Christof Wackernagel

Acting

Christof Wackernagel

Born

1951-08-27 (75)

Place of birth

Ulm, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

92 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 15 titles

Half Brothers poster
5.7

Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are brothers. The news hits like a bomb. A German family man with a penchant for tricks, a spoiled, ambitious Turk and a rapping African – the three siblings immediately hate each other and it would all be nice if their paths were to separate again soon.

Half Brothers

2015

Hubert und Staller - Unter Wölfen poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hubert und Staller - Unter Wölfen

2016

Saat des Terrors poster
4.7

In the feature film "Seed of Terror", a German secret service agent during her assignment abroad in Pakistan recognizes that attacks on civilians in Mumbai are imminent. It does everything in its power to thwart the attacks, but it must experience that their use is counteracted on different levels. Their fight becomes a race against time and various intelligence services.

Saat des Terrors

2018

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst poster
5.0

West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The parents of the director, too: Margarethe von Trotta and his stepfather, Volker Schlöndorff. With extensive archive materials and film clips as well as Margarethe von Trotta's private diaries the film portrays one German family and the society of the time.

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

2018

Meister des Todes poster
5.1

Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable weapon exports to Mexiko.

Meister des Todes

2015

Chaos - Queens - Für jede Lösung ein Problem poster
3.3

Gerri does not like anymore. Stylishly she wants to promote herself to the hereafter. She does not mince words in her farewell letters. But then the tablets do not work. "You are not the problem, you are the solution!" Her friend Charly tries to comfort her. And she's right: Gerri grabs himself by the head, pulls himself out of the mess and orders the chaos that has triggered them.

Chaos - Queens - Für jede Lösung ein Problem

2017

Pampa Blues poster
6.0

Since the Americans gave up their military training area near Endlingen / Ostalbkreis, the region has been going downhill: Maslow, a jack of all trades, is working on a UFO so that the dump will be mentioned in the press. Meanwhile, Ben - reluctantly entrusted with the care of his demented grandfather - falls in love with Lena, who has ended up in the town ...

Pampa Blues

2015

Then Came Lucy poster
6.0

Passionate horse breeder Saskia lives a secluded life at her idyllic stud farm in the Rhineland. One day, however, the well-established everyday life of the shy woman is thrown into disarray: Her childhood friend Andrea dies in an accident and Saskia is asked to take care of her daughter Lucy, at least temporarily, as her godmother. Not an easy task, as the 16-year-old had lived with her mother in London and doesn't know what to do with the monotonous country life.

Then Came Lucy

2012

Gift poster
6.8

After some faked medicine is found, an Interpol agent searches for evidence against high rank chairmen of medical companies.

Gift

2017

Die Trixxer poster
5.0

The Trixters are four grifters on a mission: to avenge the victims of fraud and injustice by taking on the powerful. For these modern-day Robins des bois, no holds are barred. They've decided to take on an arms dealer who has robbed a group of elderly people of their savings.

Die Trixxer

2011

Schwarzach 23 - und die Jagd nach dem Mordsfinger poster
NR

After Willy Unterkofer, an old acquaintance of the Germingers, is murdered, Franz Junior takes over the investigation together with Karl and Anna and a family quarrel soon arises. Franz Senior and Erika seem to want to steer the youngsters in a certain direction. Their credo is that the past should be put to rest, but this makes Franz Junior and Anna even more curious about what the seniors are hiding. The fronts soon harden and everything is at stake: not only Schwarzach 23, but also the whole family...

Schwarzach 23 - und die Jagd nach dem Mordsfinger

2016

Die Bestatterin – Der Tod zahlt alle Schulden poster
5.6

Behind supposedly natural deaths, young mortician Lisa Taubenbaum discovers murders and turns the whole town against her. When an inspector from Stuttgart arrives, the investigation begins and Lisa gets heavily involved.

