Hark Bohm
Birthday: 1939-05-18
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Biography: Hark Bohm (18 May 1939 – 14 November 2025) was a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the island Amrum. His younger brother was the actor Marquard Bohm, who starred in some of his early films. He was most notable for his long-time collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. His first featurefilm as a director was the German western Tschetan, der Indianerjunge shot in 1972 and starring his brother Marquard as well as his adopted son Dschingis Bowakow as Tschetan. In 1978, he directed the film Moritz, Dear Moritz, which was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Ten years later, his film Yasemin was entered into the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, his film Herzlich willkommen was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1997, he was a member of the jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.
Movies
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hos...
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Lili Marleen
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
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Lola
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a ...
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Conversation with the Beast
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Ado...
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Underdogs
In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing proj...
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Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag f...
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True North
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters ...
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The Charlemagne Code
An action-packed race to find the legendary treasure of the Nibelungen hidden by Charlemagne and tho...
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Effi Briest
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...
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Lost in Siberia
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archae...
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The Architect
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuri...
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Fear of Fear
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplic...
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The American Soldier
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer....
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A Good Opportunity
Gosbert Klee and Thilo "Abo" Abogast are anything but down on their luck. Nothing in their pockets, ...
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The Third Generation
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently be...
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Bomber & Paganini
The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in ...
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Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with i...
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Slow Attack
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refu...
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Justice
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dini...
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Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at t...
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Ruby Cairo
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the ...
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Linie 1
Film version of the musical by the same name: Sunnie, a girl from the province, comes to Berlin to m...
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970....
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...
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Little Godard
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hell...
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Despair
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu...
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprise...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau...
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Moritz, Dear Moritz
15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teena...
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Panic Time
The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobod...
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Schtonk!
Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with grea...
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Spider's Web
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an e...
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The Promise
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends...
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Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet
Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the ...
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Ain’t Nothin’ Without You
Martha lives in Hamburg with her young son and makes films with real passion. To stay close to the p...
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1+1=3
An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and...
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Adolf and Marlene
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come...
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Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe
Leo has been working for the insurance company for 19 years, without a sick day, without being late,...
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Härtetest
Jonas is in his mid-twenties, still lives with his parents and gets dumped by his girlfriend. He soo...
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Herzlich willkommen
Friedrich manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greete...
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Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, ...
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Reunion in Travers
The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzer...
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Kissenschlacht
Anna and Michael have tried everything to conceive a baby - without success. There is one last attem...
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Falcons
Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Be...
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Forever and Ever
A life of little Maria who lives in a foster family breaks after a sudden appearance of her mother M...
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Fassbinder
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed...
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Underground
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, trage...
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The Big Mess
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are ...
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Power Of Evil
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appear...
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Madregilda
Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn...
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Familiengeheimnisse - Liebe, Schuld und Tod
Doctor Dahna lives with her mother Ayana in Kenya, where she runs the children's aid organization He...
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Der Liebling des Himmels
The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croati...
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Der kleine Staatsanwalt
Kaiser, an unemployed civil engineer, receives a tempting offer to become managing director of Zielb...
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Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things ...
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Amrum
Amrum Island, Spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous ...
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If Not Us, Who?
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate lo...
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Strongman Ferdinand
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from f...
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Red Sun
Thomas hitchhikes from Hamburg to Munich where he meets his ex-girlfriend, Peggy. Thomas doesn't hav...
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Earthbound
The movie "Earthbound" is based on an authentic story: Franz Seeliger, a 75 year old psychiatric pat...
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The Golden Glove
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s....
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Sealed Lips
A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for th...
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Early Birds
Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadne...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende...
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Liebe, so schön wie Liebe
Munich in the 1970s: A group of young people are killing time. Sylvie has broken up with her boyfrie...
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