Deutschland 83 - Festival de Télévision de Monte

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Series Synopsis
A MAJOR EIGHT PART SERIES FROM THE CREATORS OF GENERATION WAR
It’s 1983. The Cold War is hot. Russian SS20 Missiles in East Germany are already pointed West.
American Pershing II Missiles will soon be placed in West Germany, pointing East. The threat
of nuclear conflict looms.
Meanwhile: the Peace movement, encouraged by the Protestant church, gains momentum on
both sides of the border. And the West German government prepares to loan their archenemies
in the East one billion Deutschmarks.
The West Germans have the upper hand economically, but they rely on the East for access
to Berlin and all other points East.
East Germany is broke. Russia is paranoid. New Communist Party chief Andropov comes out of the KGB
and leans on the HVA. Headquarters in East Berlin make HVA assets in the West track every movement
of the West German government and military. They want eyes and ears everywhere. They are convinced
that the West Germans are preparing to attack.
The goals of East German spies on the ground are three-fold: 1. Learn West German and NATO military
plans. 2. Foster the burgeoning student peace movement. 3. Increase the general public’s fear of nuclear
war so that they will turn against their own government. The East Germans know they can’t win the arms
race. But they can defend themselves. And they just might win the war
of public opinion…
Our hero, Martin Rauch, is 23. Born and raised in East Germany, he is sent undercover, as Moritz
Stamm, to West Germany, to work for a top General in the Bundeswehr. Officially, his job is to gather
intelligence on the placement of the Pershing II Missiles. A secondary gig develops, infiltrating youth
culture through close relationships with the General’s two children.
The tone of the series is fast-paced. There is high-tension but moments of warmth and humor.
It is a coming of age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and
political realities of Germany in the 1980s.
Season One culminates with the true story of a nuclear stand-off in late 1983 around a NATO war game
Able Archer, the result of a misunderstood NATO report on the viability of a mid-range attack on East
Germany—the direct result of botched intelligence on the East German side.
Episode Synopses
EPISODE ONE: QUANTUM JUMP
Martin Rauch leaves his home in East Germany to spy for the HVA undercover in the West German army
as Moritz Stamm.The East German HVA is concerned by Reagan’s “Evil Empire” rhetoric and American
military plans in West Germany. When an opportunity for one of their assets presents itself, high up in
the Bundeswehr, they quickly need someone very young. So Lenora Rauch sends her nephew, Martin
Rauch to West Germany against his will. In Bonn, en route, he receives intensive training from HVA field
operative Tobias Tischbier, and arrives at the army base in the Eifel under a new identity: Officer Moritz
Stamm. His job is to collect intelligence on NATO plans to station Pershing II nuclear missiles in West
Germany, as aid to a General Edel. Also, in the process, to befriend Edel’s rebellious children, the angry
Alex and the beautiful Yvonne.
EPISODE TWO: BRAVE GUY
Moritz completes a far more dangerous mission and is beginning to enjoy his life in the West.
While General Edel meets with NATO colleagues to discuss the Pershing II missiles deployment, Moritz
is ordered by Tischbier to break into Hendrik Mayer’s hotel room and steal a top secret security report.
He refuses to do so until Tischbier promises to help his mother, Ingrid, who is suffering from diabetes
back home in East Germany, where treatment is scarce. When Moritz finally steals the NATO report, his
superiors at the HVA in East Berlin cannot read it because it’s not saved on paper—but on a floppy disk.
This technological hiccup turns into a humiliating struggle to keep up in the dawning era of the computer,
a key example of the diverging paths of Communism and Capitalism.
EPISODE THREE: ATLANTIC LION
While at a NATO conference in Brussels, Moritz gets his first “Romeo” assignment: to seduce the head
security analyst’s secretary, Linda. General Edel and his new aid bond on a trip to Brussels to meet
with the top brass. Lenora emerges to tell Moritz that his mother needs a kidney transplant. She takes
his blood to see if he might be a match. Back in East Berlin, Annett moves in to take care of Ingrid, at
Lenora’s suggestion, and reveals that she is pregnant with Martin’s baby. When Moritz reconnects with
Linda, a secretary he met earlier in Bonn, he sleeps with her and successfully installs a microphone in
her desk at NATO. Moritz manages to connect the HVA Headquarters with the office of the top military
security analyst at NATO Headquarters. It is the first time he pulls off such a complex spy manoeuvre
successfully. His star keeps rising.