Die Bestatterin – Der Tod zahlt alle Schulden

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Trixxser

2011

bestefreunde poster
6.0

Susi Q loves to travel. To dance. To get drunk. She loves women. She loves her best friend. She loves life! And now all that should suddenly change? Because she's getting "too old"? Take responsibility - Settle down with someone - Live a normal life - Like everyone else? Not Susi Q.

bestefreunde

2015

Schleuderprogramm poster
NR

From one day to the next, the diva falls from the Olympus of the opera world when she rushes to the aid of her sick father Karl and cancels a performance at the Cologne Opera. The audience and, above all, the management are furious, as "Die Herbst" has been harassing the directors of the major opera houses for years with her whims and demands. The second cast is now to be given their chance.

Schleuderprogramm

2012

2000s · 11 titles

Mein Bruder ist ein Hund poster
5.4

With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control.

Mein Bruder ist ein Hund

2004

Lammbock poster
6.9

Stefan and Kai run a thriving business: a home-grown cannabis trade disguised as a pizza delivery service. For now they just have to fight aphids.

Lammbock

2001

The Journey to Kafiristan poster
3.6

In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was among Erika and Klaus Mann's circle of friends in the 30s, is searching for a place of refuge in the Near East to discover her own self. Ella Maillart justifies her restlessness, her need for movement and travel, with a scientific pretext: she would like to explore the mysterious Kafiristan Valley and make a name for herself with publications on the archaic life of the nomads living there. Both women are on the run, but political developments and their own biographies catch up with them again and again. Their mutual journey through the outside world, which runs from Geneva via the Balkans and Turkey to Persia, is compounded by the inner world of emotions with a tender love story.

The Journey to Kafiristan

2001

White Man with Black Bread poster
8.0

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("RAF") lives in Mali. In his compelling portrait, Jonas Grosch shows a man who simply cannot stand still if he senses injustice. The courage to stand up for one’s beliefs coupled with vanity? However one chooses to look at it, it is easy to imagine what made him connect with the "RAF". With his irrepressible will for freedom, Christof Wackernagel gets entangled in the horrors of day-to-day life in Africa.

White Man with Black Bread

2007

No artwork available
6.0

Late fall 1947: The inhabitants of Frauenburg, a US garrison town, are facing another harsh post-war winter. But a social sensation causes a stir: Freya Sonnenberg, one of the three daughters of the former mayor, is to marry the American base commander Bellmont. Each of the sisters has her own hopes for this event: For Freya, the wedding is the start of a carefree and prosperous life after the war. For the older sister Nora, it means belated satisfaction for the early death of her beloved father. And Gudrun, the youngest, is looking forward to an uninhibited sex life. But one evening before the wedding, a blackmailer threatens to destroy the sisters' plans. Compromising details from Freya's time in the army emerge. Was she really the playmate of a prominent Nazi bigwig...?

Drei Schwestern made in Germany

2006

Der Zimmerspringbrunnen poster
6.0

Unemployed Hinrich Lobek spends his days at home in Berlin and sees himself as a victim of reunification. His wife, who works as an architect at Potsdamer Platz, loses patience over time. After some time, he decides to go to the employment office and is offered a job as a sales representative for the company Panta Rhein. On his first day at work, he accompanies loyal employee Uwe Strüwer through the dreary prefabricated housing estate. The two are unsuccessful in selling the "Jona" indoor fountain model.

Der Zimmerspringbrunnen

2001

No artwork available
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Luftpiraten - 113 Passagiere in Todesangst

2000

No artwork available
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Verrückt ist auch normal

2003

Dich schickt der Himmel poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dich schickt der Himmel

2001

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Liebe kommt als Untermieter

2003

Résiste - Aufstand der Praktikanten poster
10.0

After a few years working like intern, Till, eventually becomes head of his own company, job counseling for young trainees. In turn, comes Sydelia, left-wing activist, idealist and combative. Their paths will soon cross youth. She is determined to start it the capitalist world in which we now live in a revolutionary way. But really, two people so different can be attracted?

Résiste - Aufstand der Praktikanten

2009

1990s · 13 titles

Maybe... Maybe Not poster
6.3

The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.

Maybe... Maybe Not

1994

The Nasty Girl poster
6.7

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

The Nasty Girl

1990

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller poster
5.5

Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasingly crazy, a drunken policeman causes a lot of trouble, and the sex-obsessed producer Egon Lütter doesn't make things any easier.

