Herbert Knaup
Birthday: Born in 1956-03-23 in Sonthofen, Germany
Deathday: Alive
Herbert Knaup is a German film and television actor. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his supporting roles in Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. Longtime companion of actress Natalia Wörner until 2001. Supports the SOS Children's Villages. Started a career as musician with his two nephews in their band "Neffen und Knaup" (Nephews and Knaup) (2007). Founding member of the German Screen Actors Guild. After graduating from the Otto Falckenberg School, the Academy of Performing Arts in Munich, he made his stage debut in 1978.
TV Credits
Wer weiß denn sowas?
Character: Self
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Tatort
Character: Bernhard 'Carlos' von Fiedler
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Polizeiruf 110
Character: Prof. Henner Gottsched
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite....
Polizeiruf 110
Character: Hermann Denninger
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite....
Tatort
Character: Andreas Franke
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Kanzleramt
Character: Regierungssprecher
Kanzleramt is a German television series based on the template of the American tv series The West Wing. It is primarily set in the office of fictional Chancellor of Germany Andreas Weyher, telling stories about the German head of government's political career and private life as a widower and father of a teenage daughter. It was neither a critical nor ratings success, and was cancelled after twelve episodes....
Doppelter Einsatz
Character: Klaus Brandstein
Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police....
Kommissarin Lucas
Character: Klaus Merdinger
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Helen Dorn
Character: Hans Thomsen
Helen Dorn is an expert Police Commissioner, who’s years of experience have given her killer instinct when it comes to crime. On the department head’s orders, Helen Dorn become involuntary partners with Detective Chief Superintendent Gregor Georgi, with Helen in the role of Georgi’s superior. After initially ruffling some feathers, as Gregor thought he was about to take over a case as head investigator and not confronted with a new superior, the two prove to be a solid pairing: Helen’s famed int...
Der letzte Zeuge
Character: Alex Leidhoff
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Der letzte Zeuge
Character: Karl Kromberg
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Unter Verdacht
Character: Georg Zechner
Detective Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and her colleague Langner investigate cases of civil servant crime and internal disciplinary matters. From the little patrol officer in uniform to the public prosecutor or the government director - anyone can become a suspect....
Kommissar Stolberg
Character: Carl Reese
Stolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The series is more serious and less flashy than other contemporary German detective series....
Bella Block
Character: Pfarrer Daniel
Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced....
Alles außer Mord
Character: Alexander Mehring
Alles außer Mord was a German crime television series which aired on the TV station ProSieben between 1993 and 1995. 14 episodes were produced. The series features various criminal cases of determined private investigator Uli Spruce, who tells his clients: "I do everything - except murder"....
Die Kanzlei
Character: Markus Gellert
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Tatort
Character: Günther Kowatsch
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Inas Nacht
Character: Self
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Die Puppenspieler
Character: Jakob Fugger
Helpless, the young convent student Richard has to watch as his mother Sarazenin Zobeida is condemned by the inquisitor Heinrich Institoris as a witch and burned at the stake. From then on, Richard swears revenge on Institoris for what he did to his family. He can escape and is taken by the merchant Jakob Fugger. He wants to teach him not only to seek blind revenge, but to manipulate people like puppets and thus to reach his goals. The two travel from Florence to Rome to influence the upcoming e...
Sarah Kohr
Character: Anton Mehringer
Sarah Kohr, a free spirit who disregards conventions, a very tough, at times unscrupulous, and very unique woman. An exciting thriller series, unconventional and modern....
Sisi
Character: duke Max of Bavaria (Sisi's father)
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph falls in love with young Elisabeth. It's love at first sight but Franz Joseph's mother Sophie doesn't approve of the relationship....
Jokah & Tutty
Character: Galvin der Weise
This unique Comedy Show is an explosive mix of funny sketches and Stand-ups. In the first German Freevee Original “Jokah & Tutty”, the dynamic duo of Jokah Tululu and Tutty Tran welcomes exciting Stand-up comedians with whom they created high class sketches in collaboration with high profile actors (Henning Baum) and comedians (Christian Tramitz), which are the centerpiece of the show....
Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
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Kölner Treff
Character: Self
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Blackout
Character: Reinhard Severin
A chain reaction in the European power grid plunges the continent into darkness. Hacker Pierre Manzano realizes that a code he wrote is to blame. In Germany Frauke Michelsen heads the country’s crisis response team. Disaster looms....
Go West - Freiheit um jeden Preis
Character: Kurt Korbach
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DAS!
Character: Self
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NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Ein Herz für Kinder
Character: Self
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Nuremberg
Character: Albert Speer
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II....
Da is’ ja nix
Character: Dr. Bruns
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Hotel Barcelona
Character: Viktor Hansen
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Movie Credits
The Elementary Particles
Character: Sollers
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Ch...
Run Lola Run
Character: Father
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run....
Distant Lights
Character: Klaus
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness....
The Lives of Others
Character: Gregor Hessenstein
In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria....
Fever
Character: Doermer
The married couple Carl and Vera Sylvester live far beyond their means. She is a regular customer at the Dorotheum art auctions, he puts up with Lilli, his lover, and has become addicted to gambling . Carl wants to use the business ruin to make a new start with his wife . He noticesnot that Vera has long since planned an infamous campaign of extermination against him ....
Anatomy 2
Character: Professor Müller-LaRousse
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertize, and help his handicap brother Willi Hauser. He joins a secret fraternity of doctors, under the leadership of Prof. Muller-LaRousse, who is researching the use of bionic muscles in human beings without any ethics or respect to the laws. The team is also volunteer to the experiences, and is under investigation of Paula Henning....
Agnes and His Brothers
Character: Werner Tschirner
Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a night club. The three brothers just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life....
Irren ist männlich
Character: Thomas
Lawyer Thomas Neumann is extremely successful in his career and happily married to his wife Bettina. Nevertheless, he has a mistress on the side, who one day reveals to him that she wants him to have a child. Thomas agrees, but a sperm test reveals that he is infertile. Now he asks himself the question: who is the real father of his children? His brother Johannes, a priest, helps him to find out the truth. Thomas suspects two former friends with whom he and Bettina used to go on vacation. He inv...
Marlene
Character: Rudolf Sieber
Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life of the German actress Marlene Dietrich and her success in Hollywood....
The Invincibles
Character: Karl Simon
Simon, the leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a government official investigating organized crime and political corruption. After the official is kidnapped, the chase leads to a dramatic conclusion high in the Bavarian Alps....
You're Not Alone
Character: Kurt Wellinek
Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life....
Die Musterknaben
Character: Kamphausen
Docker and Dretzke are two police officers from Cologne. But the cases here in the precinct don't win them a flower pot at the CID. And so they find themselves at the bottom of the career ladder. When they are assigned by the Düsseldorf State Office of Criminal Investigation to work the night shift on an apartment where drugs are presumably being dealt during the day, they discover more than their Düsseldorf colleagues had planned......
Brother of Sleep
Character: Cantor Goller
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds....
Späte Aussicht
Character: Peter Frei
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Fürchte dich nicht
Character: Ralf Bischof
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Der Untergang der Pamir
Character: Ludwig Lewerenz
The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane....
The Salvation Of The World As We Know It
Character: Stetter
At first glance, Paul is just a normal eighteen-year-old. What no one knows is that Paul is bipolar. He is helplessly at the mercy of the radical mood swings in his brain. When a depressive episode ends in a suicide attempt, his single father Hardy has to commit him to a therapy center for mentally ill teenagers. At the clinic, Paul meets teenagers who are also struggling with mental problems. He has to make a decision: Does he continue to run away from his illness?...
Special Escort
Character: Giselher
The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male underdogs who promulgate themselves as female escorts in the city of Munich. Of that group, we meet policeman Gy, in hot water with his insurance company and enduring the vicissitudes of an on-again, off-again romance with comely Daphne; twentysomething Lasse, who lives with his mom and is pathetically henpecked by her; Giselher, a chronically unemp...
