Biography
Sebastian Schipper was born on May 8, 1968 in Hannover, Germany. He is a director, and sometimes actor, known mainly for his films Gigantic (1999), A Friend of Mine (2006), Victoria (2015) and Roads (2019).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Sad Jokes
2024
as Sebastian
Director Joseph is working through a new idea for a film and the breakup with his ex-boyfriend Marc. At the same time Sonya, the mother of his son Pin...
Die Schule der Frauen
2024
Producer
The five acting students have not seen each other for 36 years. Now they face each other again and look back on the past together. What experiences ha...
Roads
2019
Director, Writer, Producer
A young man from the Congo in search of his brother attempts to cross Europe's borders. In Morocco, he teams up with a sharp-witted British runaway wh...
Toni Erdmann
2016
Co-Producer
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.
Coconut Hero
2015
as Frank Burger
It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Fain...
I Am Here
2015
as Peter
Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by hers...
Victoria
2015
Director, Producer, Story
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends ...
Alaska Johansson
2013
as Notarzt
Alaska Johansson is the perfect woman and she is the best in her profession as a headhunter. One day she is fired by her boss, a married man who she h...
Ludwig II
2012
as Ludwig II. - aged
A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne...
Überleben an der Wickelfront
2012
as Chefredakteur
The journalist Dieter Lindemann and the lawyer Esther have finally become parents - twins. But who stays at home now? Esther has just taken over the...
Three
2010
as Simon
Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexciting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no...
Sometime in August
2009
Screenplay, Director
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...
A Friend of Mine
2006
Director, Writer
An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.
The Quiet Love
2005
as Biskup
Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the German/Da...
Nightsongs
2004
as Baste
A young couple in Berlin's 'Mitte' district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can't stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents com...
Elephant Heart
2002
as Baerwald
Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole famil...
Gigantic
1999
Director, Writer
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in ...
Love Scenes from Planet Earth
1998
as Andi
The film is a comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement.
Run Lola Run
1998
as Mike
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise ...
Wintersleepers
1997
as Otto
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema...
The English Patient
1996
as Interrogation Room Soldier
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along w...
Little Sharks
1992
as Hamlet
When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the a...
Kold
N/A
Producer, Writer, Director
Recently greenlit project. Sebastian Schipper to direct. Screenplay by Schipper and Oliver Ziegenbalg. Said to be a dark film in the plattdütsch langu...
Undeniable
N/A
Producer, Director, Screenplay
Sebastian Schipper is adapting Jessica Stern's bestselling memoir "Denial: A Memoir of Terror". The project will be Schipper's English-language debut....