Otto Sander
Acting
Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards Sander appeared on several of Berlin's theatre stages, among others at the Schillertheater in 1981, at the Freie Volksbühne in 1985 and in 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm. More recently he starred in Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2004). In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter and in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He also played a professor in the movie The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. In 1999 he played a role in Rosa von Praunheim's movie The Einstein of Sex.
About Narration
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
Self
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Himself
Fly Away
Eckehardt Tiedgen
Die Schuld der Erben
Leonhard Asmussen
Life Is Too Long
Krabat
Narrator (voice)
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
Helmut
Little King Macius
Erasmus (voice)
Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef
Narrator (voice)
Aus Liebe zu Deutschland - Eine Spendenaffäre
Voice
The Danube
Franz
Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
Erzähler (voice)
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Self
Tödliches Vertrauen
Bernd Kortens
Atlantic Affairs
Maitre de Plaisir on Stage
Happy Too
Himself / Gert Bastian
100 Pro
Narrator
Sass
Vater Sass
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Professor Steinach
Marlene
Bühnenmanager
E-m@il an Gott
Petrus
Majestät brauchen Sonne
Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
Girls under investigation
Staatsanwalt Baldur Meixner
Männer sind wie Schokolade
Vater Lano
Der Kuß des Vergessens
Herr Jelke
Stan Becker - Auf eigene Faust
Walker
Am I Beautiful?
David
The Harmonists
Conversation with the Beast
Adolf Hitler Double
Liebe Lügen
Vater
The Killer Condom
Mr. Higgins
Lumière & Company
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Matulla und Busch
Korte
Nikolaikirche
kirchlicher Superintendent
The Promise
Professor Lorenz
Bauernschach
Dr. Gerold Stadler
Das Loch
Der Mann
The White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang
Prof. Hinzelmann
Hölderlin-Comics
Movie Days
Maður á hesti
Three Sisters
Vershinin
The Film Narrator
Salzmann
The Olympic Summer
Sprecher
Faraway, So Close!
Cassiel
Inge, April und Mai
Schlusschor
Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
Bescheiß kein Kind!
Vater
Werner and the Wizard of Booze
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Time of Vengeance
Robert
Vorwärts
The Break
Erwin Lubowitz
Wie du mir..
Markus Petarka
The Case of Mr. Spalt
Otto Spalt
Wings of Desire
Cassiel
Close Up
Professor Spalt
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
Gerichtsgehilfe
Drei Schwestern
Alexander Ignatjewitsch Werschinin
Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
Loan officer Grop
Wahnfried
Richard Wagner
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
Eine Reise wert… Der Dichter Günter Kunert (be)sucht Berlin
Rezitation
Der Mord mit der Schere
Inspector Spalt
A Love in Germany
Narrator
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Self
Der Mann im Pyjama
Rudi
Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?
Nummer Sieben
Das Boot
Phillip Thomsen
Strike Back
Kowalski
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
Kalfisch
Die Ursache
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
Palermo or Wolfsburg
Staatsanwalt
The Tin Drum
Meyn
Trilogie des Wiedersehens
Richard
Phantom
Plastikfieber
Wilfried
Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
Heinrich Zille
Four Against the Bank
Eberhard Winter
The Marquise of O
Brother, Forstmeister
Summer Guests
Pjotr Suslov
Lehmanns Erzählungen
Lehmann
Berlin 10. 11. 74 - 28. 1. 75: Exercises in 9 Pieces
Himself
Meine Sorgen möcht' ich haben
Harald Bornemann
Die Bakchen
Tiresias
One or the Other of Us
Rulle Ruhlsdorff
Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
Obrist Kottwitz
The Ignoramus and the Madman
Die Mutter
Sonntags am Meer
Fritzchen
No Pawing, Darling
Sonnabend, der 1.
Ludwig
Ludwig