Hark Bohm
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.47 |
| Birthday | 1939-05-18 |
| Place of Birth | Hamburg, Germany |
| Also Known As |
1997
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
7.683/578
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Lili Marleen
6.449/88
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Lili Marleen
1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
7.365/297
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
1981
Lola
6.917/133
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Lola
1997
Conversation with the Beast
10/1
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who...
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Conversation with the Beast
2008
Underdogs
6.8/5
In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The perks...
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2007
Die Todesautomatik
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2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
6.7/3
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Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2007
True North
6.667/15
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
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2008
The Charlemagne Code
5.8/25
An action-packed race to find the legendary treasure of the Nibelungen hidden by Charlemagne and thought to be the biggest lost treasure in the world.
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The Charlemagne Code
1974
Effi Briest
6.602/49
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted...
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Effi Briest
1991
Lost in Siberia
5.025/20
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Lost in Siberia
2008
The Architect
5.2/15
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The Architect
1975
Fear of Fear
6.3/30
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1976
The American Soldier
6.292/24
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
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Zimmer mit Stall - Schwein gehabt
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1999
A Good Opportunity
6.667/3
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A Good Opportunity
1979
The Third Generation
5.971/51
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...
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The Third Generation
1976
Bomber & Paganini
5.417/6
The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup.
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Bomber & Paganini
2013
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
6.4/5
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Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
1980
Slow Attack
6.5/1
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Slow Attack
1993
Justice
5.571/7
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Fe...
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Justice
2002
Atlantic Affairs
8/1
A cinematic journey into the music of Udo Lindenberg.
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Atlantic Affairs
1972
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
5.857/7
Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that h...
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Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
1992
Ruby Cairo
4.987/39
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
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Ruby Cairo
1988
Linie 1
7.45/10
Film version of the musical by the same name: Sunnie, a girl from the province, comes to Berlin to meet rock star Johnnie who had given her his addres...
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Linie 1
1971
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
7/1
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
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1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
7.74/452
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1978
Little Godard
10/1
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at t...
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Little Godard
1978
Despair
6.511/47
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Despair
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
6.679/81
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After r...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
1997
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
5.833/6
Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprised and ends up back in prison, where he is trained...
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1978
Moritz, Dear Moritz
5.75/8
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Moritz, Dear Moritz
1980
Panic Time
7.75/2
The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobody realises this until the next day, when he doesn'...
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Panic Time
1992
Schtonk!
6.868/87
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Schtonk!
1989
Spider's Web
6.182/11
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the cha...
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Spider's Web
1995
The Promise
6.556/18
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The atte...
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The Promise
2008
Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet
7/1
Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the time and has a headache. She fears she might be pr...
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Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet
1985
Ain’t Nothin’ Without You
8/1
Martha lives in Hamburg with her young son and makes films with real passion. To stay close to the pulse of society, she has moved in with a Portugues...
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1989
Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders
3.4/5
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1997
Das Hochzeitsgeschenk
7.25/2
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1977
Adolf and Marlene
7/3
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arri...
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Adolf and Marlene
1979
1+1=3
3.667/3
An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she...
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1990
Herzlich willkommen
4.667/3
Friedrich manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the words Herzlich Willkommen, or "cordial,...
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Herzlich willkommen
1998
Härtetest
5/5
Jonas is in his mid-twenties, still lives with his parents and gets dumped by his girlfriend. He soon gets to know Lena, a tough young woman with idea...
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Härtetest
2008
Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe
4.3/5
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Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe
1989
Reunion in Travers
8/1
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Reunion in Travers
1984
Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
5.75/4
Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two...
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Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
1969
Die Revolte
9/1
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Die Revolte
2011
Kissenschlacht
5.2/3
Anna and Michael have tried everything to conceive a baby - without success. There is one last attempt: surrogacy. Their doctor and friend Peter sees...
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Kissenschlacht
2002
Falcons
4.889/9
Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young wom...
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Falcons
1997
Forever and Ever
5/5
A life of little Maria who lives in a foster family breaks after a sudden appearance of her mother Melanie who was absent for five years...
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Forever and Ever
1967
So what ...?
6/2
A day in a young slacker's life in Hamburg, Germany.
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So what ...?
2015
Fassbinder
6.2/9
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers a...
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Fassbinder
1995
Underground
7.718/769
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko...
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Underground
1971
The Big Mess
7/8
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings...
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The Big Mess
1985
Power Of Evil
5.2/5
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.
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Power Of Evil
1993
Madregilda
5.222/9
Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first F...
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Madregilda
2011
Familiengeheimnisse - Liebe, Schuld und Tod
4/1
Doctor Dahna lives with her mother Ayana in Kenya, where she runs the children's aid organization Hekima Foundation. When Ayana is dying, she reveals...
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Familiengeheimnisse - Liebe, Schuld und Tod
2015
Der Liebling des Himmels
4/2
The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual assau...
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Der Liebling des Himmels
1987
Der kleine Staatsanwalt
7/1
Kaiser, an unemployed civil engineer, receives a tempting offer to become managing director of Zielbau GmbH.
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Der kleine Staatsanwalt
1975
Fox and His Friends
7.192/151
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive r...
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Fox and His Friends
2001
Invincible
6.195/59
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
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Invincible
2025
Amrum
7.098/56
On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends,...
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Amrum
1987
Das andere Leben
9/1
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Das andere Leben
1997
Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
8/1
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Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
2011
If Not Us, Who?
5.6/35
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West G...
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If Not Us, Who?
1976
Strongman Ferdinand
6/8
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups s...
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Strongman Ferdinand
1989
Adrian und die Römer
8/1
Adrian is a single man living in the big city, on the verge of a midlife crisis. So far, he hasn't managed to build a proper family, a fat bank accoun...
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Adrian und die Römer
2003
Das verräterische Collier
7/1
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Das verräterische Collier
1970
Red Sun
5.25/18
Thomas hitchhikes from Hamburg to Munich where he meets his ex-girlfriend, Peggy. Thomas doesn't have a bed for the night and goes home with Peggy, no...
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Red Sun
1987
Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
10/1
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Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
1988
Eine Bonner Affäre
7/1
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Eine Bonner Affäre
1989
Earthbound
8/1
The movie "Earthbound" is based on an authentic story: Franz Seeliger, a 75 year old psychiatric patient wants to steer a self-built, muscle propelled...
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Earthbound
1989
Ein verhexter Sommer
10/1
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Ein verhexter Sommer
2019
The Golden Glove
6.942/643
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
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The Golden Glove
2018
Sealed Lips
6.3/13
A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for the sake of her and her family’s freedom.
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Sealed Lips
2018
Early Birds
0/0
Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadness and mundanity of their everyday lives in old-ag...
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Early Birds
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
7.7/3
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
1972
Liebe, so schön wie Liebe
7.5/2
Munich in the 1970s: A group of young people are killing time. Sylvie has broken up with her boyfriend, and a short time later he marries someone else...
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