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Berlin, hier bin ich (1982)
Character: Matthias Mattke
Detti leaves the Harz to help build East Berlin but faces a cold welcome. He bonds with roommate Matthias and meets Silke. Assigned to Marzahn’s construction brigade, he works through challenges, determined to stay. His resolve pays off when he falls for Jasmin.
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Von Hunden und Pferden (2012)
Character: Tierarzt
To save his deathly ill dog, the unemployed Rolf bets the little money that he has on a horse and hopes for the best. Sometimes even outsiders get a chance.
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Der Job seines Lebens (2003)
Character: Reinhard Paschke
Externally, they could be twins. But really only outwardly: the unemployed, disillusioned toolmaker Erwin Strunz and the dynamic, power-infested Prime Minister Uwe Achimsen. There's the inevitable confusion - and everyone thinks Erwin is for Prime Minister Achimsen. Rainer Kaufmann staged the fast-paced confusion comedy with Wolfgang Stumph, Katja Riemann and Katharina Thalbach in the leading roles.
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Raus aus der Haut (1997)
Character: Annas Vater
Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.
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Spinnefix (1983)
Character: N/A
"Je oller, je doller", say the roommates of pensioner Otto Panke, because they often see him together with the young Manuela, who likes to invent "dream jobs" for her life and dreams of an "exclusive life". But for Otto, the noticeable sympathy for the pretty, quite professional woman is simply "soul kinship". And since both have an extremely large degree of imagination, they are special, extraordinary - to a certain extent "spider fix"! The problem of the two is that they often get into tricky situations that threaten to get messy and they get a lot of problems. But as is the case with good stories: in the end, everything aims at a happy happy end...
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Doppeltes Dreieck (1999)
Character: N/A
Berlin public prosecutor Susanne Marquardt wakes up in hospital after an accident. The patient, who is suffering from a tumor, can't remember anything. A short time later, she wants to throw herself onto a train track. Businessman Martin pulls her back at the last second. Coincidence?
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Volio bih da sam golub (1990)
Character: N/A
The story of German minority members who, after escaping from Wehrmacht, form a partisan unit named "Ernst Thalmann" in eastern Croatia. The focus is a family whose members fight on different sides of the barricade.
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Alphamann: Amok (1999)
Character: N/A
Blind psychologist Tom Leschek accidentally witnesses a heavily armed SEK policeman running amok and barricading himself in a supermarket with his daughter. The policeman's ex-wife was supposed to take the girl by court order that day. Leschek uses his cell phone to get in touch with the police, who use the blind man as a mediator and advisor in this emergency situation.
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Mit deinen Augen (2004)
Character: Portier
Despite her blindness, the famous singer Sophie Martell, who lives in Venice, has remained a cheerful, optimistic woman. However, she does not look forward to much, as her agent David hired journalist Eike Blohm to write Sophie's biography. But soon the idiosyncratic woman falls in love with her sensitive biographers. David, however, is not at all thrilled with Sophie's love affair: he fears that this could expose his scams and embezzlement of Sophie's private assets.
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Herbert (2016)
Character: Günther
A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
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Elementarteilchen (2006)
Character: Forscher 3
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again.
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Neufeld, mitkommen! (2014)
Character: Richter
Nick Neufeld was abused by some classmates, and a judge sentences the main offender to 120 hours of gardening. All good? No: mother Beate sees that Nick is skipping school out of fear and withdrawing more and more. She wants the perpetrators to be expelled from school and the teachers to be held accountable. But for others, the case has long since been closed...
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Die Akte General (2016)
Character: Isser Harel
In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.
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Einer trage des anderen Last ... (1988)
Character: Hubertus Koschenz
At the beginning of the 50s, two extremely disparate men meet in a private sanatorium for consumptives: an officer in the People's Police, Josef Heiliger; and a young Protestant curate, Hubertus Koschenz. On account of their consumption, they have to share a room. Initially, this is the only thing they have in common. The film explores Hubertus's struggle with his sexuality within the context of both the church and the socialist state.
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Der Job seines Lebens 2 - Wieder im Amt (2004)
Character: Reinhard Paschke
Shortly before the election, Prime Minister Achimsen has a heart attack. Double Erwin Strunz has to step in. While the politician is treated in hospital, Strunz establishes a policy for the little people...
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Alles Samba (2003)
Character: Polizist
Art expert Katharina Diezmann is out of the blue, when one day the little Brazilian Marcia is standing at her door. Years ago Katharina had taken over a sponsorship for the eleven-year-old, but never expected that she would ever meet her. The little girl is in Berlin with her samba group over Christmas and has only one wish: finally to see real snow!
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Schweigeminute (2016)
Character: N/A
The end of a summer, a sleepy fishing port on the Baltic Sea and the beginning of a great feeling that must not be: Shortly before the start of the new school year, the 18-year-old Christian falls in love with his new English teacher Stella Petersen. In a moment of unexpected lightness and freedom, in the dunes and seascape far away from the small town, Stella and Christian discover a shared longing and an attraction to each other, the intensity of which both overwhelmed. But soon after class has begun again, the secret relationship between the young teacher and her pupil threatens the scandal ...
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Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
Character: N/A
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
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Des Kaisers neue Kleider (2010)
Character: Heinrich
Many years ago, there lived an Emperor, Friedhelm, who wanted so much new clothes that he spent all his money to be properly cleaned. One day, three scammers with a ruse, came along who pretended to be weavers, Jacob, Maja and Greta. "The clothes are so special, that they are invisible to any who are hopelessly dumb or unworthy of office."
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Röpers letzter Tag (1997)
Character: Kommissar Ellermann
Hannes Röper is looking forward to life after his last day at the cash-in-transit company “Secura,” where he has managed operations for ten years. Unfortunately, a driver calls in sick, so Röper takes over his route and gets robbed. Inspector Ellermann and Röper’s boss are firmly convinced that this string of unfortunate coincidences was actually a setup. So Röper sets out to track down the perpetrators on his own.
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Werk ohne Autor (2018)
Character: Kleiber
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
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Traumfabrik (2019)
Character: Helmut Posner
A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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Die innere Sicherheit (2001)
Character: Teacher
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.
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Die Kinder meines Bruders (2015)
Character: N/A
Eric leads a carefree life in Berlin. He loves his girlfriend Verena, but family, attachment and responsibility are foreign words for him. When he learns of the death of his brother, who lived as a dairy farmer in Saxony-Anhalt, Eric wants to wind up the insolvent farm as quickly as possible and deport Christoph's children to foster parents. When he realizes that the price dumping of the milk cartels drove his brother to his death he tells the big dairies to fight.
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Ossi’s Eleven (2008)
Character: Konrad Hauff
Finally out again. The attempt to cheat his boss out of a truckload cost haulage driver Oswald a year of his life and his job. Now it's back home to the prefabricated building. It's just in time that Oswald's buddy Karl knows about trophies made from old D-Mark coins. In the iron foundry on the outskirts of the city, old coins worth several hundred thousand Deutschmarks are regularly stored for further processing - virtually unguarded. As the old coins can still be exchanged, this is a small but sure coup. While Karl is still laughing at Oswald's naivety, he is already beginning to put his plan into action. In a series of tragic and absurd situations, he recruits a team that couldn't be more different, from doped athletes to hated ex-Stasi men. They are united by their desire to use the money to make a difference.
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Nicht alle waren Mörder (2006)
Character: Friedhofsgärtner
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...
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Umwege des Herzens (2001)
Character: Pfarrer
After the tragic accidental death of her sister, which she has not seen since a dispute 18 years ago, the architect Sarah suffers from guilt feelings: She believes she could have saved Susanne with a liver donation. To at least do something for Susanne's husband Max and the three children, Sarah drives to the family's farm in the Vogelsberg. And has to cope with a tragedy whose cause lies in her old love for Max. Sonja Kirchberger and Jochen Nickel play the lead roles in the quietly told, melancholy TV drama about the destructive dynamics of family relationships.
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Alter Schwede (1990)
Character: N/A
A famous journalist wants to adopt a 13 years old orphan boy but their relationship are not perfect.
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1648: Der lange Weg zum Frieden (2018)
Character: Duc de Longueville
October 2018 was the four-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The documentary traces the story of how it was finally brought to an end with the peace of Munster and Osnabruck – the first peace in European history to be concluded at the negotiating table and not fought on the battlefield.
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Die Frau des Heimkehrers (2006)
Character: DRK-Mitarbeiter Friedrich
The elaborately staged and lovingly furnished melodrama tells the moving story of a wife and mother after the Second World War. In the title role Christine Neubauer shows another facet of her versatility. Timothy Peach and Martin Feifel play at their side. Other main roles include Eva-Maria Hagen and Peter Sodann. Gaby Kubach directed a book by the renowned author Felix Huby.
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Schachnovelle (2021)
Character: Chess Player
1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.
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