Armin Mueller-Stahl

Armin Mueller-Stahl

1930-12-17 Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany 116 Credits

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Armin Mueller-Stahl  (born 17 December 1930) is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician. Description above from the Wikipedia article Armin Mueller-Stahl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

2021

as Self

Acting

Armin Mueller-Stahl was one of the few Germans to become a celebrated Hollywood actor. He had to start all over again several times: after the Second ...

Große Klappe, großes Herz

Große Klappe, großes Herz

2018

as Gast

Acting

Who is the funniest Berliner? Helga Hahnemann or Edith Hancke, Brigitte Mira or Cindy from Marzahn? rbb television is looking for the Berliner with th...

Marina, Mabuse und Morituri - 70 Jahre Deutscher Nachkriegsfilm im Spiegel der CCC

Marina, Mabuse und Morituri - 70 Jahre Deutscher Nachkriegsfilm im Spiegel der CCC

2017

as Himself

7.0
Acting

A documentary directed by Kathrin Anderson.

Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups

2015

as Fr. Zeitlinger

5.7
Acting

Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in...

Crusaders II Fall of the Holy Land

Crusaders II Fall of the Holy Land

2012

Acting

An outstanding and powerful dramatization of the Crusades. Set in the 11th Century, three men set off on an epic journey to the Holy Land to take part...

Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons

2009

as Cardinal Strauss

6.7
Acting

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organizati...

The International

The International

2009

as Wilhelm Wexler

6.2
Acting

An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading...

Leningrad

Leningrad

2009

as von Leeb

5.5
Acting

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate D...

Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks

2008

as Johann Buddenbrook

5.7
Acting

Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach...

Local Color

Local Color

2008

as Nicoli Seroff

6.5
Acting

A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befr...

Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises

2007

as Semyon

7.4
Acting

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russia...

The Red Elvis

The Red Elvis

2007

as Himself

7.2
Acting

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

I Am the Other Woman

I Am the Other Woman

2006

as Herr Winter

5.4
Acting

Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer w...

The Dust Factory

The Dust Factory

2004

as Grandpa Randolph

5.7
Acting

Ryan is a teenager who lacks the ability to speak. One day, Ryan falls off a bridge and he finds himself transported to a strange fantasy world where ...

The Story of an African Farm

The Story of an African Farm

2004

as Otto

4.9
Acting

The 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje.Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins with...

The Long Run

The Long Run

2001

as Bertold " Barry " Böhmer

6.3
Acting

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging ru...

The Crusaders

The Crusaders

2001

as Alessio

4.1
Acting

Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three y...

Pilgrim

Pilgrim

2000

as Mac

5.7
Acting

A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.

Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars

2000

as Ray Beck (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is...

Jesus

Jesus

1999

as Joseph

6.7
Acting

Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar

1999

as Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum

6.7
Acting

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German ...

The Third Miracle

The Third Miracle

1999

as Erzbischof Werner

5.8
Acting

The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...

The Thirteenth Floor

The Thirteenth Floor

1999

as Hannon Fuller

7.1
Acting

In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a despera...

The X-Files

The X-Files

1998

as Strughold

6.9
Acting

Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about ...

The Commissioner

The Commissioner

1998

as Hans Koenig

5.7
Acting

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for hi...

The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker

1997

as Dimitri Vertikoff

6.0
Acting

When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a...

The Game

The Game

1997

as Anson Baer

7.6
Acting

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his y...

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

1997

as Juror 4

7.6
Acting

During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result ...

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

1997

as Rabbi Adam Heller

4.8
Acting

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redempt...

Conversation with the Beast

Conversation with the Beast

1997

as Adolf Hitler

Acting

An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who ...

Conversation with the Beast

Conversation with the Beast

1997

Screenplay, Director

Writing Directing

An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who ...

The Ogre

The Ogre

1996

as Count von Kaltenborn

6.4
Acting

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a s...

Shine

Shine

1996

as Peter

7.4
Acting

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Taxandria

Taxandria

1996

as Karol / Virgilus

5.9
Acting

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of libert...

Theodore Rex

Theodore Rex

1995

as Elizar Kane

3.6
Acting

In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehis...

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

1995

as Mr. Linzer

4.9
Acting

A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the...

The Last Good Time

The Last Good Time

1994

as Joseph Kopple

6.0
Acting

A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who ...

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony

1994

as Uncle Wilhelm

5.3
Acting

A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.

The Film Narrator

The Film Narrator

1993

as Kinoerzähler

Acting

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories ...

The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

1993

as Severo del Valle

6.9
Acting

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Red Hot

Red Hot

1993

as Dimitri

5.5
Acting

In 1959, a young Soviet musician risks everything to pursue his newfound love of American rock 'n' roll.

Far from Berlin

Far from Berlin

1993

Acting

East Berliner Dieter was working at a very low-level factory job when East and West Germany were unified. He has a very ill child to take care of who ...

