Moritz BleibtreuFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Born to Austrian actors Hans Brenner and Monika Bleibtreu, Moritz Bleibtreu started acting at the age of six. He traveled the U.S. and Paris as a teenager before becoming a prominent German actor in television and film. After a few roles in productions with his mother, he appeared in the drama Einfach nur Liebe...Read More

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Soul Kitchen

Actors: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel

Synopsis: A low-budget restaurateur finds himself in a big vat of trouble in this comedy from director Fatih Akin. Zinos Kazantzakis (Adam Bousdoukos) run a cheap restaurant in a run-down warehouse distract that he calls the Soul Kitchen. While the food isn't very good, it doesn't cost much and a regular Read More

2009
Adam Resurrected

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer, Moritz Bleibtreu

Synopsis: Author Yoram Kaniuk's celebrated 1971 novel concerning a charismatic yet questionably sane Holocaust survivor comes to the screen in this dark drama starring Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, and Derek Jacobi. In the years before World War II, Adam Stein (Goldblum) was a Berlin entertainer who thrilled Read More

12/12/08
The Baader Meinhof Complex

Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz, Vinzenz Kiefer, Nadja Uhl

Synopsis: Director Uli Edel teams with screenwriter Bernd Eichinger to explore a dark period in German history with this drama detailing the rise and fall of the Red Army Faction, a left-wing terrorist organization that became increasingly active following World War II. Also known as the Baader-Meinhof Read More

9/25/08
Speed Racer

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, John Goodman

Synopsis: The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Speed Read More

5/9/08
Les Femmes de l'ombre

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Déborah François, Moritz Bleibtreu

Synopsis: A handful of women use their smarts and allure in the service of the French Resistance in this historical drama set during World War II. Louise (Sophie Marceau) is a beautiful woman recruited into the French underground by her brother Pierre (Julien Boisselier) while Nazi forces occupy their Read More

3/5/08
Chiko

Actors: Denis Moschitto, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volkan Özcan, Reyhan Sahin, Fahri Ogun Yardim

Synopsis: Isa goes by the nickname Chiko, and lives in a Hamburg suburb. Most people might think that means that Chiko is from a privileged background, but the reality is that every day of his life is a struggle. But now, in the dark underbelly of one of the world's richest cities, Chiko vows to get the Read More

2008
The Walker

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Lily Tomlin, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: With The Walker, Paul Schrader unofficially updates themes and tropes first explored by his controversial erotic thriller American Gigolo (1980). Woody Harrelson stars as Carter Page III, an overtly gay, Virginia senator's son, paid as an asexual escort of middle-aged women in the upper-crust Read More

12/7/07
Reclaim Your Brain

Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Elsa Sophie Gambard, Milan Peschel, Gregor Bloeb, Tom Jahn

Synopsis: A reality television producer who earned his millions by creating some of the most socially irresponsible entertainment ever to hit the airwaves is involved in an accident that changes his way of thinking and leaves him determined to spark a cultural revolution in this media-centric drama directed Read More

2007
The Lark Farm

Actors: Paz Vega, Arsinée Khanjian, Tchéky Karyo, Moritz Bleibtreu, Mohammad Bakri

Synopsis: As adapted from the roman by Antonia Arslan and co-directed by legendary Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, The Lark Farm marks one of the few international features to tackle the Armenian genocide head-on. The story (with its thematic parallels, in the early scenes, to De Sica's Read More

2007
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Rade Serbedzija, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christopher Simpson, Bruno Lastra, Adam Echahly, Marie Espinosa

Synopsis: A pair of young men living in the 21st century relive the tales of one of their ancient forbearers in this historical drama. Kamran (Adam Echahly) is a 12-year-old boy of Iranian heritage whose older brother, Nader (Puya Behinaein), is slowly dying. Kamran and Nader's family puts a great value on Read More

1/13/06
Agnes and His Brothers

Actors: Martin Weiss, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann, Tom Schilling

Synopsis: The Tschirn brothers have their share of problems. Middle brother Hans-Jörg (Moritz Bleibtreu of Run Lola Run) is a librarian who neglects his duties in order to ogle every attractive woman that enters his workplace. His clumsy efforts to make conversation with them go nowhere. He takes his Read More

1/12/06
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
Munich

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

12/23/05
Luna Papa

Actors: Chulpan Khamatova, Moritz Bleibtreu, Merab Ninidze, Ato Mukhamedzhanov, Nikolai Formenko

