Alexander Beyer
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Alexander Beyer is a German actor.

He was born in Erfurt
Erfurt
Erfurt is the capital city of Thuringia and the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nuremberg and 180 km SE of Hannover. Erfurt Airport can be reached by plane via Munich. It lies in the southern part of the Thuringian...

, East Germany. He has appeared in such films as: Volker Schloendorff's The Legend of Rita
The Legend of Rita
The Legend of Rita is a 2000 German film about fictionalised exiled West German radical left Red Army Faction members, though the fictional characters all have close parallels to several real-life RAF members...

(Die Stille nach dem Schuss, 1999), Leander Haussmann's Sun Alley (Sonnenallee
Sonnenallee
Sonnenallee is a 1999 comedy film about life in East Berlin in the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann. The film was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee...

, 2000), Johannes Kiefer's Gregor's Greatest Invention (Gregors groesste Erfindung, 2001), which was nominated for an Academy Award
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

 in the category Live Action Short Film
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...

 in 2002 and Wolfgang Becker's
Wolfgang Becker
Wolfgang Becker is a German film director and writer. He is best known to the international audience for his work Good Bye Lenin! .-Biography:...

 Good Bye Lenin!
Good Bye Lenin!
Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, released internationally in 2003. Directed by Wolfgang Becker, the cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon...

(2003), among others.
Alexander Beyer lives and works in Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany.

Filmography

  • 2010: A Film Unfinished
    A Film Unfinished
    A Film Unfinished is a 2010 documentary film by Yael Hersonski, which re-examines the making of an unfinished 1942 Nazi propaganda film of the Warsaw Ghetto two months before its liquidation in a Nazi operation known as the Grossaktion Warsaw...

  • 2010: The Whore
    The Whore (2010 film)
    The Whore is a 2010 television film adaptation of a novel by the same name. The film is set in Konstanz, Germany in the years 1414 and 1415.The novel was written by Iny Lorentz...

  • 2008: Miracle at St. Anna
    Miracle at St. Anna
    Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 war film, directed by Spike Lee and written by James McBride, based on McBride's novel of the same name. The film was released on September 26, 2008, and is set during World War II, in fall of 1944 in Tuscany and in the winter of 1983 in New York City and Rome...

    , as German Soldier - Dir. Spike Lee
    Spike Lee
    Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....

    ,
  • 2007: War and Peace
    War and Peace (miniseries)
    War and Peace is a 2007 Russian-French-Italian-German miniseries directed by Robert Dornhelm. It was broadcast in Belgium and in France in four parts during October and November 2007. It was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, which also is divided into four parts...

    , as Count Pierre Bezukhov
    Pierre Bezukhov
    Count Pyotr "Pierre" Kirillovich Bezukhov is a central fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. He is the favourite of several illegitimate sons of the wealthy nobleman Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov.-Description:...

     - Dir. Robert Dornhelm
    Robert Dornhelm
    Robert Dornhelm is an Austrian film and television director of Romanian ancestry. He has worked on numerous television programmes and has also released such movies as Echo Park, The Venice Project, Der Unfisch, and A Further Gesture...

    ,
  • 2007: Leningrad - Dir. Aleksandr Buravsky (starring Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.-Early life:Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia...

    , Mira Sorvino
    Mira Sorvino
    Mira Katherine Sorvino is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Mighty Aphrodite and is also known for her role as Romy White in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.- Early life :Sorvino was born in Tenafly, New Jersey...

    , Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...

    )
  • 2006: Mary on Water (original title: Maria am Wasser) - Dir. Thomas Wendrich (starring Annika Blendl and Hermann Beyer)
  • 2005: Three Degrees Colder (original title: 3° kälter) - Dir. Florian Hoffmeister (starring Meret Becker
    Meret Becker
    - Life and career :Becker was born in Bremen, the daughter of the actors Monika Hansen and Rolf Becker. She is the sister of Ben Becker, stepdaughter of Otto Sander and granddaughter of Claire Schlichting....

     and Bibiana Beglau
    Bibiana Beglau
    Bibiana Beglau is a German actress.-Life:Bibiana Beglau began appearing on the stages of German-speaking theater immediately upon graduating from the Hamburg Hochschule for Music and Theater. Since the beginning of her career, she has worked with the directors responsible for transforming...

