Barbara Sotelsek

Acting

Barbara Sotelsek

Born 1974-03-14 · Bregenz, Austria

Barbara Sotelsek is an Austrian actor, performer and producer based in Berlin. After starting out at the legendary "Theater in DE Josefstadt" in Vienna, she came to major prominence as a lead in the queer crime series 'Behind bars'. Since then she has worked in numerous international productions such as the Turkish feature film "Son Mektup", the BBC drama series "Killing Eve","Paint the Dragons' Eyes" by Academy Award winner James Lucas, "Regardless" a Turkish-German-British feature film produced by the team behind "Mustang" (nominated for an Academy Award 2016) and most recently as part of "YOU" a mini series for SKY /BBC. She created a Performance for the "Klangraum Minoritenkirche Krems - Blutspuren" in Austria. As a producer she worked on "Not a Good Man" (USA)

Acting credits

Homesick poster
6.1

Ambitious cello student Jessica receives an invitation to an international contest. A great opportunity, but at the same time it means enormous pressure. Stress begins to gnaw on Jessica's everyday life and soon reality and imagination blur.

Homesick

2015

Beat Beat Beat poster
4.0

Late summer in Berlin. The city is pulsating and friends Fabian, Bene, and Richard are wandering aimlessly through the big urban jungle. Against Fabian's quiet protest, the friends ridicule outsider Jakob. The aggression escalates when one night the boys make their way into Jakob's room and bully Borschwitz lights Jakob's mother's car on fire. Fabian can no longer repress his attachment to Jakob and confronts his friends - perhaps too late.

Beat Beat Beat

2013

Zara poster
NR

A film about the state of people who are forced to live their exile as an outer event, but also as an inner destiny. That condition involves several time levels: a lost past, a disturbed present and a future rimmed with hope. In the village of Zara wandering souls are searching for things lost: letters, childhood, parents… Zara lies at the heart of an eternal search for a place of consolation and respite a search, during which memories and dreams gradually merge into an imagined present. (swissfilms.ch)

Zara

2009

The Battle of Canakkale poster
3.3

Pilot Captain Salih Ekrem is a young air officer and one of the first Ottoman pilots.

The Battle of Canakkale

2015

Der Zürich-Krimi:Borchert und die Glut des Bösen poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Zürich-Krimi:Borchert und die Glut des Bösen

2025

Salvation Has No Name poster
6.6

A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.

Salvation Has No Name

2022

Regardless poster
3.5

The true story of a man who grew up surrounded by violence and absence of love. But despite everything he became a world-class networking master in his business life. He started from the bottom and was able to reach the top. His story show us that there is no obstacle that cannot be overcome in life.

Regardless

2023