Samuel Finzi

Samuel Finzi

1966-01-20 Plovdiv, Bulgaria 98 Credits

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The Black Sea

The Black Sea

2024

as Boris

6.8
Acting

Khalid, a charismatic big dreamer from Brooklyn, with no follow-thru gets stuck in a small town on the Black Sea after chasing an opportunity for mone...

Helix

Helix

2024

as Prof. Wöllner

6.0
Acting

As a bodyguard at the BKA, Helen Schilling is responsible for the security of the controversial Minister of Economics and Environment Richard Bauer at...

Bad Director

Bad Director

2024

as Samuel

7.0
Acting

Director Gregor Samsa, washed-up and in his late fifties, is reviewing his life. Having wasted it as a cultural worker doesn't exactly add to his joy.

Wild Urge

Wild Urge

2024

as Josh Brown

Acting

Based on true events. A successful lawyer suspected in drugging and raping a young woman is interrogated by a female investigator, who suffers from an...

One Life

One Life

2023

as Rabbi Hertz

7.8
Acting

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of ...

More Than Strangers

More Than Strangers

2023

as Robert

5.5
Acting

Five strangers of different nationalities share a car ride from Berlin to Paris. All of them have only one thing in common: wanting to reach their des...

Allmen und das Geheimnis des Koi

Allmen und das Geheimnis des Koi

2023

as Carlos

7.7
Acting

Johann Friedrich von Allmen and his partner Carlos get caught up in a new adventure in which the disappearance of a very valuable koi plays a crucial ...

Seneca

Seneca

2023

as Statius

4.9
Acting

Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him,...

January

January

2023

as The Porter

Acting

Two men and a bird, trapped in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, try to solve a mystery as it slowly devours them.

Two Times Two

Two Times Two

2023

Acting

Two boys, a few stolen car parts, a basketball and an awful lot of slaps.

Two Times Two

Two Times Two

2023

Producer

Producing

Two boys, a few stolen car parts, a basketball and an awful lot of slaps.

Birth of a Champion

Birth of a Champion

2021

as Günther Bosch

6.1
Acting

He was the first German to win Wimbledon and the youngest male player ever to do so – Boris Becker, the tennis legend. But on his way to the top, ther...

Chess Story

Chess Story

2021

as Alfred Koller

7.0
Acting

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo...

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

2021

as Mr. Augustine

6.5
Acting

After saving the life of their heir apparent, tenacious loner Snake Eyes is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage where he is t...

Risks + Side Effects

Risks + Side Effects

2021

as Arnold

5.8
Acting

A routine check-up reveals that the Pilates trainer Kathrin is suffering from kidney disease and needs a transplant. Her husband Arnold is a successfu...

Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik

Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik

2021

as Carlos

7.8
Acting

For Johann Friedrich von Allmen, boredom is not an acceptable condition. During an uninspiring reading, the art detective spontaneously steals a famou...

Enemies: The Confession

Enemies: The Confession

2021

as Dr. Robert Bentheimer

6.6
Acting

Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler accepts the defense of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. At the trial he must face the tenacious polic...

Rising High

Rising High

2020

as Bulgarischer Vorarbeiter Nasko

6.6
Acting

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drug...

18% Grey

18% Grey

2020

as Danny

7.0
Acting

When his wife leaves him, struggling Bulgarian photographer Zack sets out on a wild trip from London to Berlin. It is a journey that reveals the truth...

The Wedding

The Wedding

2020

as Nils

6.3
Acting

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

Once There Was a War

Once There Was a War

2019

Acting

Is a war big or small for someone who has lost his life in it? It's a film-trip or, as it's called today, a road movie. The road to the war is a great...

Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias

Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias

2019

as Carlos

7.0
Acting

Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from ...

Head Full of Honey

Head Full of Honey

2018

as Cameriere

6.2
Acting

A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkabl...

Class Reunion 1.0

Class Reunion 1.0

2018

as Nils

5.8
Acting

Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion.

How to Be Really Bad

How to Be Really Bad

2018

as Teufel / Vater

6.6
Acting

The life of 14-year-old Lilith is similar to that of a normal teenager, but there is a peculiarity: she is the daughter of the devil and lives with hi...

Magnificent Times

Magnificent Times

2018

as Bartos

6.0
Acting

A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs ...

The Captain

The Captain

2018

as Roger

7.2
Acting

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...

Hot Dog

Hot Dog

2018

as Fescu / Snake

5.5
Acting

A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter.

King Grandpa

King Grandpa

2017

Acting

Clemens lives and breathes his grandfather’s stories. When his grandfather passes away, it is difficult for him to understand that it is now his turn ...

Allmen and the Pink Diamond

Allmen and the Pink Diamond

2017

as Diener Carlos

6.9
Acting

After his successful first "case", Allmen decides to make finding lost art objects his profession and thus avoid financial misery in the future.

Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex

Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex

2017

as Mr. Hauser

7.0
Acting

Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters from being destroyed by the construction of a hotel...

