Saskia Rosendahl

Saskia Rosendahl

Born: July 9, 1993
in Halle an der Saale, Germany
Saskia-Sophie Rosendahl (born 9 July 1993) is a German actress. She is best known for her role in the film Lore (2012), for which she won the AACTA Award for Best Young Actor.

Saskia Rosendahl began her career with the children's ballet of the Halle Opera, with which she performed various theatre appearances from 2001 to 2011. From 2008 to 2011 she worked as an actress in productions of the improvisational theatre "Kaltstart" and the New Theatre Halle. In 2010, Rosendahl made her cinema debut in Wolfgang Dinslage's film Für Elise. In 2011, while still at school, she took on the lead role in Cate Shortland's German-language anti-war drama Lore, which won the audience award at the Locarno Film Festival in 2012 and was the official Australian entry for the 2013 Academy Awards in the category “Best Foreign Language Film”. The magazine Variety praised the maturity and security of the portrayal of her complex role and called Rosendahl an "exciting new talent". At the 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival, she received the award for “Best Actress” for her role in Lore, and at the presentation of the Australian AACTA Award in 2013, she was honored as the best young actress.

She graduated from school in 2012 and was part of the ensemble of Vivian Naefe's cinema adaptation of the book bestseller The Taste of Apple Seeds. From August to October 2012, she was directed by Denis Dercourt in a leading role in the movie A Pact in front of the camera. At the Berlinale 2013, Rosendahl was presented by the European Film Promotion as one of the ten European “Shooting Stars”. In the same year, she received a nomination for the New Faces Award for Best Young Actress. In Lindenberg! Do your thing (2020) she plays Petra, immortalized in the song "Mädchen aus Ostberlin" by Udo Lindenberg.

Movies for Saskia Rosendahl...

