Martin Benrath
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Martin Benrath.
Born: November 9, 1926
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau
Alle für die Mafia
Italy gives sponsors the choice between banishment and prison. Mario Adorf decides to go into exile.
Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline
Die fünfte Kolonne
Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.
Stalingrad
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
From the Life of the Marionettes
An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg
Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures.
Schtonk!
Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.
Morituri
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
Buddenbrooks
Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
Filmography
as Hans Joachim / Hajo Hansen
as Alt-Divisionär Sturzenegger
as Großvater
as Von Zittkau
as Charles Bernsdorf
as Thomas Mann
as Herr Theilhaber
as General Hentz
as Uwe Esser
as Bankier Bernheim
as Prof. Kurt Huber
as Mogensjensen
as Körner
as Konsul Buddenbrook
as Self
as Lukas Berlinger
as Thomas Goos
as Hugo Droste
as Armin Terza
as Alex Lohmann
as Bob McKellaway
as Sig Prun
as Josef Schwarz
as Heinrich Karpf
as Hauptmann Pabst
as Nils Hofgard
as Kruse
as Schäkel
as Feldwebel Steiner
as Axel Jungk
as Self
as Funk-Offizier Maiers
as Ulrich Haagen
as Martin Hoff
as Jürgen Marein
as Michael Godeysen
as Michael Godeysen