EPISODE FOUR: NORTHERN WEDDING
When the bug is found in Linda’s desk, all NATO is in high alert. Moritz must cover his tracks by any
means necessary. The bug is discovered in Linda’s desk in Brussels just as she arrives to visit Moritz in
West Germany. Moritz scrambles to turn her loyalties while under interrogation by NATO brass about
their relationship. Back in the Eifel, as Linda figures out Moritz’s true identity, she runs. Moritz follows
but the HVA is way ahead of him. Moritz is forced to recognize the dark reality of the organization he is
working for and after a brief honeymoon with tradecraft, his job becomes a terrifying trap.
Episode Synopses
EPISODE FIVE: COLD FIRE
Moritz is sent back to East Berlin, on the way, he must deliver a seemingly harmless package to a
mysterious man in West Berlin. Tischbier shows up at the Bhagvani commune to retrieve Moritz, who is
still reeling from Linda’s death. They fight, but Tischbier holds the trump card: his mother will have her
kidney transplant but Moritz is the donor. He must get to East Berlin by the afternoon. Moritz travels
back over the border for the first time since the beginning, first to West Berlin, where he delivers a
package to a mysterious man. When a bomb goes off at the Maison de France on Ku’damm minutes later,
Moritz chases down the man who took the package and dismantles a second bomb, and in doing so, kills
the man—his first murder.
EPISODE SIX: BRANDY STATION
When Moritz returns to his undercover life in West Germany he is drawn into Alex Edel’s fatal plans.
Recovering in a room at Charite, Moritz encounters Annett for the first time since he left. He wants to
stay home now, she tells him to go West again. Much is left unsaid. She is now in with Schweppenstette,
who visits him next and insists, in a tense, father-son coded argument, that Moritz return to his post.
Meanwhile Alex Edel has taken General Jackson hostage and forced him, at gunpoint, to film a seething
denouncement of US military plans in Western Europe. Lenora follows the whole thing over the wire
from the StäV. But by the time Moritz and Kramer get there to break them out before the Police arrive,
the damage is already done.
EPISODE SEVEN: BOLD GUARD
When Moritz learns that the HVA believes the NATO’s nuclear war game, Able Archer, is a real attack,
he must ask General Edel to pull back before it is too late. As the preparations for NATO’s Able Archer
manoeuvre intensify, Moritz receives an order from the HVA that cements his fears about the East’s
paranoia. He has to warn his Western superiors about the misunderstanding. But how? Finally he has no
choice than but to blow his own cover—to Edel himself. As a guise to threaten Moritz, Tischbier joins a
student demonstration around the Eifel base and encounters Alex, for whom he has bad news.
Finally, Moritz races to the border chased by the West German authorities, the only man in West
Germany who’s trying to escape from the West into the East.
EPISODE EIGHT: ABLE ARCHER
Moritz returns to East Germany to stop his HVA superiors in their tracks. At HVA HQ, fear of a preemptive nuclear strike against the West has become a very real possibility, while in the West, the war
game Able Archer reaches its peak. A fallen agent, Moritz is now persona non grata on both sides of
the border. On his way back into the lion’s den to confront the top brass at the HVA, he saves Yvonne
from the clutches of Annett and the Stasi. Ingrid hunts down Schweppenstette to save Thomas from
prison. And Alex confronts his own demons—about his sexuality, about AIDS, and about his father.
Finally, Moritz has no choice to sacrifice himself to stop the HVA from setting off a catastrophe of epic
proportions.
Reviews
US
“More exciting than the pumped-up American inventions”
New York Times
“It’s a slinky thriller, well scored, well paced, cast with beautiful faces, and nearly as
aesthetically aspirational as “Mad Men” ever was, if you’re in the mood to fantasize about
being a chain-smoking German spy in green leather gloves” The New Yorker
“Kudos to Sundance for importing this eight-part thriller, subtitles and all”
Rolling Stone
“It’s basically a sexier The Americans… how many ways do I need to say ja?”
