Sylvester Groth
Acting
Biography
Sylvester Groth was born in Jerichow, German Democratic Republic on March 31st, 1958. He is an actor with an extensive television and theater career, well known for portraying Goebbels in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Clausen in Dark (2019) and starring in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Stalingrad (1993) and Deutschland 83 (2015).
Born: March 31, 1958
Place of Birth: Jerichow, Germany
Known For
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
As a young missionary, Richard Wilhelm in 1899 to China, which was then exploited by the colonial powers. He lived there revolts against foreigners, the end of the imperial dynasties and the First World War. In these times of turbulent upheavals he was indefatigable in search of the deepest truth that helps people deal with change and able to shape their own lives. Richard Wilhelm baptized not only Chinese, but accomplished one of the largest translation services of the 20th century: Confucius, LAOTSE the most important texts of Daoism and especially the I CHING THE BOOK OF CHANGES. The book also served many readers in the West as inspiration. Wilhelm is still one of the most important mediators of Chinese culture in Europe.
Silent Friend
On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in marked contrast to three intimate, human-scaled stories. In 1908, the university’s first female student gains admission into the prestigious botany department, confronting the sexism of both professors and peers. In 1972, amidst counterculture movements, a reserved student finds his attention captured by a fellow housemate and the geranium plant she studies. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong secures the help of a renowned botanist for an experiment on the old ginkgo tree.
Dark
A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.
Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Aghet
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.
Generation War
Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.
The Volcano
A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.
Kaisersturz
While World War One is coming to an end, the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert is trying to maintain political stability in Berlin. In the haughty Prince Max of Baden he finds an ally who offers him government participation under his chancellorship. In the meantime, discontent with the monarchy is steadily increasing in the last days of the war, but Emperor Wilhelm II remains steadfast in his throne.
Schimanski
The Master Butcher
After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
Filmography
as Anton
as Binges
as Groth
as Klaus
as Ludwig Lübke
as Jonas Muller
as Prof. Max Felsner
as Robert
as Frosch
as Karl Schultz
as Klaus Schmitt
as Kaiser Wilhelm II.
as Doktor
as Investigator Clausen
as Dr. Erik Langdorf
as Kurt
as Adam Völx
as Michael Adam
as Walter Ahler
as Dr. Benjamin
as Uncle Rudi
as Walter Schweppenstette
as Sergei Bogdanow
as Helmut Krämer
as Georg
as Hiemer
as Liebhaber
as Helgo
as Roman
as Richard Wilhelm - German(voice)
as Doc Robinson
as Martin Volke
as Hotte
as Martin Niepage
as Martin
as Martin Telleck
as Joseph Goebbels
as Kawalerowicz
as Boleslaw Barlog
as Kesselmeyer
as Prosecuting Council
as Oliver Bendt
as Frank Roloff
as Staatsanwalt Feddersen
as Richard Plötz
as Joseph Goebbels
as Dieter Rohrbach
as Martin Kippendorf
as Pfarrer Ekdahl
as Dr. Schön
as Christian Rilling
as Harald Hansen
as Dauphin
as Oswalt Kolle
as Großinquisitor Santori
as Christian Kracht
as Dr.Reimann
as Klaus Weingarten alias Hermann Weber
as Hans Hollmann
as Clemens Brentano
as Christian Wörner
as Dr. Hauke Wolf
as Michael Katzmann
as Stefan
as Dr. Jakob Groth
as Otto
as Funker Maschke
as Father (Young)
as self
as Agent BLW 553 X
as Heinz Hüsgen
as Hauke Haien
as Fritz Rewandowski
as Mark Niebuhr
as Janker
as Herbert Rühle
as Josef Böcking
as Hauptkommsissar Jochen Drexler
as Hauptkommissar Jochen Drexler
as Peter Wengler
as Jochen Drexler
as Pathologe
as Christian Seitz
as Rainer Vaske
as Norbert Müller
as Dieter Gottschalk
as Justus Fürmann
as Polizeipräsident