Irm Hermann
Birthday: 1942-10-04
Place of Birth: Munich, Germany
Biography: Irmgard Hermann (4 October 1942 – 26 May 2020) was a German actress. She worked in film, television, and the stage, appearing in over 160 film and television productions. She was discovered, without formal training, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder who cast her in many of his films.
Movies
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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Effi Briest
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...
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Shadow of Angels
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves h...
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Gods of the Plague
A man is released from prison and finds society on the outside less than appealing. With several wom...
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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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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistre...
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Woyzeck
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes od...
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The Magic Mountain
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Be...
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Pappa ante Portas
Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of...
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The Man from the Embassy
The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps bo...
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Germanikus
The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau ric...
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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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Katzelmacher
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment buildi...
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A Woman in Berlin
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World W...
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Fashion Victims
At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker (Edgar Selge) is in old school territory: he peddles the c...
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The 120 Days of Bottrop
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking....
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Verführung in 6 Gängen
Frank Drannemann, a passionate star chef and single father, is in a professional and private crisis....
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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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Willi und die Windzors
The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the cou...
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The German Chainsaw Massacre
Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to vi...
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Mathias Kneißl
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria...
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Krauses Kur
On a summer evening the circuit of the village policeman Krause suddenly went crazy. His doctor imme...
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The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long track...
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Playoff
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team....
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Die Libelle und das Nashorn
Ada Hänselmann presents her debut novel. However, the numerous guests are only interested in the 82-...
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge....
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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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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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Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen
A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is ...
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Mein Bruder ist ein Hund
With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - bu...
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Schokolade für den Chef
The wealthy industrialist Ernst Schmitt has to take a step back for health reasons. But first he wan...
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10 Sekunden
Air traffic controller Markus Hofer is partly to blame for a collision between two airplanes in whic...
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TRUST.Wohltat
Germany in 2020: the state social security systems have been dissolved and will be regulated purely ...
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Eisenhans
A film by german playwright Tankred Dorst about a case of incest in a rural community....
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Love Is Colder Than Death
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady...
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Männer und andere Katastrophen
The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed bab...
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Three Wishes
Before Martin dies, he asks Jan to carry out three wishes. Will Jan be up to making them happen? Som...
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The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from...
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The Sternstein Manor
At the top of the mountain stands the beautiful Sternsteinhof farm. Leni, a girl from a poor backgro...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son....
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Hamlet: This Is Your Family
A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Na...
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Jail Bait
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Wern...
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Everything's a Lie
Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does...
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Last Five Days
At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young wo...
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Zu treuen Händen
The satirical film is about the liquidation of a sewing machine combine by the Treuhandanstalt (THA)...
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Vatertage - Opa über Nacht
The 37-year-old Munich survivor and rickshaw driver Basti struck by lightning than one day unexpecte...
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Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women
What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let ...
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Women in New York
Wives of rich men have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdres...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a ...
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Baal
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast a...
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Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who...
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Deutschlandlied
This three-part film tells how people in the fictional town of Königsbruck experience the end of the...
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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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Grüß Gott, Genosse
In 1989, teacher Wendler and his wife leave the GDR to join his Bavarian uncle. In the West, the lin...
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting mar...
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Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dr...
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Fassbinder
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed...
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Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken priso...
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Nora Helmer
A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ib...
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The Swing
Based on Annette Kolb’s autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless r...
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The Invention of Love
A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim ...
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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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Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11)
A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a d...
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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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Die letzte Schlacht
The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the fin...
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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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Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book
Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, ...
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Hades
This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew ...
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A French Summer
Married couple Martin and Jackie meet an unconventional Frenchman named Serge, who both are attracte...
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Der Bulle und das Landei - Goldrausch
Shortly before the celebration of his 95th birthday, Karl Wolter is murdered. Instead of ending thei...
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Fassbinder's Women
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner...
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Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake
Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire...
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Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die
It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the ...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the ...
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Suck Me Shakespeer 3
A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of ...
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Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK O...
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Today We're Playing Boss
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to ...
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Letztes aus der DaDaeR
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel - highly acclaimed East ...
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Faust Sonnengesang
In no less than 180 minutes the film showed frenzied dashes of wild colors and idyllic natural image...
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Edith's Diary
When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son ...
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch
A situational family comedy, wordplay and a whole host of idiosyncratic characters are the ingredien...
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Zwei Herren im Anzug
In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past he...
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Das Totenreich
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. T...
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Der Zappler
Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illne...
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Waller's Last Trip
For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will...
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My Name Is Not Ali
Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unkn...
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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS...
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmak...
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End of the Commune?
A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a m...
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Superbia – The Pride
Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical form...
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Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan
Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find...
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilli...
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Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates...
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Sheep in Wales
“Perpetrators and victims in the generational conflict, wolves in Berlin and sheep in Wales. Contrar...
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The Party: Nature Morte
The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart....
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Close Up
Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention....
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Freakstars 3000
As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the...
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