Ulrich Tukur
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Ulrich Tukur is a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and musician.

Biography

Tukur spent his youth near Hanover
Hanover
Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

 where he finished his final secondary-school examinations in 1977. He also achieved a high school degree in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

 (USA) during an exchange of students where he met his first wife, Amber Wood. With her, he had two daughters, Marlene and Lilian. While they were dating, he finished his time with the army and began to study German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 at Tübingen
Tübingen
Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

 university. He worked as a musician to get some extra money. Someone who saw him asked him if he wanted to be in a play. Soon he became interested in acting and started to study acting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

 in 1980.

After finishing his studies there in 1983 he played at a theatre in Heidelberg
Heidelberg
-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

. While he was still a student he got a chance to star in his first movie. In Die Weiße Rose
Die Weiße Rose (film)
Die Weiße Rose is a 1982 German film about the White Rose resistance to the Nazi authorities led by a group of Christian students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad...

, directed by Michael Verhoeven
Michael Verhoeven
-Life and work:Verhoeven is the son of German film director, Paul Verhoeven . He married actress Senta Berger in 1966; their son is the actor-director Simon Verhoeven. Together, the couple formed a production company to make films...

, he plays the character of Willi Graf
Willi Graf
Willi Graf was a member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany....

.

In 1984 he had his breakthrough at the theatre when famous director Peter Zadek
Peter Zadek
Peter Zadek was a German theatre and film director, play translator and screenwriter and is regarded as one of the greatest directors in German-speaking theater. He was the head of the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Bochum , the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg and the Berliner Ensemble from 1992 to 1996...

 gave him a role at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 in Joshua Sobols play Ghetto. From 1985 to 1995 he was a staff actor at Deutsches Schauspielhaus
Deutsches Schauspielhaus
The Deutsches Schauspielhaus is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany. With a capacity for 1192 spectators, it places it as Germany's largest theatre...

 in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, then managed by Zadek. Here he starred in many plays, such as Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

's Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (play)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against...

as Caesar, Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

, and Frank Wedekind
Frank Wedekind
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...

's Lulu directed by Zadek. In 1986 he was elected actor of the year by German theater critics. From 1995 to 2003 he himself was director of Hamburger Kammerspiele
Hamburger Kammerspiele
Hamburger Kammerspiele is a theatre in Hamburg, Germany....

 theatre, sharing that job with Ulrich Waller.
Since 1989 he has been recording and touring as a musician. In 1995, he founded the dance band "Ulrich Tukur & the Rhythmus Boys" together with Kalle Mews (drums), Ulrich Mayer (guitar, vocals) and Günther Märtens (contrabass, guitar, vocals).

Ulrich Tukur is married for the second time. Since 1999 he and his wife, the photographer Katharina John, have been living in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 (Italy), on Giudecca
Giudecca
Giudecca is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It is part of the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It is a locality of the comune of Venice.-Geography:...

 island.

In the Sino-German co-production movie on the Nanking massacre
Nanking Massacre
The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing , the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second...

 named "John Rabe
John Rabe (film)
John Rabe is a 2009 German-Chinese-French biopictorial film directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl and Steve Buscemi....

" he had played the part of John Rabe
John Rabe
John Rabe was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and his work to protect and help the Chinese civilians during the event...

.

In Kommissar Rex
Kommissar Rex
Kommissar Rex is a popular Austrian-made police television drama, aired from 1994 to 2004. In 2007 a new series was released , under Austrian-Italian production. From February 18, 2008, the 12th season was shot in Rome...

 he had played the psychopath Kurt Hauff, a killer who killed police officer Richard Moser (Tobias Moretti
Tobias Moretti
Tobias Moretti is an Austrian actor.-Biography:Born in Gries am Brenner, Tyrol, Moretti is the eldest of four brothers. His brothers are named Tomas, Cristoph and Gregor. Since 1997 he has been married to Julia Moretti , an oboist...

