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Complete Filmography

Die Ironie des Lebens
2024
as Kurti
The 67-year-old Edgar is the most successful elderly comedian in Germany. Every evening on stage, he makes fun of everything that concerns older peopl...

Max and the Senior Squad
2024
as Karle
Max can hardly believe his luck: In a retirement home, he has finally found a gang that will let him join! Admittedly, it's the oldest and most wrinkl...

One for the Road
2023
as Franky Zwei Promille
As a construction manager, drinking is more of a normality for Mark than not drinking. In addition to his work on construction sites, during business ...

The Ordinaries
2023
as Hilde
Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.

Whatever Happens Next
2018
as Erwin
A road movie about a dropout who leaves himself completely to chance. A parable about freedom, self-determination and the poetry of an undefined life.

Gloria, die schönste Kuh meiner Schwester
2018
Apart from a loose affair with the traveling feed salesman Gerd, the life of Brandenburg farmer Jutta consists only of work - and her cow Gloria. Glor...

Kruso
2018
as Fischer
"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the iso...

In the Aisles
2018
as Wolfgang
Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He's trained to stocks goods and operate a forkl...

In the Fade
2017
as Hauptkommissar Gerrit Reetz
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

The Young Karl Marx
2017
as Stirner
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has...

Goodbye Berlin
2016
as Mr. Schuback
Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life chang...

Looping
2016
as Leilas Vater
Three women, three different stories, one room in a psychiatric clinic. A strong and tumultuous relationship erupts among them, evolving into an energ...

Scrappin'
2016
as Kamelle
Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapy...

Offline: Are You Ready for the Next Level?
2016
as Frigg
Champion gamer Jan has to fight for his digital identity, winning back his real life as well.

A Heavy Heart
2015
as Frankie
A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a f...

Taxi
2015
as Streithammel
Hamburg, mid 80s, Alex is a cabby. The sound is hard, pubs are dark and loud, people constantly argue about anything and everything, people smoke all ...

Zorn - Vom Lieben und Sterben
2015
as Kellner Waldkater

Aus der Kurve
2015
as Lechner

Käthe Kruse
2015
as Reporter
The young actress Käthe is not 18 when she conquered Berlin's theater stages. Privately she finds her luck alongside the famous artist Max Kruse, but ...

Harter Brocken
2015
as Landlord
A landslide in the Harz releases a corpse. Commissioner Frank Koops leads the investigation. Vanessa Riemann, tourist guide and marksman from St. Andr...

As We Were Dreaming
2015
as Marks Vater
Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.

Fiddlesticks
2014
as Schaffner
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...

Dessau Dancers
2014
as Vopo
In the summer of 1985, an American movie also ignites young people in the GDR: "Beatstreet" ensures full cinemas and subsequently a new phenomenon in ...

Die sechs Schwäne
2012
as Hofmeister Otto
On her 18th birthday, Constanze encounters a highly guarded secret. She discovers in amazement that she has six brothers, who have been transformed in...
Der Passagier
2012
as Peter Michalke

Deckname Luna
2012
as Lotte

Nacht ohne Morgen
2011
as Hans-Jörg Hansig
At some point, a dead fox lies in the star lawyer's empty swimming pool. Later, much later, the former Attorney General Jasper Dänert lies dead in an ...

Glückstreffer - Anne und der Boxer
2010
as Polizist
Ex-boxer Kalle is supposed to collect money from widowed mother-of-three Anne. At first he plays the tough guy. When he realizes that she won't be int...

Gravity
2010
as Herr Schneider
The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-a...

Mensch Kotschie
2010
as Markwart
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...

Beloved Berlin Wall
2009
as Erster Spitzel
Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's ...

Mein Kampf
2009
as Anton
The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He befriends the Jew Schlomo Herzl working on a novel with the ti...

Im nächsten Leben
2009
as Andreas Harder

Meine Tochter und der Millionär
2009
as Sigi Blaschke
Hannes Schmitz works as a garbage collector in Hamburg. The ex-soccer player now coaches the youth team of a suburban club. His sayings are just as fe...

Das tapfere Schneiderlein
2008
as Herrmann
Poor but confident and resourceful tailor David trusts, after killing seven flies in one swat, he's a match for any challenge and sets out to prove hi...

Das Feuerschiff
2008
as Gombert
The German lightship (permanently anchored floating 'lighthouse') Borkum Riff is about to be decommissioned. For his last tour of duty, Captain Johann...

Remarque - Sein Weg zum Ruhm
2008
as Georg
"All Quiet On The Western Front" made the Osnabrück native world-famous in 1929. In 1930, Hollywood made a film of the novel, the Nazis defamed it as ...

Eschede Zug 884
2008
as Gehring

Späte Rache - Eine Familie wehrt sich
2008
as Manfred Biehler
TV thriller about a former target investigator who is threatened by a drug dealer along with his family
Fast ein Volltreffer
2007
Giulia is an attractive, self-confident young woman. She works for her father Lorenzo in the family-owned Trattoria da Lorenzo in Hamburg's Neustadt d...

Mein Mörder kommt zurück
2007
as Ingo Dietrich
A young woman whose testimony was used to break up a Berlin gang of criminals years ago lives in a witness protection program with a new identity in a...

Meine Mutter tanzend
2007
as Herr Peters
Dark-skinned Stella was adopted as a baby, but before she gets married, she wants to meet her birth mother. However, the first meeting is a shock: her...

Elbe
2006
as Kowsky
Two old pals lose their work as boatmen on the Elbe river. While down-to-earth Gero tries to get back on his feet, reckless Kowsky keeps gambling with...

Hänsel und Gretel
2006
as Vater
Brothers Grimms' fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel, brother and sister, who struggle against the witches.

Bettis Bescherung
2006
as Sven
Since Betti's boyfriend Rolf doesn't have time for her at Christmas this year either - which is not surprising as he is married - it looks as if she w...

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005
as Henning (gardener)
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Liebes Spiel
2005
as Hasi
Der Geist von St. Pauli
2005
as Platzwart vom FC St. Pauli

Die Rosenzüchterin
2004
as Wilhelm

Downfall
2004
as Wachsoldat vor der Wolfsschanze (uncredited)
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr...
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
2004
as Onkel Hans
Autobiographical movie about the publicist Carola Stern.

Liberated Zone
2004
as Fan
A financially devastated German town receives an encouraging boost with the arrival of a popular soccer star, though a heated love triangle threatens ...

My Name Is Bach
2004
as Königsbote
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is introduced to King Frederick II of Prussia in 1747. The aging composer and the young monarch clash and a battle of e...

Führer Ex
2002
as Bonzo
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The ...

Something to Remind Me
2002
as Ott
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees. Th...

Drei Stern Rot
2002
as Schrubber

Zimmer der Angst
2002
as Gorresch

Zwei Mädels auf Mallorca - Die heißeste Nacht des Jahres
2000
as Olli
The two sales clerks Tanja and Nicole hardly know each other, but they share something: their married lover, who is careful not to let them know anyth...

Trutz
1991
as Schüler