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Ben Becker

Birthday: Born in 1964-12-19 in Bremen, Germany

Deathday: Alive

Ben Becker is a German actor, dubbing and radio play speaker and singer. He had his breakthrough in 1995 in Joseph Vilsmaier's film adaptation of the novel "Schlafes Bruder". He has acted in many film and television productions and has appeared in numerous theater productions. Ben Becker comes from a family of artists. Becker's autobiography "Na und, ich tanze." was published in fall 2011. Becker has a daughter (*2000) with his wife, whom he married in 2012 after 14 years of dating, and lives in Berlin.

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Always Afternoon

Character: Ernst

Always Afternoon is a 1988 Australian mini series about German internees in Australia. It was a co production between Germany and Australia. It inspired a series of paintings by Ross Watson....

Sturmzeit

Character: Maksim Marakov

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Tatort

Character: David Weber

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....

Tatort

Character: Stefan Tries

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....

Tatort

Character: Tries

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....

Tatort

Character: Piet Michalke

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....

Tatort

Character: Gerald Reinhardt

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: Jobst Dettmann

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....

Die Männer vom K3

Character: Rolf Lachner

Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....

Die Männer vom K3

Character: Erik Bastian

Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....

Doppelter Einsatz

Character: Udo Fischer

Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police....

Derrick

Character: Holger Stemp

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....

Der Alte

Character: Peter Arnsweiler

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....

Der Alte

Character: Markus Pagel

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....

Der Lack ist ab

Character: Andi

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Ein Fall für zwei

Character: Hanno Bremer

Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series....

Unter Verdacht

Character: Leonard Brunner

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....

Ein Fall für zwei

Character: Ademann

Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series....

Nachtschicht

Character: Roland Petry

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Tatort

Character: Self

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....

Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall

Character: Dirk Darmstädter

Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995....

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Character:

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Wolffs Revier

Character: Kolya Lysenko

Wolffs Revier is a German television series....

Der Fahnder

Character: Sander

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985....

Der Fahnder

Character: Rainer Görner

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985....

Polizeiruf 110

Character: Rethmann

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....

Bella Block

Character: Boris

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....

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Character: Self

The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012....

Polizeiruf 110

Character: Dettmann

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....

Inas Nacht

Character: Self

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Ein Fall für TKKG

Character: Eddi

Ein Fall für TKKG is a German television series....

Beckmann

Character: Self

Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show....

Wetten, dass..?

Character: Self

A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?....

Zwei alte Hasen

Character: Gerd 'Brummer' Panczak

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Der Landarzt

Character: Fritz

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Der gleiche Himmel

Character: Ralf Müller

Cold War, the seventies. Lars is a Romeo agent from East Germany: he must go to the West side and seduce and spy on Western women who work in government or defense institutions....

Deichbullen

Character: Ben Becker

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Boom Boom Bruno

Character: Bruno

Bruno is not just any cop. He is Boom Boom Bruno, the district's cowboy. Everything here is under his control. His criminals, his hookers, his boss. He is thrilled with his new partner Mark – it's up to him to teach this insecure boy to be a real man with balls. When a drag queen is found dead on his turf, however, both Bruno and Mark must fight their own prejudices and meet resistance coming from all sides to solve the case....

Der Kriminalist

Character: Frank Mattner

Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer....

Polizeiruf 110

Character: Klaus Wagner

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....

Olli Dittrichs TV-Zyklus

Character: Self

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DAS!

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Wer weiß denn sowas?

Character: Self

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Dalli Dalli

Character: Self

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Riverboat

Character: Self

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Markus Lanz

Character: Self

TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics....

Kölner Treff

Character: Self

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Tatort

Character: Marcus Rettenbach

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....

DAS!

Character: Self

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NDR Talk Show

Character: Self

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Das Traumschiff

Character: Jerry

The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world....


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Brother of Sleep

Character: Peter

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....

Gloomy Sunday

Character: Hans Wieck

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well....

Alles nur Tarnung

Character: Harry Butzbach

After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted with Daddy, Marlies is housed just one floor up in the cell of the ageing prostitute Jutta. With Christmas just around the corner, the four of them join forces and plan to break through to their cells to celebrate a lavish party with a can of homemade schnapps....

A Love in Germany

Character: Klaus

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on th...

Red Zora

Character: Karaman

In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate outside the rules of society. Though they must sometimes steal to survive, their loyalty to one another means that they will always have a brother or sister to count on....

Sass

Character: Franz Sass

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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

Character: Fred Miekley

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his life in the context of the gay pride movement, the normative pressures of the Schlager music industry, and the profound changes currently underway....

The Harmonists

Character: Robert Biberti

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish....

The Painter

Character: Self

Being one of the most significant, contemporary painters, Albert Oehlen’s approach is complete refusal of the common art circus. In its own way the Film reflects this very stance. Likewise, it questions the purpose of obsolete thinking patterns created by white straight male artists of a certain age that have dominated the art world for centuries....

