Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

Birthday: 1962-05-31

Place of Birth: Karlsruhe, Germany

Biography: From IMDb Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German actor and he is one of the most internationally sought-after German actors of his generation. His international breakthrough came in 2006 with director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winning theatrical success "The Lives Of Others". For his outstanding portrayal of the GDR writer Georg Dreyman, Koch received numerous nominations and awards, including the 2007 Italian Foreign Press Award, the "Globo d'Oro" for Best European Actor. He has since appeared in numerous international film productions. Sebastian Koch has been a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since July 2019. In addition to his acting work, he regularly delights audiences with symphonic-scenic readings, including "Paradise" with violinist Daniel Hope, "Dream Story" with the Hubert Nuss Jazz Quartet and recently "The Kreutzer Sonata" after L. Tolstoy, which Sebastian Koch dramaturgically adapted and conceived as a stage play with piano and violin Description above from the IMDb

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The Lives of Others
The Lives of Others

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

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The Flying Classroom
The Flying Classroom

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new p...

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The Tunnel
The Tunnel

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and h...

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Operation Valkyrie
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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The Shell Seekers
The Shell Seekers

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...

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Amen.
Amen.

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

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Black Book
Black Book

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gesta...

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Effi Briest
Effi Briest

Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten ...

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Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig
Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig

Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel g...

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A Good Day to Die Hard
A Good Day to Die Hard

Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil a...

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Unknown
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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Transit
Transit

In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one sma...

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In jeder Sekunde
In jeder Sekunde

Dr. Frick is head of the psychiatric ward of a clinic. He and his wife Anna have an eleven-year-old ...

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Albatross
Albatross

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emili...

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Manipulation
Manipulation

Set in Zurich in the 1950s, a special agent who is near retirement receives a major assignment: Brin...

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God Loves Caviar
God Loves Caviar

The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis...

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Sea Wolf
Sea Wolf

A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen....

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Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha
Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha

According to legend, the Black Buddha is a figure that brings death to those who steal it and wisdom...

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The Weekend
The Weekend

Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 ye...

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In the Shadow
In the Shadow

In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelry robbery. An opened s...

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Suspension of Disbelief
Suspension of Disbelief

Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in ...

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The Burning Snail
The Burning Snail

In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to in...

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October November
October November

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating chara...

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Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies
Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies

An in-depth look at the life and career of Bruce Willis, featuring never-before-seen photos and vide...

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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a p...

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Der Mann mit der Maske
Der Mann mit der Maske

A series of rapes causes a stir in a German university town. A special commission led by senior publ...

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Take Down
Take Down

Sons and daughters of international billionaires are sent to an boot camp where they are taught basi...

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Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police o...

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1821 at the Cinema
1821 at the Cinema

In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decade...

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Fähre in den Tod
Fähre in den Tod

It is a terrible disaster! Due to a series of wrong decisions, the ferry Castor gets caught in a sea...

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Woanders scheint nachts die Sonne
Woanders scheint nachts die Sonne

Vera, a young, attractive shipbuilding engineer, has both feet on the ground. She is independent, en...

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Cosimas Lexikon
Cosimas Lexikon

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cosima Richter's East Berlin apartment building is to be renovate...

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Ein fast perfekter Seitensprung
Ein fast perfekter Seitensprung

It all starts when she runs away from the altar in a church in Hamburg. Easygoing Henny Schönberg ha...

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Princesse Marie
Princesse Marie

The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work...

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Tödlicher Duft
Tödlicher Duft

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Schrecklicher Verdacht
Schrecklicher Verdacht

With the help of the young, attractive agent Anna Schilling, secret service chief Vogel wants to get...

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Das Tal der Schatten
Das Tal der Schatten

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Die Rache der Carola Waas
Die Rache der Carola Waas

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Der Tod kam als Freund
Der Tod kam als Freund

A large chemical company in southern Germany is experiencing strange glitches in its data processing...

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Blutige Spur
Blutige Spur

The divorced wife of a respected surgeon is involved in a hit-and-run accident and dies. Her husband...

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Deadly Diversion
Deadly Diversion

Adrian is a talented and ambitious young actor. On the way to an important casting in Munich - he is...

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Der Mörder meiner Mutter
Der Mörder meiner Mutter

At the age of six, Anne witnessed the murder of her parents. Twenty years later, the convicted perpe...

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Ende einer Leidenschaft
Ende einer Leidenschaft

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Kollaps
Kollaps

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Auf dem Vulkan
Auf dem Vulkan

Moritz and Eva Jung's marriage is in crisis. Moritz is tormented by feelings of guilt, but is unable...

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Der Mörder und die Hure
Der Mörder und die Hure

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Die Nacht hat 17 Stunden
Die Nacht hat 17 Stunden

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Tauerngold
Tauerngold

Gold rush in the Salzburg mountains: After hearing rumours of new gold discoveries, the penniless Ja...

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Eine Liebe für den Frieden – Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel
Eine Liebe für den Frieden – Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel

Bertha Kinsky works as a governess in the Suttner household and has an affair with Arthur Suttner, t...

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Der Rosenmörder
Der Rosenmörder

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The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person...

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Hollister
Hollister

The Berlin star architect Mark Hollister owns a thriving company, but at the moment everything is go...

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Flirt
Flirt

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to ch...

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Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down hi...

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Zwei vom gleichen Schlag
Zwei vom gleichen Schlag

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Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time
Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time

This entry in the long-running romance of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart picks up following the death of...

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In Her Name
In Her Name

In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was ...

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Fog in August
Fog in August

A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of wh...

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Schwarzes Blut
Schwarzes Blut

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Freundinnen
Freundinnen

Sophia is going nuts about her relationship to Peter. One day when she is in the middle of committin...

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Never Look Away
Never Look Away

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented ...

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Der Liebe auf der Spur
Der Liebe auf der Spur

8-part youth series on the subject of love and sexuality. The self-contained episodes focus on young...

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Two Days of Hope
Two Days of Hope

Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmu...

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Im Himmel hört Dich niemand weinen
Im Himmel hört Dich niemand weinen

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An Impossible Teacher
An Impossible Teacher

In contrast to his successful brother Ernst (Heino Ferch), Robby (Sebastian Koch) dropped out of tea...

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Bel Canto
Bel Canto

A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing a...

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Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy Sunday

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restau...

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The Lüneburg Variant
The Lüneburg Variant

The story centers around the mysterious death of sixty-eight-year-old Dr. Dieter Frisch, a wealthy i...

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The Road in Between
The Road in Between

The film poetically tells the story of the search for one's own authenticity in young adulthood....

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Etty part 1
Etty part 1

At the age of 27, in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Etty Hillesum embarks on a spiritual and emotional jou...

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Etty part 2
Etty part 2

At the age of 27, in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Etty Hillesum embarks on a spiritual and emotional jou...

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