Oliver Masucci

Acting

Oliver Masucci

Born

1968-12-06 (57)

Place of birth

Stuttgart, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Oliver Masucci (born December 6, 1968) is a German actor. He gained international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the satirical film Look Who's Back (2015) and as Ulrich Nielsen in the Netflix series Dark (2017–2020). Other more recent film roles include Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Day Shift (2022) and The Palace (2023). Masucci's performance as Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Enfant Terrible (2020) earned him the 2021 German Film Award (Lola) for Best Leading Actor. He also starred as Dr. Josef Bartok in the 2021 film adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s Schachnovelle, Chess Story, a performance that earned him the Bavarian Film Award for Best Actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore poster
6.6

Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards and witches. They soon encounter an array of old and new beasts as they clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

2022

Day Shift poster
6.7

An LA vampire hunter has a week to come up with the cash to pay for his kid's tuition and braces. Trying to make a living these days just might kill him.

Day Shift

2022

Chess Story poster
6.8

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

Chess Story

2021

Enfant Terrible poster
4.3

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.

Enfant Terrible

2020

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

The Palace poster
5.4

A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.

The Palace

2023

Speed Train poster
4.6

When a futuristic train journey turns chaotic due to a tech genius's malevolent hacking of brain-implanted passengers, a group of disparate travelers must band together to regain control, confronting not only immediate dangers but also the darker implications of unchecked technology.

Speed Train

2025

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

Fritz Litzmann, mein Vater und ich poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fritz Litzmann, mein Vater und ich

2025

Adam's Eight poster
7.1

Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.

Adam's Eight

2026

Bad Director poster
5.9

Director Gregor Samsa, washed-up and in his late fifties, is reviewing his life. Having wasted it as a cultural worker doesn't exactly add to his joy.

Bad Director

2024

No artwork available
NR

Carag’s battle against Andrew Milling enters its decisive phase: After being elected governor, Milling uses his “day of reckoning” to carry out a smear campaign, sowing discord between humans, animals, and Woodwalkers—putting them all in danger. When Carag fails to convince either the Council or his family and friends to reveal the Woodwalkers’ greatest secret—their very existence—in order to expose Milling and bring about peace, he decides to single-handedly strip Milling of his ability to shapeshift, only to lose his own in the process. A race against time begins to save Clearwater High and stop Milling once and for all!

Woodwalkers 3

2028

2010s · 15 titles

Never Look Away poster
7.7

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

Never Look Away

2018

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit poster
7.0

In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

2019

Look Who's Back poster
6.8

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

Look Who's Back

2015

Winnetou - A New World poster
6.2

The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. The Apaches give it the name Old Shatterhand. Together they fight now against the unscrupulous henchmen of the railway company, who wants to lay a route through the Indian area.

Winnetou - A New World

2016

Magnificent Times poster
5.8

A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day...

Magnificent Times

2018

Lysis poster
3.3

A father takes his estranged son on a rafting trip into the wilderness that suddenly turns into a struggle for survival. As they get to know each other better, old wounds open up. Each of them slowly becomes aware of the other’s side of the story.

Lysis

2019

Play poster
5.0

For 17-year-old Jennifer, gaming has always been part of everyday teenage life. Recently she has been feeling uncomfortable and lonely. Not so long ago she moved to Munich with her parents Frank and Ariane from another city. In her new home, the girl does not find a real connection with her new classmates. Fixed by the virtual reality game "Avalonia", gaming is gradually becoming the elixir of life. Jennifer neglects her school and family responsibilities. She ignores all admonitions, restrictions and prohibitions for every precious second of the game and betrays her parents. Only the secret, excessive immersion in the virtual fantasy world of "Avalonia" seems to make Jennifer happy. The Parents have to watch as their daughter's life gets completely out of balance between the real and the virtual world.

Play

2019

Tödliche Geheimnisse - Jagd in Kapstadt poster
3.8

Where is Paul Holthaus? The investigative journalist Rommy Kirchhoff, together with his son Max, is looking for the disappeared lobbyist Paul Holthaus, who has negotiated several times in Cape Town on behalf of Lilian Norgren for their agricultural corporation Norgreen Life. Norgren makes it clear to Rommy that the search for the whistleblower is unwanted and puts her and the boy in danger.

Tödliche Geheimnisse - Jagd in Kapstadt

2017

Playmaker poster
5.7

Ivo is a former pro footballer and jailbird with nothing to lose. He is a betting natural and his talent and background attract the interest of Dejan, the leader of a dangerous underworld family.

Playmaker

2018

Secret in the Mountain poster
6.8

In the last days of World War II, Gauleiter Eigruber ordered the blasting of the salt mine. Stolen art treasures are stored there. The villagers oppose it.

Secret in the Mountain

2019

Der Auftrag poster
6.7

Just as 16-year-old Miki Witt is about to steal a few beers, he witnesses Lebanese clan boss Ahmed Sayed shooting an LKA officer. Even though the teenager is aware that he was seen doing it, he still decides to testify as a key witness. This is a difficult and courageous decision for his parents Nikola Walter and Klaus Witt, who live apart, and at the same time a great burden for everyone. In order to protect the family, the young police officer Sarah Brandt and her colleagues Marleen Westermann and Mario Lobeck are assigned to monitor the case. Despite all precautions, disaster strikes on site.

Der Auftrag

2019

Deadly Leaks poster
4.8

Journalist Rommy Kirchhoff wants to interview a whistle-blower. Paul Holthaus, lobbyist on behalf of the agricultural company Norgreen Life Inc., is ready to report on the background negotiations on TTIP. But as soon as the explosive interview begins, Rommy is overwhelmed. When she regains consciousness, there is no trace of the informant. Rommy realizes she has entered a story of unprecedented proportions.

