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Väter (2002)
Character: Peter Krieger
Marco and Melanie, a young married couple, are living a life of passion, chaos, and all the little frustrations of everyday existence. Their love for each other seems like a beacon on heavy seas. But career pressure, burned toast, and dirty laundry are eroding all tenderness, and they never seem to find enough time for their six-year-old son, Benny, either. Their world is about to fall apart when Melanie moves out, taking Benny with her. She files for divorce, and Marco makes a decision that is not only going to change his own life. He suddenly discovers his own unique way of being a father … I’m the Father is a modern portrait of a generation which appears to fail its own ambitions: After all, how do you combine a job, children, love and all the other challenges of everyday life – without giving yourself up in the process? And then what happens when positions become entrenched and a divorce seems inevitable?
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Der kleine Löwe und die Großen (1973)
Character: Manfred
Manfred takes his nephew, Martin, on a business trip to Rome. They stay with Manfred's brother Georg, who lives in Rome. On the way there Manfred and Martin meet Lilo, a girl who is also on her way to Rome.
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Tod auf Raten (2016)
Character: Arno Klemke
The former boxer Ronald has lost his short-term memory after an accident. Now nothing is the same. Roland's world has no future, and the past only exists in his mind up until his accident.
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Es (1966)
Character: Festredner
Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they loath. But when Hilke finds out about her pregnancy she estranges from her partner. Trying to keep her former life as it was, she desperately looks all over the city to get an abortion.
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Quellen des Lebens (2013)
Character: Erwin
This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
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Lenz (1971)
Character: Kaufmann
Film adaptation of the short Büchner story of the same name, which tells of the stay of the psychotic Sturm und Drang poet Lenz in the home of the Alsatian priest and philanthropist Oberlin. The poet, whose pathological hallucinations are becoming increasingly unbearable, hopes for help from the gentle clergyman. But Oberlin, too, knows no advice; he regards his friend's illness as God-given.
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Vergrabene Stimmen (2014)
Character: Mike
Kaan (35) comes after a long time out of prison. He wants to do things differently. But his perception of reality does not seem to run parallel with the perceived.
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Eine Rose für Jane (1970)
Character: Lieferwagenfahrer
Jones is called in when others want to kill. Jones works quickly, precisely, successfully. His clients pay the price he demands without question—the lone killer can be relied upon. Jones arrives in the city on the early train. He looks exhausted. He will need this day to take care of the boss of Warner-Trans. Alexander Scrooge provides him with the necessary information. Everything else is routine: observing the victim, determining the angle of the shot at the scene of the crime, preparing the alibi. When he is about to kill, the unexpected happens. The Warner boss is on his guard. Has the middleman Alexander betrayed the assignment? Is the client Franketti playing a dirty game? Or is Abraham, the big boss whom Franketti can't compete with, pulling the strings? Jones was used to clean work. Now he's caught between two gangs. Jane, a beautiful young woman, decides his fate.
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Eierdiebe (1977)
Character: Franz
The story of two small-time crooks in the Frankfurt underworld who would like to make it big, but fail time and again.
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Die doppelte Welt (1985)
Character: N/A
An old man and a teenage boy, both neo-nazis are travelling across Germany to take funds to the party headquarters. On the way they encounter a young woman and things become difficult.
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Paule Pauländer (1976)
Character: N/A
We follow 15-year-old Paule‘s hard life on his parents' farm. Under his controlling father – who is fighting to save the homestead – he and his brother are forced to work very hard. When his brother leaves, the shy and obedient Paule meets the city girl Elfi – and with her a reason to rebel against the despotic and coarse father.
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Liebe und so weiter (1968)
Character: Ben
Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello player Nancy. They feel compelled to pursue a passion in spite of their careers. But does romantic love have a place in such convoluted, contesting times?
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Hure (1983)
Character: Pimp
A night in the cold trade of prostitution. Blue goes out on the streets. His "working day" begins at eleven o'clock at night and ends at dawn. Then, when he has converted the money he has quickly earned back into drugs, escaped the cheated dealer and answered his pimp's questions, when he has been left alone once again with the futile hope that "someone will get him out".
