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Das Spinnennetz (1989)
Character: Klitsche
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
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Die Eroberung der Zitadelle (1977)
Character: Hermann Brucker
While on an automobile tour of Italy with his mother, the German publisher in this story has an accident which results in her death. He decides to stay and look for work in Italy, rather than return to his responsibilities, and takes a job working on a construction site. His co-workers are similarly displaced men: one is a Greek exile, the other a Basque terrorist. The elaborate house they are working on is to be the home of a wealthy local man.
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Kunyonga – Mord in Afrika (1986)
Character: Rosko
The son of a Berlin industrialist is innocently sentenced to life in forced labor in Kenya. A colorful American reporter and Vietnam veteran clarifies the background and saves the young man with daring and more or less snappy sayings.
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Die wilden Fünfziger (1983)
Character: Monsieur Tütü
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur.
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Der Angriff (1988)
Character: N/A
The wife of a lawyer becomes the target of a violent sexual assault by two teenagers. Attempts to hold the perpetrators accountable are met with incomprehension by the village community. Prejudices on both sides turn into open hatred.
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Sweet Little Sixteen (1999)
Character: Sattler
16-year-old Sophie Reiner is living a happy life, but then her friend Karen is murdered after a visit to a disco. Sophie's perfect world is shattered. She falls in love with the charming detective Mike Kleist and begins a secret affair with him. When another of Sophie's classmates is murdered, the situation comes to a head. Finally, Sophie's father becomes the target of the investigation. But the murderer has already chosen his next victims: It's Sophie and her mother...
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Von Haut zu Haut (1970)
Character: N/A
In the middle of the night, Nicki is once again haunted by intense feelings that she can't explain. A visit to the doctor is supposed to help and behold: the more he pokes around in the past, the more a connection between Nicki and her twin sister Karen becomes apparent. In addition, the two ladies are each pursued by a menacing man who roams the streets late at night with a knife and seems to be in cahoots with an oddball antiques dealer.
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4 Küsse und eine E-Mail (2003)
Character: Hermann Kress
First young lawyer Anna loses a shoe heel - then an important client to her oily colleague. "Why does everything always go wrong?", she complains to chat partner Jan. At home, the lonely soul also has to listen to the loud bedtime stories of her perky flatmate Sarah. But eventually Anna finds happiness too, because Jan's handsome boyfriend Kai turns the wheel of fate. Until the gray mouse throws on a white negligee and Jan confesses: "I don't want to chat anymore, I want ten children." Various Hollywood romances have been used up here. Despite a good cast and some nice ideas, there is a lack of momentum.
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Davon stirbt man nicht (2002)
Character: Entführer Dragan
A little deception with big consequences: Because boarding school student Dorian, the daughter of a wealthy American family, would rather have a little romp with teacher Schürmann during the vacations, she equips her equally blonde friend Anna with her clothes and the snazzy sports car and sends her to Venice in her place. But Anna will never get there: Kidnappers are lying in wait for the young woman. Schürmann, on the other hand, a really bad finger, can't believe his eyes when Dorian suddenly turns up at his place; in order for her father to pay up, Dorian has to disappear again...
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Dunkle Tage (1999)
Character: Schmanke
Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everything. She starts drinking and loses her job. Her children Felicitas and Max try to hush up their social decline for years because they don't want to live in a foster home.
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Zwei Nasen tanken Super (1984)
Character: Gangster
Tommy and Mike, again without a job and without money, are looking for a public toilet at a motor show.
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Baal (1970)
Character: N/A
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
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Die Senkrechtstarter (1989)
Character: Codinsky
In the not too distant future, in the year 1999: In Germany, payment may only be made by credit card, which leads to many people purchasing things they cannot pay for. A nasty debt collector from the almighty central bank sends out employees to take back unpaid goods from customers by force. A girl who calls herself Egon is also forced to work for this evil person. In the process, she meets nice Mike, with whom she falls in love. Soon Mike and his friend, the aging playboy Löffler, are in a turbulent adventure to free Egon from the clutches of the bank villain.
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Cowgirl (2004)
Character: Vater Blessing
Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs into her childhood sweetheart Max at their 10-year class reunion. In order to save him from Hamburg's underworld, she turns - to her own surprise - from a plain country bumpkin into a tough lady.
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Der Hurenstreik - Eine Liebe auf St. Pauli (1999)
Character: N/A
Romeo and Juliet on the Kiez with Cupid in the form of the attractive sex worker Elisa: the young artist Nikolaus falls in love with the well-behaved law student Sandy. He ends up in prison for an extraordinary declaration of love.
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