Mario Mentrup

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Karl

Mario Mentrup, born 1965 in Emden, is an actor, musician, director and author from Berlin. Films he acted in (selection): “Chronik des Regens” (1990), “Kudamm Security” (1997), “Salamander” (2000), “My sweet home” (2001), “Die Quereinsteigerinnen” (2005), “Ladybug” (2006), “Ich begehre”(2007), “Cabaret Desire” (2011), “Hans Dampf” (2013), “Investigating the murder case of Miss XY” (2014), “The animals” (2016), “Der lange Sommer der Theorie” (2017), ”Die Angreifbaren” (2019). 

As a director and author of films, he worked together with Volker Sattel and others on: “Stadt des Lichts” (2005), “Sie Kommen Nachts” (2006), “Ich Begehre” (2007), “Der Adler ist fort” (2010), “Do the Oz” (music video 2011), “Photographed” (music video 2012), “Yellow Sweater” (music video 2016). For a few years now, Mentrup has been working on two feature-length films with Kerstin Cmelka: “The animals” (2016) and “Die Angreifbaren” (2019).

Martin Langenbeck

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Ralf

Martin Langenbeck grew up West of Hamburg. At sixteen he moved to a boarding school near Fulda. After graduating from school, he was drafted to military service as a Horchfunker at the Air Force. His subsequent university education erroneously brought him to the departments of psychology, German, philosophy and finally jurisprudence. During his studies he worked as a secretary, rural postman, horticulturist, bouncer, call center agent and cook, to only name a few.

He finally found his way to the Berlin School of Drama and was a permanent member of the Theater of the Altmark from 2001 to 2005. Since then he has been living in Berlin and works as a freelance actor. He can be seen in various productions on stage, in film and television, and also works as a speaker, presenter and director. His play “Where Is The Fox” premiered in 2017 in Berlin and preparations to produce it as a film are currently under way.

Maximilian Dirr

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Giuseppe

Maximilian Dirr, born in Landshut in 1983, grew up in Germany and Italy and can be seen in film and television in both countries. In 2007, Maximilian began to study acting at the Teatro Stabile di Genova, which he successfully completed in 2010. Immediately following his studies, he worked as a permanent member of the ensemble at the Teatro Stabile di Genova in numerous productions. This was followed by numerous national and international TV-productions, including Ridley Scott’s pilot for the thriller series “The Vatican” (2013), “Kommissarin Lucas” (2014), the dystopian BBC mini-series “SS-GB” (2015), etc. He landed his first film role in 2012 in Giuseppe Tornatore’s drama “The best offer”. He most recently appeared in German cinemas in 2017 in the comedy “Maria Mafiosi” directed by Jule Ronsted. With Mario Martone’s drama “Capri-Revolution”, Maximilian Dirr celebrated the world premiere in 2018 in the competition of the 75th Venice International Film Festival.

Harald Siebler

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Norbert

Harald Siebler M.A. is a director, producer, actor and project developer in Berlin. Since 1988 he has staged theater and opera at many theaters. He studied Theater, Literature and Philosophy with the degree Magister Artium at the University of Erlangen / Nuremberg. Siebler can be seen as an actor in national and international cinema and television films (Männerherzen 1 + 2, Euphoria, Hotel Ausschwitz and many more). With the company “Movie Members GmbH” founded in 1998, he realized various films as a director and producer. He conceptualized, produced and acted as the supervising director for the film “GG19 – 19 Good Reasons for Democracy”, which has been screened in cinemas since 2007 and is currently being used by German schools and foundations (eg Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) to communicate democratic values. Since 2016, he has directed and curated the South East European Film Festival (SEEFF) in Berlin as festival director. Siebler created the conception and leads the entire project “Kino und Bar in der Königstadt“, which will be officially opened in September 2019.

Felix Schäfer

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Filipe

Felix Schaefer (Born May 27, 1983 in Heidelberg) is a German actor and director. After graduating from High School in 2003 he moved to Auckland, New Zealand. He lived there for 8 years and studied Performing Arts at the Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts, majoring in Drama. Having completed his bachelor, he moved to Berlin where he currently lives. Schaefer can be seen as a lead actor in the psychothriller “Freddy Eddy”. He played Andi in Anika Decker’s “High Society” and Freddie in “Traumfrauen”, also by Decker. Prior “Down there in Heaven”, he directed short films “Te Henga” (2011), “Weisse Lügen” (2015), and, “Fügung” (2016).