Anian Zollner

Acting

Anian Zollner

Born 1969-02-21 · Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany

Zollner wurde in Bayern geboren, wuchs in München auf und legte sein Abitur am dortigen Maximiliangymnasium ab. Nach dem Zivildienst nahm er sein Studium an der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin auf, das er 1995 abschloss. 1996 wurde Anian Zollner dann in einer Hauptrolle von Regisseurin Margarethe von Trotta im Kinofilm Das Versprechen besetzt. Es folgten weitere Rollen in Kinofilmen, auch wurde das Fernsehen auf ihn aufmerksam. So spielte er unter anderem im ARD-Mehrteiler Klemperer – Ein Leben für Deutschland mit. Zahlreiche Episodenrollen in Serien schlossen sich an, darunter Praxis Bülowbogen und Der letzte Zeuge. Neben seiner Film- und Fernsehtätigkeit ist Zollner auch als Theaterschauspieler in Erscheinung getreten. Neben den Wiener Festwochen war er unter anderem am Schauspiel Köln sowie am Wiener Burgtheater engagiert. Mit Ich und Kaminski – nach der Romanvorlage von Daniel Kehlmann – vertonte Zollner ein Hörspiel, dem noch mehrere folgten. Er spricht drei Fremdsprachen (Spanisch, Französisch, Englisch) und lebt seit 1990 in Berlin.

Acting credits

War Horse poster
7.3

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

War Horse

2011

Race poster
7.3

Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

Race

2016

Luther poster
6.5

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

Luther

2003

Confessions of Felix Krull poster
6.5

Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.

Confessions of Felix Krull

2021

Hands of a Mother poster
7.0

A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus. When his son Adam (4) gets a little cut after going to the bathroom with his grandmother Renate, Markus recalls for the first time what his mother did to him when he was a little boy. Markus and his wife Monika find themselves confronted with an ugly truth of the kind you wouldn’t think a mother capable of.

Hands of a Mother

2016

Liebe braucht Meer poster
NR

Lissi Strack, a young lawyer, travels with her mother Silvia, the owner of an internationally renowned law firm specializing in insolvency, to the Breton port city of Cancale. When Silvia has a mishap during the trip and is hit by a car driven by the young Alain Demur, she has no choice but to return home. This gives Lissi the chance to step in for Silvia, find an investor on her own, and finally prove herself to her mother.

Liebe braucht Meer

2026

No artwork available
9.0

A woman emotionally kills her twin sister and slips into her role, but the dead's dark past catches up with her.

Todsünden – Die zwei Gesichter einer Frau

1999

Verräter - Tod am Meer poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Verräter - Tod am Meer

2017

Ein gefährliches Angebot poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Ein gefährliches Angebot

2016

No artwork available
6.7

Three roomates, a rhinoceros, hippo and a wildebeest, must confront their crocodile roomate Gerold about his poor habits.

No Room for Gerold

2006

Rohe Ostern poster
6.5

All hell has broken loose in the afterlife because the scatterbrained Schulz has killed his friend Frieder instead of the architecture student Sebastian. Frieder's soul rebels until the underworld agrees to give him a second chance. But first he has to persuade Sebastian to commit suicide.

Rohe Ostern

1996

Hilde poster
5.3

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Hilde

2009

Der Andere - eine Familiengeschichte poster
5.5

Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the three men may have little in common, yet what binds them together is their search for a home where their wounds from present and past can heal.

Der Andere - eine Familiengeschichte

2016

Outside the Box poster
5.6

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capacity for teamwork via video surveillance. Special highlight: the company has hired two over-the-hill actors to kidnap the consultants with unloaded weapons, keep them hostage, and to demand a high ransom from the company. A realistic role play with fun factor! But things don't go according to plan: the actors find the make-believe scenario so convincing that they decide to put the plan into action for real, using real weapons. Meanwhile, Human Resources manager Vanessa is observing what's happening via video surveillance and has to find a way to keep the hostage situation from escalating…

Outside the Box

2015

The Promise poster
6.6

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.

The Promise

1995

Nichts als Ärger mit den Männern poster
4.0

The young musician Katharina keeps afloat after completing her studies with odd jobs over water. But then her grumpy father Hubert suffers a heart attack - and suddenly Katharina has to take care of the catering company. When she learns that the company is about to go bankrupt, she tries to get the company back on track with wit and creative ideas. Nonetheless, the creditor bank is giving aside adviser Ben Hallbauer. First, Katharina is anything but pleased about this "watchdog".

Nichts als Ärger mit den Männern

2009

Mitte 30 poster
2.3

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his partner Markus, he is also sued by his widow Sandra. Allegedly, Gerrit owes Markus a lot of money. In reality, however, it was the other way around and his self-denial of his own situation was ultimately the reason for Markus' suicide. Gerrit's wife Claudia supports him in this difficult situation. But Gerrit falls in love with Sandra, of all people.

Mitte 30

2008

Requiem for a Romantic Woman poster
4.0

In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws herself at him with such terrifying brutality, is called Auguste Bussmann.

Requiem for a Romantic Woman

1999

Neue Freunde, neues Glück poster
6.7

Nele Ungureit is blindsided: suddenly, after 35 years of marriage, her husband Fred leaves her for his secretary. Nele's ideas of happiness together in old age are suddenly shattered. Even her two grown-up children Susan and Hannes are no support for her in this difficult situation. Nele has great difficulty adjusting to her new single life - until the surprising inheritance of a spacious city villa gives her an idea: together with some senior citizens she has met in the meantime, Nele sets up a shared flat and life together. The only problem is that her son Hannes has his own plans for the villa.

Neue Freunde, neues Glück

2005

Die Informantin - Der Fall Lissabon poster
4.3

After the success of the first film "Die Informantin", which delighted over 5.5 million viewers, the story of the undercover law student Aylin is now being told. She actually doesn't want anything to do with the LKA. But she has no choice. In "Der Fall Lissabon" she has to spy on a star lawyer who launders money for terrorist cells. Should she refuse, the life of her sister and that of her niece is threatened. Crime scene inspector Aylin Tezel embodies a brave young woman who gets caught between the fronts and can only rely on her instinct.

Die Informantin - Der Fall Lissabon

2019

Zen and the Art of Murder poster
3.8

One morning, a Japanese monk shows up in a village: He does not speak a word, has a head injury and is evidently on the run. Chief Inspector Louise Bonì immediately senses that the young man is in grave danger. However, her supervisor Bermann does not believe her word - because since a deadly use Bonì is psychologically struck and is mainly due to an alcohol problem. Nevertheless, she continues to investigate on her own. The trail leads to a mysterious Zen monastery and a private children's aid organization, which mediates Asian adopted children. Soon Louise awakens a terrible suspicion.

Zen and the Art of Murder

2015

The Weight of Steel Title poster
NR

Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be it as the leading industrial manager of Krupp or as the rescuer of numerous Jews during National Socialism.

The Weight of Steel Title

2020

Rosamunde Pilcher: Ein Doktor und drei Frauen poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Ein Doktor und drei Frauen

2016

Wenn wir uns begegnen poster
4.8

It's the 24th of December: The emergency department of a district hospital is preparing for a turbulent night: head physician Professor Singer, who has lost his wife and is even more involved in the work, and the surgeon Hannah Cornelsen, who talks about the work can forget that she and her husband have dwelt apart. On Christmas Eve, the hospital will become a microcosm in which a wide variety of people and destinies will meet - and for everyone, life will be in a completely different light next morning.

Wenn wir uns begegnen

2008

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