
Peter Knaack
Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Haftrichter
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.

Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Arno Roehler
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Horst Jahnke
First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz, a Munich police detective, attempts to balance her professional and private life.

Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • as Franz Bruck
The cum-ex scandal has caused 146 billion euros in losses in several countries. Inspired by true events, two women from Germany and Denmark are trying to put an end to it.

Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Alex Siebert
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Falk
At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Pater Saverio Pirrone
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After decades abroad, Iona returns to her childhood home on Fiji, sensing that there she might find the answers to many questions she has about civilisation and its discontent.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Insolvency Administrator
A young East German woman leaves her controlling husband/business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her.

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Dr. Fellner
Alexander grows up in a small house with his loving grandmother. In order to avoid his father’s fate, on his tenth birthday, he promises her that he will never fall in love. Every Sunday, Alexander visits his father, who has retreated to live in the Vienna subway system since the death of Alexander’s mother. As a young adult, Alexander wants to be closer to his father and decides to take a job in a lost-and-found office in the underground. It is here that he meets the beautiful and vivacious Caro (Verena Altenberger) in her cute subway hatter store. Although Alexander has successfully resisted love before, now his self-imposed oath becomes a difficult promise to keep.

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Fred
A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser who still desires his ex, meets the self-confident Lucy, who feels called to explore the soul of men in her novels. She lives with her intimate friend Sibil in a Vorpommern house in the countryside. Fred decides to move from Berlin to the two women and try a ménage-à -trois. They get to know each other and themselves.

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Bester Freund
The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Germany, mid-1950s. Dr. Gerd Vorweg, Lord Mayor of a district town, can be completely satisfied with his life. A few years after the end of the war, he helped his town to regain prosperity and prosperity by setting up a large textile company. He is popular with the locals and has a showcase marriage with his wife Katharina. When Katharina suddenly disappears without a trace, this idyll is suddenly destroyed.

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Bernd Moers
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
