Axel Werner

Axel Werner

1945-01-01 51 Credits

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Brick

Brick

2025

Acting

When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Schutzgeld

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Schutzgeld

2025

as Kowalski

6.0
Acting

The three garbage collectors accidentally get on the trail of a protection racket in the Neukölln neighborhood: Snack bar owner Mohammed has to fend o...

Im Netz der Gier

Im Netz der Gier

2024

as Lutz Peters

4.8
Acting

Anna Grawe is the right-hand woman of Bea Kober, a member of the Bundestag. When she learns that the public prosecutor's office is investigating her b...

Tamara

Tamara

2023

as Winnie

5.0
Acting

Mother and daughter, both from the GDR: one experienced it, the other did not. Tamara was born in 1990. Like many of the post-reunification generation...

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Arbeit am Limit

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Arbeit am Limit

2023

as Kowalski

6.0
Acting

Water pipe burst and bomb alarm - Berlin in a state of emergency: Dorn and Gerald don't know where their heads are. The routes for the garbage collect...

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Altlasten

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Altlasten

2023

as Kowalski

6.0
Acting

Garbage manager Rüdiger Dorn wants to move into his parents' house after the death of his mother - but that has to be brought into shape first. It goe...

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - (K)eine saubere Sache

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - (K)eine saubere Sache

2022

as Kowalski

Acting

"Captain" Werner Träsch is quite astonished: the fresh wind of social change is also blowing among the tradition-conscious Berlin garbage workers. His...

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Zu gut für die Tonne

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Zu gut für die Tonne

2022

as Kowalski

Acting

During their tour, Werner and his colleagues Tarik and Ralle get in the way of a young man who wants to "steal" expired groceries from a supermarket c...

Und dann steht einer auf und öffnet das Fenster

Und dann steht einer auf und öffnet das Fenster

2022

as Klaffki

7.7
Acting

Karla, a strong, sensual and experienced woman, learns that she has terminal cancer. She only has a few months left. After a wild life as a photograph...

The Kangaroo Conspiracy

The Kangaroo Conspiracy

2022

as Richter

5.9
Acting

The cabaret artist Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo are faced with a problem: Lisbeth, the mother of Maria has taken a wrong turn somewhere and is now denyin...

Notes of Berlin

Notes of Berlin

2021

as Dieter

6.0
Acting

A film inspired by one of Germany's most visited blogs. The author of the site www.notesofberlin.com, Joab Nist, posts pictures of real announcements,...

Sprachlos in Irland

Sprachlos in Irland

2021

as Herrmann Müller

4.2
Acting

For Connie, things have been going to plan for many years, both professionally and in her private life. That is, until the son of the CEO takes over t...

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

2021

as Wilhelmy

6.5
Acting

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love...

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Operation Miethai

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Operation Miethai

2021

as Kowalski

9.0
Acting

During their tour, Werner Träsch and his colleagues Ralle Schieber and Tarik Büyüktürk arrive at a housing estate where the businessman Waselitzki dra...

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Die Streunerin

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Die Streunerin

2021

as Kowalski

9.0
Acting

Werner Träsch, who has just moved into an apartment with his great love Gabi Hertz, surprises her with a trip to Fuerteventura on the second anniversa...

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Kassensturz

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Kassensturz

2020

as Kowalski

5.3
Acting

Werner Träsch moves into an apartment with his great love Gabi Hertz. However, he can hardly help with the furnishing of her apartment because he is c...

The Kangaroo Chronicles

The Kangaroo Chronicles

2020

as Richter

5.7
Acting

A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.

System Crasher

System Crasher

2019

as Bauer Bockelmann

7.7
Acting

Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to c...

Ever After

Ever After

2019

as Old Man

5.1
Acting

An apocalyptic female buddy movie. Two years ago zombies took over the earth. Weimar and Jena are the last places of human civilisation. Vivi and Eva ...

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Dörte muss weg

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Dörte muss weg

2019

as Kowalski

6.3
Acting

Werner, Ralle and Tarik are a well-coordinated trio at Berlin's waste disposal service. Werner has been with the company for a long time and is a real...

Early Birds

Early Birds

2018

as Pit

Acting

Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadness and mundanity of their everyday lives in old-ag...

The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter

The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter

2017

as Stonemason

7.1
Acting

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...

