Acting

Franz Viehmann

Born — Died

1939-01-01 — 2016-05-11

Place of birth

Decin, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Known for

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police poster
6.6

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

1996

Leipzig Homicide poster
5.9

SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.

Leipzig Homicide

2001

Für alle Fälle Stefanie poster
2.5

Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.

Für alle Fälle Stefanie

1995

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Im Namen des Gesetzes

1994

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 8 titles

Battle of Moscow poster
NR

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

Battle of Moscow

1985

Rapunzel, or The Magic of Tears poster
6.7

Adaptation of the classic fairytale. Rapunzel lives alone in the woods, in a tower with no doors. Then, one day, a mysterious stranger comes for a visit.

Rapunzel, or The Magic of Tears

1988

Jadup and Boel poster
6.4

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories about Boel and the post-war period begin to surface and shake up the whole town. Boel vanished back then and nobody knew why. Word spread about a rape and some tried to blame a Russian soldier. Jadup, the town's respected and popular mayor, remembers, though, how he mistrusted Boel and did not help her through this difficult time; HE didn't even notice THAT Boel loved him. Jadup's confrontation with the past gives him a new, critical view of his current situation and surroundings.

Jadup and Boel

1988

Mit Leib und Seele poster
7.0

Seventeen-year-old apprentice Jonas, struggling with his ailing, proud father, pours himself into restoring a decaying ship on a Mecklenburg lake. Neglecting all else, he loses his girlfriend and support at work. After the boat burns, a reconciliatory vocational ceremony reunites him with his recovered father.

Mit Leib und Seele

1988

No artwork available
4.7

After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. He is a widower with two sons, with the younger son just entering school. She is single and relatively satisfied in her current relationship with a married colleague. When they meet again later, they resolve to enter into a strictly intellectual relationship.

A Strange Love

1984

Mensch, mein Papa...! poster
9.0

Pensioner Erich Zarling loves two things: his daughter Ulrike and his dog sports club, of which he is chairman. But this position is in danger, so he wants to make himself indispensable with a daring move: He wants to build a sports clubhouse. He has come up with a curious idea to raise the funds: the sale of thirty state-owned trees from Berlin's Puschkinallee. His daughter Ulrike, who loves to sing and dance, is a chambermaid at the "Stadt Berlin" hotel. And against her father's wishes, she dreams of the boards that mean the world. A guest, the pop singer Balter, hires her as a replacement for his absent partner at the "Night of the Celebrities". He promises her more, but disappoints her. Father Zarling comforts her and they sing the "Rose Song" together in his tricked-out sportsman's home.

Mensch, mein Papa...!

1988

Berühmte Ärzte der Charité: Der kleine Doktor poster
9.0

The six-part film series tells in impressive stages of the work of important doctors at the internationally renowned Berlin hospital in its medical and contemporary historical scope. The period spans the beginning of the 19th century to the Second World War, bringing the viewer close to the work of great medical professionals: Robert Koch, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Rudolf Virchow and others. Film overview: • "The man from Jena" (Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland). • "The Little Doctor" (Rudolf Virchow) • "Krisis" (Robert Koch). • "Doctor in Uniform" (Theodor Brugsch and Georg Friedrich Nicolai). • "The seemingly impossible" (Walter Stoeckel) • "Die dunklen Jahre"(Ferdinand Sauerbruch)

Berühmte Ärzte der Charité: Der kleine Doktor

1981

Interrogating the Witnesses poster
6.0

A teenager is found murdered, and the examining doctor recognizes her son's knife. The film works its way back to reveal how this situation came about; a rare treatment of the taboo subject of youth criminality in Socialist society.

Interrogating the Witnesses

1987

1970s · 9 titles

Ursula poster
5.1

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.

Ursula

1978

Till Eulenspiegel poster
5.4

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.

Till Eulenspiegel

1975

The Zernik Murder Case poster
5.3

After meeting the woman on the train Erwin Retzmann kills her in the forest.

The Zernik Murder Case

1972

Angebot aus Schenectady poster
7.0

Dr. Grunert, electronics specialist from the GDR, gets a visit from an old acquaintance from war times. Both worked back then on navy torpedoes. His former colleague wants to poach Grunert – to Schenectady, the headquarters of the largest American electronics company. With alleged war crimes, he tries to blackmail Grunert, but quickly it becomes clear where the true criminals are sitting: In influential positions of the American industry. Grunert underestimates the scrupulousness of his opponent and invites him to a remotely located country home to clarify things. The Ministry for State Security is already on the trail of the matter and saves the engineer from a dangerous solo action.

Angebot aus Schenectady

1971

No artwork available
NR

Single crime writer Tom Clempner receives a delivery of goods that he did not order. Out of the box emerges a domestic robot called Graumer, whose pleasant female voice reveals it to be the latest ultra-de-luxe model. The sender's address, the agency for the placement and rental of domestic staff, does not mention delivery to Clempner, so the robot suggests that he should just keep it. As it costs him nothing, the writer quickly overcomes his reservations and makes diligent use of the unforeseen help, perfect in conversation and housework. However, it doesn't take long before the man of the house becomes annoyed by Graumer's all-encompassing care. The robot has already become indispensable, be it in the construction of Tom's new mystery plot or the preparation of the upcoming dinner for some acquaintances. But why does Graumer seem so disturbed when he learns that a police inspector will be among the guests?

The Faithful Robot

1977

No artwork available
NR

Maria and Tatjana met during the Second World War and became friends for life, especially as they had to endure difficult days together during the Hitler fascist era. This friendship also gave Maria the strength to study medicine after the war and to succeed as a doctor. But the ongoing fight against the common class enemy also welds the two women together, and Maria Fabian then unexpectedly meets the former landowner and current industrialist Guttenberg. He was the tormentor of her family during the Nazi era; now it is time for Maria, now a self-confident woman who owes her professional success to her state, the GDR, to successfully confront this representative of the class enemy.

Prof. Dr. med. Maria Fabian

1972

Optimistische Tragödie poster
NR

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section”. This regiment emerged from an anarchist division of the ship of the line “Imperator Paul I.”

Optimistische Tragödie

1971

Filmemacher poster
8.0

They are just 17 years old when Gaby and Eva receive the offer to play in a feature film that ambitious Hamburg filmmakers want to make. Despite their youth, the girls are suspicious because they have already experienced a lot. On the other hand, that would be the opportunity to escape the difficulties they have been in for a long time. The filmmakers persuade them to cross the border illegally. The girls do not suspect that they should be used by the Springer company to provoke a scandal. But the Ministry of State Security has the action already in sight.

Filmemacher

1971

Dwarf Nose poster
4.0

Jakob, the son of a market woman, helps an old woman carry the groceries home one day. But the old woman turns out to be a herb witch. She enchants Jakob into a dwarf with a huge nose. He enters her service and is trained to become an excellent cook. Only years later does he return to his parents as an enchanted dwarf nose. Not even they recognize him. Disappointed, he offers his services to the duke's kitchen as a master of his trade. As a successful cook, he is nevertheless put to the test. For he does not know the herb "sneeze-with-lust". Fortunately for him, his new friend, the equally enchanted goose Mimi, whose life he has saved, does.

Dwarf Nose

1978

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police poster
6.6

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

1996

Leipzig Homicide poster
5.9

SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.

Leipzig Homicide

2001

Für alle Fälle Stefanie poster
2.5

Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.

Für alle Fälle Stefanie

1995

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Im Namen des Gesetzes

1994

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Im Namen des Gesetzes

1994

Der Fahnder poster
7.3

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Der Fahnder

1984

Wolffs Revier poster
3.7

Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

Wolffs Revier

1992

Der Kriminalist poster
4.5

Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.

Der Kriminalist

2006

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort poster
3.8

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort was an East German television series.

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort

1965

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort poster
3.8

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort was an East German television series.

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort

1965

No artwork available
10.0

Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin is a German television series.

Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin

1994

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Mord für Quandt

1997

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mordkommission

1998

Grains and Dog poster
9.0

A funny comedy about a various adventures of Körner (Grains) family and their dog.

Grains and Dog

2002

Rottenknechte poster
7.5

The film concentrates on the last days of the German navy during World War II.

Rottenknechte

1971

Den Wolken ein Stück näher poster
NR

After his family moves from Potsdam to East Berlin, 15-year-old Klaus initially has difficulties at his new school, especially with the popular Heinz. With the help of class teacher Magnus, Klaus and Heinz settle their differences and become friends. When Magnus dies unexpectedly, his class is taken over by young Anne Morgenstern. Klaus and other classmates manage to overcome their initial dislike of the young teacher, but Heinz remains steadfast in his rejection and tries to force her replacement.

Den Wolken ein Stück näher

1973