Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-50 of 2,073
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jeri Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmerman on February 22, 1968 in Munich, West Germany, to Gerhard Florian Zimmerman, a Master Sergeant in the United States Army, and his wife Sharon, a social worker. She and her older brother Mark grew up on several military bases, including Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia and Texas. Finally, at age 11, her father retired from the Army and her family settled down in Paducah, Kentucky. After graduating from Lone Oak High School in 1986, she attended Northwestern University Chicago as a National Merit Scholar. While studying there, she won a number of beauty contests (a.o.- sixth annual Miss Northwestern Alpha Delta Phi Pageant in 1989).
With a B.S. degree in Theatre, she came to Los Angeles, California and since then she has been on several television series and films - including popular series like Matlock (1986), Melrose Place (1992) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995) as well as Dark Skies (1996). Her television experience also includes roles in a variety of telefilms including Nightmare in Columbia County (1991), NBC's In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993), Co-ed Call Girl (1996), The Sentinel (1996), Men Cry Bullets (1998), Dracula 2000 (2000), The Last Man (2000) and Down with Love (2003). Jeri Ryan resides in an area of Los Angeles, California with her husband chef Christophe Eme, her son Alex and daughter Gisele.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has won numerous national and international awards for his poetic feature and documentary films.- Actress
Lilly Krug is a German actress born in Munich. She grew up bilingual, attended Bavarian International School, and moved to Los Angeles in 2019 to study theater and psychology at the University of Southern California. Additionally, Lilly takes classes at Anthony Meindl Acting School and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She debuted at the age of 18 with her role as Milena in the drama short film Malou (2019), a finalist at the Oscar-qualifying 22nd Manhattan Short Film Festival in 2019.
Lilly is best known for her shining performance as the lead actress alongside John Malkovich in the action thriller Shattered (2021). Variety celebrated her performance as "A Memorable Femme Fatal. " Other notable credits include the drama Heart of Champions (2021) with Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon, the thriller Zero Contact (2022) with Anthony Hopkins, and the drama, mystery, thriller Every Breath You Take (2021) including Academy Award winner Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, and Sam Claflin.
In 2023 Lilly is seen as Brie alongside Gerald Butler in the action thriller Plane.
Lilly also loves to push her limits. She proved that, among other things, when she climbed Kilimanjaro in 2020 and took a trip to rural India to help build a school near Mumbai. She loves physical challenges and is always discovering new sports for herself. Lilly plays the piano and showed her singing abilities in various musicals such as "Into the Woods" by James Lapine and "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare.
Lilly Krug lives in Los Angeles and Munich.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Florian David Fitz was born on 20 November 1974 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Jesus Loves Me (2012), The Most Beautiful Day (2016) and 100 Things (2018).- Actress
Nadia Hilker is a German actress, known for her roles in Spring (2014), The 100 (2014) and The Walking Dead (2010).
Nadia Hilker is a renowned German film and television actress who has been in the movie industry since 2010. Best known for her role in Spring and The 100, Hilker's love for acting dates back to her childhood days. Her nationality is German. Her father worked in IT while her mother worked at Lufthansa airline. The two only spent thirty-five years as husband and wife and had Nadia and her brother as children. Growing up with her only brother was fun for Hilker as both had adventurous spirits. On several occasions, they visited Paris from Munich just to have coffee on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris and also built tree houses in the forest near their home.
Before joining the movie industry, Hilker worked as a model. She was discovered by a model agent at a ballet school. She lost interest in modeling after a couple of years to give chase to her acting ambition.
The German star began her journey to stardom by taking on the famous role of Marie-Luise Seelig in the television movie Zimmer mit Tante (2010). In the same year, she scored the role of Xenia in the television movie The Route (2010), a drama movie written by Tobias Stille and directed by Florian Froschmayer.
Over the course of her acting career, she has made more than eighteen appearances on television movies and films. Her notable films include Spring (2014), In the Gallery (2014), The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016), and Collide (2016). In 2015, she was decorated with the Fright Meter award for roles in her debut movie, Spring.
In addition to acting, Nadia is also good at writing. She once said that writing is the only creativity that helps her grow and explore the world. Her other hobbies are cooking and music. As for her musical influences, she named King of Pop Michael Jackson as one of her musical heroes.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world cinema, Haneke wrote and directed films in several languages: French, German and English, working with a great variety of actors, such as Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Toby Jones, Ülrich Muhe, Arno Frisch and the list goes on.
