André HennickeFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Character player André Hennicke tackled small roles in his native Germany throughout his early years onscreen before landing a bit part in the critically praised crossover effort Downfall (2004), about the last days of Adolf Hitler. Subsequent roles in pictures such as Sophie Scholl: The Final Days...Read More

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Pandorum

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Cung Le, Antje Traue

Synopsis: Antibodies director Christian Alvart takes suspense into space with this tale of two astronauts who realize that they aren't alone as they drift into the darkest corners of our galaxy. Awakening in their hyper-sleep chamber with no memory of who they are or what their mission is, disoriented Read More

9/25/09
Jerichow

Actors: Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer, André Hennicke, Claudia Geisler

Synopsis: The Turkish diaspora in Germany proves the catalyst for this noir-flavored drama concerning the unlikely friendship between a veteran of the Afghan-Soviet war and a middle-aged Turk in need of a helping hand. Returning home for his mother's funeral when he happens across a business associate to Read More

5/15/09
The Countess

Actors: Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, William Hurt, Anamaria Marinca, Sebastian Blomberg

Synopsis: Julie Delpy directs and stars in this biography of Erzebet Bathory, the 17th century countess whose love of a younger man drove her to madness and beyond. At the dawn of the 17th century, Countess Bathory was the most powerful woman in Hungary. At the age of 14, she married a powerful warlord Read More

2009
Youth Without Youth

Actors: Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair after a ten-year hiatus with this adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade's tome detailing the arduous journey of a professor whose life is thrown into chaos as World War II looms ominously on the horizon. When the Read More

12/14/07
Antibodies

Actors: Wotan Wilke Möhring, André Hennicke, Heinz Hoenig, Norman Reedus

Synopsis: When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken Read More

2/16/07
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Actors: Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf, André Hennicke

Synopsis: Filmmaker Marc Rothemund utilizes long-buried historical records to reconstruct the last six days in the life of renowned German anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) in an Academy Award-nominated feature that earned star Julia Jentsch a Best Actress award at both the 2005 Lolas and the Read More

2/17/06
In Memory of Myself

Actors: Christo Jivkov, Filippo Timi, Marco Baliani, Fausto Russo Alesi, André Hennicke

Synopsis: Italian helmer Silverio Constanzo's gentle, understated coming-of-age drama In Memoria di Me (AKA In Memory of Myself, 2006) follows a life-changing period in the spiritual journey of twentysomething Andrea (Christo Jivkov), a young man who undergoes a personal crisis and decides to withdraw from Read More

2006
Body Rice

Actors: Sylta Fee Wegmann, Alice Dwyer, Julika Jenkins, André Hennicke, Pedro Hestnes

Synopsis: Portuguese director Hugo Vieira da Silva's feature Body Rice joins Gus Van Sant's Gerry, Jose Maria de Orbe's The Straight Line, and other recent motion pictures that pontificate at length on the endless vapidity inherent in banal lives. Vieira da Silva chooses as his subject a cadre of German Read More

2006
The Free Will

Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, Manfred Zapatka, André Hennicke, Maya Bothe, Frank Wickermann, Judith Engel

Synopsis: Theo (Jürgen Vogel) has raped several women and is, after several years of committing acts of sexual violence, caught. He is committed to a psychiatric prison and, after 12 years in prison, he is released to return to normal life. Theo finds work as a printer, goes regularly to therapy, and lives Read More

2006
Eduart

Actors: Eshref Durmishi, André Hennicke, Ndricim Xhepa, Ermela Teli, Adrian Zairi

Synopsis: An Albanian ex-patriot searching for fame in Athens makes a fatal mistake that forever seals his fate in an earnest crime drama that takes its cue from a real life case. Eduart (Eshref Durmishi) longs to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a rock star, but since there's little hope for success Read More

2006
Downfall

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Juliane Köhler, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes

Synopsis: The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime are seen through the eyes of a young woman in his employ in this historical drama from Germany. Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) was 22 years old when, in the fall of 1942, she was hired to be personal secretary to Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz). Read More

