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Hanns Zischler
Born: 18th Jun 1947 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Dept: Acting
Hanns Zischler (born 18 June 1947) is a German actor most famous in America for his portrayal of Hans in Steven Spielberg's film Munich. According to the Internet Movie Database, Zischler has appeared in 171 movies since 1968.
Known in Sweden for his role as Josef Hillman in the second season of the Martin Beck movies, though his voice is dubbed.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 285
Film: 224 (79%)
Television: 61 (21%)
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Filmography
2026
In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Sovie ... view
Character:
Thomas Mann
2026
Florian and Marie want to spend a cozy evening on the sofa watching a movie. But that's more difficult than expected: the couple navigate through a di ... view
Character:
Original title: Erzählen
2025
Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. Ideas of fictional research projects in films emerg ... view
Character:
Original title: Cranko
2024
The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many crise ... view
Character:
Walter Erich Schäfer
2024
It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German We ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
Original title: Am Ende wird alles sichtbar
2023
Set in 1964, a man returns to his hometown looking for his childhood sweetheart but discovers a dark and corrupt world. ... view
Character:
Dr. Abweger
Original title: Die Theorie von Allem
2023
Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on si ... view
Character:
Dr. Strathen
Original title: Black Box: Wem kannst du vertrauen?
2023
The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of th ... view
Character:
Hanns Böhm
Original title: Servus Papa, See You in Hell
2022
Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and father live in city communes and rarely visit. This i ... view
Character:
Politiker
Original title: Le Prince
2021
Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with ... view
Character:
Michael Schmidt-Fournier
Original title: Nö
2021
Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who ... view
Character:
Joachim
Original title: Schwarze Insel
2021
The dark secrets of a seemingly peaceful island threaten to swallow up an orphaned student when he grows close to a mysterious new teacher. ... view
Character:
Friedrich Hansen
Original title: Un lugar llamado Dignidad
2021
Pablo, a 12-year-old boy, receives a scholarship to attend school in the mysterious and isolated Colonia Dignidad established in Chile by German settl ... view
Character:
Uncle Paul
2020
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Mein Ende. Dein Anfang.
2019
The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, c ... view
Character:
Aron's Father
2019
Hanns Zischler embarks on a walk to Canossa in "Prof. Wall in the brothel": A law professor desperately wants to make amends, that through his guilt a ... view
Character:
Professor Wall
2018
A road movie about a dropout who leaves himself completely to chance. A parable about freedom, self-determination and the poetry of an undefined life. ... view
Character:
Silbermann
2018
The fact that Rudolph Moshammer is a dazzling figure and the most prominent fashion designer in Munich is no longer enough for his silent partners and ... view
Character:
Toni
2018
Hasn't every woman ever wondered whether it's best to ditch all the men and just marry your best friend? Paula and Emily are doing just that. Single h ... view
Character:
Douglas van Garden
2018
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recognized Soviet Russia. And so German-Soviet relations ... view
Character:
Narrator
2017
In Dublin, Blake Lester breaks Lucy Silchester's dream by preferring an overseas TV show career move over their marriage plans since years. Receiving ... view
Character:
Samuel Silchester
2017
The day begins like many others in the Schwarz family's life: doctor Nora is preparing breakfast, one-year-old Jella is playing on her blanket, father ... view
Character:
Reinhard
2017
During the donations scandal of 1999/2000, Helmut Kohl gave his legendary "word of honor" not to name any donors. This documentary explores the questi ... view
Character:
Self - Reader
Oct 2017 (first aired)
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicent ... view
Character:
Engelbert Rath (4 ep.)
