Biography
Thomas Kretschmann (born September 8, 1962) is a German actor best known for playing Leutnant Hans Von Witzland in the 1993 film Stalingrad, Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist, Hermann Fegelein in Der Untergang, and Captain Englehorn in the 2005 remake of King Kong. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas Kretschmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography

Emperor
2026
as Thomas Kretschmann: Jakob Fugger 'The Bank of Europe'
XVI Century. Action epic about young Johanna "Of Ghent", who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father. It happens...
Fall for Me
2025
Lilli visits her sister Valeria. She is surprised to learn that Valeria has become engaged to the Frenchman Manu. She also meets nightclub manager Tom...

Putin
2025
A portrait of a formidable political figure, unraveling the contrasting facets of an iron-fisted tyrant and a man haunted by fear.

Upgraded
2024
as Arnold Grant
Ana is an ambitious intern dreaming of a career in the art world while trying to impress her demanding boss Claire. When she's upgraded to first class...

American Star
2024
as Thomas
An assassin on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, ...

Deliver Us
2023
as Father Saul
When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, concerned about an ancient prophecy t...

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023
as Self
Join the adventure with the cast and crew, showcasing new characters, stunts, music, locations, production design, and visual effects in five chapters...

Gran Turismo
2023
as Patrice Capa
The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual pr...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023
as Colonel Weber
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacle...

Last Sentinel
2023
as Hendrichs
Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring con...

Infinity Pool
2023
as Thresh
While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the su...

American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
2021
as Joseph Goebbels
The life of American woman Mildred Gillars and her lawyer, who struggles to redeem her reputation. Dubbed “Axis Sally” for broadcasting Nazi propagand...

Greyhound
2020
as Grey Wolf (voice)
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines...

Waiting for Anya
2020
as Korporal
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from sou...

The Windermere Children
2020
as Oscar Friedmann
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.

Dragged Across Concrete
2019
as Lorentz Vogelmann
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes th...

Discarnate
2019
as Dr. Andre Mason
A neuroscientist's obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team.

Balloon
2018
as Lieutenant Colonel Seidel
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces...

A Taxi Driver
2017
as Jürgen Hinzpeter
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreig...

The Saint
2017
as Rayt Marius
International master thief, Simon Templar, also known as The Saint, is asked by a desperate rich man to find his kidnapped daughter. However, in addit...

Stratton
2017
as Grigory Barovsky
A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.

Jungle
2017
as Karl
In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Thei...

Four Against the Bank
2016
After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.

Central Intelligence
2016
as The Buyer
Calvin Joyner, a mild-mannered accountant whose high school glory days are long behind him, reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Fa...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
as Airplane Passenger
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her co...

The Blue Mauritius
2016
as Holtz
Five international thieves meet in Cape Town to steal the most valuable stamp in the world.

Hitman: Agent 47
2015
as Le Clerq
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
as Strucker
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fat...

United Passions
2014
as Horst Dassler
An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and ...

Plastic
2014
as Marcel
Sam and Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need ...

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
2014
as Friedrich Ritter (voice)
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the b...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014
as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (uncredited)
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adju...

Stalingrad
2013
as Kapitan Kan
A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process b...

Open Grave
2013
as Lukas
A man awakes-- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.

Dracula 3D
2012
as Dracula
When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the co...

Hostel: Part III
2011
as Flemming
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting human...

What a Man
2011
as Jens
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...

Cars 2
2011
as Professor Z (voice)
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rock...

Jungle Child
2011
as Vater Klaus Kuegler
A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

The Big Bang
2011
as Frizer
A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets o...

Die Grenze
2010
as Maximilian Schnell
Germany in the near future: the economic situation has deteriorated dramatically, the social mood is simmering and the political camps are becoming mo...

Rabbit Without Ears 2
2009
as Thomas Kretschmann
Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous...

Romy
2009
as Harry Meyen
From her on-screen triumphs to her off-screen tribulations, this biopic focuses on the captivating life and career of actress Romy Schneider.

Separation City
2009
as Klaus Becker
A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.

The Young Victoria
2009
as King Leopold
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mot...

Valkyrie
2008
as Otto Ernst Remer
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...

Mogadischu
2008
as Captain Jürgen Schumann
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the...

Wanted
2008
as Cross
Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered...

In Tranzit
2008
as Max
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must ...

TransSiberian
2008
as Myassa
A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious p...

Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse
2007
as Self
The making of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse."

Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps
2007
as Paul
Jan is an absolute heartthrob and a diehard Hertha fan. Katrin is attractive, just as successful and an incorrigible romantic. Chance makes the two th...

Eichmann
2007
as Adolf Eichmann
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.

Next
2007
as Mr. Smith
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underw...

Wild Chicks in Love
2007
as Herr Slättberg
Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the secrets of the heart through their friendship.

Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
as Self
Following the immense success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directs King Kong (2005). This documentary follows him, and the immense ...
The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006
as Self
Blooper reel for Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005)

Grimm Love
2006
as Oliver Hartwin
In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ulti...

The Karate Dog
2006
as Gerber
When LAPD computer expert Peter Fowler investigates the killing of an old man in Chinatown, he finds the only witness is his dog, Cho Cho. But Fowler ...

The Celestine Prophecy
2006
as Wil
A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a w...

Immortal
2006
as Alexander Nikopol
When three men learn an ancient secret for immortality, one defects to use it for evil. The other two must stop him before he lures their loved ones i...

Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
2006
as Pope John Paul II
The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatica...

King Kong
2005
as Captain Englehorn
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter K...
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005
as Self
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

Snowland
2005
as Aron
Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and wan...

The Present
2004
as Self
A short film made by the cast of 2005's King Kong to surprise the director Peter Jackson on his birthday.

