Mehdi Nebbou

Mehdi Nebbou

Born: January 10, 1974
in Bayonne, France
Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1974) is a French actor.

Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou.

He started his career by appearing in the film My Sweet Home, directed by Filipos Tsitos.

In 2004, the director Samir Nasr offered him the leading role in the film Seeds of Doubt, which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. 2005 was a turning point in Nebbou's career thanks to the film Schläfer by German film director Benjamin Heisenberg. The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2006, he portrayed Ali Hassan Salameh in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster film Munich.

In 2007, for his performance in Teresas Zimmer, directed by German film director Constanze Knoche, he won the award for best actor at First Steps Awards.

In 2008, Nebbou worked in the Ridley Scott film Body of Lies with Leonardo DiCaprio. In it, he portrayed Nizar, an Iraqi linguistics doctorate turned Al-Qaeda operative who approaches CIA to defect after being enlisted by his jihadist superiors for suicide bombing. In addition, he played in several French TV series and films, among them as a disabled ex-middleweight boxing world champion in Douce France for which he won the award for best actor in 2009 at the Rochelle TV Festival. He played Mustafa Larbi, a sadistic and unpredictable drug dealer, in Season 2 of Spiral, the successful Canal+ TV series.

In 2010, he portrayed Bruno in the Salvatore Allocca Italian romantic comedy Come trovare nel modo giusto l'uomo sbagliato and in 2011, Amin in the French action film Forces spéciales with Diane Krüger.

In 2012, he had his breakthrough into the Indian film industry thanks to the film English Vinglish starring Sridevi.

He portrayed the lead in Les heures souterraines directed by Philippe Harel inspired by the novel of Delphine de Vigan in 2014.

In 2015 and 2016, he is Cyclone in 6 episodes of season 1 and 2 of Le Bureau des Légendes.

In 2016, he is the co-lead in the Romanian movie The Fixer directed by Adrian Sitaru about human traffic in Europe and under-age prostitution. The film is pre-selected for the Oscars 2018.

In 2017, he is one of the leads in the second seasons of the Norwegian cult series Occupied and in the German series Deutschland 86.

He will be one of the leads in the new Netflix series Baby directed by Andrea De Sica and Anna Negri.

In 2021, he is portraying a middile-east investor in the movie "House of Gucci" de Ridley Scott.

He is fluent in French, German, English and Italian.

Source: Article "Mehdi Nebbou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Mehdi Nebbou...

