Acting
Dani Levy
Born
1957-11-17 (68)
Place of birth
Basel, Switzerland
Known for
Acting
Credits
80 titles
Dani Levy (born 17 November 1957) is a Swiss filmmaker, theatrical director, screenwriter and actor. Levy was born to a Jewish family in Switzerland in 1957. His mother was a Holocaust survivor. He moved to Berlin in the 1980s. Levy's films include 'RobbyKallePaul', 'I Was on Mars', 'Meschugge', 'Du mich auch' and 'Väter'. 'Väter' starred Christiane Paul. In 2004, he directed 'Alles auf Zucker!', a comedy about a secularised Jew from the former GDR who has to reconcile himself with his Orthodox brother. In 2007, he directed the comedy-drama 'Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler', about a Jewish actor hired to enliven Adolf Hitler's speeches during the final days of…
Known for
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Volle Kanne
1999
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ZIBB
2003
4.5Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
Beckmann
1999
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
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Tietjen und Bommes
1997
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Aeschbacher
2001
Film credits
2010s · 6 titles
6.8It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
2015
8.0Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.
Winter Journey
2019
3.6Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.
Family Practice
2019
5.0No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in problems: his pubescent children Romy and Alain find him ridiculous, his wife Helena would be happy if she only found him ridiculous, his bank is going bankrupt and his new film project is finding it difficult to meet with approval. Friend becomes foe, hope becomes paranoia and when even his psychiatrist advises him to end his life, Alfi Seliger attempts a theatrical exit. But as befits a born "Nebbich", a lovable loser, even this fails - he survives and only appears to awaken in his old life...
Life Is Too Long
2010
7.1Simon Grünberg (12) never cared for his Jewish heritage, while his divorced parents bicker whether he should to his bar mithzva as father Frank wants, or save his foreskin as mother Hannah holds. When he falls in love at first sight of the new 'rabbi' Rebecca, Ben decides to join the preparatory religious class hoping to win her.
Simon Says Goodbye to His Foreskin
2015
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Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte
2015
2000s · 6 titles
5.1Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.
Replay
2001
8.0Featuring interviews with daughter Nicola Lubitsch, film historians Enno Patalas and Jan-Christopher Horak and filmmaker Tom Tykwer (among others), Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin documents the life of the legendary filmmaker from his birth in 1892 to his departure for Hollywood in 1923. The documentary is sprinkled with excerpts from Lubitsch's rarely-seen early work (both as actor and director) and offers fascinating insights into the German film industry in the silent era.
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood
2006
NRYou say you’re interested in film and you’ve never been to the Moviemento? You are hereby put on cineastic probation – at least until you watch Bernd Sobolla’s documentary.
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
5.8Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009
4.7The tender and supporting relationship between a young woman and her gay husband, in WW2.
Silk and Ashes
2003
Documentary about the work of director Tom Tykwer, one of the most successful directors in Germany today.
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004
1990s · 13 titles
5.2In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to have a tryst with a gigolo he meets in the lobby, a carniverous condom bites off his right testicle and flees, which sets the detective off on a quest to stop the predatory prophylactic once and for all.
The Killer Condom
1996
6.8In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.
Aimée & Jaguar
1999
5.3Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s
The Giraffe
1999
7.5Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
I Was on Mars
1991
Two stay-at-home dads who meet at the playground realize that their daily routine is stifling their creative talents. Without telling their wives, they organize a service that connects retired women with families in need of babysitters. The business is so successful that it quickly becomes too much for them to handle.
Hausmänner
1991
3.7Two inseparable friends with very different characters come to Munich to study and soon desire the same woman. The more reliable and down-to-earth one marries her and starts a family with her, but the more "exciting" and charming one also arouses her feelings, so that over the years they all suffer from their desires and "deprivations".
One of My Oldest Friends
1995
4.0A tragi-comedy telling the story of the adventures of Robin, Anna, Jost and Leo - the meds - who want to be anything but healthy, happy and mediocre. They all live in a large city in West-Germany and are "Westies" to the core. Precocious, disillusioned, morally eroded, politically bored and sexually sated. Always on the run from the next compromise, they are big kids caught up in their mid-twenties crisis. One day in the midst of all this depression the suspicion arises that one of them is in fact a closet "Eastie", a liar and betrayer, an undercover agent, a neo-Nazi or at least a Stalinist...
The Meds
1995
4.3The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture based on various languages and lifeforms has grown rampant. Everyone is looking for a way to survive.
Half the World
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Berlin, 10:46
1994
5.0Jojo, a bicycle messenger prone to daydreaming, gets a job offer from a stranger that begins to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. When the route becomes a regular assignment, Jojo finds romance and deadly enemies along the way.
