Max Riemelt

Max Riemelt

Born: January 7, 1984
in 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 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 for Max Riemelt...

2:1
Title: 2:1
Released: July 25, 2024
Type: Movie
A family in East Germany finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless marks during 1990's reunification, and takes what they can carry.
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Title: Sleeping Dog
Character: Mike Atlas
Released: June 22, 2023
Type: TV
A former detective now living on the streets searches for the truth after a new death raises unnerving doubts about a supposedly settled murder case.
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Ernesto’s Island
Title: Ernesto’s Island
Character: Matthias
Released: May 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Matthias, a successful employee enjoys his luxurious single life in Berlin until his mother dies. With her last wish to scatter her ashes in Cuba, she sends him on a journey into his past, to search for a true home.
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Title: Bonn
Character: Wolfgang Berns
Released: January 17, 2023
Type: TV
Bonn depicts the rise of the young West Germany, a country struggling to break free from the terrors and legacies of World War II and longing for a 'normal' life. Into this heady and volatile mix steps Toni, a young woman determined to seize every opportunity, overcome every obstacle and make her own way in what is still a very male-dominated society. But what at first appears to be only an entry-level office job at one of the country's two competing secret services soon sucks her ever deeper into a clandestine world of suspicion
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Talking About the Weather
Title: Talking About the Weather
Character: Marcel
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has grown between her and her family.
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Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
Title: Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
Character: Jan Olsmer
Released: August 27, 2022
Type: Movie
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The Matrix Resurrections
Title: The Matrix Resurrections
Character: Sheperd
Released: December 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
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The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
Title: The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
Character: Oliver
Released: September 30, 2021
Type: Movie
As soon as Jaswinder, the mother of Alice's friend Tarun, discovered a way to avoid plastic, it is attacked and the documents about it, which are also top secret, stolen. Shortly thereafter, it also disappears without a trace. Alice, as the remaining peppercorn, searches for clues and comes across toxic waste companies who want to prevent the documents from being published at all costs. Will you take Alice to Jaswinder ...?
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Precious Ivie
Title: Precious Ivie
Character: Paul
Released: September 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search their roots and find themselves.
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Der Schneegänger
Title: Der Schneegänger
Character: Lutz Gehring
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: Movie
After missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of police officers investigate the boy's death.
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Head Burst
Title: Head Burst
Character: Markus
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling disgust of himself, Markus can't help but feel attracted to young boys. When he thinks he won't be able to suppress his deepest feelings, he decides to isolate himself.
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Title: World on Fire
Character: Schmidt
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: TV
The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
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My Mother's Girlfriend
Title: My Mother's Girlfriend
Character: Jan
Released: March 13, 2019
Type: Movie
Family is complicated, no question. But Jan finds it particularly hard: his lesbian mother Victoria asks him to become a sperm donor for the common desire child with partner Rosalie. Jan would be father and stepbrother in one. An absurd idea? Not if Jan is shot in that same Rosalie ...
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Berlin Syndrome
Title: Berlin Syndrome
Character: Andi Werner
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
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Icons of Light
Title: Icons of Light
Character: Steffen
Released: January 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Katharina and Steffen seem like the quintessential successful Berlin couple -- they have well-paying jobs, a loving relationship and a spectacular apartment. One night, fed up with the predictability of their lives, they decide on a radical change: They're going to extinguish all traces of their existence and start over. They set up a camera to film the process, hoping others will follow their lead. They begin to destroy their belongings, empty their bank accounts and erase the digital remnants of their lives. Even from their best friends, the couple Robert and Paul, they intend to hide their plan to disappear forever. As everything around them breaks into pieces, their film takes a turn of its own - and their secretive revolution becomes a fight for their love.
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Amnesia
Title: Amnesia
Character: Jo
Released: August 19, 2015
Type: Movie
A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, including her native language.
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Sense8: Creating the World
Title: Sense8: Creating the World
Character: Wolfgang Bogdanovic
Released: August 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at how the hit series is made.
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Sanctuary
Title: Sanctuary
Character: Bruder Krapp
Released: June 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
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Title: Sense8
Character: Wolfgang Bogdanow
Released: June 5, 2015
Type: TV
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
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Storno: Todsicher versichert
Title: Storno: Todsicher versichert
Character: Rupert
Released: May 20, 2015
Type: Movie
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To Life!
Title: To Life!
Character: Jonas
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live.
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Warsaw 44
Title: Warsaw 44
Character: Johann
Released: July 30, 2014
Type: Movie
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…
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Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Title: Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Character: Bernd Rosemeyer
Released: March 30, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.