Original title: 1917 - Der wahre Oktober
2017
St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, wor-ried, angry. In February the tsar is overthrown ... view
Character:
Alexander Benois (voice)
2017
Dr. Robert Siedler is an experienced forensic psychologist who is asked to prepare an expert opinion for the mentally disturbed ex-alcoholic Friedhelm ... view
Character:
H. Moldenhauer
Original title: Crash Test Aglaé
2017
Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocate ... view
Character:
Friedrich Fürstenberg, CEO
2017
Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and awa ... view
Character:
Film Award Laudator
Original title: Masaryk
2017
In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with ... view
Character:
Dr. Stein
Original title: So weit und groß - Die Natur des Otto Modersohn
2016
Already as a student of the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Otto Modersohn, born in 1865, rebelled against the teachings of his professors and placed his o ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Allmen und das Geheimnis der Libellen
2016
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 ... view
Character:
Hirt Senior
2016
Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dis ... view
Character:
Anjas Vater
2016
Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler and Lisa Kreuzer reflect on their work in front of the Robby Müller’s camera for Wim Wender’s seminal road ... view
Character:
Self
2016
Helmut Draeger, director of a German bank, gives the talented bank employee Martin Kreye the opportunity to speculate in New York in real estate. Mart ... view
Character:
Harald Kühnen
Original title: Auf einmal
2016
Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, j ... view
Character:
Klaus
Original title: Chamissos Schatten
2016
A three-chapter 720-minute cinematic exploration inspired by historical explorers like Adelbert von Chamisso. The film intertwines past and present tr ... view
Character:
Adelbert von Chamisso (voice)
2015
A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
2015
An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany. ... view
Character:
Grad Ludbert zu Regenstauf
2015
Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues wil ... view
Character:
Bruno Bickstein
2015
Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clinic after a physical breakdown. Urs Egger's free ada ... view
Character:
Dr. Pogel
2014
Georg and Rita visit Georg's parents every Christmas without telling them that they are no longer a couple. ... view
Character:
Paul
2014
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched h ... view
Character:
Henryk Wald
Original title: Kreuzweg
2014
Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with he ... view
Character:
Bestatter
2013
Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festiva ... view
Character:
Rektor Granitzny
Original title: Die Frau hinter der Wand
2013
Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, dark a ... view
Character:
Martins Vater
Original title: König von Deutschland
2013
Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality. ... view
Character:
Wallenstein
2013
The last years of Heinrich George's life are reconstructed with documentary footage and play scenes. His son Götz, named after Heinrich's favorite ro ... view
Character:
Max Beckmann
2012
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. ... view
Character:
Gerd von Rundstedt
2012
A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper. ... view
Character:
Gaishofer
Dec 2011 (first aired)
13-year-old Nils Holgersson is bored living on his parents' farm. Instead of helping with the work, he prefers to play pranks and tease animals, and h ... view
Character:
Kobold (2 ep.)
2011
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team. ... view
Character:
Franz
2011
The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the par ... view
Character:
Samuel Schweizer
2011
Music student Eva has fallen head over heels in love with musician Jo. They have a burning passion for one another and discover that they are able to ... view
Character:
Johannes Baumann
2011
For a long time advertising specialist Timo Wittmann was the best in his profession. But he does not want to believe that his star has long since sunk ... view
Character:
Hans Kranich
Original title: Das rote Zimmer
2010
A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser w ... view
Character:
Prof. Mühsam
Original title: Glückliche Fügung
2010
A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At anoth ... view
Character:
Gynäkologe
Original title: Aghet – Ein Völkermord
2010
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 report ... view
Character:
Leslie Davis
Original title: Im Schatten
2010
"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audien ... view
Character:
Planer
Original title: Die Reise nach Metropolis
2010
A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from different sources. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Character:
Erich Pommer
Original title: Im Winter ein Jahr
2008
A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work. ... view
Character:
Dr. Thomas Richter
2008
A female corpse is washed up on the beach in Husum. Her fingertips were removed, and a piece of paper with a cell phone number was found in her throat ... view
Character:
Michael Kolberg
2008
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German f ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Flammen & Citronen
2008
Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel ... view
Character:
Gilbert
Original title: La traque
2008
Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld devoted twelve years of their lives to relentlessly tracking down Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Latin America u ... view
Character:
Klaus Barbie
Original title: Dem Panzerkreuzer Potemkin auf der Spur
2007
Documentary detailing the extensive number of shots long lost from constant film re-cutting of 1925's great silent cinema classic Battleship Potemkin ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Sep 2007 (first aired)
In 1978, a serene Spanish beach campground bursts into chaos when a devastating accident shatters a summer getaway for German tourists. As paradise ig ... view
Character:
Walter Köhler (2 ep.)
