Acting
Horst Sachtleben
Born September 24, 1930 · Berlin, Germany
Died May 24, 2022 · aged 91
No biography available.
Known For
Transpapa · 2012Transpapa
★ 3.42012
MovieDramaComedy
Fifteen-year-old Maren wants to get away – far away. Aside from all the boys thinking she’s frigid, her recently love-struck mother is driving her round the twist. But she also has a father who she hasn’t seen for years. When Maren decides to get in touch with him, her mother finally spills the beans: He now goes by the name of Sophia and lives as a woman – just what she needs! Irrespective of her vexation, Maren risks a meeting and finds in Sophia a person just as hormonal and puerile as herself – a person who would actually prefer to be her best friend, at best even her mother. Can Maren accept that this life makes her father happy? TRANSPAPA is a compassionate and funny story of gender role-breaking, tolerance and the search for identity.
About a Girl · 2015About a Girl
★ 6.82015
MovieDramaComedy
Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship preparing bodies for funerals, which is pretty cool, her musical idols are all dead. It’s about time Charleen was, too.
The Big Mess · 1971The Big Mess
★ 7.01971
MovieScience FictionComedy
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking.
Frau Luna · 1975Frau Luna
1975
MovieMusic
Paul Lincke's evergreen operetta tells the story of three Berlin friends, Steppke, Lämmermeier, and Pannecke, who visit the moon with their landlady Pusebach.
Beyond Silence · 1996Beyond Silence
★ 6.91996
MovieDramaMusic
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.
Animals United · 1969Animals United
★ 6.51969
MovieAnimation
One day the animals become too colorful: war is constantly going on among the people. When Alois, the lion, learns that the 365th Peace Conference has just failed, the animals decide that it is high time to intervene: they call their own "animal" peace conference. With much courage and even more imagination, they develop a plan so that Frides can finally prevail among the people of the world ...
Spider's Web · 1989Spider's Web
★ 6.21989
MovieDrama
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
Beyond This Day · 2015Beyond This Day
★ 6.32015
MovieDramaTV Movie
Beyond the Day is a 2015 drama about a retired Professor and a taxi driver who accompanies him for a whole day of driving and talking.
Movies
Transpapa · 2012Transpapa
★ 3.42012
MovieDramaComedy
Fifteen-year-old Maren wants to get away – far away. Aside from all the boys thinking she’s frigid, her recently love-struck mother is driving her round the twist. But she also has a father who she hasn’t seen for years. When Maren decides to get in touch with him, her mother finally spills the beans: He now goes by the name of Sophia and lives as a woman – just what she needs! Irrespective of her vexation, Maren risks a meeting and finds in Sophia a person just as hormonal and puerile as herself – a person who would actually prefer to be her best friend, at best even her mother. Can Maren accept that this life makes her father happy? TRANSPAPA is a compassionate and funny story of gender role-breaking, tolerance and the search for identity.
About a Girl · 2015About a Girl
★ 6.82015
MovieDramaComedy
Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship preparing bodies for funerals, which is pretty cool, her musical idols are all dead. It’s about time Charleen was, too.
The Big Mess · 1971The Big Mess
★ 7.01971
MovieScience FictionComedy
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking.
Frau Luna · 1975Frau Luna
1975
MovieMusic
Paul Lincke's evergreen operetta tells the story of three Berlin friends, Steppke, Lämmermeier, and Pannecke, who visit the moon with their landlady Pusebach.
Beyond Silence · 1996Beyond Silence
★ 6.91996
MovieDramaMusic
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.
Animals United · 1969Animals United
★ 6.51969
MovieAnimation
One day the animals become too colorful: war is constantly going on among the people. When Alois, the lion, learns that the 365th Peace Conference has just failed, the animals decide that it is high time to intervene: they call their own "animal" peace conference. With much courage and even more imagination, they develop a plan so that Frides can finally prevail among the people of the world ...
Spider's Web · 1989Spider's Web
★ 6.21989
MovieDrama
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
Beyond This Day · 2015Beyond This Day
★ 6.32015
MovieDramaTV Movie
Beyond the Day is a 2015 drama about a retired Professor and a taxi driver who accompanies him for a whole day of driving and talking.
