Katharina ThalbachFilmography

Strike

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra, Andrzej Grabowski, Wojciech Solarz, Ewa Telega

Synopsis: An ordinary working woman helps to spark a revolution in this historical drama inspired by a true story. Agnieszka Kowalska (Katharina Thalbach) has been working as a welder in the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland, since 1950, struggling to support her son since divorcing her husband. Working Read More

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution

Actors: Catherine Tate, Iain Glen, Heike Makatsch, Katharina Thalbach

Synopsis: This is not a Love Song director Billie Eltringham returns the the helm to tell this comedic tale of a 1960's-era clan of British communists who choose to leave their beloved Britain to seek out Utopian bliss in East Germany. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Offset

Actors: Alexandra Maria Lara, Felix Klare, Razvan Vasilescu, Katharina Thalbach, Manfred Zapatka

Synopsis: The pull between Eastern Europe and the West is symbolized in a story of love and difficult choices brought to the screen by filmmaker Didi Danquart. Nicu (Razvan Vasilescu) is a man well into middle age who runs a successful print shop in Bucharest. Brindusa (Alexandra Maria Lara) is a beautiful Read More

The Robber Hotzenplotz

Actors: Armin Rohde, Martin Stuehrk, Manuel Steitz, Rufus Beck, Katharina Thalbach

Kral Zlodeju

Actors: Lazar Ristovski, Yasha Kultiasov, Katharina Thalbach, Julia Khanverdieva, Oktay Özdemir

Synopsis: A destitute child from an impoverished Ukrainian village finds that the world can be a cold and cruel place after being lured from his home by a nefarious huckster under the guise of working in the circus. Barbu is a ten-year-old boy whose dreams of a brighter future find him slowly falling for Read More

Sonnenallee

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 Vulkan

Actors: Nina Hoss, Meret Becker, Christian Nickel, Udo Samel, Sylvester Groth

Synopsis: Nina Hoss stars in this adaptation of a novel by Klaus Mann as Marion von Kammer, a singer who leaves Germany for Zurich as the Nazis rise to power. However, she finds life in Switzerland dull and suffocating, so she journeys to Paris, where she works at a pirate radio station broadcasting Read More

Solo Fur Klarinette

Actors: Götz George, Corinna Harfouch, Tim Bergmann, Barbara Auer, Tobias Schenke

Synopsis: A burnt-out Berlin cop investigating his 652nd case slowly loses the ability to discern the differences between the grim realities of the job and a decaying personal life as his mental instability grows progressively worse. His latest case is particularly nasty and puzzling, but Detective Bernie 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

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

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

Die Denunziantin

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Dieter Schaad, Elisabeth Schwarz, Dolly Dollar

Synopsis: By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time, but by 1944, after an unparalleled series of military defeats which Hitler refused even to acknowledge, a group of high-ranking military and Read More

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

Actors: Kari Väänänen, Roberta Manfredi, Nino Manfredi, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Margi Clarke

Synopsis: Alex (Kari Vaananen) is a Finnish cabbie working in Berlin with plenty of problems in this comedy with film noir touches. With two dead men and a suitcase filled with hundred dollar bills, he has difficulty disposing of the bodies. He is chased by the top crime boss (Samuel Fuller) and his crony (Eddie Constantine Read More

Der Achte Tag

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Hans-Christian Blech, Heinz Honig, Hannelore Elsner, Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp

Synopsis: In this medical science fiction thriller, Vera Pukall (Katherna Thalbach) is a reporter. She is going to a meeting requested by someone who wouldn't identify themselves, but who indicated that it was urgent. When she gets there, she finds a dead, very famous scientist. The police rule it a Read More

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos B. Szekely, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: This historical drama chronicles the struggle of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg (Stella Skarsgard), as he fought valiantly to save the lives of the Jewish residents of Nazi-occupied Budapest. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Follow Me

Actors: Pavel Landovsky, Marina Vlady, Katharina Thalbach, Rudolf Wossley, Ulrich Reinthaller

Synopsis: Follow Me takes place just after the Russian suppression of Czechoslovakian freedom of expression in the spring of 1968. Pavel Landovsky plays a liberal philosophy professor who continues teaching forbidden classes in his apartment. When things get too hot for him in Prague, the professor decides Read More

