Volker Spengler

Acting

Volker Spengler

Born 1939-02-16 · Bremen, Germany

Acting credits

Chinese Roulette poster
7.1

Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, plan for the weekend on separate trips, lying to the other about their trysts. However, their itineraries are complicated when they both arrive at the family's country home with their respective lovers.

Chinese Roulette

1977

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven poster
7.7

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide.

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

1975

The Marriage of Maria Braun poster
7.4

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979

In a Year with 13 Moons poster
6.6

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

In a Year with 13 Moons

1978

Veronika Voss poster
7.2

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.

Veronika Voss

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Sturm

Satan’s Brew poster
6.4

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dimwitted brother, and a murder investigation.

Satan’s Brew

1976

Despair poster
6.5

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

Despair

1978

The Ogre poster
6.4

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.

The Ogre

1996

The 120 Days of Bottrop poster
5.3

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

The 120 Days of Bottrop

1997

The Third Generation poster
6.0

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

The Third Generation

1979

Highfalutin poster
NR

A bar full of people talking about Volker Spengler. HIGHFALUTIN is an attempt to create such a utopia, a simple "what if."

Highfalutin

2021

The German Chainsaw Massacre poster
4.0

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.

The German Chainsaw Massacre

1990

The Stationmaster’s Wife poster
5.6

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.

The Stationmaster’s Wife

1977

100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker poster
6.9

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker.

100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker

1989

Ticket of No Return poster
6.3

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

Ticket of No Return

1979

Off Beat poster
6.2

Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.

Off Beat

2004

Obscene: The Case of Peter Herzl poster
6.9

A West German man, mistaken by the police for a left wing terrorist, hides in Vienna with a prostitute and her incestuous teen daughter. They become both a threesome and a happy surrogate family, but nothing lasts forever.

Obscene: The Case of Peter Herzl

1981

Peng! Du bist tot! poster
6.2

American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the mystery of a stolen computer chip and the computer murders that Westerburg's boss Herbert Wilhelm Peters is apparently carrying out with its help. The search for Peters turns into a wild chase in a society that considers computer murders unthinkable and also becomes an existential threat for Westerburg and Flanegan...

Peng! Du bist tot!

1987

Adolf and Marlene poster
7.0

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival, she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.

Adolf and Marlene

1977

Everything's a Lie poster
4.3

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful businessman, while Kasulke tries to continue working on the comedy circuit - without success. When his wife also cheats on him, he decides to start a new life in Berlin. There he quickly meets his old friend Portmann, who has built up a huge company. He offers him a job. But Erich puts the entire company in danger...

Everything's a Lie

1992

Fandango - Members Only poster
6.0

Small-time dealers make moves in the German club scene.

Fandango - Members Only

2000

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Polnischer Sommer

1981

No artwork available
4.5

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.

Today We're Playing Boss

1981