Otto Sander
Otto Sander (born 30 June 1941 in Hanover) is a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service as a navy reserve officer and then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. He is married to the actress Monika Hansen and is stepfather to the actors Ben Becker and Meret Becker. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. Because of his warm, strong voice, which earned him the sobriquet "The Voice" (the English term is used), he has been used frequently as narrator for television documentaries, and numerous talking books in the 1990s. In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He has two brothers, the lawyer Adolf Sander, the scientist Christian (Chris) Sander, and a sister, the book dealer Marianne Sander. He also played a professor in the movie: The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Otto Sander, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Das Boot
as Phillip ThomsenA German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the...
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Wings of Desire
as CassielTwo angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling...
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The Tin Drum
as MeynOskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by...
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Faraway, So Close!
as CassielDamiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The...
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Werner - Beinhart!
as Erzähler (voice)Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise...
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Krabat
as Narrator (voice)A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an...
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The Killer Condom
as Mr. HigginsIn New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile...
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The Marquise of O
as Brother, ForstmeisterA German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
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Lumière & Company
as Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe...
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The Harmonists
as uncreditedComedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the...
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Rosa Luxemburg
as Karl LiebknechtPolish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in...
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The Promise
as Professor LorenzEast-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their...
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
as Otto SpaltThe filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role...
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Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
as Erzähler (voice)Werner, Andi and Eckat play dice to determine the next king of the trio. When Werner is crowned...
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A Love in Germany
as NarratorIn May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden...
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Am I Beautiful?
as DavidBetween Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect,...
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Marlene
as BühnenmanagerMarlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans...
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One or the Other of Us
as Rulle RuhlsdorffPsychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a...
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The Heart Is a Dark Forest
as HelmutA woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
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Nicht fummeln, Liebling
as uncreditedA man is thrown out by his girlfriend and moves in with a friend who is part of a group of...
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The Danube
as FranzAs the ship Donau makes its final journey from Vienna to the Black Sea, a young man sworn to...
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
as SelfThis is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer,...
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Palermo or Wolfsburg
as StaatsanwaltAn impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes...
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Four Against the Bank
as Eberhard WinterOne evening, the once successful architect Helmut is tired of the recession giving no jobs, he...
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Conversation with the Beast
as Adolf Hitler DoubleAn American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real...
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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
as Professor SteinachThe life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field...
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Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
as GerichtsgehilfeA study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David...
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100 Pro
as NarratorTwo boys (Ken Duken and Luca Verhoeven) try to get into the Munich Disco "Spy", but Dennis, the...
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Movie Days
as Maður á hestiThis Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson...
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Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
as HimselfThe gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting...
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The Break
as Erwin LubowitzA story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.
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Summer Guests
as Pjotr SuslovA group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and...
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The Film Narrator
as SalzmannGermany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed....
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Little King Macius
as Erasmus (voice)The sudden death of his father will take Macius the enormous responsibility that comes with...
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Strike Back
as KowalskiDave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike...
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Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef
as Narrator (voice)The vastness of our planets oceans guards unimaginable secrets. One of its most precious is...
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Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
as SelfIn 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit...
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The Olympic Summer
as SprecherIn 1936 Nazi Germany, a young, innocent apprentice, full of Olympic fever, leaves his rural...
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Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
as Loan officer GropTogether with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career...
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Wahnfried
as Richard WagnerWahnfried (German: Richard und Cosima, French: Richard et Cosima) is a 1986 West German-French...
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Männer sind wie Schokolade
as Vater LanoLinda Lano loves her job in an advertising agency and she also loves the men. But most men think...
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Three Sisters
as VershininA screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.
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Der Mann Im Pyjama
as RudiA man just wants to buy some cigarettes - but when he hurries out onto the street in his pyjamas...
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About Narration
as uncreditedInterdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine...
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Girls under investigation
as Staatsanwalt Baldur MeixnerTwo young women are hitchhiking when they get picked up by a man who proceeds to sexually...
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Time of Vengeance
as RobertOrhan, who is ten years old, comes to Vienna from a small Village in Anatolia. Armed with his...
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Happy Too
as Himself / Gert BastianA raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they...
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Das Loch
as Der MannA man dressed city-like walks across a wood and fields when he suddenly finds a perfectly...
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Scene of the Crime
as Manfred EndersTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Scene of the Crime
as Otto AndroschTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Polizeiruf 110
as Ludwig StolzePolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode...
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Polizeiruf 110
as LanskyPolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode...
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Polizeiruf 110
as Richard LanskyPolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode...
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
as SelfThe Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian...
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Das Traumschiff
as James KorthalsThe series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
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Das Traumschiff
as Johannes LippeltThe series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
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Wolffs Revier
as SchenkWolffs Revier is a German television series.
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Wetten, dass..?
as SelfA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...
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Vienna Crime Squad
as Conrad RibarskiSOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
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Der Fahnder
as BährDer Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the...
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Les Misérables
as Monseigneur BienvenuSet against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel...
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Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst
as KunsträuberAktenzeichen XY … ungelöst is a German television programme broadcast since October 1967 on ZDF...
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Das Boot
as Kapitänleutnant PhilippBased on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim,...
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Through the Night with...
as SelfDurch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for...
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Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
as Narrator"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" -...
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The Shop
as uncreditedThe life of a family in Germany between 1920s and 1940s.
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