This grand figure from Austrian cinema was born in Germany on 23 March 1942, from a German father and an Austrian mother, with both parents being from the artistic world working as actors, a career that Michael also tried but without much success. At the University of Vienna he studied drama, philosophy and psychology, and after graduation he went on to become a film critic and TV editor. His career behind camera started with After Liverpool (1974), which he wrote and directed. He went on to direct five more TV films and two episodes from the miniseries "Lemminge" (1979)_.
The years spent on television works prompted him to finally direct his first cinema feature, during his early 40's, which is somewhat unusual for film directors. But it was worth waiting. In The Seventh Continent (1989), Haneke establishes the foundation of what his future cinema would be about: a cinema that doesn't provides answers but one that dares to throw more and more questions, a cinema that reflects and analyses the human condition in its darkest and unexpected ways outside of any Hollywood formula. Films that exist to confront audiences and not comfort them. In it, Haneke deals with the duality of social values vs. internal values while exposing an apparent perfect family that runs into physical and material disintegration for reasons unknown. It was the first time a film of his was sent to the Cannes Film Festival (out of competition lineup) but he managed to cause some commotion in the audience with polemic scenes that were meant to extract all possible reactions from the crowd.
His next ventures at the decade's turn was in dealing with disturbed youth and the alienation they have in separating reality from fiction, trying to intersect both to drastic results. In Benny's Video (1992), it's the disturbing story of a teen boy who experiences killing for the first time capturing the murder on tape, impressed by the power of detachment that films and videos can cause to people; and later on the highly controversial Funny Games (1997), where two teens hold a family hostage to play sadistic games just for their own sick amusement. The film cemented Haneke's name as one of the greatest authors of his generation but sparkled a great debate with its themes of violence, sadism and the influence those things have in audiences. At the 1997's Cannes Film Festival, it was the film that had the most walk-out's by the audience. In between both films, he released 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) and Kafka's The Castle (1997), the latter being one of the rare times when Haneke developed an adapted work.
In the 2000's, he strongly continued in producing more outstanding works prone to debate and reflection in what would become his most prolific decade with the following films: Code Unknown (2000), The Piano Teacher (2001), Time of the Wolf (2003), Caché (2005), an American remake shot-by shot of Funny Games (2007) and The White Ribbon (2009). His study about romance versus masochism in The Piano Teacher (2001) was an intense work, with powerful performances by Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel, that the Cannes jury in the year were so impressed that Haneke managed to actually reverse their award rules where it was decided that film entries at the festival couldn't win more than one main award (the two lead actors won awards and Haneke got the Grand Prize of the Jury, just lost the Palme d'Or). With The White Ribbon (2009), an enigmatic black-and-white masterpiece following the inception of Nazism in this pre WWI and WWII story focusing on repressed children living in this small village where strange events happen all the time and without any possible reasoning, Haneke conquered the world and audiences with an artistic and daring work that won his first Palme d'Or a Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film and received an Oscar nomination for the same category plus the cinematography work of Christian Berger.
2012 was the year that marked his supremacy in the film world with the release of the bold and beautiful Amour (2012), a love story with powerful real drama and one where Haneke removed most of his usual dark characteristics to present more quiet and calm elements without losing input in creating controversy. The touching story of George and Anne provided one the greatest moments of that year and earned Haneke his second and consecutive Palme d'Or at Cannes and his first Oscar nominations for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay - and it was one of the several nominees for Best Picture Oscar, winning as Best Foreign Language Film.
After abandoning a flash-mob film project, he returned to the screen with Happy End (2017), a film dealing with the refugee crisis in Europe and again he debuted his film at Cannes, receiving mildly positive reviews.
Besides his film work, Haneke also directs theatre productions, from drama to opera, from Così fan tutte to Don Giovanni.- Alicia von Rittberg, born on December 10, 1993 in Munich, made her debut in front of the camera at the age of six in the popular TV-show "Dingsda," in which small children had to explain different everyday concepts. But her real acting career began only a few years later: in 2006 she appeared in a series of the crime series "The Old One," followed by supporting roles in the television games Die Lawine (2007) and Die Sache mit dem Glück (2008).
Alicia von Rittberg became known to a wider audience through the seven-part film series Meine wunderbare Familie (2008); In it she played the 13-year-old daughter of the main character. In the film biography Romy (2009), she played Romy Schneider in her teens. Shortly thereafter, she was seen in No Sky Over Whales (2009) as the daughter of Veronica Ferres played main character. Other supporting roles she had in the cinema comedy Eine ganz heiße Nummer (2011), in A Deal with Adele (2012) and in Christian Petzold's GDR drama Barbara (2012).
