Michael Kranz
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Biography: Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism. Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018. His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ravensburg, Germany
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Rehragout-Rendezvous
Overview: A bang at the Eberhofer farm: Grandma goes on strike and wants to get rid of the family care in the future. Pure chaos! The family is supposed to learn how to take care of themselves. Now, of all times, Susi temporarily takes over Niederkaltenkirchen's town hall as deputy mayor and, with her newfound power, reduces Franz's position to part-time so that he can take care of son Pauli in the future. This action touches the Eberhofer's masculinity sensitively. Fortunately, it doesn't take long for a crow to pick up a human ear, and what should have been a deadlocked missing person's case surprisingly develops into a tricky murder case that once again unites Franz and Rudi as an investigative dream team in top form.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-08-10
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12 Tage Sommer
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Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-11-10
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Falter
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-01-20
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Ein Sommer im Allgäu
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Genres: Romance TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-11-26
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Was Tun
Overview: Faced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into prostitution, Michael Kranz asked himself the apparently banal question of “what can be done?” He travelled to Bangladesh and began to search for the girl. A film that is both self-critical and critical of society about the desire to at least do something and not to simply and passively give in to the injustices in this world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-03-03
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Another Kind of Light
Overview: Sissi and Theo are different, as one can hardly be more different. Theo, an intolerant, purposeful businessman who keeps people at bay, and Sissi, a young woman who has not yet found her way and still lives with her mother, would probably never have met if Theo did not go blind. Sissi is in rehearsal as a rehab trainer for the blind and Theo her first student.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-12-04
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Raw Materials
Overview: A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-09-26
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Hannes
Overview: Born at the same place, on the same day, Hannes and Moritz grow up to be inseparable friends. But one day a tragic motorcycle accident will change their lives forever, leaving Hannes in a coma with a slim chance of recovery. Moritz refuses to give up on his friend and puts his own life aside to ensure Hannes is always loved and surrounded by life and laughter. Trying to stand his ground, Moritz will then embark on an inspiring and life-changing journey, realizing that every day is worth celebrating and proving their friendship is stronger than ever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-11-25
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Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Morin
Overview: A near-future film about our education and value system and the question of what our children are worth to us.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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The Master Butcher
Overview: After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-12-27
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War Horse
Overview: On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Genres: War History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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Sams im Glück
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-03-27
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Hirngespinster
Overview: Simon falls head over heels in love with pretty and quick-witted Verena. When his father, who suffers from schizophrenia, has a relapse, Simon devotes himself completely to his mother and little sister and endangers his budding romance. Maneuvering himself into a near-fatal situation, Simon realizes that he cannot change the others' lives, but only his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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Inglourious Basterds
Overview: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-02
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Sommer der Gaukler
Overview: Summer 1780: On the way to Salzburg Emanuel Schikaneder's theatre group gets held up in a small mountain village on the Austrian border due to a missing performance permit. In this village a dispute between mine owner Paccoli and the rebelling mine workers is escalating. The situation immediately inspires Schikaneder with the idea for a new play- but before long not only the mineworkers, but also Schikaneder's performers take to the picket line. This is because Schikaneder seems to care more about spending time with high society than his actors, who the Landlord refuses to feed until Schikaneder pays the outstanding bill. A hastily put together open air performance by the troupe leads to major disruption....
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-22
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Die Hummel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-06-27
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Räuber Kneißl
Overview: Even today, Mathias Kneißl (1875-1902) is considered a national hero in the collective memory of Bavaria. During his lifetime, he was the most wanted criminal in Bavaria and even Prince Regent Luitpold was reported daily on the hunt for the lawbreaker report. Again and again Kneißl's story has occupied the Bavarian artists: his life was retold in folk songs and murders, sung in ballads, filmed and treated in various plays. In his feature film version, the Bavarian filmmaker Marcus H. Rosenmüller relies on a rapid staging, opulent images and a moving love story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-08-21
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Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
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Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-05-23
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Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-30
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13 Minutes
Overview: The breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, radical Georg Elser — disparaged as an assassin — is one of the greatest resistance fighters.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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The White Ribbon
Overview: An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Die Büffel sind los!
