Günther Kaufmann

Acting

Günther Kaufmann

Born — Died

1947-06-16 — 2012-05-10

Place of birth

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

82 titles

Günther Kaufmann (16 June 1947 – 10 May 2012) was a German film actor best known for his association with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods poster
5.6

When the mighty Viking Halvar suddenly disappears, his clever but timid son Wickie must lead the Vikings on a dangerous journey to rescue his father from the evil Sven and go in search of the legendary treasure of the gods.

Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods

2011

Turkish for Beginners poster
6.1

During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk must fight for survival. After initially Cem macho repulsive acts on Lena, a jellyfish in the water and sand in a bikini, she recognizes the time the romantic core behind his cool facade. Meanwhile, meet also their parents, who obdurate psychologist Doris and Metin Öztürk to work together to find their missing children. So both generations take an involuntary Turkish Basic Course for beginners.

Turkish for Beginners

2012

Jerry Cotton poster
5.9

Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano.

Jerry Cotton

2010

HipHop Express poster
2.2

Marvin (18) comes from a well-off background and lives in a chic suburban villa. His mother, a successful real estate agent, has already planned his future. But Marvin has a completely different idea of life: his great passion is music - this is where he wants to prove himself and show what he can do, without any money from his mother. After meeting the legendary rapper D W Court, he decides to take his life into his own hands for good. When he meets the clique around the cool Osman and the pretty Stella, his dream seems to come true. For the first time, he feels truly respected and taken seriously. He also falls head over heels in love with Stella. But all this comes at a price: in order to be accepted, he conceals his true origins. When Osman discovers the secret, the deception threatens to be exposed. Now Marvin has to put all his eggs in one basket...

HipHop Express

2011

Little Murders poster
NR

He's not interested in horror films, instead he listens to classical music, quotes Latin idioms - and is on trial for murder. Did 13-year-old Martin, son of a prominent judge, actually kill a little boy? And what role does his best friend, the mysterious taxi driver Viktor Gumm, play in the case?

Little Murders

2012

2000s · 6 titles

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

Killing Is My Business, Honey poster
6.7

A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published.

Killing Is My Business, Honey

2009

Für meine Kinder tu' ich alles poster
1.0

After her husband’s fatal accident, Marie is forced to leave her cozy home with her three children, move to a high-crime neighborhood, and, to make matters worse, work as a prostitute—because that seems to be her only way to make any money at all. In the end, her son’s single—and outrageously handsome—teacher becomes her savior in her time of need.

Für meine Kinder tu' ich alles

2009

Silent Resident poster
4.4

At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering utopian high-rises and work, collectively, in a single compound.

Silent Resident

2008

Leroy poster
5.5

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl and meeting her racist family.

Leroy

2007

No artwork available
8.5

The family of crooks around Jonathan Harris has once again reached the end of its financial reserves and therefore plans to hijack a tanker in Dubai and sell the captured cargo on the black market. However, as it soon turns out, the plan is much more complicated than expected.

Mayday! Überfall auf hoher See

2001

1980s · 10 titles

Lola poster
6.9

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Lola

1981

Querelle poster
6.6

French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband: if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane; if you lose, you have to make love with Nono... Querelle loses on purpose.

Querelle

1982

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

Otto - The Movie poster
6.5

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.

Otto - The Movie

1985

Kamikaze '89 poster
5.4

In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and uncovers more than he bargained for.

Kamikaze '89

1982

The Roaring Fifties poster
3.7

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur.

The Roaring Fifties

1983

Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders poster
3.4

No synopsis available yet.

Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

1989

Whopper Punch 777 poster
7.5

The young son of a sports journalist helps his out-of-town father out of a jam by getting into the hotel room of a famous boxer and conducting a sensational star interview with him.

Whopper Punch 777

1986

War and Peace poster
4.5

The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A collage of documentary and dramatised sequences dealing with such topics as overkill, peace demonstrations, NATO arms policy, and life after the next war.