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller

1998

The Devil and Ms. D poster
5.2

Is he really the devil incarnate, as he claims? Or is he a dangerous weirdo who uses his stories to get the best out of women? Because in any case he is one thing: a great seducer, to whom the psychologist Cora falls hopelessly; he is the target of her unfulfilled dreams, her most secret longings. The reason to completely change her life and even commit a perfect murder...

The Devil and Ms. D

1999

Black Souls poster
7.0

One night can change lives. One night can make the difference between happiness and unhappiness, between life and death. Jan, a clueless law student, discovers the body of a woman in the park - and the suspected murderer. But Tony asks Jan to give him five minutes to prove his innocence. These five minutes will last all night. At the same time, Jan's girlfriend Christine roams the dark streets looking for him. She meets Jan's mentor, Judge Krauss. The judge offers Christine a lot of money if she sleeps with him - a tempting offer. Just like Jan, Christine begins to discover her dark, hidden self that night. For both of them, it is a night full of mistrust, deception, lust and temptation.

Black Souls

1999

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Schwarzes Blut

1999

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Blutige Scheidung

1997

Männerpension poster
5.4

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of integrating into society. Now Gerd stupidly kills a bar owner. This puts an end to their excursion into freedom for the time being.

Männerpension

1996

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ich schenk dir meinen Mann

1998

Einfach nur Liebe poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Einfach nur Liebe

1994

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ein todsicheres Ding

1997

No artwork available
6.0

A young, talented but penniless tennis player attracts the attention of an ex-champion who offers to train him. He works hard to achieve his meteoric rise, but loses sight of his familiar surroundings and falls in with the wrong friends.

Tränen eines Siegers

1995

Kinder ohne Gnade poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kinder ohne Gnade

1996

1970s · 5 titles

Sex Exhibition poster
7.0

Two men in a convertible drive through Switzerland and meet young women.

Sex Exhibition

1976

The Bed Student, or What Do I Do With the Girls? poster
3.8

Christof Müller continues as a prospective student with the train from Augsburg to Munich. Already when Enrolling he is intercepted by the artist life “sports fan”, who introduced him to so many university internals. Along with “Justus von Liebig,” he runs a practice for student hardship cases, but is mostly just drunk and fooling around. Christof lives with his cousin Brigitte, who is behind him, and with him is intimate. In between, he will perform the little fairy and goes with her to the zoo. Because the girl wants not just to the ladies room, he must call and reap evil suspicions of passers-by.

The Bed Student, or What Do I Do With the Girls?

1970

Die Elixiere des Teufels poster
9.0

Monk Medardus, administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul.

Die Elixiere des Teufels

1976

Bismarck von hinten oder Wir schließen nie poster
10.0

The Knüppels are in trouble with their underage daughter, who has discovered love too early. She has a child with Frank Dreier. But the young people have long since come to an agreement.

Bismarck von hinten oder Wir schließen nie

1974

No artwork available
9.0

Three very different characters live in a world of ideas. Barely noticed, these primordial ideas, which embody everything that defines us as human beings, begin to dissolve. Instead of worrying, the three have fun and celebrate exuberantly while the world around them loses its substance. In the end, they are faced with nothingness. Every ending also holds a new beginning.

Achsensprung

1977

1960s · 6 titles

Till the Happy End poster
9.0

Photo dealer Arnold and his wife Frieda live in harmony and wealth with their ten-year-old son Peter in Bonn, when Arnold's brother Paul and his wife Vera turn up to get his share of the family business. A scuffle leads to Peter falling down a flight of stairs breaking his neck. Although it is clearly an accident, Arnold is prepared ready to pay Vera a sum of money to forget about the rumble.

Till the Happy End

1968

Angel Baby poster
3.6

A girl travels from her hometown in upper Bavaria to Munich in order to lose her virginity.

Angel Baby

1968

Tattoo poster
6.8

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young boy.

Tattoo

1967

Hoppe Hoppe Reiter Engelchen macht weiter poster
5.0

Gustl has married the beautiful Helene. They have a harmonious marriage, the love games are daring, and the Kamasutra is always lying next to the bed. But Gustl still has one wish: to celebrate a real orgy. He suspects that his younger colleagues are always having wild parties. He wants to be one of them, but is never invited to such parties. So he persuades his wife to organize an orgy herself. After much toing and froing, Helene agrees. The two of them put an ad in the newspaper. Like-minded people come forward, Gustl and Helene sort out "suitable" people and get the party underway. When the horde of libido-ready middle-class people arrives at the mattress-lined apartment, there is no sign of Gustl...

