Laurence Rupp — Actor (7)
Kafka (2024) [TV] TMDB
Kafka
director: Reiner Stach actor: Joel Basman / David Kross
The story of Franz Kafka's life from different perspectives. Presenting his difficult relationship with his domineering father Hermann, his deep friendship with Max Brod and his various love affairs.
Life Eternal (2015) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
Das ewige Leben
director: Wolfgang Murnberger actor: Josef Hader / Tobias Moretti
other title: Das ewige Leben / 永恒生活
Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former girlfriend and the major sin he committed when he was young, murders and a fateful gunshot to the head result. After Brenner comes out of a coma, he begins to search for the person who tried to kill him - however, everybody claims that he himself is responsible. In the beginning Brenner was at the end of his rope, but he could face a new beginning in the end.
Veni Vidi Vici (2024) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB
Veni Vidi Vici
director: Juliane Niemann / Daniel Hoesl actor: Laurence Rupp / Ursina Lardi
other title: 富豪遊戲
The Maynards and their children lead an almost perfect billionaire family life. Amon is a passionate hunter, but doesn’t shoot animals, as the family's wealth allows them to live totally free from consequences.
Barbarians (2020) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Barbaren
director: Jan Martin Scharf / Andreas Heckmann actor: Laurence Rupp / Jeanne Goursaud
other title: Barbari / Bárbaros
Three people's fates are interwoven in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., during which Germanic warriors halt the spread of the Roman Empire.
The Dreamed One (2016) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Die Geträumten
director: Ruth Beckermann actor: Anja Plaschg / Laurence Rupp
other title: 沉梦与爱 / Die Geträumten
It’s not uncommon for a film to have a moving love story at its core. Yet this particular set-up is unusual. The lovers here are Ingebo rg Bachmann and Paul Celan, both important representatives of post-war German-language poetry. The story of the relationship between the Austrian and the Jew from Czernowitz is told through their nearly 20-year correspondence (1948–1967). Or, more precisely, by a young woman and a young man reading from their letters in a studio in Vienna’s venerable Funkhaus. You hear longing, accusations, doubts, expressions of intimacy and alienation, news of separations and lengthy silences. You sense their struggle for words. What these words trigger can be seen in the faces of those reading them out. It’s not only the text but also its effects that are being performed and occasionally discussed. The intensity of the relationship drama is generated via the fascinating language, the actors’ presence, and the camerawork and editing, which break up the dialogue via changing perspectives and shot sizes. Chats during cigarette breaks, in the stairwell and the canteen, lead into the present. History, which was stronger than love, never slips out of focus. (berlinale 2016)
*****
In 1948 Paul Celan, a concentration camp survivor and esteemed post-war poet, met Ingeborg Bachmann, a fellow writer whose father was a Nazi. By 1971, Celan had committed suicide, before which the erstwhile lovers met on just one more occasion. However, they had amassed almost twenty years of long-distance correspondence. Inspired by fact and fiction, where document and literature intersect in the letters, Ruth Beckermann and writing partner Ina Hartwig (a literary agent) embarked on a screenplay based on the exchanges. The result is a cross between observational documentary and essay film, with a deceptively simple approach: two actors (Plaschg and Rupp) read the letters in a recording studio. Applying a documentarian’s intuition to this setup, Beckermann keeps her camera rolling between readings and into cigarette breaks. Capturing Plaschg and Rupp’s palpable on-screen chemistry, Beckermann succeeds in evoking a contemporary ambulatory romance from the historical source material. (Jemma Desai)
A Land Within (2025) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Zweitland
director: Michael Kofler actor: Thomas Prenn / Aenne Schwarz
other title: Zweitland
South Tyrol, 1961: Paul was hoping to escape the confines of his village and study painting. But because his older brother Anton is a wanted terrorist, he’s forced to stay at the farm and help Anton’s wife, Anna, and their son. As Paul is drawn into a vortex of violence and toxic masculinity, Anna struggles with the radicalization of her husband and the patriarchal structures in place at the time.