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Stan Becker – Echte Freunde (2000)
Character: Oskar
While searching for a treasure in the Berlin sewers, Stan Becker and his friend Oskar come across a dead woman. A short time later, the police arrest the two treasure hunters on suspicion of the crime. While in custody, Oskar falls victim to murder. After his release, Stan immediately sets off in search of his friend's murderer.
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Son of Hitler (1979)
Character: Landstreicher
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
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Ohne Gnade (2013)
Character: Alfons Reuter
The crunchy sisters Biene and Püppi decide that there must finally be an end to the emotional and financial disaster of their mother Hilde. Therefore, they successfully rely on the testosterone reflexes of those men who have dirt on them, but not every representative from the macho camp can be so easily degraded to a fool. When the rip-off blackmail victims Alfons and Latten-Harry start a counter-offensive and want to have the girls killed by the windy tattoo eagle, the following, unrestrained over-excited cat-and-mouse duel escalates into a chaos course across all allotments, ice cream parlors, law firms, nightclubs and sausage stalls of the backwater…
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Just Married - Hochzeiten zwei (2013)
Character: Fritzi
Bernhard and Claire have always lived to work. Now that's over: the workaholic and entrepreneur turns his back on his airplane company, Claire sells her time-consuming nursery. But life in their new dream home, which does justice to their contrasting characters with feng shui and high-tech, takes some getting used to. While the two of them pretend to enjoy a deeply relaxed togetherness, the telephone wires have long been burning up again in the background.
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Der Brocken (1992)
Character: Zwirner
Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about who is entitled to a share in the property and tries to blackmail the township's mayor to get his cooperation. However, the hard-working and honest old lady has an ally in the person of her more sophisticated border, a woman who works in the mayor's office and has been to the West. She takes great delight in foiling the underhanded agent.
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Tapetenwechsel (1984)
Character: Thomas
Munich with a housing shortage. Mona is given notice to leave the apartment: personal use. The landlady's son, a new "doctor", is to move in. Without an apartment, Mona's boyfriend Thomas feels unable to continue the relationship. After all, he knows a "nice condominium" (in which a girl already lives!). In her desperate search for an apartment, Mona meets lawyer Wolfgang, who wants to help her take legal action against the owner's need. But not everything is as it seems...
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Immer wenn sie Krimis liest (1994)
Character: Poldi
Anita de Winter loves crime novels, to which she devotes all her free time. Her neighbor Max shares her enthusiasm, as long as he doesn't pursue his own hobby: he restores vintage cars. One day, after years, Anita meets Else again, a friend from her old days. And just a few hours later, Anita is headfirst into a murder story...
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Schweinegeld (1989)
Character: Harry
A satire about corruption, about big and small crimes: The noble clochard Maxwell, the unsuccessful film producer Harry and the unemployed actress Wally are anything but kissed by luck. But that changes when the three get in the way of a corporation, who, with the help of bribed politicians, tries.
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Kuckucksjahre (1967)
Character: Hans
Experimental fiction film about young people taking on different creative tasks.
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Helgalein (1969)
Character: Max
As a naive blonde from the countryside, Helgalein comes into conflict with the insignia of the sexual revolution.
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Schwarzfahrer (1983)
Character: Chris Binz
Chris, Alois and Harry keep their heads above water in West Berlin with small robberies and odd jobs. When they manage to rob an armored car coming from East Berlin, it's a dream come true for them...
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Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein (1976)
Character: Knarge
1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west with a special order. However as soon as he's crossed the border, he reports to the police. He claims his order was to kidnap someone, but he doesn't know who yet. He's forced to continue feignedly. However the east agents don't really trust him and play a double game...
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Tamara (1968)
Character: Udo Bricks
A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany.
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Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten (2008)
Character: Self
Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new talk show – at least that was what he claimed. But in reality, it was obvious that the pilot episodes he produced would never be broadcasted. Nevertheless, all celebrities from the political and cultural sphere, Schlingensief had requested, accepted his invitation, including the filmmaker Oskar Roehler, the televangelist Jürgen Fliege, the politician Claudia Roth, or the rapper Sido. It is beyond question, that the talk show panel took an unconventional course directly from the start – and was soon threatening to turn into an uproar.
