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Frederick Lau

Birthday: Born in 1989-08-17 in Berlin, Germany

Deathday: Alive

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Polizeiruf 110

Character: Keller (jung)

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: Stefan Döring

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: Tom

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....

Nachtschicht

Character: Angelo Amtmann

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Wilsberg

Character: Ludger Schmitz

Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his friends, especially because of the car....

Notruf Hafenkante

Character: Mike

Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics....

Tatort

Character: Dennis 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....

Der Lehrer

Character: Picko

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Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell

Character: Justus von Rothenburg

Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell is a German television series....

Der Tod ist kein Beinbruch

Character: Sven Senner

Der Tod ist kein Beinbruch is a German television series....

SOKO Köln

Character: Florian Völkel

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....

Wer ist das Phantom?

Character: Self

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Unsere Zehn Gebote

Character: Hendrik

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4 Blocks

Character: Vince

Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple....

Doctor’s Diary

Character: Jonas

Doctor’s Diary is a German-Austrian medical drama, that aired for three seasons from 2008 to 2011 on RTL in a coproduction with ORF. The focus of the series is the young doctor Margarete "Gretchen“ Haase, who wants to make a career in a hospital. It was directed by Bora Dağtekin and shown from the June 23, 2008 to February 14 2011 on German television, RTL Television. In Canada, it was shown starting August 31, 2010 on Séries+ television. In France, from June 8, 2011 on TF1 television and start...

Schlag den Star

Character: Self

A recurring LIVE prime-time show featuring two stars (celebs) who must beat each other at various mini-games, such as; mind games, sports and tactile games. The winner gets 100000 Euros after roughly 4 hours....

The Sinking of the Laconia

Character: Fiedler

The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew...

Tatort

Character: Kevin Stemmler

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....

Blockbustaz

Character: Philip

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Kommissar Stolberg

Character: Sebastian Stern

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....

Der Kriminalist

Character: Dennis

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....

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Character:

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Krömer - Die internationale Show

Character: Self

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Tempel

Character: Puschi

Boxer-turned-nurse Mark Tempel is threatened with being kicked out of the apartment where he lives with his daughter and disabled wife. The day the mafia violently threatens his family, Tempel returns to his former life as a boxer mixed up in petty crime....

Testo

Character: Benjamin „Stulle“ Steiner

5 prisoners, a bank robbery, 6 hostages, adrenaline, chaos, unfinished business. Fast, unpredictable, merciless....

Crooks

Character: Charly Markovic

A priceless coin puts rival gangs across Europe at odds, forcing a retired safecracker to team up with a two-bit gangster for one last heist....

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Character: Self

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Schulz & Böhmermann

Character:

Follow up of the Talkshow «Roche & Böhmermann»...

Kino Plus

Character: Self

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Kölner Treff

Character: Self

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Inas Nacht

Character: Self

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Asbest

Character: Holger

Momo, a young soccer player who ends up innocently behind bars. In Berlin jail he now has to assert himself and is put under pressure by his uncle, the clan leader Amar....

Go West - Freiheit um jeden Preis

Character: Alex Baumgarten

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NDR Talk Show

Character: Self

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German Genius

Character: Frederick Lau

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The Flying Classroom

Character: Matz Selbmann

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new peers, he gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school....

The Wave

Character: Tim

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated....

Head Under Water

Character: Rico Bartsch

Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old grammar school pupil, an absolute outsider, is in love with the most beautiful girl at his school. What in the beginning is a longing that can never be fulfilled will come true at the end of the story. Beautiful Regine will beg for Rico’s love. Until then several inhabitants of the town will die an unnatural death......

An die Grenze

Character: Knut

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers. Alex understands that the ideals of balance, democracy and human dignity are propaganda. The question of what happens when the other appears in the sights of the Kalashnikov occupies the soldiers day and night, interrupted almost exclusively by the games of th...

One for the Road

Character: Mark

As a construction manager, drinking is more of a normality for Mark than not drinking. In addition to his work on construction sites, during business dinners and sprawling Berlin party nights, there is always a reason for him to fully indulge in alcohol intoxication. When he tries to drive his car out of a no-parking zone in a drunken stupor one night, he is promptly checked and immediately loses his driver's license. For Mark, this is reason enough to make a bet with his best friend Nadim: He w...

Der weiße Kobold

Character: Freddy

Haulage dispatcher Freddy Sternthaler suddenly finds himself hopelessly involved in an absurd dispute in the art scene and experiences what is probably the worst night of his life on an odyssey through Vienna....

