''Deathmaker'' () is a 1995 German film directed by
Romuald Karmakar
Romuald Karmakar (born February 15, 1965) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany as the son of a Bengali father and a French mother. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens. He has won several national ...
and starring
Götz George
Götz George (; 23 July 1938 – 19 June 2016) was a German actor, the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg detective Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series ''Tatort''.
Early lif ...
,
Jürgen Hentsch
Jürgen Hentsch (March 17, 1936 in Görlitz – December 21, 2011 in Berlin) was a German actor. He was known for several movies and TV shows such as ''The Deathmaker'' (1995), ''In the Shadow of Power'' (2003) and ''Der Mann mit der Maske'' (1994 ...
and
Pierre Franckh
Pierre Franckh (; born 1 May 1953 in Heilbronn, West Germany) is a German book author, motivational speaker, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, seminar leader, actor, and director.
Biography
Pierre Franckh is the youngest son of the actress Ursul ...
. The film is based on the transcripts of the interrogation of the notorious serial killer
Fritz Haarmann
Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemb ...
.
The film received several awards and nominations. The film was awarded the
Deutscher Filmpreis Best Feature Film, Deutscher Filmpreis Best Direction and Deutscher Filmpreis Best Actor in 1996. Götz George also won the
Volpi Cup
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
at the
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
for his role. It was chosen as Germany's
official submission to the
69th Academy Awards
The 69th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 24, 1997, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremo ...
for
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
, but did not manage to receive a nomination.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Cast
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Götz George
Götz George (; 23 July 1938 – 19 June 2016) was a German actor, the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg detective Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series ''Tatort''.
Early lif ...
- Fritz Haarmann
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Jürgen Hentsch
Jürgen Hentsch (March 17, 1936 in Görlitz – December 21, 2011 in Berlin) was a German actor. He was known for several movies and TV shows such as ''The Deathmaker'' (1995), ''In the Shadow of Power'' (2003) and ''Der Mann mit der Maske'' (1994 ...
- Prof. Dr. Ernst Schultze
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Pierre Franckh
Pierre Franckh (; born 1 May 1953 in Heilbronn, West Germany) is a German book author, motivational speaker, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, seminar leader, actor, and director.
Biography
Pierre Franckh is the youngest son of the actress Ursul ...
- Stenograph
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Hans-Michael Rehberg
Hans-Michael Rehberg (2 April 1938 – 7 November 2017) was a German actor.
Biography
Rehberg, born in Fürstenwalde, Brandenburg, was one of six children. He grew up in Bavaria after the family moved to Lake Starnberg.
After training as an ac ...
- Kommissar Rätz
*
Matthias Fuchs
Matthias Fuchs (1939–2001) was a German stage, film and television actor.Langford p.246
Partial filmography
* '' The Immenhof Girls'' (1955) - Ethelbert
* '' The First Day of Spring'' (1956) - Martin
* ''Hochzeit auf Immenhof'' (1956) - Ethel ...
- Dr. Machnik
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Marek Harloff
Marek Harloff (born 22 April 1971) is a German actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1984.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1971 births
Living people
German male film actors
{{Germany-actor-stub ...
- Fürsorgezögling Kress
References
External links
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See also
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1995 films
1990s biographical films
1995 crime films
Biographical films about serial killers
Films set in the 1920s
German biographical films
German crime films
1990s German-language films
Works about Fritz Haarmann
1990s German films
Films directed by Romuald Karmakar
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