Simon Schwarz
Simon Schwarz (born 10 January 1971) is an Austrian actor. He is known for his role as Chris Wegner in the medical drama series Die Eifelpraxis and as Rudi Birkenberger in the Franz Eberhofer series of crime films. Since 2019 he has been starring with Eberhofer actor Sebastian Bezzel in a documentary TV series Bezzel & Schwarz - Die Grenzgänger, in which they live and travel in a motorhome through Bavaria, Germany. He plays a lead role in the 2025 Slovak-Austrian co-production Perla.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9779 |
| Birthday | 1971-01-10 |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Also Known As |
1998
The Inheritors
6.611/18
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be...
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The Inheritors
2000
LiebesLuder
5/8
Pretty student Ina arrives in the small town of Meschede. After setting up a date with the bus driver Speedy, she flirts with other locals at the loca...
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LiebesLuder
2000
Come, Sweet Death
7.35/70
Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organiza...
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Come, Sweet Death
2007
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
5.5/13
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
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The Heart Is a Dark Forest
2009
The Bone Man
7.344/112
Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway...
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The Bone Man
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
4.7/61
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian offi...
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2004
Silentium
7.232/71
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentric...
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Silentium
2001
Zwölfeläuten
3.333/3
A village in Styria, Austria, 1945. A troop of the elderly, the lame, and the village idiots roams the woods. When the Nazis invade to collect metal f...
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Zwölfeläuten
2008
Räuber Kneißl
4.714/7
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...
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Räuber Kneißl
2006
Heavyweights
6.34/25
In 1952, four passionate bobsledders - Gamser, Franzl, Gustl and Leusl Peter prepare for the Winter Olympics in Oslo. There, the veteran Bavarian Gams...
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Heavyweights
2022
The Conference
6.674/135
On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organizatio...
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The Conference
2010
Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus
5.625/8
Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the...
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Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus
2008
North Face
7.166/317
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
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North Face
2000
The Stranger
6.083/6
The seedy underbelly of Vienna at night. Mercedes is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer,...
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The Stranger
2022
Wishaway
0/0
An act of violence forces a young mother and her 3-year-old son to flee across wintry Austria. On her journey she has to face responsibility and event...
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Wishaway
2009
Murder on Amrum
7.25/6
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...
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Murder on Amrum
1999
Girls under investigation
7/1
Two young women are hitchhiking when they get picked up by a man who proceeds to sexually assault them. He disappears after that. The suspicion that t...
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Girls under investigation
2022
The Hawk
7.667/3
The long-lost bon vivant Mike Bittini learns that his brother has fallen into a coma. He returns to his family, sneaks in like a hawk in the chicken c...
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The Hawk
2022
Boom and Bloom
4/4
In the Austrian Alps, father and son set out on a hike to finally climb to the top of their emotional world.
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Boom and Bloom
2022
Tales of Franz
6.143/7
Franz is by far the smallest in the class, has blond ringlets and gets a high-pitched squeaky voice when he gets upset. Luckily, two best friends help...
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Tales of Franz
2012
Wer's glaubt wird selig
6.1/31
The snow is staying away from the Bavarian ski village of Haunzenberg, and so are the skiers. Business is failing and so is Georg's relationship with...
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Wer's glaubt wird selig
2011
Am Ende des Tages
5.727/11
The successful politician Robert is going on a romantic weekend trip with his pregnant wife Katharina as a unexpected old friend of Robert, Wolfgang,...
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Am Ende des Tages
2003
To the Future through the Night
6.5/2
Nick, a jobless cook, falls in love with Anna, a film student. Some time after their adventurous first night she leaves him. Then time starts to run b...
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To the Future through the Night
2001
The Praying Mantis
7.333/3
Trixi Jancik leads a risky double life. At home, she is an obedient housewife. But when she puts on a disguise and goes to the racetrack to indulge in...
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The Praying Mantis
2013
Dampfnudelblues
6.816/152
After the forcible transfer to his Bavarian home village, an ex-criminal cop investigates the death of a school principal who he thinks had lots to hi...
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Dampfnudelblues
2013
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
5.4/8
The ultra-conservative master butcher Franz dies from an electric shock. His spirit is chained to the black African asylum seeker Alpha, who is in the...
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Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
2013
Polt.
5.8/5
Much has changed for Simon Polt, a retired gendarmerie inspector. He's embarking on new career paths, and his future with his long-time girlfriend, Ka...
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Polt.
2023
Der Metzger traut sich
7.5/1
The time has come: Willibald Metzger is marrying the woman of his dreams, Danjela Djurkovic! But everything changes at the altar. Instead of saying "I...
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Der Metzger traut sich
2023
How do we get out of this?
