Franziska Petri

Franziska Petri

Born: August 17, 1973
in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
From 1992 to 1995, Franziska Petri studied at the renowned „Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art“ in Berlin. Her cinema debut was a part in „The Big Mambo“ („Das Mambospiel“) by Michael Gwisdek in 1997, which opened the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. With her first leading role in in the award-winning „Forget America“ („Vergiss Amerika“) she attracted both critics' and audiences' attention. After leading roles in the most diverse cinema productions like the historic drama „Leo & Claire“ by Joseph Vilsmaier, the quirky comedy „Max & Moritz Reloaded“ by Thomas Frydetzki, the gloomy thriller „The Heart Is a Dark Forest“ („Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald“) by Nicolette Krebitz, the political drama „Long Shadows“ („Schattenwelt“) by Connie Walther or the psychological drama „Memory“ („Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf“) by Matthias Luthardt, she appeared in the psychothriller „For Miriam“ („Für Miriam“) by Lars Gunnar Lotz. For her outstanding performance in „For Miriam“ she was awarded

Best Actress at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Perspektive Deutsches Kino),

Best Actress at La Cabina. Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes de Valencia, Spain 2010

and Best Actress at the 11th Aubagne International Film Festival, France 2010. In 2011 she played the starring role in Kirill Serebrennikov's dark tale of love Izmena/Betrayal, which premiered in the official competition of the Venice Film Festival 2012. For her impressive performance she was awarded Best Actress at the 2012 Abu Dhabi Film Festival.

Movies for Franziska Petri...

