Devid Striesow Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: An East German character actor best known for his onscreen ability to evoke the banality of raw evil, Devid Striesow took his onscreen bow during the early 2000s. He spent the majority of his first decade as a film actor in pictures produced in his native Germany, such as Rainer Kaufmann's Kalt...Read More

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Yella

Actors: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaußner, Barbara Auer

Synopsis: A young businesswoman gets in touch with her taste for cutthroat corporate tactics by slowly seducing her inner demons in The State I Am In writer/director Christian Petzold's free-flowing dramatic thriller. Immediately accosted by her ex-husband, Ben (Hinnerk Schönemann), upon returning to her Read More

5/16/08
The Counterfeiters

Actors: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, Dolores Chaplin

Synopsis: Writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky explores the moral corrosion of Nazi complicity with this tightly wound adaptation of Adolf Burger's fact-based book The Devil's Workshop. Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) may be a talented artist at heart, but his desire for wealth has driven him to use his Read More

2/22/08
Valerie

Actors: Agata Buzek, Devid Striesow, Birol Ünel, Ricarda Mebner, Anne Sarah Hartung

Synopsis: A beautiful woman is suddenly forced to rely on her wits on a cold night in December in this character study from Germany. Valerie (Agata Buzek) was a successful fashion model when she was living in Paris in her mid-twenties, but now she's turned thirty and her career is not what it used to be. Read More

2007
The Heart Is A Dark Forest

Actors: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Franziska Petri, Marc Hosemann, Monika Bleibtreu

Synopsis: A young mother of two begins the slow transformation into a Medea-like figure after discovering that her husband is leading a secret life with another family. Marie was bringing her husband his violin when she found out that he was moonlighting as a husband for another family. Devastated by the Read More

2007
Before the Fall

Actors: Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Devid Striesow, Joachim Bissemeyer, Justus VonDohnanyi

Synopsis: One of the Third Reich's sinister plans for training a legion of strong and obedient young men to do their bidding is exposed in this historical drama, inspired by true-life events. In 1942, Friedrich Weimer (Max Riemelt) is a 16-year-old amateur fighter who is spotted while working out at a Read More

10/7/05
Eden

Actors: Josef Ostendorf, Charlotte Roche, Devid Striesow, Max Ruedlinger, Leonie Stepp

Synopsis: A chef discovers that the old saw "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach" works for women as well in this romantic comedy from Germany. Gregor (Josef Ostendorf) is a gourmet chef who runs a small but highly regarded restaurant in Berlin. Gregor believes that food can awaken the erotic Read More

2005
I Am Guilty

Actors: Constantin Von Jascheroff, Manfred Zapatka, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Nora von Waldstatten, Devid Striesow

Synopsis: A handsome but disaffected college graduate unable to deal with the pressures of the ultra-competitive job market in director Christoph Hochhaüsler's dark coming of age comedy. Armin (Constantin von Jascheroff) certainly has the brains to get a good-paying job, but the pressure from his parents to Read More

2005
Lichter

Actors: Ivan Shvedov, Sergei Frolov, Anna Yanovskaya, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Alice Dwyer

Synopsis: German director Hans-Christian Schmid teams up again with writing partner Michael Gutmann for the ensemble film Lichter (Distant Lights). The film takes place during a few days around the Oder River, which acts as a border between Poland and Germany. Several different interrelated stories involve Read More

2003
Sie Haben Knut

Actors: Hans-Jochen Wagner, Valerie Koch, Markus Sieber, Stephan Hornung, Pit Bukowski

Synopsis: Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen Wagner) and Nadja (Valerie Koch), as they travel to Austria Read More

2003
My First Miracle

Actors: Henriette Confurius, Leonard Lansink, Juliane Köhler, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Devid Striesow

Synopsis: A rambunctious and confused prepubescent and a bored middle-aged family man become unlikely friends in German director Anne Wild's 2002 feature-film directorial debut, My First Miracle. While vacationing on the North Sea coast with her single mother Franziska (Juliane Koehler), 11-year-old Dole (Henriette Confurius Read More

2002
Bungalow

Actors: Lennie Burmeister, Trine Dyrholm, Devid Striesow, Nicole Glaeser, Jorg Malchow

Synopsis: German director Ulrich Köhler made his feature debut with Bungalow. Pro skateboarder Lennie Burmeister stars in his first film role as Paul, a disaffected teen who lets his ennui carry him out of the army. He goes AWOL out of boredom, it seems, and goes to his family's bungalow in the country. Read More

2002
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