Known for Acting
Born
October 22, 1944 (age 81)
Birthplace
Hamburg, Germany
Filmography
79 films, 69 shows


Die Kinderschwindlerin
2025 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
In order to get her dream apartment, party-loving Nina has to score points with a particularly family-friendly landlord. To do this, she borrows her sister's kids without further ado.


Die Polizistin und die Sprache des Todes
2024 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
A body is found in a canal on the Danish border. The woman was murdered in the same way as three before her. Special investigator Gloria Acheampong is sent to the province to take on the case.


Das Gesetz sind wir
2020 · 1h 27m
country: Germany
Maja Witt and Klaus Burck have been a well-rehearsed team for years, ensuring law and order as police officers in Bremen. At least that's what they try to do. Time and again, however, they are shown their limits. Criminals are set free again, and they themselves get no respect at all. When the arrogant teenager Ahmed Issa spits at Klaus during a mission, this finally goes too far: the two fight back and start to take the law into their own hands, using any means necessary. But the other side is not standing idly by...


Weserlust Hotel
2018
country: Germany


Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe
2018 · 1h 34m
country: Finland
Matti is 11 years old and dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He manages to get what he wants by telling a whopping lie. But once they get there, Matti, his younger brother Sami and his parents find themselves without a place to stay, no money and no car in the middle of Finnish wilderness. Only a miracle can save them – or Uncle Jussi, who has been struggling to compete with Matti’s father his whole life. This movie based on Salah Naoura’s award-winning children book offers entertainment for people of all ages.
All inclusive - eine Inklusive Komödie
All inclusive - eine Inklusive Komödie
2016
country: Germany


Die Pfefferkörner - Alles auf Anfang
2013 · 1h 25m
country: Germany
It is a compilation of episodes from season 9. The two parts of the feature film include episodes 105-117.


Polnische Ostern
2011
country: Poland
Grumpy baker Grabosch can't bear the thought that his granddaughter, now that her mother has died, will live with her Polish father. He must get Mathilda back, by all means.


The Sky Has Four Corners
2011 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
The story of two boys coming from different social backgrounds: the sensitive loner Joschi who had to move with his father from a better district after his parents’ separation, and Niko, full of bravado, whose family came to Germany from Kazakhstan, staying out of the way of his drunken father. In the neighborhood cinema, the two friends secretly idolize the figure of a vampire up on the screen. In a magical twist, Count Karpatovicz steps out of the screen to help the boys realize Niko’s sister Tatjana’s dream of escaping from the confines of the rundown tenement to become a boxing champion.


Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010 · 1h 46m
country: United Kingdom
Celebrated filmmaker Tony Palmer follows Leonard Cohen on his 1972 European tour. The film, after extensive re-editing from its initial version, opened in London in 1974. It was shown on German television, but it disappeared for decades and was considered a lost film. Its original version, restored by the director, was released on DVD in 2010 and had its first theatrical release in 2017.


Tierisch verliebt
2009 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
After the death of his wife, the veterinarian Sebastian Brunnen and his daughter Kira move from Berlin to a small Moselle town to try a new beginning there. Barely arrived, he is confronted with a dramatic case: Because Sebastian has been diagnosed with the pathogen of a dangerous disease in a broodmare on the equestrian farm of Katherina Mohr, the responsible medical officer will also take precaution to euthanize the healthy horses of the farm. While the two get closer to each other privately, Sebastian realizes almost too late how lonely and unhappy his daughter is.


Woran dein Herz hängt
2009 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
The single parent Sandra Lindt lives in the Hamburg harbor district, where she defends herself as the spokesman for a small tenant community against the demolition of their residential street. In order to finally get the residents to give up, the sympathetic lawyer Siegfried Hübner is set on Sandra and her fellow combatants. In fact, Sandra has a very personal reason not to vacate her apartment: The young woman is a messie. As a delicate love between her and Siegfried approaches, Sandra gets into an ever greater conflict


Killing Is My Business, Honey
2009 · 1h 49m
country: Germany
A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published.


Peaceful Times
2008 · 1h 38m
country: Germany
After fleeing to the West in 1961, peaceful times were supposed to begin for the Striesows. But Irene longs for the familiar GDR, fears her husband Dieter's supposed "second wives" and expects the Third World War every day. When the war finally breaks out in the living room, her children Ute, Wasa and Flori decide to help their mother's happiness along, with unexpected consequences.