Dying
Title: Dying
Character: Ronja
Released: April 25, 2024
Type: Movie
Revolves around the Lunies family whose estranged members include mother Lissy, son Tom and daughter Ellen. They reconnect after each of them faces death in one way or another.
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Title: A Thin Line
Character: Anna Krohn
Released: February 16, 2023
Type: TV
Follows Ana and Benni, two sisters in a quest to expose environmental wrongdoing, but when things go bad after hacking a government server, a question arises: What line are you willing to cross for something you believe in?
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No One's with the Calves
Title: No One's with the Calves
Character: Christin
Released: January 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long gone. Her relationship is loveless. She keeps the cherry liqueur close at hand. In the shimmering heat of summer, time seems to stand still – until 46-year-old wind energy engineer, Klaus, arrives.
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Title: Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Character: Cornelia Battenberg
Released: August 5, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
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Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
Title: Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
Character: Petra
Released: January 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Long before his big stage breakthrough in 1973 in Hamburg, and 4.4 million records sold, the rock musician Udo Lindenberg from the Westphalian province, the man with the long hair and the hat, had many adventures. Before it all started, he moved from the remoteness of Gronau to Hamburg, where he met Paula, who was not his great love, but was quite a hottie. When the team of three was complete with Steffi Stephan, the idea of founding a band developed. But the road to get there was a long one: he drummed as a jazz drummer in bands, had a highly dangerous performance in a US military base in the middle of the Libyan desert and always believed in making it to the very top.
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Relativity
Title: Relativity
Character: Nora
Released: November 28, 2019
Type: Movie
The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down.
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Prélude
Title: Prélude
Character: Stella
Released: August 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Nineteen-year-old David dreams of being a concert pianist on the international stage. Although his talent made him special in his home town, he soon realizes that at the conservatory he is but one of many talented students.
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
Title: The Girl in the Spider's Web
Character: Linda Ahlgren
Released: October 25, 2018
Type: Movie
After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.
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Never Look Away
Title: Never Look Away
Character: Elisabeth May
Released: October 3, 2018
Type: Movie
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
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Title: Das Verschwinden
Character: Laura Wagner
Released: October 22, 2017
Type: TV
20-year-old Janine Grabowski disappears in a small Bavarian town near the Czech border. While all evidence indicates that Janine secretly wanted to leave the backcountry, her mother, Michelle, becomes increasingly convinced that there's something amiss. Michelle's missing person's report is quickly filed away by the police. So the single mother is forced to investigate at her own risk. The longer she hunts for an answer to Janine's disappearance, the more she discovers about her daughter and the people with whom she kept company. She begins to doubt whether Janine even wants to be found.
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Title: Babylon Berlin
Character: Marie-Luise 'Malu' Seegers
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: TV
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
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Lacrimosa
Title: Lacrimosa
Character: Mila
Released: February 6, 2017
Type: Movie
A young woman finds her lost lover in a world of ever-changing surreal landscapes. But love, she discovers, is more complicated than she imagines.
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Title: Die Lebenden und die Toten
Character: Helen Stadler
Released: January 2, 2017
Type: TV
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Kästner and Little Tuesday
Title: Kästner and Little Tuesday
Character: Trude
Released: November 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Germany, 1931. The youth novel "Emil and the Detectives" is being filmed, which will make its author, Erich Kästner, world famous. An unusual friendship begins between the childless author and fatherless Hans, the 9-year-old playing the character Little Tuesday. Their friendship is put to the ultimate test in the Third Reich when Kästner's books are banned and little Hans becomes a Hitler Youth. Based on a true story.
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Nirgendwo
Title: Nirgendwo
Character: Susu
Released: October 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berlin to study business. The twentysomething enjoys big city life and independence. When his father dies unexpectedly, however, Danny has to return to the Bavarian hinterlands for better or worse. He reunites with friends from his youth, Kirsten, Rob and Fresi, and the eternal couple of Tom and Mischa. Moreover, Danny's feelings for his first love Susu are rekindled. Everything seems like it used to be. It soon turns out, however, that Danny's friends are all still searching and have not found their places in life yet.
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Departure
Title: Departure
Character: Monika Blumental
Released: July 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Hilla grows up in the 60s, her father is a worker and her mother a charwoman. But she wants a different future for herself, wants to study. After a violent incident she needs a strong shoulder. Who of her life will do?
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Wild
Title: Wild
Character: Jenny
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.
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Die Pantherin
Title: Die Pantherin
Character: Mara
Released: January 24, 2016
Type: Movie
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Zorn - Vom Lieben und Sterben
Title: Zorn - Vom Lieben und Sterben
Character: Martha Haubold
Released: April 16, 2015
Type: Movie
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We Are Young. We Are Strong.
Title: We Are Young. We Are Strong.
Character: Jennie
Released: October 21, 2014
Type: Movie
On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as "The Night of the Fire." The riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.
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Title: Kino Plus
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 2014
Type: TV
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Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
Title: Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
Character: Prinzessin Isabell
Released: December 26, 2013
Type: Movie
When the farm boy Felix is born with a caul, the rumor spreads in no time that this boy can succeed in anything. One day he would even marry the princess - he just has to trust in his own destiny. But the king and alchemist Ottokar, however is obsessed only with gold and wealth, seeks to kill the child, by throwing him in a river.
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The Taste of Apple Seeds
Title: The Taste of Apple Seeds
Released: September 26, 2013
Type: Movie
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and things she had forgotten: What did her grandfather really do before he went to war? Which men were Bertha’s daughters in love with? Who ate his apple with the seeds?
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A Pact
Title: A Pact
Character: Emelie
Released: September 19, 2013
Type: Movie
A dark psychological thriller, A Pact tells the twisted story of a contentious love triangle. As teenagers, Paul tricked Georg into handing over his girlfriend Anna to him. Georg agrees, on the condition that he can have her back whenever he wishes. After decades of silence, when Anna and Paul have a family together, Georg suddenly re-appears. Strange things start happening to Paul, and it soon becomes clear that Georg has not forgotten the pact.
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Für Elise
Title: Für Elise
Character: Lena
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
15-year-old Elise is longing for a happy family life, but her mother Betty is weak and egocentric. She drowns her problems in alcohol. Everything seems to turn out good when they meet Ludwig. But he does not fall in love with Betty, he loves Elise.
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Lore
Title: Lore
Character: Lore
Released: August 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.
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Title: Weissensee
Character: Lisa
Released: September 14, 2010
Type: TV
Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.
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Title: SOKO Leipzig
Character: Nadine Hiermann
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: TV
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Diana Jäger
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
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.
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Karigula - Monster der Liebe
Title: Karigula - Monster der Liebe
Character: Rebecca
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie