Sylvester Groth
Birthday: Born in 1958-03-31 in Jerichow, Germany
Deathday: Alive
Sylvester Groth was born in Jerichow, German Democratic Republic on March 31st, 1958. He is an actor with an extensive television and theater career, well known for portraying Goebbels in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Clausen in Dark (2019) and starring in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Stalingrad (1993) and Deutschland 83 (2015).
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8 Zeugen
Character: Prof. Max Felsner
When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it's too late....
Contergan - Eine einzige Tablette
Character: Staatsanwalt Feddersen
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Schimanski
Character: Christian Wörner
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Polizeiruf 110
Character: Hauptkommsissar Jochen Drexler
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: Pathologe
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: Christian Seitz
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: Peter Wengler
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: Hauptkommissar Jochen Drexler
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: Rainer Vaske
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....
Der Kriminalist
Character: Dieter Rohrbach
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....
Tatort
Character: Norbert Müller
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....
Der Kriminalist
Character: Martin Kippendorf
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....
Deutschland
Character: Walter Schweppenstette
A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both p...
Der Alte
Character: Herbert Rühle
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Josef Böcking
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie
Character: Christian Rilling
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Bella Block
Character: Dr. Jakob Groth
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....
Mein Leben & Ich
Character: Dr.Reimann
Mein Leben & Ich is a German situation comedy produced by Sony Pictures in association with RTL Television for RTL. The series was created by Paula A. Roth and loosely based on ABC's 1994 teen drama My So-Called Life. The series focuses on the life of student Alex Degenhardt, who deals with everyday life and sometimes frustrating friends, Claudia and Niko, as well as her family; her little brother Basti and her Hippie-parents Hendrik and Anke. A sixth Season was produced in 2006 but not shown un...
Polizeiruf 110
Character: Jochen Drexler
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....
KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst
Character: Richard Plötz
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Tatort
Character: Dieter Gottschalk
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....
Rosa Roth
Character: Michael Katzmann
Rosa Roth is a German television series....
Rote Erde
Character: Fritz Rewandowski
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Tatort
Character: Justus Fürmann
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: Polizeipräsident
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....
Hexen - Magie, Mythen und die Wahrheit
Character:
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Der Scheich
Character:
Follows a con artist who reinvents himself as the heir of an Arabic fortune....
Unwanted – Ostaggi del mare
Character: Klaus
A cruise ship rescues 28 refugees from the Mediterranean. When the captain is ordered to head for Libya, the situation escalates....
Mitten in Deutschland: NSU
Character: Walter Ahler
After German reunification, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground begins a killing spree while cops fight an uphill battle to catch them....
Sense8
Character: Sergei Bogdanow
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."...
Criminal: Deutschland
Character: Karl Schultz
In the interview room, detectives go head-to-head with suspects and try to get to the truth—even if it means breaking the rules and risking it all....
Dark
Character: Investigator Clausen
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town....
Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter
Character: Hiemer
Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare....
German Crime Story: Gefesselt
Character: Ludwig Lübke
Nela Langenbeck is a commissioner with the Hamburg police and not only fights against crime, but also against the misogynist structures of the police apparatus of the 1990s. She and her colleagues are not really taken seriously and are often treated more like secretaries. You can make coffee and sort files. Langenbeck is investigating the case of the acid barrel murderer Raik Doormann, who absolutely needs to be under lock and key because she is the only one who takes an escaped victim seriously...
Der Club der singenden Metzger
Character:
A young man and his wife struggling to create a good life for themselves in a new country. Based on Louise Erdrich's novel 'The Master Butchers Singing Club'....
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Momo
Character: Agent BLW 553 X
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever....
Zerbrechliche Zeugin
Character:
A male prostitute and a handicapped girl witness a murder....
Stalingrad
Character: Otto
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army....
Fleisch ist mein Gemüse
Character: Oliver Bendt
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My Führer
Character: Joseph Goebbels
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ......
Inglourious Basterds
Character: Joseph Goebbels
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers....
The 355
Character: Jonas Muller
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos....
Zarte Parasiten
Character: Martin
Jakob and Manu have developed their own specific survival strategies. Without a permanent home or steady job, they live in a makeshift camp in the woods and use the municipal swimming pool when they need to shower. Always short on cash, they make a living as providers of human services. They notice what is missing in other people′s lives and make a living by satisfying others′ desires and giving them what they need or what they lack....
Shores of Hope
Character: Roman
In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader....
The Weekend
Character:
Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. Back with his family, friends, and ex-comrades, including his former lover Inga, Jens’ unexpected arrival disrupts their lives, forcing them to re-examine the violent idealism of their youth, especially as he insists on learning who had betrayed him to the police years before in this intense, gripping drama...
The Turning Point
Character: Mark Niebuhr
In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name....
A Pact
Character: Georg
A dark psychological thriller, A Pact tells the twisted story of a contentious love triangle. As teenagers, Paul tricked Georg into handing over his girlfriend Anna to him. Georg agrees, on the condition that he can have her back whenever he wishes. After decades of silence, when Anna and Paul have a family together, Georg suddenly re-appears. Strange things start happening to Paul, and it soon becomes clear that Georg has not forgotten the pact....
Kolle - Ein Leben für Liebe und Sex
Character: Oswalt Kolle
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Lulu
Character: Dr. Schön
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Whiskey with Vodka
Character: Martin Telleck
A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships....
Beate Uhse - das Recht auf Liebe
Character: Martin Volke
Beate Uhse was a German pilot and entrepreneur. The only female stunt pilot in Germany in the 1930s, after World War II she started the first sex shop in the world. The company she started, Beate Uhse AG, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and is the world leader in sales of sexual aids. The company also started a television channel on the Premiere network of television channels....
