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Brick
2025
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
2025
as Kowalski
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
2024
as Lutz Peters
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
2023
as Winnie
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
2023
as Kowalski
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
2023
as Kowalski
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
2022
as Kowalski
"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
2022
as Kowalski
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
2022
as Klaffki
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
2022
as Richter
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
2021
as Dieter
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
2021
as Herrmann Müller
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
2021
as Wilhelmy
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
2021
as Kowalski
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
2021
as Kowalski
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
2020
as Kowalski
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
2020
as Richter
A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.

System Crasher
2019
as Bauer Bockelmann
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
2019
as Old Man
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
2019
as Kowalski
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
2018
as Pit
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
2017
as Stonemason
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
2016
as Dr. Schmidt
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
2015
as Ernst

Noch ein Seufzer und es wird Nacht
2015
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!
2014
as Franz
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
2014
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
2012
as Zocker
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
2010
as Kotschies Vater
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
2007
as Erich Kempka
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
2006
as Kallauke
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

Brothers
2002
as Totengräber
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
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
1999
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
1998
as Pastor Stillmark
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
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
1993
as Wolf
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

The Land Beyond the Rainbow
1992
as Heinrich
A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
Hüpf, Häschen, hüpf
1991

Biology!
1990
as Bürgermeister Künzel
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
1989
as Räuberhauptmann

Späte Ankunft
1989
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
1989
as Big Policeman
A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.
Der Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara
1988
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
1988
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
1987
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
1985
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
1984
as Florian
A tale about the evil queen who gets swapped with a simple and nice woman.

Tuition for Dad
1984
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...