Biography
David Kross (born 4 July 1990) is a German actor. He began his career at a young age with a small role in the 2002 film Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge and worked sporadically, mainly focusing on his schoolwork. In 2008, he portrayed Michael Berg in the film The Reader. For his part, he was nominated for various awards. He went on to win the Sierra Award at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards for his work in Youth in Film. Kross has since worked in both German and English-speaking film roles, in...
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Complete Filmography
Fabula
2025
as The Grape
Small-town criminal Jos (55) has, to his great frustration, been completely sidelined. His daughter disrespects him, his wife doesn't trust him, and h...
The World Will Tremble
2025
as Lange
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide...
Everything's Fifty Fifty
2024
as Robin
Marion and Andi thought they were happily divorced until their old love unexpectedly reignites during a family vacation with their son Milan.
Home Sweet Home - Where Evil Lives
2024
as Viktor
When pregnant Maria starts readying her fiancé’s family estate for bed and breakfast guests, something isn’t right; the power seems to be on the blink...
The Peacock
2023
as David
When investment banker Linda Bachmann and her team arrive at Lord and Lady Macintosh's country estate, the signs are not good for a relaxing weekend i...
A Stasi Comedy
2022
as Ludger (jung)
East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Prenzlauer Berg. But when he falls in love with the my...
The King's Man
2021
as Moustached Man
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop ...
Prey
2021
as Roman
A hiking trip into the wild turns into a desperate bid for survival for five friends on the run from a mysterious shooter.
Confessions of Felix Krull
2021
as Louis de Venosta
Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.
Rising High
2020
as Viktor Steiner
Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drug...
The Keeper
2018
as Bert Trautmann
The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert...
Balloon
2018
as Günter Wetzel
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces...
My Brother Simple
2017
as Simpel
Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two...
Halal Daddy
2017
as Jasper
While managing a run down abattoir, young Muslim Raghdan Aziz stumbles through cultural chaos and generational conflicts, dealing with enraged fathers...
The Pasta Detectives 3
2016
as Rainer Kiesling
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now the...
The General Case
2016
as Joachim Hell
In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi ...
Race
2016
as Carl "Luz" Long
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage ...
Boy 7
2015
as Sam (Boy 7)
A teenager wakes up in a subway car with no memory of how he got there or who he is.
The Pasta Detectives 2
2015
as Rainer Kiesling (archive footage) (uncredited)
For the first time ever Rico has a friend coming over for a sleepover! After weeks of not seeing each other, Rico and Oskar are reunited again and sta...
The Pasta Detectives
2014
as Rainer Kiesling
The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, ...
Angelique
2013
as Louis XIV
The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a cen...
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013
as The Preacher
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him u...
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
as Benno
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contr...
Measuring the World
2012
as Eugen Gauß
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedr...
Into the White
2012
as Josef Auchtor
Based on a true story. On 27 April 1940, Luftwaffe pilot Horst Schopis' Heinkel 111 bomber is shot down near Grotli by an RAF Blackburn Skua L2940 fig...
War Horse
2011
as Gunther
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...
Promising the Moon
2011
as Young Osvalds Kalnins
Throughout her life Marga has shown little feeling for her daughter Sofia. But now she reveals fear, wounds and a deep longing for her long-deceased h...
Same Same But Different
2009
as Ben
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Pen...
The Reader
2008
as Young Michael Berg
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...
Krabat
2008
as Krabat
A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is...
Hands off Mississippi
2007
as Bäckerlehrling Bröckel
Full of anticipation, ten-year-old Emma goes on vacation to her grandma Dolly in the country. Once there, however, the girl learns that old Klipperbus...
Tough Enough
2006
as Michael Polischka
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of ...
Help! I'm a Boy
2002
as Paddy
In Hamburg, an aged sorcerer is searching for a replacement. Freddie, who's about 12, finds the wizard's book of spells and knows enough to read a few...
North Pole
N/A
This is a film in the dramatic and adventure genre based on historical and real events — namely an expedition to the North Pole on the airship “”Italy...
Wind of Change
N/A
as Andrej
A music biopic chronicling the incredible journey of the legendary rock group the Scorpion.