Heinz Bennent

Acting

Heinz Bennent

Born July 18, 1921 · Stolberg, Germany

Died October 12, 2011 · aged 90

Heinz Bennent (July 18, 1921 - October 12, 2011) was a German actor. His career began after the end of World War II in Göttingen. He moved to Switzerland in the 1970s, where he lives until his death. His children, Anne Bennent and David Bennent also work as actors.

Known For

PossessionPossession · 1981
Possession
★ 7.31981
MovieHorror
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
The Tin DrumThe Tin Drum · 1979
The Tin Drum
★ 7.01979
MovieDramaHistory
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
The Last MetroThe Last Metro · 1980
The Last Metro
★ 7.21980
MovieDramaRomance
In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
My Name is VictorMy Name is Victor · 1993
My Name is Victor
★ 8.01993
Movie
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.
The Lost Honor of Katharina BlumThe Lost Honor of Katharina Blum · 1975
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
★ 7.01975
MovieDrama
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
The Serpent's EggThe Serpent's Egg · 1977
The Serpent's Egg
★ 6.21977
MovieMysteryDrama
In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
WomanlightWomanlight · 1979
Womanlight
★ 5.81979
MovieDrama
Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.
Brass TargetBrass Target · 1978
Brass Target
★ 5.41978
MovieAction
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.

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My Name is VictorMy Name is Victor · 1993
My Name is Victor
★ 8.01993
Movie
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.
The Wild DuckThe Wild Duck · 1976
The Wild Duck
★ 9.01976
MovieDrama
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, who is married to Gina, a former maid of the Werle family. Hjalmar is unaware that Werle had an affair with Gina and that their 14-year-old daughter Hedwig is not his child. Gregers moves in with the Ekdals with the intention of allowing unsuspecting Hjalmar and his family to share in the "happiness of truth". Hedwig is entirely devoted to a wild duck, which lives on a pond outside their house. When Hjalmar learns the truth about his daughter, he wants to leave his family. Gregers advises Hedwig to kill the wild duck so that her father, impressed by this sacrifice, will return home. On the following day, Hedwig's birthday, she doesn't shoot the duck, but shoots herself instead.

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