Eichmanns Ende
Character: Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann, one of the Third Reich's worst war criminals escapes to Argentina. With his wife and three sons he lives undiscovered in a German community in Buenos Aires until he his kidnapped by Israelis and tried for his crimes....
Marco W. - 247 Tage im türkischen Gefängnis
Character: Ralf Weiss
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Framed
Character: Un infirmier
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Bon Appétit
Character: Thomas
A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant....
Der Bär ist los! Die Geschichte von Bruno
Character: Matthias Lettenbichler
A brown bear in the wild causes a sensation as a border crosser between Tyrol and Bavaria. Because Master Petz snatches many a lamb, repeatedly plunders beehives and prefers to visit garden inns to feast on the food and drink (including a pint) of the escaped guests, the alarmed people demand that the beast be shot down. After some initial bickering, this unpopular decision is also accepted at a political level, with Bavarians and Tyroleans alike hoping that the execution will be carried out by ...
Hotel Desire
Character: Hotel Manager
Antonia is a single mother who works as a hotel maid in Berlin. A normal hot summer day takes a dramatic turn when she crosses paths with a particular guest of the hotel, famous blind portrait painter Julius Pass....
Arschkalt
Character: Rainer Berg
Rainer Berg is a frozen food delivery man who has been let down by life. He has withdrawn from the world in order to avoid emotional trauma. His outlook on life is shaken when he is assigned a new colleague, ex-hairdresser Moerer, who turns out to be a pain in the neck. "This van is too small for two!" But it's no use, Berg can only get rid of his annoying co-driver once he has turned him into a good salesman, according to the new boss. Team spirit is suddenly required from the cold-ass misanthr...
Day of Disaster
Character: Martin Feldmann
In 1978, a serene Spanish beach campground bursts into chaos when a devastating accident shatters a summer getaway for German tourists. As paradise ignites, their lives intertwine, revealing hidden fears and unbreakable bonds amid the flames....
Erntedank
Character: Kommissar A. I. Kluftinger
Chief detective Kluftinger from the Allgäu can't believe his eyes. A dead crow lies carefully draped on the murder victim. In the course of the investigation, Kluftinger comes across a perpetrator who murders according to Allgäu legends....
Augenzeugin
Character: Alexander Kant
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Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
Character: Kommisar Kluftinger
A violent crime shakes Inspector Kluftinger's idyllic hometown of Altusried. The murdered man worked as the manager of a nearby dairy and was hated because he cut the price of milk to the bone. This affects the farmers, with whom the detective plays in the brass band, who are worried about their livelihood. Kluftinger has to ask them unpleasant questions, which promptly poisons the atmosphere. His wife Erika is also upset because her husband cancels their vacation in Spain because of the murder ...
Homecoming
Character: Bürgermeister
August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with open arms. But when he stands up for the outlawed widow Katharina Entriss, he gets sidelined. August realizes that the narrow-mindedness of the Gerbersauer has by no means changed. Richer for an experience and a love, he leaves home a second time....
Mein erster Freund, Mutter und ich
Character: Sven Maiwald
"Men cheat on women, it's a law of nature." Sonja has had some bad experiences and now wants to save her sixteen-year-old daughter Nicole from the worst. The shy teenager has just won the heart of classmate Daniel. Nicole's eternally pubescent father Sven is just as embarrassing as her mother. He messes up his ex-wife's man-hating ways with superfluous macho tips....
Entscheidung im Eis - Eine Frau jagt den Mörder
Character: Jan Meinert
In an idyllic town, one bloody crime joins the next: six women fall victim to a ruthless murderer. The alleged perpetrator was arrested at the scene right next to the last victim, but he managed to escape. Policewoman Leah Sanders takes up the persecution. The chase leads into the mountains up to a hut. A sudden accident causes far-reaching consequences. A warning shot from Leah's pistol triggers an avalanche. She spills the policewoman together with the suspect in the hut. But there are already...
