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Hannelore Elsner

Highest Rated: 79% Cherry Blossoms (2008)

Lowest Rated: 11% Berlin, I Love You (2019)

Birthday: Jul 26, 1942

Birthplace: Burghausen, Germany

Actress Hannelore Elsner is best known to German audiences for her role as Inspector Lea Sommer in the long-running crime program "Die Kommissarin," which ran from 1994 to 2006. Although she has worked steadily since 1959 on stage, on television, and in movies, she is little known to mainstream audiences beyond the borders of Germany. Savvy moviegoers, though, especially ones who attend film festivals, may know her from her role as half of a German couple confronting their mortality in Doris Dörrie's "Cherry Blossoms," an homage to the great Japanese director Ozu, and from her part in Oskar Roehler's "No Place to Go" as a novelist suffering a mental breakdown during the collapse of the East German government in 1989. Both films showcase the actress at the top of her craft and show why many critics and audiences alike feel that she is one of the best German actresses of her generation. Roles in the poignant drama "Vivere"--playing a suicidal heartbroken woman-and in the German box-office hit comedy "Go for Zucker," in which she plays a frustrated wife to a drunken, gambling pool player who enters a tournament hoping to make the score of a lifetime, were received with much critical praise.

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Highest-Rated Movies

79% 91% Cherry Blossoms
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54% 72% Go for Zucker
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44% 58% Vivere
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11% 27% Berlin, I Love You Watchlist
Anatomy of Revenge
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Sleeping Beauty
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An Alibi for Death
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Kai Rabe vs. the Vatican Killers
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67% No Place to Go
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Hanni and Nanni
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Filmography

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Berlin, I Love You 11% 27% 2019 Madame Rose Actor 100 Things 50% 2018 Renate Konaske Actor Hanna's Sleeping Dogs 2016 Ruth Eberth Actor To Life! 92% 2014 Actor The Last Mentsch 2014 Ethel Actor The Whole Shebang 2014 Ingrid Actor Tour De Force 2014 Irene Actor Hanni & Nanni III 2013 Frau Theobald Actor Anatomy of Revenge 2012 Eva Ulmer Actor St. Daisy 57% 2012 Daisy Actor Jesus Loves Me 40% 2012 Sylvia Actor Hanni and Nanni 2 2012 Frau Theobald Actor Promising the Moon 2011 Marga Baumanis Actor Hanni and Nanni 2010 Frau Theobald Actor Electro Ghetto 2010 Bushido's mother Actor Sleeping Beauty 2009 Maruna Actor Cherry Blossoms 79% 91% 2008 Trudi Angermeier Actor Vivere 44% 58% 2007 Gerlinde von Habermann Actor Nicht alle waren Mörder 100% 2006 Ludmilla Dimitrieff Actor Go for Zucker 54% 72% 2005 Marlene Zuckermann Actor Frau fährt, Mann schläft 2004 Dr. Sue Süssmilch Actor Frau fährt, Mann schläft - Zeitreisen: Die Gegenwart (Woman Driving, Man Sleeping) 2004 Actor No Place to Go 67% 2000 Hanna Flanders Actor The Cry of the Butterfly 1999 Susanne Thies Actor Kai Rabe vs. the Vatican Killers 1998 Hilde Strassburger Actor
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