Biography
Ludger Pistor was born on March 16, 1959 in Recklinghausen, Germany. He is an actor, known for X-Men: First Class (2011), Run Lola Run (1998) and Casino Royale (2006). He is best known for appearing in big name films such as Schindler's List as Josef Liepold, Casino Royale as the Swiss banker Mendel and in Inglourious Basterds as Hauptmann (Captain) Wolfgang. He also played in X-Men: First Class where he played the small role of a German former Nazi hiding in Argentina posing as pig farmer, and ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Das Weihnachtsschnitzel
2022
as Wolfgang Krettek

Immenhof - Das große Versprechen
2022
as Krämer senior
When a poison attack is made on the racehorse Cagliostro, Lou flees the Immenhof with the horse. Together they find refuge with Cal, who lives away fr...
Unter Menschen
2020
as Egon
Oona's parents are expectant and a little nervous before the first meeting with the daughter's new partner. But when the couple finally shows up, they...

Schnitzel de Luxe
2019
as Wolfgang Krettek
Gunther and Wolfgang, two long-time unemployed friends spot an opportunity when their favorite Schnitzel shop is closing up and they want to run it th...

Scheidung für Anfänger
2018
as Werner
Anja and Christop Bremermann have been married for 24 years and have to admit that their love for each other is slowly fading. They decide to divorce ...

Eine Hochzeit platzt selten allein
2018
as Schwegler
When the rich brewer Dillinger wants to withdraw 100,000 euros in cash, Gerhard Schwegler, head of the Volkskassen, refuses to pay out the money: Dill...

My Brother Simple
2017
as Schöll
Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two...

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Tide
2017
as Antoine Manet
Myths of the sunken city of Ys leads to the murder of a young couple.

It’s Your Turn, Honey!
2017
as Arnold
Toni and Marc want to divorce, because the great passion seems to be extinguished after 15 years of marriage. It should be a consensual separation, bu...

My Blind Date with Life
2017
as Lehrer Döngen
An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.

Schnitzel geht immer
2017
as Wolfgang Krettek
With a t-shirt sale the two friends Günther and Wolfgang finally want to turn their backs on unemployment benefits. But this plan is not as easy to im...

Stadtlandliebe
2016
as Gast
Sam and Anna are part of the hip, vegan, green, eco-friendly, upper-class subculture of Berlin. Anna is a successful doctor, and Nick works in adverti...

Seitenwechsel
2016
as Therapeut
The relationship of Alex and Teresa has hit hard times. After 15 years of marriage, the passionate football coach and the sensitive psychoanalyst do n...

Young Light
2016
as Pfarrer Stürwald
Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger...

Ein gefährliches Angebot
2016
as Kurt Wambeck

Einfach Rosa - Die zweite Chance
2016
as Pfarrer
Rosa can only dream of romantic togetherness with her husband Mark. Temporarily homeless, her mother Ruth has taken up residence in the middle of the ...

Bros Before Hoes
2015
as Waiter
Two brothers are having a concert but one of them falls in love with a girl, now it's going to be hard for the two to work together.

Die Insassen
2015
as Prof. Dr. Fechtner

Der Himmel zwischen den Welten
2015
as Eigner

Aus der Kurve
2015
as Wellmann

Woman in Gold
2015
as Rudolph Wran
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis ...

Why I Kidnapped My Boss
2014
as Michael Fischer
Anna is a young working mom, with baby twins. Her boss who doesn't understand the situation fires her just before losing his memory in an accident. An...

Frauen verstehen
2014
as Fred
The dishes are smashed, the lampshade broken, the curtain torn down. The relationship between Marlene and her husband Paul seems to be over. In fact, ...

Wir tun es für Geld
2014
as Ekkehard
It is not out of love that Ines gives her boyhood friend Moritz the vow, not even because he is rich. On the contrary. For the financial expert the dr...

The Fifth Estate
2013
as Supervisor
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the ...

Ein Schnitzel für alle
2013
as Wolfgang Krettek
Again, the unemployed zookeeper Günther and the discarded salesman Wolfgang are looking for their great luck. Therefore, they get the help of a young ...

Robot Mom
2012
as Charly Belfort
Katrin, an ambitious product designer who is completely overwhelmed with children, household and job, lives with her husband Jan and their two childre...

