Biography
Gudrun Ritter was born on November 16, 1936 in Marienberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Hanna (2011), Forbidden Love (1990) and Look Who's Back (2015).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Lara
2019
as Mother
Today is Lara’s 60th birthday, which happens to fall on the same day as her pianist son’s career-defining concert. A failed pianist herself, Lara spen...

As Green As It Gets
2018
as Ellen von Zeydlitz
Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like t...

Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden
2016
as Margot Lewandowski
In a single afternoon, the early retiree Hubert Lotzmann manages to dupe his sisters-in-law, to betray his autonomous daughter Bille to the police and...

Hunters in the Night
2016
as Josepha Ettinger
Back on duty after alcohol withdrawal, Commissioner Bonì is investigating the case of a missing student. Eddie, a teenager, found a badly abused young...

Look Who's Back
2015
as Grandma Krömeier
When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomen...
Bright Night
2015
as Frau Steiner
A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the wo...

Inspector Dupin: Brittany Calling
2014
as Francine Lajoux
A real and a fake Gauguin take Dupin back to the 19th century.

Zeugin der Toten
2013
At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade,...

Das Geheimnis in Siebenbürgen
2012
as Inge Schauttner
Lukas Schauttner is a management consultant. However, as a partner in his Berlin consulting company, he sees difficult times ahead. So he has to accep...

Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion
2012
as Frau Debisch
Victor is both thrilled and mystified when his family moves into his grand-uncles somber mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts...

Hanna
2011
as Katrin Zadek
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the w...

The Poll Diaries
2010
as Oda Schaefer
In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.

Boxhagener Platz
2010
as Otti
Feature adaptation of adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.

Haus und Kind
2009
as Else Maschke
Bernd Neubauer is a pleasant man in his mid-40s - he plays away five or six years effortlessly. But the two women in his life put him in strange situa...

Du gehörst mir
2007
as Ruth
Melanie und Wolf lernen sich bei einer Party kennen. Der sympathische Anwalt erobert Melanies Herz im Sturm. Für beide steht schon nach kurzer Zeit fe...

Vacation
2007
as Annas Mutter
All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated...
Die Weihnachtswette
2006
as Magda Gartenfeld
Als der Fremde kam
2006
as Elfie Wernicke

Spuk am Tor der Zeit
2003
as Alte Hanne
Wie verliebt man seinen Vater?
2002
as Oma Christa
Kelly Bastian - Geschichte einer Hoffnung
2001
as Omi Birle
Mörderinnen
2001
as Oma

Spuk aus der Gruft
1998
as Hanne
The young Friedrich Freiherr von Kuhlbanz died almost 300 years ago, but he is cursed beyond death. "I will not rot in my grave if I have committed th...
Gefährliche Wahrheit
1998

Vollnarkose
1997
as Birte
The anesthetist Dr. Katrin Klein is new at the Dresden Transplant Center, which enjoys an excellent reputation. The star surgeon Prof. Gerhard Harrer ...

Elephant in the Hospital
1992
as Schwester Isolde
Der zerbrochne Krug
1991
as Frau Marthe Rull
Heute sterben immer nur die anderen
1991
as Maria
Maria tells her former colleague, Hanna, that she has undergone a cancer operation but is now cured. Soon after, she suffers a relapse. The doctors be...

Forbidden Love
1990
as Lehrerin Laube
18-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads to a catastrophe , as their par...
Drei Wohnungen
1990
as Ruth Semlau

Coming Out
1989
as Frau Möllemann / Serviererin
Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transforme...
Narrenweisheit
1989
as Madame Levasseur

Späte Ankunft
1989
as Helene Tochtenhagen
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 Rosl 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...

Jadup and Boel
1988
as Barbara
In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to ...

Wengler & Sons
1987
as Luise Wengler
A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to wor...
Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe
1985
as Frau Cornamontis

Your Presence Is Imperative
1984
as Frau Hanisch
Elizabeth is an open-minded young person - curious and unbiased. She is sixteen, goes to secondary school and things are really going well, not least ...

The Airship
1983
as Polonia
Franz Xavier Stannebein, a young boy at the turn of the 20th century, wants to do nothing more than fly. He carries this dream through his years at an...

Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven
1982
as Frau auf der Bank
Little Sabine has spent her childhood in an orphanage after her parents died in a car accident. When one of the women in charge at the orphanage, Edit...
Romance with Amelie
1982
as Mutter Siebusch
The time is World War II, and Juergen Siebusch and his mother are retreating along with the German army, just ahead of the invading Russian forces. Bo...

Wie wär's mit uns beiden
1981
as Brunhilde
In three episodes about six people, the film takes on the topics of relationships, difficult social engagements , and love in the German Democratic Re...

Dach überm Kopf
1980
as Erste Küchenfrau
Karoline Gluth is approaching forty, has an 18-year-old son who is studying and is therefore independent. She decides to start a new life and says goo...

Next Year at Lake Balaton
1980
as Irene 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...

Coded Message for the Boss
1979
as Tante Caroline
Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrica...
Hochzeit in Weltzow
1979
as Frau Leidenfrost
The 20-year-old Berliner Wilhelm, called Willi, returns from two years as a prisoner of war to the village of Weltzow in the Havel region, where he me...

Zünd an, es kommt die Feuerwehr
1979
as Frau Zetsche
A morality tale from the time of the Saxon Kingdom. The von Siebenthal volunteer fire department has nothing to do. When their local pub is in a very ...
Clavigo
1978
as Marie Beaumarchais

Such Bienchen
1976
as Erika Lenz
Bienchen is a little girl who is very worried regarding the private life of her older brother.

Bankett für Achilles
1975
as Frau Bäuerlein
For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He ...

Zwischen Nacht und Tag
1975
Film by Horst E. Brandt.

Neues aus der Florentiner 73
1974
as Frau Regler
Brigitte is caught between two men: on the one hand there is the ambitious Klaus, the father of her young daughter, and on the other the sensitive Wol...

Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
1973
as Platows Schwiegertochter
Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, th...

Den Wolken ein Stück näher
1973
as Mutter Herper
After his family moves from Potsdam to East Berlin, 15-year-old Klaus initially has difficulties at his new school, especially with the popular Heinz....

Florentiner 73
1972
Berlin landlady Mrs. Klucke looks after the residents of Florentiner Strasse 73 like a mother, who could do with her help. When pregnant Brigitte is l...

Time to Live
1969
The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he h...

Nebelnacht
1969
as Sekretärin
When a motorcyclist dies in an accident, lieutenant Kreutzer and his colleague Arnold receive the order to investigate the backgrounds of this mysteri...

The Farmer's Clever Daughter
1969
as Rosine
A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter...

Die Jagdgesellschaft
1966
as Anne
1944 - Soviet prisoners of war work under inhumane conditions on the Tharau estate in East Prussia. After a hunting trip, an illustrious circle of fri...

Tiefe Furchen
1965
as Agnes
Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red S...

Entlassen auf Bewährung
1965
as Lilo
After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing apprenticeshi...
Ein Monat auf dem Lande
1965
as Katja
Vor Sonnenuntergang
1962
as Inken Peters