Nick: Off Duty

Nick: Off Duty

2016

as Dr. Schmidt

5.0
Acting

Day in, day out, Niklas ‘Nick’ Tschiller and his partner Yalcin Gümer investigate crimes that are happening in Hamburg. But at some point even the pol...

Platonow

Platonow

2015

as Ernst

1.0
Acting
Noch ein Seufzer und es wird Nacht

Noch ein Seufzer und es wird Nacht

2015

Acting

Carl gets off a bus at a stop in the snowy middle of nowhere. He has an appointment with Alfred, with whom he is to take part in a training course off...

Bella Casa: Hier zieht keiner aus!

Bella Casa: Hier zieht keiner aus!

2014

as Franz

7.0
Acting

Bella is a single mother business and mother trapped in the normal everyday insanity. Nevertheless, she is happy. But from now on, everything gets out...

Unexpected

Unexpected

2014

6.0
Acting

Marie is a successful designer and has a loving husband and two children. But fate offers more. When she meets the fiancée of their friend Dom, the tw...

Of Dogs and Horses

Of Dogs and Horses

2012

as Zocker

Acting

To save his deathly ill dog, the unemployed Rolf bets the little money that he has on a horse and hopes for the best. Sometimes even outsiders get a c...

Mensch Kotschie

Mensch Kotschie

2010

as Kotschies Vater

Acting

A well-placed site manager and father slips into a midlife crisis and recalls promptly to a former lover. Satirical comedy that finds compelling cinem...

My Führer

My Führer

2007

as Erich Kempka

5.7
Acting

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to ...

Herzentöter

Herzentöter

2006

as Kallauke

6.5
Acting

The mechanic Kobja wants to start a new life in New Zealand. But the necessary money for the overflight is missing.

Ein Goldfisch unter Haien

2004

as Friedmann

Acting
Brothers

Brothers

2002

as Totengräber

7.7
Acting

Ernst Stadler is a successful, award-winning chef with his own gourmet restaurant. His older brother Ludwig is also a chef, but is currently in prison...

Weg!

2002

as Kontrolleur

3.5
Acting

A 16 years old boy from Germany runs away from a boring birthday party and follows a few graffiti artists to the station. When police arrives he escap...

Heroes Like Us

Heroes Like Us

1999

5.1
Acting

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a ...

Spuk aus der Gruft

Spuk aus der Gruft

1998

as Pastor Stillmark

7.5
Acting

The young Friedrich Freiherr von Kuhlbanz died almost 300 years ago, but he is cursed beyond death. "I will not rot in my grave if I have committed th...

While All Germans Sleep

1995

Acting

After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 ...

Adamski

Adamski

1993

as Wolf

Acting

Horst Adamski takes a job as a department store detective and promptly falls in love with busy shoplifter Lili. His special approaches, however, rathe...

Die Lügnerin

1992

Acting
The Land Beyond the Rainbow

The Land Beyond the Rainbow

1992

as Heinrich

Acting

A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.

Hüpf, Häschen, hüpf

1991

Acting
Biology!

Biology!

1990

as Bürgermeister Künzel

1.0
Acting

A small town shortly before the end of the GDR: 15-year-old Ulla lives with her mother in a dilapidated old building where not even the electricity wo...

Der Tölpelhans

Der Tölpelhans

1989

as Räuberhauptmann

Acting
Späte Ankunft

Späte Ankunft

1989

Acting

In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the Pruss...

The Break

The Break

1989

as Big Policeman

4.7
Acting

A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.

Der Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara

1988

Acting

Johann Hull, a man with revolutionary charisma, comes to St. Barbara one day. He encourages the starving fishermen to fight to improve their living co...

Iron Hans

Iron Hans

1988

5.0
Acting

In a king's kingdom there is a forest so dangerous that every man who goes into it is never heard from again. Iron Hans, who is responsible for the de...

Wengler & Sons

Wengler & Sons

1987

2.0
Acting

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to wor...

Atkins

Atkins

1985

4.3
Acting

A Western set in the US around the turn of the century. Atkins leaves the city to return to the valley where he formerly lived. There he meets Native ...

The Swapped Queen

The Swapped Queen

1984

as Florian

5.5
Acting

A tale about the evil queen who gets swapped with a simple and nice woman.

Tuition for Dad

Tuition for Dad

1984

6.0
Acting

A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their absent...