Otto Sander
Nascimento : 1941-06-30, Hanover, Germany
Morte : 2013-09-12
História
Otto Sander (born 30 June 1941 in Hanover) is a German film, theater, and voice actor.
Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service as a navy reserve officer and then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor.
He is married to the actress Monika Hansen and is stepfather to the actors Ben Becker and Meret Becker.
His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. Because of his warm, strong voice, which earned him the sobriquet "The Voice" (the English term is used), he has been used frequently as narrator for television documentaries, and numerous talking books in the 1990s.
In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]
Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He has two brothers, the lawyer Adolf Sander, the scientist Christian (Chris) Sander, and a sister, the book dealer Marianne Sander. He also played a professor in the movie: The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall.
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Self - Das Boot Actor
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.
Himself
The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared from the scene in a rather mysterious way. The story of an uncompromising film maniac.
Eckehardt Tiedgen
Leonhard Asmussen
Himself - Narrator
Narrator (voice)
Um órfão de 14 anos chamado Krabat foge dos horrores da Guerra dos 30 Anos, tornando-se aprendiz de um mestre sinistro de um misterioso moinho. A Krabat não é apenas ensinado sobre o ofício de moagem, mas também é instruído no mundo sinistro das artes mais sombrias. Quando a vida de seu amigo e protetor está ameaçada, Krabat deve lutar para libertar-se do controle de um feiticeiro maligno em uma luta emocionante pela liberdade, amizade e amor.
Helmut
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
Erasmus (voice)
The sudden death of his father will take Macius the enormous responsibility that comes with being king, despite having only nine years. After being introduced as the new king, he will have the power to change the world and the things he does not like. Although his main enemy, General, will try by all means to avoid Macius performing a good job as sovereign, the young king has some good friends to help him in everything he needs. Animated feature, as the German animated series of the same name, is based on the book "King Matt the First" by Janusz Korczak', a famous doctor and teacher of children.
Narrator (voice)
The vastness of our planets oceans guards unimaginable secrets. One of its most precious is Kaluokahina, the enchanted reef whose magic protects it against humans finding it. Kaluokahinas colorful inhabitants have thus always lived in peace... until the volcano erupts, and the spell is broken.
Voice
Franz
Erzähler (voice)
Werner, Andi and Eckat play dice to determine the next king of the trio. When Werner is crowned king, he decides for all of them to skip work and start for Korsika.
Self
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and in detail about how the award-winning film was devised, cast, filmed, scored and edited.
Bernd Kortens
Maitre de Plaisir on Stage
A cinematic journey into the music of Udo Lindenberg.
Himself / Gert Bastian
A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they create together. Sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating, always fascinating.
Narrator
Two boys (Ken Duken and Luca Verhoeven) try to get into the Munich Disco "Spy", but Dennis, the chief of Disco doesn't allow them to enter the club. This is the whole story - believe it or not, but director and writer Simon Verhoeven made a movie with a runtime of 88 Minutes based on this story. Low budget, but great fun. Nice pictures of Munich, good and intelligent ideas (Floh and Marcel are playing football, while Werner Hansch, a famous german TV-Sport-Presenter, reports their game to the audience)make the movie worth to be seen. Not a revolution, but, as said, it's fun.
Vater Sass
Professor Steinach
Filme sobre o famoso sexólogo Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, um judeu gay e socialista que em 1897, fundou o primeiro grupo político gay da história. Também em Berlim, abriu seu Instituto de Ciências Sexuais, em 1920, que se mantém único e foi altamente comentado pelo mundo. Hirschfeld morreu no exílio na França, em 1935, dois anos depois de ter todo o trabalho de sua vida destruído pelos nazistas. O filme revela a personalidade e as experiências de Hirschfeld por meio das principais figuras da sua vida; do amor impossível pelo Barão von Teschenberg aos anos felizes que passou com o jovem Karl Giese; da luta com o principal oponente à causa gay, o escritor de direita Adolf Beand, ao apoio de seu anjo-da-guarda, o travesti Dorchen, uma figura de grande inteligência e coragem. "O Einstein do Sexo" foi o nome dado a Hirschfeld pelos jornais americanos, em 1931. Perguntado a respeito da comparação, ele respondeu; "Acho muito bom, mas o melhor seria chamar Einstein de Hirschfeld da Física".
Bühnenmanager
Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life of the German actress Marlene Dietrich and her success in Hollywood.
Petrus
Staatsanwalt Baldur Meixner
Two young women are hitchhiking when they get picked up by a man who proceeds to sexually assault them. He disappears after that. The suspicion that the „girls" - having a reputation of being "loose" when it comes to sex - killed him, begins to grow.
Vater Lano
Linda Lano loves her job in an advertising agency and she also loves the men. But most men think of them as machos, as does charming big business Mike Badon. She expresses this bluntly and thus puts the success of their agency on the line. The widowed Mike is intrigued by the idiosyncratic Linda. When it sparks between the two, however, the attractive Susanne Badon appears. Since Linda misses the supposedly faithless Mike the pass. Linda only realizes that Susanne is Mike's younger sister when it's almost too late.
Herr Jelke
Walker
David
German people having trouble with love and identity.
