Johannes Krisch

Acting

Johannes Krisch

Born — Died

1966-01-01 — 2026-07-27

Place of birth

Vienna, Austria

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Johannes Krisch is an Austrian actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1987.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

The Phoenician Scheme poster
6.5

Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.

The Phoenician Scheme

2025

The Stories poster
7.4

The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.

The Stories

2026

Woodland poster
6.7

Drawing inspiration from Wald, a 2015 novel by the bestselling author Doris Knecht, as well as her own traumatic experience of witnessing the 2020 Vienna attack, writer-director Elisabeth Scharang retreats to the woods in this atmospheric and soul-stirring film.

Woodland

2023

Above the World poster
5.5

The expectations of Elias are high. He is not only an excellent student, but also the son of the richest farmer in the Zillertal. Soon he will take over the farm. But the more desperately he tries to fulfill his intended role, the more he feels that he really wants to live a completely different life.

Above the World

2022

Narcissus and Goldmund poster
6.3

In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. There, he meets Narcissus, a brilliant, scholarly novice who is introverted and aloof. A unique and deep life-long friendship is born. Narcissus chooses to remain detached from the world in prayer and meditation. Goldmund, passionate, sensual and impulsive, runs away from the monastery to live a picaresque wanderer’s life, his amorous and artistic adventures leading him to discover the extremes of both ecstasy and pain. Several thrilling years pass until one day these friends cross paths again...

Narcissus and Goldmund

2020

Dennstein & Schwarz - Rufmord poster
6.0

Therese Schwarz represents the politician Konrad Wagner, a close friend of Paula Dennstein, who was pilloried by a newspaper for his #MeToo stigma. Therefore, the surprise visit from her little sister Marita doesn't fit into her plan at all. Especially since Marita, along with Ferdinand, has come into sensitive contact with the police due to a cannabis incident. For Konrad's defense, it's important to identify the slanderer, but it's a race against time, as the state elections are just around the corner...

Dennstein & Schwarz - Rufmord

2020

2010s · 24 titles

A Cure for Wellness poster
6.4

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

A Cure for Wellness

2017

A Hidden Life poster
7.2

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

A Hidden Life

2019

In the Fade poster
6.9

Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

In the Fade

2017

Labyrinth of Lies poster
7.2

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

Labyrinth of Lies

2014

The Tobacconist poster
6.4

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

The Tobacconist

2018

The Revenge of the Siren poster
5.5

In 1427, Lady Maria Van Arnstein is informed that her beloved husband Michel Van Arnstein was murdered in a battle against the Hussitas. However he was actually betrayed by his ambitious cousin Hettenhein that wants his lands and castle. The Pope's Great Inquisitor Janus Suppertour meets King König Sigismund and tells that he wants Maria for him.

The Revenge of the Siren

2012

Shed My Skin poster
6.5

The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17, and the consequences for him and his family, but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.

Shed My Skin

2016

360 poster
5.7

A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute. The businessman's wife prepares to call it quits with her younger lover. A Brazilian student breaks up with her boyfriend in London. A recovering alcoholic travels to Phoenix in search of his missing daughter. A paroled sex offender struggles to stay composed when propositioned in a Denver airport. A widower's religious devotion is put to a difficult test.

360

2012

Isenhart: The Hunt Is on for Your Soul poster
6.9

In the middle of century XII much of the European territory is ruled by the Holy Roman Empire and violence and cruelty are the order of the day. Several German regions are terrorized by a dangerous murderer who is dedicated to kill young girls. Therefore, Isanhart and Laurin, his faithful companion in arms, will travel from end to end of the old continent to hunt the ruthless criminal.

Isenhart: The Hunt Is on for Your Soul

2011

Dennstein & Schwarz - Sterben macht Erben poster
6.0

In the heirs, the friendship ends, as is well known - especially if the illegitimate scion of a count is to come unexpectedly to a million-fortune. In a bitter inheritance dispute, Paula Dennstein and Therese Schwarz are the lawyers of the parties to the dispute, who at eye level deliver a sophisticated exchange of blows and outdo each other in bluffing. While the idealistic career starter leaves no stone unturned to help her client to his rights, the lavish legal advocate of the noble family must prevent the family's reputation from getting under the wheels.

Dennstein & Schwarz - Sterben macht Erben

2018

Original Bliss poster
4.7

Helen Brindel is trapped in a violent marriage and the prison of her faith when she falls in love with a scholar, Professor Eduard Gluck. But he’s a secret porn addict. Slowly, carefully, two very different individuals get to know each other.

Original Bliss

2016

Jack poster
4.5

Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.