As White as in Snow

Character: Hermann Vogel

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix....

A Very Ordinary Jew

Character: Emanuel Goldfarb

What does being a Jew mean nowadays? Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist, is asked by the Director of a Jewish community in Germany, to respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany. This conversation, performed by Goldfarb and the Director of the community, is the only scene of Oliver Hirschbiegel's film « Ein ganz gewohnlicher Jude » presented at the Film and Television Festival of Genève, which was shot outdoors and it's the only moment...

Habermann

Character: Koslowski

A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events....

Nero - de caida y subida

Character: Self

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Max and Moritz Reloaded

Character: Mörder-Hanne

Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg, Germany. After the two boys steal a car and get into an accident, with the adolescent daughter of a Hamburg Senator sitting in the passenger seat, the two scoundrels are packed up and sent to a boot camp. This military-style camp is run by Axel and Henry, two former East German soldiers who still strongly believe in Communism but are secretly gay lovers. Max and Moritz steal another car...a red Ferrari ow...

Udo Lindenberg & das Panikorchester - 50 Jahre Rock`n`Roll in der bunten Republik

Character: Erzähler

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Chaostage - We Are Punks!

Character: Self

CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks......

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone

Character: Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck

Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under the cruel stickler Graf (count) von Jaschinsky Friedrich falls in love with the king's headstrong oldest sister Amalia. She, however, refuses to be married off the the Swedish king's heir. When Prussia makes war on Austria over Silesia, Trenck'...

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld

Character: Adolf Brand

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep...

Little Angel

Character: Lucies Freund

Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth....

The Child

Character: Andy Borchert

Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a lawyer, Robert Stern, to the locations of the bodies, who were killed long before Simon was born. Stern takes on the most compelling and mysterious case of his life....

Marlene

Character: Ernst Linke

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....

Otto - The Disaster Movie

Character: Kofferverkäufer

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!...

Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft

Character:

Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual boarding school called "Gymnasium Canisianum", founded in 1946 by a German catholic priest....

Rheingold – Gesichter eines Flusses

Character: himself - narrateur (german)

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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

Character: Self

The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible....

Planet Alex

Character: Walter

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Rough Road Ahead

Character: Ruby's Father

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimately institutionalization. But they are ready to take on the cause of love....

Herzsprung

Character: Jan / Soljanka

In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it....

Südsee, eigene Insel

Character: Dr. H. Kupert

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E-m@il an Gott

Character: Jerry

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Kurt Gerrons Karussell

Character: Self

This documentary tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi holocaust -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War II, Gerron went from being a leading light of the German entertainment community (he made over 70 films and sang "Mack the Knife" in the first performance of The Three-Penny Opera) to a prisoner directing a propaganda film for the Nazis about a makeshift club at Theresienstadt, which was described as a "concentration camp for celebrities." Gerron was ...

Frau2 Seeks HappyEnd

Character: Gregor Reuther

A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after a fated car accident, where emails bring them closer to each other....

Die kleine Meerjungfrau

Character: Meerkönig

Undine rescues a prince from drowning, and leaves him unconscious on shore, where he can be found, but she has already fallen in love with him. Unable to enjoy life below the waves, the mermaid makes a deal with the Sea Witch to become human. The mermaid must also give her voice as payment. And her humanity is only conditional: if she can make the prince fall in love with her and marry her, she can gain a share in his soul and be truly human, but if he marries another, she will die at the next...

Karigula - Monster der Liebe

Character: Charly

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Whopper Punch 777

Character: Harry Brummer

The young son of a sports journalist helps his out-of-town father out of a jam by getting into the hotel room of a famous boxer and conducting a sensational star interview with him....

Cinema Perverso

Character: Himself

Before there were home video formats and the internet, the “Bahnhofskinos” (“Train station cinemas”) in West Germany regularly showed trash and erotica movies. Various filmmakers and especially contemporary witnesses recount in the documentary “Cinema Perverso – the wonderful and broken world of Bahnhofskino” their experiences and impressions....

Rising to the Bait

Character: Funke

Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about w...

Freundinnen - Alle für eine

Character: Roy

They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems....

Emma nach Mitternacht - Der Wolf und die sieben Geiseln

Character: Wolf Marx

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Samson and Delilah

Character: Principe Sidqa

Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah....

Allmen and the Dragonflies

Character: Terry Werenbusch

Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste for women and the expensive pleasures of life. Unfortunately, his luck has run out, but now a new opportunity presents itself....

Esperanza

Character: Kapitän

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Otto - The Disaster Movie

Character: Aktenkofferverkäufer

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!...

Ich, Judas

Character: Judas

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Jedermann

Character: Tod

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Spiel um dein Leben

Character: Nick

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Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben!

Character: 'Der Tiger' Michael Maier

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Never Look Away

Character: Otto

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime....


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