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Complete Filmography

Karla
2025
Twelve-year-old Karla testifies in court. She makes serious accusations against her own father, who should have guaranteed her safety. Judge Lamy supp...

The Traitor
2024
as Richter Weng
Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn into underhand dealings. Determined to escape a s...

The Investigation
2024
as Zeuge 39
Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during t...

Der Zürich-Krimi: Borchert und die Spur der Diamanten
2023
as Reto Zanger
Borchert hates it when people lie to him. From his very first meeting with murder suspect Xavier Schliemann, he has doubts about the man's sincerity. ...

Adopting Audrey
2022
as Otto
An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family.

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the bitter medicine
2022
as Reto Zanger
Thomas Borchert stands by his conviction as an "unlicensed lawyer" never to neglect humanity when representing a client. This distinguishes him from h...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the time to die
2021
as Dr. Reto Zanger
Thomas Borchert, the unlicensed lawyer, and his colleague Dominique Kuster take on the case of Anna Sutter, who wants to contest the will of her fathe...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the icy death
2021
as Reto Zanger
When Borchert receives an anonymous message that a certain Franz Brosi is innocent, law firm boss Dominique can hardly believe it. After all, Brosi wa...

Apnoe
2020
Grey house facades roll by like monstrous walls. Numerous identical windows, creating lines of lights as they pass by steadily. The bike courier Miche...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the dead in the lake
2020
as Reto Zanger
Thomas Borchert is already looking forward to his goddaughter Jenny, who is completing a practical semester in Albania. At the airport, as part of the...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the fatal error
2020
as Reto Zanger
Lawyer Dominique Kuster can feel a professional success for herself when her underage client Stefan, the oldest of three foster children, receives mit...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the deadly trap
2020
as Reto Zanger
Borchert wants to toast three years of successful cooperation with his superior Dominique Kuster and her father, Reto Zanger. The evening is canceled ...

1989: A Spy Story
2019
as Markus Wolf
Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the original sin
2019
as Dr. Reto Zanger
Borchert and his boss Dominique can't believe it: Captain Furrer, respected top investigator of the Zurich Criminal Investigation Department and fair ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the murderous greed
2019
as Reto Zanger
The lawyers Borchert and Kuster are investigating a case involving a young student who has come under the crosshairs of a terrorist group.

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the last hope
2018
as Reto Zanger
Anton Schneider says goodbye to his wife Luise in tears and dies. Schneider was seriously ill with multiple sclerosis and was diagnosed by neurologist...

Vakuum
2017
as André
Amidst the preparations for her 35th wedding anniversary, Meredith is surprised by the discovery that she is HIV-positive. Only her husband André coul...

The Invisibles
2017
as Dr. Franz Kaufmann
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."

Orphan
2017
as Lev
A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually,...

Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen
2016
as Ewald Hassel

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert's case
2016
as Reto Zanger
After many years abroad, lawyer Thomas Borchert makes a surprise return to his hometown of Zurich. He wants to gain some distance in a trailer on his ...

I Am Here
2015
as Magnus
Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by hers...

Labyrinth of Lies
2014
as Oberstaatsanwalt Walter Friedberg
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

The Last Will
2014
as Dr. Weiß
To fulfill the last will of his mother, the young JAKOB ADLER needs to meet his biological father, who is inmate of a forensic psychiatric hospital fo...

Zurich
2014
as Dr. Joseph Seydlitz
Terminally ill, Lea surprises her family with her wish to die, consciously and controlled, on her own birthday. Her mother tries everything to prevent...

The Grüninger File
2014
as Heinrich Rothmund
1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not a...

Millions Can Walk
2014
as Narrator
Hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women – indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers – demand their right to existence by making a 400 kilometr...

More Than Honey
2012
as Narrator (german voice)
With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybee...

Kill Me
2012
as Adeles Vater
A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.

The City Below
2010
as Roland Cordes
A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to...

Trio
2008
In Anita's dreams, her father Martin is larger than life - even after he has died. Is she the only one seeing the strange things that happened to her ...

Tod eines Keilers
2006
as Conny
Gottfried Binder, a simple employee in the pathology department of the University Hospital Zurich, is suffering from lung cancer and does not have lon...
Giacomo Casanova
2004
as Casanova
Le sacre du printemps
2004
as Dr. Bardot
A experimental short based on Igor Strawinskis "Le sacre du printemps" by Oliver Herrmann.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
2001
as Mephistopheles
Unabridged production of Goethe's Faust Ⅰ by Peter Stein's Faust Project.
Dichterliebe
2000
In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann’s song-cycle of the same name, the boundaries between song recital and real...

Born in Absurdistan
1999
as Innenminister
It all begins with a mistake, an error with serious consequences: in a hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immi...
Playboys
1998
A group of men shoot their mouths off in a pub. Their animated talk is all action-packed yarns and, of course, about women.
Alkestis
1993
as Admetos

Bingo
1990
as Schorschi
Bingo and Sturzi became friends in prison and have big plans. After their release, they both want to turn their backs on a life of crime and emigrate ...
Geblendeter Augenblick - Anton Weberns Tod
1986
as Der Gast

Pasolini Directs His Death
1985
as Pasolini
Psychoanalytic study of the artist and social critic, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Pasolini Directs His Death
1985
Writer
Psychoanalytic study of the artist and social critic, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Weht die Angst, so weht der Wind
1983
as case worker / attorney
Fragmented stories about the big city, loneliness and the need to communicate.

Karambolage
1983
Judit is up to her neck in art studies and the elitist art community but chucks it all to pursue a successful career as a billiard professional -- no...

Angst
1983
as Psychopath (voice)
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Hotel Excelsior
N/A
as Natanael
A mysterious concierge guides us through stories that unfold in the same room over a century. A Jewish businessman celebrates a lonely family festivit...