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Complete Filmography

Extrawurst
2026
as Hans-Günther Schnippering
At a tennis club in rural Germany, preparations for the summer party are led by Heribert. When a separate grill is suggested for Erol, the club's only...

Memory Hotel
2025
as Beckmann
Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents are refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army. They ...

#BlackSheep
2025
A Neukölln clan boss becomes a climate activist. A gender doll inventor who fulfills her most secret wishes with a fake gun and a new girlfriend in Gr...

School of Magical Animals 3
2024
as Mortimer Morrison
Ida wants to perform with her class at the annual Forest Day to campaign for the protection of the local forest. Even Helene is there, as she hopes to...

Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film
2024
as Self
Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. The documentary accompanies him through the year 2023 until the opening evening at the ...

The Palace
2023
as Caspar Tell
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.

School of Magical Animals 2
2022
as Mortimer Morrison
The students of the School of Magical Animals want to perform a musical for the school's anniversary. Will rehearsals end in chaos or will the class p...

All for Ella
2022
as Herr Böblinger-Moll
Ella and her friends sign up for a song contest that offers her the chance to make it big in the music business. Her strongest competitor is rapper al...

The School of the Magical Animals
2021
as Mortimer Morrison
Ida Kronenberg must transfer to a new school, where she soon realizes the students are unkind to each other. However, that all changes when a new teac...

Je suis Karl
2021
as Alex Baier
An explosion sends fear and terror through Berlin. Young Maxi's home is reduced to rubble and ashes, burying her mother and little brothers. Only she ...

Beckenrand Sheriff
2021
as Karl
A lifeguard tries by all means to keep his home, an open-air swimming pool, from being closed.

Catweazle
2021
as Major-domo
Otto Waalkes plays a magician who strayed into the present from the 11th century and who absolutely wants to return to his time.

Asphalt Burning
2020
as Berry
The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the...

Jim Button and the Wild 13
2020
as Tur Tur
A year has gone by since Jim Button and his best friend, the engine driver Luke, returned from their dangerous adventure in Dragon City. Life on Morro...

Nemesis
2020
as Voice
The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the ...

The Wedding
2020
as Andreas
Three friends from school, Thomas, Nils and Andreas, are still searching for love in their adult lives.

Danowski - Blutapfel
2019
as Adam Danowski
In Hamburg's Elbtunnel, a man is shot in the middle of a traffic jam in his car. The murder victim obviously belonged to a group trying to discover ab...

Auerhaus
2019
as F2M2
Four troubled friends who despite the feeling that they live standardized lives share a flat under the sceptical looks of their neighbours.

My Life as Lotta - Bingo Flamingo
2019
as Heiner Krishna
Lotta, 11 years old, and best friend Cheyenne don't get along with the arrogant Berenike, so they don't want to let it bother them when they're the on...

TKKG
2019
as Raimundo
When Willi's father is abducted and is only released for a valuable statue from his art collection, Tim is the only one who believes Willi that the po...

Wuff
2018
as Fan
Romantic comedy about the love confusion of four girlfriends, whose lives are properly turned upside down by their four-legged friends. After being ab...

Class Reunion 1.0
2018
as Andreas
Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion.

Gundermann
2018
as Volker
The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the s...

My Brother, My Love
2018
as Stefan
Lena is in love with her brother Noah. In the desperate attempt to conquer her feelings, she retreats into a world of her own.

Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
2018
as Tur Tur
A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where ...

The Famous Five and the Valley of Dinosaurs
2018
as Kurt Weller
En route to a party they are not keen on attending, the Famous Five are almost relieved when Aunt Fanny's car breaks down, stranding them in a small t...

Partisan
2018
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after the fall of the ...

The Captain
2018
as Freytag
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate we...

Der Schweinehirt
2017
as Ladeninhaber von Schief
The Kingdom of Lichterwald is facing financial ruin and only by marrying a wealthy bride can Prince Augustin hope to prevent worse. He decides to marr...

Unter deutschen Betten
2017
as Ingo
After a disastrous performance and a philandering producer leave her publicly humiliated, a faltering pop star takes up work as a cleaning woman.

Rock My Heart
2017
as Steckel
17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents...

Auf der anderen Seite ist das Gras viel Grüner
2017
as Gereon
Kati has had her dream man at home for five years: attractive, loyal and professionally successful as a doctor. Unfortunately, "her" Felix now spends ...

The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter
2017
as Grabredner
The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how...

Old Agent Men
2017
as Marcel Werner
Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or "Kundschafter des Friedens" as they were officially named, led by the once legendary Jochen Falk, are called on by...

Winnetou - The Last Fight
2016
as Sam Hawkens
In Part Three, entitled "The Last Fight," gangster Santer Jr. attempts to seize an oil well on Indian territory. To prevent this, Winnetou and Old Sha...

Winnetou - The Secret of Silver Lake
2016
as Sam Hawkens
In the second part of the German remake of the Winnetou films, Winnetou's sister Nscho Tschi is kidnapped by a brutal crook who wants to find a mythic...

Winnetou - A New World
2016
as Sam Hawkens
The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West...

Wir sind die Rosinskis
2016
as Torben
Peggy Rosinski lives in a shabby neighborhood in Frankfurt/Oder. The patchwork mom has three children, but only one of them is from her current husban...

Der Andere - eine Familiengeschichte
2016
as Stefan
Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the...

Heart of Stone
2016
as Glasmännchen
Peter and Lisbeth are two young but unfortunate lovers living in a rigid rural community in the Black Forest. She comes from a wealthy family of glass...

Männertag
2016
as Stevie
It's Men's Day, Men's Day, Father's Day, Ascension Day - many terms, one date, but always a reason to celebrate. Having just finished school, five Bav...

The Pasta Detectives 3
2016
as Gustav Fitzke
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now the...

Me and Kaminski
2015
as Eugen Manz
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on h...

Disaster
2015
as Johann
In the German gangster comedy, Jan Josef Liefers and Justus von Dohnányi play two petty criminals who are supposed to do a job on Mallorca, but who ca...

The Pasta Detectives 2
2015
as Gustav Fitzke
For the first time ever Rico has a friend coming over for a sleepover! After weeks of not seeing each other, Rico and Oskar are reunited again and sta...

The Manny
2015
as Rolf
Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nann...

Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen
2014
as Wirt
Once Upon a Time there lived a brave man, Michael, who was unaware what fear is. At the same time, Princess Elisabeth lived with her father, the king...

Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched
2014
as Don Quijote
When robbers hit Falkenstein castle, teen witch Bibi and pal Tina hunt for the crooks, then devise a plan to save the neighbors' failing ranch.

Open the Wall
2014
as Ulrich Rotermund
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.

The Pasta Detectives
2014
as Gustav Fitzke
The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, ...

Male Mistakes
2014
as Thomas
Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.

Joy of Fatherhood
2014
as Ei
A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...

Not My Day
2014
as Vollbärtiger
When Banker Till (Axel Stein) is kidnapped during a bank robbery, he has the time of his life...

Mary, Queen of Scots
2013
as Lord
The life and death of the Scottish monarch.

Break Up Man
2013
as Toto Kuhlmann
BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to se...

The Adventures of Huck Finn
2012
as Turner
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

Stopped on Track
2011
as Frank Lange
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank i...

Woman in Love
2011
as Kostümbildner
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.

What a Man
2011
as Volker
What a man is a comedy that tells the story of a young professor, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), who after being left by his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie...

Lessons of a Dream
2011
as Profalla - Schuldiener
An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.

The Red Room
2010
as Mann am Rasenmäher
A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser w...

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
2010
as Werner Krauß
This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to sta...

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

12 Paces without a Head
2009
as Nikolaus Schocke
The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship a...

Sometime in August
2009
as Thomas
Thomas and Hanna, a deliriously happy couple in their late 30s, buy an old house in the country with plans to fix it up over the summer. Hanna is look...

Reclaim Your Brain
2007
as Philipp
Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-...

Hannah
2007
as Martin
A picturesque blonde beauty constructs an impenetrable emotional wall that neither her parents, her boyfriend, nor her colleague can penetrate. Hannah...

Alle Alle
2007
as Domühl
Ina, just released from prison, returns to the place of her childhood in search of life and meets the occasional desperado Domühl in her mother's hous...

Eight Miles High
2007
as Freiberg
Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi i...

Lenz
2006
as Lenz
The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner's novel fragment Lenz. But he soon trades the ...

Black Sheep
2006
as Peter Harminsky, Charlotte's Friend
Schwarze Schafe (Black Sheep) is a german/swiss black and white movie. It's separated into five episodes, which tell stories of the Berlin city life. ...

Netto
2005
as Marcel Werner
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.

Operation Valkyrie
2004
as Oberstleutnant Karl Pridun
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg, goes to a meeting wi...

Hamlet_X
2003
as Chauffeur
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

Demons
2000
as Pjotr Stepanowitsch Werchowenski
In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma...

Dirty Hands
1999
as Slick
A political drama about the assassination of a leading politician. When Hugo comes out of jail, the Communist party has embarrassingly swung in a new ...
Danowski - Neunauge
N/A
as Adam Danowski
A series of bizarre deaths shock the city of Hamburg: Mummified corpses are discovered in school basements. The local police enlist the help of German...
The Exposure
N/A
The film, based on Schnitzler's 1924 novella "Fräulein Else," follows Lili, a 19-year-old lawyer's daughter, who undergoes a humiliating naked show to...
Gar kein Geld macht auch nicht glücklich
N/A
Half-sisters Kim, Lesley and Olivia commit a robbery at a safe deposit box in order to convict the fraudster Christian Heisinger, who stole the develo...