Christian Berkel
Birthday: 1957-10-28
Place of Birth: Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Biography: Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor. Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor. From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds. He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Berkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Experiment
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Downfall
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Valkyrie
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Leningrad
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Soundless
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Guys & Balls
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Mogadischu
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Flame & Citron
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Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
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Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
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Inglourious Basterds
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The Serpent's Egg
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Safe Conduct
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Trügerische Sicherheit
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The Last Employee
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Black Box
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A Retribution
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Your Best Years
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Sweet Little Sixteen
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Querschuss
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Buddy
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Rossini
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Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
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Black Book
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Eine Jugendliebe
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Der Vater meiner Schwester
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Tod auf Amrum
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Maiden's War
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Das Schicksal der Lilian H.
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Der andere Junge
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Frau Jenny Treibel
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Erste Liebe
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Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
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Helen, Fred und Ted
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Miracle at St. Anna
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Eine Frage des Gewissens
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Entführen für Anfänger
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Vickys Alptraum
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Once Upon a Time in Algeria
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Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!
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Haber
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New Year's Eve
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Elle
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The Devil Kissed from Behind
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Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
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Wallenstein
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Paradise Is a Trap
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Anti-Social
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Dreamgirls
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Trumbo
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Verzweiflung
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Gates of Fire
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What Doesn't Kill Us
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Scheidung für Anfänger
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The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
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Enfant Terrible
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Flightplan
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Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
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Being Famous for Beginners
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