Max Riemelt
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.
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back...
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Before the Fall
as Friedrich WeimerIn 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy...
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The Wave
as MarcoA school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring...
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Warsaw 44
as Johann KraussCity of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and...
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Free Fall
as Kay EngelA promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track....
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We Are the Night
as Tom SernerOne night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as...
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Berlin Syndrome
as Andi WernerA passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian...
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Two to One
as RobertA family in East Germany finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless marks during 1990's...
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Girls on Top
as FlinThe adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their...
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The Fourth State
as DimaA journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret...
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Girls on Top 2
as FlinInken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together...
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The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
as OliverAs soon as Jaswinder, the mother of Alice's friend Tarun, discovered a way to avoid plastic, it...
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Sense8: Creating the World
as Wolfgang BogdanovicGo behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look...
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Urban Explorer
as Dante / KrisAnxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group...
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Run for Your Life!
as Andreas NiedrigHe lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record...
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Head Burst
as MarkusMarkus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite...
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Forgotten
as MarcusDuring their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together...
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Partly Sunny
as TimTwo young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her...
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Amnesia
as JoA young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an...
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Sanctuary
as Bruder KrappSummer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare...
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Der Untergang der Pamir
as Carl-Friedrich von KrempinThe story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
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13 Semester
as 'Momo'When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and...
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The German Friend
as Friedrich BurgIt’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young...
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Talking About the Weather
as MarcelClara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic...
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Snipers Valley
as CharlyYoung Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping...
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Precious Ivie
as PaulTwo Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death,...
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The Red Cockatoo
as SiggiA coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle...
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About Luis
as JensThe two people in their late thirties, Constanze and Jens, have a very stressful daily life....
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Hallesche Kometen
as IngoBen lives with his father in a dreary highrise housing estate, earning a bit of money delivering...
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An die Grenze
as Gefreiter Kerner19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974,...
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Playoff
as ThomasIn the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team.
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To Life!
as JonasFate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas....
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Auslandseinsatz
as Daniel GerberThree young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world -...
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A Family of Three
as Lars DewenterWhen novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian,...
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Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
as Bernd RosemeyerThe story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her...
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Ernesto’s Island
as MatthiasMatthias, a successful employee enjoys his luxurious single life in Berlin until his mother...
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Der zweite Mann
as Adrian DavidsA young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following...
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Bear on the Run
as TomThirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in...
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Lottoschein ins Glück
as Björn Michels"Bad luck in the game, luck in love": Astrid Seibel knows the saying, of course - but until now...
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Icons of Light
as SteffenKatharina and Steffen seem like the quintessential successful Berlin couple -- they have...
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Der Schneegänger
as Lutz GehringAfter missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of...
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Thousand Oceans
as MeikelFive friends spend their holidays on a faraway island in the sea. On the last day of the...
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My Mother's Girlfriend
as JanFamily is complicated, no question. But Jan finds it particularly hard: his lesbian mother...
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Brennendes Schweigen
as SchappiThe petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. Siggi Baumeister, tabloid journalist in...
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Scene of the Crime
as Louis BürgerTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Marcel FreeseA long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set...
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Sense8
as Wolfgang BogdanowOne gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate...
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In aller Freundschaft
as Mirco VenskeGerman soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.
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Wolffs Revier
as Harald BernhardWolffs Revier is a German television series.
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Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
as TimoAlphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on...
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Der Kriminalist
as Michael BüssigDer Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of...
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Der letzte Bulle
as Dennis PaschmannDer letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about...
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Balko
as Ingo GrabowskiBalko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a...
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World on Fire
as SchmidtThe story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides...
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Sleeping Dog
as Mike AtlasA former detective now living on the streets searches for the truth after a new death raises...
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In the Face of Crime
as Marek GorskyIm Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It...
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Bonn
as Wolfgang BernsBonn depicts the rise of the young West Germany, a country struggling to break free from the...
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