Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Karl Markovics (born August 29, 1963) is an Austrian actor. He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year. Prior to that, his most notable appearances have been in the highly-acclaimed Austrian (Viennese) black comedy Komm, süßer Tod (2001), his role as far-right terrorist Franz Fuchs in the 2007 TV movie Franz Fuchs - Ein Patriot, and ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?
2025
as Hugo Drowak
Welcome to the grim world of Hugo Drowak. A misanthrope, boozer, and stinking old good-for-nothing. We invite you on a fanciful journey replete with r...

Our Girls
2025
as Dr. Maier
The carefully maintained harmony of a long-standing friendship between two couples unravels dramatically when an accident involving their teenage daug...

Highly Explosive
2025
as Viktor Knigge
In the center of Hamburg, the discovery of an unexploded bomb from the Second World War not only leads to a far-reaching evacuation, but also to an in...

The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Hermit
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon becom...

Interchange
2024
While in comas, two burned out young men in two different corners of the world have a mysterious telepathic connection and swap talents, leading them ...

The Investigation
2024
as Zeuge 26
Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during t...

Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
as Rudolf / Rudolf's Brother
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off...

The Fox
2023
as Josef Streitberger
At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. Th...

Das Schweigen der Esel
2023
as Jonas Horak
Fake detective Jonas Horak is now in custody after being arrested by police officer Sophie Landner. A series of murders has Horak on edge, and he fear...

Das Schweigen der Esel
2023
Director, Writer
Fake detective Jonas Horak is now in custody after being arrested by police officer Sophie Landner. A series of murders has Horak on edge, and he fear...

What You Can See from Here
2022
as Optiker
On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal again...

A Rose in Winter
2020
as Eugene Breitling
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to becam...

Resistance
2020
as Charles Mangel
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans dur...

The Final Problem
2019
as Jonas Horak
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole ...

The Final Problem
2019
Director
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole ...

Nobadi
2019
Director, Writer
A grumpy old white man enlists the help of an Afghani migrant to bury his dead dog, and as the two dredge through prejudices to find common ground, th...

A Hidden Life
2019
as Mayor of St. Radegund
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

How I Taught Myself to Be a Child
2019
as Roman Silberstein
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and hum...

Shillings from Heaven
2018
as Michael Unterguggenberger
Tyrol, 1932: The world economic crisis is at its peak, radical political movements emerge. In a small Austrian community, the engine driver Michael Un...

The Dark
2018
as Josef Hofer
A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abu...

Playmaker
2018
as Wirt
Ivo is a former pro footballer and jailbird with nothing to lose. He is a betting natural and his talent and background attract the interest of Dejan,...

Murer: Anatomy of a Trial
2018
as Simon Wiesenthal
Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World ...

End of the Season
2017
as Dahlmann
Becker is a German ex-con trying to hold down a job as a night watchman, but a chance encounter with the man whose family Becker killed 18 years earli...

The King's Choice
2016
as Curt Bräuer
On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choic...

Fog in August
2016
as Christian Lossa
A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad ...

The Devil's Mistress
2016
as Joseph Goebbels
Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her pa...

Me and Kaminski
2015
as Twin
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...

The Mystery of Snow Queen
2015
as Andersen
A new interpretation of the most known and beloved fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen - "Snow Queen"

Superworld
2015
Director, Screenplay
Gabi, a supermarket employee, leads an ordinary life between family and job, between single-family home and local food store. One day when Gabi comes ...

Influence
2015
as Inspector Schreck
"Influence" is a story about the key events of the Wielkopolska Uprising - a dramatic arrival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań, and the people who p...

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Wolf
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom...

Mord in den Dünen
2013
as Dominik Hofer

Measuring the World
2012
as Lehrer Büttner
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedr...

Eastalgia
2012
as Vladan
When Ruslana floods her Munich flat, Vladan, a former Boxer from Serbia, comes to her rescue. It is the night when Ruslana's son Bogdan should finally...

Süskind
2012
as Ferdinand Aus der Fünten
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.

Black Brown White
2011
as Jimmy

Breathing
2011
Director, Screenplay
Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.

Unknown
2011
as Dr. Farge
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help o...

Mahler on the Couch
2010
as Sigmund Freud
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from ...

Kennedy's Brain
2010
as Mikael Rossberg
A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursui...

Henri 4
2010
as Coligny
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved Kin...

Nanga Parbat
2010
as Karl Maria Herrligkoffer
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.

Die verrückte Welt der Ute Bock
2010
as Fremdenpolizist

Little Robbers
2009
as Bank Director
Can you honestly swear that at least once in your life you have not thought that robbing a bank is a good idea? Especially, if you're five years old ...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009
as Rolf (segment "Schieflage")
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book
2009
as Alfred
Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". Wit...

M/S Gustloff
2008
as Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end o...

Franz Fuchs – A Patriot
2007
as Franz Fuchs
A semi-documentary feature about one of the biggest criminal cases in Austrian history – the letter bomb attacks of Franz Fuchs.

The Counterfeiters
2007
as Sorowitsch
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during...

Mein Nestroy
2007
as Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
The Theater in der Josefstadt has a new artistic director – actor and director Herbert Föttinger. He kicked off his tenure with the world premiere of ...

