Jonas Nay
1990 (35 лет)Born in Lübeck just before German reunification, Nay was an active child who preferred sports and music over watching television. He attended the Johanneum zu Lübeck, a selective school with a music specialty, and played in the school band.
In 2004, Nay auditioned for and won a role in the German children's series Vier gegen Z under the stage name Jonas Friedebom. He continued to act in minor roles on ARD and ZDF.
Nay is also a musician, singing and playing keyboard for the band Pudeldame.
In February 2021, it was announced that Nay would star alongside Elyas M'Barek in the film 1000 Zeilen (1000 Lines), a thriller based on Juan Moreno's book about the 2018 fake news scandal involving journalist Claas Relotius from Der Spiegel.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Tali Shalom-Ezer
Jonah Hauer-King, Anna Próchniak
The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. Told from the perspective of Lale Sokolov, the story follows his journey as a prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. After being forcibly transported on a long journey on a livestock train with other Jewish prisoners, Lale arrives at Auschwitz II-Birkenau work camp where, within his first night, he witnesses two men killed by the SS. Lale begins to suffer the horrors of a concentration-camp, which involves witnessing gassings of fellow prisoners and becoming ill with typhus. While Lale is ill, the current tattooist of the camp, Pepan, takes interest in him and arranges for him to become his apprentice. Lale endures the labour of tattooing new prisoners to enable his further survival. Lale briefly meets a beautiful, young woman while tattooing her arm upon her entry to the camp, and he experiences love at first sight. Lale becomes the main tattooist after Pepan disappears.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Persian Lessons
Vadim Perelman
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
Persian Lessons
Homevideo
Kilian Riedhof
Jonas Nay, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl Hannah, without much luck. His secret recording of himself masturbating gets into class bullies Henry and Erik's hands through the mother's thoughtlessness. The rascals blackmail Jakob and post the video on the Internet. After a raging lecture phase, dad stands up for Jakob, but his life is already wrecked more than anyone realizes.
Homevideo
We Are Young. We Are Strong.
Burhan Qurbani
Devid Striesow, Jonas Nay
On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as "The Night of the Fire." The riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.
We Are Young. We Are Strong.
A Minute’s Silence
Thorsten Schmidt
Julia Koschitz, Jonas Nay
The end of a summer, a sleepy fishing port on the Baltic Sea and the beginning of a great feeling that must not be: Shortly before the start of the new school year, the 18-year-old Christian falls in love with his new English teacher Stella Petersen. In a moment of unexpected lightness and freedom, in the dunes and seascape far away from the small town, Stella and Christian discover a shared longing and an attraction to each other, the intensity of which both overwhelmed. But soon after class has begun again, the secret relationship between the young teacher and her pupil threatens the scandal ...
A Minute’s Silence
Der Club der singenden Metzger
Uli Edel
Леони Бенеш, Sylvester Groth
After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
The Master Butcher
Hirngespinster
Christian Bach
Tobias Moretti, Johannes Silberschneider
Simon falls head over heels in love with pretty and quick-witted Verena. When his father, who suffers from schizophrenia, has a relapse, Simon devotes himself completely to his mother and little sister and endangers his budding romance. Maneuvering himself into a near-fatal situation, Simon realizes that he cannot change the others' lives, but only his own.
Hirngespinster
The Accidental Rebel
Randa Chahoud
Mehdi Meskar, Emily Cox
Karim, a student from Syria, lives peacefully in Hamburg with Lilly, his pregnant girlfriend. One day, he hears that his brother is imprisoned in the infamous jail in Aleppo. He leaves for Syria to find his brother.
The Accidental Rebel
Tod an der Ostsee
Martin Enlen
Justus von Dohnányi, Maria Simon
A man goes over a girl and is in a village on the Baltic Sea henceforth as a "murderer" - until he lies dead in his garden. An accident, everyone says. But the autopsy shows that Ralf Kossak was killed. The police consider Stefan Hansen, the father of the dead Lisa, for the murderer, because he has the strongest motive: revenge. But Hansen was not, his wife Meike not. In the village begins a veritable witch hunt on Kossak's widow and her sons. The police discover what a shattering drama is in the Kossak family.
Death on the Baltic
Vadder, Kutter, Sohn
Lars Jessen
Jonas Nay, Nicki von Tempelhoff
On the North Sea coast, jack of all trades Knud tries his hand at crab fishing, betting on sports and small-time cons. He’s just trying to score an award for his Shanty Choir, which has seen better days, when his son Lenny shows up for the first time in a decade.
Regrettably Kin
