Benno Hoffmann

Acting

Benno Hoffmann

Born 1919-05-30 · Süderbrarup, Germany

Acting credits

Das Glück läuft hinterher poster
10.0

Follows the life of several different people in 1960s in Germany for a few days. The story begins, when a juvenile criminal steals an old woman's handbag in a post office and throws it into a parking car, when he feels observed. But there was a lot of money in that bag, and thereby a dozen fortunes become entwined.

Das Glück läuft hinterher

1963

Münchhausen in Afrika poster
4.5

The adventures of Baron Münchhausen jr. in Africa.

Münchhausen in Afrika

1958

The Cow and I poster
6.7

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.

The Cow and I

1959

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy poster
6.4

Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunther marry Brunhild will he be allowed to marry Kriemhild. He fulfills this condition, but the two women bring ruin upon Xanten and Burgundy...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

1966

Last Stop Love poster
6.0

Young factory worker Mecky Berger doesn't believe in "true love." For him, his female acquaintances are just a pastime. In his eyes and those of his friends, romance is something a man should be ashamed of. But then he meets Christa, who is so different from the women he has had affairs with in the past. His feelings for her are also of a previously unknown, confusing intensity—Mecky has fallen in love. But he first has to learn how to deal with this feeling...

Last Stop Love

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der spanische Bürgerkrieg

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das große Ohr

1965

Werner and the Wizard of Booze poster
6.6

Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resulting animated films show episodes of the life of Werner, a plumber apprentice and motorbike enthusiast and his friends. They are interspersed with the live-action portions.

Werner and the Wizard of Booze

1990

No artwork available
7.0

In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Paul, has been killed in action in France. In their grief, the couple decide to take action against the Nazi regime. They create their own form of resistance, writing postcards urging people to resist Hitler and the Nazis and quietly distributing the postcards around Berlin. Various people enter the picture, showing the fear and distrust of the times. People, such as the actor Harteisen, find the cards and race to turn them in, lest they be found with them and come under suspicion. The police and the Gestapo are baffled for over a year, but finally find the source of the cards. The Volksgerichtshof sentences the Quangels to death.

Everyone Dies Alone

1962

Room 13 poster
6.2

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...

Room 13

1964

Werner - Volles Rooäää!!! poster
5.5

A wicked investor wants Werner's residential area razed to the ground in order to build a shopping center. However, building tycoon Günzelsen has not reckoned with Werner. Together with his master Röhrich he's planning to blow away the plumbings with a gigantic obstruction...

Werner - Volles Rooäää!!!

1999

Werner: Eat My Dust!!! poster
5.9

Because of a bet, Werner and his friend have to construct the fastest vehicle to win a race, because life depends on it.

Werner: Eat My Dust!!!

1996

Teenage Wolfpack poster
6.2

The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy, his brother Jan, and bad girl Cissy, in one of the first considerations of juvenile delinquency in post-war West Germany.

Teenage Wolfpack

1956

The Fair poster
7.2

In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a steel helmet, and a machine gun. The skeleton belongs to Robert Mertens, a plain soldier, who deserted in 1944 und flew to his home village. But when he arrived, no one wanted to help him, neither his former friends nor the minister, or even his own parents.

The Fair

1960

Beyond Control poster
7.1

Germany 1934. In the middle of a southern German forest, a number of mannequins are placed on the two men, Waldemar Velte and Kurt Sandweg from Wuppertal, with their repeating rifles organize shooting practice.

Beyond Control

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Erbe gesucht - Theater vorhanden

1970

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Leben wie die Fürsten

1966

Tomorrow Is My Turn poster
6.5

Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers.

Tomorrow Is My Turn

1960

Es begann bei Tiffany poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Es begann bei Tiffany

1979

Der Transport poster
6.8

March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futility of his assignment and makes a fateful decision.

Der Transport

1961

Robin Hood, der edle Räuber poster
9.0

Robin Hood, the noble robber with a gentle soul and hard fists, lives with his band of robbers in the forest of Sherwood. While he helps the poor, the perfidious Sheriff of Nottingham exploits the peasants, tyrannizes them and pockets their taxes. Because, in his opinion, no one is too poor to hand over money. Naturally, the folk hero cannot accept this...

Robin Hood, der edle Räuber

1966

Escape from East Berlin poster
5.9

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.

Escape from East Berlin

1962

Die Halbzarte poster
5.9

Nicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the idea to secretly write a daring play, only about sex.

Die Halbzarte

1959

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Feuerwerk

1963