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Jannis Niewöhner was born on 30 March 1992 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Munich: The Edge of War (2021), Ruby Red (2013) and Godless Youth (2017).- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Heiko Pinkowski was born on 8 October 1966 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Heavy Girls (2012), Reuber (2013) and I Feel Like Disco (2013).- Dagmar Geppert was born on 29 May 1980 in Krefeld, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die letzte Seite (2014), Notruf Hafenkante (2007) and Die Rosenheim-Cops (2002).
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Samira Radsi was born in 1968 in Krefeld, Germany. She is a director and assistant director, known for Anduni - Fremde Heimat (2011), Deutschland 83 (2015) and The Typist (2018).- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Jan wrote, directed, and produced his debut-feature RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND (2019), Ethiopia's official Oscar entry in the category "Best International Feature," and he received the prestigious Bernhard Wicki German Film Award for Peace. RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND is distributed worldwide, with by Samuel Goldwyn in the U.S. and Canada, and Netflix Africa.
Jan founded R&B RÄUBER & BANDITEN FILM UG after graduating in 2006, of which he is still today the owner and managing director. He is also the managing director of AC INDEPENDENT UG & Co. KG, which financed the feature film RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND and produced it in cooperation with R&B FILM.
In 2016, he was a student at Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. Herzog has been Jan's mentor ever since. As a participant of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's masterclass in Cuba, Jan shot the feature film "Buena Vista Chico" (2016). The film is still unreleased after the sudden death of Abbas Kiarostami.
He studied Film Production and Media Business at University of Television and Film (HFF) Munich, and Anthropology & Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and has worked as an assistant director and unit manager on more than forty films, television shows, and commercials.
Jan was born 1987 in Krefeld, Germany, as the eldest of three children. He works in Los Angeles where he currently resides to work on his slate of feature film projects. He is authorized to work in the United States as Producer, Director, and Writer.
HUMANISTIC ACTIVITIES Karlheinz Böhm personally invited Jan to Ethiopia to see the development projects of his foundation Menschen für Menschen after he raised 23.500 Euros donations as an 8th grade student. While still at school, Jan founded a fundraising association that has collected over 120.000 Euros to date for the funding of two schools in Ethiopia since 2008.- Composer
- Actor
- Director
Ralf Hütter was born on 20 August 1946 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a composer and actor, known for Swordfish (2001), 17 Again (2009) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017).- Ruth Niehaus was born on 11 July 1928 in Krefeld, Germany. She was an actress, known for Studentin Helene Willfüer (1956), Das Haus in Montevideo (1951) and Adrienne Mésurat (1969). She was married to Ivar Lissner. She died on 24 September 1994 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Producer
- Writer
- Production Manager
Born in Krefeld, Germany as the son of a lawyer couple, he started making short films. After school in 1991 he studied business, but left to work in the movie business in different jobs from production assistant to unit manager. In 1994 he started studying sat HFF Munich Filmschool, where he produced more than 15 short films and commercials. His biggest success was the short "If it don't fit, use a bigger hammer" by his friend Peter Thorwarth for which they got a foreign 'Student Academy Award'-Nomination. During Hof Film Festival he met former Kinowelt founder Thomas Häberle and formed in 1997 the production companies 'Indigo Filmproduktion GmbH' and 'Becker & Häberle Filmproduktion GmbH'. With their F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment AG, Christian Becker and Thomas Häberle merged their labels with Curt Cress (Artforce music publishing) and Michael Bischoff (mb Medienvertriebs LLC) and took the company public on Germany's booming Neuer Markt stock exchange in Frankfurt in August 2000.
Subsequently, Becker and his old Indigo team went on to found 'Rat Pack Filmproduktion' and 'Westside Filmproduktion' together with European power house Constantin Film in 2001 where they produced over 100+ feature films & Fernseher series.- Ina Bauer was born on 31 January 1941 in Krefeld, Germany. She was an actress, known for Kauf dir einen bunten Luftballon (1961), On Thin Ice (1961) and Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies (1966). She was married to Istvan Szenes. She died on 13 December 2014 in Krefeld, Germany.
