Louis Hofmann

Acting

Louis Hofmann

Born 1997-06-03 · Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Louis Hofmann (born 3 June 1997 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, and raised in Cologne) is a German actor. He is best known for his role in the Netflix original series Dark (2017–2020), as well as for his performance in the war drama Land of Mine (2015), for which he received the Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hofmann first gained recognition in Germany for his roles in Tom Sawyer (2011) and Sanctuary (Freistatt, 2015).

Acting credits

23 000 Lives poster
6.0

A group of young people sets sail for the Mediterranean to save the lives of refugees — a mission that puts their ideas of law and justice to the test.

23 000 Lives

2026

Red Sparrow poster
6.5

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

Red Sparrow

2018

Land of Mine poster
7.8

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

Land of Mine

2015

The White Crow poster
6.6

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.

The White Crow

2018

Alone in Berlin poster
6.7

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

Alone in Berlin

2016

The Elfkins: Baking a Difference poster
6.6

The legendary Elfkins (Heinzelmännchen) of Cologne were gnomes secretly helping craftsmen at night until they were ousted by a tailor's malevolent wife 200 years ago. This is the story of their return.

The Elfkins: Baking a Difference

2019

Center of My World poster
7.1

A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.

Center of My World

2016

The White Rabbit poster
6.2

A young 13-years-old girl searches for love in the internet. But the truth about the persons behind the computers can be terrible.

The White Rabbit

2016

Prélude poster
5.3

Nineteen-year-old David dreams of being a concert pianist on the international stage. Although his talent made him special in his home town, he soon realizes that at the conservatory he is but one of many talented students.

Prélude

2019

Fresh poster
6.8

The clock is ticking for Kai. His psychotic brother has just been granted an early release from prison and by this afternoon, he'll come around to collect the money Kai has been holding for him. The problem - all the money's been spent.

Fresh

2025

Tom Sawyer poster
6.0

Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river.

Tom Sawyer

2011

Lilies Not for Me poster
6.7

Haunted by a forbidden affair, a young man in a 1920s “conversion” clinic finds hope in a compassionate nurse who challenges the era’s cruel norms.

Lilies Not for Me

2025

The German Lesson poster
6.6

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.

The German Lesson

2019

The Forger poster
6.2

Jewish aesthete Cioma, 21, does not let anyone take away his joy of life, especially not the Nazis. In 1942, he has to find new ways to make his living in Berlin and escape deportation. In the process he discovers his talent for forgery: not only with passports, but also his own identity.

The Forger

2022

Seneca poster
5.0

Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him, conspiracies threaten his power. By all means Nero tries to defend his despotic claim of sovereignty. The famous philosopher Seneca has been Nero's teacher, mentor and close advisor since childhood, he is significantly involved in his ascent. Nevertheless, Nero gets weary of Seneca and Nero uses a foiled attack on his life to falsely accuse Seneca of being an accomplice.

Seneca

2023

Sanctuary poster
7.2

Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.

Sanctuary

2015

A Small Cut poster
6.0

The uptight Jewish finance director of a lavish Baroque court unexpectedly finds himself forced to convince his hot-headed young ruler to get a circumcision. He meets the temperamental ducal couple for an uncomfortable cup of tea, desperate to circumvent a genitalia-induced national crisis.

A Small Cut

2020

No artwork available
NR

Once inseparable friends, Henrik and Konrad reconnect decades after Konrad’s mysterious disappearance and uncovers over the course of one evening the secret that tore them apart—and the woman at the center of it.

Embers

Lommbock poster
6.5

Sequel to Lammbock. Stefan and Kai meet again after years. Stefan became a successful lawyer in Dubai while Kai is stuck in their home town. Kai has relationship issues and is trying hard to get in touch with his step son who is getting in serious trouble with some drug dealers. Can Kai and Stefan solve his problems? And what happened to their old friend Frank?

Lommbock

2017

Monstrous Beauty poster
NR

Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is offered the opportunity of a place in the luxurious and decadent court of King Charles II, as a “Natural Wonder” where people with extraordinary appearances mix with the aristocracy.

Monstrous Beauty

The Adventures of Huck Finn poster
6.0

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.

The Adventures of Huck Finn

2012

Different Kinds of Rain poster
6.5

The door has been closed for many weeks. A teenager has locked himself in - shutting out a helpless father, mother and sister. In Japan, youths like him have already been given a name: Hikikomori (the secluded). The phenomenon is also beginning to spread throughout the Western world. This is all the family has been able to find out. All they can do is stand in front of the locked door and ask, beg, implore, throw tantrums, despair, accuse, ignore and hope. All the while, the door increasingly becomes a mirror of their own lives.

Different Kinds of Rain

2018

The New End poster
5.5

In a post-apocalyptic world, only the men seem to have survived. The law of the jungle rules. Among them is a doctor who has retired to an abandoned sanatorium. When a self-proclaimed healer and his son set out to seize power, things take a fatal turn for the worse. Is there any hope? A man of small stature wanders among the lost and is the only one who knows that on a small island in the river, deep in the woods there, a woman lives in secret and protects her child.

The New End

2018

Agon poster
7.2

Three elite athletes train for the Summer Games, Ludoj, 2024. Facing press attention, injury, and exhaustion, they practice their respective disciplines of rifle shooting, fencing, and judo. The women work with coaches to optimize their performance before competing under acute pressure at the Games.

Agon

2025