Deadly Leaks

2016

Mordkommission Berlin 1 poster
6.6

Berlin in the 1920s is a vibrant metropolis. After the horrors of the First World War, people seek their fortune at parties, in glittering variety theaters and dance halls. So-called "ring clubs" dominate the world of crime. When Inspector Paul Lang finds his friend, public prosecutor Barnekow, dead in the crocodile pool of the Tiergarten, the mastermind seems clear, at least to him: the murder clearly bears the signature of Immanuel Tauss, the former head of the gangster ring "The Crocodiles". But Lang's biggest adversary, Tauss, is in prison. Together with his assistant Conrad Ruppert and his secretary, Lang sets about solving the case and encounters the unscrupulous up-and-comer Viktor Parkov and the fascinating vaudeville owner Irma Berger in Berlin's night world. Another corpse opens up a surprising twist, but Lang is already deeply entangled in his personal duel with Tauss - and himself.

Mordkommission Berlin 1

2015

Die vierte Gewalt poster
4.9

Freelance journalist Jan Schulte hopes for a job at the online portal of Berlin newspaper “Die Republik” when he discovers a potential scandal. Federal minister of health Elisabeth Stade apparently helped her brother’s search for a heart transplant by moving him up the waiting list illegally. But then Schulte’s colleague Britta claims the compromising material is a fake. Editor-in-chief Weishaupt and publisher Winter refuse to run the article. As Jan keeps on digging into the scandal, investigating state secretary Katharina Pflüger and political advisor Frank Gruber, his evidence is suddenly stolen from the newspaper office, and soon a competing tabloid breaks the story...

Die vierte Gewalt

2016

Was ihr wollt poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Was ihr wollt

2011

Series credits

No artwork available
4.4

No synopsis available yet.

Volle Kanne

1999

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

Leute heute poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Leute heute

1997

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Kölner Treff poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kölner Treff

1976

NDR Talk Show poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

NDR Talk Show

1979

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

Wer weiß denn sowas? poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Wer weiß denn sowas?

2015

Wer weiß denn sowas? poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Wer weiß denn sowas?

2015

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

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

3 nach 9

1974

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
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Wache

1994

No artwork available
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Wache

1994

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tietjen und Bommes

1997

The Girlfriend Experience poster
7.0

Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

The Girlfriend Experience

2016

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Im Namen des Gesetzes

1994

Inas Nacht poster
7.8

A late-night show featuring Northern German cabaret artist, singer and presenter Ina Müller - done "Müller-style": talk, comedy and lots and lots of music.

Inas Nacht

2007

No artwork available
NR

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Grimme Award

1964

Brisant poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Brisant

1994

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

German Film Award

1951

The Swarm poster
6.5

Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of scientists undertakes a terrifying mission to the depths of the Arctic Ocean to confront a deadly intelligent life force bent on human extinction.

The Swarm

2023

4 Blocks poster
6.4

Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple.

4 Blocks

2017

King & Conqueror poster
7.3

Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy are two men destined to face each other at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Two former allies, neither of whom had aspired to the British throne, are forced, by circumstances and their personal obsession, to wage war over possession of the crown.

King & Conqueror

2025

Tribes of Europa poster
6.9

2074. In the wake of a mysterious global disaster, war rages between the Tribes that have emerged from the wreckage of Europe. Three siblings from the peaceful Origine tribe are separated and forced to forge their own paths in an action-packed fight for the future of this new Europa.

Tribes of Europa

2021

Herrhausen: The Banker and the Bomb poster
6.5

Alfred Herrhausen, CEO of Deutsche Bank, has a vision to provide debt relief to the world's poorest countries, including making a deal with the nearly bankrupt Soviet Union, but his vision quickly attracts attention from all sides.

Herrhausen: The Banker and the Bomb

2024

Shades of Guilt poster
6.7

In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Kronberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem. In German with subtitles.

Shades of Guilt

2015

A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft

1995

The German poster
8.0

Uri and Anna, Holocaust survivors, start a new life in Israel, concealing their traumatic past. After 25 years, Mossad compels Uri to infiltrate a Nazi group in Germany to locate the escaped war criminal Mengele.

The German

2025

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The German Bronx

1997

Droneland poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Droneland

2026

One Trillion Dollars poster
7.4

By way of a one-trillion-dollar inheritance, John Fontanelli becomes the richest man in the world. This inheritance comes with a prophecy: he is to restore humankind’s lost future. Powerful opponents are intent on preventing this endeavor.

One Trillion Dollars

2023

German Crime Story: Gefesselt poster
6.9

Nela Langenbeck is a commissioner with the Hamburg police and not only fights against crime, but also against the misogynist structures of the police apparatus of the 1990s. She and her colleagues are not really taken seriously and are often treated more like secretaries. You can make coffee and sort files. Langenbeck is investigating the case of the acid barrel murderer Raik Doormann, who absolutely needs to be under lock and key because she is the only one who takes an escaped victim seriously. Doorman abducts, tortures and kills women in his own nuclear bunker and throws body parts into acid barrels. His goal is to extort money to make his dream of living in Costa Rica possible. The commissioner gets on the trail of the woman killer and uncovers incredibly brutal machinations that keep the whole country in suspense...

German Crime Story: Gefesselt

2023

Blood of the Templars poster
5.0

18-year old David grew up assuming that his mother and his father have died when he was a baby. He was raised by a monk and is close to completing High School. He gets into a fight during a party and discovers he is stronger than he thought he was- also, the blooding of an injury stops immediately and the wound heals within an hour. All of a sudden, the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar show interest in the boy and the quest for the Holy Grail begins once again, with David being the one who can lead them to it.

Blood of the Templars

2004

Volcano poster
NR

When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents.

Volcano

2009