Acting
Dominik Bender
Born — Died
1957-01-30 — 2023-04-14
Place of birth
Cologne, Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
55 titles
Dominik Bender was a German actor and photographer. He studied Islamic Studies, Indology, and Ethnology and worked as an actor, artistic director, and managing director at the Theater Zum westlichen Stadthirschen in Berlin, which he founded in 1982. Dominik Bender died on April 14, 2023, at the age of 66, after a long and serious illness.
Known for
6.2Tatort 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
6.3German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.
In All Friendship
1998
6.4The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
SOKO Köln
2003
5.9SOKO 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
5.9No synopsis available yet.
SOKO Wismar
2004
5.8Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.
Hamburg Dockland
2007
Film credits
2010s · 6 titles
4.9Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clinic after a physical breakdown. Urs Egger's free adaptation of the biographical novel of the same name by Miriam Meckel with Grimme award winner Marie Bäumer in the leading role.
Brief an mein Leben
2015
4.1Marion, a Berliner facing child custody and job loss as her ex Felix oversees her factory’s insolvency, scoffs at the idea of a savior, until Robin Hood appears in her kitchen. Believing medieval justice can fix modern woes, he takes on Felix to help Marion.
Robin Hood und ich
2013
NRThe experienced and freelance midwife Emma is in court: Has she over-estimated her abilities and thus jeopardized the health and life of a child?
Nacht der Angst
2015
8.0Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flourished in the Weimar Republic, perished in the Nazi dictatorship, and was rebuilt after its partial destruction.
Der Reichstag
2017
6.2Nicole Wagner finds out by chance that her son cannot be the son she once fathered with the scaffolder Grille. Nine years ago there was a mix-up with an infant named Sebastian, the son of the academic couple Callenberg, who live at the other end of Freiburg in very different circumstances to Nicole and Grille in their middle-class environment. Grille is inquisitive about the unknown son, unlike Nicole, who is very upset, as are Sven and Britta Callenberg. But what can be done? The children are anchored in their families, they are loved and nobody wants to make them unhappy. The parents reserve the right to leave everything as it is. But their thoughts about their biological son do not subside...
Das geteilte Glück
2010
5.7The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has purchased a CD containing files from a Swiss bank. It contains files on more than 800 tax evaders. However, there is not enough tax investigation staff to process all the cases before the statute of limitations expires. The successful tax investigator Karola Kahane decides to pick out a particularly prominent name from the list. Her goal: finally, a tax evader who had failed to declare more than one million euros should actually go to prison for stealing from the community.
Die Fahnderin
2014
2000s · 4 titles
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Liebling, bring die Hühner ins Bett
2002
An old man mourning the loss of his wife starts rebuilding a piece of The Berlin Wall on a field outside his house.
The Berlin Wall
2009
6.0Three children of a single father escape from the town in order to find a houseboat which was once owned by their mother.
A Houseboat to Fall in Love
2009
5.5German TV adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff‘s fairy tale “Dwarf Nose“.
Zwerg Nase
2008
1990s · 7 titles
6.2The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?
Flirt
1996
4.7In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
Dr. M
1990
3.5Angela works at an advertising agency and is engaged to her boss, Stefan. Their wedding is just around the corner. Unexpectedly, she meets the artist Peter, who introduces her to a whole new world. His life as an artist is full of adventure, romance, and fascinating stories. Angela begins an affair with him, but without calling off the wedding. Her double life soon leads to trouble.
7 Tage bis zum Glück
1999
9.0A medical doctor who is regarded as a specialist in retort research has been found dead. Science journalist Vera Pukall investigates the alleged suicide and uncovers the ruthless activities of a large pharmaceutical company. She receives help from Dr. Svoboda, of all people, the group's main stockholder.
Der achte Tag
1990
3.4Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future with him. Frank finds Laura and they become a couple, but Luise shows up and makes it a menage a trois.
Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan
1998
Berlin painter Banuscher has been rather moderately successful so far. He has only been able to keep his head above water thanks to the financial support of his girlfriend Francis. She then organizes his first exhibition, which is finally a success. Instead of gratitude, however, Francis is given the boot by Banuscher. She doesn't want to put up with this and swears revenge. And what could be better suited for this than the artworks of the vain Banuscher?
Wer hat Angst vor Rot, Gelb, Blau?
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Z-man's Kinder
1994
1980s · 11 titles
In Berlin, young people search for purpose, happiness, and love on extensive nightly forays. They often get in their own way, masking their disorientation with busyness and self-deception in everyday life.