St George's Day
2012
as Werner Voss
Infamous London gangster cousins, Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw, are at the top of the food chain, when their world is turned upside down as they lo...

X-Men: First Class
2011
as 1st German / Pig Farmer
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. B...

Jetzt sind wir dran!
2011
as Karl Rochus
When courier driver Georg loses his job, he and his buddies plan the big thing!

Die Frau des Schläfers
2010
as Markus Bender
Karla works in a call center. She marries Zaid Yakin and has a happy marriage with him. Even the death of her father-in-law gives Karla no reason to d...

Lüg weiter, Liebling
2010
as Werner
"Hape" Wegener is an old hippie and has a lot of debts. At the cemetery he happens to meet the widow Martha Ebinghaus, who clearly comes from wealthy ...

Ein Schnitzel für drei
2009
as Wolfgang Krettek
The unemployed salesman Wolfgang practices optimism, his friend Günther realism: The situation is shitty! But then zookeeper Günther finds a few hundr...

The Informant!
2009
as Reinhard Richter
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-...

Inglourious Basterds
2009
as CPT. Wolfgang
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throug...

Killing Is My Business, Honey
2009
as Dr. Gruber
A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her jo...

Tischlein deck dich
2008
as Tischler
No one takes the clumsy Max Klopstock seriously. Even the gluttonous goat makes fun of him. Max wants to prove his worth to his father and lovely Lott...

Schokolade für den Chef
2008
as Marc Schmitt-Lombard
The wealthy industrialist Ernst Schmitt has to take a step back for health reasons. But first he wants to arrange his succession, as he doesn't trust ...

Niete zieht Hauptgewinn
2007
as Empfangschef
Marie Gruber fights tooth and claw to keep her café open. And yet she should be facing her "arch-enemy" with pure hostility. But she unwittingly falls...
Kein Geld der Welt
2007
as Strecker

Casino Royale
2006
as Mendel
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his win...

Out of Bounds
2006
as Dieter Kettwig
Ingo organizes a charity event for the local golf club. Special guest will be the Hollywood star Douglas Burnett. But who remembers what the aging sta...

Erkan & Stefan 3
2005
as Hardy Flanders
The 3rd movie by the comedian duo Erkan and Stefan.

Crazy Race
2003
as Dr. P. Schneider
Marc owes a criminal a quarter of a million euros. So it's just as well that there's an illegal car rally across Germany to win exactly that amount. I...
Vier Meerjungfrauen
2001
as Lauritzen

The Princess and the Warrior
2000
as Werner Dürr
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has...

Helden in Tirol
1998
as Pfarrer Johannes
Helden, a village in a secluded, forgotten valley in Tyol. A place where the world is still a happy place, where a simple poache named Max loves poor ...

Run Lola Run
1998
as Mr. Meier
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise ...

Life Is All You Get
1997
as Bestatter
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersw...

Willi und die Windzors
1996
as Prince Charles
The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want t...
Deadly Web
1994
as Brilla

Schindler's List
1993
as Josef Liepold
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during ...

Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem
1993
as Besserwisser
The dreaded Doc Snyder returns home after 30 years. After his long ride through the prairies of the wild west, his laundry is extremely dirty, and who...

The Innocent
1993
as German Informer
A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s be...
Deutschfieber
1992
as KM-Geschäftsführer
The world was turned upside down on November 9, 1989. Not only does the Berlin Wall fall, but the German-German border in the Werra Valley is also rol...
Die Blattlaus
1991
as Fritz

Pappa ante Portas
1991
as Director
Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years...

Werner and the Wizard of Booze
1990
as Pastor A. Amen
Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resul...
Er - Sie - Es
1989
as Rolf
Feature film.

Midnight Cop
1988
Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the crimi...
Golden Boy
1988
as Sanfter Politist

Non-Stop Trouble With the Experts
1988
as Optiker
Willi Schulze is a car mechanic. Together with Paul, who escaped from an orphanage, he runs a garage. During the testing of a car, Willi finds out the...

Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen
1987
as Taxifahrer
This modern variation on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Girl with the Matchsticks" begins Christmas in a home for the disabled. The four wh...

The Name of the Rose
1986
as Monk
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my...
Schnitzel satt
N/A
as Wolfgang Krettek