Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15643
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Anne Ratte-Polle works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Anne Ratte-Polle appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anne. Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Simon Verhoeven, Philipp Stölzl, Anne Ratte-Polle helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke (2026) as Teacher Gretchen · Many Happy Returns (2019) as Anna · The Physician II (2025) as Aemma
Career snapshot
Ranked #15643 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2019–2027
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
Average Nutevio score
3.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
Most frequent director
Simon Verhoeven
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Simon Verhoeven
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Many Happy Returns — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Many Happy Returns.
Most productive era
2020s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.93 films |
| Comedy | — | 3.92 films |
| Romance | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Anna.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung
The current state of the argument, as Miriam Mahler.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
7 of 7 films
as Teacher Gretchen
Directed by Simon Verhoeven
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Teacher Gretchen
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke (2026)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Teacher Gretchen gives Anne Ratte-Polle a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Anna
Many Happy Returns (2019)
Performance score7.3
Many Happy Returns asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anna is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anna
Undine (2020)
Performance score6.6
Undine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anna is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miriam Mahler
Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung (2027)
Performance score6.5
Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miriam Mahler is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Teacher Gretchen
Start here. Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke is the clearest statement of what Anne Ratte-Polle does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anne at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Many Happy Returns (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke but asks for a colder reading of it.
Undine (2020)
Same director as Many Happy Returns, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Transient Witness (2026)
Same director as Undine, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung (2027)
Same director as Transient Witness, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Simon Verhoeven
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche LückePhilipp Stölzl
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Physician IISix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
as Teacher Gretchen
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Undine
as Anna
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
as Teacher Gretchen
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Physician II
as Aemma
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
as Teacher Gretchen
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Anne Ratte-Polle has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
as Teacher Gretchen
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
as Teacher Gretchen
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Undine
as Anna
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Physician II
as Aemma
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
as Teacher Gretchen
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Physician II
as Aemma
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
as Teacher Gretchen
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
as Teacher Gretchen
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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