Otto Sander
Birthday: 1941-06-30
Place of Birth: Hanover, Germany
Biography: Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards Sander appeared on several of Berlin's theatre stages, among others at the Schillertheater in 1981, at the Freie Volksbühne in 1985 and in 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm. More recently he starred in Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2004). In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter and in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He also played a professor in the movie The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. In 1999 he played a role in Rosa von Praunheim's movie The Einstein of Sex.
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Wings of Desire
Two angels glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisib...
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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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A Love in Germany
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that ...
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The Film Narrator
Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent mo...
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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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Faraway, So Close!
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitar...
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Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
Werner, Andi and Eckat play dice to determine the next king of the trio. When Werner is crowned king...
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The Heart Is a Dark Forest
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family....
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Sass
Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cr...
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Werner and the Wizard of Booze
Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to ...
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Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll...
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Happy Too
A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they create to...
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Little King Macius
The sudden death of his father will take Macius the enormous responsibility that comes with being ki...
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No Pawing, Darling
A man is thrown out by his girlfriend and moves in with a friend who is part of a group of terrorist...
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Movie Days
This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tell...
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Girls under investigation
Two young women are hitchhiking when they get picked up by a man who proceeds to sexually assault th...
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Rosa Luxemburg
Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 2...
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Fly Away
Proud Annegret Simon is new to the retirement home. She doesn't particularly like the change of scen...
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Bauernschach
Franz Hofnagel has been a prisoner in a psychiatric institution for 22 years, where he was sent by h...
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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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The Case of Mr. Spalt
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and ...
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Eine Reise wert… Der Dichter Günter Kunert (be)sucht Berlin
Follows the writer Günter Kunert on his return to West Berlin after his emigration from the GDR....
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Das Boot
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...
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Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almo...
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Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedri...
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One or the Other of Us
Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a bla...
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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of s...
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The Killer Condom
In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations a...
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Marlene
In this biopic, Marlene Dietrich leaves Berlin for Hollywood, where she establishes herself as an in...
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Nikolaikirche
The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her...
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Palermo or Wolfsburg
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a jo...
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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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Four Against the Bank
One evening, the once successful architect Helmut is tired of the recession giving no jobs, he gets ...
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100 Pro
Two young lads in Munich, Germany manage to score dates with drop-dead gorgeous underwear models. No...
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Der Mann im Pyjama
A man just wants to buy some cigarettes - but when he hurries out onto the street in his pyjamas to ...
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The Marquise of O
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count....
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Inge, April und Mai
While everything is in ruins in Berlin in the spring of 1945, the British bombers are flying overhea...
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Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?
Patient No. 7, a man who has been wrongly committed to a psychiatric hospital for years, escapes and...
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Phantom
Open your eyes: Otto Sander is one actor beside 4999 other main actors: 5,000 individuals searching ...
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Strike Back
Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves an...
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Summer Guests
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discuss...
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Das Loch
A man dressed city-like walks across a wood and fields when he suddenly finds a perfectly circle-sha...
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Männer sind wie Schokolade
Linda Lano loves her job in an advertising agency and she also loves the men. But most men think of ...
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Ludwig
A film about a young man (Otto Sander) in a poor Bavarian village who plays the role of the village ...
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Die Bakchen
Austrian flmed staged production of Euripedes' The Bacchae, portraying a conflict between the deity ...
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Plastikfieber
Romy Haag portrays Clarissa Vornfeist who dreams of fame, while Otto Sander in his role as Wilfried ...
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Lumière & Company
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invente...
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Wahnfried
Lake Lucerne in 1868: a passionate and forbidden affair flares up between the gifted composer Richar...
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, co...
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Krabat
A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to...
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Liebe Lügen
The security guard at a pawn shop in a small port town, the seasick scion of a family of sailors, fa...
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The Danube
As the ship Donau makes its final journey from Vienna to the Black Sea, a young man sworn to fulfill...
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Am I Beautiful?
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing ea...
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Berlin 10. 11. 74 - 28. 1. 75: Exercises in 9 Pieces
A series of 9 performance art pieces and surrealist shorts created and primarily performed by Rebecc...
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Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that ...
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Life Is Too Long
No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, h...
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About Narration
Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. I...
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Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef
The vastness of our planets oceans guards unimaginable secrets. One of its most precious is Kaluokah...
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The Harmonists
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Com...
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The Olympic Summer
In 1936 Nazi Germany, a young, innocent apprentice, full of Olympic fever, leaves his rural village ...
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Time of Vengeance
Orhan, who is ten years old, comes to Vienna from a small Village in Anatolia. Armed with his grandf...
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Three Sisters
A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life....
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Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
First part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel, Otto Sander and Jean-Marie Straub....
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Close Up
Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention....
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Hölderlin-Comics
Second part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel and Otto Sander in cast....
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Das Boot - The Director's Cut
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the shee...
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