Max Riemelt
Birthday: 1984-01-07
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Biography: Max Riemelt (born in East Berlin, East Germany on 7 January 1984) is a German actor. Internationally, he is best known for playing Wolfgang Bogdanow in the television series Sense8. He is also well-known for acting in movies such as Before the Fall (2004), The Wave (2008) and Free Fall (2013). At the 2004 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, he won the best actor award for ‘Napola’ and in the 2006 Bavarian Film Awards, he won the best young actor award for ‘Der Rote Kakadu’. Riemelt's career began in Germany at the age of 13, in the TV productions Eine Familie zum Küssen and Praxis Bülowbogen. The following year Riemelt played his first leading role in the ZDF Christmas series Zwei allein (director: Matthias Steurer): the Waisenkind "Max Loser". In the video for the title song "Two of a Kind" by the Hamburg duo "R & B", Riemelt has a cameo appearance. He has starred in all of Dennis Gansel's feature films, starting with Mädchen, Mädchen. In 2013, he starred in the movie Free Fall with Hanno Koffler, in which he plays Kay Engel, a police officer in training. The movie depicts a gay love story and has been compared to Brokeback Mountain. From 2015 to 2018, he starred in The Wachowskis' Netflix series Sense8, playing Wolfgang Bogdanow, a German safe cracker. The first season received positive reviews from critics. In 2020, he joined the cast of The Matrix 4.
Movies
Run for Your Life!
He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record break...
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Snipers Valley
Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. T...
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Girls on Top 2
Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with L...
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Precious Ivie
Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search ...
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The Red Cockatoo
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he...
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The Wave
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to re...
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Der Untergang der Pamir
The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane....
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Up! Up! To the sky
From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to ...
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An die Grenze
19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shor...
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Girls on Top
The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first ...
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Before the Fall
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na...
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13 Semester
When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, b...
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We Are the Night
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly ...
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Urban Explorer
Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of ...
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The Fourth State
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret ser...
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Hallesche Kometen
Ben lives with his father in a dreary highrise housing estate, earning a bit of money delivering lea...
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Playoff
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team....
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Forgotten
During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in ...
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The German Friend
It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit ...
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Partly Sunny
Two young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her that t...
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Auslandseinsatz
Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world - Afghani...
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Free Fall
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. The...
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A Family of Three
When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up s...
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Bear on the Run
Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the C...
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Talking About the Weather
Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment...
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Thousand Oceans
Five friends spend their holidays on a faraway island in the sea. On the last day of the holidays, o...
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Der zweite Mann
A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in t...
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Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a n...
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Two to One
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a communist family discovers a bunker full of money soon to be wo...
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Lottoschein ins Glück
"Bad luck in the game, luck in love": Astrid Seibel knows the saying, of course - but until now she ...
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Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
Teenager Charlotte adores her cool father until she realizes that he is leading a double life....
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Ernesto’s Island
Matthias, a successful employee enjoys his luxurious single life in Berlin until his mother dies. Wi...
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Blutgeld
The film is based on a true story about HIV-contaminated blood products in Germany in the 1980s. The...
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Sanctuary
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institu...
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Amnesia
A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly wo...
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Storno: Todsicher versichert
On his way to the provinces, young insurance agent Rupert crashes his car into a jam cart and picks ...
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Warsaw 44
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole...
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Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
Hamburg cab driver Axel Parschke finds himself in the Ore Mountains shortly before Christmas Eve: wh...
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To Life!
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet...
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Sense8: Creating the World
Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at h...
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Berlin Syndrome
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist w...
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Brennendes Schweigen
The petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. Siggi Baumeister, tabloid journalist in Berlin, ...
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Icons of Light
Katharina and Steffen seem like the quintessential successful Berlin couple -- they have well-paying...
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Etwas ganz Besonderes
As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her...
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The Angel Makers
During World War I, a group of women who are left behind in an English farming community become roma...
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My Mother's Girlfriend
Family is complicated, no question. But Jan finds it particularly hard: his lesbian mother Victoria ...
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Head Burst
Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling ...
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Der Schneegänger
After missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of polic...
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The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
As soon as Jaswinder, the mother of Alice's friend Tarun, discovered a way to avoid plastic, it is a...
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The Matrix Resurrections
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside t...
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About Luis
The two people in their late thirties, Constanze and Jens, have a very stressful daily life. Their s...
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The Tasters
The film follows in the wake of young Rosa who flees bomb-stricken Berlin in the autumn of 1943 and ...
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