
Birthday:
08-25-1959
(65 years)
Birthplace:
Marl, Germany
Biography
Sönke Wortmann (August 25, 1959 in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German film director and producer.
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Act like Director
event1997 star_border 7.7
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Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung
Act like Self
event1996
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Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
Harald
Act like Gelber Engel
event1997 star_border 5
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The alien Harald has booked a package holiday on Earth and is trying to find shelter at science fiction editor Rita Reichmans flat. Her admirer Frido Lipinski so not amused because Rita seems to succumb to Haralds charm. But Harald also has quite a few problems in learning the rules of conduct of the earthlings and that he cannot lie, complicates the situation.
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Act like Self
event2007
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A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.
Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
Act like Self
event1998 star_border 5
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Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasingly crazy, a drunken policeman causes a lot of trouble, and the sex-obsessed producer Egon Lütter doesn't make things any easier.
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Act like Self (3 ep.)
event1995 star_border 7
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The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
Bambi Awards
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event1948 star_border 9
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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.
Beckmann
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 2
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Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
Abendschau
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 6
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The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
Maybe... Maybe Not
Director (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6.3
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The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
Germany: A Summer's Fairytale
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.8
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A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.
Lammbock
Producer (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6.9
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Stefan and Kai run a thriving business: a home-grown cannabis trade disguised as a pizza delivery service. For now they just have to fight aphids.
The Miracle of Bern
Director (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6.5
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The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.
The Superwife
Director (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 4.5
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Franziska is a romantically inclined housewife with two children and a husband who spends most of his time traveling around the world and working as a director. However, he cheats on her with his actresses. Franziska goes to see the lawyer Enno Winkel about buying a house, but he prefers to handle divorces. And without realizing it, she suddenly inadvertently initiates her own divorce...
St. Pauli Nacht
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 3.7
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Sometimes your fate lies in the hands of those you meet. Filled with promising ambitions, shattered dreams, love and revenge and in the end hope, the story reveals how tangibly interconnected our induividual fates really are. Cabby Robby drives in and around St.Pauli, Hamburg, from sunset to sunrise. He is surrounded by stories of the night. Drowning in human incidents.
Charleys Tante
Director (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.5
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Investment advisor Stefan Lohmann has defrauded master butcher Waldemar Pückler of five million euros. He therefore wants to travel to Munich to meet the 'cattle baroness' Lucia d'Alvarez and do business with her. Lohmann also travels to Munich to go into hiding. He meets Lucia and falls in love with her, but then has a momentous encounter with his victim.
Alone Among Women
Director (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6.8
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Tom is a perfect macho, whose prejudices are challenged when he loses his job, his apartment and his girlfriend and has to move in into a house with three feminists. Without his knowing the three start an experiment to convert him into a sensitive person showing respect for women and her problems. Not able to pay his rent Tom is forced to earn it by doing the housework and babysitting. This helps him changing his attitudes towards women and his housemates who at first treated him indifferently, start to fall in love with him.
Der Campus
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 6.5
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A married university professor ends his explosive affair with a female student who then accuses him of sexual harassment. A satire with plenty of situation comedy about a misstep with consequences!
Pope Joan
Director (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 6.8
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A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
Little Sharks
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 7.2
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When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. Written by emkarpf
The Treasure of the White Falcons
Producer (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6.5
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Three friends find a treasure map from the mysterious 'White Falcons', a juvenile gang whose leader disappeared ten years before.
The Hollywood Sign
Director (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 4.4
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Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Mr. Bluesman
Director (1 ep.)
event1993
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Spike is a musician who, has additional income, smuggling stolen cars. He is also called Mr. Bluesman because he loves the blues more than anything. One day he is supposed to smuggle a Mercedes-Benz into Genoa . However, he gets the wrong car that belongs to the mafia around boss Hormann.
Die besten Frauen der Welt
Producer (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6
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The director accompanies the German women's national soccer team.
Im Westen ging die Sonne auf
Thanks (1 ep.)
event2002
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The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr valley during the post-war period, doesn’t exist anymore nowadays in that form. Many of the once glorious clubs which dominated German soccer until the 1970s faded into obscurity without financial backers.
The documentary “Im Westen ging die Sonne auf" ("The sun had risen in the west“) shows the history of the “Revierfußball” from after the second World War until the decline of the mining industry and recalls legendary players and forgotten clubs. The film shows especially how deeply rooted the sport was back then in the entire lifestyle of the Ruhr area - in private life as well as in society - and how structural change also left clearly visible marks in sports. With pictures from back then, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and footage of original locations nowadays, a contemporary document of German post-war history, by taking the example of soccer, has been created.
Drei D
Director (1 ep.)
event1988
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The film by a film student making his graduation film about a film student making his graduation film.
Schoßgebete
Director (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5.1
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A comedy centered on a sexually adventurous young woman who is trying to be the perfect wife, mother, and lover.
Frau Müller muss weg!
Director (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.1
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Because of their children's bad grades, some parents want the teacher Mrs. Müller gone. They meet with Mrs. Müller and try to convince her to leave the class.
Family Affairs
Director (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.6
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The Berger and Böttcher families come to Dorothea's finca on Lanzarote for a weekend trip. The mood is tense and escalates as various mysteries are revealed.
Locked in Society
Director (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.4
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On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly before the start of the weekend now have to find out the hard way. After some unexpected twists and embarrassing revelations, true abysses open up for everyone involved...
Der Spitzname
Director (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 6.9
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Anna and Thomas want to get married in the South Tyrolean Alps. However, Stephan's daughter Antigone and the family clan bring so much chaos to the planned idyll that it's not just the wedding that is on the rocks.
With Love from Winston
Line Producer (1 ep.)
event1989
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Short film by Hans Lang and Nikolai Karo
Lommbock
Producer (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.5
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Sequel to Lammbock. Stefan and Kai meet again after years. Stefan became a successful lawyer in Dubai while Kai is stuck in their home town. Kai has relationship issues and is trying hard to get in touch with his step son who is getting in serious trouble with some drug dealers. Can Kai and Stefan solve his problems? And what happened to their old friend Frank?
Sommerfest
Director (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.4
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When Stefan's father dies, the theater actor has to return to his hometown Bochum. But it is not easy to get rid of his parents' house, a monument of his life, when he meets Charlie with his old friends, acquaintances and his childhood sweetheart.
How About Adolf?
Director (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.8
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The family dinner at Stephan and Elisabeth could have been wonderful. But when Thomas announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are going to call their son Adolf, the hosts and the family friend René are stuck in the throat.
The Team
Co-Producer (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 6.6
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Documentary about the victorious German national football team - called "Die Mannschaft" - and their journey to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Contra
Director (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.3
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With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outburst spreads like wildfire on the Internet, and the university’s president, Lambrecht, is called to deal with the incident. But Pohl is not dismissed. Instead, he is put to the task of helping Naima prepare for an important debating competition. The lecturer and the student could not be more different, yet they are thrown together to work as a team.
Deutschland - dein Selbstporträt
Director (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 5
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DEUTSCHLAND. MADE BY GERMANY is a film by, about and especially for Germany. Last summer, all of Germany was called upon to form a 80-million strong film team and shoot a collective self-portrait. Funny, emotional, gripping, diverse, breathtaking and even surprising.
Charité
Director (18 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.3
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Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.
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