A major role played by Rittberg as a humiliated Heimkind in the drama Und alle haben geschwiegen (2012). In 2013, she received the Günter Rohrbach Film Prize and the Young Talent Award at the Bavarian Television Prize for this performance. Positive reviews also got the TV play The Lost Daughter (2013), about a woman who is suddenly confronted after 16 years with her daughter once released for adoption. Rittberg also belonged to the family history ensemble On the Road with Elsa (2014) and the historical thriller The Midwife (2014). The latter role earned her the New Faces Award for Best Newcomer Actress.
Rittberg had a small but significant role in the American second world war movie Fury (2014) starring Brad Pitt. She played in it a young German, who must host an American tank crew. Easier stuff was the romantic comedy Das Romeo-Prinzip (2015), which showed her as a shy student. Director Sönke Wortmann cast Alicia von Rittberg in a starring role in his acclaimed mini-series Charité (2017) as a combative and ambitious nurse. Another American production was the miniseries Genius (2017) on the life of Albert Einstein, in which played by Rittberg Anna Winteler, the daughter of the scientist Jost Winteler. In the same year she was an ambitious elite student to the ensemble of Alain Gsponer's Godless Youth (2017), a dystopian future after Ödön von Horvath's novel of the same name.
In addition to acting, Alicia von Rittberg studies economics in Friedrichshafen. - Actress
- Director
- Writer
Lisa Vicari is a German actress. She is known for Luna (2017), Hell (2017) and the Netflix series Dark.
Her acting debut was in the short film Tunnelblicke (2009) and her first film on the big screen was Hanni & Nanni (2010).
Vicari also had other small roles in Einer wie Bruno (2011) and Exit Marrakech (2013).
Her first major role in a film was in Doktorspiele (2014).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Martina Gedeck was born in Munich. After spending a year in the US, she
studied drama at the Berlin University of the Arts. Martina's film career began while she was still
at drama school. Her filmography covers practically all genres of film.
Gedeck has won a total of 23 major cinema and TV awards. She
was nominated as Europe's best actress on her role in "Mostly Martha". The film was later remade with Catherine Zeta-Jones playing her role.
Her films were twice selected as Germany's entry to the Oscars. In 2007,
"The Lives of Others" with her in the lead role won the Oscar for
Best Foreign Language Film. In 2009 she again had the title role in Germany's
Oscar contender "The Baader Meinhof Complex", also nominated for the
Golden Globes.
Martina Gedeck resides in Berlin, Germany.- Michael Bollner was born on 14 September 1958 in Munich, Germany. He is an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), M.U.G.E.N (1999) and Bizarre Transmissions from the Bermuda Triangle (2015).
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor born on August 13, 1971 in Munich growing up in Hamburg. He first appears in children's television series Neues aus Uhlenbusch (1977) at the age of six.
His breakthrough was the role called "Abdul" in the movie Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997). He also became internationally known for his work on
Run Lola Run (1998), The Experiment (2001) and World War Z (2013). In Germany, He is well known for the classic stoner-movie called Lammbock (2001) in which he plays the leading role.
He speaks fluent German, English, French and Italian and is the son of Austrian actors Hans Brenner and Monica Bleibtreu.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Tracey E. Bregman was born on 29 May 1963 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She is an actress, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) and Days of Our Lives (1965). She was previously married to Ronald Recht.- Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
Curd Jürgens (commonly billed as "Curt Jurgens" in anglophone
countries) was one of the most successful European film actors of the
20th Century. He was born Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens on
December 13, 1915, in Solln, Bavaria, in Hohenzollern Imperial Germany,
a subject of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Of
Franco-German parentage, Jürgens -- who was born during the closing
days of the second year of the First World War -- would abandon the
country of his birth after the end of World War II: Jürgens became an
Austrian citizen in 1945 and lived part-time in France.
Jürgens entered the journalism profession after receiving his
education, and married Louise Basler, an actress. Basler, the first of
his five wives, encouraged him to switch careers and become an actor.
He learned his new profession on the Vienna stage, which retained his
loyalty even after he became an global film star. Jürgens was sent to a
concentration camp for "political unreliables" in 1944, due to his
anti-Nazi opinions. It was this experience in Nazi Germany that led him
to become an Austrian citizen after the war.
