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Max Riemelt
Berlin, Germany
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 Sense…
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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.
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2027
Herkunft
Movie
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2026
Home Stories
Movie Matze
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2026
Free Fall – Who You Are
Movie Kay Engel
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2025
Spurlos in Venedig
Movie Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
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2025
The Tasters
Movie Ziegler
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2025
About Luis
Movie Jens
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2024
Two to One
Movie Robert
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2023
Sleeping Dog
TV show Mike Atlas
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2023
Ernesto's Island
Movie Matthias
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2023
Bonn
TV show Wolfgang Berns
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2022
Talking About the Weather
Movie Marcel
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2022
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
Movie Jan Olsmer
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2021
The Matrix Resurrections
Movie Sheperd
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2021
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
Movie Oliver
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2021
Precious Ivie
Movie Paul
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2020
Der Schneegänger
Movie Lutz Gehring
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2019
Head Burst
Movie Markus
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2019
World on Fire
TV show Schmidt
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2019
My Mother's Girlfriend
Movie Jan
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2017
Berlin Syndrome
Movie Andi Werner
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2016
Icons of Light
Movie Steffen
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2015
Amnesia
Movie Jo
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2015
Sense8: Creating the World
Movie Wolfgang Bogdanovic
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2015
Sanctuary
Movie Bruder Krapp
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2015
Sense8
TV show Wolfgang Bogdanow
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2015
Storno: Todsicher versichert
Movie Rupert
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2014
To Life!
Movie Jonas
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2014
Warsaw 44
Movie Johann Krauss
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2014
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Movie Bernd Rosemeyer
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2013
Blutgeld
Movie Ralf Seifert
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2013
Der zweite Mann
Movie Adrian Davids
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2013
Free Fall
Movie Kay Engel
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2012
Forgotten
Movie Marcus
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2012
Auslandseinsatz
Movie Daniel Gerber
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2012
The German Friend
Movie Friedrich Burg
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2012
Partly Sunny
Movie Tim
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2012
The Fourth State
Movie Dima
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2012
A Family of Three
Movie Lars Dewenter
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2011
Playoff
Movie Thomas
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2011
Urban Explorer
Movie Dante / Kris
