Lea van Acken

Acting

Lea van Acken

Born

1999-02-22 (27)

Place of birth

Lübeck, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Van Acken grew up in Schleswig-Holstein, where she still lives today in a small village. As a child, she was interested in horseback riding and dancing. She first took the stage in 2011 as an extra in a production of *Der Ölprinz* at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg. She did not undergo formal training as an actress; instead, she studied other actors by watching them in films. In 2014, Van Acken played the lead role—that of the deeply religious teenager Maria—in the drama *Kreuzweg* (Stations of the Cross), directed by Dietrich Brüggemann. The film won a Silver Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. In Brüggemann’s next film, *Heil*—a satire about neo-Nazis—Van Acken port…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

The Privilege poster
5.2

A wealthy teen and his friends attending an elite private school uncover a dark conspiracy while looking into a series of strange supernatural events.

The Privilege

2022

Wovon sollen wir träumen poster
NR

While handing out food at a charity organization, Laura, Evîn and Julia unexpectedly cross paths. Laura, a released prisoner, defends Evîn, a Kurdish woman, when she is racially insulted by a man waiting in line. Eventually the situation gets out of hand.

Wovon sollen wir träumen

2026

Drop poster
5.0

When restless Lisa tries to sneak backstage at a techno festival, a fun night out with her best friend turns into a confrontation with her own psyche.

Drop

2026

No artwork available
NR

A young theologian tries to stop her brother from going to Ukraine as a volunteer fighter – but his radical decision seems to call her own life plan into question and plunges her into an existential crisis.

Und keiner geht hin

2025

Game Over poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Game Over

2023

Liebesbesuch poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Liebesbesuch

2026

Hitlerputsch 1923: Das Tagebuch der Paula Schlier poster
NR

Germany 1923: Inflation, starvation, unstable political conditions. During this time, 24-year-old Paula Schlier goes undercover at the “Völkischer Beobachter”, the Nazi Party’s official newspaper, and gets caught at the centre of Hitler’s attempted coup.

Hitlerputsch 1923: Das Tagebuch der Paula Schlier

2023

5 Finger sind 'ne Faust poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

5 Finger sind 'ne Faust

2025

4 Days to Eternity poster
5.0

Based on the mysterious legend of Idilia Dubb. Germany, 19th century, Middle Rhein Valley. The dreamy Idilia awakes injured in the midst of a gloomy castle ruin and can't remember anything that happened before. When she discovers in horror that there is no escaping the towering castle walls, she begins a grueling fight for survival. Only her nebulous diary can help her decipher the past, which exposes a secret romance with Abyssinian actor Caven, a performer in a human zoo exhibition run by her fiancee Franz Hagerberg. Idilia's written record, however, blurs the lines between reality and fiction.

4 Days to Eternity

2023

No artwork available
6.0

Two friends embark on a journey together which will test the limits of their friendship and uncover dark secrets. Reality and imagination start to blur. Can they trust everything they see?

Cracks

2020

2010s · 11 titles

Suck Me Shakespeer 3 poster
6.1

A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures.

Suck Me Shakespeer 3

2017

Windstorm 3 poster
7.4

Ostwind and Mika have found a real home at the farm Kaltenbach with Mika's grandmother. In the hustle of running therapy center and due to Mika's fame as a horse-whisperer, she feels that she doesn't have enough freedom and time to ride. After a serious disagreement with her grandmother, Mika secretly sets off for the night in eastern Andalusia, Spain, where she suspects Ostwind's roots are.

Windstorm 3

2017

Bibi & Tina: Perfect Pandemonium poster
5.5

It's perfect pandemonium when Bibi and Tina meet a runaway boy with an attitude problem, who turns out to actually be a girl, named Adea. Adea‘s uncle is so narrow-minded and stubborn that even with all her magic spells, Bibi can't manage to get the two to reconcile. Meanwhile, Falkenstein Castle is being renovated, which is driving the Count to his wits' end. Especially since Alex is planning to hold a music festival at Falkenstein and is determined to go through with it over his father's objections. And if all that was not enough, Tina gets kidnapped. Despite the complete chaos, one thing is clear - in the end, real change comes from everybody working and pulling together, not by magic.

