Die Wahre Schönheit | The Ugly Truth:

Eva Habermann

Born on January 16, 1976, Eva Felicitas Habermann began her film and TV career at the age of 17 as Melanie in the ZDF series “Immenhof” (1994 – 1995). She hosted “Pumuckl TV” and “Ferienfieber” in the children’s program and was “the youngest presenter on ARD” at the age of 18. She became known to a wide audience of science fiction fans through her role of Zev Bellringer in the international series “Lexx – The Dark Zone“. Alongside Chad Everett and Morgan Fairman, she starred in “Star Command” in 1996, also a sci-fi movie. This was followed by productions such as “Rosa Roth” (alongside Iris Berben) and various Rosamunde Pilcher adaptations such as “Zwei Schwestern” (1997), through which Habermann advanced to become the German “Romance Queen”. Eva Habermann was able to showcase her comedic talent in “Feuer, Eis & Dosenbier” (2002) together with Rick Kavanian and Axel Stein. Between 1999 and 2002, she became a member of the hit series “Die Strandclique” as Viola Kimmling. Through her variety of roles, Eva Habermann has repeatedly managed to straddle the line between TV and cinema and between all genres. In 2005, for example, she was seen alongside Birgit Stauber and Susann Uplegger in the TV series “Wilde Engel” as well as in the action movie “Der Clown“. Between 2000 and 2006 she was a recurring guest on the Traumschiff and two years later she was back on the big screen as Nina Schneider in the crime comedy “Ossi’s Eleven” directed by Oliver Mielke.

Between June and September 2010, Habermann portrayed Kitty LaBelle at the Karl May plays in Bad Segeberg, while at the same time playing the role of Erin O’Toole in “Our little farm in Ireland”. After the low-budget flick “Bauernfrühstück,” she continued with another Pilcher adaptation in 2011 with “Englischer Wein,” and Habermann continued her role of Maike Gerber in “Küstenwache.” With appearances in series such as “Alarm für Cobra 11,” “SOKO München,” “Deichbullen” as well as the “Rosenheim Cops,” she primarily served the crime genre, but was also seen in the fantasy hit “Mara und der Feuerbringer” in 2015. Eva Habermann’s latest projects are the horror productions and genre comedies “Sky Sharks” (2020), “Trolls World – Voll Vertrollt!” (2019/ 2020) as well as Tyler Russell’s cyst horror spectacle “Cyst“, she also acts as producer behind the camera on these projects.

It was liberating for me as an actress to turn my innermost self inside out and I stand publicly by the fact that I know these terrible conditions and have learned to live with them. The film is painful but poetic and I hope it brings the issue of depression more into focus in society. It’s important to talk about depression instead of hushing it up. In particular, I want to make it clear that there is no shame in being depressed. Depression is an illness, but it can be cured. This disease can affect anyone who has a predisposition to it. Regardless of how much money or success he has. Inner perception has nothing to do with reality.”

I was very moved that our film, which has won over 50 awards around the world in a wide variety of cultures, such as Nigeria, Israel, Sweden, America, India and even Japan. Our film obviously addresses a universal cross-cultural issue that touches people and connects us all.”

Marcus Grüsser

At the age of six, it was already clear to Marcus Grüsser that he wanted to become an actor. The 55-year-old grew up in Berchtesgaden. At boarding school, he signed up for the theater guild. In the early 1990s, he appeared in “Derrick” as a young man in his mid-twenties. This was followed by appearances in “Forsthaus Falkenau,” in the RTL series “Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast,” and in “Soko 5113.

At the same time, at the age of 19, he began training as a stuntman at the stunt school “Professional Action Stunt Bavaria” in Munich. He participated in the beginnings of the “Bavaria Stunt Show“. This was followed by three and a half years of acting training at the Zinner Studio in Munich, and later he attended the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles. “My stay there brought me the most,” he says looking back. It’s important to keep at it, he says: “I’m always in training, still attending seminars today.” Art is in a constant state of flux, he says, and acting is constantly changing. In the end, it was his looks that assigned him the role of the attractive and charming heartbreaker as an actor in front of the camera. Grüsser was booked for numerous “Rosamunde Pilcher” and “Inga Lindström” film adaptations, for the television series “Im Tal der wilden Rosen” and for the well-known “Traumschiff“. From 2010 to 2017, he took on the role of Stefan Herbst in “Kreuzfahrt ins Glück” as a wedding planner, sailing the oceans for several months a year. Being alone in the role of the beau was difficult for him. The “Kreuzfahrt ins Glück” was then over for Marcus Grüsser after eight years. In order to develop his acting skills, he had to find other roles.

Grüsser shot the film “The Ugly Truth” in 2019. He plays Theo Kaufmann, a man plagued by fears of failure whose greatest wish is to become a novelist. “A good-for-nothing who stands in the shadow of his wife.” He has won multiple Best Actor awards for his authentic performance in “The Ugly Truth.” (“8th Northern Virginia int’l Film Festival“; “3rd Kosice int’l Film Festival”; “9th Västeras Festival“).

Shortly after, Grüsser got the offer to participate in “Sisi“. For him, it was both an opportunity and proof to slip into the role of the father of Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary in an acting mature way. “It was indeed a huge production.” For the wedding scene alone, he says, 250 people were on the set. Large parts of the TV series were shot in Latvia and Lithuania, but also in Grüssers’ old home around Berchtesgaden.

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Caroline Hartig

Caroline Hartig made her first feature films and TV movies at the age of 15. Early on, she took on roles in well-known TV series such as “Unter Gaunern” (2015) and “Notruf Hafenkante” (2017). Between 2015 and 2016, she took lessons with acting coach and director Ron Burrus in Berlin and Hamburg. In 2017, she played a leading role together with Heino Ferch in the episode “Gnadenlos” of the ZDF crime series “Helen Dorn“. Shortly thereafter, Caroline Hartig was convincing in Dresden’s “Tatort: Level X” in the lead role of the pastor’s daughter Emilia Kohn.

In the same year, she played the student Paula Herford in the adventure drama “Kilimanjaro – Reise ins Leben” (2017) alongside Anna Maria Mühe. Further episodic roles followed in 2018 in “Neben der Spur” and 2019 in “Sarah Kohr – Das verschwundene Mädchen,” among others. In “Der Kroatien-Krimi – Der Mädchenmörder von Krac,” Caroline Hartig was seen as the innkeeper’s daughter Eva Tomic, who is found beaten to death. In the ARD two-parter “Weingut Wader,” Caroline Hartig impressively played the blind winemaker’s daughter Tori Wader. Shooting of two more “Weingut Wader” films was completed in the summer.

In December 2019, she was seen in the ProSieben mystery thriller “Schattenmoor“. In the absolute lead role, she embodies 17-year-old Emma, who newly transfers to the remote boarding school Schattenmoor and looks confusingly similar to a missing student (also played by Caroline Hartig). In 2019, Caroline Hartig was in front of the camera for “The Ugly Truth,” for which she won “Best Actress” at the 11th Oceanside Festival, among other awards. In December 2019, she was seen in the ProSieben mystery thriller “Schattenmoor“. In 2020 followed the filming of the series “Blackout“, which will be broadcast this year at the Berlinale.

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Elias Eisold

Elias Eisold, born 2002 Dresden attended many different acting workshops in his life. Since 2015 he has been an ensemble member of the Theaterakademie of the Theater Junge Generation in Dresden. He toured Dresden kindergartens with the production “Wind” in 2017. Since 2017, Eisold has also been in front of the camera for film and TV productions. In fall 2018, he filmed under the direction of Max Färberböck alongside Mavie Hörbiger and Fabian Hinrichs for the TV drama “Ich brauche euch.” He embodied the young Jani who lived with his aunt after the death of his mother. Next to him, Geraldine Schlette played his sister Alexandra. The film premiered in June 2019 at the Munich Film Festival.

In 2019, Elias Eisold was seen in the TV series “Der Krieg und ich” in an episode role as Walter. In the 5th season of the TV series “In aller Freundschaft – Die jungen Ärzte” (2020), he had an episode lead role as the worried son Tino Hafernagel, who should not find out that his separated parents have found each other again. In the 3rd season of the TV series “Babylon Berlin“, he played the small supporting role of the “Catholics hunting” HJ-ler Wilfried alongside Emil von Schönfels and Ivo Pietzcker. In the 16th season of the ZDF series SOKO Wismar (2020), Eisold took on one of the episode’s lead roles as the introverted cousin of a slain dropout and “containing” eco-activist. In the 15th season of the ZDF production “Notruf Hafenkante” (2020), he had another episode lead role as suspected underage psychotherapy patient Lars Ahlers. In the 21st season of the ZDF series “SOKO Leipzig” (2020), Eisold played a chess junior Roman Polatkin, who kills his coach to avenge the suicide of his girlfriend.

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Simon Böer

Simon Böer is a German actor who has made a name for himself through numerous TV series and films. Böer was born on October 15, 1974 in Bonn. He finished school with the Abitur. After completing his civilian service, he began studying acting at the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam in 1996. During this time he already celebrated his theater debut at Tacheles and Theater unterm Dach. After graduating in 1999, he landed engagements at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. In 2002, he worked as an independent actor at various Berlin theaters such as the Volksbühne. He first appeared in front of the camera in 2000 in the short film “Jedertag“. Since 2002, he has appeared in various TV series such as “Nikola” (2004), “Balko” (2005), “SOKO Wismar” (2005, 2014) and “Polizeiruf 110” (2006, 2007). From 2008 to 2016, he took on the recurring role of Dr. Philipp Rost in “Notruf Hafenkante“.

He was allowed to shoot his first feature film in 2003. He appeared alongside Annett Renneberg in the erotic thriller “Devot”. In 2005, he also appeared in “Elementarteilchen“. In 2010, he was cast in the lead role of Maximilian Castellhoff in “Alisa – Folge deinem Herzen” a telenovela that was later renamed “Hanna – Folge deinem Herzen.” From 2013 to 2016, Böer played the lead role of a single, Protestant pastor in “Herzensbrecher – Vater von vier Söhnen.” In 2013, he landed a role in the Hollywood production “Nymphomaniac” by Lars von Trier. In 2016, Böer impressed with his lead role in the KiKA series “Beutolomäus und der wahre Weihnachtsmann.” A year later, the actor was seen in series such as “Tatort” and “Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei.” Since 2019, he has been miming the role of Sascha Hoffmann in the series “Merz gegen Merz“. In October 2020, it was announced that Böer will replace Hendrik Duryn in the RTL series “Der Lehrer.” In the future, he will play math and physics teacher Martin Ritter. In his private life, Simon Böer is married. He has two children, a daughter named Mia and a son named Milon. In the series “Der Lehrer,” Milon plays the son of Böer’s character. The actor is also increasingly involved with the DKMS and Kindernothilfe.

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Wolfgang S. Zechmayer

Wolfgang Sebastian Zechmayer born February 11, 1962 in Vienna is an Austrian film and television actor. Zechmayer had his first supporting role as a teenager in Peter Patzak’s television film “Glückssachen” (1977) and a first small role as a student in the television film “Julius Tandler“(1985), also by Patzak. He then completed his acting training from 1980 to 1986 at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, where he attended workshops with Lee Strasberg, Anthony Quinn, Bob Fosse, Uta Hagen, Al Pacino and David Proval. After another small role in Fred Williamson and Alain Zaloum‘s action thriller “Dangerous Action“(original title: “South Beach“; 1993), he appeared in numerous TV and cinema productions from 1994. Zechmayer is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and lives in Berlin.

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Features and technical data of the physical editions

Blu-Ray | Aspect ratio: WS 1:1,85 / 1080p 23.976 | Total running time film: 101 min | Sound format: German Dolby Surround 5.1 and 2.0 | Subtitles: English | Bonus: Trailer 1 “Theos Perspective” and Trailer 2 “Hannas Perspective” | Packaging: Scanavo-Box | Reversible cover without FSK logo | FSK 16

DVD | Picture format: WS 1:1,85 / 1080p 23.976 | Total running time film: 101 Min | Sound format: German Dolby Surround 5.1 and 2.0 | Subtitles: English | Bonus: Trailer 1 “Theos Perspective” and Trailer 2 “Hannas Perspective” | Packaging: Amaray (transparent) | Reversible cover without FSK logo | FSK 16

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