Daniel Sträßer

Known for Acting

7/18/1987(Age 38)

Völklingen, Germany

Biography

Daniel Sträßer was born in 1987 in Völklingen, Saarland, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Der letzte Tanz (2014), La Palma (2020) and Subhuman (2016).

Known For (26 credits)

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Die Nichte des Polizisten

2025

A group of young, ambitious candidates for a special police unit in Baden-Württemberg are driven to perform at their best. One of them is 23-year-old Rebecca Henselmann, who will soon be deployed in undercover operations. She works hard and is ambitious, just like her colleague Christoph Laurin, whom Rebecca is getting to know. The young policewoman is highly motivated in her operations against drug and arms trafficking. In the process, she encounters abuses of power and encounters right-wing extremist attitudes in the police force too.

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Highly Explosive

2025

In the center of Hamburg, the discovery of an unexploded bomb from the Second World War not only leads to a far-reaching evacuation, but also to an interpersonal state of emergency.

9.0

Movie

Post Empire

2023

Drug courier Sal has the war in him. When he meets the charismatic Sasha, his life goes off the rails and he botches an important coup. They flee together and Sal undergoes an astonishing metamorphosis.

6.8

Movie

Conti - My Two Faces

2023

After a media storm that turns her life upside down, a famous Hamburg lawyer takes on the defense of a young musician accused of infanticide.

6.4

Movie

Mostly Minimalistic

2022

The contrasts between Marlen (Corinna Harfouch) and Fynn (newcomer Daniel Sträßer) couldn't be any more extreme if they tried: Marlen's apartment is packed to the rafters with objects too valuable or important to throw away, while Fynn plans to go through life with only 100 things in his possession. The fact that they can't keep their hands off each other and end up falling in love holds true to the old adage that opposites really do attract...

6.0

Funeral for a Dog

2022

Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated menage a trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present.

4.5

Movie

A Pure Place

2021

A tale of dirt, soap, and magic set in a cult on a remote Greek island.

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Ein Schritt zu viel

2020

Nicole Lehnert came to work at an escort service through her friend Inès. It finances her law degree. Over dinner she met the much older Friedrich Benning - rather by chance. Friedrich's colleague Lars Albers had booked the meal through the escort agency. Nicole likes the charming, successful banker who falls in love with her.. He rents her an apartment and buys her fancy clothes. Friedrich doesn't understand that it will soon be too much for Nicole. She can no longer concentrate on her law studies, does not pass her exams. When Nicole got to know the up-and-coming start-up entrepreneur Josch, who was the same age, her relationship with Friedrich cracked. The drama of mutual dependencies takes a tragic turn.

5.2

Hausen

2020

After the death of his mother, 16-year-old Juri and his father Jaschek move into a rundown housing complex on the city outskirts. While Jaschek tries to establish a new life for himself and his son, as caretaker of the building, Juri gradually discovers that the house has a vicious life of its own and feeds on the suffering of its inhabitants

6.0

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Exile

2020

Exil tells the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who feels discriminated and bullied at work, plunging him into an identity crisis.

4.0

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La Palma

2020

Sanne's and Markus' relationship is in crisis. They go on holiday together, but accidentally fly to the wrong island. There, in desperation, they break into an empty holiday home and embark on a role-play using new identities. At first, the game is an exciting rediscovery of their relationship, but it becomes increasingly destructive as they force themselves into archaic roles.

5.0

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Charlotte Link: Die Betrogene

2018

The bestselling film by Charlotte Links "Die Betrogene" offers suspenseful thrill with a psychological depth: A London Scotland Yard official returns to her hometown to clarify the murder of her father, and finds out that he was not the superhuman hero for which she always held him. Leading actress Peri Baumeister and Dirk Borchardt in the role of the local police chief, who wants to keep his big city colleague in vain out of his work, form a contrasting investigator duo.