Thomas Thieme
Thomas Thieme (born 29 October 1948) is a German actor. He is considered to be a prolific stage actor and also appeared in more than 100 film and television productions since 1973.
In his film and television appearances, Thieme often plays powerful but morally dubious characters. He is perhaps best-known internationally for his roles as Martin Bormann in Downfall (2004) and as Communist minister Bruno Hempf in the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, for which he was compared to Sydney Greenstreet by Roger Ebert in his review. He played former Bayern Munich boss Uli Hoeneß, who had to spent time in jail for tax evasion, in the 2015 television film Der Patriarch. He had a recurring role in the successful series Babylon Berlin as the police chief Karl Zörgiebel.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9001 |
| Birthday | 1948-10-29 |
| Place of Birth | Weimar, Germany |
| Also Known As |
2006
The Lives of Others
8.038/4249
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes un...
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The Lives of Others
2004
Downfall
7.864/4442
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr...
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Downfall
1994
Das Phantom
6.333/3
After each new crime, the department store blackmailer Scrooge comes up with a more sophisticated method of handing over money. The Soko is often hot...
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Das Phantom
2007
Duel at Night
6.5/5
The committed inspector Jonas Birke, just new to the Frankfurt homicide squad, only has this one night left. The next day, his superior Lehm wants to...
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Duel at Night
2009
Effi Briest
5/21
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty y...
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Effi Briest
Tell – Jagd auf Ewig
0/0
King Rudolf of Habsburg dies in July 1291, leaving the valleys around Lake Lucerne in a power vacuum. The new despotic bailiff named Gissler proves to...
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Tell – Jagd auf Ewig
2005
Hitler's Final Days: The Movie 'Downfall'
7/1
Countless valuable info of Der Untegang's production as choice of St. Peterburg, how the German producers have been envisioned this upper-class movie...
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Hitler's Final Days: The Movie 'Downfall'
2024
LasVegas
6.5/2
Tristan is into fashion design while his parents take care of the rest. Sunny is a drag queen and a money boy, living life on the explosive side. When...
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LasVegas
2021
Kaiserspiel
7/4
On operated by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck the German Empire is finally founded in 1871 on the floors of Versailles castle, ancestral se...
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Kaiserspiel
2009
Beloved Berlin Wall
6.389/18
Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's...
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Beloved Berlin Wall
2009
Männersache
4.393/28
During the day Paul works in a Berlin pet shop and in the evening he works on his career as a comedian. Things are going really badly until he cracks...
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Männersache
1999
Fette Welt
6.111/9
They kiss and they fight, they love and they kill each other: Hagen Trinker and the others, bums and junkies, men and women. They live in Munich, unde...
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Fette Welt
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
2004
The Family Jewels
6.568/22
Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and all his future plan...
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The Family Jewels
2017
Rübezahls Schatz
5.7/12
The mountain spirit Rübezahl falls in love with the young maid Rosa. Blind with love, he does not notice that the Baroness of Harrant wants to plunder...
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Rübezahls Schatz
2011
Hotel Lux
5.898/49
In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have p...
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Hotel Lux
2011
Lessons of a Dream
6.95/119
An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.
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Lessons of a Dream
2013
Ein weites Herz
9.5/1
When Isa provokes the Nazis with a satirical song at her graduation party, she is denied her degree despite passing her exams. She has to give up her...
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Ein weites Herz
2013
Robin Hood
7/5
In the near future: the EU has collapsed, stock market prices have collapsed, energy costs have exploded; many thousands lose the roof over their head...
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Robin Hood
2013
George
6.7/3
The last years of Heinrich George's life are reconstructed with documentary footage and play scenes. His son Götz, named after Heinrich's favorite rol...
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George
2024
Max and the Senior Squad
6.313/8
Max can hardly believe his luck: In a retirement home, he has finally found a gang that will let him join! Admittedly, it's the oldest and most wrinkl...
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Max and the Senior Squad
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
2004
Die Versuchung
4/5
Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate without honors unlike his emigrated big brother, is...
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Die Versuchung
2011
Mörderisches Wespennest
1/2
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Mörderisches Wespennest
2011
Bastard
6.529/17
The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the par...
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Bastard
2009
Berlin '36
5.425/40
Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by...
