Paula Beer

Actress

February 23, 1995 (31 years)

Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Biography

Paula Beer is a German actress. She first became known as a teenager by her main role in Chris Kraus's 2010 film Poll. Her breakthrough was in 2016, when she starred in François Ozon's Frantz, for which she won the Marcello Mastroianni Award, for best young performer, at the Venice Film Festival. Wikipedia

Filmography

6.8

Kölner Treff

Self

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5.2

Leute heute

Self

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9.0

Bambi

Self

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

7.7

Never Look Away

Ellie

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

7.3

Bad Banks

Jana Liekam

Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far she is prepared to go for her career.

7.5

The Wolf's Call

Diana

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

6.8

Afire

Nadja

Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.

6.5

Undine

Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.

5.6

Ludwig II

Sophie in Bayern

A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construction of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.

6.6

Miroirs No. 3

Laura

After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty's family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.

7.0

The Dark Valley

Luzi

The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.

6.7

Transit

Marie

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

7.0

Diplomacy

Ingrid (uncredited)

On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler's orders. As the general prepares to detonate explosives throughout the capital, Swedish consul Raoul Nordling uses diplomacy in a desperate bid to convince him to defy the orders and save Paris.

7.1

Your Honor

Arija

An incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, the tables are turned when his son is guilty of a hit-and-run case.

7.3

Frantz

Anna

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.

5.9

Stella. A Life.

Stella Goldschlag

Stella, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, her life turns into a culpable tragedy.

7.7

Stiller

Julika Stiller-Tschudy

James Larkin White is arrested on his arrival at the Swiss border. He is accused of being the missing Swiss sculptor Anatol Stiller. The missing man, with whom he is mistaken, is accused of being involved in the “Smyrnov affair”.

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Trivial Of My Life

Vera Sokolova

Early 1900s, Argentina. Dick Mahler sneaks onto a ship he believes is bound for India—but ends up in St. Petersburg, Russia, with nothing and no way back. He drifts until a traveling circus takes him in, a place where everything has a role, and staying means learning how to fit into one.

6.7

The Poll Diaries

Oda von Siering

In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.

6.5

4 Kings

Alex

Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens for whom the upcoming Christmas eve isn't a time of peace and joy: Since they all have a history of escalating family conflicts, they'll be spending the holidays not at home, but in a psychiatric ward. The utterly different adolescents not only have to adjust to one another, but also have to confront themselves in exhausting therapy sessions. Yet thanks to the unorthodox psychiatrist Dr. Wolf, the sessions take a turn for the unexpected - and the four experience a Christmas which they will never forget.