Mar 2007 (first aired)
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them ... view
Character:
Graf Rüdiger von Gernstorff (2 ep.)
Dec 2006 (first aired)
Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film.
Directors during the first season were Sherr ... view
Character:
Günther Ellis (1 ep.)
Oct 2006 (first aired)
Stolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The series is more serious and less flashy than other cont ... view
Character:
Gerhard Mohr (1 ep.)
Jun 2006 (first aired)
Commissario Laurenti is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Salvio Giustina (1 ep.)
Original title: Un ami parfait
2006
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he ... view
Character:
Rodolph Hartmann
2006
King Victor of San Ferino dies without leaving an heir to the throne. Then the Queen Mother and her servant Archibald come across an illegitimate daug ... view
Character:
Archibald Kent
2005
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem ... view
Character:
Hans
2005
Boris Ruf is an investigator with the Swiss Federal Criminal Police and is on a secret mission in Italy. He has to solve a money laundering case that ... view
Character:
Landsbichler
2005
The attractive young Franka runs the traditional porcelain manufactory Rhomberg with her father. In contrast to her fun-loving sister Joe, the sensibl ... view
Character:
Henry Rhomberg
2005
Competition rider Nina Becker and movie star Niklas Tremsaal are a happy couple without a marriage certificate. Marrying is not an issue for the two - ... view
Character:
Oskar Becker
Original title: L'Annulaire
2005
When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar ki ... view
Character:
Le patron de l'hôtel
2005
Divorce lawyer Elvira Kupfer is outraged: The head of the law firm, Mertens, and his hated colleague Milloschinski have arranged a marriage between co ... view
Character:
Norbert Hahn
Original title: Frau fährt, Mann schläft
2004
Dentist Sue and the philosophy professor Anton have been leading a seemingly intact life, juggling careers and a family with four children. Until one ... view
Character:
Sven Hedin
Original title: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
2004
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home. ... view
Character:
Vermieter
2004
The life of the successful publishing house manager Julia Berger is fully aligned with her job. This attitude not only suffers from the relationship o ... view
Character:
Richard Berger
2004
During the hot phase of the parliamentary election campaign, the marriage of Chancellor Ben Bischof and his wife breaks down. Bischof meets the cleani ... view
Character:
Kanzleramtschef Dr. Nick Riemer
Original title: Apokalypse Eis
2004
Meteor Bay-Leder 7 struck earth on October 18th, 2012. Causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and a dust cloud that soon covered most of the Northern hemis ... view
Character:
Dr. Gregor Starndorf
Original title: ללכת על המים
2004
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive ... view
Character:
Axel's Father
Original title: Rot und blau
2004
A long-separated German mother and her half-Turkish daughter are reconciled in a splendidly serene dramatic comedy. ... view
Character:
Samuel Eisenstein
Original title: Tor zum Himmel
2003
With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak puts up the Russian, who yearns to become a pilot, in ... view
Character:
Polizist
2003
The story is set against the background of a bloody civil war in the Roman Empire. Sulla is in the countryside outside Rome and prepares to move into ... view
Character:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
2003
Antonia lives happily with her aristocratic husband on their Bavarian mansion until a child is abducted and their idyll comes to an abrupt end ... view
Character:
Friedrich Fürstenberg
2003
Pharmacy student Thomas has been in love with his fellow student Denise since the first day of their studies together. But the shy young man doesn't d ... view
Character:
Alfred Hammerstein
2003
The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his broth ... view
Character:
Johann Kreisler
Original title: Zwei Tage Hoffnung
2003
Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmut works as a reporter for radio in the American se ... view
Character:
Wiedemeyer (uncredited)
Original title: Petites coupures
2003
Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his politica ... view
Character:
Verekher
2003
Shortly before the wedding, the fiancé of the young art restorer Sophie Schumacher dies in a tragic car accident. To get some distance, Sophie takes ... view
Character:
Professor Leunitz
Original title: Väter
2002
Marco and Melanie, a young married couple, are living a life of passion, chaos, and all the little frustrations of everyday existence. Their love for ... view
Character:
Dr. Beilenberg
2002
Carola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola finds out that he was gay and had been in a relat ... view
Character:
Rolf Wagner
Character:
Claus Claussen (1 ep.)