)

Awards

  • 1984 O.E. Hasse Preis
  • 1985 Boy-Gobert-Preis
  • 1986 Schauspieler des Jahres (Actor of the Year) and Goldener Bär of the Berlinale for the film Stammheim
    Stammheim
    Stammheim may refer to:* Stammheim - 1986 West German film directed by Reinhard Hauff* Stammheim, Cologne - municipal part of the city of Cologne, Germany* Stammheim, Stuttgart - municipal part of the city of Stuttgart, Germany...

    .
  • 1996 Goldene Kamera and Insel-Kunstpreis Hamburg
  • 2000 Adolf Grimme Awards
    Adolf Grimme Awards
    The Adolf Grimme Award is a television award and one of the most prestigious awards for German television, which is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme . It is also called the "German TV Oscar".The awards ceremony takes place annually at Theater Marl...

  • 2004 Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award) as Best Actor for the role of a serial killer in the crime series "Tatort", episode "Das Böse" (Evil)
  • 2006: Deutscher Filmpreis
    Deutscher Filmpreis
    The Deutscher Filmpreis is the highest German movie award. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a commission, since 2005 the award has been given by the Deutsche Filmakademie...

     – Best acting performance - male supporting actor for The Lives of Others
    The Lives of Others
    The Lives of Others is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film involves the monitoring of the cultural scene of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police...

  • 2009: Bayerischer Filmpreis
    Bayerischer Filmpreis
    The Bavarian Film Awards have been awarded annually since 1979 by the State Government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are the most highly regarded awards for filmmaking achievement in Germany.The Bavarian Film...

     2008 Best actor in John Rabe (film)
    John Rabe (film)
    John Rabe is a 2009 German-Chinese-French biopictorial film directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl and Steve Buscemi....

  • 2009: Deutscher Filmpreis
    Deutscher Filmpreis
    The Deutscher Filmpreis is the highest German movie award. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a commission, since 2005 the award has been given by the Deutsche Filmakademie...

     for Best leading actor in John Rabe (film)
    John Rabe (film)
    John Rabe is a 2009 German-Chinese-French biopictorial film directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl and Steve Buscemi....

  • 2009: Bernhard-Wicki-Filmpreis|Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films for his acting in John Rabe (film)
    John Rabe (film)
    John Rabe is a 2009 German-Chinese-French biopictorial film directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl and Steve Buscemi....


Filmography

  • 1982 - Die Weiße Rose
    Die Weiße Rose (film)
    Die Weiße Rose is a 1982 German film about the White Rose resistance to the Nazi authorities led by a group of Christian students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad...

    - Director: Michael Verhoeven
    Michael Verhoeven
    -Life and work:Verhoeven is the son of German film director, Paul Verhoeven . He married actress Senta Berger in 1966; their son is the actor-director Simon Verhoeven. Together, the couple formed a production company to make films...

     (with Lena Stolze
    Lena Stolze
    Lena Stolze is a German television and film actress.-Life and work:Lena Stolze's father is Gerhard Stolze, a tenor, and her mother is the actress Gabi Stolze...

     as Sophie Scholl
    Sophie Scholl
    Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans...

    )
  • 1983 - Die Schaukel - Director: Percy Adlon
    Percy Adlon
    Percy Adlon is a German film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Café aka Out of Rosenheim.-Biography:...

     (with Anja Jaenicke
    Anja Jaenicke
    Anja Jaenicke is a German actress working mostly for German television and film.She is C.E.O. of her own company HIQ-MEDIA-POOL INC...

     and Lena Stolze)
  • 1984 - Die Story - Director: Eckhart Schmidt
  • 1986 - Stammheim - Director: Reinhard Hauff (Tukur as Andreas Baader
    Andreas Baader
    Andreas Bernd Baader was one of the first leaders of the German left-wing militant organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.- Life :...

    , Therese Affolter as Ulrike Meinhof
    Ulrike Meinhof
    Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant. She co-founded the Red Army Faction in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly left-wing magazine Konkret. She was arrested in 1972, and eventually charged with numerous murders and the formation of a criminal...

