Heinz Hoenig

Acting

Heinz Hoenig

Born 1951-09-24 · Landsberg am Lech, Germany

Heinz Hoenig was born on September 24, 1951 in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany. He is an actor who participated in over 100 feature films and TV productions., known for Das Boot (1981), Seven Dwarfs (2004) and Antibodies (2005). He was previously married to Simone Hoenig.

Acting credits

Das Boot poster
8.1

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Das Boot

1981

Killing Cars poster
3.7

In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for testing, he is confronted by ominous men, eager to get their hands on his patent. Evil Arab petroleum lords also want to stop this threat to the gasoline market any way they can.

Killing Cars

1986

Jump poster
5.0

JUMP is a psychological drama revealing for the first time the extraordinary circumstances behind the unjust murder trial of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman, who would later become the most sought after celebrity portrait photographer of his generation.

Jump

2008

Der Leibwächter poster
7.0

Film is about the undercover assignment of a BKA officer as the bodyguard of a drug baron. His job is to gather information to put a stop to the cartel. But unfortunately everything goes wrong, "The Bodyguard" is exposed and eliminated in Turkey. He survives, returns and wants to complete his mission despite betrayal within his own ranks.

Der Leibwächter

1989

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Paul kommt zurück

1978

7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald poster
5.5

The Seven Dwarves live deep within a female-free-zone of the Enchanted Forest, but they cannot resist the innocent charms of Snow White when she enters their world. So when the evil queen abducts her, it is up to the dwarves to save her life.

7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald

2004

Cop Killer poster
5.8

A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only Martin Beck believes them to be innocent.

Cop Killer

1994

Alles nur Tarnung poster
4.0

After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted with Daddy, Marlies is housed just one floor up in the cell of the ageing prostitute Jutta. With Christmas just around the corner, the four of them join forces and plan to break through to their cells to celebrate a lavish party with a can of homemade schnapps.

Alles nur Tarnung

1996

Kopf oder Zahl poster
3.5

Two young crooks steal fabric, which is of course sorely missed. In addition to the former owners, an investigative journalist and a bad cop who smells a windfall are also on their trail. Meanwhile, a newly released con is forced by his ex's pimp to go back to the deepest depths. There he meets a former doctor who smuggles drugs for the mafia in order to send money to his daughter, whom he thinks is at home in Grozny, but who is actually working for the mafia just a few houses away.

Kopf oder Zahl

2009

No artwork available
9.0

A half-dozen random people find themselves locked overnight in a floating discotheque and at the mercy of mysterious terror.

The Voice

1989

Ice Princess Lily poster
6.2

A young dragon looking for his own fire must fight against an evil wizard with help of the beautiful ice princess, Lilli.

Ice Princess Lily

2018

Antibodies poster
6.7

When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.

Antibodies

2005

Me poster
5.2

A handyman named Hans moves to a small town in Majorca where his his presence strikes a discord with the local residents.

Me

2007

Krücke poster
7.0

The turmoil of the last days of the war. 13-year-old Tom loses his mother while on the run. In Vienna he meets the one-legged black marketeer 'Krücke' - a sly, cunning survivalist and at the same time an adorable, kind friend. The two find shelter with Bronka, a Jewish woman who serves alcohol to Allied soldiers and black marketeers. Tom and Krücke settle into this insecure world. Krücke plays the saxophone, Tom waits tables, until one day a return to Germany becomes possible. But the train that the one-legged man and the boy board is stranded in no man's land...

Krücke

1993

Der Drücker poster
8.2

Tommy, 22 years old, is broke and in debt, still lives with his parents and is constantly arguing with his father. The young man wants to break out of this life and believes he has finally found the opportunity to do so. A job advertisement promising 400 marks a week seems tailor-made for him. He quickly makes the acquaintance of a pusher column run by Kalle. But Tommy's ideas of a free life are soon nipped in the bud: He works more than 12 hours a day, goes from door to door to sell magazine subscriptions, lives in a filthy shared room, experiences psychological violence. He leads a life like a slave. How can he get out of this hopeless situation?

Der Drücker

1986

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Verdammtes Glück

1997

Ex poster
10.0

A gang of Berlin crash kids meet regularly on the roof of the former GDR Foreign Ministry. They swarm out to break into cars, get high on drugs and take part in life-threatening races. One of them is killed in the process, adding to the maelstrom of despair and violence. The leader Mario gets involved with Russian mobsters, and when he realizes that his girlfriend Sarah has fallen in love with the newcomer Robert, he steers his friends into a deadly catastrophe, furious with jealousy.

Ex

1995

Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück

2004

The System poster
4.8

Mike is twenty, attractive, intelligent and a loner. He only shares his thoughts and an apartment in a prefabricated housing estate in Rostock with his best friend Dustin. There, on the roof with a view of the sea, they smoke their joints and sort stolen goods. Mike doesn't think beyond the next day. But everything changes when he is caught by Konrad Böhm during a break-in. The charismatic businessman introduces Mike to a parallel world of international lobbyists and former GDR secret service agents who have saved their networks for reunified Germany.

The System

2012

No artwork available
7.0

Ferdinand was abandoned as an infant by his parents in the forest. There he was found by a homosexual couple. Ludwig (called "Laila") and Harry adopted him. Ferdinand was strongly influenced by his adoptive parents. As a young man, he is an outsider due to his potty behavior.

Andersrum

2005

Judgment in Berlin poster
5.4

An American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.

Judgment in Berlin

1988

7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough poster
5.5

Snow White asks the seven dwarfs for help, because if they don't manage to find out the name of a little boy (Rumpelstiltskin) within two days, her newborn child will be taken away from her. The journey takes the dwarves to a depressive, rhyming Pinocchio and the omniscient wizard Helge, among others, and all the way to the world of humans.

7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough

2006

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story poster
7.1

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

2021

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fifty Fifty

1988