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Berlin '36
2009
Liebling, weck die Hühner auf
5.4/5
Author Steffen Teuffel moved from Berlin to sleepy, 'dying' Brandenburg (ex-GDR) small-town Krummenwalde with his wife Beate, who runs the local bever...
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Liebling, weck die Hühner auf
2009
Der Mann aus der Pfalz
5/1
A docudrama about Germany's former chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose 16-year tenure during the 80s and 90s included the reunification of the country after...
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Der Mann aus der Pfalz
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
2009
Schuldig
4.5/1
The life of Professor Eva Senn, a successful science journalist and award-winning non-fiction author, quickly falls apart at the seams. First she is l...
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Schuldig
2011
If Not Us, Who?
5.635/37
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West G...
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If Not Us, Who?
1996
Gates of Fire
9/1
Ex-Secret Service agent Harry Kowa now works as a bodyguard. Protecting his boss from an assassination attempt, he kills one of the attackers, who tur...
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Gates of Fire
2009
The Door
6.208/166
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
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The Door
2008
The Baader Meinhof Complex
6.968/667
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks...
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
2005
Die Nachrichten
4/4
Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreade...
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Die Nachrichten
2005
Der Vater meiner Schwester
8/2
Only at the age of 19 does Paul learn from his mother that his father Klaus Merbold did not die in India, but rather lives in the same city. Paul want...
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Der Vater meiner Schwester
2010
Aghet
8.2/5
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness report...
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Aghet
2002
Liebling, bring die Hühner ins Bett
5.5/4
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Liebling, bring die Hühner ins Bett
2014
The King's Surrender
6.231/26
Violent youth gangs and a police force way out of its depth. When a police operation goes awry and two policemen die, the powder keg threatens to igni...
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The King's Surrender
2013
Der Tote im Watt
0/0
Janne Flecker returns to her hometown of Cuxhaven because her brother Erik was found murdered in the mud. There, Janne's picture of her family is crum...
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Der Tote im Watt
2007
The Hunt for Troy
6.3/9
True story about how famous German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann located the ruins of the mythical ancient city of Troy in Turkey...
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The Hunt for Troy
1999
Bangkok - Ein Mädchen verschwindet
8.5/2
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Bangkok - Ein Mädchen verschwindet
2014
Lucky Child
5.583/12
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.
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Lucky Child
2002
Hannas Baby
9/1
The couple Hanna and Georg are overjoyed when Hanna finally gets pregnant, but things take a turn for the worst when Georg's father demands that abort...
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Hannas Baby
2000
Der Gerechte Richter
10/1
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Der Gerechte Richter
2014
Heart of Stone
6.2/2
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 cl...
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Heart of Stone
2014
Besondere Schwere der Schuld
6.529/17
Joseph Komalschek was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cruelly murdering a young mother and her newborn baby. He never confessed his crimes and the...
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Besondere Schwere der Schuld
1994
Lemgo
7/1
The sports reporter for a provincial newspaper becomes involved in an intrigue involving a young singer and subsequently has to deal with a series of...
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Lemgo
2010
Letzter Moment
3/3
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Letzter Moment
2001
Liebe. Macht. Blind.
10/1
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Liebe. Macht. Blind.
2012
Strangers and Lovers
4.6/5
After an argument with her parents, Sophie gets involved in an affair with her neighbor Max. When her mother meets Max during a reconciliation visit,...
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Strangers and Lovers
2004
Die Frau des Architekten
10/1
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Die Frau des Architekten
2009
Ein Dorf sieht Mord
5/1
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Ein Dorf sieht Mord
2009
Was glücklich macht
4.5/2
After overseeing major projects as a construction manager for many years and having traveled all over the world, Peter is taking early retirement. Fir...
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Was glücklich macht
1996
Tresko - Im Visier der Drogenmafia
7/1
In order to track down the Russian mafia, Joachim Tresko goes undercover in the Berlin art scene. Meanwhile, his wife Katrin seems to have disappeared...
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Tresko - Im Visier der Drogenmafia
2013
Engel der Gerechtigkeit - Kopfgeld
0/0
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Engel der Gerechtigkeit - Kopfgeld
2015
Die Eisläuferin
5.3/5
Chaos in the Chancellery: Prime Minister Katharina Wendt loses her memory during a spontaneous trip with husband Helmuth and wakes up every morning si...
