Hartmut Becker


Hartmut Becker is a German actor. He played Sgt. Gustav Wagner in Escape From Sobibor in 1987. He also starred in the 1970 film o.k, which was also entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. However, the competition was cancelled and no prizes were awarded, over controversy surrounding the film. After O.K. Hartmut Becker was one of Germany’s busiest actors in film and theatre. More important main parts in films followed like in Verhoeven's He Who Loves in a Glass House, When Mother Went on Strike, John Ralling, , Audienz, Sonntagskinder.
His first leading part in an English-language production, Becker performed in the BBC film Forgive Our Foolish Ways, where he played the role of a German prisoner of war next to Kate Nelligan. The television film became a very big success all over the world. Hartmut's following international film was the American-English production Jenny's War , where he portrayed the main part of Karl Koenig, a character in the crucial test between love and war. His partners in this film where Dyan Cannon, Elke Sommer and Trevor Howard. For his widely praised performance in the following American production Escape from Sobibor Hartmut had been nominated for an Emmy Award 1988. In his next "Festival-Film" The Tenth One in Hiding Becker worked together with director Lina Wertmüller. His female partner in this feature film was Dominique Sanda.
Several dream parts followed after the success of The Tenth One in Hiding, for example the characters Niels Jost in A Quiet Conspiracy, Rauscher in the American Film Triumph of the Spirit, Lutz in the English-French Television Film Free Frenchmen, Moritz in the English-Austrian feature film Gavre Princip by Peter Patzak, King Christian in Young Catherine, Rusty in the Italian TV-film Requiem per Voce e Pianoforte, and last not least Dieter Krause in the English TV-thriller The Waiting Time. His last leading in a German feature films of the last years were The Unforgotten, Montag kommen die Fenster/Windows will drive on Monday, The Gift and Amatores Meae Matris.
Between 2007 and 2012 Becker was a member in the committee of the German Academy of Film.
As a songwriter and singer his first single was produced in 2013.

Selected filmography