Sabine Timoteo
Birthday: 1975-03-25
Place of Birth: Bern, Switzerland
Biography: Sabine Timoteo, born Sabine Hagenbüchle on 25 March 1975 in Bern, is a Swiss actress and former dancer. She fluently speaks German, French, English, Italian and Spanish. She studied dance and won the Prix de Lausanne for "best young dancer". Her film debut was in Philip Gröning's L'Amour, l'Argent, l'Amour, which was shot in 1996 but released in 2000. For this role, she won the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress. Between 1997 and 2000, before fully embarking on her acting career, she trained as a professional cook in Bern. After marrying a man, she took the name Sabine Timoteo, under which she built the majority of her film career. She continued to gain acclaim with major roles in films such as Ghosts (2005), The Free Will (2006), Color of the Ocean (2012), Cyanide (2013), Futuro Beach (2014), The Wonders (2014) and Center of My World (2016). In more recent years she has worked in several notable projects, including Meanwhile on Earth (2024), Chaos & Silence (2025) and Transamazonia (2025).
Movies
Ghosts
Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she m...
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A Friend of Mine
An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous ...
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Nebenwirkungen
Dr. Claudia Keller works in the research department of the global chemical company Beyler. The compa...
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Love, Money, Love
David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on N...
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The Free Will
After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is...
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The Days Between
Lynn is a cheerful 22-year-old who works at a cafe and lives with her brother. Though she has no rea...
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Electric Fields
People go through life with forgotten dreams. They bravely contend another day when something goes o...
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Brownian Movement
A psychiatrist's adulterous past continues to haunt her and her husband after they move to India....
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Friends of Friends
Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2...
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Last Dance
Germain, an introspective retiree, abruptly becomes a widower at 75. He barely has the time to reali...
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Breakaway
After running away to try to find her father, Manon manages to free herself from this family bond an...
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Anxiety
A story about two sisters - Małgorzata, who is single by choice, and her younger sister, Łucja, a mo...
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Color of the Ocean
After years working as a border patrolman, José has developed a salty crust of cynicism about his wo...
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Formentera
Nina and Ben go on a vacation without their daughter to the Mediterranean. Their vacation is going w...
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Cyanide
Achille, 13, awaits, full of hope, the release from prison of his father, unknown and fantasized. Hi...
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Transamazonia
Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived a pl...
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Futuro Beach
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides t...
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Pepperminta
Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and accordin...
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The Wonders
In the Tuscan countryside, a family of traditional honey farmers struggles to make ends meet. The ho...
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Sugar Orange
Lukas is Sugar, Clemens is Orange. Together, they are two ten-year-old boys who are inseparable. Mor...
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Thunder
Summer 1900, Switzerland. Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her old...
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Those Who Work
Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter t...
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Mutants
Thirteen-year-old Paula lives with her mother on a well-kept estate in a small town surrounded by ni...
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Irgendwas ist immer
On her 23rd birthday, Julia is dumped by her boyfriend Patrick, her hoped-for career as a pop journa...
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A Forgotten Man
Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years...
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Meanwhile on Earth
Siblings Elsa and Franck used to be close, but everything changed when Franck’s space mission went a...
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St. Francis Birds Tour
A daft road movie about two aging thesps in search of Klopfenstein himself....
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The Drift
Robert, a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown Dietikon after a long period of ab...
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After Effect
Berlin in the 3rd millenium. Rather by chance Kai Starel gets into the newly founded CC Institute "C...
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Chaos and Silence
As young musicians Jean and Helena brace for parenthood amidst job insecurities, their lives collide...
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Flanke ins All
Dani's heart beats for soccer. And sometimes for Claudia. Unfortunately, it's usually in that order,...
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Center of My World
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the ou...
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Karigula - Monster der Liebe
Charly was a clown before he lost his talent for making people laugh. When Charly loses his last eng...
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180°
Early evening - a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watc...
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Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen
Air traffic controller Johann Lenders has just taken over the night shift in the tower at Zurich Air...
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Zen for Nothing
Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A yo...
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The Investigation
Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the...
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The Chronicles of Melanie
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house...
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Kill Daddy Good Night
The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lit...
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Analysis Paralysis
A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has ...
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Sarah Plays a Werewolf
17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a t...
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Deadly Leaks
Journalist Rommy Kirchhoff wants to interview a whistle-blower. Paul Holthaus, lobbyist on behalf of...
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Sicilian Ghost Story
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his cla...
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The New End
In a post-apocalyptic world, only the men seem to have survived. The law of the jungle rules. Among ...
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Wildcats
Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the m...
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Homevideo
Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, ...
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Cloud Whispers
On an impulse, 60 year old Charlotte leaves her husband stranded at a gas station in the middle of n...
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Small Fish
Three respectable citizens of a Swiss winter sports resort find themselves in financial trouble due ...
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Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe
Matti is 11 years old and dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He ma...
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Das Ächzen der Asche
An experimental conclusion to Klopfensteins trilogy of walk-and-talk philosophical films, presented ...
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Bis ans Ende der Träume
Both aspire to remain true to themselves and to build their lives freely. This bold vision in the 19...
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Cronofobia
A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about ...
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The Black Brothers
Up until the middle of the 19Th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of S...
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How I Taught Myself to Be a Child
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery...
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The Tears Thing
Florence is an actress. The preparations for her next film will put her through an unexpected ordeal...
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Little Paradise
Annegret, is a mentally handicapped woman in her mid-thirties who falls in love with Res, an oldish ...
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Roll the Drum!
In the spring of 1970 a small village in Valais experienced unusual turbulence. Is it because of the...
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Sunburned
Feeling neglected by her mother and sister on their holiday in Spain, 13-year-old Claire tries to he...
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Exit Oerlikon
When Hans looks back, he must say: That was a good life! He saw the world, loved his wife Martha and...
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Human Factors
To escape mounting tensions at the advertising agency they co-own, French-German couple Nina and Jan...
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The Collini Case
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case....
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The Girl and the Spider
Lisa is moving. Upheaval all around: Her mother flirts with a handyman. An eccentric woman seems to ...
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Robber Girls
Emily is sent to work and live in the Sovereign's castle. She manages to escape into the woods, wher...
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Zahorí
The Patagonian steppe is battered by a grey wind... Mora is 13 years old and intends to become a "ga...
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Violet
After an argument with his mother, 12-year-old Dan, who suffers from scoliosis, seeks love and intim...
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The Courageous
In a small town on the edge of wild country, an eccentric and delinquent mother has had enough of th...
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Dinosaures
For years, Antonio, a bricklayer, has fudged the books and paid his employee Victor under the table,...
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