Come Closer
Title: Come Closer
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
The focus is on a relationship between a couple, played by the directing duo, and Daniel, with whom they end up in bed one after the other. It's an open-hearted game of love, fascinating to look at, and at the same time it's true, it questions everything.
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Off Season
Title: Off Season
Character: Judith
Released: February 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Describes the state of a couple in the off season, shortly before the birth of their child. Gregor surprises his girlfriend Judith with a wellness holiday in Sicily, but Judith would rather go to work than lie on the beach. Her boyfriend’s expectations with regard to the baby and his eagerness for family life create an ever-greater distance between the two.
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Hotel Auschwitz
Title: Hotel Auschwitz
Character: Sabine
Released: January 17, 2019
Type: Movie
The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood...
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Wolfsland – Irrlichter
Title: Wolfsland – Irrlichter
Character: Leonore Pfister
Released: May 31, 2018
Type: Movie
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Sommernachtsmord
Title: Sommernachtsmord
Character: Monika Löffelhart
Released: December 8, 2016
Type: Movie
The dead body of a tourist is found in the mountains of Tyrol. The murder investigation focuses on the residents of a seemingly quiet village.
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Dolores
Title: Dolores
Character: Dolores Moor
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
A mystery thriller directed by Michael Rösel.
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The Duelist
Title: The Duelist
Character: Aleksandra Iosifovna
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
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Platonow
Title: Platonow
Character: Sonja
Released: December 12, 2015
Type: Movie
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Betrayal
Title: Betrayal
Character: She
Released: August 30, 2012
Type: Movie
While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.
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Title: Letzte Spur Berlin
Character: Yvonne Urlach
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Flemming
Character: Valerie Venhaus
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: SOKO Stuttgart
Character: Elke Resch
Released: November 12, 2009
Type: TV
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.
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Title: Lasko – Die Faust Gottes
Character: Terroristin
Released: June 18, 2009
Type: TV
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes is a German action television series, an RTL co-production with ORF. First aired on 18 June 2009, it is set in a monastery and involves martial arts. Fifteen 45 minute episodes have been produced as of October 2011 in two series. The series was shot in the Naumburg an der Saale area, Pforta, Schloss Neuenburg and Königstein Fortress.
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Für Miriam
Title: Für Miriam
Released: February 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Karen, a maths teacher, finds herself involved in a traffic accident for which she is not to blame. The accident causes the death of a girl on a scooter. Although innocent, the young woman is distraught, more so when she discovers that the dead girl – Miriam – is none other than the sister of her pupil, Lukas. The more everyone around her assures her that she is not to blame for the girl’s death, the guiltier Karen feels. To her, the accident is like an equation that just doesn’t add up. In an attempt to make up for her actions at least in part, she begins to give Lukas extra maths lessons. But, consumed by his pain, the boy wants much more from her.
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Long Shadows
Title: Long Shadows
Character: Valerie Matos
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
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Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf
Title: Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf
Character: Helene
Released: August 24, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Heart Is a Dark Forest
Title: The Heart Is a Dark Forest
Character: Anna
Released: December 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
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Der Kronzeuge
Title: Der Kronzeuge
Character: Denise
Released: December 12, 2007
Type: Movie
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Porno!Melo!Drama!
Title: Porno!Melo!Drama!
Character: Nico
Released: October 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Over one wild Cologne night, three women in search of the perfect partner and perfect life discover that a little bit of magic changes everything...
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Das unreine Mal
Title: Das unreine Mal
Character: Susanne 'Susa' Henk
Released: December 27, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Der Kriminalist
Character: Kim Falkenberg
Released: December 8, 2006
Type: TV
Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.
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Endloser Horizont
Title: Endloser Horizont
Character: Elisabeth 'Lilly' Meier
Released: April 23, 2006
Type: Movie
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Wen die Liebe trifft
Title: Wen die Liebe trifft
Character: Franka Rhomberg
Released: October 21, 2005
Type: Movie
The attractive young Franka runs the traditional porcelain manufactory Rhomberg with her father. In contrast to her fun-loving sister Joe, the sensible Franka has no time for men. That changes when she meets the sensitive, good-looking Luca - who unfortunately has just married her "best enemy" Nathalie. Franka suddenly has to fight against unfamiliar feelings. Joe falls seriously in love too, but is the easy-going bartender Marco the right one for her? The lives of the two sisters are turned upside down.
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Max and Moritz Reloaded
Title: Max and Moritz Reloaded
Character: Sozialbeamtin Paula Winter
Released: April 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg, Germany. After the two boys steal a car and get into an accident, with the adolescent daughter of a Hamburg Senator sitting in the passenger seat, the two scoundrels are packed up and sent to a boot camp. This military-style camp is run by Axel and Henry, two former East German soldiers who still strongly believe in Communism but are secretly gay lovers. Max and Moritz steal another car...a red Ferrari owned by small-town pimp Murder-Hanne. The nationalistic sadist teaches the boys a painful lesson, but Max and Moritz wouldn’t be Max and Moritz if they let this weekend-fascist get them down... and when they acquire the key to their military school’s ordinance depot, things start to change.
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Title: Der Staatsanwalt
Character: Imke Stern
Released: January 10, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Das Konto
Character: Laura Spiegelberg
Released: January 2, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: SOKO Köln
Character: Hiltrud Emmert
Released: October 22, 2003
Type: TV
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
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Tage des Sturms
Title: Tage des Sturms
Character: Claudia Brücken
Released: May 7, 2003
Type: Movie
On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GDR refused obedience to their political leadership. The story takes place in Bitterfeld and tells the story of a family involved in the political events around 17 June.
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Leo & Claire
Title: Leo & Claire
Character: Irene Scheffler
Released: April 18, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a good relationship with his loving wife Claire. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood. After forming an unlikely friendship, his relationship with Irene is immediately regarded with suspicion.
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Wenn eine Mutter ihr Leben verspielt
Title: Wenn eine Mutter ihr Leben verspielt
Character: Mona Lutter
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
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Vergiss Amerika
Title: Vergiss Amerika
Character: Anna
Released: November 9, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Donna Leon
Character: Signorina Benedetta Lerini
Released: October 12, 2000
Type: TV
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.
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Die Nachtschwester
Title: Die Nachtschwester
Released: June 4, 2000
Type: Movie
Brandenburg, near the Polish border; it all started with a toothache. Then the boss called to say he was needed. Extra Duty - to guard a gangster for the night in an emergency ward. Konzak was sorry he ever became a cop. Besides, the prisoner was a moody boxer-type, and the room at the hospital was like in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Sweat was already dripping down his back when the night nurse stopped by on her rounds. A sway of the hips.. the look in her eye...she was a real knockout. Konzak forgot the toothache and the prisoner...
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The Volcano
Title: The Volcano
Character: Nathalie
Released: October 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.
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Unsere Kinder! - Verschollen im Urlaub
Title: Unsere Kinder! - Verschollen im Urlaub
Character: Steffi
Released: November 10, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
Character: Ellen Winter
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: TV
HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin is a German television series.
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Annas Fluch-Tödliche Gedanken
Title: Annas Fluch-Tödliche Gedanken
Character: Marie Welte
Released: September 15, 1998
Type: Movie
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The Big Mambo
Title: The Big Mambo
Character: Julia
Released: March 26, 1998
Type: Movie
The actors Martin and Maria have not been a couple for a long time, but they didn't get very far without each other. While he spends his time with alcohol, numerous affairs and reveries about his own film, she is bored with her young lover. When Maria surprisingly finds the loot of a bank robbery in the trash, she takes the opportunity to get rid of her lover, only to run into her ex-husband shortly afterwards. The old passion flares up again and Martin suddenly sees the chance to finally realize his long-held script.
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Title: Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
Released: July 9, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Character: Dina Klink
Released: March 12, 1996
Type: TV
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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Title: Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1995
Type: TV
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
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Operation Medusa
Title: Operation Medusa
Character: Gilda Gerber
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
After a friend kills himself, a young woman tries to infiltrate the psycho sect of which he was a member.
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Mord an der roten Rita
Title: Mord an der roten Rita
Character: Rita
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Im Namen des Gesetzes
Character: Natascha Schwenke
Released: September 13, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Im Namen des Gesetzes
Character: Marion Evans
Released: September 13, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Im Namen des Gesetzes
Character: Maria Franke
Released: September 13, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Ein starkes Team
Character: Isabel Lagrette
Released: March 28, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Die Wache
Character: Isabell Winkler
Released: January 3, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Wolffs Revier
Character: Nicole Balser
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: TV
Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
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Title: A Case For Two
Character: Britta Abels
Released: September 11, 1981
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Angela Meerbaum
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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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Nadine Schuricke
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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Midsommar Stories
Title: Midsommar Stories
Character: Jacqueline (segment "Sabotage")
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Tells the stories of a few people who are driven by different dreams, needs, and fears. At some point or another in their lives, IKEA plays a fateful role - in a comical or tragic way.