Michael Kranz

Born: 1983-04-17

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.


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as Herrman #3
Released: 2009-08-02

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The...

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as Junior German Officer
Released: 2011-12-25

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his...

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Heidi

as Mr. Kandidat
Released: 2015-12-10

Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling...

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The White Ribbon

as The Tutor
Released: 2009-09-24

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that...

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Rommel

as Karl Daniel
Released: 2012-11-01

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

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13 Minutes

as Franz Xaver Lechner
Released: 2015-04-09

The breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler...

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The Fifth Estate

as Otto
Released: 2013-10-11

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and...

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The Diary of Anne Frank

as Jan Hartog
Released: 2016-03-03

The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and...

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The Goldfish

as uncredited
Released: 2019-02-28

Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes...

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Nanga Parbat

as Hans Saler
Released: 2010-01-14

Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which...

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Rehragout-Rendezvous

as Simon Steckenbiller
Released: 2023-08-10

A bang at the Eberhofer farm: Grandma goes on strike and wants to get rid of the family care in...

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Sams im Glück

as Packer 1
Released: 2012-03-27

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The Pursuit of Unhappiness

as Moritz
Released: 2012-11-29

Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of...

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Das Leben meiner Tochter

as Norbert Holler
Released: 2019-01-08

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Hannes

as Florian
Released: 2021-11-25

Born at the same place, on the same day, Hannes and Moritz grow up to be inseparable friends....

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The Young Chief Winnetou

as Freddy
Released: 2022-08-11

Winnetou's tribe is in dire straits. There is a threat of famine as the all-important buffalo...

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Ein Sommer im Allgäu

as uncredited
Released: 2017-11-26

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Raw Materials

as Massenbach
Released: 2024-09-26

A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an...

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Räuber Kneißl

as Gendarm Hildebrand
Released: 2008-08-21

Even today, Mathias Kneißl (1875-1902) is considered a national hero in the collective memory of...

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Ein Sommer in Masuren

as Zugschaffner
Released: 2015-10-14

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King Laurin

as Bauer Hans
Released: 2016-09-01

In a kingdom where plants are banned, the king's short son befriends Laurin, ruler of the...

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The Master Butcher

as Fidelis’ Bruder
Released: 2019-12-27

After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher...

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A Family of Three

as uncredited
Released: 2012-01-10

When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian,...

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Die Büffel sind los!

as Landrat Häberle
Released: 2016-10-21

It is an absolute B movie. It starts like a fake western movie and continuous with an East...

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Fräulein Else

as Paul
Released: 2014-05-22

Else joins her aunt to spend her holidays in a remote luxury hotel in India. She receives a...

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Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?

as Mr. Rupprecht
Released: 2013-10-09

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12 Tage Sommer

as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Released: 2021-11-10

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Was Tun

as uncredited
Released: 2022-03-03

Faced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into...

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Another Kind of Light

as uncredited
Released: 2015-12-04

Sissi and Theo are different, as one can hardly be more different. Theo, an intolerant,...

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Sommer der Gaukler

as Alfons
Released: 2011-12-22

Summer 1780: On the way to Salzburg Emanuel Schikaneder's theatre group gets held up in a small...

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The Last 30 Years

as Robert Ostermeier
Released: 2010-07-16

It is the love story of Resa and Oskar who meet in the 1970s in the midst if the leftist studen...

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Hirngespinster

as Guido
Released: 2014-10-09

Simon falls head over heels in love with pretty and quick-witted Verena. When his father, who...

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Siblings

as Niels
Released: 2016-03-01

The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany....

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Falter

as Dave
Released: 2019-01-20

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Mutter reicht's jetzt

as Simon
Released: 2016-11-28

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Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11

as Bossler
Released: 2013-01-30

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Schildkröten Panzer

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2017-10-30

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I love Everything I Hate About You

as Kai
Released: 2018-06-01

While out for a walk in the forest one day, Helena, who is in love with her twin...

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Hanna und die Bankräuber

as Polizist Kranz
Released: 2009-07-04

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Morin

as Konrad Dramm
Released: 2023-11-22

A near-future film about our education and value system and the question of what our children...

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Onkel Wanja

as Telegin
Released: 2019-02-25

A revolution breaks out, caused by a financial crisis, business intrigues and corresponding...

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Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?

as German Sergeant
Released: 2012-02-09

1944. Somewhere in the occupied Central Europe. A multicultural triangle between a little...

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Scene of the Crime

as Karsten
First aired: 1970-11-29

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...

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Bettys Diagnose

as Christoph Wendrup
First aired: 2015-01-09

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The Signal

as Gregor
First aired: 2024-03-07

A missing astronaut sets her family on a frantic hunt for answers. But the more they uncover,...

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Alpine Rescue

as Steffen Haflinger
First aired: 2009-11-26

Die Bergwacht is a German mountain rescue television series, broadcast since 26 November, 2009...

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Murder by the Lake

as Peter Wolfahrt
First aired: 2014-11-03

Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by...

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Kommissarin Lucas

as Kai Benner
First aired: 2003-03-01

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München 7

as Jörg
First aired: 2004-10-24

München 7 is a German police drama series from Franz Xaver Bogner. The show is set in Munich,...

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Hammer & Sichl

as Polizist
First aired: 2013-11-08

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Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood

as Alfons Urban
First aired: 2020-09-15

A young girl falls in love with a poor brewer's son. Their relationship is opposed by the girl's...

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Hindafing

as Pfarrer Kraus
First aired: 2017-05-16

Alfons Zischl, mayor of Hindafing, tries to give his community a new image by building a mall...

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