Michael GwisdekFilmography

Hilde

Actors: Heike Makatsch, Dan Stevens, Monika Bleibtreu, Michael Gwisdek, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: This lavish, broadly-scaled feature from director Kai Wessel dramatizes the life of Hildegarde Knef (1925-2002), arguably the most popular actress and chanteuse in post-WWII Germany. Yet in lieu of presenting a chronological and all-inclusive account of Knef's decades-long career, Wessel Read More

Kaifeck Murder

Actors: Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Henry Strange, Michael Gwisdek, Erni Mangold

The Miracle of Berlin

Actors: Kostja Ullmann, Karoline Herfurth, Veronica Ferres, Heino Ferch, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: A family's divided loyalties serves as a mirror of the struggle toward a reunified Germany in this drama from director Roland Suso Richter. Marco Kaiser (Kostja Ullmann) is a teenaged punk rocker living in East Berlin in 1988. Marco and his friends stage an underground punk rock show that runs Read More

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

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

Good Bye Lenin!

Actors: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer, Burghart Klaußner, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: A dedicated young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director Wolfgang Becker. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass Read More

Herr Lehmann

Actors: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski, Detlev Buck, Janek Rieke, Uwe-Dag Berlin

Synopsis: One of the key political events of the late 20th century fails to distract a man who is having a row with his parents in this comedy from Germany. The film takes place in the fall of 1989 in SO36, a neighborhood in West Berlin adjacent to the Berlin Wall, shunted into a corner and largely ignored. Read More

Frau2 Sucht Happyend

Actors: Ben Becker, Isabella Parkinson

Synopsis: Two lonely people find each other without meeting face to face in this romantic drama. Gregor (Ben Becker) is a disc jockey at a radio station who has never quite gotten over his breakup with his former girlfriend; they played together in a rock band, and she's since gone on to stardom, while he's Read More

Eine Hand Voll Gras

Actors: Oliver Korittke, Lisa Martinek

Synopsis: Opening in remote Kurdistan, Eine Hand Voll Gras introduces us to the impoverished family of 10-year-old Kendal (Arman Inci). In desperate need for cash to fund his older sister's wedding, Kendal's parents allow themselves to be persuaded by Kendal's uncle (Ercan Durmaz), who lives in Germany, to Read More

Freunde

Actors: Benno Fürmann, Erdal Yildiz, Christiane Paul, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: Opening with a brief glimpse of the childhood friendship between Nils and Turkish-German Tayfun, Freunde quickly cuts to the present day, when the Berlin cafe Tayfun (Erdal Yildiz owns is raided by the police. One of the cops, Nils (Benno Fuermann), does a favor for his old friend by disposing of Read More

Sieben Monde

Actors: Michael Gwisdek, Andreas Hoppe, Tilly Lauenstein

Synopsis: Peter Fratzscher directs this slick, ironic werewolf movie. Likeable struggling novelist Thomas (Jan Josef Liefers) is looking for his big break while working at a sound-synch studio which specializes in horror flicks. One day, after checking out a roadkill accident, he is bitten by something Read More

Die Unberührbare

Actors: Hannelore Elsner, Vadim Glowna, Jasmin Tabatabai, Lars Rudolph, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: Oskar Roehler directs this bleak look at a down-and-out writer's alcohol-drenched final days. Though the central character is named Hanna Flander, the film basically tells the real-life story of noted author Gisela Elsner, who threw herself out of a fourth story window in 1992. Elsner is also the Read More

Nachtgestalten

Actors: Myriam Abbas, Dominique Horwitz, Oliver Bassler, Susanne Bormann, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: The heroes of Andreas Dresen's metropolitan elegy become dreamers when confronted by harsh reality. A farmer dreams of romantic love in a red light district; a homeless man and woman dream of finding a room for the night; and an aging businessman dreams of a big career, unaware that it is too Read More

Das Mambospiel

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

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

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

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

Abschied Von Agnes

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Gwisdek, Sylvester Groth, Gerhard Straus-Joachimsthal, Heide Kipp

Synopsis: This German drama is centered upon the conversation between a grieving widower and a former Stasi (East German secret police) agent. It is set in former East Berlin. Heiner was a scientist. Now he is retired and spends his lonely days mourning his late wife Agnes. One night there is a knock upon Read More

Das Grosse Fest

Die Spur Des Bernsteinzimmers

Actors: Corinna Harfouch, Kurt Bowe, Ulrich Tukur, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: In the 18th century, the King of Prussia graciously sponsored the creation of a room in one of the palaces of Tsar Peter I (occasionally called "the Great) of Russia. This was the famous "Amber Room," noted for having some of the most elaborate mosaics ever created. In 1944, as part of a Read More

Das Heimweh des Walerjan Wrobel

Actors: Andrzej Mastalerz, Michael Gwisdek, Peter Striebeck

Synopsis: The litany of the horrors of the Naza era in Germany is extended in this drama, based on a true story. Sixteen-year old Walerjan is removed from his close-knit Polish family in 1941 by the German occupation. He is assigned to labor for a German war widow on her farm. He speaks no German and longs Read More

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

Der Verdacht

Actors: Michael Gwisdek, Christine Schorn

Synopsis: This drama appears to have been oriented to citizens of the former East Germany and other former Iron Curtain countries. In the story, set in the 1970s, a girl has been learning the ropes at a newspaper job. However, under the communist regime, this was considered to be a particularly politically 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

Treffen in Travers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Corinna Harfouch, Susanne Bormann, Lucie Gebhardt

Synopsis: The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzerland. Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the verge of divorcing wife Corinna Harfouch. Radical writer Uwe Kokisch, Corinna's lover, hopes to find a way of smoothing out animosities. What follows Read More

Die Schauspielerin

Actors: Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke, Michael Gwisdek, Blanche Kommerell, Jurgen Watzke

Synopsis: In this remake of Marriage in the Shadows, one of the first and most successful postwar East German films, the life of a Jewish actress is destroyed by rising fascist sentiment. After leading a successful life as a popular actress, who does slightly conceal her background, she falls in love with a Read More

Coming Out

Actors: Dagmar Manzel, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: It seems like a good thing when Philip (Mathias Freihof), a high-school teacher, bumps into Tanja (Dagmar Manzel), starts a relationship with her, and eventually moves in with her. But Philip has a secret he hasn't even told himself. He attended a transvestite ball and met a man named Matthias Read More

Yasemin

Actors: Ayse Romey, Uwe Bohm, Sener Sen, Ithan Emirli, Katharina Lehmann

Synopsis: In this German and Turkish romance, a cocky young man joins a judo class and bets his male classmates that he can get any one of the female students to sleep with him in two days. His main target is a beautiful Turkish girl. Unfortunately, she has other things on her mind and rebuffs him. She is Read More

Pestalozzis Berg

Actors: Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: It is difficult these days to imagine that elementary school education was instituted by anyone at all. In fact, Swiss experimental educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) laid the groundwork for universal elementary school education and developed many of the educational theories and Read More

Der Werwolf Von W.

Actors: Henry Hubchen, Michael Gwisdek, Martina Schieber, Werner Brehm, Horst Fechner

Synopsis: When a factory night watchman is found murdered, his delectable daughter and a local detective investigate what happened, in this slow-moving mystery. They discover that the site where the body was found has been the scene of frequent murders since the 16th century. The night watchman's successor Read More

Sansibar Oder Der Letzte Grund

Der Kleine Staatsanwalt

Actors: Hark Bohm, Martin Lüttge, Corinna Harfouch, Michael Gwisdek, Alexander Radszun

Synopsis: Konig is a very minor cog in a huge piece of legal machinery, a low-level state prosecutor. He would like to be a bigger cog, but when he gets involved investigating a routine bankruptcy case which turns out to implicate governmental higher-ups, he opts for something resembling professional Read More

Halfte Des Lebens

Actors: Ulrich Mühe, Michael Gwisdek, Swetlana Schonfeld

Synopsis: Germany's lyric poet Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) is the subject of this informative re-enactment of the 12 years between 1796 -- when he ended his classes at the University of Tubingen -- and 1807 -- when he took up residence in what has come to be known as "Holderlin's Tower" in Tubingen. Read More

Arztinnen

Actors: Judy Winter, Inge Keller, Walter Reyer, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: This propaganda film from East Germany about a corrupt society in West Germany goes to such extremes that it may offend many viewers -- especially doctors. Essentially, the film, by director Horst Seemann who also wrote the script, focuses on the evils lurking in West German hospitals. When a Read More

Der Fall Bachmeier

Actors: Marie Colbin, Michael Gwisdek, Werner Rehm

Synopsis: This docudrama by director Hark Bohm is about a famous murder case in West Germany during the early 1980s (the Marie Bachmeier case). Marie Sellbach (the fictional Bachmeier played by Marie Colbin) is a mother struggling to raise her seven-year-old daughter while working at a bar in Hamburg and Read More

Olle Henry

Actors: Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: Filmed in 1983, but not released until 1985, this East German drama is set in Germany immediately after the end of World War II. Henry (Michael Gwisdek), a discharged soldier who was a prizefighter before the war, returns home from the front, where he had been wounded. He tries to start his life Read More

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

Dein Unbekannter Bruder

Addio, Piccola Mia

Mann Gegen Mann

Actors: Regimantas Adomajtis, Klaus-Peter Thiele, Karin Schroeder, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: In the confusion of events during World War II, a young woman marries one young man, receives an official report of his death, and then marries another. At the end of the war, the two husbands, both alive, accidentally meet on their way back to the woman. They play a kind of Russian Roulette in a Read More

Das Schilfrohr

Till Eulenspiegel

Spur des Falken