Clarissas Geheimnis
Character: Konstantin
18-year-old Stella lives with her mother Clarissa on a picturesque lodge in the South African bush. When Clarissa one day died in a tragic car accident, the young woman makes a surprising discovery: Obviously, her mother was not a South African, but the daughter of a rich industrial family from Austria. But why did she leave her homeland, change her name and even lied to her daughter over the years? To find out the truth, Stella travels to Styria....
Magic Girl
Character: Horst Antz
Horst, a good-natured manager of a nightclub, falls in love with a guest, the beautiful Jenny. She is high class and spoiled and requires a lot of attention from him....
Mittlere Reife
Character: Oliver Seifert
Having trouble coping with school and their teachers, five students are sent to after school detention by principal Seifert. To avoid expulsion they must take extra hours in ethics. It is their last chance. Stressed out with her own exams, the new trainee teacher Mechthild Bremer is not enthusiastic about being assigned to teach this class. Accordingly, the first couple of hours do not run smoothly. The five give her a hard time....
The Little Ghost
Character: Uhrmachermeister Zifferle
The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!...
Seegrund. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
Character: Kluftinger
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Die Braut
Character: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay ...
Jerry Cotton
Character: Mr. High
Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano....
Angst
Character: Wolfgang
Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his father, whom he is estranged from, has died. This disturbs Robert so much that he visits a prostitute, and is able to engage in sex with her. Marie discovers the infidelity, and the prostitute has a surp...
Die Aufnahmeprüfung
Character: Ferdinand Meissner
Five years have passed since Anaesthesiologist Susanne Meissner divorced her self-centered husband, the successful surgeon Ferdinand. Although the two wanted to share the education of the three children together, Susanne cares almost alone about the pubescent offspring Toni, Valerie and Ludwig - a task that requires a lot of strength and patience for all the love. Your own needs are often too short....
Rock Crystal
Character: Paul
The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are married. In her husband's town Susanne has to put up with daily harassment by the locals, which also extends to her two children. Finally she moves back to her parents, alone. When the children, who long to find a magical crystal they believe has the power to reunite the family, get lost in a howling blizzard on the exposed mountain after bringing th...
Beyond the Wall
Character: Frank Pramann
In September 1974, at the Bösebrücke border crossing between East and West Germany, Heike and Ulrich Molitor, along with their two little children, are caught trying to escape to the West. As a punishment the parents are presented with a terrible decision: they will be permitted to leave for West Germany with their seven-year-old son Klaus, but their two-year-old daughter Miriam must remain in East Germany and will be given up for adoption. If the Molitors refuse these conditions, they will both...
Komm, schöner Tod
Character: Jens Kurzhals
Berlin sometime in the near future: Due to the demographic change, more and more old people are walking confused through the city. In order to avoid accidents and to protect the elderly, there are special task forces that pick up the pensioners and bring them back to the homes. The entrepreneur Sebastian von Werding recognized the potential of customers and developed a new business model....
Die Friendensmission – 10 Stunden Angst
Character: Major Weinrich
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Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
Character: Erzengel Michael
70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life....
Male Mistakes
Character: Georg Trautmann
Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups....
Margarete Steiff
Character: Vater Steiff
Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the first and most successful creators of toy stuffed animals....
Flesh and Blood
Character: Bogdan
Franziska had to release her newborn son for adoption on pressure from her parents as she was a teenager. Now 25 years later she has a successful career as a businesswoman. When her friends Bogdan and Mimi adopt a Ukrainian child, she remembers her own child. As the relationship with her partner Robert breaks up, she decides to search for him. She finally finds Oliver, her son in Munich. He grew up in various homes and foster care. He is a drug addict and now has a child himself with his girlfri...
Hafen der Düfte
Character: Peter Philips
Hong Kong, 2012: The former British crown colony has been part of the People's Republic again for 15 years. To mark the anniversary, the Haiman Collection, a collection of magnificent art treasures, is to be presented to the public for the first time. The curator of the eagerly awaited exhibition is the Berlin art expert Victoria Philips. However, the night after her arrival, all the exhibits are stolen. Victoria has to find high-quality replacements, but the Chinese collectors are hostile to a ...