Schlaflose Nächte
1988
7.0Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...
Manöver
1989
Left alone by his mother for a few days, a Berlin schoolboy tries to escape the city and visit his father in Italy. While preparing for his trip, he encounters illegal immigrants, a teenage prostitute, and the immigration police, and becomes involved in a scandal involving fake passports.
Zischke
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Golden Boy
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Rosinenbomber
1988
A somewhat impressionist, at times even slightly surreal miniature about a student (Werner Stocker in a splendid performance) who, out of financial difficulties, starts out as pool attendant at an open air swimming pool in Berlin's district of Neukölln. Escaping from his unpleasant landlord and his lover Patrizia (a very young Martina Gedeck), he soon starts to live at the baths, and as swimmers disappear and the baths are closed for the winter, he turns the grounds into his own, perfect refuge from civilisation and social pressure, becoming increasingly detached from reality. What may sound like an annoyingly gimmicky premise is executed here playfully, yet with admirable simplicity and a subtle, unpretentious poetic sensibility that one would wish for more often in contemporary German cinema.
Aquaplaning
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Letzten Sommer in Kreuzberg
1989
3.7An everyday story - the problematic relationship of a pair of lovers - expands into a tangible cinematic tale involving travel, drugs and crime.
Dorado - One Way
1984
4.0At the end of the 1960s, a young woman laid the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a detailed picture was drawn of society, which established the women’s motivation.
Der subjektive Faktor
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Im Morgenwind
1981
A German Film Award winning short feature.
Grundfleisch
1984
Series credits
6.2Tatort 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
6.3German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.
In All Friendship
1998
6.4The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
SOKO Köln
2003
5.9SOKO 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
5.9SOKO 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
5.9No synopsis available yet.
SOKO Wismar
2004
5.8Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.
Hamburg Dockland
2007
No synopsis available yet.
Die Wache
1994
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Schloss Einstein
1998
2.5Für 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
5.7The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.
Unser Charly
1995
3.7Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
Wolffs Revier
1992
5.0The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former colleague of Otto's from the People's Police and is constantly coming up with new business ideas for stores and pubs where the team meets.
Ein starkes Team
1994
4.8Drama set in a women's prison in Germany. Susanne Teubner, a sympathetic young woman who has killed her husband in an affect, is poorly advised by her lawyer and sentenced to life imprisonment for willful murder. The arrival in prison is a shock to her. Resigned and exhausted, she endures the degrading admission procedure. She doesn't notice that the young doctor Dr. Beck immediately felt more than professional interest for her.
Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast
1997
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Letzte Spur Berlin
2012
4.7Faced with staff shortages, the chief of a Cologne police department convinces two retired homicide detectives to come back into the force. As their immediate superior is a young woman, a generational cultural clash is inevitable.
Rentnercops
2015
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Der letzte Zeuge
1998
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Flemming
2009
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Heiter bis tödlich - Akte Ex
2012
Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin is a German television series.
Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Hecht & Haie
1993
R. I. S. – Die Sprache der Toten is a German television series broadcast by Sat.1 since 2007. The R. I. S. in the title is an acronym for Rechtsmedizinische Investigative Sonderkommission, referring to the fictional police investigation unit that is the focus of the series. The series, a crime drama, is a remake of an Italian television series entitled RIS Delitti Imperfetti. The first season ended on 10 June 2007. The second and final season with another 13 episodes began airing 15 November 2007.
R. I. S. – Die Sprache der Toten
2007
Anja & Anton was a German family television series broadcast in 55 25 minute episodes between December 1997 and 2007.
Anja & Anton
1998
8.5Die Stein is a German television series.
Die Stein
2008
No synopsis available yet.
Dr. Molly & Karl
2008
Fontane's stories are set in 18th-century Prussia. The Knesebeck family lives on Lake Ruppin, though their wealth is only temporary.
Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
1986
8.0The story of a group of Berlin youths from the post-war period to the post-reunification era. A gripping story of friendship, love and betrayal against a global political backdrop, told in a three-part documentary drama. Friends Kurt, Lotte, Jakob, Silke and Bernd experience everyday life together in post-war Berlin in 1948: between rubble women and the black market, rival youth gangs and first love. Thirteen years later, as the flow of refugees to the West increases, they try to hold on to their friendship. But the estrangement becomes ever more apparent and the gang members lose sight of each other. Only after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 do the former friends finally find each other again and have to ask themselves whether they are still bound by the vow they once made: "Nothing can separate us, not even death"...
Die Wölfe
2009