Moritz Bleibtreu Movies
Born to Austrian actors Hans Brenner and Monika Bleibtreu, Moritz Bleibtreu started acting at the age of six. He traveled the U.S. and Paris as a teenager before becoming a prominent German actor in television and film. After a few roles in productions with his mother, he appeared in the drama Einfach nur Liebe (Simply Love) and the comedy Stadtgespräch (Talk of the Town). In 1997, he earned his first major acclaim as the comedic gangster Abdul in Knockin' On Heaven's Door. The next year he made his international breakthrough as Franka Potente's slightly dim boyfriend Manni in Run Lola Run. With his sweetly sensitive looks, Bleibtreau continued playing mostly nice guys in German comedies and dramas: the idiot brother in Luna Papa, a hustling DJ in Fandango, and a schoolteacher in Im Juli. He appeared in four films in 2001, including his first American production, The Invisible Circus, and the goofy comedy Lammbock. He took on some challenging parts that year as well, appearing with Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgård for Taking Sides and as the lead prisoner in Das Experiment. Continuing with leading man status, Bleibtreau next portrayed an Italian immigrant in Solino and Kaiser Titus in Germanikus. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi- 1997
Two terminal patients leave their hospital beds for the open highway in this German road movie, a popular success in Germany. When cancer victim Rudi (Jan Josef Liefers) meets Martin (Til Schweiger), who has a brain tumor, they knock back tequila one night and decide to head north to experience life at the seashore, something Rudi has hoped to do his entire life. However, the car they've stolen belongs to two thieves and contains a million marks. Soon they're being pursued by both thugs and cops. The film's soundtrack includes Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". Shown at the 1997 London and AFI/Los Angeles film festivals. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, (more)
- 1995
This lively German comedy follows the exploits of the cynical Monika, a never-married woman who just turned 30 and earns her living giving advice to the lovelorn on a local radio station. Though acerbic and glib with her replies on the air, Monika is a total washout in the outside world of l'amour. Her mother makes her feel worse, and her gay brother helps her put an add in the lonely hearts column of the local paper. Through her ad, she meets Erik, a tone-deaf dentist who likes to sing "That's Amore." He says he's single, but soon Monika discovers that he is married to a friend of hers, Sabine. A romantic triangle is born; mayhem and frank, funny discussions of sex ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1994
One of the most difficult tasks a high school teacher faces is to generate interest amongst bored students. This is the initial focus of this German drama. Herr Pilgrim, a language skills, teacher, is trying to fire up his students. But his students are not so easily roused. The class is divided itself into two distinct camps, based on styles of rock-n-roll groups. The first group rallies around the skin-head metal band The Smashers. Their leader is Thommy, a boy from the wealthiest family in town. The second group favors Fresh Familee, a multicultural band comprised of Turkish-German rap singers. When Mamba, a young man with affectations of James Dean, transfers into the class he must decide which group to join. That he is attracted to Thommy's ex-girlfriend Nadja, does not help matters. Herr Pilgrim wants to bring the two sides together and so decides to have them stage Romeo and Juliet because it is such an obvious metaphor for the class behavior. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Benno Formann, Uwe Ochsenknecht, (more)
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