Richard Sammel

Richard Sammel

1960-10-13 Heidelberg, Germany 64 Credits

Biography

Born in Heidelberg; a curious and shy boy; found the key for his world through passion for music, dance and theater; Richard studied music and drama in Germany, acting and direction in France and method acting with Susan Strasberg and Francesca de Sapio in Italy. He first went on stage in 1981 at the local theater Hildesheim, then, from 1983 in France on independent stages, at national theaters and in the streets. In 1989 he moved to Italy and met Susan Strasberg: His cinema debut was in 1990 st...

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Rich Flu

Rich Flu

2024

as Von Willebrand

5.4
Acting

A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires ...

The Order of Time

The Order of Time

2023

as Viktor

5.3
Acting

A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting...

Neneh Superstar

Neneh Superstar

2023

as Victor Max

5.8
Acting

Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she will have to redoub...

Je t'aime, filme-moi !

Je t'aime, filme-moi !

2022

as Tramp

Acting

This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads ...

Gate to Heaven

Gate to Heaven

2022

as Robert Sternvall

Acting

Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result o...

Baden gegen Württemberg

Baden gegen Württemberg

2021

as Gebhard Müller

Acting

A journey back to the middle of the 20th century: the story of Baden-Württemberg's beginnings 70 years ago.

Spencer

Spencer

2021

as Prince Philip

6.8
Acting

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charl...

Margrete: Queen of the North

Margrete: Queen of the North

2021

as Raberlin

6.5
Acting

1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margret...

Avant-garde

Avant-garde

2021

as Felix

Acting

1984, Franco-German border. A Berlin gallery owner transports the flagship sculpture from his collection for a major exhibition. Faced with the object...

Baumbacher Syndrome

Baumbacher Syndrome

2021

as Bruno Frik

4.7
Acting

Late-night talk show host Max Baumbacher turns world-famous after waking up with an unusually deep, almost magical voice.

The Conductor

The Conductor

2018

as Karl Muck

7.7
Acting

United States, 1926: Dutch 24-year-old Willy Wolters has immigrated to the American continent with her parents as a child. She dreams of becoming a co...

The Delegation

The Delegation

2018

as Capo Delegazione

6.1
Acting

In 1990, a European delegation comes to Tirana to monitor the reforms of the communist regime. A government official is sent on a mission to a faraway...

Adieu Bohème

Adieu Bohème

2017

as Professeur Turrell

7.2
Acting

Once the show is over at Bastille Opera's 6th basement, Professor Turrel and his team open their shop. The service offers the opportunity for couples ...

The Confessions

The Confessions

2016

as Ministro tedesco

6.0
Acting

A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that...

Outside the Box

Outside the Box

2015

as Sergeant Mallach

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...

French Dolls

French Dolls

2014

as Benoît

4.8
Acting

Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wi...

Covert Operation

Covert Operation

2014

as Greenberg

4.2
Acting

A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, h...

Colt 45

Colt 45

2014

as Major

5.6
Acting

Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field briga...

Road 47

Road 47

2014

as SGT. Mayer

6.2
Acting

During World War II, looking up the Mountain, in Italy, a Brazilian Expeditionary Force - FEB - mines weeping platoon is hit by a panic-attack that se...

3 Days to Kill

3 Days to Kill

2014

as The Wolf

6.1
Acting

A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughte...

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

2014

as Le tenancier

6.2
Acting

Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it c...

Der zweite Mann

Der zweite Mann

2013

as Antoine de Crassie

4.0
Acting

A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor.

Tour de Force

Tour de Force

2013

as Müller

5.5
Acting

François decides to participate in the Tour de France alone, inspiring a wave of media enthusiasm, much to the chagrin of the Tour's pros.

Roxana's Hands

Roxana's Hands

2013

as Joachim Berger

4.5
Acting

Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Ch...

Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes

2013

as Beimier

5.2
Acting

American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they se...

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

2013

as Monsieur Künze

5.4
Acting

Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. Th...

Apartment in Athens

Apartment in Athens

2012

as Captain Kalter

6.4
Acting

Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple wh...

The Third Half

The Third Half

2012

as Spitz

6.5
Acting

Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of B...

The Berlin Project

2011

as Alexander

Acting

An actor pursues his ex-mentor throughout Berlin in order to kill him.

Werner - Eiskalt!

Werner - Eiskalt!