Bibi & Tina: Perfect Pandemonium

2017

The Diary of Anne Frank poster
7.2

The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.

The Diary of Anne Frank

2016

Sag mir nichts poster
5.4

Lena is happily married. From the strange man in the S-Bahn but such a pull goes out that she gets involved in a spontaneous infidelity. The stranger, Martin, also thought that the marriage with his wife was completely safe. Nevertheless, what should actually be written off as an adventure between Lena and Martin is becoming the projection screen for newly created needs and longings. Lena and Martin can not let go of each other.

Sag mir nichts

2016

Stations of the Cross poster
7.0

Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Paul and their traditionalist interpretation of Catholicism. Everything that Maria thinks and does must be examined before God. And since the Lord is a strict shepherd, she lives in constant fear of committing some misconduct...

Stations of the Cross

2014

Heil poster
5.0

An African-German author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as a promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Heil

2015

Abikalypse poster
4.4

The four friends Musti (Reza Brojerdi), Hannah (Lea van Acken), Yannick (Jerry Hoffmann) and Tom (Lucas Reiber) could not be more different. But they have one thing in common: They are all pretty nerdy misfits who only just survived school thanks to their mutual support. For graduation, they want to prove it to everyone and promise nothing less than the craziest party of the year. However, the closer the legendary party gets, the more the friends realize that there seems to be something between them. Be it unspoken feelings, hurt pride or fear of the future. When the big day of the party finally dawned, the four of them were no longer just about celebrating, but about saving what is most important to them: their friendship!

Abikalypse

2019

All My Loving poster
5.3

Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the path that just might lead them to happiness.

All My Loving

2019

Ferien poster
5.8

Vivi is exhausted. Actually, she is about to become an attorney and to move in together with her boyfriend Adam, but somehow, she is stuck. She tries to flee back to her Moms couch, only to find that there is no more space for her. Vivi's father assumes that she needs some rest and sends her to an island...

Ferien

2016

No artwork available
NR

Four friends plan to organise a great party to celebrate the end of school. In the process, they discover they have outstanding issues with each other. Soon they'll be fighting to keep what matters most to them: their friendship.

Abikalypse

2019

Series credits

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

ZIBB

2003

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

Morgenmagazin poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Morgenmagazin

1992

Homeland poster
7.6

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

Homeland

2011

Kölner Treff poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kölner Treff

1976

Wer weiß denn sowas? poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Wer weiß denn sowas?

2015

Dark poster
8.4

A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

Dark

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bavarian Film Awards

1979

The Island poster
6.8

A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.

The Island

2020

German Genius poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

German Genius

2023

Spreewaldkrimi poster
6.9

No synopsis available yet.

Spreewaldkrimi

2006

Blackout: Tomorrow Is Too Late poster
6.2

A chain reaction in the European power grid plunges the continent into darkness. Hacker Pierre Manzano realizes that a code he wrote is to blame. In Germany Frauke Michelsen heads the country’s crisis response team. Disaster looms.

Blackout: Tomorrow Is Too Late

2021

Two Sides of the Abyss poster
5.5

Police officer Luise Berg heads for an inevitable catastrophe after her daughter’s murderer is released early from prison. A psychologically complex game of confusion begins in which the boundaries of guilt and innocence, perpetrators and victims, law and justice are constantly blurred.

Two Sides of the Abyss

2023

Call Me Levi poster
7.5

Hardly any piece of clothing embodies freedom, pragmatism and individuality as much as the Bluejeans. It is considered a symbol of the "American Dream" and is carried from arm to rich by almost every person. Despite their popularity, very few know the history of their invention. Around 1850, the German-Jewish peddler son Levi Strauss emigrated to America with his sister due to lack of prospects and anti-Semitism in the old Franconian homeland. His brothers are already doing a dry goods store there. When the big gold rush breaks out, Levi continues to San Fransicso, where he opens a textile goods business under his own name. The demand from the gold-diggers for hard-wearing pants is high. So the bustling businessman teams up with the ingenious Latvian tailor Jacob Davis, who came up with the idea of ​​strengthening the seams of the pants with rivets. But a protection money patron dominates the port city and makes life difficult for them. And there are also difficulties with the patent.

Call Me Levi

2025

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