Klaus Maria BrandauerFilmography

The Crown Prince

Actors: Max von Thun, Vittoria Puccini, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Omar Sharif, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: Robert Dornhelm's epic-length period tragedy The Crown Prince takes as its dramatic inspiration the heart-rending and irrepressibly romantic tale of Rudolf (Max von Thun), Crown Prince of Austria heir to the Habsburg monarchy during the late 19th Century. The young man's story culminated in the Read More

Bonhoeffer

Actors: Martin Doblmeier, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adele Schmidt, Richard Mancini, John de Gruchy

Synopsis: Culled from an array of archival footage, on-location shooting, dramatic narration, and interviews with family, friends, and historians, the documentary Bonhoeffer strives to recreate the life of the theologian who openly railed against Hitler's growing stronghold on Germany and beyond in the Read More

Entrusted

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Opernhaus Zürich)

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Piotr Beczala, Malin Hartelius, Patricia Petibon, Alfred Muff, Boguslaw Bidzinski

Extreme Ops

Actors: Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves, Rufus Sewell, Heino Ferch

Synopsis: A group of extreme winter athletes find themselves risking their neck for more than just thrills in this action drama. Jeffrey (Rupert Graves) is a director who has been hired to make a television commercial for a cellular phone company. For the spot, Jeffrey has come up with an exciting visual Read More

Jedermann's Fest

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Juliette Greco, Sylvie Testud, Redbad Klynstra, Alexa Sommer

Synopsis: Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jedermann ("John Everyman") deals with a rich Read More

Between Strangers

Actors: Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino, Deborah Kara Unger, Pete Postlethwaite, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Synopsis: Three women living in Toronto find themselves confronting emotional crises regarding the men in their lives in this drama. Olivia (Sophia Loren) is a woman who spends her days looking after her husband, John (Pete Postlethwaite), who is confined to a wheelchair. Olivia has long aspired to a career Read More

Druids

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Ines Sastre, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Synopsis: The life of the fabled Gallic leader Vercingetorix is brought to the screen in this epic international production. Young Vercingetorix came of age in 60 B.C., as soldiers of the Roman Empire ran roughshod over Gaul and his father was captured and executed by Romans. A wise and philosophical druid Read More

Dykaren

Actors: Stefan Sauk, Izabella Scorupco, Bjørn Floberg, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Alexander Skarsgård

Synopsis: Izabella Scorupco and Klaus Maria Brandauer star in this slick Hollywood-style Swedish thriller. Arne (Stefan Sauk), a distraught diver living on Sweden's west coast, saves the beautiful Irena (Scorupco) from a watery death when she is locked inside a boat that is intentionally scuttled. Soon she Read More

Jeremiah

Actors: Patrick Dempsey

Synopsis: The eighth in a series of movies made-for-TV which recreate stories from the bible, this drama stars Patrick Dempsey as Jeremiah, a prophet who heard the call to preach against the moral and ethical corruption he saw occurring all around him in ancient Jerusalem. While Jerusalem in time fell to Read More

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Actors: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Obba Babatunde, Loretta Devine, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: Dorothy Dandridge was a singer, nightclub entertainer, and actress who became the first African-American woman to receive an Academy award nomination as Best Actress (for her standout performance in 1954's Carmen Jones; she lost to Grace Kelly). However, despite her striking beauty and obvious Read More

Rembrandt

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Romane Bohringer, Jean Rochefort, Johanna ter Steege, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey

Synopsis: Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this gorgeously photographed French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. Told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist, the film opens as the young van Rijn arrives in Amsterdam. Soon after establishing his Read More

Mario und der Zauberer

Crew: Director

Actors: Julian Sands, Anna Galiena, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Pavel Greco, Jan Wachtel, Valentina Chico

Synopsis: Noted Austrian actor Klaus-Maria Brandauer stepped into the director's chair for this drama about the rise of fascism in Europe, based on a story by Thomas Mann. In the 1920s, Bernhard Fuhrmann (Julian Sands), a German author and outspoken leftist, takes his family to Torre di Venere, a resort Read More

Felidae

Actors: Mario Adorf, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Wolfgang Hess, Helge Schneider

Synopsis: This animated feature film, based on a successful German novel, was made for adult audiences and feature graphic depictions of feline sex and violence. " Felidae" is the Latin word for cats. Francis is a suave cat who investigates murders. A series of female cat murders leads him to uncover a Read More

Becoming Colette

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Mathilda May, Virginia Madsen, Paul Rhys, John van Dreelen

Synopsis: Danny Huston's Becoming Colette purports to be an account of the early formative years of French author Gabrielle Colette (Mathilda May) and her evolution from naive country bumpkin to a Parisian socialite in a George Sand suit. The film turns up the heat with Colette as a teen with a crush on her Read More

White Fang

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Cassel, Susan Hogan, James Remar