Frankenstein
2004
as Victor Helios
An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of g...

Downfall
2004
as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr...

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004
as Major Cain
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have tur...

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
2004
as Roscoe
Babies can communicate with each other using 'baby talk', and have innate knowledge of the secrets of the universe. The infant geniuses become involve...

Head in the Clouds
2004
as Major Thomas Bietrich
Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda d...

Immortal
2004
as Nikopol
In the distant future, Earth is occupied by ancient gods and genetically altered humans. When a god is sentenced to death he seeks a new human host an...

In Enemy Hands
2004
as Ludwig Cremer
At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisone...

My Father
2003
as Hermann M.
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments...
Der Solist - Kuriertag
2003
as Philip Lanart

The Pianist
2002
as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into...
Der Solist - In eigener Sache
2002
as Philip Lanart

Blade II
2002
as Damaskinos
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

Knights of the Quest
2001
as Vanni delle Rondini
In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal fam...
Ein tödliches Wochenende
2001
as Christian
Der Solist - Niemandsland
2001
as Philip Lanart

Hostile Takeover
2001
as Robert Fernau
The Hostile Takeover is a tale of how an average pizza delivery guy named Jay gets caught in the middle of the largest territorial war in the city's h...

U-571
2000
as Capt. Lt. Gunther Wassner
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. Howe...

Poison
2000
as Johnny Krieger
Traci is a devious teenage girl who befriends and kills anyone who comes between her and her mother, Dana, a failed movie actress who lies for and pro...

Green Sails
2000
as Robert Fowler
When ambitious CCT exec Will Patterson uncovers a corporate conspiracy, his life spirals out of control. With an unlikely ally and beautiful crusader ...

Miss Diamond
1999
as Tim
Diamonds are a girls best friends, so when an exhibition of the first diamonds ever discovered in Germany is announced, Lana thinks it is her duty to ...

Der Solist – Kein Weg zurück
1999
as Philip Lanart
In Hamburg, a suspicious crash and mafia-style killings hinge on witness Maja Stein, who demands protection. Detectives Lanart and Marquardt hide her ...

Esther
1999
as König Xerxes
Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.
Der Tod in deinen Augen
1999
as Billy Tanauer
During a business lunch, a hearing-impaired woman becomes an “earwitness” to a murder plot, which she reads from the lips of a man at the next table. ...

Killer Couple
1998
as Domenico
Newlyweds Dario and Luciana discover that their quiet neighbors are hired assassins who killed a politician – and become their next target.

Girl's Trap – Death Comes Online
1998
as Magnus Sieber
17-year-old schoolgirl Silke Hartmann meets a nice young man online. In reality, however, her virtual counterpart, who calls himself Jan, is a serial ...

The Princess and the Pauper
1997
as Migal
A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.

Prince Valiant
1997
as Thagnar
An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to ...

Rack Up
1997
as Cristopher
In Spain, the billiard champion Jesus participates in a tournament to help his old friend Paco, owner of a bar and fallen into the grip of loan sharks...

Total Reality
1997
as Commander Tunis
David Bradley, stars as the roguish soldier Anthony Rand, who follows a ruthless general back through time in a last ditch attempt to save the univers...
Unter die Haut
1997
as Santos

La dernière fête
1996
as Joseph
The story of Marquise De Prie, the wife of Marquis De Savoy and the mistress of King Louis XV.

Marching in Darkness
1996
as Gianni Tricarico
A young recruit to the Italian army discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before...

The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
as Alfredo Grossi
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brut...

Wir zusammen allein mit dir
1995
as Wolf Jensen
Wolf is a young man who works in a kindergarten. One day, a strange woman leaves her child at the kindergarten and does not return. So, Wolf takes the...
I Love My Daughter's Husband
1995
as Michael

Women
1995
as Franck
Every Sunday, Mary, Alice and Joan, three long-time friends, find themselves at the pool to talk about their love affairs. Mary, who is a stockbroker,...

Burning Heart
1995
as Junger Gustav Regler
Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two ...

Anna: Under the Spell of Evil
1995
as Stephan Richter
Nachtbus
1995
A warm summer night - waiting for the bus - observations.
Tödliche Besessenheit
1994
as Sebastian Goebel
When a businessman falls in love with a widowed actress, her dream of owning her own theater on the North Sea coast finally seems to come true. But su...

Affären
1994
A married couple has problems and he wants to solve these against her wish by consulting a psychiatrist. As both expect an older woman they are very s...

Queen Margot
1994
as Nançay
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble ...
Jenseits der Brandung
1994
as Paul Augustin

Die Ratte
1993
as Sven
Ricki is 15, an apprentice in a supermarket, and admires his older brother Sven, a big shot in Hamburg's red-light district who keeps his head above w...

Stalingrad
1993
as Lieutenant Hans von Witzland
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under...

The Warrior's Heart
1992
as Lt. Maximillian Lüdt
A Norwegian nurse falls in love with a Finnish soldier in the Winter War of 1939/40 between Finland and the Soviet Union. After settling down WW2 erup...

Shining Through
1992
as Mann in Zürich
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War...
Rothenbaumchaussee
1991
as o.A.
Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseatic city to initiate the establishment of a new, li...
Radio Fever
1989
Der Mitwisser
1989
as Paul

Westler
1985
as Soldat
Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the cur...
Wagner In Venice
N/A
as Richard Wagner
The movie will chart the journey of Richard and Cosima Wagner as they arrive in Venice following the prèmiere of Parsifal in 1882. The plot will turn ...
The Stalking Moon
N/A
as Aurick Fenstermacher
Eyes in the Trees
N/A
A video journalist and his film crew embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for no...

The Prominents
N/A
as Bogislow Von Bonin
Centers on a group of Nazi Germany's most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe to be used as bargaining chips in the German surre...