Detlev BuckFilmography

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Actors: Michael Ostrowski, Raimund Wallisch, Detlev Buck, Georg Friedrich, Pia Hierzegger

Synopsis: A handful of lackadaisical crooks are on a wild goose chase across Europe in this comedy. Carlos (Jeremy Strong) is an underworld kingpin who has lost a leather shoulder bag while traveling through Poland and wants it back, the sooner the better. Carlos orders one of his underlings, Harry (Detlev Read More

Same Same But Different

Crew: Director

Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar

Actors: Michael "Bully" Herbig, Franz-Xaver Kroetz, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Peter Ketnath, Sebastian Bezzel

Synopsis: Franz-Xaver Kroatz stars in this wacky German fantasy comedy as Brandner Kaspar, an elderly German smith rapidly careening toward the end of his life, but in no hurry to leave. He's soon visited by Death, who attempts to whisk him off to the afterlife; instead, Brandner slips Death a few too many Read More

Robert Zimmermann wundert sich über die Liebe

Crew: Producer

Actors: Maruschka Detmers

Synopsis: A young man who is tied to the 1960s whether he likes it or not falls for a woman whose associations to that decade are more practical in this comedy from Germany. Robert Zimmermann (Tom Schilling) is a guy in his mid-twenties who designs video games for a living and is blessed/cursed with the Read More

Hände weg von Mississippi

Crew: Director

Midsummer Madness

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Dominique Pinon, Tobias Moretti, Chulpan Khamatova, Orlando Wells

Synopsis: Chaos and quirk reign in this sweetly funny film set in Latvia. An American's arrival in the Baltic country coincides with the Summer Solstice of the year, and he would rather be anywhere else in the world. As he searches for his half-sister, he encounters a cab driver who gives him fondness for Read More

Tough Enough

Crew: Director

Actors: David Kross, Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen, Erhan Emre, Oktay Özdemir, Kida Ramadan

Synopsis: As written and directed by Detlev Buck, the inner-city character drama Tough Enough opens on 15-year-old Michael Polischka (David Kross), who lives with his single, white trash mom, Miriam (Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen and her wealthy physician lover, Klaus (Jan Henrik Stahlberg) in an affluent Read More

Herr Lehmann

Actors: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski, Detlev Buck, Janek Rieke, Uwe-Dag Berlin

Synopsis: One of the key political events of the late 20th century fails to distract a man who is having a row with his parents in this comedy from Germany. The film takes place in the fall of 1989 in SO36, a neighborhood in West Berlin adjacent to the Berlin Wall, shunted into a corner and largely ignored. Read More

Blue Moon

Actors: Josef Hader, Viktoria Malektorovych, Detlev Buck, Ivan Laca, Peter Aczel

Synopsis: Writer, artist, and stage designer Andrea Maria Dusl makes her directorial debut with the offbeat road movie Blue Moon, appropriately taking place during a month with two full moons. Minor criminal Johnny Pichler (Austrian standup comic Josef Hader) goes on the road with a bag of money and a Read More

Aimée & Jaguar

Actors: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Heike Makatsch, Johanna Wokalek, Elisabeth Degen

Synopsis: The opening film of the 49th International Berlin Film Festival in 1999, Aimée & Jaguar drew attention not only for the lesbian love story that it narrates, but equally for the political position of the lovers -- Aimée, the wife of a Nazi officer, and Jaguar, a Jewish journalist. The story is Read More

Sonnenallee

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Detlev Buck

Synopsis: Former theater director Leander Hausmann sets out to prove that the children of the Berlin Wall had more on their mind than politics in this bittersweet coming-of-age tale, set about a decade before the wall was dismantled. Hausmann's teens live along "Sun Alley," a street split in two by a Read More

Der Grosse Bagarozy

Actors: Til Schweiger, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Sonja Kerskes, Christine Neubauer

Synopsis: It's said that love can change a man, but one woman finds herself wondering just how powerful love might be in this comedy. Cora Dulz (Corinna Harfouch) is a psychiatrist who begins working with Stanislaus Nagy (Til Schweiger), a good looking but mysterious man who is obsessed with the late Read More

Liebe deine Nächste!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Lea Mornar, Heike Makatsch, Marc Hosemann, Heribert Sasse

Synopsis: A new wrinkle in the eternal battle between good and evil forms the basis for the comedy Liebe Deine Naechste!/Love Your Neighbor!. Lt. Josephine (Lea Mornar) is a new soldier with the Salvation Army, and she's sent on a mission to save souls and do good works in Berlin, paired with her new Read More

Maennerpension

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this German comedy, a pair of convicts attempt to exploit a new rehab program that has inmates paired with female chaperones who escort them outside the prisons one weekend per month in the hopes that the feminine influence will imbue the criminals with good, loving, and more socially Read More

Erotic Tales III

Crew: Director

Actors: Kari Väänänen, Ivan Setta, Antonio Calloni, Bianca Koedam, Gene Bervoets, Annet Malherbe

Küss Mich!

Synopsis: Quirky young Pamela endeavors to make a decision in this German romantic comedy. A nice enough young woman, she does have this odd compulsion to steal fountain pens. She decides one day that she wants to be a wife and not a worker. Her first pick for a husband is handsome Fabian, one of the men Read More

Die Nacht der Regisseure

Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta, Detlev Buck

Synopsis: Utilizing computer-generated effects and creative splicing to place Germany's most famous living directors in a fantasy movie house, filmmaker Edgar Reitz takes an innovative approach toward exploring the history of German cinema. In this magical theater, directors such as Leni Riefenstahl, Detlev Buck Read More

Unter der Milchstrasse

Synopsis: A freshman college student heads for Munich a few days before classes commence to find a job and find himself a woman. He quickly finds a job working as a sleeping-car attendant on night trains. The trains go all over Europe and he learns much about the world and has several humorous adventures. Read More

Alles Auf Anfang

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Christiane Horbiger, Harald Juhnke, Udo Samel, Theresa Hubchen

Synopsis: Movie-making cliches are parodied in this German comedy which features to warring actresses, meddling producers, indulgent directors, and an ignored writer. Not only must they contend with each other, they must also deal with the bankers who have the power to shut them down at any moment. The Read More

Wir Können Auch Anders ...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joachim Krol, Horst Krause, Constantin Kotlarow, Sophie Rois, Heinrich Giskes

Synopsis: Most funny movies don't come across well in print, but with some the humor is almost impossible to discern in written form. This well-received German farce reportedly had its audiences in stitches. The clue, if there is one is in the performances of Joachim Król and Horst Krause as Rudi and Most Read More

Karniggels

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Hopnick

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Was Drin Ist

Crew: Director

Worauf Wir Abfahren

Crew: Director

Rolle Duschen, Eine

Crew: Director

Normal Bitte

Crew: Director

Erst Die Arbeit und Dann?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Detlev Buck

Synopsis: In a good-natured look at the down-home farmer with a big day and night off in the bustling metropolis of Hamburg, first-time director Detlev Buck has a tongue-in-cheek amusing story of cultural clashes -- or at least, bumps. When a young farmer (also played by Buck) finishes up his chores, he Read More