Hannah Herzsprung
Date of birth: 1981-09-07
Place of birth: Hamburg, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Hannah-Rebecca Herzsprung (born September 7, 1981, in Hamburg) is a German actress. She is the daughter of actor Bernd Herzsprung and designer Barbara Engel, began her acting career in 1997 with the TV series Aus heiterem Himmel. Her breakthrough came in Four Minutes (2005), earning her the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress. She went on to win a German Film Award and a Grimme Award for Das wahre Leben. Herzsprung gained wider recognition through films like The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Reader, and the series Weissensee, which earned her a Bambi Award. She lives in Berlin and was named Chanel’s first German ambassador in 2025.
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Four Minutes
2006-06-23
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old
My Words, My Lies - My Love
2009-12-17
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims t
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008-09-25
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei
The Reader
2008-12-10
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with
1st of May: All Belongs to You
2008-02-08
An eleven-year-old Turkish boy, two young men from a small town, and a cuckolded policeman from the
10 Sekunden
2008-10-02
Air traffic controller Markus Hofer is partly to blame for a collision between two airplanes in whic
Dürer
2021-12-04
He was a pop star of his time: with his paintings, copperplate engravings and woodcuts, Albrecht Dür
Wolke unterm Dach
2022-04-28
Paul, Julia and Lilly are a happy family, until Julia dies unexpectedly. For the sake of his daughte
Life Actually
2007-03-08
Inner chaos breaks free in two families.
Habermann
2010-10-07
A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true ev
Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
2009-09-24
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, th
The Flying Classroom
2023-10-04
When young Martina takes up a scholarship at the Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium boarding school, she fin
Hell
2011-09-20
In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who hav
Ludwig II
2012-12-25
A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs
The Guardians
2012-09-18
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has n
Pink
2009-08-20
Pink is a punk-poet. She's young, beautiful, successful – but whom of her admirers should she marry?
Liesl Karlstadt und Karl Valentin
2008-11-10
The first time they meet, she finds him horrible. The second time, she falls in love with the strang
Wickie the Mighty Viking
2009-09-09
One morning our little Viking village of Flake is raided by frightening looking spooky demons who ki
The Taste of Apple Seeds
2013-09-26
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where
15 Years
2024-01-11
Pianist Jenny, once a musical prodigy, finds her footing in the Christian faith after serving 15 yea
Beloved Sisters
2014-07-31
A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one wh
Escape from Tibet
2012-05-30
On the roofs of a Tibetan monastery two boys let fly a kite, but suddenly a shot rips the relaxed si
Who Am I
2014-09-25
Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to b
Emilia – Die zweite Chance
2005-10-05
Dr. Emilia Seiler, a consultant at the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs and responsible for youth
Aghet
2010-04-09
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du
Ein Fleisch und Blut
1998-12-14
Mädchen, böses Mädchen
2003-08-13
Werther
2008-09-08
Charts the emotional journey of a young man who falls in love with Lotte, engaged to another man. As
In einem anderen Leben
2005-01-26
Dreamgirls
2015-02-19
Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually deme
Woodwalkers
2024-10-17
Humans who can shapeshift into animals struggle to integrate with others without revealing their spe
Golem
Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf.
Verräter - Tod am Meer
2017-08-21
Woodwalkers 2
2026-01-29
For shapeshifter Carag and his friends Brandon, Holly, and Lou, a new school year begins at Clearwat
The Bloom of Yesterday
2017-01-12
An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just
Sprich mit! – Deutsch lernen ist cool!
2011-11-28
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film
2018-09-13
Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the
Everything is Wonderful
2019-05-23
Set in New York, the film tells the story of the friendship between two European immigrants; Maria a
Don't. Get. Out!
2018-04-12
Taking his kids to school with the car, Berlin real estate developer Karl gets a call from a blackma
Sweethearts
2019-02-14
It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a
Coupling
2011-07-01
Life, death, and yet we know nothing.
Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe
2021-05-14
Death (in Bavarian: Boandlkramer) is supposed to get little Maxl, but he falls in love with Maxl's m
My Son
2021-11-18
Love and loss are closely linked in MY SON, an emotional drama about a teenager and his mother who g
Monte Verità
2021-08-26
Hanna Leitner, wants to escape the bourgeois corset and her husband Anton, who sexually harasses her
Ein Münchner im Himmel
2026-05-14
When cab driver Ludwig “Wiggerl” Brunner, a true Munich bon vivant, is hit by a streetcar and ends u
Tamas Traum
Kochschule Schwarz
Munich, 1938: After his traditional Jewish restaurant was destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnach
Corpus Delicti
2026-10-01
In the near future, the “method” controls the health and freedom of society. The life of neuroscient
Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden
Three women of one family must learn to break their old patterns in order to find themselves.