Jack

2015

Bauernopfer poster
NR

For organic farmer Andi Gruber, the single father of his eleven-year-old daughter Lena, his world suddenly collapses when it turns out that his cattle are contaminated with harmful substances and have to be slaughtered by the authorities. His livelihood is threatened. He desperately tries to find out what the pollutants are and how his cattle could have been contaminated. He goes to biochemist Dr. Kroetz and finds him dying, fatally wounded by a bolt gun. As Andi was seen at the scene of the crime, he is suspected of murder and is wanted. After he knows his daughter Lena is safe with his sister on the neighboring farm, Andi takes up the fight. With the help of young scientist Silvie Kraus, he discovers that an entire cartel of abattoir operators, chemical companies, vets and politicians are apparently testing new vaccines on the farmers' livestock without their knowledge and are not even afraid of murder.

Bauernopfer

2011

Finsterworld poster
6.4

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.

Finsterworld

2013

Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus poster
5.6

Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the stiff-legged Paul Schremser and the trigger-happy Alfred Schrammel, take over the investigation and are completely in the dark. Next to each murder victim is a playing card with the inscription "Rien ne va plus". There are seven names on the back. Already three murders in 24 hours....

Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus

2010

Landauer poster
5.9

The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he survived to come back and start to rebuild his old club after World War II.

Landauer

2014

Angst in meinem Kopf poster
5.8

Sonja Brunner works as a prison officer in a prison. She has been earning money for the family for years, providing a living for her stepdaughter Iris and her husband Jens. Jens is a freelance writer and hopes to finally land a publishing deal with his new novel. After an incident with prisoner Michael Zeuner, who had taken Sonja Brunner hostage during an escape attempt, she moves to another prison - she represses the experience and continues to work. At first everything goes well, but the financial pressure at home increases.

Angst in meinem Kopf

2018

Harter Brocken: Die Kronzeugin poster
6.8

A shootout, five fatalities and he himself wounded - in the otherwise quiet station of the village policeman Frank Koops, things are just like in the Wild West. The bloodbath was commissioned by the imprisoned mafia boss Petrovic, who wants to use all means to get rid of a key witness who was hidden in the tranquility of St. Andreasberg in the utmost secrecy.

Harter Brocken: Die Kronzeugin

2017

Lose My Self poster
5.4

The film tells the story of longtime married couple Lena and Tore, who need to deal with Lena's sudden lost of biographical memory due to amnesia.

Lose My Self

2014

The Fatherless poster
5.1

They never expected Kyra to turn up again. The two brothers and their sister, brought together when their father dies, are stunned by the appearance of their sister.Kyra suddenly vanished over twenty years ago during the breakup of the hippie commune where they were all born. She is like a stranger to them now... but when she discovers that her very existence has been kept secret, she starts to uncover old mysteries. And soon all the brothers and sisters find themselves unearthing the roots of their childhood memories they had suppressed in order to survive. In her debut feature film Marie Kreutzer embarks upon an intriguing and disturbing journey into the past, a gripping study of belonging and solitude, bonds and freedom. Written by Novotny & Novotny Film

The Fatherless

2011

Dennstein & Schwarz - Pro bono, was sonst! poster
6.0

Lawyers Paula Dennstein and Therese Schwarz open a law firm together. But their first case is already a tough one. They have to protect a single widower from the fraudulent machinations of a prefabricated house company - pro bono, of course! But things are also going haywire in their private lives. While Paula's marriage threatens to collapse for good, Therese meets Thomas and is completely smitten by him. The attraction is obviously mutual, until Therese realizes who Thomas really is.

Dennstein & Schwarz - Pro bono, was sonst!

2019

Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben poster
NR

In April 1945, as Jewish prisoners on a death march from Hungary reach an abandoned barn near an Austrian village, their SS guards vanish, leaving them starving, freezing and helpless while villagers remain divided over their fate. Desperate for food and hope, a former Budapest opera singer among them devises a plan: with fellow inmates and willing villagers, they stage Johann Strauss’s “Wiener Blut” in the barn to earn the means to survive.

Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben

2011

The Woman with One Shoe poster
6.8

Blond, half-long hair floats in a seepage pond. A well-to-do lady calls the police, and departmental inspector Franzi fishes out a scalp.

The Woman with One Shoe

2014

No artwork available
NR

Rosemarie is a hard-working young woman living in a small English town in the 1950's. She left Austria with her father during the war to escape the Nazi oppression and since then, despite poverty and loneliness, she has always kept the faith that better days would arise. When she meets Anton, one of her father's friends, she immediately falls in love and starts believing in a fortunate destiny with him. Against all impediments, their secret love affair may help Rosemarie to find out where she really belongs.

Where I Belong

2014

2000s · 10 titles

Revanche poster
7.2

Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.

Revanche

2008

Andreas Hofer poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Andreas Hofer

2002

Der schwarze Löwe poster
NR

Since three asylum seekers from Nigeria started playing for SV Heidfeld, things have been looking up for the club.

