FrameThrower · Actors · Ulrich Mühe
Ulrich Mühe
3 films · 178 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1992–2006
Born 20 June 1953 · Grimma, Germany · died 22 July 2007
Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards.
Curiously, events in Mühe's life were mirrored by the plot of the film, as he allegedly discovered in a Stasi file compiled on him that he had been under surveillance by his second wife, Jenny Gröllmann.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 178 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1992–2006
- Berliner Bär2000
- European Film Award for Best Actor2006
- Bavarian TV Awards2005
- Kainz Medal
How their films are shot
Measured across 178 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ulrich takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Ulrich takes.
Time of day
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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 178 frames from Ulrich Mühe's 3 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.