Grantland.com
“Nothing gets lost in translation… especially the timeless human drama”
San Francisco Chronicle
“Nay is fantastic and immediately likeable”
Time
“Deutschland 83 is tense, stylish, engaging and engrossing”
Collider.com
“The series is imbued with retro cool and, similar to the winking hindsight of Mad Men,
takes pleasure in mixing a complicated past with a keen sense of pop”
Entertainment Weekly
“Beneath the light moments and the spy-versus-spy stuff, the series has a perspective that
makes it refreshing”
New York Times
“It’s serious and it can be stark, but it’s also funny and brisk, a coming-of-age story with a
sense of adventure”
Time
“What really makes this eight-episode series stand out is its setting, because a family
divided is more impactful than strangers going at each other”
New York Post
Characters
MARTIN RAUCH / MORITZ STAMM, 23
Our hero. Born in the East, sent to the West as a spy by the HVA. Martin/Moritz is handsome, smart,
charismatic, but wet behind the ears. He was raised by his single mother, Ingrid, in a Communist Party
family. Theirs is a good life of relative privilege in the GDR, self-contained and protected. When the
series opens, Moritz is in the last months of his NVA military service, working as a border guard at
Friedrichstrasse. His long-time girlfriend is Annette Schneider. Then he is ejected from the world he
knows. Everything is new—nothing and no one is quite as they seem. Everyone is harboring secrets, both
political and personal. At first he resists the call of the HVA, then he performs out of duty and as the
series develops, he discovers a knack for tradecraft. As his understanding of the world expands, Moritz’s
confidence builds. He becomes more critical of the GDR and more embracing of the West.
LENORA RAUCH, 46
Moritz’s Aunt and boss. Officially the Cultural Attaché at the East German Embassy in Bonn,
her real job is to run the GDR assets in the West for the HVA. A Party believer who sacrificed her youth to
the cause. Never married, no kids. When we meet her, East German budgets are running out, the HVA is
paranoid and Lenora feeling increasingly desperate. Lenora loves her sister, so her loyalties are torn when
it comes to Martin/Moritz. But she will stop at nothing to get the job done.
Characters
TOBIAS TISCHBIER, 40
Moritz’s mentor in the HVA. His field superior and one of the father figures vying for his soul. Working
for DDR undercover in West since early 1960s, Tischbier’s job is to stimulate the peace movement, the
anti-nuclear movement and to stir up trouble from the left. His cover job is a popular law professor at
Uni Bonn, where he is a hero to Alex Edel and other young idealists who attend peace rallies. Tischbier
is gay—a necessary secret in the East, but also in conservative Bonn. Despite trips into gay bars in Köln
and a casual liasons, Tischbier is not out. When he seduces Alex Edel he mixes work with pleasure to
dangerous ends
ANNETT SCHNEIDER, 23
Martin/Moritz’s fiancée and childhood sweetheart back home in Kleinmachnow. She loves Martin/Moritz
and believes he is the “right” kind of man to create a life with in the GDR. But he is never around and
she is tempted by Thomas Posimski, the polar opposite of the “right” kind of man... At the beginning of
the story, Annett is quite innocent. But she is also canny, seductive and determined, the kind of person
who would do well in any system. As the season progresses, Annett gets drawn into working the Stasi
and ratting out those closest to her, ultimately showing herself to be much more ruthless than we – or
Martin/Moritz – ever suspected.
Production credits
ANNA WINGER, Creator and Writer
Anna Winger is an American writer living in Berlin, Germany. The daughter of anthropologists, she was
raised in Kenya, Massachusetts and Mexico and educated in New York at Columbia University, where
she studied Film. Her first novel is This Must Be the Place (Riverhead, 2008). Her essays have appeared
in the New York Times Magazine, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and other publications. She is also
creator of the radio collective Berlin Stories for NPR Worldwide.