2002
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business a ... view
Character:
Art Dealer
2002
The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII. ... view
Character:
Le major von Gutlingen
Original title: Südostpassage
2002
Places and worlds beyond the interest of the media are at the mercy of the law of forgetting. The spotlight fades and that which urgently needs public ... view
Character:
Original title: Olgas Sommer
2002
A 16 years old Olga is dreaming about leaving house when suddenly she meets a mysterious man who is ready to join her. ... view
Character:
Richard
Original title: Beck 16 - Sista vittnet
2002
A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm. Detective Martin Beck and Gunvald Lar ... view
Character:
Josef Hillman
Original title: Beck 15 - Pojken i glaskulan
2002
Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.. ... view
Character:
Josef Hillman
Original title: Beck 14 - Annonsmannen
2002
A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and hi ... view
Character:
Josef Hillman
2002
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was ... view
Character:
Rudolf Werner
2002
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to ... view
Character:
Grawitz
Original title: 666 - Traue keinem, mit dem Du schläfst!
2002
Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperat ... view
Character:
Prince of Darkness
Original title: Beck - Okänd avsändare
2002
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking ... view
Character:
Josef Hillman
Original title: Beck 12 - Enslingen
2002
An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwh ... view
Character:
Josef Hillman
Jan 2002 (first aired)
Der kleine Mönch is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Angermeyer (1 ep.)
Original title: Das Exemplar
2002
When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high status - falls in deep, lethargic sleep. 20 years ... view
Character:
Original title: Beck 11 - Kartellen
2001
It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case. ... view
Character:
Josef Hillman
Nov 2001 (first aired)
When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringin ... view
Character:
Oetker's Attorney (2 ep.)
2001
When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringin ... view
Character:
Oetker's Attorney
Original title: Beck 10 - Mannen utan ansikte
2001
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the ... view
Character:
Josef Hillman
2001
Novellist Venus lives with her family out of Berlin and moves temporarily to the city where she is starting to write a new book. Her fans can watch he ... view
Character:
Original title: Der schöne Tag
2001
A day in the life of the 21 years old Deniz, who aims to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. After she has split with her old bo ... view
Character:
Regisseur
Nov 2000 (first aired)
Gesine Cresspahl, who lives in New York, tells her eleven-year-old daughter Marie the family history during the period 1967–1968. In flashbacks, she ... view
Character:
De Rosny (4 ep.)
Original title: Falsche Liebe – Die Internetfalle
2000
With the offer to work for a major manufacturer of security software, hacker Alissa finds herself in a hermetically sealed high-tech world. ... view
Character:
Wilhelm Täufer
Oct 2000 (first aired)
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film ... view
Character:
Franco Murino (1 ep.)
Original title: Paradiso - Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen
2000
What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let them interact for a week? For his 60th birthday, a ... view
Character:
Adam
2000
Yuppie prat loses his Ferrari and finds the love of his life with a craftswoman ... view
Character:
Raabe senior
Dec 1999 (first aired)
Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes. ... view
Character:
Josef Hillman (6 ep.)