His appearance in
The Devil's General (1955)
("The Devil's General" (1955)), established him as a star of German
cinema, and his role as
Brigitte Bardot's older lover in
Roger Vadim's
...And God Created Woman (1956)
(And God Created Woman (1956)) made him an international star. Always
interested in multilingual European actors with good looks and talent,
Hollywood beckoned the 6' 4" Jürgens, casting him in
The Enemy Below (1957) as a WWII
German U-boat commander in a duel with American destroyer commander
Robert Mitchum. He constantly was in
demand to play Germany military officers (e.g.,
The Longest Day (1962), the most
expensive black-and-white film ever made) -- indeed, his last role was
as "The General" in the miniseries
Smiley's People (1982) -- and
Germanic villains (e.g., "Cornelius", the cowardly and treacherous
trading company representative, in
Lord Jim (1965)) for the rest of his
life. One of his most famous roles in the English-language cinema was
as the James Bond villain, "Karl Stromberg", in
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977);
it was Moore's favorite Bond film.
Jürgens considered himself primarily a stage actor and often performed
on the Vienna stage. Though the world knew him as a cinema actor, he
also directed several films and wrote several screenplays and an
autobiography, "Sixty and Not Yet Wise" (1975). His death from a heart
attack in 1982 in Vienna was front-page news across Austria and
Germany.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Volker Bruch was born on 9 March 1980 in Munich, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), The Reader (2008) and Babylon Berlin (2017).- Lara Wendel was born on 29 March 1965 in Munich, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tenebrae (1982), Ghosthouse (1988) and La piovra (1984).
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Born in Munich in 1969, Gedeon was raised bilingual (English & German).
He was sent to boarding school in England at the age of 8 and
transferred to American high school at the age of 12. Gedeon starred in
his first movie (Aunt Maria) when he was 10, his second lead role followed one year
later in the American / German co-production Blood and Honor (3 part
mini series) as Hartmut Keller. By demand of the American
and German Producers each scene was shot once in English and once in
German, due to his bilingual upbringing, Gedeon was the only actor who
did not have to be dubbed in either version.
Gedeon continuously worked in various projects during school vacations
until he dropped out of high school after 11th grade. At this time he
concentrated on training for 2 years, attending musical school and
taking speech and acting classes on the side.
In 1988 Gedeon starred, next to Tony Curtis and Birol Head On by Fathi
Akin), in the motion Picture Welcome to Germany which marked the
beginning of his career as a grownup. Since then Gedeon has acted in
numerous films, including Acting it Out (German film award/ Movie and
Bavarian Film award/Actor) by acclaimed German director Wortman,
Silence like Glass by Carl Schenkel and Making Up (Student Academy
Award USA/German Film Award) by Katja von Garnier. He also starred in
the internationally successful television series Detectiv Rex (sold to
over 140 territories) and Kobra 11 (Action series, sold to over 120
territories).
in 2006 Gedeon portrayed Henry Neumann, a Jewish boxer trapped in a
boxcar with his family on the way to Auschwitz, in the motion picture
The last Train. This challenging part, it seems, was the perfect
preparation for the biggest opportunity in his career to date, the part
of the Jewish Basterd (Will Wicky) in Quentin Tarantino's new movie
Inglorious Basterds.- Actress
- Writer
Rosalie Thomass was born on 14 August 1987 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for Greetings from Fukushima (2016), The Unheard Woman (2016) and The Heartbreak Agency (2024).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Elyas M'Barek was born on 29 May 1982 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He is an actor, known for Suck Me Shakespeer (2013), Who Am I (2014) and The Wave (2008).- After the birth of her two children, Marie Aumüller married Rudolf Koch. Her children took the name of their stepfather. Although the marriage of Rudolf and Marie Koch was short-lived, the children did not know the identity of their biological father, Rudolf Schindler, a well-known gastroenterologist, until much later. He was a Jew, so the fact that he hadn't been identified as the father of Marie Koch's children may explain how they survived the Shoah. In 1934, Schindler was forced to emigrate from Germany with his wife, Gabriele Winkler, and their two children Richard and Ursula. After Gabriele Winkler's death, Rudolf Schindler married Marie Koch.
- Actress
- Director
- Additional Crew
Jeanette Hain was born in Munich. While studying directing at the School of
Television and Film in Munich, the by chance meeting with director
Sherry Hormann made her childhood dream come true by resulting in her
first leading part in "Die Cellistin - Liebe und Verhängnis". Since
then she has been playing in German and international films.- Marie Hacke was born on 17 July 1989 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Blood & Gold (2023), Boom Boom Bruno (2023) and Aus dem Tagebuch eines Uber Fahrers (2020).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Fritz Wepper was born on 17 August 1941 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for Cabaret (1972), Der Kommissar (1969) and For Heaven's Sake (2002). He was married to Susanne Kellermann and Angela von Morgen. He died on 25 March 2024 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Rosemary Murphy was born on 13 January 1925 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995). She was married to Reginald Marsh. She died on 5 July 2014 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Leopold Hornung was born on 21 March 1978 in Munich, Germany. He is an actor, known for Who Am I (2014), The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) and Dark (2017).