JOERG WINGER, Creator and Producer
Jörg Winger received a Masters in Economics at the University of Cologne and worked as a journalist
before becoming a producer at UFA Fiction. He’s Executive Producer and Showrunner of SOKO Leipzig,
one of the most successful long-running crime drama series on German television and a guest lecturer at
the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. In 2013, he developed and launched the crime-themed original channel
Trigger as part of the international YouTube-funded channel initiative. He is currently in the middle of
production on a new historical spy drama series Deutschland 83 which he created together with his wife,
the American writer Anna Winger.
NICO HOFMANN, Producer and Chairman of the Board of UFA Fiction
Nico Hofmann was born to journalist parents in Heidelberg and attended the University of Television
and Film in Munich. From 1998 to 2013 he served as Chairman of teamWorx, producing such prestigious
television events as Laconia, Hindenburg, The Tunnel, Dresden, Storm Tide, Airlift and March of
Millions. Most recently, the highly acclaimed miniseries Generation War reached record ratings in
Germany, Poland, Norway and Sweden and has been sold to 148 countries around the world. Since 2013,
Nico has been Chairman of UFA Fiction, and has also produced cinema films such as Hanni & Nanni
and most lately The Physician. Since 1995 he has been a regular lecturer at the Film Academy BadenWürttemberg.
EDWARD BERGER, Director (Eps 1 to 5)
Edward Berger graduated in directing from NYU film school in New York. After gaining experience
working on films by directors including Ang Lee and Todd Haynes, he wrote and directed his first feature,
Gomez. His latest film Jack was invited into the competition of the Berlin International Film Festival and
went on to win various awards at festivals around the world.
SAMIRA RADSI, Director (Eps 6 to 8)
Samira studied politics and art history before completing a master in film directing at the Mediaschool in
Hamburg. She lived and worked in LA and Ireland before moving to Berlin in 2005. After several short
films and directing for television she completed her first feature film ANDUNI.
Cast Bios
Jonas Nay
Plays Martin Rauch/Moritz Stamm
Biography
The actor and musician was born and raised in 1990 in the city
of Lübeck, Northern Germany. In 2004 he appeared in front of
the camera as a member of the leading cast in the series Four
Against Z along with international movie star Udo Kier.
After completing his exams, Jonas took the lead role in
Homevideo: a movie that won numerous awards and can be
thought of as his national breakthrough. Leading parts in
several movies have followed.
Jonas is also an accomplished jazz pianist.
Credits
2014
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Tannbach
2013
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Wir Sind Jung. Wir Sind Stark
Summer Solstice
Nichts Mehr Wie Vorher
Hirngespinster (Flights of Fancy)
Der Kriminalist
2012
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Tod An Der Ostsee
Tatort Leipzig
Letzte Spur Berlin
König Von Deutschland
Die Frau Von Früher
2011
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Tatort Hamburg
Sechzehneichen
Jorinde & Joringel
Dear Courtney
2010
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Homevideo
2006
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4 Against Z
Jonas Nay
Awards & Nominations
2014
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2013
Nominated for the New German Cinema Award for his performance in Hirngespinster (Flights of
Fancy) in the best upcoming category actor
Nominated German TV award in the best tv-film category for Nichts Mehr Wie Vorher
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Bavarian Film Award for Best Upcoming Actor in Hirngespinster (Flights of Fancy)
German Academy of Arts TV Award for his performance in Die Frau Von Früher
Grimme Award nominated for his performance in Sechzehneichen
Nominated for German Cinema Award for his performance in König Von Deutschland in the best
upcoming actor category
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Bunte New Faces Award – best upcoming actor – for his performance in Homevideo
Golden Bird Prize for Homevideo in the best actor category at the Seoul International Drama Awards
Golden Rose prize for Homevideo in the best tv-film category
Günter-Strack-TV-Prize best upcoming actor category for his performance in Homevideo
Magnolia Award for Homevideo at the Shanghai TV festival
2011
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3sat Audience Award for Homevideo
German TV Award in best tv-film category for Homevideo
Sponsorship Award, given by the German TV Prize Jury for his part in Homevideo
2006
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Emil (German Children Film Award) for 4 Against Z
2005
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World Media Festival Intermedia Globe Silver Award for 4 Against Z
2012
Alexander Beyer
Plays Tobias Tischbier
Biography
Alexander Beyer was born on June 24, 1973 in Erfurt, German
Democratic Republic, and studied acting at the Drama School
“Ernst Busch” in Berlin. He is known for his work on Good Bye
Lenin!, The Fifth Estate and Sun Alley.
