Michael Kranz
Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism. Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018. His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The...
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War Horse
as Junior German OfficerOn the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his...
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The Fifth Estate
as OttoA look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and...
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Heidi
as Mr. KandidatHeidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling...
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Rommel
as Karl DanielThe story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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The White Ribbon
as The TutorAn aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that...
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Nanga Parbat
as Hans SalerDrama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which...
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13 Minutes
as Franz Xaver LechnerThe breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
as Jan HartogThe story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and...
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The Goldfish
as uncreditedOliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes...
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The Young Chief Winnetou
as FreddyWinnetou's tribe is in dire straits. There is a threat of famine as the all-important buffalo...
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Rehragout-Rendezvous
as Simon SteckenbillerA bang at the Eberhofer farm: Grandma goes on strike and wants to get rid of the family care in...
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The Master Butcher
as Fidelis’ BruderAfter his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher...
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Hannes
as FlorianBorn at the same place, on the same day, Hannes and Moritz grow up to be inseparable friends....
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Räuber Kneißl
as Gendarm HildebrandEven today, Mathias Kneißl (1875-1902) is considered a national hero in the collective memory of...
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Another Kind of Light
as uncreditedSissi and Theo are different, as one can hardly be more different. Theo, an intolerant,...
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Hirngespinster
as GuidoSimon falls head over heels in love with pretty and quick-witted Verena. When his father, who...
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King Laurin
as Bauer HansIn a kingdom where plants are banned, the king's short son befriends Laurin, ruler of the...
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Siblings
as NielsThe siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany....
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A Family of Three
as uncreditedWhen novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian,...
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Fräulein Else
as PaulElse joins her aunt to spend her holidays in a remote luxury hotel in India. She receives a...
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Onkel Wanja
as TeleginA revolution breaks out, caused by a financial crisis, business intrigues and corresponding...
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The Pursuit of Unhappiness
as MoritzBased on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of...
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Die Büffel sind los!
as Landrat HäberleIt is an absolute B movie. It starts like a fake western movie and continuous with an East...
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The Last 30 Years
as Robert OstermeierIt is the love story of Resa and Oskar who meet in the 1970s in the midst if the leftist studen...
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Sommer der Gaukler
as AlfonsSummer 1780: On the way to Salzburg Emanuel Schikaneder's theatre group gets held up in a small...
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Raw Materials
as MassenbachA drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an...
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Morin
as Konrad DrammA near-future film about our education and value system and the question of what our children...
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I love Everything I Hate About You
as KaiWhile out for a walk in the forest one day, Helena, who is in love with her twin...
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Was Tun
as uncreditedFaced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into...
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Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
as Court Jester
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
as German Sergeant1944. Somewhere in the occupied Central Europe. A multicultural triangle between a little...
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Scene of the Crime
as KarstenTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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München 7
as JörgMünchen 7 is a German police drama series from Franz Xaver Bogner. The show is set in Munich,...
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Murder by the Lake
as Peter WolfahrtMurder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by...
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The Signal
as GregorA missing astronaut sets her family on a frantic hunt for answers. But the more they uncover,...
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Alpine Rescue
as Steffen HaflingerDie Bergwacht is a German mountain rescue television series, broadcast since 26 November, 2009...
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Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
as Alfons UrbanA young girl falls in love with a poor brewer's son. Their relationship is opposed by the girl's...
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