Marie Curie

Marie Curie

2016

as Gustave Téry

5.1
Acting

The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the No...

Monkey King

Monkey King

2016

as Viktor

4.6
Acting

Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize...

Don't Believe the Hype

Don't Believe the Hype

2016

as Dozent

6.5
Acting

Dawid, Vanessa and Ludwig are the finalists at a pitch-competition for a movie about the German Rap phenomenon CRO. As the three youngsters work out t...

Text for You

Text for You

2016

as Wortmann

6.7
Acting

Sports writer Mark is baffled when he receives romantic text messages on his cell phone. What he does not know: His new number once belonged to the de...

Allmen and the Dragonflies

Allmen and the Dragonflies

2016

as Carlos

6.9
Acting

Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste for...

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

2016

as Peter Kürten

5.2
Acting

Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.

Escapades with Friends

Escapades with Friends

2016

as Paul Bergmann

4.7
Acting

Once during a party two friends get an idea: let's exchange wives...

Fiddlesticks

2015

as Gerhard

Acting
Macho Man

Macho Man

2015

as Kleinmüller

5.2
Acting

A German man fells in love with a Turkish woman and changes his lifestyle for her family.

Outside the Box

Outside the Box

2015

as Peter Kraußmann

5.6
Acting

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues wil...

Half Brothers

Half Brothers

2015

as Notar Garcia

5.7
Acting

Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are bro...

Punk Berlin 1982

Punk Berlin 1982

2015

as Klaus Rother

5.2
Acting

1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de fo...

Famous Five 4

Famous Five 4

2015

as Bernhard Kirrin

5.6
Acting

The famous five George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dog are spending holidays together. But when they are invited by Berhard, father of Julian, D...

Head Full of Honey

Head Full of Honey

2014

as Waiter in Venice

7.3
Acting

Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes hi...

Das Zeugenhaus

Das Zeugenhaus

2014

as Geheimdienstmann Bernstein

6.8
Acting

Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess ...

Fiddlesticks

Fiddlesticks

2014

as Gerhard

5.9
Acting

Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its mediocri...

Willkommen im Klub

2014

as Arzt

Acting
The Bridges of Sarajevo

The Bridges of Sarajevo

2014

6.3
Acting

Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sa...

Worst Case Scenario

Worst Case Scenario

2014

as Georg

4.9
Acting

An upstarting film production is abruptly cancelled by the financiers. But the director tries anyway to realize his movie.

October November

October November

2014

as David

6.1
Acting

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountai...

Aschenbrödel und der gestiefelte Kater

Aschenbrödel und der gestiefelte Kater

2013

as Vater

Acting
The Invention of Love

The Invention of Love

2013

as Heinrich Ludowsky

2.5
Acting

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.

George

George

2013

as Oberleutnant Bibler

6.7
Acting

The last years of Heinrich George's life are reconstructed with documentary footage and play scenes. His son Götz, named after Heinrich's favorite rol...

The Color of the Chameleon

The Color of the Chameleon

2013

as Chamov

6.0
Acting

In an authoritarian police state, a charismatic schemer is fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network ...

Kokowääh 2

Kokowääh 2

2013

as Tristan

6.0
Acting

Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…

Wagnerwahn

2013

as Richard Wagner

Acting

Wagnerwahn is a documentary in a style of a thriller.

Ludwig II

Ludwig II

2012

as Lorenz Mayr

5.7
Acting

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...

Die Libelle und das Nashorn

Die Libelle und das Nashorn

2012

as Vater

4.0
Acting

Ada Hänselmann presents her debut novel. However, the numerous guests are only interested in the 82-year-old legendary actor Nino Winter and his autob...

Blissestraße

Blissestraße

2011

as Norbert

4.0
Acting

The story of a group of young American Christian fundamentalists on a mission to Berlin to try to bring the Germans back to Jesus.

Headshots

Headshots

2011

as Viktor

5.0
Acting

Secrets and betrayals follow a sudden death in a young photographer's studio. In this explosive exploration of coitus and drug-fueled lifestyle of the...

Men in the City 2

Men in the City 2

2011

as Kommissar Milewski

6.3
Acting

The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.

Kokowääh

Kokowääh

2011

as Tristan

6.3
Acting

Henry is a playboy who has no idea that he is the father of a beautiful, cute girl out of a One-night-Stand. Her mother left the daughter in front of ...

Die Akte Golgatha

Die Akte Golgatha

2010

as Chefinspector Weizmann

6.0
Acting

Archaeologist Schlesinger is convinced that he has discovered the mortal remains of Jesus Christ. Because the discovery would shake Christianity, a fu...

Aghet

Aghet

2010

as Johannes Lepsius

8.2
Acting

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness report...

Die Liebe und Viktor

Die Liebe und Viktor

2009

as Unglücklicher Psychiater

Acting
Kill Daddy Good Night

Kill Daddy Good Night

2009

as Lucas, 40

5.6
Acting

The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to Ame...