- Music Artist
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Andrea Berg was born on 28 January 1966 in Krefeld, Germany. She is a music artist and actress, known for Love Steaks (2013), Andrea Berg x Vanessa Mai: Unendlich (2022) and Grünwald - Freitagscomedy (2003). She has been married to Ulrich Ferber since 2007. She was previously married to Olaf Henning.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Director. Writer. Studied theatre sciences. Travelled through Europe and North Africa between 1945 and 1955. Has written poems, novels, essays as well as plays. In 1966 his novel 'Venedig liegt bei Cleve' was published. 1973 his radio play 'Der Tod meines Vaters' (1972) has been awarded with the 'Hoerspielpreis der Kriegsblinden'. Co-founder of the german distribution company 'Filmverlag der Autoren'. Between 1975 and 1977 he worked as a lecturer at the Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film (HFF) in Munich. In the recent past he concentrated on TV and directed several movies of the 'Tatort' series, a TV co-production of Austria, Germany and Switzerland.- Bruno Wick was born on 2 May 1892 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for The House on 92nd Street (1945), Walk East on Beacon! (1952) and Rocky King, Detective (1950). He died in November 1979 in Flushing, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Pinar Erincin was born on 18 February 1983 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for En garde (2004), Müslüm (2018) and Tatort (1970).- Marta Hillers was born on 26 May 1911 in Krefeld, Germany. Marta is a writer, known for A Woman in Berlin (2008). Marta was previously married to Karl Albert Dietschy.
- Michael Cromer was born on 21 August 1939 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dr. Fummel und seine Gespielinnen (1970), Loves of a French Pussycat (1972) and Flitterwochen (1980). He was married to Mara Cramer. He died on 4 September 2007 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Hermann Speelmans was born on 14 August 1906 in Uerdingen, Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Danton (1931), Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933) and A Certain Mr. Gran (1933). He died on 9 February 1960 in Berlin, Germany.
- Jens Kipper was born on 14 November 1975 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Loverboy (2017), Tatort (1970) and Spielgefährten - Freunde fürs Leben (2005). He has been married to Ilva Melchior since 2008.
- Music Department
- Sound Department
- Composer
Saki Kaskas was born on 24 September 1971 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a composer, known for James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003), Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (2005) and Unreal II: The Awakening (2003). He died on 17 November 2016.- Music Department
- Writer
- Composer
Kurt Feltz was born on 14 April 1910 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a writer and composer, known for The Reader (2008), Das himmelblaue Abendkleid (1941) and Bonjour Kathrin (1956). He was married to Cornelia Hoff. He died on 2 August 1982 in Pollença, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.- Oliver Hörner was born on 24 April 1967 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for The Air Rescue Team (1997), Leonie Löwenherz (1991) and The Country Doctor (1987).
- Actor
- Producer
Ingo Lenßen was born on 2 January 1961 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Lenßen & Partner (2003), Lenßen - Der Film (2011) and Lenßen übernimmt (2020).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Jan Philipp Weyl was born on 30 January 1987 in Krefeld, Germany. Jan Philipp is an assistant director, known for Far Rockaway (2011), Police Call 110 (1971) and The Hunt for the Amber Room (2012).- Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
Walter Janssen was born on 7 February 1887 in Krefeld, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Maria Stuart, Teil 1 und 2 (1927), Irrende Seelen (1921) and Die Alm an der Grenze (1951). He died on 1 January 1976 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.- Actor
- Writer
Heinrich Giskes was born on 3 April 1946 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Heinrich (1977), Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand (1975) and Die Kumpel (2001).- Peter Longerich was born in 1955 in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is known for The Abyss: Rise and Fall of the Nazis (2021), Annihilation (2014) and Signs of Evil - The Runes of the SS (2016).