enduring popularity as a film star. Described by admirers as reticent and modest by nature, he seems never to have been much bothered over his popularity: "With a name like Müller, you have to be good for something" Modest or not, success in "
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film studios. Alfred Müller was interested in the movie business, and even had his own cine-camera, though he seems to have used it only for home-movies. He was nevertheless able to find time to appear in film productions for public distribution starting, in 1959/60, with a very minor role in
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when his schedule permitted it. Usedom was where his wife Eva had been born and grown up. The couple had acquired a holiday home there. After his wife died, he spent more time there, living with his long-standing stage-partner, the actress-musician
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1001:. Fortunately the armchair that his police colleagues had given him as a retirement present turns out to be a well-disguised secret portal into Fairyland.) The series, directed by
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