Berlim, 1927. Seis jovens ambiciosos unem suas forças para buscar uma visão criativa única. Com disciplina e trabalho duro, eles logo dominam um repertório que foca a música "A Cappella" com letras que vão desde o sentimental até o absolutamente tolo. Seu sucesso na Alemanha é ecoado por triunfos no exterior e gravações vendidas em todo o mundo. E suas vidas se transformam em uma grande festa, com todas as mulheres, carros e luxo que eles querem. Mas enquanto eles ignoram a política, a política não os ignora. Três dos seis Harmonists são judeus, e, portanto, inaceitáveis para os nazistas, que os forçam a dissolver o grupo. O que começou como uma das histórias de sucesso mais encantadoras dos "loucos anos vinte" é destruído por uma ideologia intolerante. Os nazistas põem fim aos cômicos Harmonists, mas não consegue silenciar suas vozes.
Adolf Hitler Double
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.
Vater
Mr. Higgins
The plot takes place in New York, and in the present. In a Hotel called "Quicky" a professor blackmails a student of his into having sex with him. But when the professor puts on a condom, the carnivorous condom bites off his penis and disappears. Detective Mackaroni who gets the case thinks that the college girl just bit off her teacher's penis! Mackaroni goes to the motel himself to check out the crime scene, in the lobby he finds a gigolo named Bill and he asks him to follow him to crime room, there the two men attempt to have sex when they are suddenly interrupted by the attack of a killer condom.
Cassiel
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Korte
kirchlicher Superintendent
Professor Lorenz
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
Dr. Gerold Stadler
Der Mann
A man dressed city-like walks across a wood and fields when he suddenly finds a perfectly circle-shaped black hole in the ground. The man begins to investigate the phenomenon...
Prof. Hinzelmann
Maður á hesti
This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.
Vershinin
A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.
Salzmann
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...
Sprecher
In 1936 Nazi Germany, a young, innocent apprentice, full of Olympic fever, leaves his rural village to see the ceremonies in Berlin. Upon arriving in the capitol, he meets a widow and a relationship blossoms. They spend an idyllic summer at her lakeside home, but the forces of totalitarianism cannot be held at bay and soon invade their lives.
Cassiel
Esta sequência de Asas do Desejo de Wenders acompanha novamente um grupo de anjos que observam saudosamente a vida humana. Feito seis anos mais tarde, Berlim é um lugar muito diferente do filme anterior: unificada no papel, mas governada pelo crime, pela corrupção e pelos americanos.
Vater
A cautionary tale about what happens if you scam a kid.
Erzähler (voice)
Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resulting animated films show episodes of the life of Werner, a plumber apprentice and motorbike enthusiast and his friends. They are interspersed with the live-action portions.
Robert
Orhan, who is ten years old, comes to Vienna from a small Village in Anatolia. Armed with his grandfather's revolver, he intends to avenge his father, who was a "guest worker" and was killed in a car accident.
On his quest for "vengeance", Orhan meets friends and enemies and finds himself in a totally strange world. Finally he realizes the absurdity of his plan and returns to his village.
Erwin Lubowitz
A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.
Markus Petarka
Otto Spalt
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.
Cassiel
Um anjo que observa a cidade dividida de Berlim deseja se tornar um humano mortal quando se apaixona por uma bela trapezista francesa.
Gerichtsgehilfe
A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.
Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that has so far failed to materialize.
Richard Wagner
Wahnfried (German: Richard und Cosima, French: Richard et Cosima) is a 1986 West German-French drama film directed by Peter Patzak about the life of Richard Wagner. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Karl Liebknecht
Militante marxista, Rosa Luxemburgo foi uma das mais proeminentes representantes do partido social-democrata alemão. Em 1915, ela rompe com a sigla por esta ter apoiado a participação da Alemanha na Primeira Guerra e passa a lutar contra o conflito.
Inspector Spalt
Narrator
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
Rudi
Nummer Sieben
Phillip Thomsen
Em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, em 1942, o capitão de um submarino enfrenta enormes dificuldades no comando de uma tripulação pouco experiente. Durante a Batalha do Atlântico Norte, eles vivem num inferno claustrofóbico afundando navios ingleses e procurando barcos aliados.
Kowalski
Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes a violent escape to be with her and strike back.
Kalfisch
Staatsanwalt
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
Meyn
Adaptação do romance homónimo do Prémio Nobel Gunther Grass. Conta a história da primeira metade do século XX na Alemanha através da odisseia de uma criança precoce que aos três anos decide voluntariamente não crescer, lançando-se pelas escadas, e que com o tambor de que nunca se separa, se torna a testemunha dos sobressaltos da história alemã.
Richard
Eberhard Winter
One evening, the once successful architect Helmut is tired of the recession giving no jobs, he gets the idea of robbing a bank. He recruits members of his golf club that are not paying their fees.
Brother, Forstmeister
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Pjotr Suslov
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.
Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. Ideas of fictional research projects in films emerge very early on, or of film as research device, allowing people from different disciplines to come together and discover something, to pursue a line of thought, or just be adventurous. These ideas correspond to a tendency we both have of accumulating knowledge from different sciences, for example so as to bring exact sciences like medicine together with subjects which aren't directly aimed at application, such as religious studies or anthropology.
Lehmann
Himself
A series of 9 performance art pieces and surrealist shorts created and primarily performed by Rebecca Horn.
Harald Bornemann
Rulle Ruhlsdorff
Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer.
Obrist Kottwitz
Fritzchen
A man is thrown out by his girlfriend and moves in with a friend who is part of a group of terrorists plotting an assault on a department store.
Short by Baldenius.
Ludwig
A film about a young man (Otto Sander) in a poor Bavarian village who plays the role of the village idiot.