Tempo
1996
6.0Anna and Lisa, two young women, meet by chance in the vestibule of a bank, and decide after that to go on together leaving a successful trail of bank-robberies through Germany.
Burning Life
1994
An aspiring documentary filmmaker named Simon Rosenthal tries to get some attention for his film about skinheads versus Turkish immigrants. However, as a Jewish man in today's Germany, his fears for the future prompt him to move to the moon.
Without Me
1993
9.0Flora, a librarian, is hitchhiking to a job in a faraway town. Simple-hearted plumber Tim is headed to the Black Forest, a cow for his nuptials in tow. But when their paths intersect, the cow isn't the only one who loses its bearings. In this quixotic road movie, Flora is an endearing handful — misplacing the cow, then adding a runaway to Tim's cargo load — and soon Tim's wedding plans are fading from view.
The Wedding Cow
1999
1980s · 2 titles
4.6Julia and Romeo are two disenchanted lovers who want to break up but are unwilling to suffer the pain. After a nasty fight, Romeo storms off and unsuccessfully vents his frustration with a black prostitute. While visiting the ramshackle brothel, he sees a strange man, who may be a government official, handing over a huge wad of money. Later, he and Julia reunite and go to an upscale golden anniversary party. There a handsome American flirts with Julia. After yet another row, Romeo and Julia retire to the balcony for a love scene. Unfortunately, their making up is interrupted by a sudden power outage. When the lights go back on, Romeo finds the knifed corpse of the party's hostess at his feet. Naturally, he's accused of the crime, but before the other partygoers can get him, he and Julia flee into the Berlin summer night. Their strange series ensuing adventures comprise the rest of the film.
You Love Me Too
1986
After a quarrel Henry leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but nevertheless all of them have the same problem: women. When the mysterious Malu appears, each of them wonders if she may be their dream-woman.
RobbyKallePaul
1989
Series credits
No synopsis available yet.
Volle Kanne
1999
No synopsis available yet.
ZIBB
2003
4.5Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
Beckmann
1999
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
No synopsis available yet.
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
No synopsis available yet.
Aeschbacher
2001
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Kulturplatz
2004
No synopsis available yet.
German Film Award
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Im Dialog
1997
No synopsis available yet.
Nachtstudio
1997
No synopsis available yet.
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Abendshow
2017
No synopsis available yet.
West.art am Sonntag
2003
No synopsis available yet.
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
No synopsis available yet.
Im Palais
2004
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Krömer - Die internationale Show
2007
No synopsis available yet.
Faust
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Leute am Donnerstag
2004
6.1TV total is a German late-night television comedy talk show. The set of TV total includes a floating interview stage that can be moved from one studio corner to the other. The show featured buttons with sounds and clips before Craig Ferguson's The Late Late Show.
TV total
1999
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Sendung ohne Namen
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tonspur – Der Soundtrack meines Lebens
2010
No synopsis available yet.
Paris-Berlin, le débat
2008
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Motel
1984
Behind the camera
4.8An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.
Berlin, I Love You
2019
4.8An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.
Berlin, I Love You
2019
5.6Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ...
My Führer
2007
5.7A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.
The Kangaroo Chronicles
2020
5.3Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s
The Giraffe
1999
5.3Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s
The Giraffe
1999
6.2Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
Go for Zucker
2004
6.2Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
Go for Zucker
2004
7.5Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
I Was on Mars
1991
7.5Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
I Was on Mars
1991
7.5Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
I Was on Mars
1991
5.8Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.
Silent Night
1995
5.8Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.
Silent Night
1995
5.0No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in problems: his pubescent children Romy and Alain find him ridiculous, his wife Helena would be happy if she only found him ridiculous, his bank is going bankrupt and his new film project is finding it difficult to meet with approval. Friend becomes foe, hope becomes paranoia and when even his psychiatrist advises him to end his life, Alfi Seliger attempts a theatrical exit. But as befits a born "Nebbich", a lovable loser, even this fails - he survives and only appears to awaken in his old life...
Life Is Too Long
2010
5.0Marco and Melanie, a young married couple, are living a life of passion, chaos, and all the little frustrations of everyday existence. Their love for each other seems like a beacon on heavy seas. But career pressure, burned toast, and dirty laundry are eroding all tenderness, and they never seem to find enough time for their six-year-old son, Benny, either. Their world is about to fall apart when Melanie moves out, taking Benny with her. She files for divorce, and Marco makes a decision that is not only going to change his own life. He suddenly discovers his own unique way of being a father … I’m the Father is a modern portrait of a generation which appears to fail its own ambitions: After all, how do you combine a job, children, love and all the other challenges of everyday life – without giving yourself up in the process? And then what happens when positions become entrenched and a divorce seems inevitable?