Hilde
Character: Boleslaw Barlog
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars....
Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben
Character: Kawalerowicz
The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in great danger. Nevertheless, he returned to Germany with his wife....
Berlin, I Love You
Character: Frosch
An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital....
Ihr Brief zur Hochzeit
Character: Liebhaber
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The House on the River
Character: Heinz Hüsgen
1942. The members of the Voß family, mother, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and a son-in-law, are living in a house at the river. A fellow soldier of son Paul, who fights at the eastern front, delivers his greetings and an embroidered Russian blouse for Emmi, Paul′s wife. Daughter Agnes, whose husband is also fighting in the war, receives a fur vest from the junior partner who is stalking her. Obviously, the vest is also loot from the eastern front. When the family receives news that Emmi′s h...
Tom Sawyer
Character: Doc Robinson
Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river....
Der Verleger
Character: Christian Kracht
"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, which quickly reaches millions of copies. His greatest publishing invention is a daily newspaper with which he wants to give the common man on the street a voice. But the publisher is not only successful in business, he also knows how to please women....
The Reader
Character: Prosecuting Council
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom....
Das Wunder von Lengede
Character: Harald Hansen
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The Last U-Boat
Character: Funker Maschke
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....
Nevermore
Character: Pfarrer Ekdahl
One night he will fetch the silver from the night sky Jonas loves his fathers magical stories. When Helge dies, Jonas ends up in an orphanage whereupon dreariness and discipline rule his life until a group of circus performers appear in the village....
Requiem for a Romantic Woman
Character: Clemens Brentano
In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws herself at him with such terrifying brutality, is called Auguste Bussmann....
Romeo
Character: Klaus Weingarten alias Hermann Weber
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The Volcano
Character: Hans Hollmann
A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor....
Aghet
Character: Martin Niepage
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors....
Keiner geht verloren
Character: Hotte
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Bittere Kirschen
Character:
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Der Kronzeuge
Character: Frank Roloff
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Naked Among Wolves
Character: Helmut Krämer
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS....
The Trouble with Jessica
Character: Groth
Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along. After a seemingly trivial argument, Jessica hangs herself in the garden. Tom goes to call the police when Sarah realizes if the buyer finds out, the sale will collapse, meaning definite financial ruin. The only solution - to convince ...
Schuld und Unschuld
Character: Jakob Raffael
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Character: Uncle Rudi
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe....
Die Mutter des Mörders
Character: Dr. Benjamin
Single mother Maria falls from the clouds when the police come: She does not believe for a second that her son, Matis could have killed the pretty Lea from next door. He is in his early 20s, but still thinks and feels like a child - right? After his arrest, Simon finds a sex booklet belongs to him that the bus driver Bacher sold him. Matis actually makes a confession, to which, however, the psychologist Benjamin doubts. In the meantime, mother Maria is investigating on her own. The thriller grad...
Journey to Weimar
Character: Dr. Hauke Wolf
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Verlorene Landschaft
Character: Father (Young)
Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician, but thirty years ago he had fled from his home and parents in the East to seek a new life in the West. The return to his parental home causes Elias a sense of unease and disturbs the rigid order and complacency of his life....
Frisch gepresst
Character: Helgo
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Farewell to Agnes
Character: Stefan
A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic Republic....
Kati: A Freestyle That Stays
Character: Binges
Four years after the end of the German Democratic Republic, Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic champion, is planning her comeback to prove to herself and to a united Germany that she still has what it takes. To do this, she has to team up with her former coach Jutta Müller and complete the toughest training of her life....
Der Schimmelreiter
Character: Hauke Haien
German-Polish adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella....
In Times of Fading Light
Character: Kurt
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown....
Ein Kommissar kehrt zurück
Character: Michael Adam
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Buddenbrooks
Character: Kesselmeyer
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations....
Zorn - Kalter Rauch
Character: Adam Völx
In the fifth film in the series, the two chief commissioners Zorn and Schröder again investigate a truly tricky case in Halle. The script was written by Stephan Ludwig, who wrote the novel as in the previous productions. Directed by the crime-experienced Andreas Herzog. In addition to the two proven chief commissioner actors Stephan Luca and Axel Ranisch play again u. a. Alice Dwyer the prosecutor Borck and Katharina Nesytowa Zorn's girlfriend Malina....
The New End
Character: Doktor
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Meines Vaters Straßenbahn
Character: Janker
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Breathe
Character: Dr. Erik Langdorf
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed....
Kaisersturz
Character: Kaiser Wilhelm II.
While World War One is coming to an end, the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert is trying to maintain political stability in Berlin. In the haughty Prince Max of Baden he finds an ally who offers him government participation under his chancellorship. In the meantime, discontent with the monarchy is steadily increasing in the last days of the war, but Emperor Wilhelm II remains steadfast in his throne....
The Three Exclamation Marks
Character: Klaus Schmitt
Friends Franzi, Marieave and Kim planned to spend the summer rehearsing for a Peter Pan play, but when strange things start to happen at the theatre they take on the role of investigators....
Die geheime Inquisition
Character: Großinquisitor Santori
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The Master Butcher
Character: Robert
After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club....
The Third Wave
Character: Dauphin
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought....
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
Character: Richard Wilhelm - German(voice)
As a young missionary, Richard Wilhelm in 1899 to China, which was then exploited by the colonial powers. He lived there revolts against foreigners, the end of the imperial dynasties and the First World War. In these times of turbulent upheavals he was indefatigable in search of the deepest truth that helps people deal with change and able to shape their own lives. Richard Wilhelm baptized not only Chinese, but accomplished one of the largest translation services of the 20th century: Confucius, ...