Der Clown · 2005Der Clown
★ 4.42005
MovieActionCrime
Former secret government agent Max Hecker (Sven Martinek) disguises himself with a clown mask in order to fight international crime. He hangs up his mask when one of his supporters, journalist Claudia (Diana Frank), is murdered. Four years later, he must put it back on as Claudia's sister Leah (Eva Habermann) is kidnapped by the same people that killed Claudia.
Sterne über dem Eis · 2009Sterne über dem Eis
★ 5.32009
MovieTV MovieRomance
Martin Schell, Professor of Marine Biology, and his assistant Doreen have been a happy couple for half a year. Doreen would be even happier if Martin finally married her and moved into a shared apartment with her. But the diehard single is not comfortable with the idea of a strong bond.
The Adventures of Superhero · 1987The Adventures of Superhero
★ 4.01987
MovieScience FictionComedy
TV star Benjamin inherits from his uncle a cloak of invisibility. Invisible he must discover that his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and asks her in front of the television camera, it does not do to. A journalist on the hunt for a story, adds to the confusion.
Buddy · 2013Buddy
★ 6.02013
MovieComedy
Inexperienced guardian angel, Buddy arrives to assist Eddie with getting his life back on track, but instead only causes more chaos.
Der Rosenmörder · 1998Der Rosenmörder
★ 3.31998
MovieThriller
Crash Point: Berlin · 2009Crash Point: Berlin
★ 6.02009
MovieDramaThriller
After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily calculated: the center of Berlin. Now the race is on to prevent the catastrophe. Will the plane have to be shot down by fighter pilots?
Stadtlandliebe · 2016Stadtlandliebe
★ 4.12016
MovieRomanceComedy
Sam and Anna are part of the hip, vegan, green, eco-friendly, upper-class subculture of Berlin. Anna is a successful doctor, and Nick works in advertising. However, life in Germany's capital is fast-paced and stressful, so the two of them decide to take the next step towards the ideal "eco lifestyle" and move out to the country. As they arrive, they find that life in the country is much less relaxing than they expected, as the rather eccentric locals keep them on their toes.
Coffin from Hong Kong · 1964Coffin from Hong Kong
★ 5.71964
MovieActionMystery
A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.
Sierra Madre · 1980Sierra Madre
★ 8.01980
MovieDrama
Ein Sommer in Long Island · 2009Ein Sommer in Long Island
★ 3.52009
MovieDramaComedy
Business executive Nick Porter starts an affair with landscape architect Holly while jogging on his way to see his half-brother Benjamin 'Ben' Goldman, a reclusive author who inherited an estate from his father, also an author. Recommended by Nick, Holly comes to renovate the garden for Ben, whose aloof attitude bugs her, but actually she's his first love. Nick learns this and that Ben has terminal cancer but refuses treatment, feeling his life has no meaning, so Nick pushes Holly to pretend to be in love with Ben, who learns the truth in the worst possible way at the worst possible time.
Wenn Liebe doch so einfach wär’ · 2007Wenn Liebe doch so einfach wär’
★ 7.02007
MovieComedyTV Movie
Ticket seller Katrina is unexpectedly declared co-heiress of a shipping company. Thrown out of her simple life, she now has to deal with Hamburg's high society.
Martin Luther · 1983Martin Luther
1983
MovieDramaHistory
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Christian Martin Luther followed his calling and became an Augustinian monk in Erfurt. However, his life in the monastery confronted him with his fears of a judging God. These were finally taken away from him through the study of his religion, which emphasized a merciful Creator. As a theologian in Wittenberg, he then went public with his 95 theses, which criticized the church's practice of forgiving sins in exchange for money. A momentous dispute began.
Das Phantom · 2000Das Phantom
★ 6.22000
MovieThriller
After the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists.
Rosamunde Pilcher: Irrwege des Herzens · 1997Rosamunde Pilcher: Irrwege des Herzens
★ 8.31997
MovieRomanceDrama
The story of two people who want to turn their backs on their past and the story of an old love that is reawakened...
Rosamunde Pilcher: Rosen im Sturm · 1999Rosamunde Pilcher: Rosen im Sturm
★ 7.01999
MovieRomance
London businessman Robert Cummings meets his partner Barbara Harding's father only when she comes to his Devon estate, Parnham House, to reconcile on his deathbed, having blamed him for three years for her mother's fatal car accident, which he insists was suicide. Against Robert's professional advice, they follow his dying wish, carrying on the stud-farm, which requires lots of urgent learning.