I'm The Father
2002
4.6Mimi has her hands full. Her son Felix is hyperactive, her ex-husband Johnny is a mess, her father is a chronic gambler. Then Felix signs her up for a Swiss casting show, because Mimi wanted to be a musician originally. So Mimi decides to head for Switzerland, since it could pay all their debts. But then the whole family wants to come...
Wunderlich's World
2016
4.6Mimi has her hands full. Her son Felix is hyperactive, her ex-husband Johnny is a mess, her father is a chronic gambler. Then Felix signs her up for a Swiss casting show, because Mimi wanted to be a musician originally. So Mimi decides to head for Switzerland, since it could pay all their debts. But then the whole family wants to come...
Wunderlich's World
2016
NRMunich, 1938: After his traditional Jewish restaurant was destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnacht, restaurateur Richard Schwarz and charismatic jack-of-all-trades Edgar Enders hatch a daring plan. They open a sophisticated Jewish cooking school.
Kochschule Schwarz
2026
NRMunich, 1938: After his traditional Jewish restaurant was destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnacht, restaurateur Richard Schwarz and charismatic jack-of-all-trades Edgar Enders hatch a daring plan. They open a sophisticated Jewish cooking school.
Kochschule Schwarz
2026
5.8Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009
4.0The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual assault. Magnus is also struggling with blackmail: a stranger has stolen his diaries, which reveal his innermost desires and abysses. The well-known psychotherapist is an obsessional neurotic who can only with difficulty hide his disgust from his fellow man. After a failed appearance on "Günther Jauch", Magnus tried to use force to bring the stolen diaries back into his possession. But he has to rethink in order to solve his problems.
Der Liebling des Himmels
2015
4.0The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual assault. Magnus is also struggling with blackmail: a stranger has stolen his diaries, which reveal his innermost desires and abysses. The well-known psychotherapist is an obsessional neurotic who can only with difficulty hide his disgust from his fellow man. After a failed appearance on "Günther Jauch", Magnus tried to use force to bring the stolen diaries back into his possession. But he has to rethink in order to solve his problems.
Der Liebling des Himmels
2015
4.6Julia and Romeo are two disenchanted lovers who want to break up but are unwilling to suffer the pain. After a nasty fight, Romeo storms off and unsuccessfully vents his frustration with a black prostitute. While visiting the ramshackle brothel, he sees a strange man, who may be a government official, handing over a huge wad of money. Later, he and Julia reunite and go to an upscale golden anniversary party. There a handsome American flirts with Julia. After yet another row, Romeo and Julia retire to the balcony for a love scene. Unfortunately, their making up is interrupted by a sudden power outage. When the lights go back on, Romeo finds the knifed corpse of the party's hostess at his feet. Naturally, he's accused of the crime, but before the other partygoers can get him, he and Julia flee into the Berlin summer night. Their strange series ensuing adventures comprise the rest of the film.
You Love Me Too
1986
4.6Julia and Romeo are two disenchanted lovers who want to break up but are unwilling to suffer the pain. After a nasty fight, Romeo storms off and unsuccessfully vents his frustration with a black prostitute. While visiting the ramshackle brothel, he sees a strange man, who may be a government official, handing over a huge wad of money. Later, he and Julia reunite and go to an upscale golden anniversary party. There a handsome American flirts with Julia. After yet another row, Romeo and Julia retire to the balcony for a love scene. Unfortunately, their making up is interrupted by a sudden power outage. When the lights go back on, Romeo finds the knifed corpse of the party's hostess at his feet. Naturally, he's accused of the crime, but before the other partygoers can get him, he and Julia flee into the Berlin summer night. Their strange series ensuing adventures comprise the rest of the film.
You Love Me Too
1986
10.0An exploration of the revival of Nazi sentiment in Germany is the theme of the five short films gathered together in this anthology.
Neues Deutschland
1993
After a quarrel Henry leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but nevertheless all of them have the same problem: women. When the mysterious Malu appears, each of them wonders if she may be their dream-woman.
RobbyKallePaul
1989
An aspiring documentary filmmaker named Simon Rosenthal tries to get some attention for his film about skinheads versus Turkish immigrants. However, as a Jewish man in today's Germany, his fears for the future prompt him to move to the moon.
Without Me
1993
An aspiring documentary filmmaker named Simon Rosenthal tries to get some attention for his film about skinheads versus Turkish immigrants. However, as a Jewish man in today's Germany, his fears for the future prompt him to move to the moon.
Without Me
1993
Television film produced for the "petites caméras" collection
Le Long Chemin du Paradis
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