- French-German actor, speaks five languages French, German, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Went to French high school in Munich, Germany, where he made his first steps on stage and discovered his passion for acting.
Has done his military service for one year and started a banking career on his father's advice. A so called solid trustworthy job.
Becoming a trader at the stock exchange for a few years, it reaffirms his thoughts that this is not his path and he decides to take acting lessons on the side, to pursue his child's dream. He quits banking asap.
Broke but happy, he quickly then, obtains smaller parts on German and French, TV and Cinema.
Step by step, he plays in independent and professional plays & movies, directs and acts in own productions.
Always seeking for more experience, he attends different acting workshops all over the world, as also stunt workshops, having done Martial Arts in his youth. He is part of a group working with Action Concept, which is one of the biggest stunt company worldwide. Until today he is member of different actor's studios to keep his art alive.
2007 he receives a job offer for a Brazilian Tv show by Tv Globo for which he learns from scratch Portuguese. The show, "Eterna Magia" is seen by 60-70 million people every day and he is the lead antagonist to Brazilian stars such as Maria Flor, Malu Mader, Irene Ravache, Cassia Kiss, Thiago Lacerda, and many more.
The Show is directed by Brazilian's Billy Wilder, Carlos Manga and the well-known theater director Ulysses Cruz.
After this year, he returns to Europe, bases himself in Paris and Berlin.
He acts in feature films, TV movies, series or in plays, not only in France and Germany, but also appears on screen in Spain, where he acts in its biggest TV show "El ministerio del tiempo", and is candidate for the nomination to the Goya as best actor revelation, for his lead role, next to Marian Alvarez (Goya 2014), in the Spanish 2nd World War movie "Lobos Sucios".
He worked in well-known international productions such as "Homeland", "Xcompany" , is part of the main ensemble of the famous sequel "Das Boot" ( over 3 seasons ), and also acts as Stauffenberg the Emmy nominated Serie "Charité II".
As international accomplished and multilingual actor, he is the male lead on the Spanish Serie "Dime quién soy" next to Irene Escolar (Goya 2016), the Portuguese Serie Cuba Libre, next to Beatriz Godinho, the German Serie Money, Murder Zurich ( 5-7mio viewers) or the French fiction documentary "Napoleon and Metternich", as Metternich for Arte.
For his part in the film "Serguei" he also studied Russian or Croatian for the feature "96 hours", by F. Schoedorffer.
He has been part of numerous productions, for Wiedemann & Berg (producers of "live of the others" Oscar 07), Bavaria, UFA, France TV, TF1, Movistar+, TVE, ARD, ZDF, Banijay Group, CBS, Netflix, Peacock ... and worked aside talented, awarded and
acclaimed actors such as Miranda Otto ( Homeland ) , Mandy Patinkin ( Homeland ) , Rainer Bock ( Better call Saul ) , Pierre Richard ( The man with the black shoe ) , Tom Wlashiha ( Game of thrones ) , Fanny Ardant ( 8 Femmes ) , Niels Arestrup ( a Prophet ) , Gerard Lanvin ( Point Blank ) , Patrick Bruel ( How about Adolf) , Marian Alvarez ( Wounded ) , Irene Escolar ( Tell me who I am ) , Will Keen ( His Dark Materials ) , Maria Pia Calzone ( Gomorrha ) , Laetitia Eido ( Fauda ), Esther Acebo (Casa de papel ) and many others... - Director
- Writer
- Producer
Percy Adlon is best known for his film "Bagdad Cafe" aka "Out of Rosenheim." He was born on June 1, 1935 in Munich, the son of Paul Rudolf Laubenthal, a prominent opera singer, and Susanne Adlon, and grew up in Ammerland/Starnbergersee, in the Bavarian countryside. He studied art and theater history, and German literature at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University, took acting and singing classes, and was a member of the student theater group. He started his professional career as an actor, became interested in radio work, was a narrator and editor of literature series and a presenter and voice-over actor in television for 10 years.
In 1970 he made his first short film for the Bavarian Television, followed by more than 150 documentary films about art and the human condition. His first one-hour portrait "Tomi Ungerer's Landleben" started a very successful co-operation with Benigna von Keyserlingk who became the Adlon's television producer of documentaries and feature films.