Cloud Under the Roof

Character: Paul

Paul, Julia and Lilly are a happy family, until Julia dies unexpectedly. For the sake of his daughter, Paul wants to function and suppress his grief. Lilly keeps challenging him with her imagination and her very own view of Mum's death....

Neue Vahr Süd

Character: Frank Lehmann

Frank Lehmann, 20, still lives with his parents in the dreary high-rise housing project "Neue Vahr" in Bremen. It's the year 1980 and Frank gets drafted to the army even though his friends assure him that "he's not really the guy for it". When he gets back home, after his first week at the army, his Dad has turned his room into a TV repair shop, so Frank has to move out. Luckily his old friend Martin is starting a commune with two other Punks in Bremens leftist borough "Viertel". Frank, without ...

Fugitives

Character: Alex Baumgarten

East-Germany, 1984: Frank Korbach is looking forward to attending drama school, while his rebellious best friend Thomas is refusing to do military service. Together with the adventurous but naive Alex, Thomas plans to make a desperate attempt to escape to the West. Knowing that he might never see them again, Frank accompanies Thomas and Alex to the frontier. Suddenly, they are confronted by a special unit of the Stasi, the East German secret police. Although the boys manage to avoid capture, Fra...

Chantal in Fairyland

Character: Knight Artolf

Chantal is at the beginning of her career as an influencer when she steps through a mirror and finds herself in a fairy tale. She identifies as Sleeping Beauty. Her best friend Zeynep follows her through the mirror. Chantal’s goal, naturally, is to find a man, definitely a prince. Perhaps she will marry Prince Bosco. She already has a wedding gown, but he seems more interested in men. Her friend, Aladdin (Mido Kotaini), has a magic lamp; he rubs it, and people appear. She works to finish making ...

Hotel Desire

Character: Doorman

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....

What You Don't See

Character: David

Two strangers have a strong impact on a young man who's spending some time with his family in this drama from Germany. Seventeen-year-old Anton has been struggling to make sense of his life since his father committed suicide when Anton was attending boarding school. Anton's mother, Luiza, wants to mend her strained relationship with her son and introduce him to her boyfriend, Paul, so she arranges for them to take a vacation together....

Picco

Character: Marc

Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is dominated by violence and latent aggression. Oppression and beatings are a daily occurence. It is hard for Kevin to establish himself. Especially Marc and Andy are after him. He's afraid of not sticking it out. Only Tommy gives him an amicable advice: In this system, you're either a victim or a culprit. If he doe...

Fisch im Fell

Character: Markus

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Stankowskis Millions

Character: Frank Kramer

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Kreutzer kommt ... ins Krankenhaus

Character: Lothar Ressmann

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Second Hand Child

Character: Tobias Baumann

Tobias, aged 13, lives in an East German city and has learned to get by on his own. Then Max moves into the neighboring apartment, and he keeps it just like Tobias. He likes to determine how things should go by himself. Without further ado, Tobias decides to pass Max off as his father!...

Der Brief des Kosmonauten

Character: Heinrich Wormsbecher

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Drei Stern Rot

Character: Schrubber

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Klaus

Character: Nachtvogel

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UMMAH - Unter Freunden

Character: Daniel

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Not My Day

Character: Plauze

When Banker Till (Axel Stein) is kidnapped during a bank robbery, he has the time of his life......

Rock Crystal

Character: Marc

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...

Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of Blue Owls

Character: David

Poor Bibi - due to her bad marks in maths she has to spend the whole summer in the boarding school of Altenberg to scrape through a series of exams - otherwise she'd stay down in school, being forced to repeat the year. No camping, no white-water rafting, no vacation at all. So it doesn't surprise anyone that the young witch is quite disgruntled when arriving at Altenberg Castle. Her roommate is a touchy unpleassant fashion victim and headmaster Quirin Bartels is so muddle-headed that he can't e...

Die Mauer – Berlin '61

Character: Paul Kuhlke

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Nichts für Feiglinge

Character: Philip Diercksen

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Ein todsicherer Plan

Character: Sascha Schmidt

A married self-employed carpenter on the verge of ruin raids the bank that did not extend his credit....

Back on Track

Character: Tobias

A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time....

Turkish for Beginners

Character: Frieder

During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk must fight for survival. After initially Cem macho repulsive acts on Lena, a jellyfish in the water and sand in a bikini, she recognizes the time the romantic core behind his cool facade. Meanwhile, meet also their parents, who obdurate psychologist Doris and Metin Öztürk to work together to find their missing children. So both gener...

