Heinz Bennent
Birthday: 1921-07-18
Place of Birth: Stolberg, Germany
Biography: Heinz Bennent (July 18, 1921 - October 12, 2011) was a German actor. His career began after the end of World War II in Göttingen. He moved to Switzerland in the 1970s, where he lives until his death. His children, Anne Bennent and David Bennent also work as actors.
Movies
The Tin Drum
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...
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The Last Metro
In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis whil...
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she ta...
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Womanlight
The story is simple: two people who have recently suffered a great deal come together for consolatio...
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Possession
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the trut...
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Kalt ist der Abendhauch
Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is...
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From the Life of the Marionettes
An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a straine...
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Spy, Stand Up
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his pe...
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The Serpent's Egg
In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while...
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Bennent mal vier
Swiss dancer Diane and rising German actor Heinz Bennent build a tight-knit family on modest means. ...
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My Name is Victor
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden ...
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Lulu
Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies fr...
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Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow
It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium...
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Metamorphosis
Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find that he's been transformed into a giant insect. This ...
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The Net
The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are bar...
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I Want to Live
An 11-year-old boy survives a serious car accident but remains mentally and physically disabled for ...
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Nea
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shop...
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The Wild Duck
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gr...
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Der Pott
In 1917, the boys from Irish club Avondale United parade through the town with the cup they have jus...
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Die Eltern
Ann, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the sole heir of millions from her grandmother. Ann's parents, who...
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Une femme fatale
A young, easygoing pilot discovers the mutual attraction between his chief pilot's wife and himself....
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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging An...
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Perahim - die zweite Chance
After eleven years of solitary confinement, Perahim, convicted of murdering a police officer, is rel...
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Brass Target
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he...
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Year of the Turtle
The story of an impossible love between a 60 years old jobless bookkeeper and an unpredictable 40 ye...
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Kopfstand, Madam!
Married with a young daughter, a 30-year-old woman yearns to return to her working life as a transla...
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The Death of Mario Ricci
A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scie...
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Special Section
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy governm...
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A French Woman
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debac...
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Princesse Marie
The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work...
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Germany in Autumn
The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes...
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Szenen aus dem Eheleben
Through psychological warfare, a man manages to outdo his former wife's second husband and return to...
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Im Kreis
On a rainy vacation day in a hotel room in Yugoslavia, a 40-year-old father and his adolescent daugh...
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Son of Hitler
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actuall...
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War and Peace
The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmm...
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Sarah
An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of...
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Meetings in the Forest
The fate of a young girl named Svea, who has always been hunted down, in the depths of an immense fo...
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Marie
When her father dies unexpectantly, a young woman starts to get suspicious about her mother's behavi...
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Der Mann im Schilf
In 1934, young archaeologist Robert returns to his home in Salzburg after spending several years wor...
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Le Transfuge
A French industrialist, Bernard Corain, who frequently travels on business to the German Democratic ...
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Tears of Stone
About Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. Th...
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Eine Rose für Jane
Jones is called in when others want to kill. Jones works quickly, precisely, successfully. His clien...
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L'amour des femmes
Geneva, 1980s. Three friends in search of themselves. Bruno, an architect, is married to a woman he ...
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Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Arrived in New York, Margaux went to the bedside of her daughter Jess, who tried to commit suicide. ...
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Eiszeit
After World War II, an aging controversial Norwegian Nobel Prize winner must confront his past and t...
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Street of Mirrors
Francesca, a magistrate, seems happily married to a successful and wealthy engineer. They prepare to...
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Le Lit
Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he ...
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The Pleasure of Love
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemp...
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Rouge Capucine
The life of the actress and model Capucine inspired this film by Michel Soutter, played by Capucine ...
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Der Snob
An oily careerist for whom becoming the highest earner is not enough: now he also wants a title of n...
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Le due croci
Le Due Croci brings us the story of Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest...
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