4/1
Christmas – usually not the favourite holiday of the atheist Wanda, a surgeon and feminist mother of teenage Nina. And most certainly not in times of...
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How do we get out of this?
2006
Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung
4.818/11
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Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung
2013
Die Holzbaronin
7/2
A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century.
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Die Holzbaronin
2014
Clara Immerwahr
6.8/4
Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle for acknowledgment in nationalistic Germany durin...
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Clara Immerwahr
2023
The Male Gaze: A Better Tomorrow
0/0
Go on an enriching journey from Mexico to Spain, onto Austria and then to China via Greece in these five moving short films where gay men overcome var...
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The Male Gaze: A Better Tomorrow
2009
Mein Kampf
3.574/27
The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He befriends the Jew Schlomo Herzl working on a novel with the ti...
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Mein Kampf
2011
Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht
6/4
The pre-Christmas season is anything but contemplative for Lina, model and advertising jingle singer, and her best friend Nettie, who runs an event an...
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Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht
2003
Irgendwas ist immer
10/1
On her 23rd birthday, Julia is dumped by her boyfriend Patrick, her hoped-for career as a pop journalist vanishes into thin air and she finds out that...
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Irgendwas ist immer
2003
Adam & Eva
4.625/8
In the beginning there was fire: Adam and Eve were on fire for each other when he rescued her from a blazing house. Now they have been married for fou...
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Adam & Eva
2014
Winterkartoffelknödel
6.943/131
A policeman suspects that several bizarre deaths in the same family were murders and that the killer is a mysterious woman who just moved to the villa...
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Winterkartoffelknödel
2015
About a Girl
6.83/44
Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the pictu...
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About a Girl
2021
Die Unschuldsvermutung
0/0
Anticipation in Salzburg Festival: the new production of "Don Giovanni" is in its final rehearsals and the arrival of the famous conductor Marius Atte...
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Die Unschuldsvermutung
2023
Rehragout-Rendezvous
6.705/56
Bavaria's most laid-back cop returns, juggling parenting and working at the family farm with the reopening of a grisly cold case.
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Rehragout-Rendezvous
1999
Der Schandfleck
9/1
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Der Schandfleck
2002
Die Frauenversteher - Männer unter sich
7.333/3
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Die Frauenversteher - Männer unter sich
2012
Trau niemals deiner Frau
6/2
Carolin and Niklas have a happy marriage and enjoy the suburban idyll. However, with the intimate harmony, it is over when Carolin's exile is suddenly...
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Trau niemals deiner Frau
2011
Vatertag
5/1
Otto is the proud father of his three children, David, Julia, and Pius. This requires considerable logistical skill, as the three mothers must not kno...
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Vatertag
2011
Meine Schwester
6.3/3
Katharina Wallner is the owner of a long-established business for film videos. After the will of her disinherited landlord Heinz Ortner she should now...
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Meine Schwester
2016
Schweinskopf al dente
6.978/116
As he tries to win back his ex-girlfriend, a lethargic Lower Bavarian police officer gets sidetracked by a panicky boss and an escaped psychopath.
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Schweinskopf al dente
2002
Ninas Geschichte
4/3
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Ninas Geschichte
2015
Everything Will Be Okay
7.097/31
A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can't help feeling t...
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Everything Will Be Okay
2010
Die Mutprobe
5.2/3
After 16 years, Sabine travels back to her home village. The occasion is a class reunion. She wants to return to Vienna that very evening. She has onl...
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Die Mutprobe
2015
Father-Out-Law
6.2/6
The Thai Lamai had imagined “the beautiful piece of earth” differently when she arrived at Joe, her newlywed husband, in snowy Upper Bavaria. Instead...
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Father-Out-Law
1999
Die Nichte und der Tod
9/1
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Die Nichte und der Tod
2005
Crash Test Dummies
4.9/10
Ana and Nicolae, a young Romanian couple, travel by bus from Bucharest to Vienna with the prospect of making quick money by handing over a stolen car....
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Crash Test Dummies
2015
Das Dorf des Schweigens
6.7/6
Eva hasn't seen her older sister Lydia for many years. Now, shortly before Eva's wedding, Lydia returns to her hometown - and accuses Eva's groom of s...
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Das Dorf des Schweigens
2001
Oh du Liebezeit
9/1
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Oh du Liebezeit
2013
Jedermann
0/0
Since 1920, "Jedermann," "The Play of the Rich Man's Death" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has been performed at the Salzburg Festival in front of the migh...
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Jedermann
2015
Twilight Over Burma
7.667/6
The U.S. scholarships Austrian student Inge and young mining student from Burma Sao Kya Seng fall in love. But it's only at the lavish wedding ceremon...
