Aaron Altaras (born 21 November 1995) is a German actor. Altaras was born in

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, the son of

Adriana Altaras Adriana Altaras (born 6 April 1960) is a German actress, theatre director and author. Early life Altaras was born in Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia to Jewish parents, Thea Altaras (née Fuhrmann) and Jakob Altaras, who were part of the Yugoslav ...

and Wolfgang Böhmer. Altaras' mother, a Croatian Jew, was forced to escape

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with her parents, Jakob and Thea Altaras, because his grandfather had been politically persecuted by the

League of Communists of Croatia League of Communists of Croatia ( sh, Savez komunista Hrvatske or SKH) was the Croatian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ). It came into power in 1945. Until 1952, it was known as Communist Party of Croatia (''Komunistička ...

. His mother is an actress, theater director, and writer, and his father is a composer. He has a younger brother, Leonard. Altaras attended the Heinz Galinski elementary school in Berlin. During his education at Heinz-Galinski he was discovered by a casting team for the movie ''Mogelpackung Mann''. In 2006 he began attending the gymnasium Jüdische Oberschule Berlin (Berlin Jewish High School). Altaras achieved nationwide attention with the lead role in the ARD TV movie ' based on the childhood and youth memories of Michael Degen, German actor and writer who survived the

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regime as a Jewish boy in Germany.

Filmography

* 2004: ''Mogelpackung Mann'' * 2005: ''Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne'' * 2006: ' * 2006: '' Allein unter Bauern'' * 2008: ''Höllenritt'' * 2008: ''

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: Tod einer Heuschrecke'' * 2010: ''Tatort: Hitchcock und Frau Wernicke'' * 2010: ''Die Kinder von Blankenese'' * 2015: ''Connect'' * 2017: ''

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'' * 2018: ''

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'' * 2020: '' Unorthodox'' * 2022: '

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Altaras, Aaron 1995 births Living people Altaras family Male actors from Berlin German people of Croatian-Jewish descent Jewish German male actors German male film actors German male television actors 21st-century German male actors