Horst Schäfer

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Herr Schmitz

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort was an East German television series.

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Kaspareck

Viennese nightlife in "7th Heaven" This very exclusive club is frequented by the elegant social elite: rich snobs, dandies, pimps from bourgeois society. And mysterious things happen here that attract the attention of the criminal investigation department. Are they connected to a series of serious crimes? The interest of the criminal investigation department is directed toward a certain group of people who are regulars at "7th Heaven." All suspects can be assumed to have a motive: they need money...

Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes • as Kommissar

Three members of the National Committee Free Germany form a secret commando that comes to Berlin from Minsk to take up the fight against the SS in the last days before the end of the war.

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Merriman

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimbursement is challenged, and he must also pay taxes on his destroyed mill. He resists the tax collectors and takes off to Vienna, where he intends to defend his rights. On the way, he rescues the Duchess of Guastalla from assault. She also wants to go to Vienna, as His Majesty Franz II is trying to contest an heir in her favor. With cunning, luck, and dagger, Florian fights his way through a slew of nobility and their secret police.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating team.

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Irene Klaussen, a brilliant, tomboyish Berlin student, falls for new classmate Peter Lemke. To prove herself, she follows him, first to a school dance in a borrowed gown, then to a year’s stint on a remote oil‐plant construction in Granow. Ostracized at first, she wins respect under FDJ secretary Anton by mastering every trade and helping him study for engineering school. After returning to Berlin, she discovers Peter’s infidelity and, disillusioned, goes back to Granow, finding true partnership and purpose with Anton.

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Copywriter Lorenz is gay and has a relationship with his boss Adrian. The two are happy together until Lorenz meets secretary Nina one day. Nina has just been abandoned by her husband Kai, who is now with a man. Lorenz also suddenly develops new, unknown feelings. He falls in love with Nina, a woman. Of course, he does everything he can to keep that from Adrian. But that does not hide Lorenz's emotional chaos.

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m • as Personnel Manager

To save her married friend's African lover from deportation, Britta enters into a marriage of convenience with Farouk. With the handsome stranger, chaos enters her well-ordered single world. Things get really complicated when Britta also falls in love with Farouk.

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Dolmetscher

In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, give their flag as a gift to the locals of Bergstedt, Germany in this GDR propaganda film. This quickly takes on a symbolic meaning for the miners in Bergstedt as the Nazi party demands that this Soviet gesture be erased and the flag be replaced with their own. The miner and communist party functionary Otto Brosowski publicly declares it his duty to defend this flag against every danger, and he keeps his promise despite his family being threatened by torment and torture.

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.