Actor · 1963

Heino Ferch

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13:00: average
26 min: in total

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Fritz Lang

Gordian Maugg · 2016

Gordian Maugg’s 2016 biographical film Fritz Lang follows the director in the months before and after his 1933 departure from Weimar Germany. Starring Heino Ferch, it avoids hagiography or melodrama, instead focusing on procedural tensions — studio politics, bureaucratic pressure, and unspoken allegiances — with deliberate pacing and muted visuals. The film presumes familiarity with Lang’s work and the historical context, offering ambiguity where others might supply certainty.

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Run Lola Run

Tom Tykwer · 1998

Franka Potente plays Lola, who has twenty minutes to find 100,000 marks and save her boyfriend Manni from a violent debt collector, and Tom Tykwer's 1998 film runs the same twenty minutes three times, letting split-second differences in Lola's path — a man with a dog, a delay on the stairs — cascade into wildly different outcomes for everyone she passes. Told through a mix of live action, animation and still-photo flash-forwards, it became the highest-grossing German film of its year.