Percy and Eleonore Adlon formed their film production company, pelemele FILM GmbH, in 1978. Their first project was the docu-drama "The Guardian and his Poet" about the Swiss poet Robert Walser for which they won 2 Adolf-Grimme Awards in Gold (best writer/director, best actor). Their first feature film "Celeste", drew international attention at Cannes in 1981. "Bagdad Cafe", 1987, started their co-operation with Dietrich v. Watzdorf (Bayerischer Rundfunk) The story of Jasmin Münchgstettner and the Cafe owner Brenda became a symbol of friendship and warmth, and is loved all over the globe. Marianne Sägebrecht whom Percy Adlon discovered in 1979 became a cult figure, and Bob Telson's song "Calling You" a classic.
Percy and Eleonore Adlon live in Pacific Palisades, California, working together with their son Felix whose first feature film "Eat Your Heart Out" (1997) they produced with their US company Leora Films. Felix was also the lead in the Adlons' docu-fantasy "The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel". (Bavarian TV award).
In 1997 Percy Adlon started working with a digital camera. He filmed a three hour special about the draftsman Tomi Ungerer for ARTE; Mozart's "Magic Flute" with images of today's Berlin; Esa-Pekka Salonen and the LA Phil; 22 short films based on unknown masterpieces by Johann Strauss, Jr.; a 90 minute film about his past and present relationship with his hometown Munich, "Mein Munchen", and he completed his tenth feature film "Hawaiian Gardens" and a documentary Koenig's Sphere - the story of the monumental world trade center sculpture that was damaged but not destroyed in the 9/11 attack.
Remembering his roots in theater, in 2002 Percy Adlon directed Donizetti's Elisir d'Amore at the State Opera unter den Linden, Berlin, followed in March 2004 by the world premiere of Wilfried Hiller's opera Wolkenstein at the State Opera Nuernberg, Germany.
Percy and Eleonore Adlon's recent work also includes their own adaptation of Bagdad Cafe for the stage as a musical. Music by Bob Telson. It premiered on July 6, 2004, at the Barcelona Teatre Musical. In 2007, the Adlons completed "Orbela's People", a documentary about a time with a Maasai family in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.
Percy Adlon is the recipient of the Officer's Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Bavarian Order of Merit. He is a voting
member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.- Carina Conti's notable credits include Good Trouble as Luca's love interest Riley. She also had a memorable turn on HBO's Winning Time as Paula Abdul as well as an appearance in Amazon's The Last Tycoon. Favorite theater performances include Roxie Heart in Chicago and Lucile in an award-winning translation of Moliere's The Bourgeois Gentleman at the City Garage in Santa Monica. Born in Germany, Carina moved to Orlando, Florida at the age of six. As a child, she starred in over 30 commercials for brands like Disney, Universal, Chevy, and Chiquita, and her early film credits include leading roles in Barney and the Land of Make Believe and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Jr. Carina graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Romance Languages (she speaks French, Italian, German, and English) and a minor in Theater. She has also studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in NYC, The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and is currently at Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop in LA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Ulrich Noethen was born on 18 November 1959 in Munich, Germany. He is an actor, known for Downfall (2004), Das Sams (2001) and Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (2003). He was previously married to Friederike Wagner.- Actress
- Publicist
- Executive
Olivia Pascal was born on 26 May 1957 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress and publicist, known for The Fruit Is Ripe (1977), Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza (1983) and The Joy of Flying (1977). She has been married to Peter Kanitz since 2009.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Michael 'Bully' Herbig studied photography and is well known in the
German comedy scene as a writer, director and producer. In addition to
his morning radio show 'Langemann und die Morgencrew' from 1992 to
1995, he also made 800 episodes of the comedy radio show 'Die Bayern
Cops'. He has appeared in various advertisements and TV specials, and
is author, actor, director and producer of the Bullyparade (1997), which aired
five seasons. His feature film directorial debut was the comedy
Erkan & Stefan (2000), which was released in Germany in April 2000. Also in 2000, he
founded the film production company herbX film, whose first project was
Manitou's Shoe (2001). In July 2004 his next movie, the anxiously awaited (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004) is
set to be released.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Wilson Gonzales Ochsenknecht was born on 18th March 1990 in Germany, as
the oldest child of the German actor Uwe Ochsenknecht and the German actress
Natascha Ochsenknecht. He has a younger brother named Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht and a little sister.