Mogadischu
Character: Ulrich Wegener
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" g...
Pilgerfahrt nach Padua
Character: Benno Fischer
Gundula Glöckner is very worried about the salvation of her daughter Lena. Again and again, the young woman gets to the wrong men. To help her child's happiness, the resolute widow shortly sets out on a pilgrimage: in Padua she wants to pray for Lena at the tomb of St. Anthony. However, the illustrious Pilgrims on their way to Italy are struggling with a whole series of mishaps and complications. Especially the brash bus driver Benno brings the God-fearing Gundula again and again to the white he...
The Guardians
Character: Henri Brietner
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some pr...
Waller's Last Trip
Character: Waller (jung)
For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his childhood in the 1920s, he commemorates the death of his great love as well as he recalls the legal battle with his illegitimate daughter....
August der Glückliche
Character: Grabowski
When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins: a million euros! Looking for a person who truly loves him, August places an advertisement in the newspaper: Millionaire is looking for a loving wife who will give him an heir! The pretty Sonja answers. She is supposed to give August a child, in exchange for the child inheriting the assets. What Sonja August is keeping quiet about: She is already pre...
Unschuldsengel
Character: Paul Hansen
Christoph Hansen, 16 year old son of a well-to-do Hamburg family is shocked when is father is arrested as a suspect in the murder of a male teen prostitute. Resolved to find the real killer on his own to clear his family name, he starts his investigation in the seedy part of town around the central station, where the street kids hang out - only to find that there's a whole different world that normal people like him don't usually see....
Landauer
Character: Sigi Hermann
The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he survived to come back and start to rebuild his old club after World War II....
Dear Kurt
Character: Mahlow
Kurt (Til Schweiger) and Lena (Franziska Machens) move together into an old house outside the city that is in need of renovation in order to be closer to Kurt's six-year-old son, little Kurt (Levi Wolter), and ex-wife Jana (Jasmin Gerat). But before their patchwork family happiness can really begin, little Kurt is killed in an accident - leaving behind three adults who don't know how to live with this tragic loss....
Blind Date - Flirt mit Folgen
Character: Markus
Louisa has to struggle through life as a single mother with her children David and Julia. Her colleague and best friend Christa is also fed up with being alone and applies to be a contestant on a TV "single addicted to singles" show. But Christa is too excited, so Louisa stands in for her and actually wins a weekend with the successful music producer Markus Fischer. But the weekend flirtation has blatant consequences ......
Lucky Child
Character: Hans Scholz
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her....
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
Character: Walter Aschauer
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Die Zeit mit Euch
Character: Heiko Hartung
Three couples, six friends and the threat of retirement age: when TV journalist Paul quits his job at the age of 65, neither he nor his wife Christiane (59) had any idea that their relationship would be put to the test. Neither did personnel manager Marlene (62) suspect that her husband Klaus (64) had been having an affair with a younger woman for years, who is now expecting his child. And everything changes between high school teacher Heiko (63) and his wife Vera (62) when he is diagnosed with ...
Move
Character: Dinas Vater
Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search is never-ending, and so they repeatedly find themselves at a ritual gathering: someone moving. Boxes are shifted from one side of Berlin to the other, or the length and breadth of Germany, from one abode to the next as one life is exchanged for an...
Just Something Nice
Character: Robert
Radio presenter Karla's biological clock is ticking, and it's now very loud and clear. But no matter what she does, she simply cannot find a suitable man with whom she could imagine a family....
Meister des Todes
Character: Moritz Hollstein
Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable weapon exports to Mexiko....
Südsee, eigene Insel
Character: Albert
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This Is Love
Character: Dominik
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, Chris bought the young Vietnamese girl's freedom from human traffickers – without actually being able to pay. Meanwhile, the female detective Maggie learns after 16 years why her husband up and left her without a word. These two worlds come together when Chris is accused of murder and Maggie is charged with interrogating him........
