Hannah Herzsprung

Acting

Hannah Herzsprung

Born 1981-09-07 · Hamburg, Germany

Hannah-Rebecca Herzsprung (born September 7, 1981, in Hamburg) is a German actress. She is the daughter of actor Bernd Herzsprung and designer Barbara Engel, began her acting career in 1997 with the TV series Aus heiterem Himmel. Her breakthrough came in Four Minutes (2005), earning her the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress. She went on to win a German Film Award and a Grimme Award for Das wahre Leben. Herzsprung gained wider recognition through films like The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Reader, and the series Weissensee, which earned her a Bambi Award. She lives in Berlin and was named Chanel’s first German ambassador in 2025.

Acting credits

The Reader poster
7.5

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

The Reader

2008

Woodwalkers poster
6.4

Humans who can shapeshift into animals struggle to integrate with others without revealing their special abilities. As a group, they strive to inform and institute change in the perspective of deforestation and the importance of natural habitats. However, when that cannot happen, they're forced to take matters into their own hands.

Woodwalkers

2024

Woodwalkers 2 poster
6.9

For shapeshifter Carag and his friends Brandon, Holly, and Lou, a new school year begins at Clearwater High. But first, the Woodwalker Council must decide whether Carag's mentor and patron of the school, Andrew Milling, is guilty of attacking humans. Carag is in a dilemma: he wants to put a stop to Milling's actions, but Milling promises to take him to his true puma family if he covers for him before the council.

Woodwalkers 2

2026

Who Am I poster
7.6

Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.

Who Am I

2014

The Baader Meinhof Complex poster
7.0

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

The Baader Meinhof Complex

2008

Ein Münchner im Himmel - Der Tod ist erst der Anfang poster
7.0

When cab driver Ludwig “Wiggerl” Brunner, a true Munich bon vivant, is hit by a streetcar and ends up in heaven, there is only one way back to his beloved Bavaria: he has to improve his karma balance as quickly as possible.

Ein Münchner im Himmel - Der Tod ist erst der Anfang

2026

Four Minutes poster
6.8

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.

Four Minutes

2006

Wickie the Mighty Viking poster
5.8

One morning our little Viking village of Flake is raided by frightening looking spooky demons who kidnap all the children… except for Wickie, who was stuck in a tree trying to use a kite to learn to fly.

Wickie the Mighty Viking

2009

Corpus Delicti poster
NR

In the near future, the “method” controls the health and freedom of society. The life of neuroscientist Mia Holl, who is loyal to the system, changes abruptly when her brother Moritz Holl is wrongly accused of murder and imprisoned. In the fight for truth and justice, Mia begins to question the system and becomes the hunted herself.

Corpus Delicti

2026

15 Years poster
5.7

Pianist Jenny, once a musical prodigy, finds her footing in the Christian faith after serving 15 years for a murder she didn't commit. When she learns that her childhood sweetheart, once responsible for her ordeal, has become an internationally acclaimed star, the overwhelming need for revenge threatens her fragile agreement with God and her relationship with a Syrian musician who offers Jenny honest care and trust.

15 Years

2024

Don't. Get. Out! poster
6.4

Taking his kids to school with the car, Berlin real estate developer Karl gets a call from a blackmailer: If he doesn’t pay up, the car will blow up. A deadly race against time begins.

Don't. Get. Out!

2018

The Guardians poster
6.1

15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.

The Guardians

2012

Beloved Sisters poster
5.7

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

Beloved Sisters

2014

Habermann poster
5.9

A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.

Habermann

2010

Hell poster
5.8

In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.

Hell

2011

Cloud Under the Roof poster
6.3

Paul, Julia and Lilly are a happy family, until Julia dies unexpectedly. For the sake of his daughter, Paul wants to function and suppress his grief. Lilly keeps challenging him with her imagination and her very own view of Mum's death.

Cloud Under the Roof

2022

Ludwig II poster
5.6

A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construction of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.

Ludwig II

2012

My Words, My Lies - My Love poster
6.0

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.

My Words, My Lies - My Love

2009

The Bloom of Yesterday poster
7.0

An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.

The Bloom of Yesterday

2017

Verräter - Tod am Meer poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Verräter - Tod am Meer

2017

Life Actually poster
6.0

Inner chaos breaks free in two families.

Life Actually

2007

Sweethearts poster
5.9

It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time.

Sweethearts

2019

Aghet poster
8.2

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.

Aghet

2010

Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film poster
7.1

Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political, and incisive.

Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film

2018