Jürgen Vogel Filmography

Paula's Secret

Actors: Thelma Heintzelmann, Paul Vincent de Wall, Constanze Spranger, Albert Berisa, Juide Girisken

Synopsis: A precocious girl turns sleuth to recover a missing diary and uncovers more than she bargained for in this family-friendly comedy-drama. Eleven-year-old Paula (Thelma Heintzelmann) is a smart girl who has been forced to be more self-reliant than she'd wish thanks to the busy lives of her folks. Read More

Rabbit Without Ears

Actors: Til Schweiger, Nora Tschirner, Matthias Schweighofer, Alwara Hoefels, Jürgen Vogel

Synopsis: A womanizing, muckraking Berlin journalist meets his match in the unlikely form of a children's day care owner in director/star Til Schweiger's breezy romantic comedy. Ludo (Schweiger) and his photographer Moritz (Matthias Schweighoefer) cover the Berlin celebrity circuit with a flair that's truly Read More

Emma's Bliss

Actors: Jördis Triebel, Jürgen Vogel, Hinnerk Schönemann, Martin Feifel, Karin Neuhauser

Synopsis: First-time German writer-director Sven Taddicken authors and helms the unconventional romance Emmas Gluck (AKA Emmas Bliss, 2006). The film opens on Max (Jordis Triebel), an ungifted car salesman who learns from his physician that he's dying of pancreatic cancer and only has a short time to live. Read More

The Free Will

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

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

A Friend of Mine

Actors: Daniel Brühl, Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, Peter Kurth, Michael Wittenborn

Synopsis: Tom Tykwer protégé Sebastian Schipper details the burgeoning friendship between an introverted corporate drone and a mischievous motor-mouth while taking the audience for a wild ride in a series of formidably powerful street machines. Conscientious Karl (Daniel Bruehl) was on the fast track to Read More

Barefoot

Actors: Til Schweiger, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Tiller, Michael Mendl, Steffen Wink

Synopsis: German writer-director Til Schweiger's romantic comedy Barefoot (Barfuss) concerns itself with the plight of Nick Keller (Schweiger) a young man branded as an outcast and a ne'er-do-well by his exorbitantly wealthy family. Unable to hold a permanent job, and harboring deep-seated contempt for Read More

Rosenstrasse

Actors: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Martin Feifel, Jürgen Vogel

Synopsis: German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta directs the war drama Rosenstrasse, based on the plight of "mixed marriages" between Jewish men and non-Jewish women during the Holocaust. In contemporary New York, Jewish matriarch Ruth (Jutta Lampe) practices Orthodox mourning traditions for her late Read More

Sass

Actors: Ben Becker, Jürgen Vogel, Henry Huebchen, Frank Sieckel, Julia Richter

Synopsis: Based on the exploits of two criminal brothers who eluded the authorities as they embarked on an ever more daring series of complex robberies, director Carlo Rola's tense crime drama follows the brothers as they steal their way through the Berlin of the 1920s. As burglars and safecrackers, Franz Read More

Nogo

Actors: Meret Becker, Oliver Korittke, Jasmin Tabatabai, Jürgen Vogel, Mavie Horbiger

Synopsis: Written and directed by the filmmaking team of Gerhard Ertl and Sabine Hiebler, this odd German comedy is about three couples and the way their lives cross paths at one gas station. The first pair of lovers meets at the gas station where the man works. Falling in love, they decide to live together Read More

Scherbentanz

Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Margit Carstensen, Nadja Uhl, Peter Davor, Dietrich Hollinderbaumer

Synopsis: Written and directed by newcomer Chris Kraus, this family drama centers around the eccentric Jesko (Jürgen Vogel), who, despite a debilitating condition, makes a visit to his father, Gebhard (Dietrich Hollinderbaumer), and brother, Ansgar (Peter Davor), on the day that Ansgar is scheduled to take Read More

Naked

Actors: Heike Makatsch, Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jürgen Vogel, Nina Hoss

Synopsis: Three couples with varying degrees of success in both financial and romantic matters find they know relatively little about themselves or their respective partners in director Doris Dorrie's 2002 film Naked. Successful stockbroker Dylan (Mehmet Kurtulus) and his gorgeous wife, Charlotte (Nina Read More

Emil und die Detektive

Actors: Tobias Retzlaff, Jürgen Vogel, Maria Schrader, Kai Wiesinger

Synopsis: A criminal discovers that stealing from a child isn't as simple -- or as easy to get away with -- as he thought in this comedy-drama for the family. Emil (Tobias Retzlaff) is a 12-year-old boy who lives in Germany with his father after his parents were divorced. Emil's father, a salesman, gets in Read More

Manila

Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Michael Degen, Chin Chin Gutierrez, Peter Ruehring

Synopsis: After a rat is discovered on board their airplane, a group of travelers is stranded at the Manila airport. They include the mild-mannered Knut (Peter Ruehring) and his icy wife Regine (Margit Carstensen), who are both history teachers from eastern Germany. Knut befriends the jovial Walther Read More

Le sourire du clown

Actors: Tiki Holgado, Vincent Elbaz, François Berléand, Bruno Putzulu, Pascale Arbillot