2/18/05
Winter Journey

Actors: Josef Bierbichler, Sibel Kekilli, Hanna Schygulla, Philipp Hochmair, Anna Schudt

Synopsis: When a boorish German entrepreneur falls prey to a notorious, Kenya-based banking scam, his last-ditch effort reclaim his cash by traveling to Africa and confronting the con-artist serve as a noble epilogue to a reckless life in director Hans Steinbichler's dramatic account of one man's downward Read More

2005
Der Alte Affe Angst

Actors: André Hennicke, Marie Baumer, Vadim Glowna, Hilde Van Mieghem, Hermann Beyer

Synopsis: Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his Read More

2003
Toter Mann

Actors: Nina Hoss, André Hennicke, Sven Pippig, Heinrich Schmieder, Kathrin Angerer

Synopsis: Drawing favorable comparisons to Alfred Hitchcock upon inital release in its native Germany despite having been originally made-for-television, director Christian Petzold's sophomore effort concerns a middle-aged lawyer whose tentative romance sets the stage for an elaborate con. Attracted to Read More

2002
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

Actors: Bernhard Betterman, André Hennicke, Michael Mendl, Irina Pantaeva

Synopsis: The true story of a German soldier's long and difficult journey home after being sentenced to a Russian prison camp inspired this wartime epic. In 1944, Clemens Forell (Bernhard Bettermann) leaves behind his wife and children and joins the German army, where he is sent to fight along the Russian Read More

2001
Schnee In Der Neujahrs-Nacht

Actors: Jürgen Tarrach, Tamara Simunovic, Hannes Jaenicke, Dieter Landuris, André Hennicke

Synopsis: Thosten Schmidt directs this over-the-top Teutonic spectacular consisting of pregnant Russians, bales of cocaine and a drunken bear. Right before the big millennial new year, hefty loser Toto (Jurgen Tarrach) gets released from the joint after a three year stint for drug possession. He simply Read More

2000
Kalt Ist Der Abendhauch

Actors: Heinz Bennent, Gisela Trowe, August Diehl, Ingo Naujoks

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel of celebrated German writer Ingrid Noll, Kalt ist der Abendhauch bounces back and forth over a span of 50 years to tell the darkly comic tale of a destructive love affair between two people. When the film opens, octogenarian Charlotte (Gisela Trowe) has just received a Read More

2000
Falling Rocks

Actors: Claudia Michelsen, Koen de Bouw, Christoph Waltz, Chiara Schoras, Anica Dobra

Synopsis: In this taut contemporary thriller, a group of vacationers who find a can of valuable gems must figure out why they're dying one by one in the wilderness. Five German friends travel to South Africa for a rugged 11-day wilderness vacation without cell phones or any other contact with civilization. Read More

1999
Verspielte Naechte

Actors: Jasmin Tabatabai, Viki Volioti, Sharon Brauner, Frank Stieren, André Hennicke

Synopsis: This German drama begins on a Greek island where Maria (Vicky Volioti) runs a family restaurant. When her father dies suddenly, relatives ask why Maria's older sister Helena (Jasmin Tabatabai) didn't attend the funeral. To find her, Maria travels to Berlin, where she discovers that Helena is not a Read More

1998
Der Besucher

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: André Hennicke

Synopsis: In this political allegory and drama, Leon has taken a train to his way to visit Israel for the first time, but his train is stopped for no apparent reason in a capacious tunnel, where circumstance that resemble those of late 1930s Germany have been recreated. Fortunately for him, he only has to Read More

1994
Donusa

1992
Die Schauspielerin

Actors: Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke, Michael Gwisdek, Blanche Kommerell, Jurgen Watzke

Synopsis: In this remake of Marriage in the Shadows, one of the first and most successful postwar East German films, the life of a Jewish actress is destroyed by rising fascist sentiment. After leading a successful life as a popular actress, who does slightly conceal her background, she falls in love with a Read More

1989