Michael Wittenborn

Michael Wittenborn

1953-05-31 Bielefeld, Germany 53 Credits

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Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke

2025

Acting

Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents' upper-class villa. From then on, he tries ...

Chaos and Silence

Chaos and Silence

2025

as Dr. Wunderlich

1.0
Acting

As young musicians Jean and Helena brace for parenthood amidst job insecurities, their lives collide with landlord Klara's enigmatic breakdown. Accept...

Greetings from Mars

Greetings from Mars

2024

as Horst (Opa)

Acting

A young autistic boy and his two siblings have to stay with their grandparents while their mother is away. Because of his unique abilities and interes...

Spirit in the Blood

Spirit in the Blood

2024

as Pastor Carl

4.0
Acting

After a young girl is found dead in a secluded religious mountain community, a pack of teenage girls decide to fight against the evil spirits they bel...

Merz gegen Merz - Geheimnisse

Merz gegen Merz - Geheimnisse

2024

as Ludwig Reichert

8.0
Acting

Anne Merz wants to start an event agency with Jonas, the new man at her side. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the money, so her premature inheritance ...

Kommt ein Vogel geflogen

Kommt ein Vogel geflogen

2023

as Eli Singer

5.3
Acting

When the animal keeper Birgit gifts her daughter Sarah a parrot, the joy is great. While Sarah is teased at school because of her speech impediment, t...

Merz gegen Merz - Hochzeiten

Merz gegen Merz - Hochzeiten

2023

as Ludwig Reichert

8.0
Acting
Simply Nina

Simply Nina

2023

as Thilo

5.0
Acting

Born in the wrong body? A child rebels. 8-year old Nina is confident and fun-loving. She’s convinced that a mistake was made at her birth: she was bor...

Coming home

Coming home

2023

as Werner

4.0
Acting

Chrissi has spent years abroad proving that she can handle cars as a stunt driver. When she has to return to her father's childhood village after a se...

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

2022

as Principal

7.7
Acting

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and p...

Die Luft zum atmen

Die Luft zum atmen

2022

7.3
Acting

Miriam Maertens falls ill with cystic fibrosis and struggles quietly with the disease. Mastering a double life she falls in love and achieves her prof...

Auf dem Grund

Auf dem Grund

2022

as Helmut

5.0
Acting

Swim coach Anne trains her niece Juli for a state championship, sparking clashes with Juli’s mother, Anne’s sister Miriam, who fears Anne’s strict met...

And Tomorrow the Entire World

And Tomorrow the Entire World

2021

6.0
Acting

Luisa, a 20-year-old law student, joins a cell of the Antifa group when she and her friends Alfa and Lenor get to know about an upcoming attack planne...

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

2021

as Justizrat Labude

6.5
Acting

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love...

Da kommt noch was

Da kommt noch was

2021

5.4
Acting

At the latest when Helga crashes through the floor of her living room, she realizes that she is stuck. It's been two years since her husband left her ...

Curveball

Curveball

2021

as Retzlaff

7.3
Acting

Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf...

Das Gesetz sind wir

Das Gesetz sind wir

2020

as Jan Bender

4.8
Acting

Maja Witt and Klaus Burck have been a well-rehearsed team for years, ensuring law and order as police officers in Bremen. At least that's what they tr...

Irgendwann ist auch mal gut

Irgendwann ist auch mal gut

2020

as Theodor Heller

6.5
Acting

The life of Karsten, a mortician, isn’t going that well at the moment. Just in time for Christmas, his parents inform him during the festive dinner th...

The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019

as Pastor Treblin

6.6
Acting

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.

Hartwig Seeler – Gefährliche Erinnerung

Hartwig Seeler – Gefährliche Erinnerung

2019

as Felix Kepler

5.3
Acting

The missing person case of a young woman leads Seeler to a Croatian island to a mysterious connection that uses hypnosis to treat people with mental t...

Wie gut ist deine Beziehung?

Wie gut ist deine Beziehung?

2019

as Harald

6.1
Acting

Steve has been with Carola for five years. But then Steve has to watch as his friend Bob is left out of the blue by his girlfriend, who turns to the m...

In My Room

In My Room

2018

as Vater

5.9
Acting

Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morn...

Unterwerfung

Unterwerfung

2018

as Walter Zobel

7.2
Acting

François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when c...