Zwei Wochen Chef
2007
country: Germany
When her store is to be closed, a sales assistant wants to give "those up there" a real piece of her mind. On the management floor, however, Sara is mistaken for a new colleague who is supposed to get the fashion company back on its feet. She soon realizes that someone is literally cheating on the labels and turning the cheapest thread into supposedly high-end goods. Together with a dapper colleague on the board, she searches for the fraudster, but then she herself is exposed.


Kahlschlag
2007
country: Germany


The Crows
2006 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
After a truck accident, Lab crows escape, and provoke a panic in the neighborhood. Alexandra, a young pregnant lady will go to every length to escape the mayhem and raise her neighbors' awareness about the danger.


French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
2006 · 1h 35m
country: France
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.


Eine zweimalige Frau
2004
country: Germany
Successful lawyer Rebekka Butt has no other explanation for the photos in the tabloid "Sonne", which allegedly show her in spicy situations in the red light district. The pictures appear in the middle of her election campaign for senator of justice. An extremely difficult matter that her political opponents take at face value. But who is this woman who looks so much like her? For Tatjana Laake, life rarely shows itself from the sunny side. As a single mother, she keeps herself and her son Lukas afloat with two jobs: in the evenings she works in a nightclub. When Tatjana discovers her confusingly similar likeness on an election poster for Rebekka Butt, she enters the world of politics...


Samba in Mettmann
2004 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store, while his dad is away on a fair. In the evening he runs into three Brazilian ladies thrown out of a limousine not knowing where to go. Olaf invites them to stay with him and his deaf pot-smoking grandfather, which at first just causes some confusion as he soon is to marry his girlfriend Vera. The next day it's topsy-turvy all over.


Rosamunde Pilcher: Gewissheit des Herzens
2003
country: Germany


Mein erster Freund, Mutter und ich
2003
country: Germany
"Men cheat on women, it's a law of nature." Sonja has had some bad experiences and now wants to save her sixteen-year-old daughter Nicole from the worst. The shy teenager has just won the heart of classmate Daniel. Nicole's eternally pubescent father Sven is just as embarrassing as her mother. He messes up his ex-wife's man-hating ways with superfluous macho tips.


Katz und Hund
2003
country: Germany
Pastor Hund is horrified: a woman is now in charge of Pfullendorf. The arch-conservative man of God wants to put every stone in Dorothee Auer's path. He doesn't have to look far: Unsuspectingly, the mayor has offered the new business park to a dubious entrepreneur. That could cost her her job! But the lady has something else up her sleeve...
Sommernachtstod
Sommernachtstod
2003 · 1h 31m
country: Germany
Mädchen, böses Mädchen
Mädchen, böses Mädchen
2003
country: Germany


Girl's Life, Boy's World
2003 · 1h 34m
country: Germany
At seventeen, girls are all about looking good, dressing right and making out with the cutest boys. Or they're like Luka, who's an ace in boxing and couldn't care less about her looks or her appeal to boys. When she breaks a schoolmate's nose, her parents send her off to boarding school to acquire some ladylike manners. There she's mistaken for Frankie, a boy who hasn't shown up, and takes on his identity. With her boxing skills, she instantly wins over her three roommates Chico, Toby and Jo, and strikes up a particularly close friendship with Chico. Her uncompromising honesty and loyalty to her new friends, however, soon get her into trouble with the headmistress and her nephew, the school bully.
Wenn die Liebe verloren geht
Wenn die Liebe verloren geht
2002
country: Germany


Verrückt nach Paris
2002 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
A road movie comedy about the longing for freedom and the realization of dreams: Hilde, Karl and Philip live in a Bremen residential home for people with disabilities. While the two boys work in a workshop where they make toy "waddling ducks", Hilde peels buckets of potatoes as a kitchen assistant. Bored with the daily routine, the trio decide one day to escape from the home and go on vacation to Cologne. After a few adventures, Philip loses his wheelchair and has to "hop" around Cologne from then on. Eventually, the friends miss their train back to Bremen - and head to Paris instead. Enno, their cynical caretaker, is tasked with bringing the runaways back. A wild chase begins.
Gott ist ein toter Fisch
Gott ist ein toter Fisch
2002 · 1h 28m
country: Germany
A young woman has inherited her late mother's night kiosk. She tries to overcome her grief and the planned break-up with her boyfriend by having friends and customers tell her stories about happiness, which she records on a video camera. As the tapes pile up, she realizes that the other happiness seekers are also fleeing fate and their loneliness.