Liebling, wir haben geerbt

Character: Paul Held

Hannah hero finds out that her husband Martin is cheating on her. Angered, she announces that she wants a divorce. But Hannah is waiting for the million-dollar legacy of her great-aunt Käthe and a divorced woman will never entrust her family heritage to the tradition-conscious old lady. So Hannah arranges the separation of table and bed with her future ex-husband. Then Hannah and Martin move into Aunt Käthe's villa and play a harmonious married life....

Life Is Not for Cowards

Character: Alex

After the sudden death of his wife, the lives of Markus Färber and his daughter Kim fall into disarray. Markus’ attempt to bring back normality into their everyday lives fails - he can’t let go of the past. 15 year-old Kim feels left alone with her feelings of guilt. But then she falls in love with the cool school dropout Alex. The two of them run off to Denmark to the place of Kim’s carefree childhood. Together with his mother Gerlinde and her cheerful home care Paula, Markus sets off in search...

Ein Dorf schweigt

Character: Heinz Zedlitz

Spring 1945: After successfully fleeing, Johanna is stranded with her two children and a teenager whom she has taken under her care in a village in northern Hesse....

Die Entdeckung der Currywurst

Character: Jürgen Brücker

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The King's Surrender

Character: Jacek

Violent youth gangs and a police force way out of its depth. When a police operation goes awry and two policemen die, the powder keg threatens to ignite as the SWAT team knows only one goal: revenge - irrespective of the law....

Open the Wall

Character: Jens Rambold

A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards....

Coming In

Character: Didi

Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay....

Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger

Character: Fiete Petersen

This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse......

3 Türken und ein Baby

Character: Matthias

The Yildiz brothers - Celal, Sami and Mesut - still live under one roof - despite their differences. The family bridal shop is doing really badly and they each yearn for a different life: Heartthrob Celal pines for his ex-girlfriend Anna and risks every last cent of their family inheritance for his dream of a mobile phone shop. Sami is searching for true love but ruins every blind date with his anger mis-management. And Mesut, the youngest of the three, tries to combine a cool music career with ...

Dreamgirls

Character: Peter Müller

Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually demeans herself in order to get at least some love and romance, Leni who runs a coffee shop and has just been ditched by her long term boyfriend, and Vivienne who ends up falling in love with a puppy-eyed pasta designer with 21 dogs....

Wie verführ' ich meinen Ehemann

Character: Jonas Henning

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Victoria

Character: Sonne

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret....

Punk Berlin 1982

Character: Gries

1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK....

Wie angelt man sich einen Müllmann

Character: Jojo

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Starfighter

Character: Richie Weichert

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Nachspielzeit

Character: Roman

Cem is mid 20's and is making its voluntary service in the retirement home. There he falls in love with Astrid, which helps as a dance therapist residents to renewed vigor. And Cem loves Berlin-Neukölln. There he grew up, and he wants his neighborhood defend: against Nazis, speculators and displacement. But how to do that anyway? Who are the real enemy here? And how does the fight? a compensation Cem looking at his other great passion, football. In one game he gets violently with Roman together....

Antimarteria

Character: Manager Mike

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Outside the Box

Character: Paul

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capacity for teamwork via video surveillance. Special highlight: the company has hired two over-the-hill actors to kidnap the consultants with unloaded weapons, keep them hostage, and to demand a high ransom from the company. A realistic role play w...

A Coffee in Berlin

Character: Ronnie

Niko, a twenty-something college dropout, lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then on one fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes....

Mordkommission Berlin 1

Character: Conrad Ruppert

A crime movie directed by Marvin Kren....

Scrappin'

Character: Letscho Talhammer

Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a nice fist fight. Mirko left all that behind, but his father messes things up big time when he dies and leaves his son the run down scrapyard - together with his brother Letscho. And Letscho is still ti...

The Countess

Character: Janós

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever....

Heart of Stone

Character: Peter Munk

Peter and Lisbeth are two young but unfortunate lovers living in a rigid rural community in the Black Forest. She comes from a wealthy family of glassblowers; he is a poor coal worker on the lower end of society. To become rich and respected, Peter makes a pact with a devil named Dutch Michael, who rips out his heart and replaces it with a stone. Robbed of all warmth and feeling, Peter becomes a cold-hearted go-getter who rapidly achieves his goals. Ruthlessly he strives for money and power....

