Jonas Dassler

Jonas Dassler is an acclaimed German film and stage actor whose feature debut was as the lead in director/co-writer Julia Langhof’s cyber drama, LOMO: The Language of Many Others (2017), with Lucie Hollmann and Julika Jenkins, with Dassler winning Best Young Actor in the Bavarian Film Awards. Dassler co-starred in German director/writer Lars Kraume’s true account based on Dietrich Garstka’s historical book, The Silent Revolution (2018), with Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, and Isaiah Michalski, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and released by StudioCanal.

Dassler had a small supporting role in director/writer/producer Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Nazi-era drama, Never Look Away (2018), co-starring Sebastian Koch, Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, and Saskia Rosendahl, and premiering in competition in the Venice Film Festival and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in the Academy Awards and grossing $9 million via distributor Buena Vista International. Dassler made a big impression as infamous Hamburg serial killer Fritz Honka in director/writer/producer Fatih Akin’s drama, The Golden Glove (2019), which premiered in the Berlin Film Festival competition.

Jonas Dassler co-starred in German director Lena Stahl’s drama, My Son (2021), with Anke Engelke and Hannah Herzsprung, which premiered at the Munich Film Festival. Then Dassler co-starred with Mala Emde in director/co-writer Alex Schaad’s sci-fi drama, Skin Deep (2022), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival (where it won the Queer Lion), and then was released by Kino Lorber. Dassler then joined director/writer Jordan Scott for his first English-language movie, the German/U.S.-produced thriller, A Sacrifice (2024), based on Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel, Tokyo, and co-starring Eric Bana, Sadie Sink, and Sylvia Hoeks and was released to poor box office by Vertical.

Dassler joined the cast of German director/writer/star Fabian Stumm’s comedy-drama, Sad Jokes (2024), with Haley Louise Jones and Justus Meyer, which premiered at the Munich Film Festival (where Stumm won both the FIPRESCI prize and Best Director). Dassler starred for the first time in an English-language movie, the Belgian/Irish-backed biopic, Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (2024), directed and written by Todd Komarnicki and co-starring August Diehl, David Jonsson, Flula Borg, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Clarke Peters, and released by Angel Studios.