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Blutgeld
Title: Blutgeld
Character: Ralf Seifert
Released: October 28, 2013
Type: Movie
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Der zweite Mann
Title: Der zweite Mann
Character: Adrian Davids
Released: October 25, 2013
Type: Movie
A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor.
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Free Fall
Title: Free Fall
Character: Kay Engel
Released: May 27, 2013
Type: Movie
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what it means to fall in love with another man.
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Forgotten
Title: Forgotten
Character: Marcus
Released: December 20, 2012
Type: Movie
During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years later. Hanna is now married, has a seven-year-old daughter and is the chief resident physician at the hospital where she reunites with Clarissa. Her old friend has been brought to the hospital ER for overdosing on sleeping pills. The two women pick up their friendship where they left off and spontaneously decide to spend a few days on the island, just like in the old days. When Hanna learns that Maria, a playmate of hers from the island’s village, disappeared as a child and was never seen or heard from again, she begins to search in the past. Something horrible must have happened on the island and they must have been involved.
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Auslandseinsatz
Title: Auslandseinsatz
Character: Daniel Gerber
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: Movie
Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world - Afghanistan. But it's not just the constant psychological pressure that gets to them, the different cultures and ways of life in the country also pose problems for the young and impetuous men. However, it is precisely the interpersonal aspect that moves them, and so they become friends with Malik Jamil (Omar El-Saeidi) and his children. Life and the situation at the post seem to relax as a result. But then there is a dramatic turn in the life of Malik's daughter, caused by the insurgent Taliban. And in times of battle, one fate affects the lives of others and the soldiers must painfully realize that war is never just.
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The German Friend
Title: The German Friend
Character: Friedrich Burg
Released: September 18, 2012
Type: Movie
It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants to Argentina, he is the son of a senior SS officer, a tragic political legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over the next three decades. Following the teenaged Friedrich to Germany, Sulamit finds him caught up in the radical politics of late-1960s student life; and she’s forced to make important decisions about her attitude to her homeland when Friedrich returns to Argentina to join the fight against the military junta.
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Partly Sunny
Title: Partly Sunny
Character: Tim
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Two young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her that the other one is terminally ill...
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The Fourth State
Title: The Fourth State
Character: Dima
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
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A Family of Three
Title: A Family of Three
Character: Lars Dewenter
Released: January 10, 2012
Type: Movie
When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional roller coaster that eventually shows them the virtue of being a family.
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Playoff
Title: Playoff
Character: Thomas
Released: November 24, 2011
Type: Movie
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team.
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Urban Explorer
Title: Urban Explorer
Character: Chris
Released: September 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life!
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Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
Title: Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
Character: Thomas Hafner
Released: March 14, 2011
Type: Movie
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We Are the Night
Title: We Are the Night
Character: Tom Serner
Released: October 28, 2010
Type: Movie
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, the parties. But soon the murderous blood lust of her comrades in arms proves too much for her, and she falls dangerously in love with Tom, a young undercover cop.
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Title: In the Face of Crime
Character: Marek Gorsky
Released: April 27, 2010
Type: TV
Im Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. It was broadcast by ARTE and Das Erste.
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Title: Der letzte Bulle
Character: Dennis Paschmann
Released: April 12, 2010
Type: TV
Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen.
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13 Semester
Title: 13 Semester
Character: 'Momo'
Released: October 29, 2009
Type: Movie
When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, but slowly the pressures of study and campus living begin to grind him down. Half way through his course he finds himself at a crossroads with both his relationship and studies.
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Thousand Oceans
Title: Thousand Oceans
Character: Meikel
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Five friends spend their holidays on a faraway island in the sea. On the last day of the holidays, out of the blue, Björn informs his friends that he will not return home but intends to stay in this paradise forever. There is no sign of life from Björn after that. His best friend Meikel is very concerned about the mysterious disappearance - but nobody cares and no one helps him in his search for the lost friend.
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Run for Your Life!
Title: Run for Your Life!
Character: Andreas Niedrig
Released: April 24, 2008
Type: Movie
He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig.
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The Wave
Title: The Wave
Character: Marco
Released: March 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
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Up! Up! To the sky
Title: Up! Up! To the sky
Character: Arnold
Released: January 17, 2008
Type: Movie
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Snipers Valley
Title: Snipers Valley
Character: Charly
Released: November 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. Their mission is to secure peace. Although the brutal war between the enemy Serbs and Albanians is officially over, the hatred between people continues to smoulder. When Tom and Charly rescue the young Serbian Mirjana from the fatal shot of the young sniper Durcan, they get caught between all fronts. They lose their professional distance due to the resulting closeness to Mirjana - who has to learn that her father was a war criminal - but also to Durcan - whose entire family was wiped out. Soon they are entangled in a conflict about guilt, manipulation, love and revenge...