Like his brother he started acting very early and their father was not
the only inspiration to start acting. Together with his little brother
and his father he played in movies like: Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999), Die Wilden Kerle: Alles ist gut, solange du wild bist! (2003) and Die Wilden Kerle 2 (2005).
In September 2004, Wilson and his brother Jimi got the Undine Award for
best débutant from the Austrian trade association of audio versions and
film industry.- Alexandra Schalaudek was born on 2 September 1975 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Verbotene Liebe (1995), The Signal (2024) and Armans Geheimnis (2015).
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Lavinia Wilson was born in Munich, Germany on March 8th, 1980. She is an actor and producer, known for Æon Flux (2005), Andere Eltern (2019), Hey Bunny (2016) and Deutschland86 (2018). Her career started at the age of 11, with Leise Schatten (1991) and she has starred in over sixty films since then.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Brigitte Hobmeier was born on 2 March 1976 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Identity Kills (2003), Closed Season (2012) and Ein Teil von uns (2016).- Sidonie von Krosigk was born on 21 October 1989 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She is an actress, known for Bibi Blocksberg (2002), Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of Blue Owls (2004) and Die Bergretter (2009).
- Actress
- Composer
- Writer
Naike Rivelli was born on 10 October 1974 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She is an actress and composer, known for Casanova (2005), Welcome to the South (2010) and Nayked: N-Zoid (2011). She was previously married to Manou Lubowski.- Martin Gruber was born on 16 May 1970 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Die Bergretter (2009), Frau Pfarrer & Herr Priester (2016) and Nackt. Das Netz vergisst nie. (2017). He has been married to Corinna Gruber since July 2010. They have one child.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Fabian Wagner was born on 25 April 1978 in Munich, Germany. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Overlord (2018), Game of Thrones (2011) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).- Leonie Brill is a German actress. She was first discovered at eight years old and has been filming numerous film and movie productions ever since. She is best known for her performances in DAMAGED GOODS and Blood Red Sky, a German Netflix thriller, that hit over 50 million views worldwide.
Leonie was born and raised in Munich, Germany and still lives in her hometown. - Actress
- Director
- Writer
A star of German post-war cinema, Dority Margit Saad was born in Munich, the daughter of Lebanese linguist Fuad Jabbour Saad and his wife Agnes, a language teacher. After matriculating, Margit took acting classes at the Otto Falckenberg Academy, financing her studies by working as a model. Tall, blond and undeniably photogenic, she soon graced several magazine covers. One of these led to her screen debut in 1951. During the next two years, she also made her stage bow at the Düsseldorfer Kabarett. Margit was 'discovered' there by the director Robert A. Stemmle and promptly assigned her first starring role in the musical Südliche Nächte (1953). For much of the remaining decade, she was typed in undemanding fare as naïve ingénues or exotic love interest in operettas (The Gypsy Baron (1954)), lightweight comedy (Man ist nur zweimal jung (1958)) Heimatfilms (Drei Birken auf der Heide (1956)) and schmaltzy romances (Drei Mädels vom Rhein (1955)).
With public tastes tending towards more sophisticated material, Margit was finally able to escape her typecasting: first up, as a gangster's moll in the popular caper comedy Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1958), starring opposite O.W. Fischer. Next came a first-billed role as a boutique owner acting as banker for a gang of drug smugglers in Heiße Ware (1959). This was followed by Joseph Losey 's British noir drama The Concrete Jungle (1960) which had Margit cast as the girlfriend of ruthless Soho villain Johnny Bannion (played by Stanley Baker in one of his best roles). Among her other international appearances were episodes of The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959) and The Saint (1962) and she was rather incongruously cast as General Carla of the 'Women's Army of Parazuella' in The Magnificent Two (1967), a so-so comedy with the duo of Morecambe & Wise.
Margit made many stage appearances in both Germany and Austria. Possibly her greatest theatrical success was in the title role of Irma La Douce opposite Harald Juhnke, which premiered in Baden-Baden in 1961. From 1971, she was also active as a director of television documentaries. She made four TV movies based on literary works, beginning with Abenteuer aus dem Englischen Garten (1984) for which she also co-authored the screenplay.
Margit Saad was married to French director, stage and costume designer Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. She held French citizenship but resided in Munich where she died on August 7 2023, aged 94.- Music Department
- Composer
- Additional Crew
Harold Faltermeyer was born on 5 October 1952 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. He is a composer, known for Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). He was previously married to Karin Faltermeyer.- Animation Department
- Director
- Producer
Wolfgang Reitherman was a German-born American animator who was one of Disney's Nine Old Men.
