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Jan Josef Liefers

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08-08-1964

Birthday

Leo

Zodiac Sign

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Dresden, East Germany [now Germany]

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actor

60 Works

producer

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director

4 Works

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Old White Man

Old White Man

In order to finally get that long-awaited promotion, Heinz Hellmich, an old white man, has to show his "wokest" side at work. When he invites his superiors to a private dinner at his home, his family's politically correct façade quickly begins to crumble and the evening takes a hair-raising turn.
6.0

Year:

2024

Love Your Enemies

Love Your Enemies

GDR, January 1990. After his ouster and the fall of the wall, dictator Erich Honecker and his wife Margot find themselves virtually homeless. Only Protestant pastor Uwe Holmer and his family, who, like many others, have suffered under his tyrannical regime, offer them refuge.
6.1

Year:

2022

So viel Zeit

So viel Zeit

Five old friends have to prove themselves one last time. 30 years after the hopeful young band Bochums Steine have separated after a disastrous live performance, fatally ill Rainer tries to re-activate his old cronies
5.2

Year:

2018

Gefangen: Der Fall K.

Gefangen: Der Fall K.

For a long time, wealth adviser Elke and car mechanic Wastl were happy together. Until Elke gets involved more and more in dubious financial transactions that bring her success down the line. When her husband wants to stop these windy business, she separates from him. And goes even further - the accusation that her husband has beaten her, brings Wastl for a long time in a psychiatric hospital.
6.5

Year:

2018

Teenosaurus Rex

Teenosaurus Rex

She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to guide his daughter Carla through this difficult phase in her life and, above all, to keep her away from alcohol, boys and other temptations. This is easier said than done, however, and when his wife Sara goes back to work, Hannes proves himself entirely inept at raising a teenager. Whether it’s Carla’s birthday party, her mobile phone contract or her first time, Hannes makes one awkward blunder after another. The fact that other teens have embarrassing fathers provides only faint consolation; Hannes’ best friend is a war reporter named Holger who prefers to be shot at in war zones rather than stay at home and be driven crazy by his own teenage nightmare.
5.2

Year:

2017

The Bloom of Yesterday

The Bloom of Yesterday

An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.
7.1

Year:

2017

Four Against the Bank

Four Against the Bank

After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.
6.0

Year:

2016

Schwanensee

Schwanensee

0.0

Year:

2015

Disaster

Disaster

In the German gangster comedy, Jan Josef Liefers and Justus von Dohnányi play two petty criminals who are supposed to do a job on Mallorca, but who can't stand each other.
5.4

Year:

2015

Mara and the Firebringer

Mara and the Firebringer

Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains.
5.5

Year:

2015

Men Have to Go through This

Men Have to Go through This

Paul is done with love - until he meets Lena. Now he has to convince her family on Mallorca of himself being the right one for their daughter. Lena's mother though would prefer Patrick by her side, a hedge funds manager and Lena's ex-boyfriend. Paul is challenged by Patrick to a duel among men and is glad that his three best friends are there to support him...
5.1

Year:

2015

Head Full of Honey

Head Full of Honey

Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart.
7.3

Year:

2014

Live is Life 2

Live is Life 2

Follows "Live is Life" aka "Die Spätzünder".
4.0

Year:

2013

Nacht über Berlin

Nacht über Berlin

Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic congressman and Jewish doctor Albert Goldman, and the two become a slightly odd couple. Albert is a sworn pacifist after his experiences in the First World War. Contrary to his beliefs he agrees to act as courier for his brother Edwin, who belongs to a radical communist cell.
7.0

Year:

2013

Baron Münchhausen

Baron Münchhausen

In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories.
5.2

Year:

2012

Men Do what Men Can

Men Do what Men Can

Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a daring plan to help Paul save Iris from marrying the wrong man.
6.2

Year:

2012

Simon & the Oaks

Simon & the Oaks

Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson.
6.5

Year:

