Michael Kranz

Michael Kranz

Born: April 17, 1983
in Ravensburg, Germany
Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.

He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism.

Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018.

His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.

Movies for Michael Kranz...

Title: The Signal
Character: Gregor
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: TV
A missing astronaut sets her family on a frantic hunt for answers. But the more they uncover, the greater the threat becomes to them — and the world.
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Morin
Title: Morin
Character: Konrad Dramm
Released: November 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A near-future film about our education and value system and the question of what our children are worth to us.
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Raw Materials
Title: Raw Materials
Character: Massenbach
Released: October 25, 2023
Type: Movie
A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.
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Rehragout-Rendezvous
Title: Rehragout-Rendezvous
Character: Simon Steckenbiller
Released: August 10, 2023
Type: Movie
A bang at the Eberhofer farm: Grandma goes on strike and wants to get rid of the family care in the future. Pure chaos! The family is supposed to learn how to take care of themselves. Now, of all times, Susi temporarily takes over Niederkaltenkirchen's town hall as deputy mayor and, with her newfound power, reduces Franz's position to part-time so that he can take care of son Pauli in the future. This action touches the Eberhofer's masculinity sensitively. Fortunately, it doesn't take long for a crow to pick up a human ear, and what should have been a deadlocked missing person's case surprisingly develops into a tricky murder case that once again unites Franz and Rudi as an investigative dream team in top form.
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The Young Chief Winnetou
Title: The Young Chief Winnetou
Character: Freddy
Released: August 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Winnetou's tribe is in dire straits. There is a threat of famine as the all-important buffalo herds are now failing. As the headman's son, young Winnetou wants to prove to his father Intschu-chuna how brave he is and how great a warrior he can be, because he thinks his son still has a lot to learn. To save his tribe, he goes on a dangerous adventure.
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Was Tun
Title: Was Tun
Released: March 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Faced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into prostitution, Michael Kranz asked himself the apparently banal question of “what can be done?” He travelled to Bangladesh and began to search for the girl. A film that is both self-critical and critical of society about the desire to at least do something and not to simply and passively give in to the injustices in this world.
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Hannes
Title: Hannes
Character: Florian
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Born at the same place, on the same day, Hannes and Moritz grow up to be inseparable friends. But one day a tragic motorcycle accident will change their lives forever, leaving Hannes in a coma with a slim chance of recovery. Moritz refuses to give up on his friend and puts his own life aside to ensure Hannes is always loved and surrounded by life and laughter. Trying to stand his ground, Moritz will then embark on an inspiring and life-changing journey, realizing that every day is worth celebrating and proving their friendship is stronger than ever.
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12 Tage Sommer
Title: 12 Tage Sommer
Character: Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Released: November 10, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
Character: Alfons Urban
Released: September 15, 2020
Type: TV
A young girl falls in love with a poor brewer's son. Their relationship is opposed by the girl's father, a rich mobster who has come to town to try to bully his way into the inner circle of Munich's brewery dynasties.
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The Master Butcher
Title: The Master Butcher
Character: Fidelis’ Bruder
Released: December 27, 2019
Type: Movie
After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
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The Goldfish
Title: The Goldfish
Released: February 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes to an abrupt end, as he builds a self-inflicted accident on highway with 230 km / h and raced through a guardrail. When he wakes up in the hospital again, he faces a devastating diagnosis: paraplegia. Actually, a rehabilitation stay of several months is planned in the hospital, but Oliver soon falls on his head and ends up in a disabled shared flat with the name "Die Goldfische"
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Onkel Wanja
Title: Onkel Wanja
Character: Telegin
Released: February 25, 2019
Type: Movie
A revolution breaks out, caused by a financial crisis, business intrigues and corresponding natural disasters. Alexander flees from the uprising in the capital to Uncle Vanya's farm in the countryside. There Alexander and his beautiful wife Elena cause further chaos with Alexander's business ideas. Will Vanya and Sonja manage to protect their farm from the outrage of capitalism?
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Falter
Title: Falter
Character: Dave
Released: January 20, 2019
Type: Movie
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Das Leben meiner Tochter
