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Joel Basman
Zürich, Switzerland
Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor. Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors i…
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Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor. Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel. In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc. In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film Jimmie. There he played an autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film Luftibus, written by director Dominque de Rivaz. In September 2008 Joel received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film. In October 2008 he got the prize for the best main part from Cinema Tous Ecrans. At the Schauspielhaus Zürich Joel Basman acted 2003 for a youth-theatre project. In 2004 and 2005 he played with students, who were at their final project. He finished his studies at the"European Film Actor School" in October 2008. In 2012 Basman got a part as Bertel in the three-piece TV film Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our mothers, our fathers). He also played Pascal in the Swiss TV-film Ziellos (Aimless). Joel Basman played as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called ‘Late Shift’ in 2016. In 2018, Basman played the lead role in Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa, picked up by Netflix. Source: Article "Joel Basman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
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2026
The Girl with the Leica
Movie Bertolt Brecht
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2024
Kafka
TV show Franz Kafka
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2024
Stella. A Life.
Movie Peter
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2023
Lubo
Movie Bruno Reiter
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2022
Late Shift
Movie Sébastien Leclercq
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2022
The Shadowers
TV show Charles Lacroix
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2022
Der Überfall
TV show Daniel Kowalski
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2021
KaDeWe
TV show Harry Jandorf
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2021
The King's Man
Movie Gavrilo Princip
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2021
Caged Birds
Movie Walter Stürm
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2021
Dear Thomas
Movie Klaus Brasch
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2021
Chess Story
Movie Barkeeper Willem
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2021
The Colony
Movie Paling
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2021
Monte Verità
Movie Hermann Hesse
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2021
Ich und die Anderen
TV show
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2021
Adventures of a Mathematician
Movie Edward Teller
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2019
Head Burst
Movie Tim
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2019
A Hidden Life
Movie Military Trainee
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2019
The Working Man
Movie Patrick "Sigi" Signer
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2018
Kursk
Movie Leo
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2018
Chris the Swiss
Movie Chris (voice)
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2018
Clash of Futures (1918-1939)
TV show Rudolf Höß
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2018
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Movie Motti
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2017
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
Movie Kondor
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2017
Papillon
Movie Maturette
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2017
Bye Bye Germany
Movie Lubliner
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2016
Paula
Movie Rainer Maria Rilke
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2015
Nussknacker und Mausekönig
Movie Mausekönig
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2015
Land of Mine
Movie Helmut Morbach
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2015
Amnesia
Movie Rudolfo
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2015
Dawn
Movie Elisha
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2015
As We Were Dreaming
Movie Mark
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2014
We Are Young. We Are Strong.
Movie Robbie
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2014
Keep Rollin'
Movie Valentin
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2014
Ziellos
Movie Pascal Saner
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2014
The Monuments Men
Movie German Soldier at Ghent
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2013
Puppylove
Movie Paul
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2013
Generation War
TV show Bartel
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2012
Summer Outside
Movie Theo
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2012
The Swiss Miss Massacre
Movie Johnny