Synopsis: A clown from Romania (Ticky Holgado) has more than amusing tricks for children on his mind -- he has in his possession a computer disc with information wanted by the police, several organized crime figures and the European Agency for Atomic Energy. After he's chased through Prague by a number of Read More

Das Mambospiel

Actors: Corinna Harfouch, Michael Gwisdek, Jürgen Vogel, Uwe Kokisch, Henry Huebchen

Synopsis: The husband-wife team of Michael Gwisdek and Corinna Harfouch star in this German comedy-drama. Maria (Harfouch) finds stolen cash in the trash, hides it from hubby Gregor (Juergen Vogel), and calls on former lover Martin (Gwisdek) who's trying to raise money to do an autobiographical film. Maria Read More

Die Apothekerin

Actors: Katja Riemann, Jürgen Vogel, Richy Mueller, Isabella Parkinson, August Zirner

Synopsis: Traveling down DePalma-like pathways, director Rainer Kaufmann made this dark comedy-thriller about 30-year-old small-town pharmacist Hella Moormann (Katja Riemann), unlucky with men. She finally beds Levin (Jürgen Vogel), who's in debt to imprisoned drug-dealer Dieter (Richy Mueller). Hella is Read More

Fette Welt

Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Julia Filiminow, Stefan Dietrich, Sibylle Canonica, Lars Rudolph

Synopsis: Jan Schuette directed this German drama about Munich street people. Middle-class dropout Hagen (Juergen Vogel), a policeman's son, hangs with various small-time thieves and hustlers, including hooker Liane (Sibylle Canonica). Jealous tramp Edgar (Lars Rudolph) is obsessed with Liane. Hagen's only Read More

Sexy Sadie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Corinna Harfouch, Jürgen Vogel

Synopsis: An incarcerated homicidal maniac hits the road after taking hostage the pretty prison medic who told him he has a malignant brain tumor. With a few surprising twists and much inky-black humor, this German comedy chronicles the strange adventures between the hostage and the killer. Edgar's ruthless Read More

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Actors: Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Julia Ormond stars as Copenhagen resident Smilla Jasperson, a reclusive, half-Inuit scientist who befriends a neglected Inuit boy who lives in her building. Arriving home from work one day, Smilla is mortified to learn that the boy has died in a fall from the building's roof. Suspicious because Read More

Das Leben ist eine Baustelle

Actors: Ricky Tomlinson, Christiane Paul

Synopsis: The political and social upheaval of the reunification of Germany provides the backdrop for this romantic comedy-drama. Jan Nebel (Jurgen Vogel), a young slaughterhouse worker who doesn't like to work much more than is necessary in order to keep his job, is walking home through Berlin one evening Read More

Stille Nacht

Synopsis: A Berlin woman endeavors to choose between two lovers on a snowy Christmas Eve in this German drama. Art student Julia has been living with Christian, a policeman, for several years, but has recently embarked on an affair with Frank, a bartender. She is first seen waiting for Frank so she can tell Read More

Die Mediocren

Synopsis: This German comedy examines the relationships among four outwardly liberal, narcissistic West Germans. They live in a large, unnamed city. There is Robin, who believes everything she reads and wants no children; Leo who wants a kid but only has sex with women he doesn't love; Jost, a friend of Leo Read More

Wachtmeister Zumbuhl

Synopsis: A super straight-arrow Swiss-German town becomes obsessed with upholding the law in this grim drama set in 1964. The cop is Sergeant Zumbuhl who cares nothing for political delicacy when doing his job. Recently the town has been plagued by drunk drivers so Zumbuhl has taken to standing outside the Read More

Polski Crash

Actors: Klaus J. Behrendt, Jürgen Vogel, Clotilde Courau, Miroslaw Baka, Susanne Wilhelmina

Synopsis: This German mystery thriller is set in Poland. It follows the exploits of Tom, an insurance agent, who must find his brother before the mob does. His quest begins after he receives an urgent message from his psychotic brother Piet who is hiding out in Poland after he double-crossed a local mob. Read More

Kleine Haie

Actors: Kai Wiesinger, Gedeon Burkhard, Meret Becker, Armin Rohde

Synopsis: Ingo (Jurgen Vogel) is a moody fellow, much given to dark looks and long silences. In his personal life, he is a writer, but his "day job" is as a dishwasher at a restaurant. One day, an actor at one of Germany's eight major acting schools leaves a stool from the school at the restaurant, and Ingo Read More

Angst

Bumerang - Bumerang

Actors: Katja Studt, Jan Plewka, Lambert Hamel, Bernd Tauber

Synopsis: A group of ecology-minded kids decide to kidnap politician Lambert Hamel, who has voted in favor of building a nuclear power plant in their community. The scheming Hamel is delighted by his abduction; upon his release, he intends to announce that he's been captured by international terrorists Read More

A.D.A.M.

Novemberkatzen

Actors: Angela Hunger, Ursula Monn, Katharina Brauren, Robert Zimmerling

Synopsis: Set in post-war Germany before funding from the U.S. had time to make a difference in the economy, this restrained and uneven drama centers on the hardships of 11-year-old Ilse (Angela Hunger). She lives like a servant with her single mother and two brothers, bearing the brunt of after-school Read More