He began working for Disney in 1933, along with future Disney legends Ward Kimball and Milt Kahl. The three worked together on a number of classic Disney shorts.
Reitherman directed several Disney animated feature films including: One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Sword in the Stone (1963), The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970), Robin Hood (1973), The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh (1977), and The Rescuers (1977).
He died in a car accident in 1985 at the age of 75. In 1989 Reitherman was posthumously named a Disney Legend, a hall of fame program that recognizes individuals who have made an extraordinary and integral contribution to The Walt Disney Company.- Actress
- Writer
Luise Aschenbrenner was born on 8 April 1995 in Munich, Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for Tatort (1970), Der Hermetische Zirkel (2016) and Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021).- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Helmuth Schneider was born on 18 December 1920 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Die Göttin vom Rio Beni (1950), Der Löwe von Babylon (1959) and Joseph and His Brethren (1961). He died on 17 March 1972 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- His career started in 1959 with the movie "Hubertus Jagd" with Willy
Fritsch. He appeared in many TV movies until he started in Cologne his
first Theatre play "Der Tod im Apfelbaum". He did also a lot of dubbing
for foreign TV series like: "Riffle man", "Flipper", "Die kleinen
Strolche" etc. Later on he lent his German voice to international
actors like: Jean-Michael Vincent, Bruce Lee, Mike Myers in "Shrek".
1972 he went on his first Theatre tour as "Masham" in "Glass of water"
(by Eugen Scribe) with O.W. Fischer. After the movie "Whispering death"
(with Christopher Lee, Trevor Howard) he went in 1976 to Australia to
do 13 episodes for the adventure TV series "The Outsiders" (Andrew
Keir, Wendy Hughs). In 1980/81 he played "Orlando" during the Salzburg
Theatre Festival in Shakespeares "As you like it" with Barbara Sukowa.
Between 1981 and 1994 he appeared again and again on stage, started the
TV serie "Das Traumschiff", he went also again on a Theatre tour with
the "Doppeladler" (Judy Winter), then 70 episodes for the TV serie "Die
Schwarzwaldklinik", then the movie"Rich poor girl" with Farrah Fawcett.
1989 he played Goethes "Egmont" at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in
Hamburg. And 1994 "Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach" (as Brick) which
was his last Theatre tour. 2012 the Feuilleton loves him for the
"Lerchenberg". In 2013 he went back to "Das Traumschiff" as Captain.
In October 2014, he celebrated his 60th birthday and his 55th anniversary
as actor. - Actress
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Irm Hermann was born on 4 October 1942 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress and assistant director, known for Five Last Days (1982), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) and The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972). She was married to Dietmar Roberg. She died on 26 May 2020 in Berlin, Germany.- Leonard Scheicher was born on 26 July 1992 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Billion Dollar Code (2021), Measures of Men (2023) and Das Boot (2018).
- Actress
- Writer
Anna Brüggemann was born on March 1, 1981 in Munich, Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for Heil (2015), Drei Zimmer/Küche/Bad (2012), Renn, wenn du kannst (2010) and Neun Szenen (2006). 2014 Anna Brüggemann won with her brother the director Dietrich Brüggemann the Silver Bear for Best Script for "Kreuzweg" (Stations of the Cross).- Actor
- Director
- Music Department
Peter Kraus was born on 18 March 1939 in Munich, Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Flying Classroom (1954), John Icks, der singende Astronaut (1967) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). He has been married to Ingrid Kraus since 1969. They have one child.- Director
- Producer
- Editor
Born in Munich, Germany and raised in the South of France, Nicolas
Wendl discovered film early, two of his teenage-made shorts screening
at various Festivals. This early recognition
encouraged Wendl to pursue film in the United States at Chapman
University's Dodge College, from which he graduated with Honors and a
BFA in Film Production. During his time at university, Wendl produced
two acclaimed shorts, "How They Smiled" (2011) and "From the Woods"
(2013), both starring Richard Burgi and screening at festivals
across the country and winning the Coney Island Film Festival and the
Cape Fear International Film Festival.
Since graduating, Nicolas has directed projects for Amazon, Hulu, and international short form series. In 2023 he helmed the indie horror film "Stupid Games" which he also produced.
Wendl's work reflects a desire to uncover the deeply nuanced
decision-making processes of seemingly everyday people. His films
capture a reality-driven investigation into the human mind, held in
balance by carefully measured tension and immaculate timing.
The trilingual director lives in Los Angeles, where he focuses on directing
narrative films, music videos and commercials, and developing some original series and films.