Selected Credits
2015
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Matthiesens Töchter
3 Türken & Ein Baby
2014
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Tatort
Die Kraft, Die Du Mir Gibst
Utta Danella
Mountain Medic
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Bukow and König
Polizeiruf 110
Stuttgart Homicide
Im Olymp Der Kunst
Meeres Stille
The Fifth Estate
Mord im Hause Medici
Hamburg Dockland
2012
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2011
2013
2010
2009
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Leningrad
Krauses Kur
Summertime Blues
Lulu and Jimi
Die Rebellin
2008
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Putzfrau Undercover
Miracle at St. Anna
Innocent
2007
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War and Peace
Giganten
A Case for Two
Ein Unverbesserlicher Dickkopf
2006
SOKO Leipzig
SOKO 5113
Der Kriminalist
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Maria am Wasser
Abschnitt 40
2005
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Schmidt & Schwarz
Mein Bruder, Sein Erbe Und Ich
Kommissarin Lucas
Independent Lens
Der Staatsanwalt
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Munich
3° kälter
Siebenstein
Coast Guard
2004
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Der Letzte Zeuge
Der Dolch des Batu Khan
Ein Goldfisch Unter Haien
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SOKO Köln
Unter Anderen Umständen
The Whore
Transit
Carlos the Jackal
2003
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Im Namen des Gesetzes
Hierankl
Hamlet_X
The Family Jewels
Good Bye Lenin!
Alexander Beyer
Awards & Nominations
2008
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Nominated for the Bavarian TV Award in the Best Actor in a TV Series or Miniseries category for War
and Peace
Lisa Tomaschewsky
Plays Yvonne Edel
Biography
Lisa Tomaschewsky was born on July 22, 1988 in Itzehoe,
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress and model,
known for The Girl with Nine Wigs, Hut in the Woods and
Verbotene Liebe.
Credits
2015
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Seitenwechsel
2014
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SOKO 5113
SOKO Leipzig
Audrey
Frühlingsgeflüster
2013
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The Girl with Nine Wigs
Bukow and König
Coast Guard
2011
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Hut in the Woods
Verbotene Liebe
Lisa Tomaschewsky
Awards & Nominations
2014
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Nominated for the Best German Actress Jupiter Award for Heute Bin Ich Blond (The Girl With Nine
Wigs)
2013
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Nominated for a Best Actress Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival
for Heute Bin Ich Blond (The Girl With Nine Wigs)
Ludwig Trepte
Plays Alex Edel
Biography
Ludwig Trepte was born on May 17, 1988 in Berlin, Germany.
He is best known for roles in Outta Control, 1864 and
Generation War. His father is Stephan Trepte who was a
member of the East German rock group Lift.
Selected Credits
2015
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Tatort
Im Spinnwebhaus
Allein Unter Irren
Tannbach
2014
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1864
Bornholmer
Die Letzte Spur
Coast Guard
2013
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Eine Mörderische Entscheidung
Generation War
Der Große Schwindel
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Deckname Luna
Der Dicke
The Last Cop
2011
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Großstadtrevier
The Peppercorns
A Case for Two
2010
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Kreutzer
Aghet – Ein Völkermord
2009
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What You Don’t See
Im Nächsten Leben
2008
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Ein Teil Von Mir
Outta Control
1. Mai
Commissario Laurenti
2012
2007
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Verlassen
Seven Days Sunday
Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe
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Schwesterherz
Das Geheimnis Von St. Ambrose
Auf Ewig Und Einen Tag
Der Letzte Zeuge
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Out of Hand
Kombat Sechzehn
2004
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Sabine!!
2003
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Im Namen des Gesetzes
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Emil and the Detectives
Bukow and König
2006
2005
2001
Ludwig Trepte
Awards & Nominations
2013
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Won the Special Award at Bavarian TV Awards for Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter
2012
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Nominated for the Best German Actor at the Jupiter Awards for Was Du Nicht Siehst
2009
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Won the Adolf Grimme Fiction Award for Ihr Könnt Euch Niemals Sicher Sein
Won the Newcomer Actor Award at the Schwerin Art of Film Festival for Ein Teil Von Mir
2008
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Won the Curt Jürgens Memorial Camera
Won the Special Award for Best Performance for Ihr Könnt Euch Niemals Sicher Sein at the BadenBaden TV Film Festival
Nominated for the Undine Best Young Actor Award for Ihr Könnt Euch Niemals Sicher Sein
Nominated for the New Faces Award Actor for 1. Mai
Won the Adolf Grimme Fiction Award Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe
2007
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Nominated for the Günter Strack Best Young Actor TV Award
Nominated for the German Television Best Supporting Actor Award Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe
2006
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Won the Best Young Actor at the Max Ophüls Festival for Keller – Teenage Wasteland
Nominated for the Undine Best Young Actor Award for Keller – Teenage Wasteland
Maria Schrader
Plays Leonora Rauch
Biography
Maria Schrader (born 27 September 1965) is a German actress,
screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning
2007 film Love Life that was based on a novel by Zeruya Shalev.
She has also won much acclaim for her theatre roles.
She is especially well known from the film Aimée & Jaguar, as
well as Love Life, in which she wrote, acted, and produced. She
has also written other films: RobbyKallePaul; I Was on Mars;
Stille Nacht and Meschugge.
Selected Credits
2014
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Lose My Self
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Sisters
Die Chefin
2012
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Alleingang
2011
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In Darkness
2010
2009
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The Crocodiles Strike Back
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The Crocodiles
2008
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Tatort
2007
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Patchwork
2005
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Schneeland
2003
2002
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Rosenstrasse
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Väter
2001
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Viktor Vogel – Commercial Man
Emil Und Die Detektive
2013
1999
1998
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Aimée & Jaguar
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Meschugge
Bin Ich Schön?
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Der Unfisch
1995
1994
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Silent Night
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Nobody Loves Me
Burning Life
1992
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I Was on Mars
1997
Maria Schrader
Awards
1999
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49th Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Bear for Best Actress for Aimée & Jaguar
Won the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Film Award in Gold at the German Film
Awards for Aimée & Jaguar and Meschugge
Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for Aimée & Jaguar
1995
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1995 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for Keiner Liebt Mich and Burning Life
1992
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1992 Won the Best Young Actress award at the Max Ophüls Festival for I Was on Mars
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Sonja Gerhardt
Plays Annett Schneider
Biography
Sonja Gerhardt was born on April 2, 1989 in Berlin, Germany,
best known for roles in Summer, Mittlere Reife and Türkisch für
Anfänger.
Credits
2015
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Vancouver Bay –
Alles Auf Anfang
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Sin & Illy Still Alive
Weihnachten für Einsteiger
Die Schlikkerfrauen
Dessau Dancers
Tape_13
Stuttgart Homicide
Heiter bis tödlich –
Hauptstadtrevier
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Mordshunger –
Verbrechen Und Andere Delikatessen
Danni Lowinski
Flaschenpost An Meinen Mann 2006
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Schneeweißchen Und Rosenrot
SOKO Köln
Heiraten Ist Auch Keine Lösung
Auf Herz Und Nieren
The Hunt for the Amber Room
Mittlere Reife
Türkisch für Anfänger
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Krauses Braut
Rosa Roth
Großstadtrevier
Mein eigen Fleisch und Blut
The Seduction – The Strange Girl
Coast Guard
Doctor’s Diary
2009
2008
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Tatort
Der Doc Und Die Hexe
Bukow and König
Spear of Destiny
Spook Inn
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Volcano
A Date for Life
Wild Chicks and Life
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Sklaven Und Herren
In Aller Freundschaft
Summer
Die 25. Stunde
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Love Is in the Air
Sonja Gerhardt
Awards
2012
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Won Hessian TV Award for Best Ensemble Cast for Mittlere Reife
Sylvester Groth
Plays Walter Schweppenstette
Biography
Sylvester Groth (born 31 March 1958) is a German film actor
and tenor.
