Irina Potapenko
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Biography: Irina Potapenko (*1986 in Crimea) is a German-Ukrainian actress. Potapenko was born on the Crimean peninsula in the then Soviet Union. In 1994 she came to Berlin with her mother. Since she was twelve years old, she has played theater, first in a Russian chamber theater, later at the Volksbühne Berlin, among other things, in productions by Frank Castorf. The FilmRevenge was nominated for the Oscar as the best non-English-language film. In addition, she also participated in radio plays. In 2009, she was awarded the Actor Award at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival and nominated for Best German Actress in 2012 for the Jupiter Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irina Potapenko, licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Repubblica autonoma di Crimea
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Birthday: January 01, 1986
Age: 39 years old
Gender: Female
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Running on Empty
Overview: Running on Empty (German: Der Lebensversicherer) is a 2006 German drama film directed by Bülent Akinci. It was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where Jens Harzer won the award for Best Actor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-02-14
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Revanche
Overview: Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-05-16
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The Coming Days
Overview: Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called into fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-11-04
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Murder on Amrum
Overview: Two policemen are stationed on Amrum, a North Sea island on the West coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’ – an elder, and one who is several decades his junior. Life is easy, just that the junior can’t find a wife, because no young woman seems to be interested in the peaceful life on the island. All of a sudden, a wounded lady who turns out to be one of two bodyguard for a threatened witness who lives in hiding on Amrum, bursts into the police station and seeks help from the two officers. I missed some bits of the plot, but somehow, the second one of the bodyguards hiding the witness on the island has been killed already, and the second one, seeking help from the local police, was wounded in the incidence, and then she apparently succumbs, too.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Visitors
Overview: During an unannounced visit to Berlin, Jakob and Hanna let their three grown up children know that they are no longer able to support them financially. Karla, Arnolt and Sonni seem to live successful city lives; but, on closer inspection, they are in the middle of different life-crises, which have a common cause: lack of independence. After a big family quarrel and a painful revelation of life-lies, every single relative is made aware of how little he or she knows about the others – though still interdependent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-20
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Daughters
Overview: Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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The Lies of the Victors
Overview: Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Et ekteskap
Overview: Geir is a Norwegian middle-aged bachelor waiting for his Russian wife to be. Tina is young and beautiful. Set as an exploration of their first few weeks together, A Marriage tells a tale of fragile love.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-22
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Driven
Overview: Psychologist Kara Bischoff and LKA Commissioner Sibylle Deininger, once a couple, are reunited by a brutal murder case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-08-23
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Brother and Sister
Overview: Neukölln, a trendy district in Berlin. Living space is scarce here. Without surety, proof of credit worthiness and salary there is no chance at all now. Thies knows this game; he works for a real estate management company and watches that the rules are upheld - until he meets Bruno and Sonja. He provides the dissimilar siblings with a flat free of charge on the quiet. And enters into an affair with the brother. Step by step he becomes more deeply immersed in the secret of the "siblings". A Berlin film about a loner who gets caught up. About a couple with unclear residency status. About a city everyone wants to live in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Der Idiot
Overview: Unites grotesque elements, tempo, quiet dream sequences, the thrill of a detective story, but above all, he manages to capture the temperature of an actor ensemble that throws itself into the world of Dostoyevsky with immense pleasure and passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Grandmother
Overview: An immigrant family wants to bring grandmother's ashes to Germany, in a cookie jar. But they did not expect the conscientious compliance of German customs officials at the airport.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Mär - A German Tale
Overview: In dystopian Germany - just a breath away from our current reality - the return of the wolf triggers a mysterious fascination among the citizens. When journalist Leo Bernstein sets out to investigate, he gets drawn into a long-forgotten fairy tale that places him in great danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-06-29
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Princess
Overview: Four cigarette-smoking, alcohol-drinking, troublesome adolescents wander between the concrete skyscrapers of downtrodden West-German suburbia. These uncouth youths are surprisingly not boys but girls with attitude, quick-tempers and foul-mouths, who violently vent their scorn on any unfortunate soul who gets in their way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-10
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Nord bei Nordost - Westend
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-01
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Aus dem Leben
Overview: Primary school teacher Sabine Schuster suffers a sudden stroke during a theatre rehearsal with her pupils. Doctors are able to save her life in hospital, but the path back to everyday life is difficult and uncertain. For Sabine's husband Stefan, a forester, nothing is as it was either. While Sabine has to laboriously relearn things that are taken for granted, such as speaking or walking, in rehab, Stefan adapts the house in Ilmenau, Thuringia, to his wife's needs in the hope that the familiar surroundings will do her good. But Sabine is so disappointed by her condition that she initially resists everything that will help her recover. Out of shame, she avoids contact with her usual surroundings. She misses her work as a teacher and hiking. Seemingly lost in the mill of the care system, the new nurse Iryna, organized by Stefan, brings new hope with her very own, optimistic and demanding manner.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-07
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Overview: Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-02
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Der Masuren-Krimi - Mord in Galindien
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-04-03
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