Hark Bohm
Date of birth: 1939-05-18
Place of birth: Hamburg, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Hark Bohm (18 May 1939 – 14 November 2025) was a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the island Amrum. His younger brother was the actor Marquard Bohm, who starred in some of his early films. He was most notable for his long-time collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. His first featurefilm as a director was the German western Tschetan, der Indianerjunge shot in 1972 and starring his brother Marquard as well as his adopted son Dschingis Bowakow as Tschetan. In 1978, he directed the film Moritz, Dear Moritz, which was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Ten years later, his film Yasemin was entered into the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, his film Herzlich willkommen was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1997, he was a member of the jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.
Movie Credits
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997-02-20
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hos
Lili Marleen
1981-01-14
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979-03-23
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa
Lola
1981-08-20
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a
Conversation with the Beast
1997-02-20
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Ado
Underdogs
2008-07-24
In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing proj
Die Todesautomatik
2007-11-26
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008-02-14
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag f
True North
2007-09-14
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters
The Charlemagne Code
2008-08-31
An action-packed race to find the legendary treasure of the Nibelungen hidden by Charlemagne and tho
Effi Briest
1974-06-20
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated
Lost in Siberia
1991-04-08
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archae
The Architect
2008-10-23
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuri
Fear of Fear
1975-07-08
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplic
The American Soldier
1976-10-14
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
Zimmer mit Stall - Schwein gehabt
2021-11-26
A Good Opportunity
1999-11-18
Gosbert Klee and Thilo "Abo" Abogast are anything but down on their luck. Nothing in their pockets,
The Third Generation
1979-05-30
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently be
Bomber & Paganini
1976-10-06
The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
2013-02-08
The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with i
Slow Attack
1980-10-31
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refu
Justice
1993-10-14
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dini
Atlantic Affairs
2002-11-03
A cinematic journey into the music of Udo Lindenberg.
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
1972-01-19
Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at t
Ruby Cairo
1992-12-12
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the
Linie 1
1988-02-11
Film version of the musical by the same name: Sunnie, a girl from the province, comes to Berlin to m
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1971-01-27
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974-03-05
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown
Little Godard
1978-06-08
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hell
Despair
1978-09-15
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
1997-09-26
Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprise
The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972-03-10
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau
Moritz, Dear Moritz
1978-03-10
15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teena
Panic Time
1980-04-17
The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobod
Schtonk!
1992-03-12
Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with grea
Spider's Web
1989-09-21
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an e
The Promise
1995-02-16
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends
Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet
2008-08-27
Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the
Ain’t Nothin’ Without You
1985-10-25
Martha lives in Hamburg with her young son and makes films with real passion. To stay close to the p
Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders
1989-01-12
Das Hochzeitsgeschenk
1997-01-01
Adolf and Marlene
1977-03-15
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come
1+1=3
1979-10-31
An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and
Härtetest
1998-04-02
Jonas is in his mid-twenties, still lives with his parents and gets dumped by his girlfriend. He soo
Herzlich willkommen
1990-02-22
Friedrich manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greete
Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe
2008-12-08
Leo has been working for the insurance company for 19 years, without a sick day, without being late,
Reunion in Travers
1989-04-27
The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzer
Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
1984-03-07
Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott,
Die Revolte
1969-10-20
Kissenschlacht
2011-10-04
Anna and Michael have tried everything to conceive a baby - without success. There is one last attem
Falcons
2002-09-27
Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Be
Forever and Ever
1997-01-30
A life of little Maria who lives in a foster family breaks after a sudden appearance of her mother M
So what ...?
1967-02-09
A day in a young slacker's life in Hamburg, Germany.
Fassbinder
2015-04-30
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed
Underground
1995-05-13
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, trage
The Big Mess
1971-06-29
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are
Power Of Evil
1985-08-01
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appear
Madregilda
1993-09-26
Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn
Familiengeheimnisse - Liebe, Schuld und Tod
2011-01-09
Doctor Dahna lives with her mother Ayana in Kenya, where she runs the children's aid organization He
Der Liebling des Himmels
2015-05-09
The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croati
Der kleine Staatsanwalt
1987-05-07
Kaiser, an unemployed civil engineer, receives a tempting offer to become managing director of Zielb
Fox and His Friends
1975-06-06
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things
Invincible
2001-12-02
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
Amrum
2025-10-09
Amrum Island, Spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous
Das andere Leben
1987-11-30
Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
1997-05-03
If Not Us, Who?
2011-03-10
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate lo
Strongman Ferdinand
1976-04-26
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from f
Adrian und die Römer
1989-07-11
Das verräterische Collier
2003-01-01
Red Sun
1970-08-31
Thomas hitchhikes from Hamburg to Munich where he meets his ex-girlfriend, Peggy. Thomas doesn't hav
Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
1987-01-01
Eine Bonner Affäre
1988-01-01
Earthbound
1989-01-01
The movie "Earthbound" is based on an authentic story: Franz Seeliger, a 75 year old psychiatric pat
Ein verhexter Sommer
1989-06-20
The Golden Glove
2019-02-21
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Sealed Lips
2018-11-28
A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for th
Early Birds
2018-10-30
Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadne
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020-07-16
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende
Liebe, so schön wie Liebe
1972-01-01
Munich in the 1970s: A group of young people are killing time. Sylvie has broken up with her boyfrie