Samuel Schneider Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Samuel Schneider
Acting
Biography
Samuel Schneider (born April 7, 1995, in Berlin) is a German actor. Samuel Schneider grew up in the Berlin district of Wedding. His German mother was active in the Berlin squatters' scene in 1983, while his father hails from Turkey. His artistic career began at a young age. From 2005 to 2007, he performed at the Berliner Ensemble in William Shakespeare’s *The Winter’s Tale*, directed by Robert Wilson. At the age of ten, he began taking acting lessons at the Special Coaching Actors Studio in Berlin, and starting in 2008, he took on his first film roles. Beginning in 2018, Schneider studied acting for a year and a half at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin). In 2023, he completed his Master’s degree in "Theater and Performance" at the Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). As part of his studies, he directed his first stage play, titled *Faust3000*. Guest engagements led him to various theaters, including the Volksbühne Berlin in 2016, where he performed alongside Kathrin Angerer in *I love you, but I’ve chosen Entdramatisierung*, directed by René Pollesch. In 2018, he appeared on stage at the Berliner Ensemble in Simon Stone’s *Eine Griechische Trilogie* (A Greek Trilogy), performing alongside Martin Wuttke. Schneider landed his first leading role in a feature film in 2010 in *Boxhagener Platz*, based on the novel by Torsten Schulz and directed by Matti Geschonneck. In 2013, he took on a lead role alongside Ulrich Tukur in *Exit Marrakech*, directed by Caroline Link; for this performance, he received the New Faces Award in 2014 for Best German Newcomer Actor. Further leading roles followed in films such as *Agonie* by David Clay Diaz, *Die Puppenspieler* (based on the novel by Tanja Kinkel), *Asphaltgorillas* by Detlev Buck, and *Hello Again – Ein Tag für immer* by Maggie Peren. In 2022, Schneider appeared in Doris Dörrie’s *Freibad*, as well as in the international French series *Toutes Ces Choses Qu’on Ne S’est Pas Dites* (or *All Those Things We Never Said*)—based on the novel by Marc Levy—alongside Jean Reno and Alexandra Maria Lara. In the years that followed, he took on lead roles in Sylvie Michel’s *More Than Strangers* and Kida Khodr Ramadan’s *Haltlos*. Most recently, he was seen in Karoline Herfurth’s box-office hit *Wunderschön*. Samuel Schneider lives in Berlin.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Hyperland
In this dystopian world set in the near future, everyone’s reputation is measured and visible. Your “Karma count” defines you, as Cee soon discovers. Victim of a sexual assault that goes viral on social media, the young graphic designer becomes more ostracised as she fights back.
Boxhagener Platz
Feature adaptation of adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.
More Than Strangers
Five strangers of different nationalities share a car ride from Berlin to Paris. All of them have only one thing in common: wanting to reach their destination easily and cheaply. When it turns out that one passenger has a serious problem that could get them all into trouble, the trip becomes a little more complicated. The journey must go on. How it does is now up to them!
Exit Marrakech
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again.
Freibad
It's summer and very hot in Germany's only open-air swimming pool for women. There, women bathe topless, in a bikini, bathing suit or burkini. Each follows different rules. This always leads to friction, which the overwhelmed lifeguard is not quite able to control. When a group of completely veiled women enthusiastically discovers the women's bath for themselves, rags literally fly: Who owns the bath and who makes the rules? Who owns the female body? And when is a woman a woman at all? The lifeguard resigns, exasperated. But when a man of all people is hired as the successor as lifeguard, the situation escalates in unpredictable directions.
Auris - Der Fall Hegel
The famous forensic phonetician Matthias Hegel is a luminary in his field. Even the slightest deviation in the sound of a voice is enough for him to distinguish truth from lies and thus convict criminals. But now the police consultant confesses to having committed a gruesome murder.
Sweet September
Rebecca and Bruno meet in a bar, in a not particularly happy moment of their life, and they start dating. They consider themselves just friends and talk to each other about everything. But if Rebecca stops being so worried about what the bourgeoisie might think and say, and if Bruno realizes he can't live without Rebecca, they will both understand reality.
Agony
On the 3rd of October a twenty-four-year-old student from Vienna kills his lover and chops up her corpse. Her torso is found in a dumpster, other body parts and the head are missing. There is no clue about the motive of the murder. A silent chronology of the events.
Couchmovie
In the form of an anthology film, travelers and hosts encounter one another in four different places in Europe via an internet-based hosting network called “Couchsurfing”. In Stuttgart, the Swabian publisher Annette meets the Polish master in the art of living Pawel, while her niece Nina is expecting a big fiesta in Spain, but meets only a deaf old man. In parallel Matti, a freshly minted high school graduate, hopes to find a great adventure in Paris, while the two Erasmus students Reka and Alma wander through Frankfurt desperately seeking their hosts. In the quest of adventure, diversion or just an authentic travel experience, encountering people whom one never would have met otherwise and so they are confronted not only with counterparts, but also with themselves.
Fremder Feind
It was a devastating day for Arnold and his wife, Karen when their son, Christian, a soldier in the German armed forces, told them he was going to be deployed abroad. Everything is different now. Arnold has decided to retreat to a secluded mountain hut in Tirol along with his dog in order to finally find some peace of mind. Barely has he reached his snow drenched destination, when he discovers the threatening traces of an intruder. While ruminating over the news of his son and the conversations he had with his wife, Arnold must also battle against an unknown fiend if he wants to save his own life.
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