2011

Live Is Life

Live Is Life

A greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire to some dignity and self-realization, he helps them get around the rules, such as smuggling in contraband, and ends up inspiring them to form a rock band and enter a free podium competition. But it doesn't square with his own last shot as band guitarist.—KGF Vissers
4.2

Year:

2010

Es liegt mir auf der Zunge

Es liegt mir auf der Zunge

On February 20, 1953, the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk broadcast the first cooking show of German post-war television. Clemens Carl Hahn became the TV chef Clemens Wilmenrod. When the "request in ten minutes to table" on the screens flickered, went for the presenter of the show a dream come true: He had designed the cooking show not only the first TV format that was aimed at women, but also a new self invented.
1.0

Year:

2009

Lilys Geheimnis

Lilys Geheimnis

Lily wants to be run a brothel. But corrupt cops threaten her with violence. Lily needs help.
0.0

Year:

2009

The Baader Meinhof Complex

The Baader Meinhof Complex

'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
7.0

Year:

2008

Bis zum Ellenbogen

Bis zum Ellenbogen

6.5

Year:

2007

Max Minsky and Me

Max Minsky and Me

Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astronomy buff who studies in Luxemburg, patronizes the basketball tournament hosted there by a European school she wants to join her school's girls team.
5.8

Year:

2007

Der Untergang der Pamir

Der Untergang der Pamir

The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
7.0

Year:

2006

Die Sturmflut

Die Sturmflut

Susanne, a meteorologist Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.
5.4

Year:

2006

The Decision

The Decision

4.0

Year:

2006

Die Nachrichten

Die Nachrichten

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg.
4.0

Year:

2005

Der Aufstand

Der Aufstand

0.0

Year:

2003

666: In Bed with the Devil

666: In Bed with the Devil

Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperation is the best reason for Mephisto to show up and offer a suitable pact: reconciliation with Jennifer in exchange for Frank's soul. Shaken by his predicament, Frank finds it easy to agree to the hellish proposal. In order to win back his renegade lover, Mephisto transforms himself into a wide variety of prominent contemporaries who appear at Frank's side and publicly praise his qualities - especially for Jennifer to hear. The plan seems to be working perfectly, unless Mephisto suddenly reveals a completely new side to his personality...
4.9

Year:

2002

Halt mich fest!

Halt mich fest!

6.0

Year:

2000

Jacks Baby

Jacks Baby

5.0

Year:

1999

Die Mörderin

Die Mörderin

4.5

Year:

1999

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller

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.
5.0

Year:

1998

Night Time

Night Time

Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces all point to one person: himself. Now, he has to find out whether he surprisingly turns into a blood-seeking werewolf at full moon without knowing it or if there is an other solution to the murders. Police are getting pretty suspicious after Thomas' own grandmother has been brutally slaughtered in her little fairy-tale-fashioned house in the woods, and it will soon be time for a full moon...
5.6

Year:

1998

Die Chaos-Queen

Die Chaos-Queen

2.0

Year:

1997

Busenfreunde

Busenfreunde

1.0

Year:

1997

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

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.
7.7

Year:

1997

Vergewaltigt - Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen

Vergewaltigt - Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen

A doctor is raped by two of her colleagues. In the trial, the tide initially turns against her when the video recording of the crime disappears and her turbulent love life is revealed.
1.0

Year:

1997

Rossini

Rossini

Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie.
6.2

Year:

1997

Ich, der Boss

Ich, der Boss

0.0

Year:

1995

Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen

Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen

Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children's film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in 1994, starring Corinna Harfouch. It is a film adaptation of the novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner.
6.0

Year:

1994

Der Fall Ö.

Der Fall Ö.

During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus.
7.3

Year:

1991

Weihnachten schneit's

Weihnachten schneit's

A family movie directed by Renata Kaye.
0.0

Year:

1990

The Ascent of Chimborazo

The Ascent of Chimborazo

The life of Alexander von Humboldt up to his attempt to climb the Chimborazo in 1802.
4.3

Year:

1989

Ernst Thälmann

Ernst Thälmann

0.0

Year:

1986