Welcome to Germany

Actors: Tony Curtis, Matthias Habich, Katharina Thalbach, Alexandra Stewart, Michael Morris

Synopsis: An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the German's lied. The psychological process undergone Read More

Vaeter und Soehne

Synopsis: This German drama chronicles the lives of a family of industrialists whose lives are forever changed by Hitler and WW II. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Z.B. Otto Spalt

Actors: Otto Sander, Katharina Thalbach, Udo Samel, Rolf Zacher, Helmut Krauss

Synopsis: Otto Sander plays a German film director who shows his films to a skeptical panel of censors in this satire. He unspools the reels of his work in front of officials and religious leaders who make up the censorship board. Many filmmakers' and celebrities' faces familiar to German audiences appear Read More

Flight North

Paradies

Actors: Heiner Lauterbach, Katharina Thalbach, Sunnyi Melles, Hanne Wieder, Ernst-Erich Buder

Synopsis: This film by Doris Dorrie concerns two men who fight over one of their wives. Angelica (Sunny Mellis) is a fairly conventional housewife who is concerned about her marriage, because her husband Victor (Heiner Lauterbach) has been ignoring her. So Angelica calls in a remedy, her petite friend Lotte Read More

Flucht in Den Norden

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Jukka-Pekka Palo, Lena Olin

Synopsis: Sex and politics are meant to coincide with each other in this over-extended, dull drama set in 1934 in Finland, yet they seem to cancel each other out. Johanna (Katharina Thalbach) has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Read More

Friedliche Tage

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Branko Samarovski, Hannelore Schroth, Eva Mattes

Synopsis: In another 1983 cinematic projection into the future like Pankow 95, director Richard Blank portrays a cold and oppressive German world where a woman is picked up and put into an asylum. The practice in the asylum is to electrocute prisoners in a large restaurant-type setting -- and since the Read More

Glut

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katharina Thalbach, Matthias Habich, Sigfrit Steiner

Synopsis: Even in war, the life of a rich family is different, according to this fictional story about Francois Korb (Armin Müller-Stahl) an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his Read More

Sophie's Choice

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman

Synopsis: The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska Read More

Domino

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Bernhard Wicki, Anne Bennent, Hanns Zischler, Klaus Pohl

Synopsis: In an extended, two-hour, black-and-white record of the mental disintegration of theatrical-star Lisa (Katharina Thalbach), director (Thomas Brasch) follows her life through a successful performance, a breakdown during another performance, the death of a director friend, constant intrusions into Read More

Engel Aus Eisen

Actors: Hilmar Thate, Katharina Thalbach, Ilse Page

Synopsis: The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow (Ullrich Read More

Mosch

Actors: Walter Taub, Katharina Thalbach, Ulrich Wildgruber, Rosel Zech

Synopsis: The point in this message movie is the same as in several others from West Germany that look with a jaundiced eye at the post-World War II years: alienation kills more than just the spirit. Arno (Marius Mueller-Westernhagen) has inherited a decrepit soap factory from his grandfather, along with a Read More

The Tin Drum

Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach

Synopsis: In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the Read More

Winterspelt

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Hans-Christian Blech, Henning Schluter, George Roubicek

Synopsis: Shortly before the 1944 World War II "Battle of the Bulge," in the Ardennes Forest (the border region between Belgium and Germany), a German Major, knowing that the war is lost, decides to try to surrender his men to the Allies and save numerous lives. In this story, based on the novel by Alfred Read More

Das Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages

Actors: Tina Engel, Sylvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Peter Schneider

Synopsis: The West German The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Das Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) stars Tina Engel in the title role. Unable to pay the rent on the day care center that she operates, Christa steals the money from a bank, then tries to cover up her crime by passing the money off as a Read More

Die Leiden Des Jungen

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Hilmar Baumann, Heinz Dieter Knaup

Lotte in Weimar

Actors: Lilli Palmer

Synopsis: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. The book's story tells of young love and suicide. In this East German film, based on a book by Read More

Es ist Alte Geschichte

Synopsis: This uneventful East German romance tells the story of a girl who has contemplated marriage with a lad until the boy's best friend wants to date her too. She'd rather dump them both than bother with such a mess. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More