Victor von Schirach

Acting

Victor von Schirach

Born 1984-05-24 · Gdynia, Pomorskie, Poland

Swedish actor, Victor von Schirach-Szmigiel, was born 1984. He was just a few months old when he was adopted from Poland into a noble Swedish family, with Polish and German roots. The von Schirach's moved to the U.S. in 2002 when his father got an assignment as the Associate Dean for Penn State Executive Education. After graduating from State College Area High School (P.A.) in 2003, and Bromma Gymnasium in 2004, Victor von Schirach, went to Khao Lak in Thailand to volunteer after the Tsunami. This major tragedy became a life changing experience. Now keenly aware of how short life can be, von Schirach decided to realize his childhood dream of becoming an actor. He enrolled in acting schools such as the Blekinge Läns Folkhögskola, Kulturama, Stockholms Teaterinstitut and later The Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg ( otherwise known as the esteemed Teaterhögskolan i Göteborg.) Victor von Schirach has acted with Chevy Chase, David Hasselhoff and has been featured in the Swedish film and television productions 'Irene Huss', 'Arne Dahl', 'Maria Lang', the BAFTA awarded Danish/Swedish TV-series 'The Bridge', two seasons of 'Elsas värld', 'Aerobics a Love Story', 'Viva Hate', 'Videomannen, 'Vår tid är nu', 'Black Lake', 'Enkelstöten', "The Duckpond', 'Ture Sventon & Bermudatriangelns hemlighet', 'Maria Wern', 'Lasse Majas Detektivbyrå - Tågrånarens hemlighet', 'Fartblinda' (Blinded), 'Sjukt Oklar', and season 2 of 'Dips' as well as the German TV production of 'The inspector and the sea' and the British TV series 'The Mallorca files' for the BBC1. Apart from his acting career, von Schirach is also a director and producer. He has the great potential of becoming a major figure on the global acting scene. His unique look, versatile talents, and international accents has created a buzz in Sweden already. He is an excellent actor known for his true character portraits, working with the Stanislawski method and improvisation to bring these characters to life. He says " A strongly built character makes a truly great actor. It isn't only about the character it is about whom could I become."

Acting credits

Father Joe poster
10.0

Set in 1990s Manhattan, the film will see Sutherland play a priest who declares a one-man war on the city’s criminal underworld. Pacino steps into the role of a powerful mob boss whose empire collides with Father Joe’s violent crusade, while Anderson plays a young woman caught between danger and redemption under the priest’s protection.

Father Joe

2026

Secret Chord poster
5.0

In a world controlled by a powerful elite, a struggling musician has to fight for survival using his talent.

Secret Chord

2019

No artwork available
NR

One hot day, Helena locks her 18 month old daughter Molly in her new Porsche. In the large car park, Helena desperately tries different ways of getting her out without damaging her car.

Porsche

2013

Don't Read This on a Plane poster
5.1

As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.

Don't Read This on a Plane

2021

Videoman poster
5.5

A VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a valuable movie that could save his terrible economical situation. The film disappears. He suspects it is stolen and starts a hunt after a perpetrator.

Videoman

2018

JerryMaya's Detective Agency – The Secret of the Train Robber poster
5.8

Lasse and Maja have had their detective agency shut down by the police chief when a customer ask for help to prove her father is innocent of the train robbery he was convicted of. Lasse and Maja now see their great chance to show off.

JerryMaya's Detective Agency – The Secret of the Train Robber

2020

Operation Ragnarok poster
5.5

A town in south of Sweden is isolated after a viral outbreak. The Swedes and immigrants still inside must band together to survive the onslaught.

Operation Ragnarok

2018

We Are Metal Dragon poster
NR

A rock band in the 80s made a promise to never give up on their dream of becoming the next Iron Maiden. Forty years later, they're still rehearsing in the same garage - and realize that dream will never come true. They decide to go out on one final tour... where everything goes hilariously wrong.

We Are Metal Dragon

2026

Trust Me poster
6.3

A comical fresco on human misdemeanors and betrayals... A film about our right to not be perfect.

Trust Me

2010

King Lily of the Valley poster
6.4

Spring is in the air and Puck and Einar, as well as Christer Wijk are invited to a wedding in Skoga. The day before the wedding, the bride-to-be enters a flower-shop in order to inspect her bridal bouquet of lily of the valley, but suddenly vanishes without at trace. When she eventually turns up again, it is Christer who finds her. She lies dead outside her home with a bouquet of lily of the valley in her hand. Everybody close to the bride are suspects, not least her best friend, whom Christer has just begun flirting with. Everybody seems to have something to hide. Question is: are their secrets connected to the murder?

King Lily of the Valley

2013

Huldra: Lady of the Forest poster
NR

A group of friends, having been told of a strange hermetic hippie-like society in the Swedish wilderness, set off on an adventure to find it. As they are drawn deeper into the forest, mysterious events start to unsettle the dynamics of the group, reality begins to shift in ways none of them could have imagined, and relations between the friends become volatile.

Huldra: Lady of the Forest

2016

Gangster poster
2.1

Antonio Moro works for gangster boss Thomas Ståhl. He lives happily with his girlfriend Tanya who is expecting their child. Antonio's future looks bright, until one evening when he is ordered to kill a person who is close to all of them.

Gangster

2007

Irene Huss: The Man With the Small Face poster
5.9

After an elder man gets hit by a stolen car, the police decides to investigate it. The stolen car is later found next to a murdered young girl, prompting Inspector Irene Huss and her co-workers to investigate and slowly get pulled into a world of evil.

Irene Huss: The Man With the Small Face

2011

No artwork available
NR

Art House meets Film Noir. A young policeman struggles with his conscience and the constant fear of being discovered to have committed the murder he is about to investigate. A fatal car accident one night for which he alone is responsible puts even more pressure on him. What should he do? Admit to it or suppress the guilt? Where to turn? Memories of a Lake takes place on the borderline where the realm of the subconscious meets the world of everyday reality.

Memories of a Lake

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Frakturer

Lagos to Oslo poster
NR

Aaron is academically gifted, loved, loving and free. Struggling financially to remain in university education, he is introduced to a mysteriously wealthy man who promises him the world. What Aaron gets instead is isolation, confusion and vilification.

Lagos to Oslo

2020

The Butcher's Waltz poster
NR

The film takes place over one day in Sweden. From dawn in Västervik to sunset in Stockholm a variety of characters going about their everyday lives.

The Butcher's Waltz

2014

Aerobics: A Love Story poster
NR

Maria is mentally challenged and lives with her overprotective sister Helen. Maria falls in love with a man, Janne. A marvelous and odd story about forbidden love by award winning Director Anders Rune, shot in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden.

Aerobics: A Love Story

2015

No artwork available
NR

A hike in the wilderness turns ugly when the mysterious forest has a couple of surprises.

Beautiful and Pitiless

2020

The Duckpond poster
5.7

Fredrik's peaceful life in an idyllic small town is turned upside down when his old childhood friend Patrik is released from prison. Together with Birger, the third member of their old trio, they manage to get lost in a spiral of chaos involving a vindictive policeman, a few grams of weed and a gang of danish robbers.

The Duckpond

2019