The Power of One

The Power of One

1992

as Doc

7.5
Acting

PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel...

Utz

Utz

1992

as Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz

5.4
Acting

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the l...

Night on Earth

Night on Earth

1991

as Helmut Grokenberger

7.5
Acting

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Bronstein's Children

Bronstein's Children

1991

as Arno Bronstein

Acting

East Berlin, 1973. Eighteen-year-old Hans Bronstein and his girlfriend arrive at his parents’ summer house to find a former Nazi camp Kapo chained the...

Kafka

Kafka

1991

as Grubach

6.4
Acting

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all...

Avalon

Avalon

1990

as Sam Krichinsky

6.6
Acting

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a bett...

Monolog für einen Taxifahrer

Monolog für einen Taxifahrer

1990

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

A film about the experiences of a cab driver who drives a young, heavily pregnant woman who has collapsed in a store to hospital. The encounters durin...

Music Box

Music Box

1989

as Mike Laszlo

7.1
Acting

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Spider's Web

Spider's Web

1989

as Baron von Rastchuk

6.2
Acting

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the cha...

Schweinegeld

Schweinegeld

1989

as Maxwell

Acting

A satire about corruption, about big and small crimes: The noble clochard Maxwell, the unsuccessful film producer Harry and the unemployed actress Wal...

Just For Kicks

Just For Kicks

1989

Acting

The life of Tamás, antiquities dealer, runs in a normal, everyday way, he is stealing, swindling, cheating on his wife just like everybody else. Sudde...

Midnight Cop

Midnight Cop

1988

as Inspector Alex Glass

4.6
Acting

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...

Tagebuch für einen Mörder

1988

as Max Telligan

Acting

Only a short time left until Max Telligan's diary is finished. Hollywood is already interested in the book's film rights. US producer Terry Wilde make...

Lethal Obsession

Lethal Obsession

1987

as Axel Baumgartner

4.7
Acting
Unser Mann im Dschungel

Unser Mann im Dschungel

1987

as Lutz Kehlmann

5.0
Acting

A German engineer Lutz Kehlmann is to lead a dam project in South America. When he flies over the area of the dam the helicopter crashes and Kehlmann ...

Der Fall Franza

1987

as Dr. Leopold Jordan / Dr. Körner

Acting
Momo

Momo

1986

as Chef der Grauen

7.0
Acting

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a pow...

Auf den Tag genau

1986

Acting
Hautnah

Hautnah

1985

as Dold

10.0
Acting

Private eye Dold, a specialist in surveillance tasks, is sent to investigate a Frankfurt bordello boss. He's a pain in the butt for many in the red-li...

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

1985

as Blinder Regisseur

5.8
Acting

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

Forget Mozart

Forget Mozart

1985

as Graf Pergen

4.8
Acting

In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, w...

Die Mitläufer

Die Mitläufer

1985

Acting
Colonel Redl

Colonel Redl

1985

as Thronfolger

6.9
Acting

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceed...

Angry Harvest

Angry Harvest

1985

as Leon Wolny

6.5
Acting

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's n...

Gauner im Paradies

1985

as Otto Flamm

Acting
Tausend Augen

Tausend Augen

1984

as Arnold

5.0
Acting

Hamburg student Gabriele constantly dreams of her boyfriend in Australia. The reality is different, because while she sits in lecture halls during the...

Trauma

Trauma

1984

as Sam

Acting

Maria has suffered from depression since the death of her child, and goes to live in a lonely house by the sea.

Rita Ritter

Rita Ritter

1984

as Cloos

Acting

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of ...

Un dimanche de flics

Un dimanche de flics

1983

as The lawyer

6.0
Acting

Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot an...

A Love in Germany

A Love in Germany

1983

as Mayer

4.9
Acting

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what...

Embers

Embers

1983

as François Korb / Andres Korb

6.3
Acting

Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is havin...

The Wounded Man

The Wounded Man

1983

as Henri's Father

5.7
Acting

Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into g...

Ruhe sanft, Bruno

1983

as Fjodor Kuschnik

Acting
The Train Killer

The Train Killer

1983

as Tetzlav

7.0
Acting

Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the most famous trains in history, the Orient ...

The Lite Trap

1982

as Harald Liebe

4.8
Acting

Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with ...

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

1982

as Gandhi

7.0
Acting

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatri...

Veronika Voss

Veronika Voss

1982

as Max Rehbein

7.2
Acting

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. ...

Ich werde warten

1982

as Tony Sikora

Acting

Flucht aus Pommern

1982

as Lyssek

Acting

Die Gartenlaube

1982

as Ernst Keil

Acting

Die Flügel der Nacht

1982

as Goedel

Acting

Elser, employee and bearer of secrets in a public institute, throws everything away and disappears, so he is suspected of treason. But he is on a trip...