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Die Eisläuferin
2025
Kundschafter des Friedens 2
4.917/6
The retired GDR spies have just buried their old mentor in Cuba as they set out to save the last real bastion of socialism. But they didn't expect the...
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Kundschafter des Friedens 2
2004
Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann
8/1
Sports idol Baumann, advocate of strict controls, tested positive in 1999. Baumann is outraged
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Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann
2008
Vertraute Angst
6/2
When Anja is finally ready to start a new life, her husband Thomas is released from a psychiatric ward. He had set fire to the house years ago and thr...
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Vertraute Angst
1987
Wallenstein
0/0
Wallenstein is adaptation of the drama by Friedrich Schiller. Set midway through the religious conflicts that ravaged war-torn Europe in the 17th cent...
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Wallenstein
2015
Uli Hoeneß - Der Patriarch
8/1
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Uli Hoeneß - Der Patriarch
2017
Old Agent Men
5.902/56
Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or "Kundschafter des Friedens" as they were officially named, led by the once legendary Jochen Falk, are called on by...
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Old Agent Men
2009
I've Never Been Happier
6.6/8
Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it up a l...
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I've Never Been Happier
2016
Im Zweifel
5.875/8
For Pastor Judith Ehrmann, her job as an emergency counselor is more than just part of her job: giving people assistance is a vocation for them. But w...
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Im Zweifel
2016
Fritz Lang
4.929/14
Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.
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Fritz Lang
2003
Hamlet_X
4.8/5
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.
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Hamlet_X
2013
Das letzte Wort
6.25/2
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Das letzte Wort
2015
Der weisse Äthiopier
7.45/10
In Ethiopia, Frank Michalka has found a new home and left his criminal past behind. But happiness does not last long and the former offender must go b...
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Der weisse Äthiopier
2013
The Berlin File
6.675/231
When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses.
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The Berlin File
2007
Die Katze
6.5/2
On a seniors ride a bourgeois widow meets a proletarian man. Out of despair they marry right away without getting to know each other. Moving in with h...
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Die Katze
2017
Willkommen bei den Honeckers
5.2/6
Max Bretschneider pretends to be a communist in order to conduct the last interview with Erich Honecker.
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Willkommen bei den Honeckers
2012
Woman's Lake
4.079/19
What could be lovelier than Women's Lake - a magical summer setting near Berlin? Rosa, perhaps. She's the slightly melancholy guardian of the lake, s...
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Woman's Lake
2017
The Nameless Day
6/5
The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a "death messenger", now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead.
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The Nameless Day
2018
Die Affäre Borgward
6/4
The name of car manufacturer Carl F. W. Borgward is still synonymous with the West German Wirtschaftswunder. For hundreds of thousands the "Isabella"...
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Die Affäre Borgward
2003
Othello
7/1
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Othello
2015
Look Who's Back
6.792/1962
When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomen...
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Look Who's Back
2001
Planet B - C.I.Angel
0/0
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Planet B - C.I.Angel
2019
Blame Game
5.9/45
Martin Behrens is a Middle East expert for the German intelligence agency BND. He obtains information leading to a U.S. drone strike on a wanted terro...
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Blame Game
2019
The Audition
5.9/49
Violin teacher Anna Bronsky detects remarkable talent in a student, Alexander. Anna becomes obsessed with mentoring him, neglecting her family and spi...
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The Audition
1975
Lotte in Weimar
5.8/5
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and whi...
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Lotte in Weimar
2020
Max und die wilde 7
5.385/13
Nine-year-old Max moves to Geroldseck Castle, together with his mother, who takes up a position as a geriatric nurse there. Apparently a shrewd thief...
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Max und die wilde 7
2019
Menuett
0/0
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Menuett
2016
Chamisso’s Shadow
6.3/3
A three-chapter 720-minute cinematic exploration inspired by historical explorers like Adelbert von Chamisso. The film intertwines past and present tr...
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Chamisso’s Shadow
2002
Taking Sides
6.3/50
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was...
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Taking Sides
1973
Erziehung vor Verdun
9/1
The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all...
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Erziehung vor Verdun
2021
An seiner Seite
7/4
Charlotte Kler has enjoyed a privileged life alongside her husband, star conductor Walter Kler, but has also jetted restlessly around the world with h...
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An seiner Seite
2025
Dahlmanns letzte Bescherung
6.4/7
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1990
Der Test
0/0
How do you become a Frankfurter?
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