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet · 1972Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
★ 5.91972
MovieComedyScience Fiction
Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in this civil war...
TV Shows
The Old Fox · 1977The Old Fox
★ 6.31977
SeriesCrimeDrama
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
Scene of the Crime · 1970Scene of the Crime
★ 6.21970
SeriesDramaCrime
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police · 1996Alarm 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.
Derrick · 1974Derrick
★ 6.11974
SeriesDramaCrime
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
A Case For Two · 1981A Case For Two
★ 5.61981
SeriesDramaCrime
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
DAS! · 1991DAS!
★ 4.71991
Series
Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
Hamburg Dockland · 2007Hamburg Dockland
★ 6.02007
SeriesCrimeDrama
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.
Inga Lindström · 2004Inga Lindström
★ 5.42004
SeriesDrama
Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive landscapes, all of which are shot on location in Sweden. Series has no continuous storyline, and each episode is filled with new characters.
Hubert ohne Staller · 2011Hubert ohne Staller
★ 6.42011
SeriesCrimeComedy
A show about two Bavarian police officers, Franz Hubert and Johannes Staller, who sometimes work a bit differently. Where Franz wants to follow regulations, Johannes likes to do things his own way.
The Commissioner · 1969The Commissioner
★ 8.01969
SeriesDramaCrime
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
Siska · 1998Siska
★ 8.01998
SeriesCrime
Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska and later Victor Siska.
Anyway it wasn't the best surname for a policeman because in some languages word "Siska" has extremely close meaning to "Boob" or "Tit". So you'll never see this series on, for example, Russian television. Croatian Radiotelevision has however shown the series, despite 'Siska' having the same meaning in the Croatian language
Danni Lowinski · 2010Danni Lowinski
★ 5.62010
SeriesComedyDrama
Danni Lowinski is a former hairdresser who has graduated in law. When she does not get a job at a law firm, she starts to give legal advice from the basement of a shopping mall.
For Heaven's Sake · 2002For Heaven's Sake
★ 7.72002
SeriesComedyFamily
Sister Hanna is a spirited, witty, resolute, warm-hearted, and - attractive nun. With her wit and street cred, she takes charge of Kaltenthal Cloister, transforming it into a popular refuge for all those seeking help of one kind or another. She also brings new life to the sleepy provincial community, proving herself quite a match for her great rival and opponent, the mayor Wolfgang Wöller.
Das Kriminalmuseum · 1963Das Kriminalmuseum
★ 8.01963
SeriesCrime
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.
Master Eder and his Pumuckl · 1982Master Eder and his Pumuckl
★ 7.51982
SeriesFamily
Pumuckl is a Kobold from a German radio play series for children. He is a descendant of the Klabautermänner. He is invisible to people around him except for the master carpenter Eder with whom Pumuckl lives.
Pumuckl was invented by Ellis Kaut for a radio play series of the Bavarian Radio in 1961. Later on it was turned into a very successful TV series. Three movies and a musical also deal with the adventures of the little kobold.
Pumuckl is one of the most popular characters in children's entertainment in Germany and several generations have now grown up with the cheeky but funny little Kobold.
Café Meineid · 1990Café Meineid
★ 8.01990
SeriesDramaComedy
Café Meineid is a German courtroom comedy television series based on actual cases. The series aired 147 episodes from 1990 to 2003 and ended with the death of lead actor Erich Hallhuber.
Eurocops · 1988Eurocops
★ 6.51988
SeriesCrimeMystery
Post Mortem · 2007Post Mortem
★ 5.02007
SeriesCrime
Post Mortem is a German Crime drama which premiered on 18 January 2007 on RTL with a nine-Episode first Season. In April 2007 the series was renewed for a second season with another eight episodes, which will begin airing on 17 January 2008.
Pfarrer Braun · 2003Pfarrer Braun
★ 8.02003
SeriesCrimeComedy
Never Too Late for Justice · 2016Never Too Late for Justice
★ 4.02016
SeriesCrime
Löwengrube · 1989Löwengrube
★ 8.01989
SeriesDramaCrime
"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.
Der Dicke · 2005Der Dicke
★ 7.72005
SeriesDramaCrime
Der Dicke is a German television series.
Die fünfte Kolonne · 1963Die fünfte Kolonne
★ 8.01963
SeriesCrime
Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.
Florida Lady · 1994Florida Lady
★ 6.51994
SeriesDrama