    )
  • 2005: Tatort
    Tatort
    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 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland...

    - Nur ein Spiel - Dir. Manuel Siebenmann (starring Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl)
  • 2005: Munich
    Munich (film)
    Munich is a 2005 historical fiction film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation attacks after the massacre of Israeli athletes by the Black September terrorist group during the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film stars Eric Bana and was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg...

    - Dir. Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg
    Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

     (starring Eric Bana
    Eric Bana
    Eric Bana is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biopic Chopper...

    , Daniel Craig
    Daniel Craig
    Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...

    , Mathieu Kassovitz
    Mathieu Kassovitz
    Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....

    , Hanns Zischler, Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor and film producer. He is one of the few people who has won the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting , three British Academy Film Awards , two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen...

    )
  • 2004: Hierankl - Dir. Hans Steinbichler (starring Barbara Sukowa
    Barbara Sukowa
    Barbara Sukowa is a German theatre and film actress.- Work :Sukowa's stage debut was in Berlin in 1971, in a production of Peter Handke's Der Ritt über den Bodensee. Günter Beelitz invited her to join the ensemble of the Darmstädter National Theatre in the same year...

    , Johanna Wokalek
    Johanna Wokalek
    Johanna Wokalek is a German stage and film actress. A student of Klaus Maria Brandauer, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd. Wokalek is best known for her award-winning appearances in the German films Hierankl, Barfuss, and The...

    , Josef Bierbichler)
  • 2003: Good Bye Lenin!
    Good Bye Lenin!
    Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, released internationally in 2003. Directed by Wolfgang Becker, the cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon...

    - Dir. Wolfgang Becker
    Wolfgang Becker
    Wolfgang Becker is a German film director and writer. He is best known to the international audience for his work Good Bye Lenin! .-Biography:...

     (starring Katrin Sass, Daniel Brühl
    Daniel Brühl
    Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo is a Spanish/German actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl.-Personal life:Brühl was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His father was the late German stage director Hanno Brühl and his mother was a Spanish professor. He also has a brother and a sister...

    , Chulpan Khamatova
    Chulpan Khamatova
    Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova is a Russian film, theater and TV actress of Tatar origin. Her name, Chulpan, means "morning star" in Tatar.- Background :...

    )
  • 2003: The Family Jewels (original title: Eierdiebe) - Dir. Robert Schwentke
    Robert Schwentke
    Robert Schwentke is a German film director best known for the films Tattoo and Flightplan.He was a graduate of Columbia College Hollywood in 1992....

     (starring Julia Hummer, Wotan Wilke Möhring
    Wotan Wilke Möhring
    -Life and work:He grew up in Herne. His father was an Army officer and his mother worked as a teacher. He has a sister and two brothers. One of them, Sönke Möhring is also an actor....

    )
  • 2003: Hamlet_X - Dir. Herbert Fritsch (starring Christoph Schlingensief
    Christoph Schlingensief
    Christoph Maria Schlingensief was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies...

    , Meret Becker
    Meret Becker
    - Life and career :Becker was born in Bremen, the daughter of the actors Monika Hansen and Rolf Becker. She is the sister of Ben Becker, stepdaughter of Otto Sander and granddaughter of Claire Schlichting....

    , Milan Peschel)
  • 2002: Half the Rent (original title: Halbe Miete) - Dir. Marc Ottiker
  • 2002: Sophiiiie! - Dir. Michael Hofmann (starring Katharina Schüttler)
  • 2002: Tatort
    Tatort
    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 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland...

    - Schlaraffenland - Dir. Nina Grosse (starring Eva Mattes
    Eva Mattes
    Eva Mattes is a German-Austrian actress.Mattes appeared in four films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and A Man Called Eva , as a bearded film director based on the then recently deceased Fassbinder...