Not a Word
Title: Not a Word
Character: Alex Goff
Released: July 4, 2024
Type: Movie
On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
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Title: Everything Is Fine
Character: Louis
Released: November 15, 2023
Type: TV
An ordinary family faces a catastrophe: the serious illness of one of its children. Each member of the family sees their personal life impacted by this ordeal. Disasters make people more human, though not necessarily better.
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More Than Strangers
Title: More Than Strangers
Released: November 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Five strangers of different nationalities share a car ride from Berlin to Paris. All of them have only one thing in common: wanting to reach their destination easily and cheaply. When it turns out that one passenger has a serious problem that could get them all into trouble, the trip becomes a little more complicated. The journey must go on. How it does is now up to them!
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Rose
Title: Rose
Character: Nicolas
Released: December 8, 2021
Type: Movie
Rose, 78-year-old, has just lost her beloved husband. When her grief gives way to a powerful impulse to live her life, making her realize that she can still redefine herself as a woman, the whole balance of the family is upset.
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House of Gucci
Title: House of Gucci
Character: Saïd
Released: November 24, 2021
Type: Movie
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.
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12 Tage Sommer
Title: 12 Tage Sommer
Character: Marcel
Released: November 10, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: HPI
Character: Adam Karadec
Released: April 29, 2021
Type: TV
Morgane is 38 years old. She raises her 3 children alone. She manages (or not) her 2 exes and her various credits. Her 160 IQ scores spoil her life a bit until the day when Morgane sees her destiny as a cleaning lady turned upside down. Her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant... Problem: Morgane hates cops...
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Title: The Last Word
Character: Konstantin Nowak
Released: September 17, 2020
Type: TV
A story about a funeral eulogy speaker who loses faith in her work and tries to sabotage her husband's funeral.
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Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias
Title: Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias
Character: Nebler
Released: July 13, 2019
Type: Movie
Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from the private suite of the owner. What would be more obvious to the eccentric Dahlia Gutbauer than to entrust "Allmen International Inquiries" with the discreet replacement?
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Totgeschwiegen
Title: Totgeschwiegen
Character: Jean
Released: July 4, 2019
Type: Movie
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Mothers' Instinct
Title: Mothers' Instinct
Character: Simon Brunelle
Released: April 17, 2019
Type: Movie
When a sudden tragedy uproots the lives of two women and their families, they begin to question the relationships they once held so dear.
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Title: Baby
Character: Khalid Younes
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: TV
Fed up with their families and classmates, two teen girls from a wealthy part of Rome are drawn to the city's underworld and start leading double lives.
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Animals
Title: Animals
Character: Tarek
Released: September 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Nick and Anna are off to Switzerland for six months. Nick, a chef, wants to collect recipes of local cuisine and Anna hopes to write a new book. The journey can also be good for their relationship, because Anna suspects that Nick had an affair with other woman. Meanwhile, Mischa will take care of their Viennese apartment.
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The Fixer
Title: The Fixer
Character: Axel
Released: March 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Romanian-born Radu Patru is a trainee at a prestigious French news network. Serving as a translator and general problem solver, or "fixer," for the headlining journalists during his trial period, he's looking to make his big break. He sees his opportunity when two underage Romanian prostitutes are repatriated from France, creating an international scandal. Taking advantage of his language skills and local connections, Radu is prepared to do whatever it takes to interview one of the young girls. But as he ventures into tricky moral ground, he must stop to ask himself if, as an aspiring journalist, he can live with the consequences of his actions, and if, as a father, he's setting a good example for his son.
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Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
Title: Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
Character: Gilles
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
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Underground Time
Title: Underground Time
Character: Thibault
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
After eight years of close collaboration with her supervisor, Mathilde suddenly finds herself inexplicably victim of moral harassment by him. In parallel, Thibault has just split up with his girlfriend after a frustrating two-year relationship where they exchanged very little. Mathilde and Thibault have never met, they are just two figures among millions of others. Two people who may bump into each other or who may merely pass each other by. But one day in September, their paths meet.
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Happy Hour
Title: Happy Hour
Character: Nic
Released: June 28, 2015
Type: Movie
The middle-aged family man Hans-Christian (HC) left by his wife goes to Ireland for a short break with his old friends Wolfgang and Nic. He should win at Guinness bonfires and fishing trips distance to the chaos at home. HC has to learn to say no and need other women, his friends believe, to get rid of his loser habitus. In the already tense situation, old competition fights, outbursts of anger and self-pity quickly come up. And Nic and Wolfgang seem to have needed the time-out almost as much as HC.
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Title: Witnesses
Character: Eric
Released: March 18, 2015
Type: TV
Witnesses (French: Les Témoins) is a French police procedural television series, created by Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar. In the first season, police detectives Sandra Winckler and Justin investigate when bodies of murder victims are unearthed and left for discovery in the show homes of a housing developer. Former chief-of-police, Paul Maisonneuve, is implicated. In the second season, Sandra and Justin find themselves on the trail of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder all former lovers of his kidnap victims.
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Title: Paare
Character: Patient
Released: February 2, 2015
Type: TV
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We Monsters
Title: We Monsters
Character: Paul
Released: January 22, 2015
Type: Movie
A husband and wife struggle with their consciences after they try to conceal a terrible crime committed by their teenage daughter.
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Back on Track
Title: Back on Track
Character: Gerome
Released: October 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.
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My Husband, An Assassin
Title: My Husband, An Assassin
Character: Arie van Doorn
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Minette and Paul are married and seem to lead a happy family life. But when Paul began gradually to move away from his wife, it decides to spin and managed to watch the tryst he gave Nora, his new conquest, in a hotel room. The betrayed wife keeps to herself what she witnessed, even when it crosses the opera which was favored by her husband. Following a violent altercation between two lovers, the master mysteriously disappears. The former partner it makes contact with Minette and claims that Paul murdered Nora. To support his point, he shows Minette photo of a dead body could be that of the missing young woman ... A crossover lover-like thriller, where the characters and spectators alike struggle to discern truth from falsehood.
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Josephine
Title: Josephine
Character: Gilles
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Josephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To shut them up, she creates a handsome Brazilian millionaire but her little white lie has a flip side - she loses everything to find the love of her life.
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11.6
Title: 11.6
Character: Officier police Monaco
Released: April 3, 2013
Type: Movie
In November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.
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Cookie
Title: Cookie
Character: Mathieu
Released: January 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.
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Visitors
Title: Visitors
Character: Studienberater
Released: January 20, 2013
Type: Movie
During an unannounced visit to Berlin, Jakob and Hanna let their three grown up children know that they are no longer able to support them financially. Karla, Arnolt and Sonni seem to live successful city lives; but, on closer inspection, they are in the middle of different life-crises, which have a common cause: lack of independence. After a big family quarrel and a painful revelation of life-lies, every single relative is made aware of how little he or she knows about the others – though still interdependent.
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English Vinglish
Title: English Vinglish
Character: Laurent, a French cook
Released: September 21, 2012
Type: Movie
In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.
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Our Little Differences
Title: Our Little Differences
Character: Herr Thalberg
Released: July 2, 2012
Type: Movie
In this acutely observed and sharply written debut feature from director Sylvie Michel, the contrasting parenting philosophies of a well-to-do divorcee and his immigrant cleaning lady becomes an angry debate over deeper issues of social class and cultural values when their teenage children disappear after a night on the town. (TIFF)
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Zappelphilipp
Title: Zappelphilipp
Character: Sebastian Sander
Released: May 12, 2012
Type: Movie
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Big is Beautiful
Title: Big is Beautiful
Character: Dr. Hachemi, le médecin du centre
Released: March 27, 2012
Type: Movie
A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths.
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Title: Die Chefin
Character: Cristian Farron
Released: February 24, 2012
Type: TV
First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz, a Munich police detective, attempts to balance her professional and private life.
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Special Forces
Title: Special Forces
Character: Amin, Elsa's guide
Released: November 2, 2011
Type: Movie
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.
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Switch
Title: Switch
Character: Stéphane Defer
Released: June 6, 2011
Type: Movie
In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.
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Come trovare nel modo giusto l'uomo sbagliato
Title: Come trovare nel modo giusto l'uomo sbagliato
Character: Bruno
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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The Coming Days
Title: The Coming Days
Character: Vincent Sala
Released: November 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called into fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.
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8:28 AM
Title: 8:28 AM
Character: Alexander Frey
Released: September 17, 2010
Type: Movie
A married woman runs a successful gallery and falls for a man she met accidentally.
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In Gold We Trust
Title: In Gold We Trust
Character: Norris
Released: August 25, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.
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Times Change You
Title: Times Change You
Released: February 4, 2010
Type: Movie
The life story of German gangsta rapper, Bushido.
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Myriam's choice
Title: Myriam's choice
Character: Kader Baccouche
Released: May 9, 2009
Type: Movie
The arrival in France of the first generation of Algerian immigrants. In the early sixties, Kader, soon joined by his wife Myriam, tries to build a new life on French soil. Like many other couples, they soon find themselves torn between the dream of returning to their homeland and that of prospering in a land that is not always welcoming.
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Secrets of State
Title: Secrets of State
Character: Ahmed
Released: December 10, 2008
Type: Movie
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