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Champagner für die Augen - Gift für den Rest (2022)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A spirit of optimism, structural change, emancipation: by showing excerpts from his films such as LIEBE, SO SCHÖN WIEBE (1971), SYLVIE (1973), IDOLE (1976) and AMORE (1978), Klaus Lemke tells his story of the decade, now half a century ago, that was so formative for Munich, with sentences such as: "Back then, we all thought life was eating out of our hands, then in the '80s we became fodder ourselves."
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Der Schatz, der vom Himmel fiel (1999)
Character: N/A
Flori and Lucy are on holiday in Turkey. By accident they meet their class mate Ali, who is visiting his grandfather. Ahmet, a genie, sends the three kids on a treasure hunt near an old castle. They find real jewels and the hunt turns into a real adventure when it becomes apparent that a German gangster duo is looking for the treasure as well.
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Cream - Schwabing-Report (1971)
Character: N/A
Young Italian stud Franco comes to Munich to earn some money for his family in Italy. But soon he explores the local women, and besides his affairs he finds a new friend, George, a sex film producer.
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Endstation Freiheit (1980)
Character: Henry Kirscher
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal - who has never seen him - and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik began writing in prison and now seeks contact with the literary culture, even though he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.
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Eine Art von Zorn (1984)
Character: Piet Maas
An Iraqi secret service agent is murdered. The only witness is a woman, but she disappeared without a trace. The journalist Piet Maas actually tracks down Lucia, the murdered man's lover, and does a sensational interview with her. Piet should stick to the matter. He has the feeling that Lucia is hiding the important thing. His suspicions are confirmed. She is in possession of the murdered man's valuable records, which she wants to sell. Piet offers himself to Lucia as a broker...
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Tod eines Fremden (1976)
Character: Student
A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a trail of broken lives and brutal murders.
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Maximum Speed - Renn' um dein Leben! (2002)
Character: Volker Schlegel
Student Markus Schneider works as a courier. Every day he chases through the streets of Berlin on his rollerblades to deliver documents on time. Little does he know that he is being used as a cocaine courier by a gang of corrupt police officers. He is also a convenient scapegoat when the crooks are looking for someone to frame for a double murder.
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Der Hauptdarsteller (1977)
Character: Willy
Pepe is 15. His life in social misery changes completely when he is chosen as the main character of a film production. Shot on location where he lives with his primitive, brutal and authoritarian father, a pig farmer.
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Peng! Du bist tot! (1987)
Character: "Major", ein befreundeter Hacker
American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the mystery of a stolen computer chip and the computer murders that Westerburg's boss Herbert Wilhelm Peters is apparently carrying out with its help. The search for Peters turns into a wild chase in a society that considers computer murders unthinkable and also becomes an existential threat for Westerburg and Flanegan...
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Va Banque (1986)
Character: Zacher
Three ordinary, disillusioned citizens decide to rob an armored car.
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Die Chinesen kommen (1987)
Character: Juniorchef
Delegates and workmen from China appear in a small Bavarian village to dismantle and ship to their country parts of a shut-down industrial plant. Four Bavarian labourers are supposed to assist them in their efforts, and in spite of cultural differences and language barriers this rather unusual encounter of two cultures seems to go pretty well.
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Wozu denn Eltern? (1995)
Character: N/A
Vera and Stefan Rabe independently have the idea to snuggle away from their six kids between 8 and 17 to get some work done before Christmas. Both don't tell each other about their plans, so the kids suddenly lack both of their parents and without supervision turn the house upside down.
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Mädchen mit Gewalt (1970)
Character: N/A
On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like the girl. Mike manages to separate Alice from her group and get into the car with Werner. It had been decided to go to a lake with the others to take a bath at night. Too late Alice realizes that Mike and Werner did not drive to the agreed lake, but to a lonely gravel pit. The friends will not come anymore. And she realizes the intentions of her companions.
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Heidenlöcher (1986)
Character: Overseer
In this well-photographed and sometimes confusing wartime drama, an Austrian village experiences the tragedy of war on several different levels. Within one family, the younger son is jealous of the praise his father gives to a Polish POW who is working for them under very difficult conditions. Within the village as a whole, the French, Polish, and Russian POWs are kept under guard by Nazi soldiers, creating a tense situation all around. But more importantly, the village has conspired to hide an Austrian deserter in a cave up in the mountains. This act of rebellion on the part of the deserter and the village hangs in a precarious balance that could be upset by a single traitorous comment to the Gestapo.
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Tramp oder der einzige und unvergleichliche Lenny Jacobsen (1968)
Character: Austin
The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best incidentally, the sensitivities of the victims and the perpetrators, to seemingly trivial expressions, gestures, sentences becomes the main thing.
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Mörderische Entscheidung (1991)
Character: Toni
A thriller about a maniac murderer who to the outside world is a celebrity TV presenter. His beautiful assistant, a woman who has fallen off the career ladder, is terrorized by him. A job-hunting animation artist gets caught in the world of glitter and glamour of the TV industry. Drugs and promiscuity are omnipresent. The animation artist falls in love with the assistant and his love is returned; together they uncover the true identity of the killer. Murderous Decisions is a special experiment: an interactive zap-movie, leaving it up to the viewer whether they follow the story from the male or female perspective. The movie is one of a kind, actually being two movies aired simutaneously on separate TV channels and allowing the viewer to switch back and forth at will.
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Lulu & Jimi (2009)
Character: Carli/Daddy Cool
About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got the good guys - that's Lulu and Jimi - and the bad guys: Lulu's mother Gertrud, her secret lover Schultz, the chauffeur, and a wicked old shrink, Von Oppeln, crouching in his gloomy office like a spider waiting to pounce on his prey Lulu. Light and darkness, bright garish colours, hot rock & roll and wild dance numbers mark this road movie about lovers fleeing from the evil powers of a deeply bigoted society.
A drama about the relationship between a young black man and a rich German girl.
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Der Griller (1968)
Character: Franz Kaffer
"Der Griller" tells the story of hedonist Franz Kaffer, who is working at a grill restaurant in Munich and as a drug dealer alongside. The film paints an atmospheric picture of the so-called "Jet Generation" in "Swinging Munich" that takes a very close look on the late sixties in West Germany – with some peculiar psychedelic elements on top.
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Letzte Chance für Harry (1998)
Character: Erwin
Two Berlin archetypes - Harald Juhnke and Günter Pfitzmann - convince in this touching big-city fairy tale in insistent roles as typical Berlin characters with everyday wit, temperament and improvisational talent.
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Männer wie wir (2004)
Character: Karl
Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to return one day with an all-gay team that will grind the heteros into the dust, so he sets off to find his “dream team.” With the help of his nurse sister, Ecki scours local gay bars and eventually assembles a hilariously motley but endearing crew of misfits that includes a leather-daddy threesome, a femme Turk with Beckham fantasies, a secret straight guy in love with the sister, and a seriously cute nurse eager for some private play-time with the goalie. Ecki now has two problems – turning this bunch into a team, and facing his own fears regarding his first romance.
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Die Heartbreakers (1983)
Character: Lisas Vater
Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.
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Chapeau Claque (1974)
Character: Lebensmittellieferant
A man lives a quiet live in a big house thanks to the wealth of his ancestors. Then a young woman arrives.
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Der starke Ferdinand (1976)
Character: Reporter
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe: satire of the rise of private security.
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o.k. (1970)
Character: Rowan
A five-man US fireteam dig in at the Bon Song Valley (represented by the Bavarian forest) to await the end of the Easter truce with the Vietnamese. A Vietnamese girl passes by and the team rape and kill her. One refuses to take part and escapes to report the incident, but it is dismissed by his superior.
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Weibsbilder (1996)
Character: Frau Rosenkötter
Esther and Sophie are BFF! When it comes to men, they however differ fundamentally . While the career woman Esther is on uncomplicated sex and therefore experienced with her lover Winnie, Sophie is still looking for her prince charming . When she meets Chip , a PC expert , she believes to have finally found this . But then it turns out that Chip is none other than Winnie . From Esther and Sophie are suddenly bitter rivals...
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Der letzte Schrei (1975)
Character: N/A
Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt.
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Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971)
Character: Baptist Meyer
When Jaider has to illegally poach in order to feed the citizens of a poor Alpine town, he gets into a blood-soaked conflict with the German authorities.
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Die Friseuse (2010)
Character: Joe
When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.
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Der Sommer des Falken (1988)
Character: Marek Czemy
At the foot of the Gamskogelwand: In summer, the summer of the falcon, an exciting and dangerous adventure awaits Marie, a girl who lives in the mountains and has a falcon as a friend, and Rick, a young punk from Berlin who is spending his vacation here with his father to learn hang gliding. A comical character appears in the idyllic village: Herbert Sasse, an eccentric pigeon breeder from Bottrop, who is searching for his prize-winning breeding pigeon with his radio direction finder, which has gone missing in this remote part of the Alps. The story really gets going when Marek Czerny, an enigmatic figure, shows up in the dreamy village and sets his sights on the falcon's nest. He is after the eggs – each one will fetch him $10,000, a fantastic deal! And so Rick from Berlin, Marie from the mountains, pigeon breeder Sasse from Bottrop, and Czerny, driven by pure greed, embark on a dangerous adventure.
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Jud Süß - Film ohne Gewissen (2010)
Character: Erich Engel
This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have unexpected costs. Ferdinand's Jewish wife, Anna (Martina Gedeck), is sent to a concentration camp, and as World War II intensifies, he rebels against the Nazis, leading to the destruction of his career.
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Frösche petzen nicht (2010)
Character: Rupert Malinowski
Ex-policeman Eddie is a dedicated private detective blessed with a healthy dose of audacity. His scruffy appearance and unconventional investigative methods are garnished with curiosity and clever remarks that lead him into unusual situations. At the airport, for example, he stumbles unsuspectingly into a staged bomb attack and becomes the only witness to an alleged murder. But the victim has disappeared. Eddie sets out to follow the trail of the crime. He ends up with Katharina, a smart fashion entrepreneur and wife of the missing victim. When she learns that her husband Heinz has obviously been deceiving her for a long time, she starts her own investigation with Eddie's help.
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Andersrum (2005)
Character: Harry
Ferdinand was abandoned as an infant by his parents in the forest. There he was found by a homosexual couple. Ludwig (called "Laila") and Harry adopted him. Ferdinand was strongly influenced by his adoptive parents. As a young man, he is an outsider due to his potty behavior.
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z.B. ... Otto Spalt (1988)
Character: Reporter Schnellwindt
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.
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Wenn süß das Mondlicht auf den Hügeln schläft (1969)
Character: Peter
Based on a book by Eric Malpass and directed by Kurt Hoffmann, the film focuses on the everyday life of a German family perceived through the eyes of its youngest member — six-year-old Gaylord.
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Der Zauberberg (1982)
Character: Herr Wehsal
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
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Das siebente Opfer (1964)
Character: Kellner im Club
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
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Quatsch und die Nasenbärbande (2014)
Character: Richter der Weltrekorde
Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its mediocrity. New products are to be tested here. The market researchers know that what the people of Bollersdorf like sells well everywhere. But while the local parents enthusiastically take part, their children quickly get fed up with the annoying product testers. Even more so when they want to send their beloved grandmas and grandpas to a care home to bring the average age back into line. This is a case for the coati gang! Together with the clever coati Quatsch, the children hatch a clever plan: With adventurous inventions and crazy world records, they want to prove Bollersdorf's uniqueness so that the consumer researchers finally disappear again...
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Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky (1995)
Character: Max Skladanowsky (voice)
A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.
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L'espion (1966)
Character: Tommy (uncredited)
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
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Der Partyphotograph (1968)
Character: Anton Pauli
A television technician who is mistaken for a star photographer can hardly save himself from girls who are addicted to fame. A simple-minded story of mistaken identity as a hook for striptease acts and cheap jokes.
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Ein Unding der Liebe (1988)
Character: Viktor
Left behind by his mother, an alcoholic prostitute, Georg grew up carelessly with his aunt and grandmother. As an adult he works in a department store canteen and has become an outsider due to his shape and infantile appearance.
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Der Formel Eins Film (1985)
Character: N/A
Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she meets all kinds of stars like Falco, Meat Loaf, Die Toten Hosen and Pia Zadora and of course the presenter Ingolf Lück. The result is a colorful mix-up and the question arises as to whether Tina can make her dream come true.
