Manfred Zapatka
Birthday: Born in 1942-10-02 in Bremen, Germany
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
Character:
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district....
Der letzte Zeuge
Character: Walter Seume
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Der Staatsanwalt
Character: Gernot Braach
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Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Gunther Wegner
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....
Rivalen der Rennbahn
Character: Hans-Otto Gruber
Rivalen Der Rennbahn is a German serial....
KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst
Character: Jan Haroska
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Tatort
Character: Harry Rohwedder
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: Arthur Steinemann
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....
Die Schwarzwaldklinik
Character: Harry Poser
The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after b...
Tatort
Character: Carsdorff
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: Helmut Seiff
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: Löwberg
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....
Die Männer vom K3
Character: Thorsten Maurer
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....
Die Männer vom K3
Character: Rüdiger Fuchs
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....
Zwei Brüder
Character: Kinscher
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Rosa Roth
Character: Radowiscz
Rosa Roth is a German television series....
Derrick
Character: Karl Rutger
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....
Derrick
Character: Arnim Wexler
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....
Derrick
Character: Dr. Heinrich
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....
Derrick
Character: Rudolf Schenke
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: Simon Kröger
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Harry Saleske
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Thomas Bartel
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Dr. Leo Kluge
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Wolfgang Möller
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Rainer Fasold
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....
Der Alte
Character: Stefan Reiter
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Jens Schwendler
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Wolfgang Kranich
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Wolf Veith
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Fahnder
Character:
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 Alte
Character: Horst Nierenz
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Burkhard Reimann
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Gerald Kuhn
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Clemens Hoschek
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....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Alois Kern
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: Helmut Krahler
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....
Notruf Hafenkante
Character: Werner Grün
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics....
Küstenwache
Character: Karlheinz Jordan
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea....
Unser Charly
Character: Howard Dejong
Unser Charly is a German television series....
Küstenwache
Character: Henk Drevers
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea....
Wolffs Revier
Character: Dr. Ingo Severin
Wolffs Revier is a German television series....
Wolffs Revier
Character: Franz
Wolffs Revier is a German television series....
Wolffs Revier
Character: Detlef Stoss
Wolffs Revier is a German television series....
Wolffs Revier
Character: Julius Kramer
Wolffs Revier is a German television series....
Schlosshotel Orth
Character: Alex Köpke
Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series....
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei
Character: Detlef Wieland
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia....
Großstadtrevier
Character: Senator Marcus Papenburg
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Großstadtrevier
Character: August Friedrich Lehmann
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Polizeiruf 110
Character: Florian Werner
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: Hans Vogel
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: Urs Render
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....
Freiheit ist das Einzigste, was zählt
Character: Willi
Today is the founding of the Reich! Preparations for the new Germany are underway, the table is set, and the mood is quite good. It's a significant day for the revolutionaries, who are performing the official establishment of the Reich in an old castle. A small group of sovereignists plans to finally overthrow the German government through violence. Under the codename "Hans," the leader (Bibiana Beglau) pushes her co-conspirators through the final preparations. They still need more new Reich cit...
SOKO München
Character: Lothar Berthold
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
SOKO München
Character: Hartmut Stahlmann
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
SOKO München
Character: Roland Korff
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
SOKO Köln
Character: Horst Stein
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city....
SOKO Leipzig
Character: Dr. Schäfer
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1....
Tatort
Character: Viktor Raschke
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....
SOKO Leipzig
Character: Ewald Kutz
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1....
Todesspiel
Character: Helmut Schmidt
Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77....
Tatort
Character: Heinrich Wagner
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....
Tod im Internat
Character: Wilfried Maas
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Fabrik der Offiziere
Character: Oberleutnant Krafft
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Schlosshotel Orth
Character: Viktor Berenger
Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series....
Der Staatsfeind
Character: Stephan Mendt
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Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
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Kölner Treff
Character: Self
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NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Der große Bellheim
Character: Richard Maiers
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Nachtcafé
Character: Self
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Wilder Westen inclusive
Character: Manfred Rasche
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Das Traumschiff
Character: Werner Olbricht
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world....
Kulturzeit
Character: self
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Wer weiß denn sowas?
