Christian Friedel’s Typical Vibe
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Christian Friedel has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
Dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud · With Mathieu Amalric, Golshifteh Farahani, Édouard Baer

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
Dir. Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Hendrik Handloegten · With Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Lars Eidinger

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Dir. Jonathan Glazer · With Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus

The breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, radical Georg Elser — disparaged as an assassin — is one of the greatest resistance fighters.
Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel · With Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner

When a singer is found murdered, with her scent glands excised from her body, detectives probe a group of friends who attended boarding school with her.
Dir. Eva Kranenburg, Oliver Berben, Philipp Kadelbach · With Friederike Becht, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Juergen Maurer