Synopsis: In Randal Kleiser's entertaining adaptation of Jack London's classic novel White Fang, Ethan Hawke plays Jack Conroy, a young man who travels to Alaska with the intent of finding his father's lost gold mine. During the course of his travels, he's accompanied by a big white wolf that he rescued Read More

The Russia House

Actors: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, Klaus Maria Brandauer, John Mahoney

Synopsis: "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems Read More

Hanussen

Actors: Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Karoly Eperjes

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Istvan Szabo's Hanussen centers on an Austrian soldier (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who becomes clairvoyant after he is shot in the head during World War I. He is able to read minds and predict the future. Before long, he has foreseen Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power, and he Read More

Das Spinnennetz

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Andrea Jonasson, Elisabeth Endriss

Synopsis: Der Spinnennetz was released in English-speaking countries as The Spider's Web. Ulrich Muhe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is Read More

La Revolution Française

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Andrzej Seweryn, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: With its release timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789-94), this film is actually two films released under one general title. The first, subtitled The Light Years, covers the period from the first stirrings of the revolution (e.g., the Read More

Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland

Crew: Director

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brian Dennehy, Rebecca Miller, Nigel le Vaillant

Synopsis: Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer makes his directorial debut with The Seven Minutes (released in Germany as Georg Elser-Einer aus Deutschland. Brandauer also stars, playing a solid citizen of 1939 Berlin. Though loyal to the Fatherland, he despises Hitler and the Nazis. A few weeks after the start of Read More

Burning Secret

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Klaus Maria Brandauer, David Eberts, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Set in the years just after World War I at an upper-class winter spa, this period drama concerns the sickly son, Edmund (David Eberts), of American diplomat Mr. Tuchman (Ian Richardson). Edmund is accompanied to the spa with his ice-boned mother Sonya (Faye Dunaway) to recuperate from an asthmatic Read More

Streets of Gold

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes, Ángela Molina, Elya Baskin

Synopsis: Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this drama as Alek Neuman, a one-time boxing champion in the Soviet Union. While he was one of the top-ranked Russian fighters of his day, he was never allowed to box in the Olympics, because the Soviets would not permit Jews to compete on their national teams. Many Read More

The Lightship

Actors: Robert Duvall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tom Bower, Robert Costanzo, Badja Djola

Synopsis: Before entering this story of a battle between the ostensible forces of good over evil, viewers should know that a lightship is a floating lighthouse, anchored in dangerous waters to warn other ships away. The German-American Captain Miller (Klaus Maria Brandauer) is in charge of one such Read More

Colonel Redl

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans-Christian Blech, Gudrun Landgrebe, Dorottya Udvaros

Synopsis: The second film in the trilogy made by director Istvan Szabo and actor Klaus Maria Brandauer -- hammocked between Mephisto and Hanussen -- Colonel Redl continues Mephisto's fascination with a man overwhelmed by history. In that film, Brandauer played an actor who tried to ignore the rise of the Read More

Out of Africa

Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens

Synopsis: Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events occured was known by her married name, Karen Blixen-Flecke. For convenience's sake, Karen (Meryl Streep) has married Baron Bor Blixen-Flecke (Klaus Maria Brandauer). In 1914 Read More

Quo Vadis?

Synopsis: This umpteenth film version of Henryk Sienkewicz's warhorse novel Quo Vadis? was produced for Italian Television. Francesco Quinn (son of Anthony) stars as the arrogant Roman legionnaire whose brutish, libertine outlook on life is softened by the love of early Christian girl Cristina Raines. Even Read More

Detsky Sad

Actors: Serezha Gusak, Serezha Bobrovsky, Galina Stakhanova, Svetlana Yevstratova, Nikolai Karachentsov

Synopsis: Poet and filmmaker Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote and directed this metaphorical look at his fictionalized early life, set in 1941 when Muscovites were abandoning their city because of the war. Everything is hectic at the train station in the rush to leave, and little nine-year-old Zhenya (Sergei Read More

Never Say Never Again

Actors: Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: The title of the 1983 James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again is a self-mocking reference to star Sean Connery's insistence back in 1971 that he would never play Bond again. Reportedly, the huge salary offered Connery was but one consideration that brought him back to the 007 fold; the other Read More

Mephisto

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Karin Boyd, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: Based on Klaus Mann's novel, Mephisto details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hofgen (Klaus Maria Brandauer, offering an electric performance) is the star of a state-funded theater department who tires of his job. Like his Read More

World's Largest Television Studio

Synopsis: This documentary covers the Democratic National Convention of 1972. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Salzburg Connection

Actors: Elisabeth Felchner, Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Synopsis: This espionage thriller is based on a spy novel by Helen MacInnes and tells the tale of a Yankee lawyer who goes to the lovely little Austrian city on vacation and ends up hopelessly entangled in an international web of rival spies and neo-Nazis searching for a chest that holds the names of Nazi Read More