🎬Michael Kranz

Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.

He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism.

Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018.

His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Rehragout-Rendezvous (2023)	Simon Steckenbiller		7
2	The Goldfish (2019)	Kursleiter		6
3	MyBorder's JOYFence (2018)	Director / Writer		10
4	Ein Sommer im Allgäu (2017)	-		7
5	13 Minutes (2015)	Franz Xaver Lechner		7.3
6	Heidi (2015)	Mr. Kandidat		7.5
7	Another Kind of Light (2015)	-		5
8	The Fifth Estate (2013)	Otto		6.3
9	Finsterworld (2013)	-	-	-
10	The Pursuit of Unhappiness (2012)	Moritz	-	-
11	War Horse (2011) Oscars 2012	Junior German Officer		7.3
12	Nanga Parbat (2010)	Hans Saler	-	-
13	Inglourious Basterds (2009) Top 100 by FilmGator	Herrman #3		8.3
14	The White Ribbon (2009) Oscars 2010	The Tutor		7.1
15	Hanna und die Bankräuber (2009)	Polizist Kranz	-	-