Alexander Fehling Movies
- 2011
A visitor who is unexpectedly stranded in a strange land attempts to make a home for himself in this evocative drama from German filmmaker Jan Zabeil. An actor (Alexander Fehling) is traveling through South Africa and as he makes his way through a barren landscape, he meets an aging fisherman (Sariqo Sakega) and offers him money to take him down the river. The fisherman accepts, though he doesn't understand much of what his patron has to say and is baffled by the notion of anyone making their living as an actor. After spending the night in the wild, the actor is eager to return to civilization, but he soon discovers the old fisherman has died, leaving him lost in a place that's unknown to him. After a long search, the actor find the village where the fisherman lived, and returns the body to his family; he's fascinated by their community and tries to make a place for himself within it, though there's a tremendous emotional distance between himself and the villagers. The River Used To Be a Man was an official selection at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 2010
- NR
Director Philipp Stolzl takes the helm for this biographical drama set during the formative years of legendary German poet, playwright, and author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as he grappled with his growing talents and experienced his first brush with true love. Germany: 1772. Aspiring poet Goethe (Alexander Fehling) has just failed his law exam when his father (Henry Hubchen) sends him packing for a provincial court to study undisturbed. Though Goethe's future in law begins to look a bit brighter when he gains the respect of high-ranking court official Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu), his personal life starts to falter when he falls for Lotte (Miriam Stein), a pretty young woman whose father has secretly arranged her marriage to another suitor. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, (more)
A group of hardened Nazi killers stalk their prey in Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish cinema owner plots to take down top-ranking SS officers during the official premiere of a high-profile German propaganda film. As far as Lt. Aldo Raine (aka Aldo the Apache," Brad Pitt) -- is concerned, the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Raine's mission is to strike fear into the heart of Adolf Hitler by brutally murdering as many goose-steppers as possible, or die trying. In order to accomplish that goal, Lt. Raine recruits a ruthless team of cold-blooded killers known as "The Basterds" which includes baseball-bat-wielding Bostonian Sgt. Donnie Donowitz (aka "The Bear Jew," Eli Roth) and steely psychopath Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), among others. When the Basterds' secret rendezvous with turncoat German actress Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) goes awry, they learn that the Nazis will be staging the French premiere of "The Nation's Pride," a rousing propaganda film based on the exploits of German hero Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), at a modest theater owned by Jewish cinephile Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), posing as a Gentile after the brutal murder of her family by the ruthless Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). As the Basterds hatch an explosive plan to take out as many Nazis as possible at the premiere, they remain completely oblivious to the fact that Shoshanna, too, longs to bring the Third Reich to its knees, and that she's willing to sacrifice her beloved theater in the process. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, (more)
- 2007
A young man sent to fulfill his civilian service in Auschwitz discovers the inexorable link between the past and the present in director Robert Thalheim's though provoking drama. As part of his duties, Sven (Alexander Fehling) has been assigned the task of looking after elderly Holocaust survivor Krzeminski (Ryszard Ronczewski). Despite being treated with a scornful mix of impatience and arrogance by his headstrong charge, Sven finds his task made somewhat easier to endure thanks to the nascent friendship he strikes with pretty interpreter Ania (Barbara Wysocka). Later, as Sven begins to understand the motivations of Krzeminski's resentment, the link between yesterday's Auschwitz and today's Oswiecim becomes ever more apparent. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alexander Fehling, Ryszard Ronczewski, (more)
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