Du bist nicht allein

Du bist nicht allein

2018

as Klaus Widermann

6.0
Acting

When Eva returns to her house on the day of her divorce, she finds a bouquet of red roses outside the door. Attached is the note: "You are not alone."...

Gefangen: Der Fall K.

Gefangen: Der Fall K.

2018

6.5
Acting

For a long time, wealth adviser Elke and car mechanic Wastl were happy together. Until Elke gets involved more and more in dubious financial transacti...

Dinky Sinky

Dinky Sinky

2018

as Harmut

5.0
Acting

Frida wants a baby. But although she forces her boyfriend to follow a strict fertilization regimen, she’s not getting pregnant. Just when she’s about ...

The Carlos Benede Story

The Carlos Benede Story

2017

as Herr Jacobs

8.6
Acting

Carlos Benede is in his thirties, single and helps minors cope with the after-effects of crime. Alexander is a strong-willed and precocious eleven-yea...

Happy Burnout

Happy Burnout

2017

as Günther

5.7
Acting

An unemployed with diagnosed burn-out is getting a therapy in a clinic.

Hans im Glück

Hans im Glück

2016

as Scherenschleifer

5.0
Acting

Jean receives in payment for seven years of work with a master craftsman a gold nugget. He then exchanges this nugget for a horse, then the horse for ...

Mutter reicht's jetzt

Mutter reicht's jetzt

2016

as Richard

4.0
Acting

On their 35th anniversary, Barbara dreams of Provence’s lavender fields, but her husband won’t budge. Secretly, she joins a French class with free‐spi...

Wellness für Paare

Wellness für Paare

2016

as Heinz-Peter Ellerbrook

6.2
Acting

A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped...

Nie mehr wie es war

Nie mehr wie es war

2016

as Dr. Karoly Gaàl

1.0
Acting

Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, wh...

Toni Erdmann

Toni Erdmann

2016

as Henneberg

7.0
Acting

Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.

Die Hochzeit meiner Eltern

Die Hochzeit meiner Eltern

2016

as Leo

7.0
Acting
Zweimal lebenslänglich

Zweimal lebenslänglich

2015

as Beamter

5.5
Acting

Franziska Dreyer and Sebastian Pauli are a happy couple. When one day the police arrest her boyfriend on suspicion of murder, Franziska assumes it's a...

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf

2014

as Marc Leussot

7.0
Acting

A peaceful island will do anything to ward off the reputation of 'vacation paradise.'

Bis zum Ende der Welt

Bis zum Ende der Welt

2014

as Igor Goldmann

7.5
Acting

Maria Nikolai was once a celebrated musician. 20 years ago she came to Hamburg with her husband, who has since died. But her neighborhood, which used ...

Beloved Sisters

Beloved Sisters

2014

as Knebel

5.8
Acting

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

Wir sind die Neuen

Wir sind die Neuen

2014

as Johannes

6.5
Acting

Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons.

Stromberg – The Movie

Stromberg – The Movie

2014

as Klaus Klinkhammer

6.9
Acting

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Capitol-Insurance” is due – that's what the bosses thought. All employees are invited to join the party in...

Superegos

Superegos

2014

as Moderator

5.0
Acting

Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the...

Halbe Hundert

Halbe Hundert

2013

as Klaus Kater

1.0
Acting

At the centre of the comedy ‘Halbe Hundert’ (‘half of hundred’) stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of their generation, the numb...

The Case of Jakob von Metzler

The Case of Jakob von Metzler

2012

as Fellner

6.5
Acting
If Not Us, Who?

If Not Us, Who?

2011

as Helmut Ensslin

5.7
Acting

In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West G...

Ihr mich auch

Ihr mich auch

2010

as Matthias Schröder

Acting
Mein alter Freund Fritz

Mein alter Freund Fritz

2007

as Zachs Nachfolger

Acting
Yella

Yella

2007

as Dr. Schmidt-Ott

6.2
Acting

A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catc...

A Friend of Mine

A Friend of Mine

2006

as Naumann

6.7
Acting

An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.

Außer Kontrolle

2005

Acting

Sterne leuchten auch am Tag

2004

as Chefarzt

Acting

September

2003

as Waller

4.7
Acting

Couples and families in the days after September 11, 2001. All relationships become complictaed, but only one of the four nested stories surrounding a...

Die Sekretärinnen

1998

Acting

Nine secretaries dream of life and love musically while typing around.

Second Sight

Second Sight

1982

as Albert

5.2
Acting

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of dé...