Rainer Bock
Birthday: 1954-07-31
Place of Birth: Kiel, Germany
Biography: After graduating from high school, Rainer Bock ran a café in his hometown, which also had a cabaret programme. After studying acting at a private acting school in Kiel, he made his debut as a theater actor on the stages of the state capital of Kiel in 1982. He came to Heidelberg and the National Theater Mannheim via the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater. From 1995 to 2001 he had an engagement at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Until 2011 he was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Bock often appears in supporting roles, including his initially rare appearances in film and television. The part of the doctor in Michael Haneke's award-winning drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009) earned him a nomination for the German Film Prize. In 2011 he was represented at the Berlinale with four films. Bock is also active as an audio book speaker.
Movies
Operation Valkyrie
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of ...
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Die Luft, die wir atmen
On a freezing cold winter day, several guests visit their relatives in an old people's home in the F...
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The White Ribbon
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was...
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In the Shadows
"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, Ger...
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Unknown
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, ...
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Wo ist die Liebe hin?
Agnes and Gregor have had a happy marriage for 15 years. No crises, no affairs, no weariness. They l...
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Picco
Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc...
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Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though...
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Barbara
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying ...
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Mittagsstunde
When his grandmother Ella becomes increasingly confused and his grandfather Sönke simply doesn't wan...
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Passion
The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalat...
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Russendisko
Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right afte...
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The Guardians
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has n...
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A Most Wanted Man
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert gover...
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Two Lives
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in N...
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Zeugin der Toten
At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered wom...
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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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Stereo
Erik has is own motorbike workshop in a sleepy little town. He may have the telling word ‘scoundrel’...
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The Book Thief
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and shar...
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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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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, ...
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München '72 - Das Attentat
Munich 1972: The Olympic Games are supposed to show the world a new, different Germany: the spirit o...
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Ein Jahr nach morgen
The unthinkable has happened at a school in a medium-sized town: 16-year-old Luca Reich has shot and...
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My Best Enemy
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS...
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Run Boy Run
A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to su...
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Open the Wall
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the po...
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War Horse
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his fathe...
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Burning Souls
A story about of one of the darkest periods in German history, an era in which the belief in occult ...
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The Cold Truth
On a freezing November night, a young doctor accidentally runs over and kills an 18-year old boy. Th...
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Irish Crime: The Price of Silence
Life seems to be kind to criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake: a tender love affair has developed fro...
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Naked Among Wolves
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig dis...
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Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...
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Now or Never
Three elderly ladies, Carla, Lilli and Meta, who, after their hard earned holiday money is stolen by...
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Tracks
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitu...
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The Blue Mauritius
Five international thieves meet in Cape Town to steal the most valuable stamp in the world....
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The Chosen Ones
In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flatte...
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Kaltfront
Jan meets Judith by accident and realizes that she is the woman who was supposed to have shot and ki...
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Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden
The Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl was in love with his sister. And she loved him back. The...
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Winnetou - A New World
The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and sta...
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Einer bleibt sitzen
Michel is paralyzed after a motorcycle accident and has lost sight of the meaning of his life....
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Operation Zucker - Jagdgesellschaft
Karin Wegemann has been transferred. Instead of being on active duty at the LKA, she has been teachi...
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Dessau Dancers
In the summer of 1985, an American movie also ignites young people in the GDR: "Beatstreet" ensures ...
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Hunters in the Night
Back on duty after alcohol withdrawal, Commissioner Bonì is investigating the case of a missing stud...
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The Most Beautiful Day
The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both...
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Luna's Revenge
When Luna’s family is killed in cold blood on a mountain vacation, she barely escapes, and has to di...
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The Verdict
A hijacker threatens to bring down a passenger plane to a crowded football stadium. Fighter pilot La...
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Never Look Away
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented ...
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Ich war eine glückliche Frau
Since Mrs. Blok suffers from dementia, she rarely leaves the house and spends most of her day watchi...
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Sex, Pity and Loneliness
A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies betw...
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Wonder Woman
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the for...
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Arthur & Claire
The chance meeting of two people at the darkest moments of their lives leads to a bright new beginni...
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Käthe Kruse
The young actress Käthe is not 18 when she conquered Berlin's theater stages. Privately she finds he...
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Scrappin'
Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and re...
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The Beginner
A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice ...
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A Year Ago in Winter
A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a...
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Exile
Exil tells the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who feels discriminated and bullied at...
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Rate Your Date
Teresa und Patricia are best friends. Despite the big differences between date-experienced Teresa an...
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Atlas
Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about ...
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Lara
Today is Lara’s 60th birthday, which happens to fall on the same day as her pianist son’s career-def...
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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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Der König von Köln
A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few supe...
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Weihnachten im Schnee
A family celebrates Christmas in a Norwegian log cabin. Old conflicts and a tragic secret cloud the ...
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Mein Altweibersommer
Ebba, a successful food chemist, has a terrible dream in which she gives birth to a healthy bear cub...
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Blochin: Das letzte Kapitel
After two years, after a tip from Shukshin, Blochin finally got the chance to lure the child murdere...
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MuM Calls It Quits
Carla Michelsen has had enough. Each of her three children will get 250,000 euros if they sign a con...
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The Calendar Killer
Klara is going to die today unless she kills her husband instead. The Calendar Killer has given her ...
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Hallo Spencer - Der Film
Jakob Sesam is the once successful creator of the children's TV series Hello Spencer. Twenty years a...
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A Feast for Life
A fast-paced ensemble comedy about a wedding planner and his thrown-together crew whose meticulously...
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Lulu-Trailer (Wedekind)
A trailer for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s theater staging of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu at the Salzburg Fest...
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Karla
Twelve-year-old Karla testifies in court. She makes serious accusations against her own father, who ...
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The Idiots
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a he...
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Zweigstelle
When Resi and her clique get into a fatal accident on their trip to the Alps, they find themselves i...
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Weihnachten in Sommerby
A dream come true for Martha, Mikkel, and Mats: they get to celebrate Christmas in Sommerby. They tr...
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