Title: Das Leben meiner Tochter
Character: Norbert Holler
Released: January 8, 2019
Type: Movie
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I love Everything I Hate About You
Title: I love Everything I Hate About You
Character: Kai
Released: June 1, 2018
Type: Movie
While out for a walk in the forest one day, Helena, who is in love with her twin sister’s boyfriend, stum-bles upon a group of scientists setting hormone traps. Anyone who is to come in contact with the hormones, falls in love with the first person they see. Well, what if everyone falls in love with the wrong person?
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Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Title: Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Released: November 26, 2017
Type: Movie
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Schildkröten Panzer
Title: Schildkröten Panzer
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 30, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Hindafing
Character: Pfarrer Kraus
Released: May 16, 2017
Type: TV
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Mutter reicht's jetzt
Title: Mutter reicht's jetzt
Character: Simon
Released: November 28, 2016
Type: Movie
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Die Büffel sind los!
Title: Die Büffel sind los!
Character: Landrat Häberle
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
It is an absolute B movie. It starts like a fake western movie and continuous with an East European prostitute on the run from her manager. Bad example of a good quality German movie. There are many of good quality and better than average American entertainment. But this one is not.
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King Laurin
Title: King Laurin
Character: Bauer Hans
Released: September 1, 2016
Type: Movie
In a kingdom where plants are banned, the king's short son befriends Laurin, ruler of the dwarves, who is a great plant lover. But things spiral out of control when he steals his magical power belt to win a jousting tournament.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Title: The Diary of Anne Frank
Character: Jan Hartog
Released: March 3, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
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Siblings
Title: Siblings
Character: Niels
Released: March 1, 2016
Type: Movie
The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey.
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Heidi
Title: Heidi
Character: Mr. Kandidat
Released: December 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
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Another Kind of Light
Title: Another Kind of Light
Released: December 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Sissi and Theo are different, as one can hardly be more different. Theo, an intolerant, purposeful businessman who keeps people at bay, and Sissi, a young woman who has not yet found her way and still lives with her mother, would probably never have met if Theo did not go blind. Sissi is in rehearsal as a rehab trainer for the blind and Theo her first student.
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Ein Sommer in Masuren
Title: Ein Sommer in Masuren
Character: Zugschaffner
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
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13 Minutes
Title: 13 Minutes
Character: Franz Xaver Lechner
Released: April 9, 2015
Type: Movie
The breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, radical Georg Elser — disparaged as an assassin — is one of the greatest resistance fighters.
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Der Andi ist wieder da
Title: Der Andi ist wieder da
Character: Michael Schäfer
Released: March 18, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Bettys Diagnose
Character: Christoph Wendrup
Released: January 9, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Murder by the Lake
Character: Peter Wolfahrt
Released: November 3, 2014
Type: TV
Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.
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Hirngespinster
Title: Hirngespinster
Character: Guido
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Simon falls head over heels in love with pretty and quick-witted Verena. When his father, who suffers from schizophrenia, has a relapse, Simon devotes himself completely to his mother and little sister and endangers his budding romance. Maneuvering himself into a near-fatal situation, Simon realizes that he cannot change the others' lives, but only his own.
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Fräulein Else
Title: Fräulein Else
Character: Paul
Released: May 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Else joins her aunt to spend her holidays in a remote luxury hotel in India. She receives a message by her mother disclosing that her father has enormous debts and her mother asks Else for help. This gets Else into serious troubles - with deadly consequences.
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Title: Hammer & Sichl
Character: Polizist
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: TV
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The Fifth Estate
Title: The Fifth Estate
Character: Otto
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Title: Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Character: Mr. Rupprecht
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: Movie
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Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Title: Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Character: Court Jester
Released: May 23, 2013
Type: Movie