Synopsis: Tajik filmmaker Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov directs this magical realist tragicomedy about a teenaged Tatar girl who mysteriously finds herself pregnant. Told from the point of view of the gestating fetus, young Mamlakat (Chulpan Khamatova) lives with her excitable father (Ato Mukhamedshanov) and her Read More

1/1/04
Taking Sides

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr, Oleg Tabakov

Synopsis: Set in Germany in 1946, Taking Sides tells the story of the investigation of Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård), the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, by the American occupying army. Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) has been told by his Read More

9/5/03
Solino

Actors: Barnaby Metschurat, Moritz Bleibtreu, Antonella Attili, Gigi Savoia, Tiziana Lodato

Synopsis: Out of work in 1964, Romano Amato (Gigi Savoia) packs up his young family and heads to Duisburg, Germany, in hopes for a better future for them. Shortly after arriving, Romano takes a job mining coal but quickly loses interest in that endeavor. His wife, Rosa, (Antonella Attili) takes matters into Read More

2002
The Invisible Circus

Actors: Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston, Cameron Diaz, Blythe Danner, Patrick Bergin

Synopsis: A young woman trying to better understand the fate of her sister finds herself following in her footsteps in this emotional drama. 18-year-old Phoebe (Jordanna Brewster) has been haunted by the memory of her sister Faith (Cameron Diaz), who died under mysterious circumstances while travelling Read More

2/2/01
Lammbock

Actors: Lucas Gregorowicz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Zielcke, Julian Weigend, Elmar Wepper

2001
Das Experiment

Actors: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Maren Eggert, Jacek Klimontko, Justus VonDohnanyi, Nicki VonTempelhoff, Stephan Szasz, Polat Dal, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Timo Dierkes, Oliver Stokowski

Synopsis: A man taking part in a scientific study finds the fine line between play-acting and reality has been blurred beyond recognition in this taut drama. Tarek Fahd (Moritz Bleibtreu) is a journalist who is temporarily making ends meet by driving a taxi when he sees an advertisement offering 4,000 marks Read More

2001
Fandango

Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Corinna Harfouch, Kim Ill-young, Nicolette Krebitz

Synopsis: Matthais Glasner directs this wild, bizarre crime thriller set in Berlin's fetish club scene. Bubble-brained bimbo Shirley (Nicolette Krebitz) dumps her club-owning boyfriend Lupo, swipes his car, and shacks up with ultra-mellow D.J. Sunny (Moritz Bleibtreu). Unfortunately for Shirley and her new Read More

2000
In July

Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus, Idil Uner, Jochen Nickel

Synopsis: A man who has never been lucky in love thinks his fortune may have changed, only to find his life becoming all the more complicated in this nomadic romantic comedy. Daniel (Moritz Blebitreu) is a shy schoolteacher who is often unsure around women, but when he meets Melek (Idil Under), a beautiful Read More

2000
Run Lola Run

Actors: Ludger Pistor, Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Armin Rohde, Joachim Krol, Nina Petri

Synopsis: Tom Tykwer directed this German thriller in which Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) handled a smuggling job, delivered the loot, collected the payment, left the bag on the subway, and now has 20 minutes to gather 100,000 deutsche marks or confront the wrath of his boss, local criminal Ronnie (Heino Ferch). Read More

6/18/99
Liebe deine Nächste!

Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Lea Mornar, Heike Makatsch, Marc Hosemann, Heribert Sasse

Synopsis: A new wrinkle in the eternal battle between good and evil forms the basis for the comedy Liebe Deine Naechste!/Love Your Neighbor!. Lt. Josephine (Lea Mornar) is a new soldier with the Salvation Army, and she's sent on a mission to save souls and do good works in Berlin, paired with her new Read More

1999
Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Actors: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Huub Stapel

Synopsis: Two terminal patients leave their hospital beds for the open highway in this German road movie, a popular success in Germany. When cancer victim Rudi (Jan Josef Liefers) meets Martin (Til Schweiger), who has a brain tumor, they knock back tequila one night and decide to head north to experience Read More

1997
Stadtgespräch

Synopsis: This lively German comedy follows the exploits of the cynical Monika, a never-married woman who just turned 30 and earns her living giving advice to the lovelorn on a local radio station. Though acerbic and glib with her replies on the air, Monika is a total washout in the outside world of Read More

1995
Einfach nur Liebe

Actors: Benno Formann, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Steffen Wink, Moritz Bleibtreu, Regula Grauwiller

Synopsis: One of the most difficult tasks a high school teacher faces is to generate interest amongst bored students. This is the initial focus of this German drama. Herr Pilgrim, a language skills, teacher, is trying to fire up his students. But his students are not so easily roused. The class is divided Read More

1994