Overview: It is an absolute B movie. It starts like a fake western movie and continuous with an East European prostitute on the run from her manager. Bad example of a good quality German movie. There are many of good quality and better than average American entertainment. But this one is not.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-10-21
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Mutter reicht's jetzt
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-11-28
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The Fifth Estate
Overview: A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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The Last 30 Years
Overview: It is the love story of Resa and Oskar who meet in the 1970s in the midst if the leftist studen movements. For Resa it is love on first sight when she encounters the handsome and self-confident activist Oskar and is willing to do anything to get his attention. The relationship she dreams of finally comes true, but quickly problems arise. One day Oskar disappears without a trace from her life completely. Years later both meet again - now more mature and with surprising careers...
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-07-16
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Siblings
Overview: The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-03-01
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Hanna und die Bankräuber
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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Der Andi ist wieder da
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Ein Sommer in Masuren
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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Heidi
Overview: Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-12-10
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Overview: The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-03-03
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A Family of Three
Overview: When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional roller coaster that eventually shows them the virtue of being a family.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-10
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King Laurin
Overview: In a kingdom where plants are banned, the king's short son befriends Laurin, ruler of the dwarves, who is a great plant lover. But things spiral out of control when he steals his magical power belt to win a jousting tournament.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Overview: Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contradictory and, no surprises here, single young woman in her late-twenties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-11-29
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Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
Overview: 1944. Somewhere in the occupied Central Europe. A multicultural triangle between a little shepherd and two officers from the opposite sides in a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2012-02-09
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Onkel Wanja
Overview: A revolution breaks out, caused by a financial crisis, business intrigues and corresponding natural disasters. Alexander flees from the uprising in the capital to Uncle Vanya's farm in the countryside. There Alexander and his beautiful wife Elena cause further chaos with Alexander's business ideas. Will Vanya and Sonja manage to protect their farm from the outrage of capitalism?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-02-25
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Rommel
Overview: The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Genres: Action War History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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Nanga Parbat
Overview: Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-14
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Das Leben meiner Tochter
Overview: Eight-year-old Jana desperately needs a heart donor. But the months pass and there is no suitable organ. Out of desperation, her father Micha - against the advice of the doctors and the will of his wife - turns to illegal organ traders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-01-08
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I love Everything I Hate About You
Overview: While out for a walk in the forest one day, Helena, who is in love with her twin sister’s boyfriend, stum-bles upon a group of scientists setting hormone traps. Anyone who is to come in contact with the hormones, falls in love with the first person they see. Well, what if everyone falls in love with the wrong person?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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The Goldfish
Overview: Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes to an abrupt end, as he builds a self-inflicted accident on highway with 230 km / h and raced through a guardrail. When he wakes up in the hospital again, he faces a devastating diagnosis: paraplegia. Actually, a rehabilitation stay of several months is planned in the hospital, but Oliver soon falls on his head and ends up in a disabled shared flat with the name "Die Goldfische"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-02-28
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Fräulein Else
Overview: Else joins her aunt to spend her holidays in a remote luxury hotel in India. She receives a message by her mother disclosing that her father has enormous debts and her mother asks Else for help. This gets Else into serious troubles - with deadly consequences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-05-22
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The Young Chief Winnetou
Overview: Winnetou's tribe is in dire straits. There is a threat of famine as the all-important buffalo herds are now failing. As the headman's son, young Winnetou wants to prove to his father Intschu-chuna how brave he is and how great a warrior he can be, because he thinks his son still has a lot to learn. To save his tribe, he goes on a dangerous adventure.
Genres: Family Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-08-11
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Schildkröten Panzer
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-10-30
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Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Overview: Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love and death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-09-18
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Finsterworld
Overview: The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-17
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Rita und Hans
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
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FrauMutterTier
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-03-21
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An der Grenze
Overview: A murder case in Garmisch: the victim is the chairman of the nature conservation association, at a time when wolves are on the loose and the population is divided into wolf opponents and supporters. Investigators Ira Zach and Daphne Meindl pick up the trail.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: de
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