Oliver Masucci

Acting

Oliver Masucci

Born 1968-12-06 · Stuttgart, Germany

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.

Acting credits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adam’s Eight poster
NR

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

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

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

Play poster
5.1

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

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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

Volcano poster
7.2

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

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

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

Crocodile Alert poster
4.1

Ann Berg, in her late twenties, is an ambitious intern in the Forensic Medicine department. While investigating a crime scene she is shocked to find evidence of a crocodile attack. She turns to the expert Mitch "Croc" McDearie for help.

Crocodile Alert

2006

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

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

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

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

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

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