Männer sind zum Abgewöhnen
2001 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
36-year-old movement therapist Marlene Hagedorn has come to terms with her status as the single mother of three vivacious daughters. Until she meets her new neighbor Henri Schaaf. The sensitive composer is sympathetic to Marlene at first sight. But unfortunately Henri is in an acute creative crisis, for which he blames the chaotic bustle of the Hagedornsche women's clan. Christian Schumacher deals with the problems of the modern patchwork family with a successful mixture of humor and sympathy.


Engel sucht Flügel
2001 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
A bittersweet tale about three people - a young pianist, a moody antique dealer and a notorious thief - who are transformed by love.
Schlaf mit meinem Mann
Schlaf mit meinem Mann
2001
country: Unknown


Zwei vom Blitz getroffen
2000
country: Germany
Understanding who you are is complicated enough in everyday life. How difficult must it be to find your identity when you slip into the body of your rebellious daughter as a mother and into the skin of your mother as a 16-year-old? This is exactly what happens to teacher Susanne and her daughter Isabelle. Suddenly, everything turns upside down: punk Isabelle frustrates her boyfriend Basti and her friends with her well-behaved, bourgeois nerdiness. And she no longer wants to be with her divorced father Georg. On the other hand, teacher Susanne surprises them with her new pedagogy and unusual laid-back attitude...
Meine beste Feindin
Meine beste Feindin
1999 · 1h 27m
country: Germany
Two mismatched women are on the run from gangsters and must help one another to survive.


The Deathbus
1998 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
A street collapses on a rainy day over a newly made tunnel for a future trainline and captures a bus full of passengers in a hole, slowly sinking into the mud.
Mein ist die Rache
Mein ist die Rache
1997
country: Germany


Napoleon Fritz
1997
country: Germany


Funny Games
1997 · 1h 49m
country: Austria
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.


Der Blinde
1996 · 47m
country: Germany
An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintendent Lane with the investigation. Their investigations quickly lead Higgins and Lane on the trail of murder, white slavery and blackmail.


Tod im Paradies
1996
country: Germany
Ich begehre dich
Ich begehre dich
1995
country: Germany


Frauen sind was Wunderbares
1994 · 1h 27m
country: Germany
An attractive teacher is faced with a big problem: she can't decide which of her two “men of the heart” she should choose. She has to choose between her current boyfriend, who is a free-spirited womanizer, and a reserved university lecturer who has a six-year-old son.
Der Betrogene
Der Betrogene
1993
country: Germany


Happy Birthday, Türke!
1992 · 1h 49m
country: Germany
Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Moreover, being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity.


Walking a Tightrope
1991 · 2h
country: France
A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic consequences when he later discards him for another youth.


Bleeding Heart
1988 · 3h 27m
country: Germany
Left behind by his mother, an alcoholic prostitute, Georg grew up carelessly with his aunt and grandmother. As an adult he works in a department store canteen and has become an outsider due to his shape and infantile appearance.


The Cry of the Owl
1987 · 2h 15m
country: Germany
Robert is magically attracted to Johanna. He observes and stalks her. Finally, the two get to know each other. But Johanna's relationship with Karl is not quite over.
Die Fräulein von damals
Die Fräulein von damals
1986
country: Germany
Der kleine Riese
Der kleine Riese
1985 · 1h 39m
country: Germany
Hans Engler is a reserved man from Hamburg with no family or partner. When his acquaintance Agnes asks him to assume paternity for her daughter Martina, he cannot refuse her the favor. When Agnes dies a short time later, Hans Engler is drawn into a violent conflict with Martina's biological father, which quickly becomes life-threatening for him.
Die zweite Frau
Die zweite Frau
1983
country: Germany
Treffpunkt Airport
Treffpunkt Airport
1982
country: Germany
Die Eingeschlossenen
Die Eingeschlossenen
1978
country: Germany
Cecile
Cecile
1977 · 2h
country: Germany
In 1882, Colonel St. Arnaud traveled to the Harz Mountains with his wife Cecile to forget a duel that had fatal consequences and forced St. Arnaud to resign from the army. Cecile was the catalyst for this duel. During their stay at the spa, the couple meets the young officer von Gordon. Cecile and Gordon develop feelings for each other, which Arnaud supports with mocking arrogance. Gordon is called away at short notice. The romance is over. In Berlin, however, Gordon seeks out Cecile again. They see each other more and more often until Cecile, panicked by Gordon's possessiveness and her own feelings, breaks up with him. In a fit of jealousy, Gordon compromises Cecile in public. Arnaud challenges him to a duel and kills him. Cecile commits suicide. Arnaud's message, asking her to forget the unfortunate incident on a trip together, no longer reaches her.