2011

as Hermann Seidel

5.6
Acting

Werner and Holgi are friends, but also lifelong rivals. Now Werner finally has enough of being the eternal second and is planning his revenge. With hi...

Sniper: Reloaded

Sniper: Reloaded

2011

as Colonel Ralf Jäger

5.8
Acting

Marine Sgt. Brandon Beckett, son of the U.S. Marine Corps' deadliest sniper, Thomas Beckett, must turn to his father's former protégé (Billy Zane) to ...

My Words, My Lies - My Love

My Words, My Lies - My Love

2009

as Riegler

6.2
Acting

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-sel...

This Is Love

This Is Love

2009

5.5
Acting

Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger, Ch...

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

2009

as SGT. Rachtman

8.2
Acting

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throug...

Phantom Pain

Phantom Pain

2009

as Chief doctor

5.7
Acting

Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a l...

Dicke Liebe

Dicke Liebe

2008

as Richard

Acting
Ett enklare liv

Ett enklare liv

2008

as Schulman

5.5
Acting

A successful stockbroker gets in trouble and has to escape from Hamburg in Germany to Vänersborg in Sweden with his two children.

Fallen from the Sky

Fallen from the Sky

2008

as Hans

7.0
Acting

While France is occupied, Louise (70) tries not to give in to despair and continues to open the doors of her small provincial bar every day. The milit...

Lady Blood

Lady Blood

2008

as Henri Latour

3.6
Acting

15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lea...

L'Occupant

L'Occupant

2008

Acting
At a Glance

At a Glance

2008

as Svensson

5.1
Acting

Adrian is a talented young sculptor eager to assert himself in the art world. His first exhibition in the Capital catches Gloria's eye. She's an art s...

Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo

Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo

2008

as Self

6.0
Acting

Short behind the scenes making-of documentary about the filming of the sinking house palazzo and the Venetian piazza chase from the James Bond movie C...

Email to Bill Gates

Email to Bill Gates

2007

as Dr. Wolfgang Gardner

7.0
Acting

Young German boy whose father tells him that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates can solve anything. His father dies and the little boy makes a trip to S...

Casino Royale

Casino Royale

2006

as Gettler

7.6
Acting

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his win...

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

2006

as Moeller

7.2
Acting

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow s...

Feuer in der Nacht

2004

as Mr. Kramer

3.0
Acting

A live broadcast TV-thriller by Kai Wessel.

Princesse Marie

Princesse Marie

2004

as Officier SS

8.0
Acting

The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.

Wolfpack

2004

as Colonel Steiner

5.5
Acting

Croatia 1993. A young girl is killed in strange circumstances by the military who are part of UN forces. The victim's parents can't obtain any further...

MA 2412 - Die Staatsdiener

MA 2412 - Die Staatsdiener

2003

6.7
Acting

The film deals with questions that have long tormented us: Who was the first civil servant? How has the civil service developed over the course of his...

Jean Moulin

Jean Moulin

2002

as Klaus Barbie

Acting

The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.

Le Puits

Le Puits

2002

as Jürgen

Acting

When the Big war started, the 2nd of August 1914, Louis is one of those first mobilized. He has to leave Marie and his village in Corsica for the plai...

La victoire des vaincus

La victoire des vaincus

2002

as Le capitaine

Acting

In June 1940, in a village of Franche-Comté occupied by the Germans, five children decide to join the resistance in their own way, against the German ...

The Nest

The Nest

2002

as Winfred

6.5
Acting

Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with...

Safe Conduct

Safe Conduct

2002

as Richard Pottier

6.6
Acting

During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the V...

The Man Who Cried

The Man Who Cried

2000

as German Officer Pianist

6.1
Acting

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

Taxi

Taxi

1998

as German Gangster #1

6.7
Acting

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police ...

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

1997

as German Lieutenant at Station

8.4
Acting

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abr...

Anna Oz

Anna Oz

1996

as L'Inconnu

4.0
Acting

This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young ...

The Horseman on the Roof

The Horseman on the Roof

1995

as Franz

6.5
Acting

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Les Miserables

Les Miserables

1995

as Le caporal allemand du Jura

6.7
Acting

In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see ...

Caccia alle mosche

Caccia alle mosche

1993

as Riccardo

Acting
The Sect

The Sect

1991

as Truck Driver

6.2
Acting

A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and take...

Piccolina bella

N/A

as Giuseppe

Acting

L'Automne

N/A

as Richard

Acting