Kriegsbilder
Character: Jan Loy
A war photographer in different theatres of conflict, Belfast, Beirut, Mogadishu begins to suspect that his uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time to get the perfect shot is making him an agent of the action that is more causal of the conflict than reactive to it. This takes the argument about whether a war correspondent is a recorder or instigator of drama to an interesting new level....
600 PS für zwei
Character: Lorenz Hoffmann
Five years ago, the highly paid marketing chief Hartmut Sprenger was fired from his job by the new personnel manager Lorenz Hoffmann - without a word of notice, anonymously, without a personal conversation. But today - Hartmut is a casual jobber and embittered, Lorenz in the middle of the mid-life crisis and just before the burnout - fate brings the two men together and sends them on a turbulent ride through Germany....
Therapie und Praxis
Character: Bernhard Meier
The talk therapist Roland Arnsberg falls from the clouds when his longtime girlfriend Chris gives him the passport. An affair with Regine, as it were in acute relationship needs, helps Roland though from his mood depression. However, when he learns that she is the wife of his most affectionate patient, his world gets completely out of joint. The turbulent game of hide and seek finally opens the eyes, which is the right woman for him. Only Chris needs a little longer, until you dawn: There can on...
Das beste Stück vom Braten
Character: Harry Dumont
"Cooking is war" - that is the motto of the ingenious, but self-centered celebrity chef and women's hero Michi Griesebach, who has been in trouble for years with the autocratic restaurant critic Harry Dumont. Now the showdown is due to the opening of his noble restaurant: Dumont, whose column will decide on well-being and woe, has already announced a devastating tearing. By chance Michi gets to know Dumont's daughter and starts a covert operation....
Der Aufstand
Character:
June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excessive labor standards. The protests escalated into a political uprising, which was only ended by the Soviet army using tanks. 50 years later, the docudrama "The Uprising" captivatingly depicts the historical events of those days that threatened to unhinge the SED system....
Hamlet_X
Character: Laertes
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story....
Ganz und gar
Character: Manfred
The go-getter and heartthrob Torge recklessly lives out his youthful recklessness until he loses a leg in an accident, which not only causes him but also his circle of friends to stumble. Torge covers up his emotional injury with cynicism and usually acts as if nothing had happened. But everyday life with its big and small disasters catches up with him and Torge slowly begins to realize that it is time to face up to life and his feelings....
Ne günstige Gelegenheit
Character: Lorenz Kellermann
Gosbert Klee and Thilo "Abo" Abogast are anything but down on their luck. Nothing in their pockets, nothing on their minds and nothing but trouble to boot! But just as Gosbert's caravan has been blown up in an accident and Abo is being pursued by a bailiff, fate seems to give them another chance: by chance, the kidnapped multimillionaire Lorenz Kellermann falls into their hands. A really good opportunity to collect the ransom themselves - but there are a few other bad guys involved.......
Herzblut. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
Character: Kluftinger
A mysterious phone call puts Kluftinger and his colleagues Maier and Hefele on the trail of a brutal series of murders. A serial killer who cuts out the hearts of his victims and drapes them macabrely at the crime scene is up to mischief in the Allgäu. There is hardly any time for Kluftinger's own worries, the chest pains that are making his life hell....
Schutzpatron. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
Character: Kluftinger
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Zwei Tänzer für Isolde
Character: Hans
Uwe Ochsenknecht and Herbert Knaup play the leading roles in the buddy comedy "2 Sturköpfe im Dreivierteltakt". From the old rivals Joachim Schiller and Hans Rückert are pretty best friends, as they finally realize that an ex-wife has always been a double game with them. The comedy by Thomas Kronthaler conveys the joy of life and makes you want to dance. The breakdance scene star Jawad Rajpoot, also known as Bboy Rajpoot, provides spectacular performances as a junior partner. He finds his destin...