Daniel Käfer - Die Schattenuhr
2006
as Huber Schlömmer
Daniel Käfer's time out in Ausseerland is coming to an end. He has to focus on his new career. But his journey ends in Hallstatt. His acquaintance wit...

Die Schrift des Freundes
2005
as Jussuf
Anna, an outstanding software specialist, is entrusted with the creation of a computer program designed to ensure the most complete possible surveilla...

Daniel Käfer - Die Villen der Frau Hürsch
2005
as Hubert Schlömmer
Editor-in-chief Daniel Käfer is unemployed. His magazine "Intelligence" was discontinued due to "too high a standard". Now he wants to think about his...

Mein Mörder
2005
as Dr. Mannhart
In the final days of the war, little Hans escapes certain death: he flees from a Nazi euthanasia center. Years later, Hans encounters the doctor who i...

Familie auf Bestellung
2004
as Jürgen Platzer
Alex can only accept his uncle's inheritance if he presents his wife and child.

Dinner for Two
2004
as Georges Haider
Nothing can help. Leopold's cholesterol levels have finally broken through the sound barrier and it is his Steffi, of all people, whose cooking is to ...

Zuckeroma
2004
as Anton Seeberg
The Seebergs are a happy family - until Melanie's mother moves in. The old lady's malice plunges the once sweet home into chaos and discord. When the ...
Annas Heimkehr
2003
as Gregor Brunner
In WWII Munich, Anna works for a Nazi family as a nanny but secretly steals food and cigarettes and bring those to a Jewish family, who hides from the...

Die Wasserfälle von Slunj
2002
as Chwostik
Briton Robert Clayton's business flourished and when his son Donald reached the right age he became a partner. The Claytons have found irreplaceable h...

Andreas Hofer
2002
as Erzherzog Karl

Love Letters - Liebe per Nachnahme
2001
as Karl Kunert
Postal worker Jenny finds and reads the letters that the little girl Lilly sent to her dead mother. Jenny decided to help Lilly and gets involved with...

All the Queen's Men
2001
as Hauptsturmführer
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring ...

Blumen für Polt
2001
as Rudi Riebl
Gendarmerie inspector Simon Polt in the Weinviertel region finds it too much of a coincidence when crook Riebel is killed in a motorcycle accident and...

Come, Sweet Death
2000
as Jäger
Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organiza...
Lumpazivagabundus
2000
as Zwirn
Hirnschal gegen Hitler
2000
as Willi

Born in Absurdistan
1999
as Stefan Strohmayer
It all begins with a mistake, an error with serious consequences: in a hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immi...

All About Bob
1999
as Herr Mack
Bob, a sympathetic young man, keeps telling women what they want to hear to have a good time. Just as he is about to marry the daughter of a very weal...

Die blaue Kanone
1999
as Carlo Carnetti
Their names are Hans Kleiber and Harry Groß. They wear police badges and are causing pure chaos. The cops from Lake Wörthersee have been tasked with b...

Und alles wegen Mama
1999
as Rudnik
Das Callgirl
1999
as Professor Nadler

Drei Herren
1998
as Herr Ivo
Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The t...

Hinterholz 8
1998
as Jäger
Herbert Krcal (Roland Düringer) and his wife Margit (Nina Proll) dream of owning a home. They prefer to do this in the "Blue Lagoon", a prefabricated ...

Trouville Beach
1998
as Nachtkellner
Young Piano teacher Lukas accidentally meets DJ Nathalie, the love of his life. After losing her telephone number, he starts looking for her. Finally,...

Kreuzfeuer
1997
as Konrad
Olivia - Ein Kinderschicksal bewegt die Welt
1996
as Dr.Zim
When six year old Olivia is diagnosed with the Wilms tumor in her kidney, the doctors suggest an immediate operation and chemotherapy. Healing chances...

Ein Anfang von etwas
1995
as Schurl
Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his r...
Auf Teufel komm raus
1995
as Weghofer
Leo Strobl, called "Turbo-Leo", is the fastest photographer around. When a tragedy takes place, he is the first one on his way to cover it. Then a you...

Mother's Day
1994
as Conductor
48 hours in the life of the Neugebauer family. The May weekend with a small family celebration, which was planned as peaceful and contemplative, turns...

Half the World
1993
as Taxifahrer
The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the n...

India
1993
as Kirchingerwirt
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship...

Das Grau des Himmels
1993
as Concierge
Two men and a young woman who recently met spend a night together at a secluded mountain inn. It soon turns out that one of the two men could be a dan...
Der unverwüstliche Geist der heiligen Liebe
1993
"The title says everything."
Hund und Katz
1991
as Zeno
Die Täuschung des Auges durch das Ohr
1990
A documentary look behind the scenes at dubbing voices and sound effects. A scene is filmed and then copied three times with different sound effects a...

Himmel oder Wienerstadt
1990
Four men on a roofl. One of them wants to jump off, while the others are singing a fare-the-well song.
Wittgenstein's Poker
N/A
as Karl Popper (voice)
On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstei...
Kristallnacht
N/A
as Isaac Roth
Set in Berlin on the eve of war, police lieutenant Wilhelm Krützfeld over the course of 24 hours navigates a city turned into a powder keg. Following ...

The Blood Countess
N/A
The Blood Countess and her maid take us on a wild hunt for blood and secrets from times gone by. On their adventurous journey, they desperately search...

Das Jagdgewehr
N/A
Stage Director
Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike G...