    , Michael Gwisdek)
  • 2001: Gregor's Greatest Invention - Dir. Johannes Kiefer (Academy Award
    Academy Awards
    An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

     Oscar Nominee 2002, starring Helga Göring and Christel Peters)
  • 2001: Heinrich der Säger - Dir. Klaus Gietinger (starring Rolf Becker, Meret Becker
    Meret Becker
    - Life and career :Becker was born in Bremen, the daughter of the actors Monika Hansen and Rolf Becker. She is the sister of Ben Becker, stepdaughter of Otto Sander and granddaughter of Claire Schlichting....

     and Karina Krawczyk
    Karina Krawczyk
    Karina Krawczyk is a German actress and occasionally works as a fashion model.-Acting career:Karina Krawczyk speaks Polish, German, English and French fluently. She studied acting at the theater school Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France and with Ariane Mnouchkine at the „Théâtre du soleil“...

    )
  • 2001: Die Hunde sind schuld - Dir. Andreas Prochaska (starring Barbara Valentin
    Barbara Valentin
    Barbara Valentin was an Austrian actress. She worked in film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.-Biography:...

    )
  • 2001: Das Monstrum - Dir. Miriam Pfeiffer (starring Corinna Harfouch)
  • 2000: The Legend of Rita
    The Legend of Rita
    The Legend of Rita is a 2000 German film about fictionalised exiled West German radical left Red Army Faction members, though the fictional characters all have close parallels to several real-life RAF members...

    (original title: Die Stille nach dem Schuss) - Dir. Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...

     (starring (Bibiana Beglau
    Bibiana Beglau
    Bibiana Beglau is a German actress.-Life:Bibiana Beglau began appearing on the stages of German-speaking theater immediately upon graduating from the Hamburg Hochschule for Music and Theater. Since the beginning of her career, she has worked with the directors responsible for transforming...

    , Martin Wuttke and Nadja Uhl)
  • 2000: Liebesau - Die andere Heimat - Dir. Wolfgang Panzer (starring Katharina Thalbach
    Katharina Thalbach
    Katharina Thalbach is a German actress and film director.- Life and work :Katharina Thalbach comes from a particularly artistic-oriented family. Her father Benno Besson was a director, her mother Sabine Thalbach was an actress. Her late husband Thomas Brasch was an author. Her daughter Anna and...

    , Anna Thalbach)
  • 1999: Sonnenallee
    Sonnenallee
    Sonnenallee is a 1999 comedy film about life in East Berlin in the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann. The film was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee...

    - Dir. Leander Haußmann
    Leander Haußmann
    Leander Haußmann is a German theatre and film director.The son of actor Ezard Haußmann and costume designer Doris Haußmann, he attended the Ernst Busch theatre school in Berlin....

     (starring Alexander Scheer, Katharina Thalbach
    Katharina Thalbach
    Katharina Thalbach is a German actress and film director.- Life and work :Katharina Thalbach comes from a particularly artistic-oriented family. Her father Benno Besson was a director, her mother Sabine Thalbach was an actress. Her late husband Thomas Brasch was an author. Her daughter Anna and...

    , Robert Stadlober
    Robert Stadlober
    Robert Stadlober is an Austrian actor and musician. His sister is Anja Stadlober, also an actress.-Biography:Robert Stadlober was born 3 August 1982 in the Austrian province of Carinthia and grew up in Puchfeld in the Steiermark and in Berlin...

    , Detlev Buck
    Detlev Buck
    Detlev Buck is a German film director and actor.-Life and work:From his first short film at the age of 21 in 1982, Erst die Arbeit und dann?, he has remained one of the most important filmmakers working in Germany...

    )
  • 1999: To the Horizon and Beyond (original title: Bis zum Horizont und weiter) - Dir. Peter Kahane (starring Corinna Harfouch)
  • 1998: Big Mambo (original title: Das Mambospiel) - Dir. Michael Gwisdek (starring Jürgen Vogel, Corinna Harfouch, Michael Gwisdek)
  • 1997: Hauptmann von Köpenick - Dir. Frank Beyer
    Frank Beyer
    Frank Beyer was German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film Traces of Stones was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the...

     (starring Harald Juhnke
    Harald Juhnke
    Harald Juhnke , actually Harry Heinz Herbert Juhnke, was a well-known German actor, comedian and entertainer.-Life:...

    , Rolf Hoppe, Udo Samel, Sophie Rois)

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