The Brothers
1977 · 1h 35m
country: Germany
Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.


Orzowei - Il figlio della savana
1976
country: Italy


Inside Out
1975 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.
Depressionen
Depressionen
1975 · 1h 50m
country: Germany
Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontaneous healing. The next depression is determined.
Der Schwierige
Der Schwierige
1974
country: Germany


A Very Perfect Couple
1974 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
Angela and Robert have been married for ten years and make a perfect couple. They are madly in love with each other, give each other plenty of space and support each other in everyday life. This idyll is put to the test when Robert's girlfriend Claudia moves in with the couple and Angela falls in love with another man. According to a mutual agreement between Angela and Robert, anything goes if one of them breaks their promise never to leave the other.
Die Gräfin von Rathenow
Die Gräfin von Rathenow
1973
country: Germany


Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973 · 1h 46m
country: Italy
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.


Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
1973 · 1h 35m
country: Germany
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.


Alle Menschen werden Brüder
1973 · 1h 49m
country: Germany
The unsuccessful writer Ritchie can't stand his brother, a criminal businessman. When both fall in love with the beautiful Lilian, a dangerous game of revenge begins.
Ein Abend, eine Nacht, ein Morgen
Ein Abend, eine Nacht, ein Morgen
1973
country: Germany
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
1972
country: Germany
Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
1971 · 40m
country: Germany
In 1972, the camera eye observes Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the ambiance he has created for himself and presents a wide selection of his beautifully coloured pictures, which are owned by collectors all over the world, while the artist himself speaks about his life, his work, his ideas, and his manifestoes.


Trotta
1971 · 1h 35m
country: Germany
Returning from his imprisonment in Russia during the First World War, Franz Ferdinand Trotta, a young KuK officer, discovers how much the defeat has transformed Vienna and his people. He is stunned by the new order of things. Having lost his entire fortune and his wife, who is having a sapphic relationship with a Hungarian artist, he tries to regain his place in a world that appears devastated.
Miks Bumbullis
Miks Bumbullis
1971
country: Germany


Yester - der Name stimmt doch?
1971 · 1h 35m
country: Germany
Somewhere in the American countryside, reporter Ellis Yester and his wife Paula live in a tranquil country house. When one day Yolande and Edmund Clenz move into the neighborhood, the lives of both couples change abruptly. The unemployed journalist and the attractive neighbor fall in love with each other. This happens because both are dissatisfied with their respective spouses. Ellis and Yolande begin to plot a murderous plan...


And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot
1971 · 2h 13m
country: Austria
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much futher, to a court hearing during the Third Reich...


Lovemaker
1969 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
A drama directed by Ugo Liberatore.


Your Caresses
1969 · 1h 32m
country: Germany
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
1969
country: Germany


Bora Bora
1968 · 1h 37m
country: France
A Frenchman finds his runaway wife on an island in the Pacific.


The Sex of Angels
1968 · 1h 50m
country: Germany
Three young women steal a yacht and kidnap a total stranger, who they plan to spend a weekend with having sex and doing LSD.


Heißes Pflaster Köln
1967 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.
Stunde der Nachtigallen
Stunde der Nachtigallen
1967
country: Germany
Der Zauberer Gottes
Der Zauberer Gottes
1966
country: Germany


Das Glück läuft hinterher
1963 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
Follows the life of several different people in 1960s in Germany for a few days. The story begins, when a juvenile criminal steals an old woman's handbag in a post office and throws it into a parking car, when he feels observed. But there was a lot of money in that bag, and thereby a dozen fortunes become entwined.