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Der Formel Eins Film (1985)
Character: Agent
Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she meets all kinds of stars like Falco, Meat Loaf, Die Toten Hosen and Pia Zadora and of course the presenter Ingolf Lück. The result is a colorful mix-up and the question arises as to whether Tina can make her dream come true.
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Annas Mutter (1984)
Character: Ulrich
Based on the actual case of Marianne Bachmeier from 1981, the film tells the story of a mother who in a calm and determined manner shoots the murderer of her daughter seven times in the court room.The man dies at the crime scene. The media jumps at this tragedy and Bachmeier′s action is even spontaneously applauded by some. But soon, the attractive woman is cast under a pall when the media starts to look for "disclosing" details from her private life.
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Bei mir liegen Sie richtig (1990)
Character: Karl-Heinz (Kalle) Kriwitz
Willi Kritz earns his living as a night watchman and corpse washer at the East German Pathological Institute at the Berlin Clinic. In the process, he found another source of income: he steals pathological exhibits and smuggles them to West Berlin disguised as a Berlin bear. His customer is Frundsberg, and the delivery always takes place in his Yankee sleigh.
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Chaostage - We Are Punks! (2009)
Character: Nachrichtensprecher
CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks...
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I magi randagi (1996)
Character: Gaspare
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
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Voll Normaaal (1994)
Character: Hütchenspieler
Tommie is the absolute loser in his home district of Cologne-Kalk: no money, no apartment of his own, no girlfriend. In the exhaust workshop where he toils, the foreman is constantly angry with him. But Tommie is in a great mood: The video freak dreams enthusiastically through the fantasy world of film art, preferably with the bust sex star Gianna S. in the leading role. Tommie collects exhaust pipes. When he steals a particularly capital specimen from Jupp's swank Mercedes, he gets into real trouble. He has no choice but to return the exhaust to Jupp, but his deadly ultimatum of procuring a case of the rare beer brand "Ramsdorfer Kölsch" by seven o'clock in the evening proves to be insanely difficult. Because at the very same time, "Gianna S." is expected in town...
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Tod den Hippies!! Es lebe der Punk! (2015)
Character: Ralf
1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.
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Harlis (1972)
Character: N/A
While out on the town in Berlin, Raymond sees and falls for Harlis, a star of a troupe of lesbian cabaret strippers. Attracted to a man for the first time, Harlis leaves her long time girlfriend and dance partner. Overwhelmed by jealousy and anger, his brother (Peter) and his ex-fiancee (Ria) are determined to sabotage this budding romance.
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Die Venusfalle (1988)
Character: Dr. Steiner
The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdialing woman, he starts a restless search ...
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Mann im Spagat - Pace, Cowboy, Pace (2017)
Character: Sweet Pepper
Cowboy has a vision. He wants to save the planet with his movement of Free Swingers. That's why he applies for a grant at The Central Agency, who then sends a representative named Fey of Sweden to approve Cowboy's proposal. She demands results and he decides to stage a charity bicycle rally featuring a roster of two-wheeled Berlin misfits. Meanwhile Cowboy's neighbor kills his mother's budgie and sets the Devil of Hermannplatz on him to sabotage his plans. Pretty bad timing considering that he also has to rescue his stubborn mother from a shady retirement home. Torn between Cowboy's budding crush on Fey of Sweden, his hot neighbor Angel and his innate drive towards chaos, the rally soon turns into a race against time. Soon his mother will be taken away from him and the rally racers are doing anything other than what they should: cycling.
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Liebe, so schön wie Liebe (1972)
Character: Rolf
Munich in the 1970s: A group of young people are killing time. Sylvie has broken up with her boyfriend, and a short time later he marries someone else. The slacker Rolf enters Sylvie's life and together they decide to form a circus group with their friends, mostly untalented petty crooks, and move to the provinces.
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Go Trabi Go 2 - Das war der wilde Osten (1992)
Character: Charlie
Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll crash course in capitalism - with unsurpassed success.
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Die Frau mit dem roten Hut (1982)
Character: Kameramann
In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat, without knowing her past is. She turns to the Japanese, for the first time she thinks she has found her really great love- exotic stranger attracts her. They say a lot, but they do not understand each other - but they can show their love. Nevertheless, the relationship is doomed to failure from the beginning. Disappointment, death and loss.
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