Armin Mueller-Stahl

Armin Mueller-Stahl (born December 17, 1930) is a German film actor.Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany, (now Sovetsk, Russia), the son of Editta and Alfred Mueller-Stahl, a bank teller. He was a noted concert violinist while he was a teenager. He turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950.He was a successful film and stage actor in East Germany, but being blacklisted by the government, he emigrated to West Germany in 1980 after protesting against Wolf Biermann's denaturalisation in 1976. Mueller-Stahl's talent found ample work in the West German film industry. He appeared in such films as Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola (1981), Veronika Voss (1982), Andrzej Wajda's A Love in Germany (1984), Angry Harvest and Colonel Redl (both 1985), the latter about Alfred Redl.
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