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Complete Filmography

Ein Sack voll Geld
2002
as Chef des Paketzustelldienstes
Nice gift: Shortly before Christmas loses parcel delivery Wolfgang Paschke the debit card, the driver's license and his job. Famously, he also stumble...

Dancing at the Dump
1991
as Jäger
The tragic love story between 17 year-old Gerat Lauter, who is in search of the truth, and his much older teacher Claudia, as it becomes a criminal ca...

The Light of Love
1991
804, Thuringia. An orphan boy, called Bengel, lives in a monastery and is teased by the nuns because of his ugliness. He nurses a black rider, who is ...

Imaginative King
1990

Pause für Wanzka
1990
Shortly before his retirement, Gustav Wanzka wants to return to his beloved profession as a teacher after years of working as a district school inspec...

Konstantin und Alexander
1989
as Bürgermeister
Alexander sits in the pub and wants to be left alone. The fake sailor Konstantin sits in the pub because he can't leave his fellow men alone. That eve...
Großer Frieden
1989
as Statthalter Wei

Ein brauchbarer Mann
1989
Young Uli Merkel is an engineer and inventor. He has a wife and child and is primarily interested in his career. One day, he receives a strange assign...

Two Strange Characters
1989
as Universitätsangestellter Adam
Frank and Kamminke study informatics in Leipzig and have developed a program that enables a computer to automatically find and correct errors in its s...

Späte Ankunft
1989
In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the Pruss...

Die Weihnachtsgans Auguste
1988
as Hans Becker
The opera singer Ludwig Löwenhaupt wants a proper festive roast for Christmas, so he buys a goose in advance to feed the whole family. What he doesn't...

Künstler, König und Modell
1987
Johann Gottfried Schadow is only in his early twenties when he is put in charge of the royal sculptor's workshop in Prussia's capital Berlin. He is su...

Das Buschgespenst
1986
as Pfarrer
In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered in...

Die Weihnachtsklempner
1986
Plumber Martin and his younger colleague Frank are on call on Christmas Eve of all days. Frank's girlfriend Regina, who is expecting her first baby at...
Sagenhaftes vom Petermännchen
1986
as Herzog
Every hundred years, the Petermännchen has the chance to be released from his enchantment. This time everything seems to go well. The story tells how ...

Die dritte Frau
1985
Es steht der Wald so schweigend
1985
The young forester Rudolf is released from a mental hospital after suffering from a mental illness. His widowed mother accompanies the taciturn son to...

Hälfte des Lebens
1985
as Landgraf
This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe.

Unternehmen Geigenkasten
1985
as Oberleutnant Vogel
Ten-year-old Ole is full of mischief. He attempts to fly and is hospitalized with a broken leg. When he sees a Sherlock Holmes movie on TV, however, h...

Der Mann mit dem Ring im Ohr
1984
For years, the carpenter Tillmann Rutenschneider has moved around. In 1932, at the age of thirty, he returns to his village in the Mark Brandenburg wi...

Island of Swans
1983
as Hausmeister der Schule
Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where his...

Familie Rechlin
1982
Berlin in the 60s. The construction of the Berlin Wall not only divides the city, but also separates the Rechlin family. While mother Ingelore lives w...

The Fat Tilla
1982
Two girls experience dislike at first sight because of their differences. Then they sort things out.

On Probation
1981
Nina Kern, a divorced woman in her late twenties, will soon be fully deprived of her custody rights for her three children, who already reside in a ho...

Asta, mein Engelchen
1981
as Marotzke
Old Otto Gratzick is a porter at DEFA and a great admirer of Asta Nielsen. When the famous actor Hermann Gschwindner dies shortly before the end of hi...

Die Gäste der Mathilde Lautenschläger
1981
Katrin and Dieter really want a new car, but don't have enough money. They therefore decide to host Aunt Mathilde's 60th birthday party and invite all...

Martin XIII.
1981
as Martin XII.
The oceans seem to be the Nehls' second home. But there is one exception that Grandpa Nehl, alias Martin XI, captain of a training sailing ship, is no...

Grenadier Wordelmann
1980
as Fischer Krüger
1780: When farmer Schmitzdorff in Wust, Brandenburg, is denied permission to marry his stepdaughter Sophie, he goes to Potsdam to obtain permission fr...

Next Year at Lake Balaton
1980
as Heinz Moldenschütt
Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. But Ines’s narrow-minded parents intervene and insis...

Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod
1980
In 1903, Jan Anskath and his half-brother Martin are living in Rajgorod at the border between Russia and Prussia – Jan on the Russian, Martin on the P...

Glück im Hinterhaus
1980
as Theo Haßler
Karl Erp is a middle-aged man with two children and a boring marriage. After starting an exciting affair with his intern, Miss Broder, he leaves his l...

Für Mord kein Beweis
1979
as Leutnant Gallig
After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home over night. The next morning, his wife Steffi has disappe...

Dwarf Nose
1978
as Herzog
Jakob, the son of a market woman, helps an old woman carry the groceries home one day. But the old woman turns out to be a herb witch. She enchants Ja...

Second Love - Volunteer
1977
as Hochbach
A mechanic, Peter Papenbold, is giving all his free time to volunteer in the children's sport school. When he's asked to switch to teaching permanentl...

Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute
1977
Historical television comedy around Friedrich Alfred Krupp, whose connection to the imperial court and the influence of Kaiser Wilhelm II. to the Krup...
Wer das Unglück meistert, findet das Glück
1976
as Holzfäller

The Black Mill
1975
as Jan
Driven by need and a thirst for knowledge, Krabat wanders through the impoverished country and falls under the control of the "black miller". Krabat d...

Man against Man
1975
Robert and Michael meet on their return from captivity. They discover that they are both married to the same woman: After Robert was pronounced dead, ...

Alwin auf der Landstraße
1974
as Lehrer Böhm
Ironically, at the beginning of the summer holidays, Alwins strict father has grounded him to get him to improve his spelling. Alwin feels like a pris...

The Sinking of Emma
1974
as Bisamfänger
A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.

Der wunderbare Schatz
1973
The Kazakh shepherd Bair finds a fabulous treasure in the steppe: a stone pot that doubles everything you put in it. Bair is a poor man without rights...

Zement
1973
Early 1921: a man is on his way home. Gleb Chumalov, regimental commander, worker and Hero of the Order of the Red Banner, returns to his home town fr...

No Cheating, Darling
1973
as Baurat Kummerow
For some time now, the residents of the placid little village of Sonnenthal talk only about one topic: Football! The ambitious mayor wants to promote ...

Verwandte und Bekannte
1971
Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to t...

Optimistische Tragödie
1971
During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section”. This regiment ...

Do You Know Urban?
1971
as Staatsanwalt
Hoffi is starting fresh after his release from prison. He travels with his brother to different construction sites in search of Urban, an acquaintance...

The Russians Are Coming
1968
as deutscher Soldat
It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During the hunt for ...

Reise ins Ehebett
1966
as Schweiger
The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a different girlfriend in every harbour. But his friends...

Terra incognita
1965
Film by Hanns Anselm Perten.