Der Bankraub
Character: von Kamphausen
Helmut Draeger, director of a German bank, gives the talented bank employee Martin Kreye the opportunity to speculate in New York in real estate. Martins Career quickly takes a high flight. He soon gets under ....
Toter Winkel
Character: Karl Holzer
Master hairdresser Karl Holzer has his own hairdressing salon, has been happily married to his wife Elsa for many years and his beloved granddaughter Nora also contributes to his idyllic life in a small German town. However, when his son Thomas, Nora's father, is suspected of having been involved in serious crimes with a right-wing terrorist background with his recently deceased childhood friend, Karl begins to doubt his ability as head of the family. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Anyá's life is also s...
Ordinary Decent Criminal
Character: De Heer
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all....
The Last Pig
Character: Narrator (voice)
Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East Germany. That's reason enough for Huber to bail on his debts and head out on a road trip through southwest Germany....
Wildwechsel
Character: Christoph
Thomas is trapped in a loveless relationship, even though he has already fallen in love again, Anton can't manage to introduce his boyfriend to his parents, who have their own problems, and after a party they all get together....
Jimmy the Kid
Character: Dortmunder
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Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Character: Hans
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Crossroads
Character: Heiner Witt
A woman goes through a weekend full of ups and downs after a shocking diagnose, according to which she has less than a year left to live....
Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben!
Character: Dr. Franz Reinhard
Franz, editor-in-chief of a large publishing house and no stranger to sadness himself, learns shortly before his wife Simone's death that she has been cheating on him. Stunned by this infidelity, he doggedly sets out in search of his rival. At Simone's funeral, a pimp turns up with two bodyguards and lays a wreath with the dedication 'With love - your tiger'. Franz wants to get to know this rival better and even follows him to his stately home in Andalusia....
Eine Hochzeit platzt selten allein
Character: Oliver Wackernagel
When the rich brewer Dillinger wants to withdraw 100,000 euros in cash, Gerhard Schwegler, head of the Volkskassen, refuses to pay out the money: Dillinger's son Daniel had abandoned Schwegler's daughter Marie two days before the wedding. Dillinger fumes, Schwegler remains firm and, because teenager Lea films the whole thing for her video blog, the rumor spreads like wildfire that the Volkskasse Oberhopfingen is no longer paying out money and is bankrupt....
Die Auferstehung
Character: Fred
Dad is dead. For years he wanted nothing more to do with his children because they didn't agree with his lifestyle. Now daughter Linda alerts the three brothers Joschi, Jakob and Uli, and they all gather together with their spouses Fred and Franziska at the deathbed, which in this case is a new red sofa in the middle of the living room of the family home. The father, a former head physician, widowed for years and suffering from Parkinson's disease, had developed an exuberant old-age virility in ...
The Writing on the Wall
Character: Lopahkin
When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further he begins to dig into the secrets behind the terrorism, the more he finds himself immersed in dodgy goings-on in the corridors of power of NATO itself....
Hubert und Staller – Eine schöne Bescherung
Character: Franz Hübner
During the Christmas holidays, Hubert and Staller investigate the demise of an elderly pensioner who died suspiciously but unnoticed a year earlier....
Anna's Summer
Character: Max Feldmann
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece....
Stenzels Bescherung
Character: Volkmar Stenzel
Volkmar Stenzel is the quintessential branch manager: correct, responsible and always there for his customers. However, people like the 57-year-old are just as little needed in the global financial world as branches in the countryside. When the Chinese group that has just swallowed up his Frankfurt-based bank sends the young careerist Tutz to wind up his branch, Stenzel feels worthless. He rebels against the injustice and finally shows courage....
15 Minuten Wahrheit
Character: Georg Komann
Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned....
In Darkness
Character: Ignacy Chiger
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland)....
Der Geier - Die Tote mit dem falschen Leben
Character: Frank Becker
Former detective Lukas Geier has retired to Bad Gastein in the Austrian Alps. While he is busy to reinvent himself, his former life as an investigator catches up with him....