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Actor, producer, writer, and director Til Schweiger is Germany's best-known actor and also the country's most successful director. With more than 51 Million admissions no other German filmmaker drew more people to cinemas. He runs his own production company Barefoot Films based in Berlin, Germany.

Til Schweiger (born December 19, 1963) was raised along with his two brothers in his hometown Giessen. In his early years, Schweiger began studying German and Medicine. He decided to drop out of university to pursue his career as an actor and went to drama school from 1986-1989. After graduation, he played at several theaters as a stage actor to gain more experience.

In 1991, Schweiger landed his first lead role in Manta, Manta (1991) following his big breakthrough role on Maybe... Maybe Not (1994) with the support of Germany's renowned film producer and mentor Bernd Eichinger. In 1996, Til Schweiger founded his first film production company Mr. Brown Entertainment together with business partner and film producer Tom Zickler. Schweiger debuted as producer with Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997) winning several Festival Awards. The road movie remains a cult favorite with audiences worldwide. Within the same year, Schweiger was the first foreign actor to win the "Polish Oscar" at the International Warsaw Film festival for his performance in in Bandyta (1997). He has since built up acting credits in dozens of German movies including Der Eisbär (1998), where Schweiger made his debut as director.

Judas Kiss (1998) was Schweiger's first role in an international film. He then appeared in several internationally acclaimed movies including SLC Punk! (1998), The Replacement Killers (1998), Driven (2001), Intimate Affairs (2001), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), King Arthur (2004), New Year's Eve (2011), and many more.

To this day, Schweiger has delivered a series of German-language hits and won numerous Awards as actor/writer/director/producer: Barefoot (2005) grossed about $7,7 million with 1,5 million admissions, Rabbit Without Ears (2007) was up to 2014 Schweiger's most successful film and earned some $74 million locally, followed by the sequel Rabbit Without Ears 2 (2009). In 2011, Schweiger wrote, produced and directed Kokowääh (2011), which grossed $43 million, starring alongside his youngest daughter Emma. A sequel hit theaters in 2013.

As an actor, he received widespread critical acclaim and further recognition for his portrayal as the legendary Hugo Stieglitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009).

In December 2014, Til Schweiger released the family-friendly dramedy Head Full of Honey (2014) , which he co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in. It is his most successful film to date breaking the 6, 3 million admissions barrier of his 2007 hit Rabbit Without Ears (2007).

Schweiger, who started his career in German TV, plays the lead role on hit local crimes series Tatort (1970)(Hamburg) (Scene of the Crime). His debut generated the best ratings for the long-running procedural in 20 years.

Franz Rogowski is an actor. He was born on 2nd February 1986 in Freiburg, Germany. The actor is known for Victoria (2015) and Love Steaks (2013). Victoria (2015) is one of the few feature films shot in a single continuous take and won amongst other things the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography as well as the German Film Award in six categories. Since 2015 Franz Rogowski is member of the Kammerspiele Munich.

Nadeshda Brennicke was born on 21 April 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Banklady (2013), Case 39 (2009) and Tattoo (2002).

Johanna Wokalek was born on 3 March 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. She is an actress, known for The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Pope Joan (2009) and Barefoot (2005). She is married to Thomas Hengelbrock. They have one child.

Fanny Bastien was born on 13 December 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. She is an actress, known for Pinot simple flic (1984), The Last Border: Viimeisellä rajalla (1993) and Poussière d'ange (1987).

Franz Lustig was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He is a cinematographer and editor, known for Perfect Days (2023), Anselm (2023) and Massive Attack: Voodoo in My Blood (2016).

Aaron Hilmer was born on 11 May 1999 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018) and Luden (2023).

Anton Dreger was born in 1996 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is an actor, known for Schneller als die Angst (2022), Where's Wanda? (2024) and Tatort (1970).

Claudia Obert was born on 24 September 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die Discounter (2021), Promis unter Palmen (2020) and Promi Shopping Queen (2012).

