---
title: 'Unknown (2011)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jaume Collet-Serra'
released: '2011-02-18'
runtime_minutes: 113
certification: 'PG-13'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'France'
  - 'United States'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/unknown-2011'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401152/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Unknown (2011)

2011 · PG-13 · 113 min · Drama, Action, Mystery · Germany, United Kingdom, France, United States, Japan


## Synopsis

Unknown is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, and Frank Langella. The film, produced by Joel Silver, Leonard Goldberg and Andrew Rona, is based on the 2003 French novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert published in English as Out of My Head which was adapted as the film's screenplay by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell. The narrative centers around a professor who wakes up from a four-day long coma and sets out to prove his identity after no one recognizes him, including his own wife, and another man claims to be him.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jaume Collet-Serra](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaume-collet-serra)
- **Screenplay:** [Anthony Peckham](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-peckham), [Karl Gajdusek](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-gajdusek), [Stephen Cornwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-cornwell), [Oliver Butcher](https://cinepixo.com/people/oliver-butcher)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Ottman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ottman)
- **Producer:** [Joel Silver](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-silver), [Leonard Goldberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-goldberg)
- **Director of Photography:** [Flavio Martínez Labiano](https://cinepixo.com/people/flavio-martinez-labiano)
- **Editor:** [Tim Alverson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-alverson)

## Cast

- [Bruno Ganz](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-ganz) as Ernst Jürgen
- [Karl Markovics](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-markovics)
- [Rainer Sellien](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-sellien)
- [Annabelle Mandeng](https://cinepixo.com/people/annabelle-mandeng)
- [Torsten Michaelis](https://cinepixo.com/people/torsten-michaelis)
- [Olivier Schneider](https://cinepixo.com/people/olivier-schneider) as Smith
- [Fritz Roth](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-roth)
- [Sebastian Koch](https://cinepixo.com/people/sebastian-koch) as Professor Bressler
- [Sebastian Stielke](https://cinepixo.com/people/sebastian-stielke)
- [Diane Kruger](https://cinepixo.com/people/diane-kruger) as Gina
- [Vladimir Pavic](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-pavic)
- [Heike Hanold-Lynch](https://cinepixo.com/people/heike-hanold-lynch)
- [Mido Hamada](https://cinepixo.com/people/mido-hamada)
- [Petra Schmidt-Schaller](https://cinepixo.com/people/petra-schmidt-schaller)
- [Rainer Bock](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-bock)

## Criticism on CinePixo

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Official site: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/unknown
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/unknown-2011
Film facts: Wikidata (Q158759); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.