Heinz Hoenig Filmography

Me

Actors: Alex Brendemühl, Marga Grimalt, Rafel Ramis, Heinz Hoenig, Maria Lanau

Synopsis: A man uncovers a mystery involving someone a lot like himself in this suspense thriller from Spain. Hans (Alex Brendemuehl) is a German émigré who has come to Spain in search of honest work and a new life. Hans is given a job by Tanca (Heinz Hoenig), a fellow German who is looking for a caretaker Read More

FC Venus

Actors: Nora Tschirner, Christian Ulmen, Florian Lukas, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Heinz Hoenig

Synopsis: There's a new battleground in the war between men and women in this comedy from Germany. Paul (Christian Ulmen) has persuaded his fiancée Anna (Nora Tschirner) to pull up stakes and move with him to the town where he grew up, but it's not until they've settled in that Anna learns Paul had an Read More

7 Dwarves

Actors: Otto Waalkes, Heinz Hoenig, Mirko Nontschew, Ralf Schmitz, Nina Hagen, Gustav Peter Wohler, Cosma Shiva Hagen

Synopsis: One of the world's most beloved fairy tales gets a slightly twisted update in the off-the-wall comedy from Germany. An enchanted forest is home to seven dwarves who, contrary to popular belief, are not noticeably shorter than the average guy and whose special skills are not all that special. The Read More

Nur Aus Liebe

Synopsis: Ella drives a cab for a living in Berlin's busy streets. On a day when, ironically, she is broke, some muggers try to rob her and are frustrated by her lack of money. They are about to inflict grievous bodily harm on her when she is rescued by a debonair Russian, Aleksei. Intrigued by his manner Read More

Alles Nur Tarnung

Actors: Mario Adorf, Elke Sommer, Ben Becker, Muriel Baumeister, Heinz Hoenig

Synopsis: Harry has grown up amongst the dregs of society and so it is little wonder that he, like Willi, the estranged father he idolizes, ends up in prison; his young girlfriend Marlies is also incarcerated. Following convictions for car theft, the two are fatefully sent to the same coed penitentiary Read More

Ex

Synopsis: This realistic German drama offers a sobering look at the aimless Generation Xers wandering the streets of Berlin taking drugs and getting involved in crime. The story centers on Mario who is deeply upset when his best friend dies joy-riding in a stolen car. To make things worse, his girlfriend Read More

Herzlich Willkommen

Actors: Uwe Bohm, Barbara Auer, David Bohm, Hark Bohm, Anna Thalbach

Synopsis: Friedrich (Uwe Bohm) manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the words Herzlich Willkommen, or "cordial, heartfelt welcome." However, once he finds employment, what he experiences is anything but a cordial welcome at his new job, where he is Read More

Butterbrot

Actors: Gabriel Barylli, Heinz Hoenig, Uwe Ochsenknecht

Synopsis: This is a direct translation to film of director Gabriel Barylli's stage play. In the story, three men with romantic problems gather together and attempt to find out what their fundamental problem is. After a great deal of discussion, they decide that low self-esteem is the culprit. ~ Clarke Read More

Judgment in Berlin

Actors: Martin Sheen, Sam Wanamaker, Max Gail, Jürgen Heinrich, Heinz Hoenig, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: In 1978, an East German waiter used a toy gun to hijack a Polish airliner heading for East Berlin and forced the pilot to land at an American Air Force base in West Germany. The best-selling book about the ensuing trial of the hijacker -- written by the presiding judge, Herbert J. Stern -- is Read More

Die Katze

Actors: Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Heinz Hoenig, Joachim Kemmer, Ralf Richter

Synopsis: Most American filmmakers would be praised to the skies for setting their films in exotic locales like Bavaria, Munich, Dusseldorf and the North Rhine. For the makers of the German thriller Die Katze, however, it was simply a matter of shooting in one's own backyard, more or less. Adapted from a Read More

Fifty Fifty

Actors: Dominique Horwitz, Suzanne von Borsody, Siegfried Kernen, Karl Friedrich

Synopsis: Willi (Dominique Horwitz) has a very wealthy father who owns a bank. He has been given a great deal in his life. What he doesn't have is any respect from his family. In a last-ditch effort to get treated intelligently, he decides to rob his father's bank, but when a safety alarm is tripped and the Read More

Der Formel Eins Film

Synopsis: A televised music show could be the opportunity that a female mechanic needs to break into the music world. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Dann Ist Nichts Mehr Wie Vorher

Actors: Barbara Rudnik, Karin Baal, Christoph Marius Ohrt

Synopsis: This somber drama finds Norbert (Zacharias Preen) as a bank trainee who takes little pleasure in life except movies from the 1950s. He lives with his mother (Karin Baal) and resents her for ending the relationship with the father he has never met. Depressed and alienated, he wanders the streets of Read More

Sei Zaertlich, Penguin

Actors: Marie Colbin, Heinz Hoenig, Petra Jokisch, Rainer Hunold

Synopsis: This run-of-the-mill sex comedy is about a gym instructor whose prowess in the gym is better than in the bedroom. His maladroit efforts to please the woman he loves provide the comic fodder that propels this first-time feature-length effort by director Peter Hajek. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Read More

Danni

Actors: Brigitte Karner, Dominik Graf

Synopsis: In a twisted psychological tale about a demented woman, Danni (played by Brigitte Karner) picked up by Stefan (Robert Hunger-Buehler), an introvert who works at a recording studio, an increasingly disturbed relationship leads to necrophilia. Both the subject matter and the 106-minute length to Read More

Mit Starrem Blick Aufs Geld

Operation Leo

Mamma

Actors: Malin Ek, Etienne Glaser, Serge Giamberardino, Heinz Hoenig

Synopsis: The story of director Suzanne Osten's mother Gerd (Malin Ek) is told in this film set against the backdrop of a neutral Sweden in World War II, and the comings and goings of creative talents as they develop their own visions and capacities. Osten's mother had always wanted to produce a film, and Read More

Die Barrikade

Actors: Heinz Hoenig, Gert Haucke, Peter Aust

Synopsis: In March of 1848 there was an aborted revolution in Berlin that serves as the pivot for the action in this film, the story beginning with an incident that quickly mushrooms out of control. A man fishing along a river bank decides to light up, when a policeman comes over to haul him in for Read More

Das Boot

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge

Synopsis: Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic Read More

Das Ende Des Regenbogens

Actors: Udo Samel, Heinz Hoenig

Synopsis: Jimmi (Thomas Kufahl) is an 18-year-old street hustler from West Berlin with no social skills and a bad attitude towards everyone and everything. Although he wants employment and self respect, his illiteracy and temper reduce him to selling himself for homosexual sex. He is taken in by a Read More

Willi und Die Kameraden

Actors: Dorothea Moritz, Horst Pinnow, Peter Schiff

Synopsis: A modern German neo-Nazi mechanic takes advantage of Willi, a discontented school dropout with a passion for model World War Two tanks. Not only does he get Willi and others like him to come on the group's youth outings, but he gets a lot of free labor from them as well. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

Heinrich

Synopsis: After Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is the playwright and writer who did the most to fuel the Romantic movement in German literature. A troubled and brilliant man, he committed suicide at age 34, and his life was the paradigm for that of a tragic romantic artist. Penthesilea was among Read More