Irm Hermann
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1942-10-04
Place of Birth:Munich, Germany
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night...

Effi Briest (1974)
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...

Shadow of Angels (1976)
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what...

Gods of the Plague (1970)
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and...

Woyzeck (1979)
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some...

The Magic Mountain (1982)
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin...

Pappa ante Portas (1991)
Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40...

Germanikus (2004)
The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but only...

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)

Katzelmacher (1969)
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in,...

A Woman in Berlin (2008)
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Fashion Victims (2007)
At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker (Edgar Selge) is in old school territory: he peddles the company's classic clothing line to boutiques that...

The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Verführung in 6 Gängen (2004)
Frank Drannemann, a passionate star chef and single father, is in a professional and private crisis. Since the tragic accidental death of his beloved...

Fear of Fear (1975)
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

Willi and the Windsors (1996)
The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want...

The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)
Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a...

Mathias Kneißl (1971)
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole...

Krauses Kur (2009)
On a summer evening the circuit of the village policeman Krause suddenly went crazy. His doctor immediately prescribed a cure on the Baltic Sea for...

The City Tramp (1966)
A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968)
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

Playoff (2011)
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team.

Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

The American Soldier (1970)
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

The Case of Mr. Spalt (1988)
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.

Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen (1996)
A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is a respected businessman. He is on the wanted...

Mein Bruder ist ein Hund (2004)
With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control.

Eisenhans (1983)
A film by german playwright Tankred Dorst about a case of incest in a rural community.

Love Is Colder Than Death (1970)
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.

Männer und andere Katastrophen (1999)
The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed baby sitting with her sister Rebecca ends with a...

Three Wishes (2000)
Before Martin dies, he asks Jan to carry out three wishes. Will Jan be up to making them happen? Sometimes, one can also be faced with other,...

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (1988)
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a...

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

Hamlet: This Is Your Family (2001)
A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media...

Jail Bait (1973)
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...

Alles Lüge (1992)
Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful...

Last Five Days (1982)
At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her...

Fünf Millionen und ein paar Zerquetschte (1994)

Vatertage - Opa über Nacht (2012)
The 37-year-old Munich survivor and rickshaw driver Basti struck by lightning than one day unexpectedly the 17-year-old Dina from Bitterfeld turns up...

Paradiso - Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen (2000)
What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let them interact for a week? For his 60th birthday,...

Women in New York (1977)
The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

Baal (1970)
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie (1985)
The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St....

Spider's Web (1989)
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in...

Grüß Gott, Genosse (1993)
A comedy directed by Manfred Stelzer.

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands (2015)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in...

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short...

Fassbinder (2015)
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

Johanna d‘Arc of Mongolia (1989)
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

Nora Helmer (1974)
A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German...

The Swing (1983)
Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.

The Invention of Love (2013)
A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.

Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11) (2012)
A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a dream sequence in which the torturous initial...

Fox and His Friends (1975)
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to...

Lili Marleen (1981)
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping...

Die Fremde (1995)
TV-movie by Diethard Klante

Die letzte Schlacht (2005)
The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the third Reich which...

Slow Attack (1980)
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her...

Innocence Unknown (1988)
After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist.

Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book (2009)
Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector"....

Hades (1995)
This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. His...

A French Summer (2016)
Married couple Martin and Jackie meet an unconventional Frenchman named Serge, who both are attracted to. But will their marriage survive it?

Der Bulle und das Landei - Goldrausch (2016)

Fassbinder’s Women (2000)
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake (2012)
Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire generations. As a young woman, she brought the...

Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die (1979)
It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the case here, where Kai Holm says goodbye to a long...

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...

Suck Me Shakespeer 3 (2017)
A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures.

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (1984)
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the...

Today We're Playing Boss (1981)
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.

Latest from the DaDaeR (1990)
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel - highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns - satirize...

Faust Sonnengesang (2011)
In no less than 180 minutes the film showed frenzied dashes of wild colors and idyllic natural images, of wonderful music and powerful lyricism,...

Edith's Diary (1983)
When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording...

Zwei Herren im Anzug (2018)
In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past heavy with resentment and unsaid.

Das Totenreich (1986)
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to...

Der Zappler (1983)
Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illness is met with hostility and rejection by the...

Waller's Last Trip (1989)
For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he...

My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through...

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion (2017)
Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with...

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were...

End of the Commune? (1970)
"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater...

Superbia – The Pride (1988)
Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical forms and figures (triumphal procession, dance of...

Tigerstreifenbaby wartet auf Tarzan (1998)
Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future...

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence (2020)
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and...

Mea Culpa - A ReadyMadeOpera (2009)
In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates the healthy from the sick. By making his cancer...

Sheep in Wales (1988)
“Perpetrators and victims in the generational conflict, wolves in Berlin and sheep in Wales. Contrary to popular expectations, but in keeping...

The Party: Nature Morte (1991)
The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

Doctor’s Diary (2008)
Doctor’s Diary is a German-Austrian medical drama, that aired for three seasons from 2008 to 2011 on RTL in a coproduction with ORF. The focus...

Polizeiruf 110 (1971)
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972)
Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran,...

Motzki (1993)
Motzki is a German television series.

Liebling Kreuzberg (1986)
Liebling Kreuzberg was a television series on ARD, which was sent in five seasons with a total of 58 episodes the first time from 1986 to 1998. The...

München 7 (2004)
München 7 is a German police drama series from Franz Xaver Bogner. The show is set in Munich, Germany and features the fictive police station...

Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari (1998)
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari is a German television series.

Unser Charly (1995)
Unser Charly is a German television series.

Wolffs Revier (1992)
Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

Polizeiruf 110 (1971)
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic...

Mordshunger - Verbrechen und andere Delikatessen (2013)

Adelheid und ihre Mörder (1993)
Adelheid und ihre Mörder was a German comedy-drama television series broadcast between 1992 and 2006 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 65, 50 minute...

Balko (1995)
Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring...

Wolkenstein (1996)
Max Wolkenstein is a German television series.

Großstadtrevier (1986)
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.

Der Tod ist kein Beinbruch (2002)
Der Tod ist kein Beinbruch is a German television series.

Der ganz normale Wahnsinn (1979)
Der ganz normale Wahnsinn is a German television series.

Hals über Kopf (1987)
Hals über Kopf is a German television series.

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Inga Lindström (2004)
Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

SOKO Köln (2003)
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from...

SOKO Stuttgart (2009)
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to...

Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht (1992)
Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht is a series of family author Kurt Bartsch, directors Werner Masten, Vera Loebner and Karin Hercher, shot from 1991 in...

Die Stein (2008)
Die Stein is a German television series.

Beckmann (1999)
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.