Thomas Thieme
Date of birth: 1948-10-29
Place of birth: Weimar, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Thomas Thieme (born 29 October 1948) is a German actor. He is considered to be a prolific stage actor and also appeared in more than 100 film and television productions since 1973. In his film and television appearances, Thieme often plays powerful but morally dubious characters. He is perhaps best-known internationally for his roles as Martin Bormann in Downfall (2004) and as Communist minister Bruno Hempf in the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, for which he was compared to Sydney Greenstreet by Roger Ebert in his review. He played former Bayern Munich boss Uli Hoeneß, who had to spent time in jail for tax evasion, in the 2015 television film Der Patriarch. He had a recurring role in the successful series Babylon Berlin as the police chief Karl Zörgiebel.
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The Lives of Others
2006-03-23
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h
Downfall
2004-09-16
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea
Das Phantom
1994-09-05
After each new crime, the department store blackmailer Scrooge comes up with a more sophisticated me
Duel at Night
2007-06-23
The committed inspector Jonas Birke, just new to the Frankfurt homicide squad, only has this one nig
Effi Briest
2009-02-09
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten
Tell – Jagd auf Ewig
King Rudolf of Habsburg dies in July 1291, leaving the valleys around Lake Lucerne in a power vacuum
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005-09-16
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'
LasVegas
2024-01-18
Tristan is into fashion design while his parents take care of the rest. Sunny is a drag queen and a
Kaiserspiel
2021-11-27
On operated by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck the German Empire is finally founded in 187
Beloved Berlin Wall
2009-11-19
Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German wo
Männersache
2009-03-19
During the day Paul works in a Berlin pet shop and in the evening he works on his career as a comedi
Fette Welt
1999-01-28
They kiss and they fight, they love and they kill each other: Hagen Trinker and the others, bums and
Murder on Amrum
2009-09-25
Two policemen are stationed on Amrum, a North Sea island on the West coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Ge
The Family Jewels
2004-01-22
Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagno
Rübezahls Schatz
2017-12-24
The mountain spirit Rübezahl falls in love with the young maid Rosa. Blind with love, he does not no
Hotel Lux
2011-10-27
In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian pa
Lessons of a Dream
2011-02-24
An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.
Ein weites Herz
2013-04-01
When Isa provokes the Nazis with a satirical song at her graduation party, she is denied her degree
Robin Hood
2013-08-20
In the near future: the EU has collapsed, stock market prices have collapsed, energy costs have expl
George
2013-06-21
The last years of Heinrich George's life are reconstructed with documentary footage and play scenes.
Max and the Senior Squad
2024-05-01
Max can hardly believe his luck: In a retirement home, he has finally found a gang that will let him
Striving for Freedom
2013-11-11
Silesia, 1844. After her husband dies in a brutally suppressed weavers’ uprising, Mila emigrates to
Die Versuchung
2004-02-07
Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate w
Mörderisches Wespennest
2011-02-21
Bastard
2011-10-25
The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notic
Berlin '36
2009-09-09
Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summe
Liebling, weck die Hühner auf
2009-12-19
Author Steffen Teuffel moved from Berlin to sleepy, 'dying' Brandenburg (ex-GDR) small-town Krummenw
Der Mann aus der Pfalz
2009-10-20
A docudrama about Germany's former chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose 16-year tenure during the 80s and 9
Rommel
2012-11-01
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Schuldig
2009-02-04
The life of Professor Eva Senn, a successful science journalist and award-winning non-fiction author
Warten ist der Tod
1999-11-06
If Not Us, Who?
2011-03-10
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate lo
Gates of Fire
1996-11-10
Ex-Secret Service agent Harry Kowa now works as a bodyguard. Protecting his boss from an assassinati
The Door
2009-11-26
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new s
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008-09-25
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei
Die Nachrichten
2005-10-03
Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from
Der Vater meiner Schwester
2005-08-23
Only at the age of 19 does Paul learn from his mother that his father Klaus Merbold did not die in I
Aghet
2010-04-09
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du
Liebling, bring die Hühner ins Bett
2002-12-05
The King's Surrender
2014-11-13
Violent youth gangs and a police force way out of its depth. When a police operation goes awry and t
Der Tote im Watt
2013-04-08
Janne Flecker returns to her hometown of Cuxhaven because her brother Erik was found murdered in the
The Hunt for Troy
2007-02-15
True story about how famous German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann located the rui
Bangkok - Ein Mädchen verschwindet
1999-05-07
Lucky Child
2014-11-01
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.