1999
Architecture student Paul has failed again. He's been dead in bed for months. His girlfriend Ulrike angrily packs her bags. Then Paul's first self-des ... view
Character:
Friedrich Liebermann
1999
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. ... view
Character:
Baron Margitta
1998
The Christmas party at the headquarters of an oil company is harshly interrupted by a fax whose author threatens to blow up one of their oil platforms ... view
Character:
Kanzler
1998
Former GDR secret service agent Wolfgang Dreher is sentenced to life imprisonment. While still in the courtroom, he threatens to wake up his sleepers ... view
Character:
Bundeskanzler
1998
The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch inve ... view
Character:
Karls Vater
Original title: Schwarze Sonne - Mythologische Hintergründe des Nationalsozialismus
1998
A historical analysis of how groups such as the Nazi’s may use language, symbols, and religious connotation in order to come to power. It raises que ... view
Character:
Narrator
1998
Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European boxi ... view
Character:
Otto Grimm
Original title: Die Schuld der Liebe
1998
Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and s ... view
Character:
Besse
Original title: Drancy Avenir
1997
Director Arnaud de Pallières presents an experimental three-part film designed to stimulate the intellect and inspire reflection on the past. The fir ... view
Character:
The Old Man (voice)
Original title: Requiem für etwas, das sehr klein ist
1997
The bourgeois couple Esther and Michael have got themselves caught up in a seemingly ironic game of power, provocation and sexuality. Esther is alread ... view
Character:
Michael
Character:
Apr 1997 (first aired)
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of t ... view
Character:
Hein Andersson (1 ep.)
Jan 1997 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Simon Höxter (1 ep.)
Original title: Der letzte Kurier
1996
When Vera Rohleder wants to meet her husband Bernhard at the airport where he should arrive from Moscow, she is not successful. Later she is told that ... view
Character:
Kant
Original title: Das Mädchen Rosemarie
1996
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she enc ... view
Character:
Original title: Adieu, mon ami
1996
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack. Together with a young girl who wor ... view
Character:
Serge
Original title: Die Tunnelgangster von Berlin
1996
A group of criminals storm into a Berlin Bank and escape through a tunnel, which they built earlier. ... view
Character:
Kottke
Nov 1995 (first aired)
Schwurgericht (also known as The Murder Film ) is a crime film series produced by Sat.1 from 1995 to 1997. The series depicts criminal cases from the ... view
Character:
Thorsten Gregor (1 ep.)
Apr 1995 (first aired)
Court reporter Carla von Esken, a single mother of two almost grown-up daughters, reports on the circumstantial evidence trial against a young father. ... view
Character:
Klaus Merten (4 ep.)
1995
Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a travel tour to distant Kazakhstan. Luise becomes a ... view
Character:
1994
A pregnant woman suffers severe head trauma in a car accident. The doctors are unable to help her, but at the request of her fiancé, they decide to k ... view
Character:
Prof. Stuck
Oct 1994 (first aired)
Die Kommissarin is a German police TV series which aired on Das Erste. Its 66 episodes ran from 1994 till 2006.
The series, which takes place in Fran ... view
Character:
Joachim Hubrath (1 ep.)
1994
Antoine Rethel, a police inspector, meets a young woman to whom he has just prevented a traffic accident.To thank him, she invites him to drink at her ... view
Character:
Victor Trampot
Original title: Du fond du cœur
1994
1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young writer, ... view
Character:
Monsieur de Staël
Original title: Le joueur de violon
1994
This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Arma ... view
Character:
Michael
Original title: Der Blaue
1994
In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. Th ... view
Character:
Minister
1994
The two twelve-year-old girls Charlotte Palfy and Louise Kröger meet on a language trip to Scotland and discover that they are twins who were separat ... view
Character:
Dieter Reich
Original title: Das offene Universum
1993
The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he is abducted into the South Pacific. There he kills ... view
Character:
Frank
Original title: In weiter Ferne, so nah!
