Hermann BeyerFilmography

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A Woman in Berlin

Actors: Nina Hoss, Yevgeny Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Jördis Triebel, Rosalie Thomass

Synopsis: The horrors and moral compromises of war set the stage for this harrowing drama from director Max Färberböck, based on a true story. An anonymous female reporter (Nina Hoss) is living in Berlin in the spring of 1945; most of the city has been reduced to rubble by bombing, the German army has been Read More

7/17/09
November Child

Actors: Ulrich Matthes, Anna Maria Muehe, Christine Schorn, Hermann Beyer, Thorsten Merten, Adrian Topol

Synopsis: A would-be novelist with no ideas of his own mines the tragedies of an unsuspecting woman to his advantage in this drama. Robert (Ulrich Matthes) is a college professor and struggling writer living in Konstanz, a town in Southern Germany. Robert has been working on a novel for years, but beyond a Read More

2008
The Elementary Particles

Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Ulmen, Martina Gedeck, Franka Potente, Nina Hoss

Synopsis: With his bittersweet, German-language tragicomedy The Elementary Particles, writer-director Oskar Roehler brings to the screen Michel Houellebecq's popular seriocomic novel of two ill-adjusted siblings. Christian Ullmen and Moritz Bleibtreu portray, respectively, Michael and Bruno, half brothers Read More

2006
Close

Actors: Christoph Bach, Jule Bowe, Julia Richter, Julia Jäger, Paul Assboeck

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
Der Kontrolleur

Synopsis: This interesting German psychological thriller is set during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Just before the fence comes down, 30-year veteran border guard Hermann takes three days off from his station to attend his wife's funeral. Unknowing of the massive changes that occurred in his absence, he Read More

1995
Kaspar Hauser

Actors: André Eisermann, Udo Samel, Jeremy Clyde, Hermann Beyer, Cecile Paoli

Synopsis: Director Peter Sehr offers here another version of the origins of Kaspar Hauser, one of the most enigmatic characters in German history. According to this film, the title character is the real son of Duke Karl of Baden. Karl's brother Ludwig wants the throne for himself so he secretly orders a Read More

1994
Der Tangospieler

Actors: Michael Gwisdek, Corinna Harfouch, Hermann Beyer, Peter Sodann

Synopsis: In the old East Germany, all sorts of otherwise innocent activities could earn the unwary a prison term. In this story, Hans-Peter Dallow (Michael Gwisdek) was sentenced to two years in prison for acting as a substitute pianist for a tango group in a cabaret when the original pianist became ill. Read More

1991
Der Bruch

Actors: Götz George, Rolf Hoppe, Otto Sander, Hermann Beyer

Synopsis: Evoking the complexities of life in 1946 postwar Berlin, this detective drama focuses on the efforts of a small group of bank robbers to bring off their heist and avoid punishment for it. Due to the need throughout society to replace active Nazis with politically untainted officials, a large part Read More

1989
Das Haus am Fluss

Actors: Katrin Sass, Manfred Gorr, Jutta Wachowiak, Rolf Hoppe, Corinna Harfouch

Synopsis: The German Das Haus Am Fluss (House on the River) is based on "The Russian Pelt," a 1942 story by Frederick Wolf. The film takes place in an industrial community just outside of Berlin in 1941. Two sisters--unmarried Emmi and married Agnes--live with their mother while their men are off to war. Read More

1986
Gritta Vom Rattenschloss

Actors: Kadja Klier, Hermann Beyer, Fred Delmare, Suheer Saleb, Mark Lubosch

Synopsis: Castles and eccentric counts, rats, an evil countess and an intelligent 13-year-old girl (Kadja Klier) are the main components of this children's film from Jurgen Brauer. Gritta's father, the count, is always coming up with some hair-brained invention that never seems to have any practical Read More

1986
Das Luftschiff

Actors: Elisa Montes, Gudrun Ritter, Katrin Knappe

Synopsis: The true story of a young would-be pilot is fictionalized in this film about flying that has a hard time taking off as it should. Franz Xaver Stannebein (Joerg Gundzuhn), a small child at the turn of the 20th-century, wanted to do nothing more than fly and he carried his dreams into his years at Read More

1983
Maerkische Forschungen

Actors: Hermann Beyer, Jutta Wachowiak, Eberhard Esche, Dieter Franke

Synopsis: Based on the satire of the same name by Guenter de Bruyn this film humorizes the dilemma of a pompous university professor when he discovers his 10 years of research on a revolutionary writer have gone down the drain because a village schoolteacher found out the writer was a hoax. The two men and Read More

1983
Die Beunruhigung

Actors: Christine Schorn, Hermann Beyer, Christoph Engel, Cox Habbema

Synopsis: Inge Herold (Christine Schorn) is divorced with one teenage son, she is approaching middle age, has a lover she cannot marry because he is already married, and ironically, is a marriage counselor. Her life has changed radically overnight because she has found out she may have breast cancer. She is Read More

1981
Unser Kurzes Leben

Actors: Hermann Beyer, Christian Steyer

Synopsis: Franziska (Simone Frost) is an unhappily married university student trying to cope with the difficulties of studying for a degree, and an abusive husband who has an alcohol problem. When she divorces her husband at last, her former in-laws strip her apartment, in an act that completes her slide Read More

1980
Ikarus

Actors: Peter Welz, Karin Gregorek, Peter Aust, Hermann Beyer

Synopsis: Mathias' parents have just divorced. His mother is a factory brigade-leader and his father is a journalist. Since he is now eight years old, he really wants to spend more time with his father than circumstances allow. He is not amused by the "uncles" who stay overnight with his mother. He runs Read More

1975
Zwischen Nacht und Morgen

Actors: Hermann Beyer, Leonid Reutov

Synopsis: Zwischen Nact Und Morgen is the third movie of that name to be filmed in German; the first two were filmed in 1931 and 1944, respectively. This third film's story has little if anything to do with those earlier films, however. Based on the writings of Erich Weinert, it tells of the author's life. Read More

1975