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Long Shadows
Title: Long Shadows
Character: Talat
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
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Body of Lies
Title: Body of Lies
Character: Nizar
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: Movie
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
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Berlin Calling
Title: Berlin Calling
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
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Mark of an Angel
Title: Mark of an Angel
Character: Le policier
Released: June 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Elsa Valentin is in the middle of a brutal divorce and custody battle when she is struck by the appearance of a pretty young girl named Lola (Héloïse Cunin). Her interest in the child grows to an obsession, and she finds any possible excuse to be near her. When Lola's mother, Claire, grows unnerved by all this, Elsa admits she believes Lola is her daughter.
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Title: Hard
Character: Rémi Capelle
Released: May 9, 2008
Type: TV
Hard is a French television series created and produced by Cathy Verney, airing since 9 May 2008 on Canal+ in France, and later internationally. The series focuses on the pornographic movie industry. It is part of the "New Trilogy" collection on Canal+.
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Ca$h
Title: Ca$h
Character: Vincent
Released: April 23, 2008
Type: Movie
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
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Rivals
Title: Rivals
Character: José
Released: February 6, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.
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Title: GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben
Character: Ishan Hamsa
Released: March 8, 2007
Type: TV
GSG 9 is a German TV-series about the special unit GSG 9 der Bundespolizei of the German Federal Police. It premièred in the Spring of 2007. Its original title, GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben, is a pun on the word Einsatz. Einsatz can be translated as "mission, stake, bet, dedication", depending on the context. Thus, it can be translated as, GSG 9 - Their Mission Is Their Life or GSG 9 - They Put Their Lives at Stake.
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Crime Insiders
Title: Crime Insiders
Character: Hitcham
Released: January 17, 2007
Type: Movie
A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
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Fay Grim
Title: Fay Grim
Character: Islamic Cleric
Released: September 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.
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Verschleppt - Kein Weg zurück
Title: Verschleppt - Kein Weg zurück
Character: Tarik Al-Samirai
Released: July 20, 2006
Type: Movie
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Running on Empty
Title: Running on Empty
Character: Rashid
Released: February 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Running on Empty (German: Der Lebensversicherer) is a 2006 German drama film directed by Bülent Akinci. It was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where Jens Harzer won the award for Best Actor.
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Munich
Title: Munich
Character: Ali Hassan Salameh
Released: December 23, 2005
Type: Movie
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Sleeper
Title: Sleeper
Character: Farid Atabay
Released: June 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Johannes, a new assistant at the university, is asked to provide reports on an Algerian colleague - who is suspected of being a sleeper. He refuses, but the seed of doubt has been planted. A fragile friendship which is overshadowed by professional and emotional competition eventually leads to betrayal.
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Title: Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall
Character: Ahmet Reshani
Released: February 17, 2005
Type: TV
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall is an Austrian crime television series, first aired on the Austrian television channel "ORF eins" in 2005. The show also aired in Switzerland on "SF1", in Germany on RTL Crime and on the Franco-German TV network "arte" - dubbed in French. The sending-rights were sold to Slovenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukranie and Russia.
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Folgeschäden
Title: Folgeschäden
Character: Tariq Slimani
Released: November 24, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Inga Lindström
Character: Paul Andersson
Released: January 25, 2004
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Under Suspicion
Character: Hamid Sherzad
Released: August 2, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and her colleague Langner investigate cases of civil servant crime and internal disciplinary matters. From the little patrol officer in uniform to the public prosecutor or the government director - anyone can become a suspect.
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My Sweet Home
Title: My Sweet Home
Character: Hakim
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Berlin, A Polterabend (i.e. a party on the eve of a marriage) is taking place in a café. An American has persuaded his German friend to marry him, after just one month of knowing each other. But while Anke has decided to create a family for her and her baby, Bruce has reservations. The party's member consist of various immigrants that happened to be there, each with his own problems and Anke's mother who objects to the marriage and is expelled by her own daughter.
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Title: Roller Coaster
Character: Habib
Released: February 23, 1992
Type: TV
The series "Achterbahn" is about friendships and the handling of difficulties and problems from children's everyday lives.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Ali
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: Hassan Adub
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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North Pole
Title: North Pole
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
This is a film in the dramatic and adventure genre based on historical and real events — namely an expedition to the North Pole on the airship “”Italy”” in 1928 under the command of General Nobile, ending in the tragic crash of the aircraft. Eight countries participated in the international humanitarian rescue expedition, but only the Soviet icebreaker Krasin was able to remove the surviving crew from the pack ice.