Der schwarze Löwe

2008

Schön, dass es Dich gibt poster
5.5

Jackies' quiet life as a housewife and English teacher ends abruptly when her husband informs her that he is leaving her for a younger woman. In a quest for revenge, Jackie makes arrangements with a plastic surgeon for a general overhaul with the goal of landing a younger husband. A newspaper leads her to Peter who is as bored by his insurance job as he is by the young women he has been dating. Written by John W. Wrist

Schön, dass es Dich gibt

2005

Conny und die verschwundene Ehefrau poster
2.0

Connie needs money. When a mysterious watch manufacturer asks her to investigate possible insurance fraud, the problem seems to be solved for the time being. But then it gets really thick for Conny. It seems to be about murder and the client could be the killer himself. Unfortunately, Conny has already fallen in love with him.

Conny und die verschwundene Ehefrau

2005

König Ottokars Glück und Ende poster
NR

The cruel King Ottokar of Bohemia, spoiled by fortune and unpredictable, is dead. Now, with the modest Rudolf of Habsburg, peace has finally returned to Austria, for he replaces tyrannical arbitrariness with God-fearing clemency—and the way is clear for a story that lasted 700 years and bears the title: "The Habsburgs in Austria." With this view of Franz Grillparzer's play, many productions have been staged since the premiere of "King Ottokar's Fortune and End" – Rudolf of Habsburg as the gatekeeper to the dawn of a new, better era. It became clear what a great projection screen Grillparzer's play offered. It should really be called "The Habsburgs' rise to power as a development toward the good, the just, the orderly." But it is called "King Ottokar's Fortune and End," and that is what it is about—the fortune and end of a human being and how the one is sometimes directly connected to the other.

König Ottokars Glück und Ende

2006

Frechheit siegt poster
4.5

cheek wins! According to this motto, Conny Herzog is very successful in life and usually achieves her goals, which are often very high. After the successful conclusion of the "father search" operation, the cheerful woman wants to really get going. With an invention by her father Paul, great business ideas and a good deal of courage in her luggage, she dares to pull off the big coup with the help of her friends Freddy, René and Susanne.

Frechheit siegt

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Höllenangst

2007

Zwei Väter einer Tochter poster
6.7

The furniture manufacturer Albert and the doorman Paul could both be Conny's fathers, the result of a long-suppressed affair between both men and the same woman. This is becoming a huge problem, because Conny is demanding unpaid alimony - from 30 years. Paul's marital happiness and Albert's business future are at stake. A large-scale cover-up begins and leads to complete chaos.

Zwei Väter einer Tochter

2003

König Lear poster
NR

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

König Lear

2008

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Vienna Crime Squad poster
4.9

SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

Vienna Crime Squad

2005

Vienna Crime Squad poster
4.9

SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

Vienna Crime Squad

2005

Inspector Rex poster
7.2

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

Inspector Rex

1994

Inspector Rex poster
7.2

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

Inspector Rex

1994

Inspector Rex poster
7.2

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

Inspector Rex

1994

Murder in the Mountains poster
4.1

SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.

Murder in the Mountains

2001

Murder in the Mountains poster
4.1

SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.

Murder in the Mountains

2001

Murder by the Lake poster
6.8

Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.

Murder by the Lake

2014

Vienna Blood poster
7.4

Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around the grand cafes and opera houses of 1900s Vienna.

Vienna Blood

2019

Schnell ermittelt poster
4.1

Angelika Schnell is the head of homicide and living proof that chaos is just another form of order. Nevertheless, she is a brilliant investigator - even if her methods are sometimes quite unconventional: In addition to hard facts, she also allows her distinctive inner voice to apply, which often leads to incomprehensible but very important conclusions...

Schnell ermittelt

2009

DENK mit KULTUR poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

DENK mit KULTUR

2014

Old Money poster
6.1

A family, blessed with richness and power, is desperately seeking for a liver for their father, who wants to hand down his wealth to the one who gets the organ.

Old Money

2015

Neben der Spur poster
6.7

Hamburg thriller with great depth

Neben der Spur

2015

Borderland poster
5.0

Gritty police thriller about a German father-daughter team working with French colleagues to battle organized crime in the German border town of Kehl.

Borderland

2017

The Typist poster
6.9

Freya Becker is a typist with the homicide division of the Berlin police. Freya’s daughter, Marie, disappeared 11 years ago without a trace, and Freya is determined to uncover the truth, whatever the cost.

The Typist

2018

Braunschlag poster
7.6

To save his town Braunschlag from bankruptcy, the mayor decides to fake a Marian apparition. This black-humored farce revolves around greed, corruption, churchianity and alcohol.

Braunschlag

2012