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Twilight Over Burma
2002
Step on It
5.063/8
Evi, a young single mother, works as a seasonal waitress in a winter sports village. She is young and wants to live on the edge and get all the enjoym...
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Step on It
2016
Seitenwechsel
5.364/22
The relationship of Alex and Teresa has hit hard times. After 15 years of marriage, the passionate football coach and the sensitive psychoanalyst do n...
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Seitenwechsel
2014
Radical Evil
7.2/8
Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes and individual decision latitude "normal young men...
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Radical Evil
2016
Mama geht nicht mehr
4.5/1
Doctor affected by cancer tries to reconcile with her daughter in view of her imminent death.
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Mama geht nicht mehr
2008
Mutig in die neuen Zeiten - Alles anders
0/0
1974, the year of the oil crisis and car-free day. Things are going haywire for the Redlich and Berkovitz families. Elfi Redlich finds her supposed gr...
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Mutig in die neuen Zeiten - Alles anders
2006
Mutig in die neuen Zeiten – Nur keine Wellen
1/2
October 1960. Nineteen-year-old Charlie tries his luck as a rock 'n' roll musician on the Reeperbahn. His mother Elfi has her hands full with her sick...
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Mutig in die neuen Zeiten – Nur keine Wellen
2015
Einer für alle, alles im Eimer
2/2
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Einer für alle, alles im Eimer
2016
The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games
6.286/7
Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through a...
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The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games
1996
Tempo
5/6
Jojo, a bicycle messenger prone to daydreaming, gets a job offer from a stranger that begins to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. When the r...
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Tempo
2017
The Dumpling Affair
7.076/112
After a provincial policeman gets falsely accused of a crime that was committed with his pocket knife, he begins a turbulent hunt for the real murdere...
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The Dumpling Affair
1998
Quintett komplett
6.5/2
Ulrich believes that affairs can't harm a truly good marriage. That's why he's set his sights on the attractive Jutta. Jutta believes that his life so...
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Quintett komplett
2026
Steckerlfischfiasko
7.4/6
Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a...
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Steckerlfischfiasko
2002
Storno
10/1
The village of Hassenhausen, with a population of 370, is located somewhere in the Hessian province and has little to offer apart from a motorway conn...
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Storno
2017
Unter deutschen Betten
4.8/9
After a disastrous performance and a philandering producer leave her publicly humiliated, a faltering pop star takes up work as a cleaning woman.
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Unter deutschen Betten
2017
Für dich dreh ich die Zeit zurück
5/3
Hartmut has been with Erika for over 40 years, but his wife has Alzheimer's and their memories together are fading. When they both visit their grandda...
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Für dich dreh ich die Zeit zurück
2016
Hidden Reserves
5.9/20
The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is rep...
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Hidden Reserves
2002
Icarus
5.5/4
Lena is homeless. She couldn't get a foothold in the big city, she hasn't been at home in the country for a long time and she only knows the big, wide...
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Icarus
2015
Hedi Schneider Is Stuck
6.184/19
A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First...
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Hedi Schneider Is Stuck
2013
Zweisitzrakete
7.5/4
A man who wants to steal an old two-seater rocket from the technical museum out of love can't be a bad person. It must have hit him hard. Here's the t...
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Zweisitzrakete
2017
Kilimandscharo - Reise ins Leben
5.389/9
Kilimanjaro mountain guide Simon has already experienced a lot, but never before has he been entrusted with a group in which everyone thinks only of t...
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Kilimandscharo - Reise ins Leben
2009
Gletscherblut
4.5/1
Glaciologist Carlo and the mayor's daughter Lisa have barely been married when their marriage is put to the test. Lisa and her father are planning a s...
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Gletscherblut
2018
Class Reunion 1.0
5.755/98
Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion.
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Class Reunion 1.0
2004
Ein Mann für den 13ten
4.333/3
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Ein Mann für den 13ten
2007
Tango zu dritt
6/1
An attractive farmer's wife attends a tango course in Munich with a friend while her two grumpy husbands stay on the farm. In the city, she attracts t...
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Tango zu dritt
2018
Sauerkrautkoma
7.061/106
When a hilariously dull policeman moves in with his best buddy in Munich, he has to deal with scandals, a corpse — and potential marriage.
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Sauerkrautkoma
2005
Unveiled
6.5/23
Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the...
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Unveiled
2013
Striving for Freedom
6.273/11
Silesia, 1844. After her husband dies in a brutally suppressed weavers’ uprising, Mila emigrates to America. En route to Texas, she rescues Countess C...
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Striving for Freedom
2018
Extraklasse
8.25/4
The worn-out ex-journalist Ralph has to work as a substitute teacher at an evening school and in the end learns more than his protegees.
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Extraklasse
2018
Hubert und Staller – Eine schöne Bescherung
6.938/8
During the Christmas holidays, Hubert and Staller investigate the demise of an elderly pensioner who died suspiciously but unnoticed a year earlier.
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Hubert und Staller – Eine schöne Bescherung
2019
Caviar
5.133/15
Russian Oligarch Igor is as rich as he is extravagant: He plans to build his brand new villa right on a world famous and preserved bridge in the middl...
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Caviar
2018
What Have We Done to Deserve This?
5.4/37
Wanda's world has been turned upside down when her teenage daughter Nina suddenly turns up in a hijab. Nina has secretly converted to Islam.
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What Have We Done to Deserve This?
2019
Leberkäsjunkie
6.935/107
While dealing with a burnt-down house, smelly diapers and brutal lack of sleep, a Lower Bavarian police officer faces his worst adversary: cholesterol...
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Leberkäsjunkie
2013
Great
4/41
Did the Nazis ever see Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator'? Yugoslavia, 1942 - The young Serbian projectionist Nikola Radosevic decides to teach th...
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Great
2019
Nimm Du ihn
6.4/4
Siblings Mareike, Dietrich and Felicitas Reber can hardly believe their eyes when, after an absence of 50 years, their father Xaver, who was thought t...
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Nimm Du ihn
2021
Kaiserschmarrndrama
6.893/84
A dicey murder investigation. A fuming best friend. A chaotic living situation. Village police officer Franz Eberhofer has a lot on his plate right no...
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Kaiserschmarrndrama
2002
Die Katzenfrau
3.667/3
At a conference in Verona, the dutiful German family man falls under the spell of the Italian Elsa. As soon as he falls for her, she disappears withou...
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Die Katzenfrau
2019
7500
6.155/956
When terrorists try to seize control of a Berlin-Paris flight, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot struggles to save the lives of the passengers and...
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7500
2000
Anatomy
6.069/333
Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissec...
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Anatomy
2020
Im Abgrund
6.4/8
Not everyone deserves a second chance. The experienced investigator Wallat is sure of that - and certainly not the child murderer Hagenow, who is rele...
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Im Abgrund
1998
Das Siegel
3/1
A number of horrific murders of women take place in a big city. The police follows a lead to a young man named Jesse. The evicence is overwhelming and...
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Das Siegel
2020
Alle Nadeln an der Tanne
5.1/7
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Alle Nadeln an der Tanne
2020
Das Glück ist ein Vogerl
6/2
Salzburg. A few weeks before Christmas. Franz, in his late forties, secretly dreams of a career as a rock guitarist, but in real life he ekes out an u...
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Das Glück ist ein Vogerl
2010
Tiger Team: The Mountain of 1000 Dragons
5.3/10
The Viennese detective children Biggi, Patrick and Luke find a key in dragon form, and their curiosity is aroused. They realize that the sinister Lad...
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Tiger Team: The Mountain of 1000 Dragons
2000
Der Sommer mit Boiler
10/1
Shortly before her wedding, Sonja meets a photographer in the botanical garden. On a whim, she tells him the love story of her youth: in the summer of...
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Der Sommer mit Boiler
2021
Flammenmädchen
6.808/13
First barns burn, then an old house burns. A fire brigade goes around. A corpse burned beyond recognition is found in the old house. Intention or amaz...
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Flammenmädchen
2022
Guglhupfgeschwader
6.343/67
Bavaria's most relaxed village policeman has to face an organized crime syndicate coming after his grandmother's cakes.
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Guglhupfgeschwader
2010
Beelzebub
0/0
A stubborn, atmospheric and brutal view of the great love between father and daughter.
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Beelzebub
2025
Perla
7/9
In the 1980s, a single mother who fled communist Czechoslovakia has to return to her homeland in order to pay an old debt. The risky trip is upset by...
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Perla
2024
Der Metzger – Mordstheater
7/1
Willibald Adrian Metzger is supposed to restore the interior of a dance theater in Graz. But then the lead actress and, shortly thereafter, the unders...
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Der Metzger – Mordstheater
2023
New Tales of Franz
5.75/8
In the second part of the successful children's book adaptation, Franz, Gabi and Eberhard go on a turbulent hunt for criminals during the summer holid...
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New Tales of Franz
2022
Schrille Nacht
5.7/6
On December 24, in the middle of the supposedly quietest time of the year, anything is possible! And this is exactly what the episodic film "Schrille...
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Schrille Nacht
2008
Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief
10/1
A fascinating chronology of 100 years of mountain film history in the Alps. This documentary focuses primarily on films shot on the Matterhorn, the Ei...
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