Proficient in Greek and Latin and self-taught in classic literature, Sonja Sutter was a captivating actress who achieved dramatic depths on both stage and screen during a career which commenced in 1951. A banker's daughter, she had completed a rudimentary education in her home town (Freiburg) where she also made her theatrical debut. She was 'discovered' for the screen by Luis Trenker during an audition for a Heimatfilm and passed along to the director Slatan Dudow who gave her a pivotal role in his post-war drama Frauenschicksale (1952). Affiliated with both East and West German cinema, Sutter then appeared in several prestige pictures, including Das Schweigen im Walde (1955) and Die Barrings (1955). Not until five years later did she get another opportunity to demonstrate her talent as the titular star of Lissy (1957), directed by Konrad Wolf. This anti-fascist drama, chronicling the lives of a working class family in 1930's Berlin under the Nazis, became one of Wolf's most famous films and was also the high point of Sutter's film career. Perhaps too closely identified with a particular type of character, she received fewer film offers from the West in the 60's. The creation of the Berlin Wall effectively ended her association with DEFA. Returning to the stage, Sutter became an ensemble member of the iconic Vienna Burgtheater in 1959. Her tenure with the company lasted four decades, with as many as seventy leading roles to her repertoire. She also regularly performed at the Salzburg Festival, her roles ranging from Strindberg's "Queen Christina" and Schiller's "Intrigue and Love" (Kabale und Liebe) to Gute Werke in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's medieval play "Everyman". Towards the end of her career, she concentrated increasingly on TV work, often guesting as genteel ladies in popular crime shows like Tatort (1970), Derrick (1974) and The Old Fox (1977).

Wera Frydtberg was born on 11 August 1926 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. She was an actress, known for Sechs Stunden Angst (1964), Die feuerrote Baronesse (1959) and Interpol (1963). She was married to Otto Urbach. She died on 16 June 2008 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Manuel Cortez was born on 24 May 1979 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Dating Lanzelot (2011), Fire! (2009) and The Famous Five and the Valley of Dinosaurs (2018).

Felix Eitner was born on 27 February 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Cherry Blossoms (2008), Alles Klara (2012) and Margarete Steiff (2005).

Kurt Hoffmann was born on 12 November 1910 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He was a director and assistant director, known for Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (1958), The Haunted Castle (1960) and Aren't We Wonderful? (1958). He was married to Luise Schneider and Betti Grimm. He died on 25 June 2001 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Peter Nestler was born on 1 June 1937 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Spain! (1973), Pachamama - Unsere Erde (1995) and Mülheim/Ruhr (1964).

Gerhard Friedrich was born on 19 August 1929 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He was an actor, known for The White Rose (1982), Lady Windermeres Fächer (1978) and König Johann (1971). He was married to Monja Schemmerling-Friedrich. He died on 28 March 2020 in Groß-Zimmern, Hesse, Germany.

Johannes Boesiger was born the son of the Swiss actor and director Paul Bösiger. He was born in Freiburg i. Br. in Germany and at the age of 14 Boesiger became a professional actor for the city theatre of Nuremberg, where took on the main character in the play Be silent, boy! by Fitzgerald Kusz. The same year Boesiger worked as 2nd assistant director for his father. Following the early death of his father, Boesiger moved to Switzerland. At the age of twenty he started to work as a film critic for various newspapers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland including Der Tagesspiegel, Die Presse and Die Weltwoche and in 1984 became film editor at the renowned Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In 1989 Boesiger changed sides again, when he was hired by Swiss television to become in house producer, script developer and writer.

Having contributed to various television and theatrical productions as producer, writer or script editor, in 1992 he wrote and produced his award winning first feature film, Kinder der Landstrasse (Children of the Open Road). This was followed by further works as executive and line producer before he started in 2001 on a project to develop a cultural center in the city of Zürich. Boesiger is currently active again as producer and writer of various English language projects. In 2018 he was appointed as managing director for the production company Jovera Pictures AG/SA/Ltd' overseeing among others the production of Fly Little Bird' based on his own script and to be directed by him in 2023.

Besides his main career as a producer, Johannes Boesiger was active between 1989 and 1995 on the management board of the Locarno International Film Festival, co-founder of the Carl Mayer Scriptwriting award in Graz, Austria, and lately in 2007 together with Dieter Kosslick, was one of the initiators of the section "culinary cinema" at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Pina Kühr was born on 21 May 1987 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Die Läusemutter (2020) and Kohlrabenschwarz (2023).

Kai Albrecht was born on 22 February 1980 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Fox (2015), Frau Jordan stellt gleich (2019) and Lucie - geheult wird nicht (2020).

Wolf Gremm was born on 26 February 1942 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Kamikaze 89 (1982), Tod oder Freiheit (1977) and Die Brüder (1977). He was married to Regina Ziegler. He died on 14 July 2015 in Berlin, Germany.

Annette Krause was born in 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Hinterhofblues (2008), Landesschau (1957) and Mit dem Zug durch... (2006).

Andreas Warmbrunn was born on 15 March 1999 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is an actor, known for Die schwarzen Brüder (2013), Tom Sawyer (2011) and A House of Animals (2010).

Tamina Kallert was born on 24 June 1974 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. She is married to Nik Niethammer. They have two children.

Helene Hegemann was born on 19 February 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Axolotl Overkill (2017), Torpedo (2008) and Strafe (2022).

Magdalena Höfner was born on 20 July 1988 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Alita: Battle Angel (2019), Petra (2020) and Morden im Norden (2012).