🎬 The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025)

Kirill Serebrennikov is a Russian film and theatre director whose work has competed at the Cannes Film Festival four times. His films include Summer (2018), Petrov's Flu (2021), Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), and Limonov: The Ballad (2024). He was placed under house arrest in Russia between 2017 and 2022 on charges widely…

August Diehl is a German actor known internationally for his role as SS Major Hellstrom in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009). Trained in Vienna, he works across film and theatre. In Kirill Serebrennikov's film The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, he plays the title role of the notorious Auschwitz doctor.

Josef Mengele (1911–1979) was a German SS physician who conducted brutal pseudoscientific experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. Known as the "Angel of Death" for his role in selecting prisoners for the gas chambers, he fled to South America after the war and evaded …

Max Bretschneider, full name Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider, is a German actor born on 10 December 1989 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. He trained at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. In the 2025 film The Disappearance of Josef Mengele he plays the role of Rolf Mengele. He has also appeared in German TV…

David Ruland is a German actor born in Saarbrücken. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Schaubühne ensemble in Berlin, working with directors such as Thomas Ostermeier and Ivo van Hove. On screen he appears in The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, among other productions. In 2024 he received the Deutscher Schauspielp…

Dana Herfurth (born 1998, Dissen am Teutoburger Wald) is a German actress and model. She trained at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and has appeared in films such as The Universal Theory (2023) and Love Addicts (2022). In Kirill Serebrennikov's Disappearance she plays the role of Irene Mengele.