August Diehl

August Diehl
Date of Birth: 04 Jan 1976
Country: Germany
Total Credits at Criticker: 45 (Actor)
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Love the Hard Way
The story of a petty thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved. (imdb)
The Ninth Day
In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests, Father Abbé Henri Kremer (Ulrich Matthes) gets a nine days leave to return to his home town for his mother's funeral. Along this period, the SS Gestapo lieutenant Gebhardt (August Diehl) tries to persuade Henri, who was born in silver-spoon and member of an influent Luxembourgian family, to convince the local bishop to give-up resisting... (imdb)
Tattoo
German horror about a serial killer who likes ... TATTOOS!
Slumming
Two yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences. (imdb)
23
The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany... (imdb)
Mouth to Mouth
Sherry is searching for a place to belong where she can still be herself. She thinks she has found this in SPARK - Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge. She takes off in SPARK's camper van as they cross Europe recruiting a membership of the down and out. (Artistic License)
Die Fälscher
In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a group of prisoners with skills ranging from finance to forgery are put to work under the direction of a master counterfeiter manufacturing perfect replicas of foreign bank notes. As the Nazis plot to cause the collapse of the U.S. and British economies by flooding their markets with false bills, some of the prisoners use delaying tactics to forestall the plan. (oscar.com)
Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken
Is that really it, the highest point in the life? Günther (August Diehl) and Paul (Daniel Bruehl) are convinced of it: They want to live, in full courses and without compromises - and they require same of love. (imdb)
Ich bin die Andere
Bridge designer falls in love with a woman that suffers from a personality disorder. When he meets her she's dressed up like a prostitute though she does not take his money, the next day he meets her again and she turns out to be his lawyer and is completely unaware of the night they spent together.
Die Buddenbrooks
The downfall of a German family during the 19th century.
Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during WW2, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and killing Nazis.
Lekcje pana Kuki
The story begins innocently - Waldemar twenties - decided to go on vacation to do some sightseeing, and look for seasonal work. Asks for advice to his neighbor, Mr. Kuki, in the past, tourist commercial, which the countries of the West knows more than many a guide - and his insistence decides to travel to Vienna.
La petite prairie aux bouleaux
Myriam is a French Jew and a holocaust survivor. Sixty years after her imprisonment in Auschwitz she decides to do something daring. She returns there to finally confront her painful past. At Auschwitz she meets another person who is looking for answers-a young German photographer Oskar, whose grandfather was an SS officer. (imdb)
Die kommenden Tage
A destabilized family tackles a destabilized world, entering their future with all their hopes and fears. (telepool.de)
Freischwimmer
Schoolboy Rico is a typical loner and outsider. He is neither a stellar student nor has any success with the girls or in the sports classes. Due to his constrained hearing ability, the sensitive boy more and more lives in his own world. When one day, a schoolmate is poisoned and dies, Rico at first does not show a lot of compassion because he never really liked the deceased. But when he learns that the attempt was initially targeted on him, Rico's life is more and more thrown out of joint. (filmportal.de)
Wer wenn nicht wir
"If not us, who?" tells the story of events in the run-up to the onset of German terrorism but above all recounts the tale of an intense love story, a passion too deep to survive in this world. (berlinale.de)
Kalt ist der Abendhauch
Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. They share some brief happy moments during the difficult post-war period, then they are separated for the longest time. They meet again as 80-year olds. (imdb)
Confession of a Child of the Century
The Napoleonic Wars are over. Octave is young and beautiful and loves his mistress Elise - until he witnesses her being unfaithful. Despair leads to decadence. Influenced by his friend Desgenais, Octave becomes the perfect libertine, although this new life fails to satisfy his thirst for the absolute. The death of his father takes Octave to the countryside where he meets Brigitte. (mubi.com)
Shores of Hope
In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country -- if they inform on their co-workers and union leader. (tiff.net)
Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss Professor abandons his lectures and buttoned-down, life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself. (imdb)
Layla Fourie
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself. (imdb)
The Husband
Saddled with a lousy job, an infant son, and a wife doing jail time for sleeping with a 14-year-old, a disgruntled Toronto ad-agency employee struggles to deal with his impotent rage, in this gutsy black comedy from beloved Canadian maverick Bruce McDonald. (tiff.net)
Dirk Ohm - Illusjonisten som forsvant
The German illusionist Dirk Ohm arrives in a rural part of Norway on an ice cold winters day, and falls in love. (imdb)
Frau Ella
When his girlfriend Lina gets pregnant, the world of 30-year-old Sascha is in turmoil. Sascha can't imagine to settle down and to be a father, and in his panic, he injures himself in an accident and is hospitalised. He has to share the room with Ella, a lively pensioner, whose joyful nature irritates Sascha. But when he realizes that the doctors want Ella to undergo an unnecessary operation, his initial dislike turns to compassion. On the spur of the moment, he and Ella flee from the hospital. (filmportal.de)
Come What May
In may 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the recommendations of the prefecture, to give up everything to go on the road, fleeing to the coast. Among them, there is Paul, the village mayor. He led the group, seeks to maintain a minimum of order and republican spirit in this nomadic life.
Allied
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Der junge Karl Marx
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx's new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police's repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era. (cineuropa.org)
The Bird Catcher
After being torn away from her family, 14-year-old Esther must assume a new identity in order to navigate her survival under the hostility of Nazi-occupied Norway. (imdb)
Kursk
The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them. (imdb)
L\
Under the reign of Napoleon, François Vidocq, the only man to be escaped of the greatest penal colony of the country, is a legend of the low-Parisian fund. Left for dead after its last spectacular escape, the ex-penal colony prisoner tries to make him forget under the traits of a single trader. (imdb)
A Hidden Life
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II. (imdb)
Diamant Noir
A revenge thriller in which, following his estranged father's death, a man vows vengeance against his relatives who had abandoned him and returns to the family diamond business with an elaborate robbery in mind. (imdb)
The Last Vermeer
An artist is suspected of selling a valuable painting to the Nazis, but there is more to the story than meets the eye.
Plan A
In 1945, a group of Jewish holocaust survivors planned to poison the water system in Germany. The film tells the dangerous and bold secret-operation which was called - Plan A. (imdb)
Munich: The Edge of War
A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government. (imdb)
Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
When the robber Hotzenplotz steals a grandmother's coffee grinder, Kasperl and his friend Seppel set out to get it back from him. (imdb)
Documentary Now! - Season 4
The Perfumier
A police detective tries to get back her boyfriend as well as her sense of smell, as she gets help from a perfume maker who uses deadly methods to find the perfect fragrance.
Sidonie in Japan
While on a book tour in Japan, Sidonie Perceval, still haunted by the ghost of her late husband, begins an affair with her mysterious Japanese publisher. (imdb)
The Master and Margarita
A writer's novel is banned and play canceled. He then conceives a satirical novel where a devil-like character metaphorically revenges those responsible. Knowing it cannot be published, his muse Margarita pushes him to write it anyway. (imdb)
Close to the Enemy
Close to the Enemy (2016) - TV Mini-Series
A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft. (imdb)
Bauhaus - A New Era
The year is 1919, the Great War is over, and Dörte Helm becomes part of a group of young artists and revolutionaries who evolve from the Lost to the Golden Generation. The series introduces the teachers and students of Bauhaus who inspired our modern lifestyle while telling a story of love, betrayal, and the loss of paradise. (imdb)
Bonhoeffer
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide. (imdb)
The Ice Tower
Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing. (imdb)
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in the Auschwitz extermination camp, managed to escape from Germany. From Buenos Aires to Paraguay, with stops in the Brazilian jungle, the so-called Angel of Death organized his methodical disappearance and escaped any form of trial.