Michael Schenk
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osnabrück, Germany
Birthday: December 21, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Die Weihnachtswette
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-12-10
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Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
Overview: Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Measures of Men
Overview: Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-02-22
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Munich
Overview: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-23
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Tod einer Polizistin
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-03
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Eine unbeliebte Frau
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Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-05-13
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Rien ne va plus
Overview: Bodo is standing on the top of a roof and ready to jump, when suddenly his phone is ringing...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-10-24
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Advertising Rules!
Overview: Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy parents, wants to establish herself as an artist. The clumsy and enthusiastic Viktor, not quite honest, wants work. When he wanders into Kaminsky's meeting with Opel and says something about irony, the Opel director wants him in on the campaign. Then he steals an idea from Rosa that the Opel director loves. Before Rosa discovers he's expropriated her idea, Rosa and Viktor become lovers. Father-son feelings materialize between Kaminsky and Viktor. Can the impulsive Viktor hold it together before Rosa learns the truth and flies away?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-03-03
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Before the Fall
Overview: In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column,Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-07-04
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Schneewittchen muss sterben
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-02-25
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A Murder of Crows
Overview: Empathy is a two-edged sword, especially for Martin. Tormented by the past, haunted by the present, the chief inspector is a brilliant investigator and, together with his team, solves the most convoluted cases. From kidnapping to hostage situations, to murder. Unable to eat or sleep until a case is solved, they all take their toll.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-05-07
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Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe
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Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-08
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Das Baby-Komplott
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-05-15
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Heart of Stone
Overview: Penniless Peter Munk toils day after day as a charcoal burner in the Black Forest. In order to finally achieve the wealth he longs for and thus get closer to his previously unattainable crush Lisbeth, he turns to two mysterious forest spirits with his wishes. While the cranky little glass man can't really help him, the sinister Dutchman-Michel promises him an end to his financial worries. However, he demands Peter's heart in return and puts a cold stone in his chest instead. Although he can now afford everything and finally take Lisbeth as his wife, Peter no longer has any compassion, which soon has devastating consequences not only for himself but also for his fellow human beings.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-20
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Tiefe Wunden
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-02-02
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Finnlandia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-09
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A Good Summer
Overview: A tragicomedy about the trials and tribulations of life: three lonely hearts find each other, drift apart and experience the happiness of the moment together
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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Wer Wind sät
Overview: Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff determine in the environment of a wind turbine company and their opponents - each of which has its own motive. A storm of revenge, greed and betrayal brews together.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-05-04
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Overview: It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.
Genres: History Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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Windland
Overview: Oskar lives with his ill father in a quiet village. Twenty years ago, his brother Theo was caught with an underage girl and has since left their lives. Then the village is startled: Theo reappears when an eight-year-old girl is murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-05
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Der Kommissar und die Angst
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-04-29
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Not All Were Murderers
Overview: Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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The Investigation
Overview: Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, in its intensity and graphically described detail.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-07-25
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Bridge of Spies
Overview: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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Der Kommissar und das Kind
Overview: Two-year-old Paulina is suddenly no longer in her crib, and everything points to an abduction. But the hijacker does not answer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-11-20
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Das Kommando
Overview: General Heinz Büchner is in charge of a special unit of the German army. His son Christopher is a member of the unit. They get the mission to take out a band of terrorists that plan an attack on the American headquarters in Heidelberg.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-06-26
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Ein Schnupfen hätte auch gereicht
Overview: At the height of her career, the well-known comedy and TV star Gaby Köster suffers a serious stroke. However, the multi-award winning artist does not give up, fighting back despite many ups and downs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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Der Sandmann
Overview: The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-10-04
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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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Mordsfreunde
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-20
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Enemy at the Gates
Overview: A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Genres: Drama War History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-28
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Times Change You
Overview: After the bestselling book comes the film about Germany's most successful rapper: authentic, provocative and radical. Despite all his successes, Bushido has to face the demons of his past again and again.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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Beyond the Wall
Overview: In September 1974, at the Bösebrücke border crossing between East and West Germany, Heike and Ulrich Molitor, along with their two little children, are caught trying to escape to the West. As a punishment the parents are presented with a terrible decision: they will be permitted to leave for West Germany with their seven-year-old son Klaus, but their two-year-old daughter Miriam must remain in East Germany and will be given up for adoption. If the Molitors refuse these conditions, they will both be imprisoned for a year—and both their children will be taken from them. This situation forms the basis for an emotional story in which various destinies in East and West intertwine, reaching a dramatic climax with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-30
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Overview: 'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
Genres: Action Crime Drama History Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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Der beste Lehrer der Welt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-09-25
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Spätwerk
Overview: Paul Bacher is in crisis. If he could feel in the past as one of the most influential writers of his generation, he has long lacked ideas and impetus for a new great work. His reading tours are becoming more and more a sad affair with too much alcohol and too little public. Then Paul overflows in a drunken hitchhiker, flees first scared and later removes the body, without talking to anyone about the experience. But something is flowing in its interior. Paul starts to write again. The criticism is done, but the story about the death of a hitchhiker also arouses suspicion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-05-16
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Zwei mitten im Leben
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-15
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After the Truth
Overview: The famous Nazi-Doctor Dr. Josef Mengele - the "death angel of Auschwitz", who killed more than 300.000 people - comes back from his hide out in Argentina to Germany as a 87 year old man. He must stand up in front of a court for his crimes. The young solicitor Peter Rohm has to defend him. But Peter Rohm - himself an expert on Josef Mengele and his crimes - feels unable to do this. When he decides to take on the case he endangers not only the relationship to his wife but also their lifes. A fictional story around the non-fictional person of Josef Mengele who died in 1979.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-09-23
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Head Burst
Overview: Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling disgust of himself, Markus can't help but feel attracted to young boys. When he thinks he won't be able to suppress his deepest feelings, he decides to isolate himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Measuring the World
Overview: Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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Shores of Hope
Overview: In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-07-03
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Der Kommissar und die Wut
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-12-07
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Fallada - im Rausch des Schreibens
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-11-23
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