He is best known to English language audiences for appearing in
Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, in which
he portrayed Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
His first major film role was in 1993’s Stalingrad. Groth also
portrayed Goebbels in the 2007 German film My Führer.
Selected Credits
2015
2007
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Der Kronzeuge
Side Effects
My Führer
2006
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Bella Block
Nevermore
Lulu
2005
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Käthchens Traum
Unsolved
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The Secret Inquisition
A Light in Dark Places
The Third Wave
2001
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Liebe. Macht. Blind.
Romeo
2000
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Der Briefbomber
Verzweiflung
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Der Preis der Sehnsucht
Requiem for a Romantic Woman
1997
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Gesches Gift
Sperling
1993
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Stalingrad
Das Letzte U-Boot
1986
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Momo
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Naked Among Wolves
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Bukow and König
The Old Fox
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A Pact
Der Kriminalist
Tatort
Generation War
2012
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The Weekend
Freshly Squeezed
Shores of Hope
2003
2011
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Beate Uhse - Das Recht auf Liebe
Bittere Kirschen
Tom Sawyer
2010
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Keiner Geht Verloren
Inspektor Barbarotti
Aghet - Ein Völkermord
KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst
2009
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Mein Leben & Ich
Tender Parasites
Inglourious Basterds
Hilde
2008
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Buddenbrooks
The Reader
Die Weisheit Der Wolken
Fleisch Ist Mein Gemüse
2014
2013
1999
Sylvester Groth
Awards & Nominations
2010
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Won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for
Inglorious Basterds (shared with cast)
2007
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Won Critics Award Film at the German Critics Association Awards for Mein Führer – Die Wirklich
Wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (My Führer)
Nominated for Film Award in Gold Best Performance by an Actor at the German Film Awards in a
Supporting Role for Mein Führer – Die Wirklich Wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (My Führer)
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2002
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Nominated for the Adolf Grimme Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement
Ulrich Noethen
Plays General Wolfgang Edel
Biography
Ulrich Noethen (born 18 November 1959) is a German actor
who has appeared in many movies and TV films, perhaps best
known for Downfall and The Promise. He has played Heinrich
Himmler twice, in Downfall and My Führer.
Ulrich has won various awards for his acting, including the
German Film Award, the Bavarian Film Award, the Adolf
Grimme Award and the Golden Camera.
Selected Credits
2014
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Ich Will Dich
Pettersson und Findus
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Mein Mann, Ein Mörder
Die Erfinderbraut
Broken Glass Park
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Allerleirauh
Eine Hand Wäscht die Andere
Hannah Arendt
A Coffee in Berlin
Moon Man
2011
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Zwei Übern Berg
Das Unsichtbare Mädchen
It’s Not Over
The Promise
Hindenburg
2010
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The Old Fox
Kommissar Süden
Und Der Luftgitarrist
Henri 4
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A Case for Two
Tatort
Teufelsbraten
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Long Shadows
Ett Enklare Liv
Was Wenn Der Tod
Uns Scheidet?
2013
2012
2009
2008
2007
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The Hidden Word
My Führer
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Life Actually
2005
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The Airlift
Polly Blue Eyes
2004
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Downfall
Jargo
2003
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Rosa Roth
The Flying Classroom
2002
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Bibi Blocksberg
I’m the Father
The Red Jacket
Francisca
2001
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The Slurb
Meine Polnische Jungfrau
2000
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Gripsholm
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
1999
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Grüne Wüste
Beckmann und Markowski – Gehetzt
Viehjud Levi
1997
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The Harmonists
1996
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Der Ausbruch
2006
Ulrich Noethen
Awards
2010
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Won the Adolf Grimme Fiction Award for Kommissar Süden Und Der Luftgitarrist (shared)
2009
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Won the Adolf Grimme Fiction Award for Teufelsbraten (shared)
2006
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Won the Golden Camera for Best German Actor
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Won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Actor The Slurb
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Won the Special Award at the Bavarian Film Awards for The Harmonists (shared)
Won the Film Award in Gold Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for The Harmonists at
the German Film Awards
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Won the RTL Golden Lion for Best Supporting Actor in Der Ausbruch
2002
1998
1997