    )
  • 1988 - Felix - Director: amon others Helma Sanders-Brahms
    Helma Sanders-Brahms
    Helma Sanders-Brahms is a German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress.She studied acting then German and English. She first worked in TV and then trained as a film director with Sergio Corbucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini making a large number of films often commissioned by German...

    , Margarethe von Trotta (Tukur as Felix)
  • 1989 - Das Milliardenspiel - Director: Peter Keglevic
    Peter Keglevic
    Peter Keglevic is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 30 films since 1976. His film Bella Donna was screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Bella Donna * Kill Cruise...

     (with Friedrich von Thun and Sissy Höfferer
    Sissy Höfferer
    Sissy Höfferer is an Austrian television actress.She had engagements at numerous theater companies such as the Residenztheater Munich, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and the Volkstheater Munich after completing her studies at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna...

    )
  • 1992 - Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers - Director: Roland Gräf
    Roland Gräf
    Roland Gräf is a German cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film The House on the River was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Three years later, his film Fallada: The Last Chapter was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival...

     (with Corinna Harfouch)
  • 1992 - Das letzte U-Boot
    Das letzte U-Boot
    Das letzte U-Boot is a 1992 German television film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Ulrich Mühe and Ulrich Tukur. The film is based on the true story of the German submarine U-234....

    - Director: 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...

     (with Ulrich Mühe
    Ulrich Mühe
    Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen , for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film...

    )
  • 1993 - Wehner / Die unerzählte Geschichte - Director: Heinrich Breloer (with Tukur as young Herbert Wehner
    Herbert Wehner
    Herbert Richard Wehner was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party, he joined the Social Democrats after World War II...

     and Heinz Baumann as old Herbert Wehner)\
  • 1994 - Felidae
    Felidae (film)
    Felidae is a 1994 German animated mystery directed by Michael Schaack, written by Martin Kluger, Stefaan Schieder and Akif Pirinçci based on the novel Felidae, produced by Trickompany, and starring Ulrich Tukur, Mario Adorf and Klaus Maria Brandauer. The famed nightmare sequence was directed,...

    - Director: Michael Schaack
  • 1995 - Mutters Courage - Director: Michael Verhoeven (with Pauline Collins
    Pauline Collins
    Pauline Collins, OBE is an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which...

     and Jens Harzer from an autobiographical novel by George Tabori
    George Tabori
    George Tabori was a Hungarian writer and theater director.-Life and career:Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis. His son Peter Tabori and again his son...

    )
  • 1995 - Nikolaikirche - Director: 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...

     (with Barbara Auer
    Barbara Auer
    Barbara Auer is a German actress. She has appeared in multiple television shows and films including Meine Tochter gehört mir , Impossibly Yours and Waiting for Angelina.-Awards:...

     and Ulrich Matthes
    Ulrich Matthes
    Ulrich Matthes is a German actor.-Life and work:Ulrich Matthes was born in Berlin. He studied acting in the early 1980s in Berlin under Else Bongers. In the 2004 movie Downfall he plays Joseph Goebbels. In the 2004 movie The Ninth Day, he plays Fr. Henri Kremer, a Catholic priest imprisoned at...

    )
  • 2000 - Bonhoeffer - Director: Eric Till (Tukur as Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr. He was a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plans by members of the Abwehr to assassinate Adolf Hitler...

    )
  • 2001 - Taking Sides - Director: István Szabó
    István Szabó
    István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...

     (with Harvey Keitel
    Harvey Keitel
    Harvey Keitel is an American actor. Some of his most notable starring roles were in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Jane Campion's The...

     and Moritz Bleibtreu
    Moritz Bleibtreu
    Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor.Bleibtreu was born in Munich, the son of actors Monica Bleibtreu and Hans Brenner, and the great-grand-nephew of the actress Hedwig Bleibtreu.Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg...

    )
  • 2002 - Amen. - Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras (with Ulrich Mühe
    Ulrich Mühe
    Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen , for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film...

     - from the play Der Stellvertreter
    The Deputy
    The Deputy, a Christian tragedy , also known as The Representative, is a controversial 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth which indicts Pope Pius XII for his failure to take action or speak out against The Holocaust. It has been translated into more than twenty languages...

    by Rolf Hochhuth
    Rolf Hochhuth
    Rolf Hochhuth is a German author and playwright. He is best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy and remains a controversial figure for his plays and other public comments, such as his insinuation of Pope Pius XII's sympathies for Hitler's extermination of the Jews in the 1963 play The Deputy and...

    )
  • 2002 - Solaris
    Solaris (2002 film)
    Solaris is a 2002 science fiction film and psychological drama directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone...

    - Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...

     (with George Clooney
    George Clooney
    George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...

     and Natascha McElhone
    Natascha McElhone
    Natascha McElhone is an English actress of stage, screen and television, best known for her roles in Ronin, The Truman Show and Solaris. McElhone also plays a leading role in the Showtime series Californication....

     - from the homonymous novel by Stanisław Lem)
  • 2004 - Stauffenberg - Director: Jo Baier (with Sebastian Koch
    Sebastian Koch
    -Life and career:Koch was born in Karlsruhe and grew up in Stuttgart. His mother raised him alone, and he spent some time in the children's home where she worked...

     as Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg and Ulrich Tukur as Henning von Tresckow
    Henning von Tresckow
    Generalmajor Herrmann Karl Robert "Henning" von Tresckow was a Major General in the German Wehrmacht who organized German resistance against Adolf Hitler. He attempted to assassinate Hitler in March 1943 and drafted the Valkyrie plan for a coup against the German government...

    )
  • 2005 - Die Nacht der großen Flut - Director: Raymond Ley (Tukur as Hamburg's senator for the interior Helmut Schmidt
    Helmut Schmidt
    Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...

    )
  • 2005 - Das Leben der Anderen - Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
    Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
    Florian Maria Georg Christian, Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German film director, best known for writing and directing the 2007 Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others and the 2010 film The Tourist.-Personal life and family:...

     (Tukur as Anton Grubitz)
  • 2007 - Ein fliehendes Pferd - Director: Rainer Kaufmann (Tukur as Klaus Buch)
  • 2007 - Das Schneckenhaus - Director: Florian Schwarz (Tukur as Dr. Lukas Bator)
  • 2007 - 42plus - Director: Sabine Derflinger (Tukur as Georg)
  • 2007 - Mein alter Freund Fritz - Director: Dieter Wedel (Tukur as head physician Seidel)
  • 2008 - Nordwand
    North Face (film)
    North Face is a 2008 German historical fiction film based on a famous 1936 attempt to climb the Eiger north face.-Plot:...

    - Director: Philipp Stölz (Tukur as Henry Arau)
  • 2008 - Séraphine
    Séraphine (film)
    Séraphine is a 2008 French-Belgian film directed by Martin Provost and written by Marc Abdelnour and Provost. It stars Yolande Moreau as the French painter Séraphine Louis and Ulrich Tukur as Wilhelm Uhde. It won the 2009 César Award for Best Film.-Plot:...

    - Director: Martin Provost (Tukur as Wilhelm Uhde)
  • 2009 - John Rabe
    John Rabe (film)
    John Rabe is a 2009 German-Chinese-French biopictorial film directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl and Steve Buscemi....

    - Director: Florian Gallenberger
    Florian Gallenberger
    Florian Gallenberger is a German film director. His film Quiero ser was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2001.-Career:...

     (Tukur as John Rabe)
  • 2009 - The White Ribbon
    The White Ribbon
    The White Ribbon is a 2009 Austrian-German film, released in black and white, written and directed by Michael Haneke. The drama darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I...

    - Director: Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...

  • 2009 - Eden in West as the magician - Director: Costas Gavras
  • 2009 - Within the Whirlwind
    Within the Whirlwind
    Within the Whirlwind is a 2009 film directed by Marleen Gorris. It stars Emily Watson and Pam Ferris.-Cast:*Emily Watson as Evgenia Ginzburg*Pam Ferris as Genia's mother*Ian Hart as Beylin*Ben Miller as Krasny*Ulrich Tukur as Dr. Anton Walter...


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