Character:
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Movie Credits
Mord am Meer
Character: Veith Seewald
Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of the RAF. Without initially disclosing that he not only knew the dead man but was even related to him, Glauberg begins to investigate, supported by the young, attractive but inexperienced BKA officer Paula Reinhardt. The traces lead to Berlin t...
The Free Will
Character: Nettie's father
After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt....
I Am Guilty
Character: Martin Steeb
Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends an anonymous letter to a local Munich newspaper, claiming responsibility for a fatal road accident. He fitfully pursues notoriety as he goes through life nearly without affect. What will it take to get Armin to smile?...
Das Himmler Projekt
Character: Heinrich Himmler
Romuald Karmakar directs the actor Manfred Zapatka in performing the three-and-a-half hour speech originally declaimed before ninety-two SS generals by Heinrich Himmler on the 4th of October, 1943 in the Golden Hall of the Posen Palace....
Nightsongs
Character: Vater
A young couple in Berlin's 'Mitte' district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can't stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits. She comes back - but not alone....
Der Tote im Eis
Character: Karl Kress
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The Forgotten
Character: Prof. Dieter Angerer
Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case is quickly closed, but the young Commissioner Bernau wants to enlighten the mysterious attack. He returns at night back to the crime scene and has an appearance that make his blood freeze! When he turns to the medium Morgana, he lifts the veil on a cruel mystery....
The Last U-Boat
Character: Beck - Geschwaderrichter
Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, the Nazi Party members wanting to continue to Japan since they are still at war, while the others just want to surrender or return home....
In den besten Jahren
Character: Matthias Brühl
40 years after her husband is shot and killed by a terrorist while on duty as a police officer during a routine traffic check, Erika Welves (Senta Berger), aided by a journalist (Felix Eitner) finds evidence leading to the murderer. For the killer has vanished. Is living in freedom. Because the state is protecting him, keeping him safe. He in turn has supplied information concerning other terrorists. Erika Welves considers this blatant injustice. But now, finally, there is a chance at revenge......
Ebbies Bluff
Character: Schmidtmeyer
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Judas: Close to Jesus
Character: Venturius
Pilate and the Roman legate Veturius look on worriedly as Jesus is celebrated as the new messiah in Jerusalem, fearing an uprising. Veturius decides to have Jesus arrested as soon as a suitable opportunity presents itself. Judas is delighted by the reception Jesus is receiving, and quickly wants to win over the influential merchants to the cause which would make him the king and the liberator of the Jews....
Erkan & Stefan
Character: Herr Eckernförde, Ninas Vater
Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audiocassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe Barschel. The circumstances of his untimely death have never been completely resolved - until now. Unfortunately, the editor's daughter Nina accidentally takes the tape with her to Munich, where she is about to visit her paralyzed Mom in a sanatorium. When this information reaches the CIA and the BND, both organizations compete to get hold of the tape. Mean...
Utopia
Character: Heinz
A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him collectively....
Die Lüge
Character: Philipp Hardenberg
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Offset
Character: Herr Fischer
The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary....
The Friends of Jesus: Thomas
Character: Venturius
When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, Thomas arrives. Like most other disciples, he worriedly took refuge with friends in Jerusalem after Jesus's arrest. After Jesus's burial, the disciples decide to leave Jerusalem quickly, but Thomas refuses to leave Jesus' body behind, as he fears that the tomb may be desecrated....
Elephant Heart
Character: Gerd Hermsbach
Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko's only joy in life is boxing. As he is the most promising talent in his club, Gerd Hermsbach, a local demimonde boss, offers him the opportunity to become a professional. Marko accepts, but has to pay a high price......
Frankfurt Millennium
Character: Harry
While the masses enthusiastically meet to celebrate the new Millennium, one does not sense much commotion at the kiosk and corner bar "Das Frankfurter Kreuz ". Strangers as well as regulars come to the Kiosk owned by Walter....
Roses for Africa
Character: Harry Eberth
A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years . Soon the relationship fails due to the aggressive, also destructive tendencies of the man who enters a deep personal crisis. When the marriage coined/shaped of force and Psychoterror goes finally into the breaks, the man looks for comfort in the alcohol and becomes criminal....
