Barbara Sotelsek

Acting

Barbara Sotelsek

Born March 14, 1974 · Bregenz, Austria (age 52)

Barbara Sotelsek is an Austrian actor, performer and producer based in Berlin. After starting out at the legendary "Theater in DE Josefstadt" in Vienna, she came to major prominence as a lead in the queer crime series 'Behind bars'. Since then she has worked in numerous international productions such as the Turkish feature film "Son Mektup", the BBC drama series "Killing Eve","Paint the Dragons' E…

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HomesickHomesick · 2015
Homesick
6.12015
MovieThriller
Ambitious cello student Jessica receives an invitation to an international contest. A great opportunity, but at the same time it means enormous pressure. Stress begins to gnaw on Jessica's everyday life and soon reality and imagination blur.
Beat Beat BeatBeat Beat Beat · 2013
Beat Beat Beat
4.02013
MovieDrama
Late summer in Berlin. The city is pulsating and friends Fabian, Bene, and Richard are wandering aimlessly through the big urban jungle. Against Fabian's quiet protest, the friends ridicule outsider Jakob. The aggression escalates when one night the boys make their way into Jakob's room and bully Borschwitz lights Jakob's mother's car on fire. Fabian can no longer repress his attachment to Jakob and confronts his friends - perhaps too late.
ZaraZara · 2009
Zara
2009
MovieDrama
A film about the state of people who are forced to live their exile as an outer event, but also as an inner destiny. That condition involves several time levels: a lost past, a disturbed present and a future rimmed with hope. In the village of Zara wandering souls are searching for things lost: letters, childhood, parents… Zara lies at the heart of an eternal search for a place of consolation and respite a search, during which memories and dreams gradually merge into an imagined present. (swissfilms.ch)
The Battle of CanakkaleThe Battle of Canakkale · 2015
The Battle of Canakkale
3.32015
MovieActionHistory
Pilot Captain Salih Ekrem is a young air officer and one of the first Ottoman pilots.
Der Zürich-Krimi:Borchert und die Glut des BösenDer Zürich-Krimi:Borchert und die Glut des Bösen · 2025
Der Zürich-Krimi:Borchert und die Glut des Bösen
6.02025
MovieCrime
RegardlessRegardless · 2023
Regardless
3.52023
MovieDrama
The true story of a man who grew up surrounded by violence and absence of love. But despite everything he became a world-class networking master in his business life. He started from the bottom and was able to reach the top. His story show us that there is no obstacle that cannot be overcome in life.
Salvation Has No NameSalvation Has No Name · 2022
Salvation Has No Name
6.62022
MovieAnimationDrama
A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway PoliceAlarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police · 1996
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
6.61996
SeriesDramaComedy
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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HeartbeatHeartbeat · 2010
Heartbeat
7.22010
SeriesSoap
Hand aufs Herz is a German television soap opera and premiered on October 4, 2010 on the private broadcasting station Sat.1. It got canceled in June 2011, announcing the series finale for September 5, 2011. However that changed when Sat.1 decided to drop the show from its line-up and sixx was announced to air the remaining episodes; with a one-hour series finale on September 2, 2011. The show focuses around a fictional high school in Cologne and tackles with young love, a marriage crisis, a mysterious disappearance, schemes and competition fights, coming out, drug abuse, career chances and forbidden feelings. Hand aufs Herz also introduces something completely new to the genre of a soap opera by including music and dance as one of the main elements.

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