War and Peace

1982

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

1970s · 19 titles

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

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

Baal poster
5.5

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Baal

1970

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

The Niklashausen Journey poster
5.8

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket? The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

The Niklashausen Journey

1970

Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King poster
5.5

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.

Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King

1972

Gods of the Plague poster
5.6

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women, Joanna and Margarethe, as well as upon Günther, his friend who earlier shot his brother.

Gods of the Plague

1970

The Coffee House poster
6.5

People meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse; the conversations are mostly about money, but also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity and respectability.

The Coffee House

1970

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? poster
7.3

Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pressures him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old schoolmates drop by, as do neighbours. Some comment on his wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr R. run amok?

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

1970

Whity poster
5.4

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage: the homosexual Frank and the feeble-minded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various family members ask him to kill some of the others.

Whity

1971

Rio das Mortes poster
5.3

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

Rio das Mortes

1971

Pioneers in Ingolstadt poster
5.5

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

Pioneers in Ingolstadt

1971

Adele Spitzeder poster
10.0

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. Initially dubbed the "Angel of the poor", she was arrested for fraud after the whole scheme collapsed.

Adele Spitzeder

1972

1 Berlin-Harlem poster
3.0

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.

1 Berlin-Harlem

1974

No artwork available
7.0

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

1971

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mulligans Rückkehr

1977

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Sieger von Tambo

1973

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Tod der Schneevögel

1974

No artwork available
9.0

Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontaneous healing. The next depression is determined.

Depressionen

1975

Series credits

DAS! poster
4.7

Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.

DAS!

1991

No artwork available
4.4

No synopsis available yet.

Volle Kanne

1999

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

ZIBB

2003

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

Derrick

1974

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

Küstenwache poster
5.8

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Küstenwache

1997

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

3 nach 9

1974

Nachtcafé poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Nachtcafé

1987

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Menschen bei Maischberger

2003

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Menschen der Woche

2000

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tietjen und Bommes

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

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

Berlin Alexanderplatz poster
7.5

In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Kocharena

2007

Ein Schloß am Wörthersee poster
6.4

Ein Schloß am Wörthersee is a German television series.

Ein Schloß am Wörthersee

1990

Tierarzt Dr. Engel poster
NR

Tierarzt Dr. Engel is a German television series.

Tierarzt Dr. Engel

1998

Schwarz greift ein poster
9.0

Schwarz greift ein is a German television series.

Schwarz greift ein

1994

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der König

1994

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Glückliche Reise

1992

Die Straßen von Berlin poster
8.0

Die Straßen von Berlin is a German television series.

Die Straßen von Berlin

1995

Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie

2004

Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein poster
7.8

Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein is a TV adaption of a novel of the same name by Austrian author Johannes Mario Simmel. Directed by Thomas Engel Siegfried Rauch walks in the footsteps of O. W. Fischer who played the protagonist "Thomas Lieven" already in 1961, just one year after the bestseller had been released. The series is unique for providing a little cooking show at the end of each episode. The book also includes recipes because "Thomas Lieven" is an accomplished amateur cook.

Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein

1977

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Okay S.I.R.

1973

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Okay S.I.R.

1973

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fliege

1994

Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus! poster
3.8

A batch of more or less known celebrities, ready to expose themselves to a large amount of viewers, have to spend about two weeks in an Australian jungle camp. Each day, the viewers vote for the celebrity they would like to face a difficult task and later vote for their favorite to become the “Queen” or “King of the Jungle”. Based on the British reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!

2004

Im Auftrag von Madame poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Im Auftrag von Madame

1972

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jörg Preda berichtet

1966

Der Kapitän poster
4.5

Der Kapitän is a German television series.

Der Kapitän

1997

No artwork available
10.0

Der kleine Doktor is a German television series.

Der kleine Doktor

1974

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bully sucht die starken Männer!

2008

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Harry & Sunny

1993

Unsere Schule ist die Beste poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Unsere Schule ist die Beste

1994

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Solaris TV – Der freundliche Sender im All

1986