Besondere Schwere der Schuld
Character: Klaus Barner
Joseph Komalschek was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cruelly murdering a young mother and her newborn baby. He never confessed his crimes and the bodies could not be found. After being released from prison, he returns to his hometown. People there treat him with distrust and disdain....
Die Zeit der Kraniche
Character: Kommissar Jürgen Monhaupt
In the loneliness of the Lower Havel lowlands, one of the last bird paradise in Germany, twelve-year-old Lea lives alone with her father Lutz, a passionate environmentalist. She is on the cusp of adulthood, confronted with the challenges of the present and the pains of the past. She often feels lonely in the childhood-remote world in which she lives, in which schools are closed and people leave. Even the father, who has withdrawn from the world, is increasingly becoming a problem for Lea, who lo...
The Puppet Grave Digger
Character: Bruno Kleu
In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect....
Die Lichtenbergs - zwei Brüder, drei Frauen und jede Menge Zoff
Character: Dr. Theo Zeisig
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Tiefe Wunden
Character: Siegbert Kaltensee
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Den Tagen mehr Leben!
Character: Norbert Bruckmann
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Bis ans Ende der Welt
Character: George Spencer
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Krieg und Frieden
Character: Nikolai
The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country....
Eden
Character: Vater Xaver
Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to spend time with him and his fabulous dishes. That soon becomes a rather platonic affair, and domestic troubles. Xaver decides to exact revenge on Gregor, with tragic results....
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Character: Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker. Someone whose viewpoint at cinema and the special type of aesthetics he used in his films has been a path-breaker for many Iranian filmmakers. The film provides the viewer with new information about the life and work of Sohrab Shahid Saless in Germany....
Twice New Life
Character: Josef Richter
A husband has to cope with his wife being comatose after an accident....
Germany in Autumn
Character:
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-...
Your Children
Character: Herbert Winter
Anja and Frank are enjoying their family vacation sailing on the Baltic Sea. Anja leaves their two young children alone on the boat for just a moment and when she returns, they are nowhere to be found....
Autopiloten
Character: Heinz
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Empfänger unbekannt
Character: Man
A woman leaves her husband and starts living with a Turkish man....
Dead Man Working
Character: Wilfried von Bensen
The senior investment banker Jochen Walther is at the peak of his career at the Deutche Bank. He just finished the deal of his life along with his personal assistant Tom Slezak, when during the celebrations he suddendly jumps from the roof of the bank's headquarters in Frankfurt. Was it suicide or even a murder?...
Manila
Character: Herbert
Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface....
Double Pack
Character: Boutiquen-Kunde
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Der Rausschmeisser
Character: Otto
The story of the 18 year old prostitute Fanny who falls back into her old life after being released from a reform school run by nuns. The feeble-minded Frieder tries to liberate her, fails, and pays for it with his life....
Südstadt
Character: Eberhard Lehmann
One house, three apartments and three friendly couples, who have to put their relationships and life concepts to the test. After 20 years of marriage, Anne and Martin are close to separation. Eva and Thomas are freshly in love and want to do everything right. The relationship between Saskia and Kai gets into a crisis when she returns to work and takes care of the daughter....
All My Loving
Character: Pit Hoffmann
Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the path that just might lead them to happiness....
Wigald
Character:
Short film....
The Collini Case
Character: Hans Meyer
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case....
Fast perfekt verliebt
Character: Ernst
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Wir wären andere Menschen
Character: Polizeihauptmeister Horn
Film by Jan Bonny, also known as "Endlich Leben"....
Todesengel
Character: Ulrich Adebach
In “Death Angel”, Jakob Ziemnicki's film adaptation of the novel “Walküre” by Craig Russel, Peter Lohmeyer alias Jan Fabel does everything possible to eradicate his most bitter flesh as an investigator: the Hamburg chief commissioner once again chases one of the press as the “angel of St. Pauli "described the serial killer who" punished "sex offenders ten years ago, remained undetected and is now apparently active again. However, the chief investigator, along with his crime logs played by Ina Pa...
Who We Were
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
A look at the current state of the world, from the hand of six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future....