Collin

Collin

1981

as Andreas Roth

10.0
Acting
Lola

Lola

1981

as von Bohm

7.0
Acting

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants mone...

Ja und Nein

1981

as Martin

Acting

Die längste Sekunde

1980

as Viktor

Acting
Geschlossene Gesellschaft

Geschlossene Gesellschaft

1978

as Robert

5.2
Acting

Three couples want to spend a short break together. Some have a traffic accident, the others are prevented professionally. So the designer Robert and ...

The Flight

The Flight

1977

as Dr. Schmith

8.5
Acting

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an es...

Carnations in Aspic

Carnations in Aspic

1976

as Wolfgang Schmidt

6.5
Acting

A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived innovation leads to rapid advancement in an ad agen...

Jacob the Liar

Jacob the Liar

1975

as Roman Schlamm

7.1
Acting

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making sl...

Kit & Co.

Kit & Co.

1974

as Slavovitz

5.0
Acting

The adventures of Kit Bellew and his friend Shorty during the gold fever at the end of the 19th century.

Die eigene Haut

Die eigene Haut

1974

as Vater Klemm

Acting

Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he has to start his military service. Instead of sitti...

Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow

1973

as Dechant

2.0
Acting

Götz von Bredow's elk-leather trousers have their own special meaning: whoever wears them cannot come to any harm. Only they must not be washed. The m...

Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita

Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita

1973

Acting

She is called Dona Juanita: the attractive young architect Anita Nachtigall, who manages a department on a large construction site with great success....

Janus Head

Janus Head

1972

as Dr. Brock

Acting

World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being used to ...

Her Third

Her Third

1972

as Blinder

6.1
Acting

In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out, a...

Kein Mann für Camp Detrick

Kein Mann für Camp Detrick

1970

as Oberleutnant Heide

Acting

Who doesn't know the dream of an unexpected million-dollar inheritance? For microbiologist Dr. Wolf, it seems to come true when an American lawyer vis...

Fatal Error

Fatal Error

1970

as Chris Howard

6.0
Acting

At the end of the 19th century, the Wyoming Oil Company has established itself in the vicinity of Wind River City at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, ...

A Lord of Alexander Square

A Lord of Alexander Square

1967

as Dr. Achim Engelhardt

6.5
Acting

Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again start...

Columbus 64

Columbus 64

1966

as Georg Brecher

Acting

Georg Brecher, journalist and casual writer, leads a report into the uranium mining of bismuth. Under the impression of hard work underground and the ...

Alaska - Foxes

Alaska - Foxes

1964

as Sowjetischer Arzt

7.5
Acting

Captain Jim Leslie, a US Air Force pilot, is transferred to a remote Alaskan base not far from the Soviet border. Here he meets his old friend Harris ...

Preludio 11

Preludio 11

1964

as Quintana

Acting

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot ...

Der Andere neben dir

Der Andere neben dir

1964

as Reinhard Marschner

Acting

Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully they are linked by events from a dark past. A tri...

Christine

Christine

1963

as Willibald Güttler

Acting

Christine is a young farm worker in a small village in post-war Germany. Her attempts to improve her situation through further education are hampered ...

Rauhreif

Rauhreif

1963

as Thomas Rothardt

Acting

In 1960, 400,000 farmers are forced to join the LPG. After the forced collectivization, Thomas, son of the experienced LPG chairman Rothardt, is deleg...

Naked Among Wolves

Naked Among Wolves

1963

as Höfel

6.4
Acting

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

...And Your Love Too

...And Your Love Too

1962

as Ulli

5.2
Acting

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

Die letzte Chance

Die letzte Chance

1962

as Seiser

Acting

It is a fateful moment: during one of his concerts, Jewish pianist Klaus Seiser discovers Gestapo officer Dr. Becker in the audience. He had imprisone...

Star-Crossed Lovers

Star-Crossed Lovers

1962

as Michael

8.2
Acting

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sente...

Five Cartridges

Five Cartridges

1960

as Pierre, der Franzose

7.6
Acting

It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade is badly wounded he gives his five comr...

Flucht aus der Hölle

Flucht aus der Hölle

1960

as Hans Röder

Acting

Algeria, mid-50s: it is the time of uprisings against the French colonial power. The German-born foreign legionary Hans Röder witnesses inhuman crimin...

Menschen von Budapest

1960

as Laszlo

Acting

In spring 1957 Budapest, former lovers Sándor and Mónika reunite after 16 years at a street‐corner café. Their conversation flashes back to 1941, when...

Wenn die Nacht kein Ende nimmt

Wenn die Nacht kein Ende nimmt

1959

as Andreas

Acting

The 17-year-old commercial student Doris, a young, blameless girl, lives with her relatives without parents. It is the nerve-wracking circumstances th...

Heimliche Ehen

1956

as Norbert

Acting

Tanger - Legende einer Stadt

N/A

as Hanson

Acting