Hoppe Hoppe Reiter Engelchen macht weiter

1968

No artwork available
9.0

A young man who is constantly searching for relics from World War II and idolizes Hitler and Al Capone founds a criminal organization with friends and slides headlong into disaster.

Al Capone im deutschen Wald

1969

God's Police Patrol poster
4.3

The Confiscation of Confession and 10 million Marks bring the young accident priest Wolf into an adventurous situation: A deadly injured gobber has entrusted him with the hiding-place of the millions of heavy prey, making him the key figure of dangerous gangster interests. The ice-cold cheeks, the fat Felix, and the sex bomb Roma are placed on him to reveal the secret. But Wolf remains ironic - even as Roma tried to seduce him in a completely unchristian way. On the contrary, Wolf brings the beautiful blonde even to think - and so the hunt for the prey ends quite differently

God's Police Patrol

1968

Series credits

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

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

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

Die Rosenheim-Cops poster
6.2

A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.

Die Rosenheim-Cops

2002

Kölner Treff poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kölner Treff

1976

SOKO München poster
5.9

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

SOKO München

1978

SOKO München poster
5.9

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

SOKO München

1978

SOKO München poster
5.9

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

SOKO München

1978

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

1998

Leipzig Homicide poster
5.9

SOKO 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

Leipzig Homicide poster
5.9

SOKO 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

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police poster
6.6

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

1996

SOKO Köln poster
6.4

The 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

SOKO Köln poster
6.4

The 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

A Case For Two poster
5.7

Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.

A Case For Two

1981

Großstadtrevier poster
6.0

Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.

Großstadtrevier

1986

SOKO Stuttgart poster
6.0

The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.

SOKO Stuttgart

2009

Für alle Fälle Stefanie poster
2.5

Für 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

ANNE WILL poster
NR

Anne Will discusses political processes, economic relationships, and social trends with her guests. Her motto: to think politically and ask directly.

ANNE WILL

2007

Unser Charly poster
5.7

The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.

Unser Charly

1995

Der Fahnder poster
7.3

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Der Fahnder

1984

Der Fahnder poster
7.3

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Der Fahnder

1984

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Im Namen des Gesetzes

1994

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP poster
6.0

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district.

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP

1997

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

The Commissioner

1969

Der letzte Zeuge poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der letzte Zeuge

1998

Schlosshotel Orth poster
3.7

Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series.

Schlosshotel Orth

1996

Balko poster
6.2

Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards.

Balko

1995

SK Kölsch poster
5.5

SK Kölsch is a German television series.

SK Kölsch

1999

Café Meineid poster
8.0

Café Meineid is a German courtroom comedy television series based on actual cases. The series aired 147 episodes from 1990 to 2003 and ended with the death of lead actor Erich Hallhuber.

Café Meineid

1990

Edel & Starck poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Edel & Starck

2002

Kommissar Stolberg poster
1.0

Stolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The series is more serious and less flashy than other contemporary German detective series.

Kommissar Stolberg

2006

Peter Strohm poster
6.8

Peter Strohm is a private detective with radical methods. His work begins where police work ends; he takes on sensitive cases that require a certain scale, or explosive situations that can lead to international crises.

Peter Strohm

1989

Hallo, Onkel Doc! poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hallo, Onkel Doc!

1994

München Mord poster
4.2

Chief Inspector Schaller and his team solve the most unusual cases in beautiful Munich with wit and charm.

München Mord

2014

Abschnitt 40 poster
6.5

Abschnitt 40 was a German police television series broadcast between May 21 2001 and 2006. It was aired on RTL Television.

Abschnitt 40

2001

Das Amt poster
5.8

Das Amt was a German comedy television series which aired between 1997 to 2002 on RTL. It was created by Dietmar Jacobs.

Das Amt

1997

Auf eigene Gefahr poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Auf eigene Gefahr

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Katrin ist die Beste

1997

Sternenfänger poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sternenfänger

2002