''Agnes and His Brothers'' (german: Agnes und seine Brüder) is a 2004 film directed by
Oskar Roehler
Oskar Roehler (born 21 January 1959) is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg, the son of writers Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s, he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among ot ...
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Plot
Three very different siblings: Hans-Jörg, a librarian who is a sex addict; Werner, a politician in a troubled marriage with a son who enjoys discrediting his father; Martin, who is now Agnes after having a gender-reassignment operation. Agnes works as a dancer and is suffering from unrequited love.
Cast
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Martin Weiß as Agnes Tschirner
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Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Johann Bleibtreu (; was born in Munich, Munich, Germany on August 13, 1971. He has worked over the years as a film actor, voice actor, and film director. Bleibtreu has been a successful actor in many movies such as ''Run Lola Run, Das Exp ...
as Hans-Jörg Tschirner
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Herbert Knaup
Herbert Knaup (born 23 March 1956) is a German film and television actor. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his supporting roles in '' Run Lola Run'' (1998) and ''The Lives of Others'' (2006).
Selected filmography
* ''Coda ...
as Werner Tschirner
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Katja Riemann
Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann (, born 1 November 1963) is a German actress.
The daughter of two teachers, Riemann grew up in Weyhe, near Bremen. After high school she went to Hamburg to study music and theater. She is the mother of actress Pau ...
as Signe
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Tom Schilling as Ralf
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Suzan Anbeh as Desiree
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Vadim Glowna
Vadim Glowna (; 26 September 1941 – 24 January 2012) was a German actor and film director. Since 1964 he appeared in more than 150 films and television shows.
He directed the 1983 film ''Dies rigorose Leben'', which won an Honourable Ment ...
as Günther
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Margit Carstensen
Margit Carstensen (born 29 February 1940) is a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Theater career
Carstensen, the daughter of a physician, was born and rai ...
as Roxy
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Lee Daniels
Lee Daniels (born December 24, 1959) is an American film and television producer, director and screenwriter. His first producer credit was ''Monster's Ball'' (2001), for which Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress, making Daniels ...
as Henry
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Marie Zielcke
Marie Zielcke (born 3 February 1979 in Cologne) is a German film, television and stage actress.
Mika Kaurismäki, who directed Zielcke in the 2000 film ''Highway Society'', introduced her to actor Henry Thomas
Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. (bor ...
as Nadine
* Oliver Korittke as Rudi
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Martin Semmelrogge
Martin Semmelrogge (born 8 December 1955) is a German actor, best known for his role as the comical Second Watch Officer in the film ''Das Boot''. His character was based on the real life World War II submarine officer Werner Herrmann.
Semmelr ...
as Manni Moneto
* Martin Feifel as Hannes
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Sven Martinek as Jürgen
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Til Schweiger
Tilman Valentin Schweiger (; born 19 December 1963) is a German actor, voice actor and filmmaker. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.
Early life
Schweiger was born in Freiburg, West Germany, to two teachers. He grew ...
as Freund in Bibliothek
Reception
References
External links
Official website
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''Agnes and His Brothers''at
filmportal.de/en
2004 films
2004 drama films
2004 LGBT-related films
2000s German-language films
German LGBT-related films
Films directed by Oskar Roehler
Films scored by Martin Todsharow
German drama films
Films shot in Cologne
LGBT-related drama films
Films about trans women
2000s German films
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