Reiner Heise

Reiner Heise

Birth : 1956-01-01, Magdeburg, Germany

History

Heise studierte an der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst „Ernst Busch“ Berlin und schloss 1981 sein Studium ab. Ebenda arbeitete er auch als Dozent. Einer der ersten bekannteren Filme, in dem Heise mitspielte, war Der Hut des Brigadiers (1986). Er spielte auch an der Berliner Volksbühne, sowie Theater in München und Erfurt. Außerdem arbeitete er an verschiedenen Hörspielproduktionen mit

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The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter
Racecourse cashier
The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
The Burrow
Chef
KAFKA'S THE BURROW tells the story of a man's "metamorphosis" (as Kafka would put it) in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man (Axel Prahl), who has seemingly achieved everything, ensconces himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. But no matter how hard he tries to keep the outside world at a distance, he gets more and more entangled in his own web of fear and paranoia: those outside know he is there, they want him, they want his wealth, and they are inevitably going to get him ...
The Elementary Particles
Forscher 1
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again.
Spuk am Tor der Zeit
Pacholke
Lilly unter den Linden
Bernd
Detective Lovelorn and the Revenge of the Pharaoh
Orakelpriester
Planet B - Edition No. 3
Spuk aus der Gruft
Chauffeur Pacholke
While All Germans Sleep
After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 – a few days before their evacuation to Auschwitz – to go get the toys they forgot at the ghetto. Based on Becker's personal memories and his 1980 short story "The Wall."
The Film Narrator
Passbeamter
Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances are changing dramatically these days in Germany, he gets new hope that things will again be going better for him...
Novalis - Die blaue Blume
Die Lügnerin
Die Sprungdeckeluhr
After the Nazis take over political power in Germany, the father of Rosi and Hansi, a member of the communist party, must hide from the police. One thing he left behind is a watch which might contain a message.
The Tango Player
Müller
Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.
Die ehrbaren Fünf
The Break
A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.
Künstler, König und Modell
Johann Gotfried Schadow
The Brigade-Leader’s Hat
Manne Herford, genannt Maus
Young construction worker Ralf Reider leaves his home village Katzsprung in the Rhön mountains during the "Berlin Initiative". In the capital, he wants to earn enough money in construction to build his own house for his wife and his child. But Ralf is an unconventional character who soon becomes an outsider because of his behaviour.
Die Gänse von Bützow
Die Geschichte vom goldenen Taler
Hans Geiz
The Woman and the Stranger
Based on a switched identity, in circumstances that are found in real life as well as fiction, this drama tells the story of two soldiers fighting together in World War I. Karl (Joachim Latsch) and Richard (Hans-Use Bauer) become close friends while serving time in a German POW camp. One day Karl manages a successful escape and goes to Richard's home where he seeks refuge posing as Richard. But Richard's wife Anna (Kathrin Waligura) has never given up hope that her husband is still alive -- a possibility that would shatter Karl's proposed new life. In fact, Richard did not die in the POW camp. This film shared the Grand Prix award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
Das Mädchen und der Junge
Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin.