Biography
Hark Bohm (born 18 May 1939) is a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the island Amrum. His younger brother was the actor Marquard Bohm, who starred in some of his early films. He is most notable for his long-time collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. His first featurefilm as a director was the German western Tschetan, der Indianerjunge shot in 1972 and starring his brother Marqua...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Amrum
2025
as Old Man
Amrum Island, Spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous sea to hunt seals, goes fishing at night, and work...

Amrum
2025
Writer
Amrum Island, Spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous sea to hunt seals, goes fishing at night, and work...

Zimmer mit Stall - Schwein gehabt
2021
as Hans Bosch

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German...

The Golden Glove
2019
as Dornkaat-Max
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Sealed Lips
2018
as Konrads Vater
A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for the sake of her and her family’s freedom.

Early Birds
2018
as Jossi
Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadness and mundanity of their everyday lives in old-ag...

In the Fade
2017
Writer
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

Goodbye Berlin
2016
Writer
Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life chang...

Der Liebling des Himmels
2015
as Prof. Kessler
The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual assau...

Fassbinder
2015
as Self
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
2013
as Himself
The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis...

Kissenschlacht
2011
as Patrick Brandt
Anna and Michael have tried everything to conceive a baby - without success. There is one last attempt: surrogacy. Their doctor and friend Peter sees ...

If Not Us, Who?
2011
as Kritiker
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West G...

Familiengeheimnisse - Liebe, Schuld und Tod
2011
as Sky
Doctor Dahna lives with her mother Ayana in Kenya, where she runs the children's aid organization Hekima Foundation. When Ayana is dying, she reveals ...

Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe
2008
Leo has been working for the insurance company for 19 years, without a sick day, without being late, without ever being noticed. Now there is panic in...

The Architect
2008
as Roth
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness ...

The Charlemagne Code
2008
as Roland Brenner
An action-packed race to find the legendary treasure of the Nibelungen hidden by Charlemagne and thought to be the biggest lost treasure in the world.

Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet
2008
as Busfahrer
Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the time and has a headache. She fears she might be pr...

Underdogs
2008
as Wache

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
as Self

Die Todesautomatik
2007
as Chefredakteur

True North
2007
as Pol
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
Das verräterische Collier
2003
as John Felsenstein
Atlantic Affairs
2002
as Administrator
A cinematic journey into the music of Udo Lindenberg.
Atlantic Affairs
2002
Director, Writer
A cinematic journey into the music of Udo Lindenberg.

Falcons
2002
as Man of the World
Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young wom...

Invincible
2001
as Richter
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

Ne günstige Gelegenheit
1999
as Dobisch
Gosbert Klee and Thilo "Abo" Abogast are anything but down on their luck. Nothing in their pockets, nothing on their minds and nothing but trouble to ...

Härtetest
1998
as Psychiater Dr. Bohm
Jonas is in his mid-twenties, still lives with his parents and gets dumped by his girlfriend. He soon gets to know Lena, a tough young woman with idea...

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
1997
as Kriminalinspektor Schmude
Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprised and ends up back in prison, where he is trained ...
Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
1997

Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997
as Police Psychologist
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequil...

Conversation with the Beast
1997
as Dr. Hassler
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 ...

Forever and Ever
1997
as Richter
A life of little Maria who lives in a foster family breaks after a sudden appearance of her mother Melanie who was absent for five years...

Forever and Ever
1997
Director, Writer
A life of little Maria who lives in a foster family breaks after a sudden appearance of her mother Melanie who was absent for five years...
Das Hochzeitsgeschenk
1997

Underground
1995
as Dr. Štrase
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

The Promise
1995
as Müller II
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The atte...

Justice
1993
as Prof. Adolf Winter
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Fe...

Madregilda
1993
as Alvariño
Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first F...

Ruby Cairo
1992
as German (uncredited)
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.

Der kleene Punker
1992
Thanks
Amadeus is a small Punker living in a trash can. One day he has got the idea to participate in a punk concert in front of the Brandenburger Tor and co...

Schtonk!
1992
as Priest
Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Ad...

Lost in Siberia
1991
as Max Brunovich
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mi...
Herzlich willkommen
1990
as Direktor Dr. Fischer
Friedrich (Uwe Bohm) manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the words Herzlich Willkommen, o...
Herzlich willkommen
1990
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Friedrich (Uwe Bohm) manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the words Herzlich Willkommen, o...

Spider's Web
1989
as Dada-Künstler
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the cha...
Adrian und die Römer
1989
as Augenarzt

Ein verhexter Sommer
1989
as Karl

Reunion in Travers
1989
as Bürgermeister
The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzerland. Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the ver...

Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders
1989
as 1. Stammgast

Earthbound
1989
as Chefarzt
The movie "Earthbound" is based on an authentic story: Franz Seeliger, a 75 year old psychiatric patient wants to steer a self-built, muscle propelled...

Yasemin
1988
Director, Producer, Writer
Yasemin is a 17-year old Turkish girl who lives with her parents near Hamburg in Germany. While her mother and father accept that Yasemin has her own ...

Linie 1
1988
as Er
Film version of the musical by the same name: Sunnie, a girl from the province, comes to Berlin to meet rock star Johnnie who had given her his addres...
Eine Bonner Affäre
1988
Das andere Leben
1987
as Dorn

Der kleine Staatsanwalt
1987
as Staatsanwalt König

Der kleine Staatsanwalt
1987
Director
Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
1987
as Petschau-Hartlieb

Ain’t Nothin’ Without You
1985
as Architekturprofessor
Martha and Alfred exchange experiences about life and events in Hamburg.

Power Of Evil
1985
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.
Wie ein freier Vogel
1985
Director
Film by Hark Bohm.

Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
1984
as Torsten
Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two ...

Der Fall Bachmeier - Keine Zeit für Tränen
1984
Director, Producer, Screenplay
The film deals with the criminal case involving Marianne Bachmeier, who shot her daughter's murderer in the courtroom in 1981.

Lola
1981
as Volker
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...

Lili Marleen
1981
as Taschner
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping p...
Slow Attack
1980
as TV-Moderator
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 famil...

Panic Time
1980
as Dr. Gerhard Kühn
The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobody realises this until the next day, when he doesn'...

Im Herzen des Hurrican
1980
Director, Screenplay
A moose has been spotted on the Elbe. It has strayed into Germany from the far north. Two city boys are after the animal. One of them just wants to ph...

1+1=3
1979
as Anwalt
An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she...

The Third Generation
1979
as Gerhard Gast
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which ...

The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979
as Senkenberg
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to nav...

Despair
1978
as Doctor
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his te...
Little Godard
1978
as First Director
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at th...

Moritz, Dear Moritz
1978
as Arzt
15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and fi...

Moritz, Dear Moritz
1978
Director, Writer
15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and fi...

Adolf and Marlene
1977
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arri...

Bomber & Paganini
1976
as Syndikatssekretär
The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup.

Strongman Ferdinand
1976
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups s...

Nordsee ist Mordsee
1976
Director, Writer
14-year old Uwe lives in s suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has not much to expect from his parents. To get his hands on some...
Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig
1976
Screenplay, Director

Fear of Fear
1975
as Dr. Rozenbaum
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed ment...

Fox and His Friends
1975
as Policeman Müller (uncredited)
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive r...

Effi Briest
1974
as Pharmacist Gieshübler (uncredited)
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted...

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974
as Doctor
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she...
Ich kann auch 'ne Arche bauen
1974
Producer, Director, Writer
Five children secretly enter a house, wander around and begin to build an ark in the basement. Uwe always wants to be right and give commands to other...

Chetan, Indian Boy
1973
Director, Writer, Producer
The western film that was filmed in Bavaria is located in the Montana Mountains. At the end of the 19th century, an Indian Boy called Tschetan meets t...

The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972
as Polizei-Vorgesetzter
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After r...

Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
1972
as Admiral
Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that h...

Liebe, so schön wie Liebe
1972
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 Big Mess
1971
as Von Schaacke
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings...
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1971
as Self
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

The American Soldier
1970
as Doc
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

Red Sun
1970
as Student
Thomas hitchhikes from Hamburg to Munich where he meets his ex-girlfriend, Peggy. Thomas doesn't have a bed for the night and goes home with Peggy, no...
Die Revolte
1969
as Erster Student
So what ...?
1967
A day in a young slacker's life in Hamburg, Germany.