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An die Grenze
Title: An die Grenze
Character: Gefreiter Kerner
Released: July 27, 2007
Type: Movie
19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers. Alex understands that the ideals of balance, democracy and human dignity are propaganda. The question of what happens when the other appears in the sights of the Kalashnikov occupies the soldiers day and night, interrupted almost exclusively by the games of the World Cup with the historic encounter between the GDR and the FRG. Alex draws strength from his love for Christine, a confident tractor driver who lives in the neighbouring village. Christine encourages him not to do what his father expects, but to follow his dream of becoming a photographer. But when her brother sends Alex's photo from the border fortifications to the West, everything gets out of control...
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GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
Title: GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
Character: Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
Released: May 31, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Der Kriminalist
Character: Michael Büssig
Released: December 8, 2006
Type: TV
Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.
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Der Untergang der Pamir
Title: Der Untergang der Pamir
Character: Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
Released: October 8, 2006
Type: Movie
The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
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The Red Cockatoo
Title: The Red Cockatoo
Character: Siggi
Released: February 16, 2006
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
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Hallesche Kometen
Title: Hallesche Kometen
Character: Ingo
Released: January 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Ben lives with his father in a dreary highrise housing estate, earning a bit of money delivering leaflets. The young man′s big dream is to one day write travel logs as a journalist. His unemployed father has been thrown hopelessly off balance with the death of his wife. Ben has since then been carrying all responsibility, taking care of the household, and making sure that all ends meet on his own. The financial pressures he increasingly stands under finally lead him to become criminal.
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Nachtasyl
Title: Nachtasyl
Character: Aljoscha
Released: October 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Der Staatsanwalt
Character: Markus Pohl
Released: January 10, 2005
Type: TV
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Before the Fall
Title: Before the Fall
Character: Friedrich Weimer
Released: July 4, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column,Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
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Girls on Top 2
Title: Girls on Top 2
Character: Flin
Released: June 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desperately search for money, an apartment and love. But because each individual point is difficult to realize on its own, the girls decide to kill all three birds with one stone for the sake of simplicity. The solution: they need rich, nice boys with suitable living space - and they need them now! But until then, horrendous rents, false identities and sleazy neighbors put their friendship to the test.
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Lottoschein ins Glück
Title: Lottoschein ins Glück
Character: Björn Michels
Released: June 13, 2003
Type: Movie
"Bad luck in the game, luck in love": Astrid Seibel knows the saying, of course - but until now she did not know that the two seem to be linked. The mother of two children, who has just been left by her unfaithful husband, actually types six correct numbers in the lottery, but the receipt for the lottery ticket disappears. The lucky finder is her new chance acquaintance Felix, who at first has no idea whose winnings he is holding in his hands. When he finds out, it is already too late: Astrid already knows that he has kept the lottery win from her.
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Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
Title: Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
Character: Robertino
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
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Girls on Top
Title: Girls on Top
Character: Flin
Released: March 29, 2001
Type: Movie
The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first orgasm.
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Brennendes Schweigen
Title: Brennendes Schweigen
Character: Schappi
Released: December 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. Siggi Baumeister, tabloid journalist in Berlin, senses an explosive story
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Bear on the Run
Title: Bear on the Run
Character: Tom
Released: April 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first love, and also tries to help the local kids rescue a circus bear from a rich German hunter who's willing to pay for a bit of sport. If the parents get their way they'll use Mr. Big Game to finance the circus and even contribute to local pensions. The children and the bear head for the forest.
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Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
Title: Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
Character: Lukas
Released: December 15, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: German Television Award
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: In aller Freundschaft
Character: Mirco Venske
Released: October 26, 1998
Type: TV
German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.
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Title: Zwei allein
Character: Max
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
Character: Timo
Released: January 2, 1997
Type: TV
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district.
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Eine Familie zum Küssen
Title: Eine Familie zum Küssen
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Character: Marcel Freese
Released: March 12, 1996
Type: TV
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Title: Balko
Character: Ingo Grabowski
Released: March 19, 1995
Type: TV
Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards.
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Title: Wolffs Revier
Character: Harald Bernhard
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: TV
Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
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Title: DAS!
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Bayerischer Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Kölner Treff
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Louis Bürger
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1964
Type: TV
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The Angel Makers
Title: The Angel Makers
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
During World War I, a group of women who are left behind in an English farming community become romantically involved with several German prisoners of war.
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Golem
Title: Golem
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf.