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Im Zweifel für die Liebe (2004)
Character: Rainer Maria Beerlitz
A widower man wants to cancel the lease of a religious orphanage, but when one of the nuns turns into the babysitter of his children, changes opinion.
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Ich trag dich bis ans Ende der Welt (2010)
Character: Horst Hagen
Anna is annoyed. For 18 years she's made every effort to make her family a comfortable home, and what's the result? Instead of relishing her roast lamb, her husband Frank works late. Their teenage kids Thomas and Petra stay out all night, and on top of that her father, Horst, reveals that as of tonight, he's off on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. And when she wants to take the roast lamb to her hard-working husband, she sees him busy taking his secretary's clothes off. That's it. Anna is off. In high heels and smeared mascara, she climbs onto the train to the last station before the Pyrenees, joining her father on his quest for... for what?
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Ein unheimlich starker Abgang (1973)
Character: Manfred
Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl becomes pregnant by Manfred, has an abortion and is sent to a reformatory for it. Manfred gets her pregnant again and then leaves her; desperate and humiliated, she shoots him. In court she remains defiant and silent. On the last day of the hearing, a deus ex machina appears: the figure skater Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Sonja's great idol, descends from the sky and floats with her over the roofs of Regensburg.
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Der Traum vom Süden (2004)
Character: Werner Wallner
After 25 years of working in Germany, Henriette and Werner Wallner are looking forward to a peaceful life in their new house in Malaga. But they soon realize that the sweet dream of the south also has its downsides. The once harmonious couple suddenly get into a big row over every little thing. Werner's flirtation with the attractive neighbor Doris and a Christmas party gone wrong finally bring the barrel to overflowing: Henriette returns to Germany alone...
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Café Europa (1990)
Character: Herr Reithmeyer
A pair of mismatched cops stumble onto a major protection racket involving a seedy restaurant.
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Heute blau und morgen blau (1957)
Character: Dieter Bunzel
Hugo Bunzel, a caring father and town councillor in the tranquil town of Lieberich, is a self-confessed teetotaller and, as such, president of the Association for Combating Drunkenness. He is blindsided when he learns that he will inherit a fortune worth millions - but only on condition that he drinks three bottles of champagne a day for a month. A tough test, which Bunzel initially submits to with great reluctance, but soon becomes more and more cheerful, regardless of the entanglements around him...
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Leo (2006)
Character: Konrad Sobotta
A murderous community of heirs is looking forward to big money too soon. After a long time, the Dargatz family meets again for the grandmother's funeral on her farm. Leo, the local priest, is entrusted with the regulation of family affairs and the opening of the will. What begins as a harmonious family gathering is slowly becoming a drama about hidden passion, greed and lust for murder. And the devout Leo must learn that not everything that is meant well ends well.
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Ich heirate meine Frau (2007)
Character: Werner Wallner
After more than 25 years of happy marriage, Henriette and Werner Wallner have been living apart since a relationship crisis. While Henriette copes well with the separation and flourishes as the self-appointed "manager" of her daughter Elke's flourishing cake store, Werner, who is plagued by heartbreak, does everything he can to win his wife back. However, this is easier said than done, as the handsome and wealthy Saudi Abdul Al Hakim is also courting Henriette by every trick in the book. With this competition, Werner has to work hard to impress "his" Henriette.
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Zwei allein (2014)
Character: Benedikt «Bene» Sattler
Henriette is terminally ill with cancer. Since her diagnosis, contact with her sister Gerlinde has fizzled out. It is only when she talks to the open-minded pastor Linus Gobert that she begins to accept her fate and gets closer to her sister again. But before she can tell Gerlinde about her illness, she is shot dead in the street. Gerlinde, the only witness to the crime, doubts that it was a robbery.
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Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa oder Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest (1960)
Character: Ebenezer Scrooge als Lehrling
The old and eccentric Ebenezer Scrooge is a misanthrope and miser. His only friend was his business partner Jacob Marley, who died on Christmas Eve seven years earlier. Since then, Ebenezer has been running the business alone. Christmas is just around the corner again, an abomination for the hard-hearted misanthrope. So he not only rejects his nephew Fred, who invites him to Christmas dinner, but also everyone who asks for alms. When Mr. Scrooge comes home on Christmas Eve, he is astonished to find Jacob Marley, his deceased business partner, waiting for him. He is not the only guest; three more ghosts follow. A night that Ebenezer will never forget lies ahead of him.
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Mathilde liebt (2005)
Character: Hannes Schwab
This melodrama about love in the third age focuses on the 65-year-old Mathilde living alone after the death of her husband. When she gets to know the attractive Carlo in the opera, she sleeps with him at the same evening. Mathilde tries to call him up some days later, but learns he gave her a wrong number. Despite this disappointing experience, she gets to know the sympathetic Hannes. They become a couple, but after a while, Mathilde meets Carlo, who apologizes and admits being married to a dead sick woman, again...
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Der Heiratsvermittler (1994)
Character: Peter Sandmann
Peter Sandmann, the charming owner of a marriage institute, is a brilliant matchmaker. His problem: all the candidates would love to share a table and bed with him straight away, but the lively mini-playboy is extremely reluctant to exchange rings. This inevitably leads to some turbulence in his love life...
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Adel Dich (2011)
Character: Wendolin 'Wendel' Overmann
Wendel's suspicions are confirmed. For as long as he can remember he has believed that he was switched at birth. In the shock of retirement, he decides to finally get to the bottom of the matter. A lock of hair from his deceased mother allows only one conclusion in the DNA test. Wendel is not Wendel. But then who is he? In search of his presumably aristocratic origins, he meets a countess who is as resolute as she is fascinating.
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Wolpodzilla - Der Schrecken vom Tegernsee (1994)
Character: N/A
Cannabis farmers from outer space awaken Wolpodzilla, a giant Wolpertinger, to destroy Munich's Oktoberfest 'cause the Theresienwiese is their preferred location for a new plantation. When Wolpodzilla gets high and goes on a rampage Wolpertinger hunter Toni and Godzilla expert Mariko come to the rescue.
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Bittere Unschuld (1999)
Character: Andreas Brandt
Andreas Brandt is the head of the research department in a pharmaceutical company. He earns enough to build a future with his wife Monica and his daughter Eva. But a merger puts his position in jeopardy. Brandt randomly observes Larssen, who’s responsible for the merger, raping the waitress Vanessa. Instead of helping her, he takes a file which has previously been stolen by Larssen. It contains incriminating evidence against Larssen. Brandt tries to blackmail Larssen, but Larssen is capable to shift the buck back to Brandt. Slowly Brandt’s family becomes involved...
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Drei unter einer Decke (2003)
Character: Franz Geiger
Eerie things happen after Ludwig's death, which was caused by a golf ball. Brother Otto's best piece goes on strike. A catastrophe for the proven womanizer. Otto thinks this is Ludwig's revenge for dragging him onto the golf course. Sister Nane also feels Ludwig's wrath; she is keeping his begrudging will hidden. To appease him, the siblings turn to the magician Hartmut Pfähler - supposedly an expert in the supernatural.
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Grüner wird's nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon (2018)
Character: Schorsch Kempter
Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like to talk much. He never has. His marriage has long lost all its magic and on top of that, he has trouble to connect with his daughter. Only when he is flying in his own rickety biplane, Schorsch feels truly free. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, claiming the shade of green of the grass Schorsch has planted on the golf course is not right, insolvency seems unavoidable. So just when his airplane is about to be impounded, Schorsch grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself. He embarks onto a journey into the unknown, to places he has never seen before, full of odd and special encounters - and with every take-off and every landing, this tough man's heart slowly warms up to what you might call an idea of happiness.
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Lommbock (2017)
Character: Vater Becker
Sequel to Lammbock. Stefan and Kai meet again after years. Stefan became a successful lawyer in Dubai while Kai is stuck in their home town. Kai has relationship issues and is trying hard to get in touch with his step son who is getting in serious trouble with some drug dealers. Can Kai and Stefan solve his problems? And what happened to their old friend Frank?