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Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Title: Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Character: Bossler
Released: January 30, 2013
Type: Movie
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The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Title: The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Character: Moritz
Released: November 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contradictory and, no surprises here, single young woman in her late-twenties.
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Rommel
Title: Rommel
Character: Karl Daniel
Released: November 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
Title: Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
Character: German Sergeant
Released: February 9, 2012
Type: Movie
1944. Somewhere in the occupied Central Europe. A multicultural triangle between a little shepherd and two officers from the opposite sides in a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle.
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A Family of Three
Title: A Family of Three
Released: January 10, 2012
Type: Movie
When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional roller coaster that eventually shows them the virtue of being a family.
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War Horse
Title: War Horse
Character: Junior German Officer
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
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Sommer der Gaukler
Title: Sommer der Gaukler
Character: Alfons
Released: December 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Summer 1780: On the way to Salzburg Emanuel Schikaneder's theatre group gets held up in a small mountain village on the Austrian border due to a missing performance permit. In this village a dispute between mine owner Paccoli and the rebelling mine workers is escalating. The situation immediately inspires Schikaneder with the idea for a new play- but before long not only the mineworkers, but also Schikaneder's performers take to the picket line. This is because Schikaneder seems to care more about spending time with high society than his actors, who the Landlord refuses to feed until Schikaneder pays the outstanding bill. A hastily put together open air performance by the troupe leads to major disruption....
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The Last 30 Years
Title: The Last 30 Years
Character: Robert Ostermeier
Released: July 16, 2010
Type: Movie
It is the love story of Resa and Oskar who meet in the 1970s in the midst if the leftist studen movements. For Resa it is love on first sight when she encounters the handsome and self-confident activist Oskar and is willing to do anything to get his attention. The relationship she dreams of finally comes true, but quickly problems arise. One day Oskar disappears without a trace from her life completely. Years later both meet again - now more mature and with surprising careers...
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Die Hummel
Title: Die Hummel
Character: Flo
Released: June 27, 2010
Type: Movie
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Nanga Parbat
Title: Nanga Parbat
Character: Hans Saler
Released: January 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
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Title: Alpine Rescue
Character: Steffen Haflinger
Released: November 26, 2009
Type: TV
Die Bergwacht is a German mountain rescue television series, broadcast since 26 November, 2009 on ZDF.
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The White Ribbon
Title: The White Ribbon
Character: The Tutor
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
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Inglourious Basterds
Title: Inglourious Basterds
Character: Herrman #3
Released: August 2, 2009
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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Hanna und die Bankräuber
Title: Hanna und die Bankräuber
Character: Polizist Kranz
Released: July 4, 2009
Type: Movie
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Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Title: Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Character: Niklas
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Räuber Kneißl
Title: Räuber Kneißl
Character: Gendarm Hildebrand
Released: August 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Even today, Mathias Kneißl (1875-1902) is considered a national hero in the collective memory of Bavaria. During his lifetime, he was the most wanted criminal in Bavaria and even Prince Regent Luitpold was reported daily on the hunt for the lawbreaker report. Again and again Kneißl's story has occupied the Bavarian artists: his life was retold in folk songs and murders, sung in ballads, filmed and treated in various plays. In his feature film version, the Bavarian filmmaker Marcus H. Rosenmüller relies on a rapid staging, opulent images and a moving love story.
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Title: München 7
Character: Jörg
Released: October 24, 2004
Type: TV
München 7 is a German police drama series from Franz Xaver Bogner. The show is set in Munich, Germany and features the fictive police station "München 7" or "Munich 7". The main characters are the "Sheriff from Marienplatz" Xaver Bartl and his new colleague Felix Kandler. München 7 is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".
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Title: Kommissarin Lucas
Character: Kai Benner
Released: March 1, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Karsten
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.