Christian Friedel

Christian Friedel

Born: March 9, 1979
in Magdeburg, Germany
Christian Friedel was born on March 9, 1979 in Magdeburg, East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He is an actor and music artist, known for The Zone of Interest (2023), 13 Minutes (2015) and Babylon Berlin (2017).

Movies for Christian Friedel...

Title: Kafka
Character: Franz Werfel
Released: March 26, 2024
Type: TV
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15 Years
Title: 15 Years
Character: Harry Mangold
Released: January 11, 2024
Type: Movie
Pianist Jenny, once a musical prodigy, finds her footing in the Christian faith after serving 15 years for a murder she didn't commit. When she learns that her childhood sweetheart, once responsible for her ordeal, has become an internationally acclaimed star, the overwhelming need for revenge threatens her fragile agreement with God and her relationship with a Syrian musician who offers Jenny honest care and trust.
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The Zone of Interest
Title: The Zone of Interest
Character: Rudolf Höss
Released: December 15, 2023
Type: Movie
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
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Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
Title: Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 2022
Type: Movie
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert “Bob” Wilson puts minimalistic petrol pumps into a production of Shakespeare’s sonnets? Why does merciless repetition change our understanding of something? Together with Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe or Marina Abramović we trace back our own experience of Bob’s art. Is it true what Philipp Glass the collaborator of the milestone piece “Einstein on the Beach” laughingly and with apparent pleasure exclaims “what does it mean? It doesn’t mean anything!”?
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Confessions of Felix Krull
Title: Confessions of Felix Krull
Character: King of Portugal
Released: September 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.
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Angelo
Title: Angelo
Character: Curator
Released: March 24, 2019
Type: Movie
In early 18th century an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominence and soon becomes the Viennese court mascot until he decides to secretly marry a white woman.
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Happiness Sucks
Title: Happiness Sucks
Character: Dr. Wolfgang Teuter
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Stefan Gabriel is an active father always looking at life positively. While he tries to give back to society, his daughters Jessica (12) and Sabrina (15) struggle with their own problems. Jessica is often mistaken for a boy and has to deal with her many ticks. She would happily swap places with Sabrina, who, despite her illness, appears to have her life completely under control. But the more Sabrina’s health worsens, the worse Jessica’s ticks become. The girls need a plan and fast. They come across a special ritual in an old book, which could be their rescue. But the girls first have to find a boy to sleep with Sabrina. They don’t have much time left and Jessica puts all she has got into implementing the life-saving plan, no matter how crazy it may be.
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Title: Perfume
Character: Daniel "Zahnlos" Sluiter
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: TV
When a singer is found murdered, with her scent glands excised from her body, detectives probe a group of friends who attended boarding school with her.
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Title: Babylon Berlin
Character: Reinhold Gräf
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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Sugar Sand
Title: Sugar Sand
Character: Günter Ernst
Released: June 24, 2017
Type: Movie
End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the boys have to recognize that they are soon separated from each other. But they want to dig a tunnel to Australia to meet there themselves again. When Jonas should leave the country with his mother this night changes everything.
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Title: Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle
Character: Adi Dassler
Released: April 14, 2017
Type: TV
The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.
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13 Minutes
Title: 13 Minutes
Character: Georg Elser
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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The Chosen Ones
Title: The Chosen Ones
Character: Manfred Wolf
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respected headmaster Simon Pistorius. But gradually certain incidents at the boarding school begin to unsettle her. Petra then realizes that Pistorius is abusing Frank, a 13-year-old. When Frank is told that he has to spend school holidays with Pistorius, he tries to commit suicide. Petra tells Frank's father (the chairman of the school's governing body) but he believes Pistorius instead of his own son. Petra fails to convince people of the man's true nature. 30 years later, Frank goes to Petra, who has long since left the school and has stopped teaching altogether. He has never been able to speak about what happened but now, after the suicide of another pupil, he is no longer willing to remain silent. He wants Petra to bear witness at the school's forthcoming anniversary celebrations.
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Amour Fou
Title: Amour Fou
Character: Heinrich
Released: May 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.
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Closed Season
Title: Closed Season
Character: Albert
Released: February 14, 2013
Type: Movie
1942 - Fritz and Emma are hiding Albert, a Jewish refugee, at their remote farm. Since their marriage has remained childless, Fritz asks Albert to sleep with Emma and conceive a child on his behalf.
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Erbgut
Title: Erbgut
Character: Max
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Max is on the road with his pregnant girlfriend Lina. He suddenly gets a call from his grandfather who wants to meet him shortly before he will be taken away.
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Russendisko
Title: Russendisko
Character: Andrej
Released: March 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties.
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Chicken with Plums
Title: Chicken with Plums
Character: Cyrus, 22 ans
Released: October 26, 2011
Type: Movie
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
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The White Ribbon
Title: The White Ribbon
Character: The School Teacher
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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Title: Fakt ist!
Character: self
Released: February 20, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Max Schwarz
Released: June 27, 1971
Type: TV
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Jürgen von Mierendorff
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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Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Title: Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Character: Beaty
Released: January 5, 1968
Type: Movie
A young man named Jürgen joins the military. As much as he tries to make a heroic career as a soldier in a rearmed West Germany, he fails utterly and ends up in a bizarre sanatorium.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV