Theresa Vilsmaier
Acting
Biography
Theresa Vilsmaier (born June 8, 1989, in Munich) is a former German film actress who now works as a physician. She is the daughter of Czech actress Dana Vávrová and German director Joseph Vilsmaier. Her sisters, Janina Vilsmaier and Josefina Vilsmaier, also work as actresses. Vilsmaier grew up multilingual and attended the Bavarian International School in Haimhausen. In the autumn of 2008, she began studying law in London. However, due to her mother's battle with cancer, she returned to Germany after her first semester. Following her mother's death, she changed her field of study and began medical school at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU). On February 9, 2011, she passed her First State Examination. She completed her studies with a doctorate and has been working as a physician at the Hormone and Fertility Center at the LMU since 2019. Together with her older sister Janina, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the Dana Vávrová Foundation, which was established in 2010 to fight cancer. Theresa had her very first "film role" at the moment of her birth, when she was filmed by her father. This birth scene was later used in the film *Rama dama*. She appeared in other films by her parents—for instance, in *Marlene* as Marlene Dietrich's daughter, Maria, and in the children's film *Der Bär ist los!*. She held further roles in the films *Bibi Blocksberg* and *Das fliegende Klassenzimmer*.
Known For
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Stalingrad
Elation in Neustadt: by the means of a little witching, Bibi Blocksberg saved two kids from burning to death. While her mother Barbara, a witch of flesh and blood herself, is very proud of her daughter, father Bernhard, overworked and stressed, disapproves greatly of her supernatural antics. Then Bibi gets a message from Walpurgia, the senior witch: she is going to receive her crystel ball, that will make a "real" witch of her, early. Proudly, Bibi jumps up her broom to fly to the Blocksberg, the witches' headquarters. But Rabia, one of the few evil witches, aging in misery and with a secret, begrudges her all the glory...and her youth. And so Rabia sets off events that will soon make Bibi's life fall into pieces.
Bibi Blocksberg
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
Nanga Parbat
70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life.
Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
In this biopic, Marlene Dietrich leaves Berlin for Hollywood, where she establishes herself as an international star through various film roles.
Marlene
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new peers, he gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
The Flying Classroom
The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are married. In her husband's town Susanne has to put up with daily harassment by the locals, which also extends to her two children. Finally she moves back to her parents, alone. When the children, who long to find a magical crystal they believe has the power to reunite the family, get lost in a howling blizzard on the exposed mountain after bringing their mother her Christmas presents, both towns set up rescue missions.
Rock Crystal
Munich, World War II: The young Kati Zeiler runs a small barbershop. Her husband Felix is fighting on the Eastern Front. So Kati draws her daughter Marie alone. A bomb attack destroys the shop and the apartment.
Rama Dama
Young Fynn has one dearest wish - to liberate the Sleeping Beauty. His uncle August has told him the story of Princess Myrose and how she was cursed by the wicked Fate Fairy Maruna when she was a baby and causing her to prick her finger on a spindle on her 15th birthday
Dornröschen
Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first love, and also tries to help the local kids rescue a circus bear from a rich German hunter who's willing to pay for a bit of sport. If the parents get their way they'll use Mr. Big Game to finance the circus and even contribute to local pensions. The children and the bear head for the forest.