Age: 65
male
Born in Heidelberg; a curious and shy boy; found the key for his world through passion for music, dance and theater; Richard studied music and drama in Germany, acting and direction in France and method acting with Susan Strasberg and Francesca de Sapio in Italy. He first went on stage in 1981 at the local theater Hildesheim, then, from 1983 in France on independent stages, at national theaters and in the streets. In 1989 he moved to Italy and met Susan Strasberg: His cinema debut was in 1990 starring in "Il Piacere delle Carni" by Barbara Barni. In 1993, he moved to Paris and got the leading role in the film version of Brechts/Eislers" The Lindbergh's Flight". Since then he has worked on film, television, theater and dance productions all over Europe, in Canada, South Africa, USA, Macedonia, Morocco which brought him happiness and a lot of richly diversified creative and thrilling experiences Richard lives in Berlin and Paris since 2007. He speaks 5 languages fluently, travels a lot and loves to be challenged. - IMDb Mini Biography By: r sammel
Richard Sammel
Gerhard Winter
for Gerhard Winter in Cold Files ( Die Kalten Akten )
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Cold Files is a surreal German crime mystery set in the early 2000s. Johann Stolz, a disgraced 50-year-old former detective, returns to the police force as a nobody in the archives. His job is to read unsolved cold cases and file them away. Until every file becomes a door. Johann has to go to the actual crime scene, and once he steps onto the location, the world shifts. Like an invisible spirit, he sees the murder with brutal clarity. Time rewinds around him. Footsteps. Voices. The killer’s route. The victim’s final moments. It all plays out in front of his eyes. The first presence to find him is Lydia Finkel, a rape and murder victim who becomes his guide. She pulls Johann toward scenes no one wants reopened, showing him details that never made it into reports. Johann has to turn what he witnessed into real evidence before anyone labels him unstable. Case by case, he exposes killers the system missed, until a pattern points back to a legend from the East Germany era under Soviet control. A faceless murderer known as Der Gesichtlose. When Johann reaches Lydia’s file, he returns to her crime scene and relives everything. And there, in the sharpest vision of all, he learns the truth. The man he’s been hunting is the one who killed her. Now Johann isn’t sorting old failures. He’s being pulled straight toward the most dangerous case of his life.
