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Benno Fürmann

Actor
Benno Fürmann is a German actor known for his versatility and presence in both national and international cinema. He began his career in the early 1990s and quickly gained recognition for his performances in German television series and films. Some of his notable films include "The Princess and the Warrior" (2000) directed by Tom Tykwer, where he played the lead role alongside Franka Potente, and "North Face" (2008), a dramatic historical film about the 1936 attempt to scale the Eiger North Face. Fürmann has also appeared in international productions such as "Joyeux Noel" (2005), a war drama about the WWI Christmas truce. His work has earned him several accolades, including the Bavarian Film Award for Best Actor. With a career spanning over three decades, Fürmann continues to be a prominent figure in the film industry, celebrated for his depth and dedication to his craft.

Films

Bright Night

Bright Night

By Florian Gottschick

2014 | 83 min | Horror

A German Mumblecore mystery and pyschodrama about two couples, a polyamorous relationship, and nightmarish reality shifts.

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Snowman

Snowman

2018 | 20 min | Drama

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Requiem

Requiem

2006 | 93 min | Drama

REQUIEM begins in a small town in southern Germany in the early 1970s, where Michaela Klingler finally leaves a strict Catholic home after repeated stays in hospital for epilepsy. At university in Tübingen, she tastes a wider life through Stefan and her friend Hanna, and REQUIEM follows the fragile hope that freedom might last. That hope cracks when Michaela collapses in her residence hall. What seems at first like another attack becomes something far more frightening to her: inner voices, grotesque ...

GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

1981 | 12 min | Icons & Media Art

In September 1929, a group of visionary filmmakers gathered at La Sarraz Castle in Switzerland to discuss alternatives to commercial cinema. The participants, including Sergei Eisenstein, Hans Richter, Walter Ruttmann and Luis Buñuel, want to explore new ways of independent filmmaking and challenge the bourgeois narrative film. Lutz Dammbeck takes up this historic meeting and pays artistic tribute to it with DDR-EXPERIMENTAL: HOMMAGE À LA SARRAZ. The film combines documentary elements with experimental ...

Voltage

Voltage

2018 | 16 min | Drama

Lizzy is in love with Bernhard, but Bernhard is undecided. Lizzy returns Bernhard’s dog, which she occasionally watches, and stays a little longer. Lizzy shows Bernhard some kung-fu moves; Bernhard starts to flirt; and, although it’s not like her, Lizzy gets embarrassed. The same night, Bernhard asks her to drive him to a party outside town. A tense ride begins.

Lucky Child

Lucky Child

2014 | 22 min | Drama

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Thrice

Thrice

2018 | 69 min | Horror

Three mysteriously connected stories, in three genres: drama, adventure, and horror. Two cousins, Wanda and Dora, are heading to their family's weekend retreat with Dora's boyfriend, Anton, and his friend Lukas. They're unaware that the relaxing weekend they have planned will end up revealing the hard realities of love, friendship and fear. The ensemble film "zweisam gemeinsam einsam" is made up of 3 independent short films that combine to form a larger story.

Enter Mycel

Enter Mycel

2022 | 75 min | Horror

A thirteen-year-old teenager and her father mourn the death of her mother. A parasitic fungus promises a cure. But the price is enormous: a murder and complete assimilation into a biological system - the mycelium. When her mother dies tragically during a home birth, 13-year-old Lena takes on her mother's role and cares for the newborn. Her father is in a state of shock and is no real help until he learns that a parasitic fungus helps him communicate with the dead. For Lena, this is all fantasy, ...

Peropero: Breakdown in Tokyo

Peropero: Breakdown in Tokyo

2017 | 85 min | Drama

Lászlo and his partner Emma have been together for ten years. She also assists him as producer of the tour documentary. The young Japanese woman Nahoko steps in at short notice as tour manager. In the clubs between Osaka and Tokyo, Lászlo tries to catch up on his childhood dream: a wild musician's life that his own son, of all people, has been living for years. But when Lászlo and the young tour manager Nahoko unexpectedly fall madly in love with each other, not only the filming but also Lászlo's ...