Irina Potapenko

Irina Potapenko

Born: January 1, 1986
in Repubblica autonoma di Crimea
Irina Potapenko (*1986 in Crimea) is a German-Ukrainian actress. Potapenko was born on the Crimean peninsula in the then Soviet Union. In 1994 she came to Berlin with her mother. Since she was twelve years old, she has played theater, first in a Russian chamber theater, later at the Volksbühne Berlin, among other things, in productions by Frank Castorf. The FilmRevenge was nominated for the Oscar as the best non-English-language film. In addition, she also participated in radio plays.

In 2009, she was awarded the Actor Award at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival and nominated for Best German Actress in 2012 for the Jupiter Award.

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Movies for Irina Potapenko...

Title: Unorthodox
Character: Trine
Released: March 26, 2020
Type: TV
A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.
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Mär - A German Tale
Title: Mär - A German Tale
Character: Betty
Released: June 29, 2019
Type: Movie
In dystopian Germany - just a breath away from our current reality - the return of the wolf triggers a mysterious fascination among the citizens. When journalist Leo Bernstein sets out to investigate, he gets drawn into a long-forgotten fairy tale that places him in great danger.
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Title: Jenny: Echt gerecht
Character: Natascha
Released: April 3, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Beck is back!
Character: Natascha Fedarenko
Released: January 30, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Borderland
Character: Jelena
Released: December 7, 2017
Type: TV
Gritty police thriller about a German father-daughter team working with French colleagues to battle organized crime in the German border town of Kehl.
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Brother and Sister
Title: Brother and Sister
Character: Sonja
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
Neukölln, a trendy district in Berlin. Living space is scarce here. Without surety, proof of credit worthiness and salary there is no chance at all now. Thies knows this game; he works for a real estate management company and watches that the rules are upheld - until he meets Bruno and Sonja. He provides the dissimilar siblings with a flat free of charge on the quiet. And enters into an affair with the brother. Step by step he becomes more deeply immersed in the secret of the "siblings". A Berlin film about a loner who gets caught up. About a couple with unclear residency status. About a city everyone wants to live in.
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Title: Unter Gaunern
Character: Irina
Released: January 27, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: In aller Freundschaft - Die jungen Ärzte
Character: Ludmilla Rodionova
Released: January 22, 2015
Type: TV
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The Lies of the Victors
Title: The Lies of the Victors
Character: Frau Kodolski
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?
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Title: Heiter bis tödlich: Koslowski & Haferkamp
Character: Katjuscha Danielova
Released: March 20, 2014
Type: TV
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Daughters
Title: Daughters
Character: Julja
Released: February 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...
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Visitors
Title: Visitors
Character: Katharina
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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Title: Rechtsanwalt Vernau
Character: Tatjana Wolgast
Released: January 9, 2012
Type: TV
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Et ekteskap
Title: Et ekteskap
Character: Tina
Released: June 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Geir is a Norwegian middle-aged bachelor waiting for his Russian wife to be. Tina is young and beautiful. Set as an exploration of their first few weeks together, A Marriage tells a tale of fragile love.
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Title: Nord Nord Mord
Character: Maria Inonesco
Released: April 21, 2011
Type: TV
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Grandmother
Title: Grandmother
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
An immigrant family wants to bring grandmother's ashes to Germany, in a cookie jar. But they did not expect the conscientious compliance of German customs officials at the airport.
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The Coming Days
Title: The Coming Days
Character: Alice
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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Title: Der letzte Bulle
Character: Katrin Weiss
Released: April 12, 2010
Type: TV
Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen.
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Murder on Amrum
Title: Murder on Amrum
Character: Mathilda Hervas
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Two policemen are stationed on Amrum, a North Sea island on the West coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’ – an elder, and one who is several decades his junior. Life is easy, just that the junior can’t find a wife, because no young woman seems to be interested in the peaceful life on the island. All of a sudden, a wounded lady who turns out to be one of two bodyguard for a threatened witness who lives in hiding on Amrum, bursts into the police station and seeks help from the two officers. I missed some bits of the plot, but somehow, the second one of the bodyguards hiding the witness on the island has been killed already, and the second one, seeking help from the local police, was wounded in the incidence, and then she apparently succumbs, too.
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Revanche
Title: Revanche
Character: Tamara
Released: May 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
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Princess
Title: Princess
Character: Katharina - the Russian emigrée
Released: November 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Four cigarette-smoking, alcohol-drinking, troublesome adolescents wander between the concrete skyscrapers of downtrodden West-German suburbia. These uncouth youths are surprisingly not boys but girls with attitude, quick-tempers and foul-mouths, who violently vent their scorn on any unfortunate soul who gets in their way.
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Der Idiot
Title: Der Idiot
Character: Adelaida Iwanowna
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Unites grotesque elements, tempo, quiet dream sequences, the thrill of a detective story, but above all, he manages to capture the temperature of an actor ensemble that throws itself into the world of Dostoyevsky with immense pleasure and passion.
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Running on Empty
Title: Running on Empty
Character: Larissa
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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Title: Der Staatsanwalt
Character: Natalia Krüger
Released: January 10, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Kommissarin Lucas
Character: Alina Popescu
Released: March 1, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: The Old Fox
Character: Maja Petrescu
Released: April 11, 1977
Type: TV
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Christina Chorol
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.