Hannas Baby
2002-01-01
The couple Hanna and Georg are overjoyed when Hanna finally gets pregnant, but things take a turn fo
Der Gerechte Richter
2000-11-16
Heart of Stone
2014-12-20
Penniless Peter Munk toils day after day as a charcoal burner in the Black Forest. In order to final
Besondere Schwere der Schuld
2014-11-01
Joseph Komalschek was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cruelly murdering a young mother and her n
Lemgo
1994-01-01
Letzter Moment
2010-09-17
Liebe. Macht. Blind.
2001-12-13
Strangers and Lovers
2012-10-04
After an argument with her parents, Sophie gets involved in an affair with her neighbor Max. When he
Die Frau des Architekten
2004-04-09
Ein Dorf sieht Mord
2009-11-30
Was glücklich macht
2009-04-12
After overseeing major projects as a construction manager for many years and having traveled all ove
Tresko - Im Visier der Drogenmafia
1996-12-29
In order to track down the Russian mafia, Joachim Tresko goes undercover in the Berlin art scene. Me
Engel der Gerechtigkeit - Kopfgeld
2013-12-15
Die Eisläuferin
2015-07-10
Chaos in the Chancellery: Prime Minister Katharina Wendt loses her memory during a spontaneous trip
Kundschafter des Friedens 2
2025-01-23
The retired GDR spies have just buried their old mentor in Cuba as they set out to save the last rea
Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann
2004-08-04
Sports idol Baumann, advocate of strict controls, tested positive in 1999. Baumann is outraged
Vertraute Angst
2008-05-07
When Anja is finally ready to start a new life, her husband Thomas is released from a psychiatric wa
Wallenstein
1987-01-01
Wallenstein is adaptation of the drama by Friedrich Schiller. Set midway through the religious confl
Uli Hoeneß - Der Patriarch
2015-08-27
Old Agent Men
2017-01-26
Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or "Kundschafter des Friedens" as they were officially named, led b
I've Never Been Happier
2009-01-29
Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if th
Im Zweifel
2016-01-30
For Pastor Judith Ehrmann, her job as an emergency counselor is more than just part of her job: givi
Fritz Lang
2016-04-14
Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of
Hamlet_X
2003-06-21
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surroundi
Das letzte Wort
2013-08-23
Der weisse Äthiopier
2015-07-03
In Ethiopia, Frank Michalka has found a new home and left his criminal past behind. But happiness do
The Berlin File
2013-01-30
When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just
Die Katze
2007-10-03
On a seniors ride a bourgeois widow meets a proletarian man. Out of despair they marry right away wi
Willkommen bei den Honeckers
2017-10-03
Max Bretschneider pretends to be a communist in order to conduct the last interview with Erich Honec
Woman's Lake
2012-05-25
What could be lovelier than Women's Lake - a magical summer setting near Berlin? Rosa, perhaps. She
The Nameless Day
2017-10-09
The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a "death messenge
Die Affäre Borgward
2018-09-29
The name of car manufacturer Carl F. W. Borgward is still synonymous with the West German Wirtschaft
Othello
2003-01-01
Look Who's Back
2015-10-08
When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken f
Planet B - C.I.Angel
2001-01-01
Blame Game
2019-01-14
Martin Behrens is a Middle East expert for the German intelligence agency BND. He obtains informatio
The Audition
2019-11-06
Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old s
Lotte in Weimar
1975-05-15
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transf
Max und die wilde 7
2020-08-06
Nine-year-old Max moves to Geroldseck Castle, together with his mother, who takes up a position as a
Menuett
2019-03-29
Chamisso’s Shadow
2016-02-12
A three-chapter 720-minute cinematic exploration inspired by historical explorers like Adelbert von
Taking Sides
2002-03-07
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation r
Erziehung vor Verdun
1973-11-25
The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the
An seiner Seite
2021-04-30
Charlotte Kler has enjoyed a privileged life alongside her husband, star conductor Walter Kler, but
Dahlmanns letzte Bescherung
2025-11-15
Der Test
1990-01-30
How do you become a Frankfurter?