7 Movies Starring Ulrich Mèhe

Benny's Video

Benny's Video

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-02-11

Languages:

German, English, Arabic, French

Countries:

Austria, Switzerland

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (8541 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Haneke

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Fullplot:

A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.

Funny Games

Funny Games

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-03-11

Languages:

German, French, Italian

Countries:

Austria

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (39945 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Haneke

Fullplot:

Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known. But soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?

The Castle

The Castle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-10-01

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany, Austria

Runtime:

123 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2029 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Haneke

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Haneke

Franz Kafka (novel)

Fullplot:

When a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse to allow him to advance to the nearby castle. Increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles arise.

Amen.

Amen.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-02-27

Languages:

English, French, Italian, German

Countries:

France, Germany, Romania

Runtime:

132 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (10178 Reviews)

Director:

Costa-Gavras

Cast:

Writer:

Costa-Gavras

Jean-Claude Grumberg

Rolf Hochhuth (play)

Fullplot:

In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.

The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-03-30

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

137 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

8.5 (231904 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Fullplot:

Gerd Wiesler is an officer with the Stasi, the East German secret police. The film begins in 1984 when Wiesler attends a play written by Georg Dreyman, who is considered by many to be the ultimate example of the loyal citizen. Wiesler has a gut feeling that Dreyman can't be as ideal as he seems and believes surveillance is called for. The Minister of Culture agrees but only later does Wiesler learn that the Minister sees Dreyman as a rival and lusts after his partner Christa-Maria. The more time he spends listening in on them, the more he comes to care about them. The once rigid Stasi officer begins to intervene in their lives, in a positive way, protecting them whenever possible. Eventually, Wiesler activities catch up to him and while there is no proof of wrongdoing, he finds himself in menial jobs - until the unbelievable happens.

Hunger auf Leben

Hunger auf Leben

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-06-18

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (88 Reviews)

Director:

Markus Imboden

Fullplot:

Biographical TV-Movie about the live of the popular East-German Novelist Brigitte Reimann. About her privat life and her fights for and against her Country and Herself.

My Fèhrer

My Fèhrer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-01-11

Languages:

German, Hebrew, Yiddish

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

89 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (3287 Reviews)

Director:

Dani Levy

Fullplot:

The action comedy is set in 1944. Hitler appears in it as physically and mentally destroyed person who takes the advice of Goebbels in the actor-teacher of Jewish concentration camp for lessons eloquence to inspire the German people to further fight.

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