Michael Kranz
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6717 |
| Birthday | 1983-04-17 |
| Place of Birth | Ravensburg, Germany |
| Also Known As |
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
2021
12 Tage Sommer
5.6/7
Twelve days on foot with a donkey from Munich to Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze: father Marcel and son Felix will certainly not forget this...
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12 Tage Sommer
2019
Falter
0/0
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Falter
2017
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
6.2/9
After an accident while climbing in Patagonia, extreme sportswoman Barbara is forced to return to her home country, which she left more than ten years...
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Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2022
Was Tun
8/3
Faced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into prostitution, Michael Kranz asked himself the apparently banal...
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Was Tun
2015
Another Kind of Light
5.8/4
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 y...
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Another Kind of Light
2024
Raw Materials
5.4/5
A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.
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Raw Materials
2021
Hannes
5.289/19
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 the...
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Hannes
2009
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
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Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
2023
Morin
0.5/1
A near-future film about our education and value system and the question of what our children are worth to us.
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Morin
2019
The Master Butcher
7.75/16
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 himsel...
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The Master Butcher
2011
War Horse
7.304/3763
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 beg...
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War Horse
2012
Sams im Glück
5.3/15
The Taschenbiers could actually lead quite a contented life - if it weren't for the strange fact that if you have a Sams in your home for 10 years, yo...
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Sams im Glück
2013
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
6.5/1
Princess Clara has a big problem. She lives in a kingdom that is so small that it doesn't appear in any fairy tales. But Clara would love to play Slee...
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Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
2013
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
0/0
The attractive policewoman Carla Paul still has the remains of her carnival make-up and glitter on her face. But now the motto is: "Make-up off and of...
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Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
2009
Inglourious Basterds
8.217/24729
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throug...
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Inglourious Basterds
2014
Hirngespinster
5.5/11
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...
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Hirngespinster
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
2015
13 Minutes
6.835/316
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, r...
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2009
The White Ribbon
7.475/1175
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...
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The White Ribbon
2011
Sommer der Gaukler
6/3
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 missi...
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Sommer der Gaukler
2010
Die Hummel
0/0
Pit Handlos has invested a lot of money in a dubious beauty product distribution business and has been trying to sell the products to former girlfrien...
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Die Hummel
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?
2016
Die Büffel sind los!
4.8/2
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 exampl...
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Die Büffel sind los!
2016
Mutter reicht's jetzt
4/1
On their 35th anniversary, Barbara dreams of Provence’s lavender fields, but her husband won’t budge. Secretly, she joins a French class with free‐spi...
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Mutter reicht's jetzt
2013
The Fifth Estate
6.011/1122
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the...
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The Fifth Estate
2010
The Last 30 Years
2.667/3
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...
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The Last 30 Years
2016
Siblings
3.333/3
The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey.
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Siblings
2015
Der Andi ist wieder da
0/0
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2009
Hanna und die Bankräuber
0/0
On her 35th birthday of all days, Hanna catches her boyfriend Robert in flagrante delicto. Hanna would like to be done with her life. But after a rath...
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Hanna und die Bankräuber
2015
Ein Sommer in Masuren
5.4/7
Sabine Waldmann is a special person. Her world is different to that of most people because she has Asperger's syndrome. Numbers and fixed structures g...
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Ein Sommer in Masuren
2015
Heidi
7.256/446
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 g...
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Heidi
2016
The Diary of Anne Frank
7.203/138
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
2012
A Family of Three
5/6
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...
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2016
King Laurin
6.5/3
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 o...
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King Laurin
2012
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
5.9/17
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contr...
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The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
7/1
1944. Somewhere in the occupied Central Europe. A multicultural triangle between a little shepherd and two officers from the opposite sides in a sensu...
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Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
2019
Onkel Wanja
2.667/3
A revolution breaks out, caused by a financial crisis, business intrigues and corresponding natural disasters. Alexander flees from the uprising in th...
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Onkel Wanja
2012
Rommel
6.047/75
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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Rommel
2010
Nanga Parbat
6.613/62
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
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Nanga Parbat
2019
Das Leben meiner Tochter
6.6/10
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 - agains...
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Das Leben meiner Tochter
2018
I love Everything I Hate About You
4/1
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 se...
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2019
The Goldfish
6.435/107
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 accide...
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The Goldfish
2014
Fräulein Else
5/1
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 enorm...
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Fräulein Else
2022
The Young Chief Winnetou
4.25/12
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 Winne...
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2017
Schildkröten Panzer
0/0
European animal protection laws, foreign deployments of the German army and a confiscated tortoise with a Syrian rebel flag painted on its shell. The...
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Schildkröten Panzer
2025
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
6.7/8
Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the yo...
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Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
2013
Finsterworld
6.362/65
The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.
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Finsterworld
2025
Time We Lost
7.2/7
School principal Hans is about to retire, but neither he nor his wife, Rita, are happy about their newly gained free time. For the past 35 years, thei...
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Time We Lost
2019
FrauMutterTier
5/2
Full-time mom Marie has everything under control and always gives a thousand percent: raising the children, running the household, scheduling appointm...
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FrauMutterTier
2026
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
6.2/2
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 populatio...
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Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
2013
Local Heroes
0/0
A leather jacket and eyes blackened with make-up. Tommy is a musician with heart, having long outlived his idol, Kurt Cobain. Like him, though, he is...
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