Seitenwechsel

Character: Leonard Ritter

The relationship of Alex and Teresa has hit hard times. After 15 years of marriage, the passionate football coach and the sensitive psychoanalyst do not respect each other's needs anymore, and thus they are arguing constantly. Even a divorce seems possible, but then something unbelievable happens: After another ugly fight during a big thunderstorm, they switch bodies. Trapped, they have to play each other's roles, and chaos is bound to follow....

How Men Talk About Women

Character: Martini

Tine wants to find her dream boyfriend, but can't find him that easily. Her male best friend enjoys his single life, until they feel attracted to each other....

Text for You

Character: David

Sports writer Mark is baffled when he receives romantic text messages on his cell phone. What he does not know: His new number once belonged to the deceased boyfriend of Clara, who continues to send text messages in order to cope with the loss. When Mark's girlfriend discovers the texts, she is understandably upset. Along with his best friend David, Mark sets out to find the mysterious writer....

My Brother Simple

Character: Ben

Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three....

Gutland

Character: Jens Fauser

Early one summer morning a young man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work, but the farmers, suspicious to the point of hostility, are not very forthcoming. Only when Lucy, the mayor’s unruly daughter, takes a liking to him, does the village change its attitude: he is promptly offered a job as a farmhand and a caravan to live in. As time passes and he is gradually integrated into the community, it emerges that he’s not t...

The Call of the Toad

Character: Fähnleinführer

A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel....

The Captain

Character: Kipinski

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is....

Living in a Materia World

Character: Himself

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The Huntingtans: Chewing Gum & Love Affairs

Character: George Huntingtan Seymore

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Playmaker

Character: Ivo

Ivo is a former pro footballer and jailbird with nothing to lose. He is a betting natural and his talent and background attract the interest of Dejan, the leader of a dangerous underworld family....

Wuff

Character: Oli Simon

Romantic comedy about the love confusion of four girlfriends, whose lives are properly turned upside down by their four-legged friends. After being abandoned by her boyfriend, Ella adopts a half-breed called Bozer, who jumbled up her everyday life, but also makes her happy again. Cecile, on the other hand, is about to divorce, but the meek four-legged Simpson averts the worst and is also there for the children. Silke works as a dog trainer and knows very well about the animals, but she has her p...

Kanun

Character: Freund

Agim is homeless in Berlin. When he hears that Yon is also in the city, he panics. His past from his childhood in Albania catches up with him. Yon who lives a well-integrated life in Berlin isn't happy to see Agim again either. Suddenly an old debt comes up again which, according to Kanun, needs to be settled. Can Agim and Yon resist the Kanun? The film deals with questions stemming from tradition and assimilation....

Sweethearts

Character: Harry Leine

It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time....

Close to the Horizon

Character: Dogan

Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide....

The Perfect Secret

Character: Simon Schifferdecker

Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos....

Man from Beirut

Character:

Out of the dark - this is true for this film both on the story level and in terms of production. A hard-boiled thriller with a high-concept twist set in Berlin, Man from Beirut follows a blind hitman, Momo, as he tries to survive after his emotions have compromised the outcome of his latest „cleaning job“: He encounters a young girl in the wrong place at the wrong moment, but can’t pull the trigger this time - and finds himself on the run alongside fellow hitman Kadir. To make it out of the Berl...

Nightlife

Character: Renzo

Milo works as a bartender in Berlin and one night gets to know his dream woman Sunny through a series of coincidences. The two meet for a date, but the perfect romantic evening so far....

Charlotte Link - The Decision

Character: Jerome Deville

Simon's spontaneous decision to help a stranger embroils him in a murder plot....

Rising High

Character: Gerry Falkland

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs....

In Berlin wächst kein Orangenbaum

Character: Mike

After 14 years of prison Nabil is released and thrown back into his life....

Oskarreif

Character: Soldat

Viewers of the short film as a real film always in new excerpts. Oskar just doesn't understand why nobody wants to film it. For his friend Benny, however, who works in a video store, the situation is crystal clear: there are simply no highlights. So Benny gradually adds more and more elements that he hopes will be a great success. After all, he wants to help Oskar achieve an international breakthrough: In addition to baby animals and sex, racism and homosexuality must of course not be missing. W...

Commitment Phobia

Character: Michael

Like most singles of his generation, Tim has a "problem": he is apparently unable to have a relationship. But when he falls in love with his female reflection, Ghost, he suddenly finds himself on the other side of dating-hell....


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