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Schmetterlinge weinen nicht (1970)
Character: Werner Engelmann
Cilly is too young for compromises. The man she loves is much older than her. Although he too is overwhelmed by his passion, he hesitates to burn all his bridges. When he is finally ready to end his marriage for this relationship, the conflicts between the lovers become increasingly intense...
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Kirschblüten - Hanami (2008)
Character: Rudi
After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don't know the real reason they're visiting -- and the catch is, neither does Rudi...
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Dreiviertelmond (2011)
Character: Hartmut Mackowiak
Hartmut Mackowiak, a German taxi driver, tries to help 6 year old Turkish girl to find her mother.
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Mutter kommt in Fahrt (2003)
Character: Herbert Splitt
As a mother, wife and babysitter, Eva Maria Splitt has an exhausting full-time job. Nevertheless, there is still plenty of time for the stock market news, because for several months Eva Maria participates in the stock market game of a daily newspaper. As she fights the pros in spite of worldwide price falls with their fictitious depot, the enthusiastic son-in-law of the shrewd speculator offers a position in his investment advice. The dream job brings Eva Maria into a serious conflict: her retired man has been looking forward to the European tour with caravans for a long time - although Eva Maria Camping can not stand.
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Alles ist Liebe (2014)
Character: Martin
Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Der Fischer und seine Frau (2005)
Character: Herr Wagenbach
Otto and Leo are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which they import koi, the beautiful Japanese fish, for collectors in their native land. While on a business trip to Japan, Otto and Leo meet Ida, a German tourist who is studying fashion design. Ida begins traveling with the two men, and surprisingly develops an infatuation with the rumpled Otto instead of the handsome Leo. When Ida discovers she's pregnant with Otto's child, the two marry, and upon their return to Germany, Ida attempts to join in the business by creating a line of scarves decorated with koi patterns. However, the honeymoon proves short-lived, and Ida's presence creates a rift between Otto and Leo, as the latter sets up his own concern, raising koi with his new bride, Yoko.
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Hochzeit zu viert (2001)
Character: Markus Schneider
14 years ago, the two couples Lukas and Susanne and Johanna and Markus met at the registry office. Since then, they have been celebrating their anniversary together each year. But the beautiful appearance of the harmonious marital happiness deceives. When the two women find out that their husbands go alien, Lukas and Markus are left by their partners. After a year you meet again. "Wedding four" is a great melodrama about two couples who find each other in a roundabout way. With Harald Krassnitzer, Renee Soutendijk, Michaela May and Elmar Wepper.
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Das größte Fest des Jahres (1991)
Character: Dr. Ralf Maria Sagerer
A TV special about the christmas celebrations of the most popular TV characters in the ZDF at that time.
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Hopfensommer (2011)
Character: Josef Singhammer
Farmer Josef is down because of a heart attack. Who will bring in the harvest now? His wife asks his son for help. Karl, who once left the farm in a quarrel, rushes over and once again gets into a quarrel with his father - and into the confusion of love... A cliché brew of a Heimatfilm that is quite palatable, has a top cast and was filmed in an interesting region.
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Siegfried (2005)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The tale of Siegfried, a fearless dragon slayer who wins the heart of Celtic beauty Kriemhild.
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Das unsichtbare Mädchen (2011)
Character: Josef Altendorf
Eleven years ago, an 8-year-old girl disappeared from a small German town on the German-Czech border. Although her body was never found, nor were there any traces of blood or DNA evidence, a mentally-disabled man was coerced to confess to the crime. Even though he withdrew his admission of guilt two days later, the forced confession was enough to convince the ruling judge. The responsible investigator Altendorf was discharged so that the investigation could be sped along by another colleague.
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Lammbock (2001)
Character: Vater Becker
Stefan and Kai run a thriving business: a home-grown cannabis trade disguised as a pizza delivery service. For now they just have to fight aphids.
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Kirschblüten & Dämonen (2019)
Character: Rudi
When everything in his life seems to be going wrong, downtrodden and alcohol-dependent Karl has a fateful encounter in Munich with Yu, a mysterious Japanese dancer from his father’s past. Unexpectedly, Yu begins to help Karl confront his demons (both literal and figurative) and begin to heal.
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