1993
A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, an ... view
Character:
Dr. Becker
Original title: Die Denunziantin
1993
By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time, ... view
Character:
Erfinder
Character:
Hans Fengler
1993
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to ... view
Character:
Father
Original title: Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro
1993
The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way ... view
Character:
Count Zelten
Jan 1993 (first aired)
Adelheid und ihre Mörder was a German comedy-drama television series broadcast between 1992 and 2006 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 65, 50 minute episode ... view
Character:
Meier-Rottluff (1 ep.)
1992
In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, ... view
Character:
Herr Papenfuß
Character:
Alex Kamrath (1 ep.)
Dr. Peter Landsberg (1 ep.)
1992
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They ... view
Character:
Sidney
1992
TV-movie based on the trial of Memmingen gynecologist Dr. Horst Theissen, who was sentenced for illegal abortions. ... view
Character:
Dr. Friedrich Hess
1992
Two woman live together in an appartment and talk about fashion. Then they meet men. ... view
Character:
Apr 1991 (first aired)
End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II.
At Farm Hall in Englan ... view
Character:
Paul Harteck (2 ep.)
Jan 1991 (first aired)
Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north. ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
Nov 1990 (first aired)
Die Kinder is a six-part 1990 BBC Two political thriller written by Paula Milne and starring Miranda Richardson, with Frederic Forrest, Hans Kremer an ... view
Character:
Bellenberg (5 ep.)
1990
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero ... view
Character:
Captain von Lerenau
1990
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic w ... view
Character:
Moser
1990
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best o ... view
Character:
Self
1989
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that ... view
Character:
Eckert
Original title: La Révolution française
1989
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt p ... view
Character:
Goethe
1989
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a priv ... view
Character:
Pope Innocent III
1989
Film is about the undercover assignment of a BKA officer as the bodyguard of a drug baron. His job is to gather information to put a stop to the carte ... view
Character:
Dr. Kant
1989
In the idyllic Bavarian village of Himmelsheim, a peaceful existence is disrupted when the German Federal Railway plans to build a high-speed rail lin ... view
Character:
Dr. Ehrenfried
Original title: Mon cher sujet
1989
From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after still and alwa ... view
Character:
Hans
Original title: Le Dernier Mot
1988
A short commissioned piece on 'famous last words' set in WWII. ... view
Character:
Original title: Les Français vus par
1988
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been ... view
Character:
(Segment "Le Français entendu par Jean-Luc Godard")
Sep 1988 (first aired)
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Ernst Stiller (1 ep.)
Original title: Die Venusfalle
1988
The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdia ... view
Character:
Kurt
1987
Bonn during the early 1950's: In his exile, idealistic delegate Keetenheuve had high hopes for a better post war Germany. However, he gets quickly dis ... view
Character:
Mergentheim
1987
The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life. ... view
Character:
Hardy
Sep 1986 (first aired)
A six-part television series, a parody of the Munich newspaper, its gossip reporter Michael Graeter, and its publisher Anneliese Friedmann. The series ... view
Character:
Dr. Josef Geisshofer (1 ep.)