Sieben Tage

2009

as Henry Fischer

Acting
Pink

Pink

2009

as Arzt

5.0
Acting

Pink is a punk-poet. She's young, beautiful, successful – but whom of her admirers should she marry? She makes a decision with the help of a calculato...

Heroes from the Neigborhood

2009

as Lindenthal

2.0
Acting

Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. Attila the fireman can eat glass – but this doesn’t help his love life. His girlfriend, Sabine, breaks up with him. She wants...

Oyters Without A Shell

Oyters Without A Shell

2009

as Bulgarischer Typ

Acting

For Jules and Mia time seems to be standing still. Again and again they are trying to reinvent themselves and escape the still image, which keeps them...

Ein Sommer mit Paul

2009

as Dr. Ludwig Horn

7.0
Acting

The Visitor

2008

as Walter

3.8
Acting

The scientist Agnes must take care of a foreign flat. Without her family knowing about it, she visits this flat regularly and begins a parallel life. ...

Wir sagen Du! Schatz.

Wir sagen Du! Schatz.

2007

as Oliver

6.5
Acting

Oliver doesn’t have a family so he steals one.

Warden of the Dead

2007

as Ivan

6.4
Acting

A thirteen year old kid, "the boy", lives and works in a cemetery. The cemetery is his whole life, and growing up with the dead instills in him an obs...

A Very Ordinary Jew

A Very Ordinary Jew

2006

as Herr Gebhardt

6.1
Acting

Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.

Kunstfehler

2006

as Jörg Seybold

Acting
Measures to Better the World

Measures to Better the World

2005

as Hector Balasz

6.8
Acting

A mockumentary in 8 episodes: new solutions and thinking models, which will be with us in the near future and make the world a little more livable. An...

Delphinsommer

Delphinsommer

2004

as Gregor Wagner

6.8
Acting
Hamlet_X

Hamlet_X

2003

as Lucianus

5.0
Acting

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

Rhapsody in White

Rhapsody in White

2002

as The Mountaineer

Acting

This is a film about the fight against the terrible invincible enemy - the banality of life. Chekhovian provincial hopelessness will creep in, broken ...

Studers erster Fall

2002

as Mirko Masek

Acting

Full of joy and good intentions, detective Claudia Studer starts her new job in the homicide division.

Labyrinth of Lies

2002

as Karel

Acting

Sophie's life has changed. His illness has disappeared and has found love. But when her husband takes her wedding night at the attic that he bought, S...

Gebürtig

Gebürtig

2002

as Emanuel Katz

4.3
Acting

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. Wh...

Devil's Tail

2001

Acting

The story begins with a prayer. And it ends with a prayer. The first one is a prayer to God. The second - to the Devil. Between the two prayers is Pav...

Auf Herz und Nieren

Auf Herz und Nieren

2001

as Dr. Korda

3.0
Acting

What do the Pope, a suitcase full of baking powder, four naive friends and the organ mafia have to do with each other? They are all part of a macabre ...

Perfect Sight

Perfect Sight

2001

as McKies

Acting

10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, at the "Perfect Sight" campsite, located on the Island of Rügen on the German Baltic Sea coast: the former...

Now or Never

Now or Never

2000

as Dr. Rabe

6.0
Acting

Three elderly ladies, Carla, Lilli and Meta, who, after their hard earned holiday money is stolen by bank robbers, decide to steal from their local ba...

The Farewell

The Farewell

2000

as Wolfgang Harich

4.6
Acting

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded ...

Und alles wegen Mama

Und alles wegen Mama

1999

Acting

Die Unschuld der Krähen

1998

2.0
Acting
The Forbidden Fruit

The Forbidden Fruit

1994

as Kantzelarista

Acting

The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.

Nemirnata ptitza lyubov

Nemirnata ptitza lyubov

1990

as Artistichniyat

Acting

A girl walks out as if of Pandora's Box to foretell the drama humankind is to face, paying for all sins, we have been piling up through the ages. A nu...

The Camp

The Camp

1990

as Todor

Acting

In this earnest movie from Bulgaria, the minds of the young people attending a Young Pioneer (communist youth) camp in the 1950s are shown to be easil...

Razvodi, razvodi...

Razvodi, razvodi...

1989

as Mladiyat fotograf (Segment 1 & 2)

Acting

Razvodi, razvodi... is a 1989 Bulgarian anthology comedy film that delves into the complexities of marital relationships through a series of five shor...

The Countess

The Countess

1989

Acting

A teenage girl's rebellion through drugs becomes a metaphor for the struggle between individuality and totalitarianism. Amidst the political upheaval ...

Roccos Reise

N/A

Acting

A surfeit of misfortune and a traumatic childhood lead Rocco, in times of isolation and ignorance, to rid himself of his possessions and tidy up the v...

MAKING LOVE

MAKING LOVE

N/A

as The Man

Acting

Three young children set out to decipher a mystery unfolding in their little corner of the world. With good intentions, they embark on a dangerous inv...