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Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

7 films · 392 frames · top-billed in 5 · 20062018

Born 31 May 1962 · Karlsruhe, Germany

Sebastian Koch is a German television and film actor. He is known for roles in the 2007 Academy Award-winning film The Lives of Others, in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, and as Otto Düring in the fifth season of the Showtime series Homeland.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Sebastian Koch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 392 frames · top-billed in 5 · 20062018

  • Bavarian TV Awards2005
  • Bavarian TV Awards2002

How their films are shot

Measured across 392 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sebastian takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 7 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Sebastian takes.

Time of day

Night48%
Day45%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key48%
Natural45%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium57%
Wide18%
Closeup16%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level90%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral57%
Tense27%
Lonely6%
Ominous4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 392 frames from Sebastian Koch's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.