1986
A director, his fiancee, a scriptwriter and a student interact and discuss their emotions, at length. ... view
Character:
Eduard
1986
In this village, French are much more victims of their fellow countrymen than they are of the occupying forces. ... view
Character:
Karl
1986
A senegalese man searches for a german woman who bought an important mask from him and who is also his lover. ... view
Character:
Hans
Original title: Anaemia
1986
A high-ranking officer of the Italian Communist Party discovers he is a vampire and leaves his position, retreating to the abandoned residence of his ... view
Character:
Umberto
Original title: Interno berlinese
1985
What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love. A beautiful Japanese girl becomes the object of ... view
Character:
Wolf von Hollendorf
Sep 1984 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Das Autogramm
1984
The bandoneon player Daniel and the boxer Toni arrive independently from each other in a provincial town in Latin America where they are booked to per ... view
Character:
Lieutenant Suarez
Original title: Les Cavaliers de l'orage
1984
Marie (Marlene Jobert) is a pretty female physician who attracts the strong romantic interest of two brothers during World War I in this uninspired dr ... view
Character:
Castaing
Original title: Leuchtturm des Chaos
1983
A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: L'Allégement
1983
In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly driven to near insanity by an inner desire for a passi ... view
Character:
Diego
Original title: System ohne Schatten
1983
IT specialist Victor Faber makes a living securing computers for large corporations and banks. His reclusive private life is upended when he falls in ... view
Character:
Melo
Original title: Die flambierte Frau
1983
Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, te ... view
Character:
Kurt
1982
Georg, a self-confident man of 40, feels it as a heavy defeat when his wife suddenly leaves him. He has always been the superior man, to whom his wife ... view
Character:
Original title: Doktor Faustus
1982
A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan ... view
Character:
Dr. Serenius
1982
A young actress in Cold War Berlin struggles to decide whether or not to accept a new role, working with an old leftist director in a deserted theatre ... view
Character:
Zollner
Original title: Etwas wird sichtbar
1982
An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage, photogr ... view
Character:
Sep 1981 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Dr. Roland Schäfer (1 ep.)
Heiko Drews (1 ep.)
Erich Schierer (1 ep.)
Original title: Kalt wie Eis
1981
Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, hi ... view
Character:
Original title: "Kino 81" - Stille, ein Filmmagazin von der Filmkritik
1981
An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK ... view
Character:
Self
1981
In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the phar ... view
Character:
le vétérinaire
Original title: Engel aus Eisen
1981
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the charac ... view
Character:
Ridzinski
1981
A man, alone in Berlin. He sleeps and watches TV, walks through the city. A woman approaches him. Does he feel like having coffee with her? No. ... view
Character:
Hanns
1981
The extravagant funeral for a suddenly deceased family man is attended not only by his bizarre relatives, but also by a frozen pilot from World War I ... view
Character:
Pilot
1980
An architect is assigned to modernize a squatted house in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. But then he meets a young student who is member of a grass ... view
Character:
Martin
1980
Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his previous life into question. As a result, he leaves h ... view
Character:
Original title: De verwording van Herman Dürer
1979
Feature film based on Leon de Winter's book of the same name, in which protagonist Herman Dürer hitchhike south after a stay in a juvenile detention ... view
Character:
Herwig Jungmann, neuroloog
1979
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly conv ... view
Character:
Original title: Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
1978
Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces ... view
Character:
Hans
1978
Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika". ... view
Character:
Voice
Original title: Die linkshändige Frau
1978
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel ... view
Character:
Apr 1977 (first aired)
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together. ... view
Character:
Peter Binding (1 ep.)
Anton Spengler (1 ep.)
Ulrich Herzog (1 ep.)
Original title: Im Lauf der Zeit
1976
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his ... view
Character:
Robert Lander
Original title: Auf Biegen oder Brechen
1975
A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life ... view
Character:
Oct 1974 (first aired)
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detect ... view
Character:
Haffner (1 ep.)
Gaston Riemann (1 ep.)
Karau (1 ep.)
Robert Reitmoor (1 ep.)
1972
After a long prison term, a free man wanders into a new reality. ... view
Character:
Hanns
Jun 1971 (first aired)
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Re ... view
Character:
Christian Korte (1 ep.)
Ekki von Dülmen (1 ep.)
Roland Seedow (1 ep.)
Nov 1970 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Dr. Joachim Dreher (1 ep.)
Huber (2 ep.)
Dr. Lars Heinemann (1 ep.)
Joachim Huber (2 ep.)
Ansgar Frey (1 ep.)
1969
Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"... ... view
Character:
1968
Sequence of five shots, each one with a particular color treatment, in which a man carrying a machine gun runs. He moves fast in the beginning but, as ... view
Character:
Man with Gun
Character:
Konrad Bienek (1 ep.)