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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3177 |
| Birthday | 1984-01-07 |
| Place of Birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Also Known As | Макс Римельт, 馬可斯·尼麥特, |
2008
Run for Your Life!
5/10
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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Run for Your Life!
2007
Snipers Valley
4.6/8
Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. Their mission is to secure peace. Although the brut...
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2004
Girls on Top 2
4.843/70
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 desper...
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Girls on Top 2
2021
Precious Ivie
5.3/7
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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Precious Ivie
2006
The Red Cockatoo
5.479/24
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 cli...
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The Red Cockatoo
2008
The Wave
7.482/3590
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe th...
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The Wave
2006
Der Untergang der Pamir
7.6/5
The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
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Der Untergang der Pamir
2008
Up! Up! To the sky
3.5/4
From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him...
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Up! Up! To the sky
2007
An die Grenze
4.8/6
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 th...
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An die Grenze
2001
Girls on Top
5.174/115
The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first orgasm.
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Girls on Top
2004
Before the Fall
7.039/362
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over...
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Before the Fall
2009
13 Semester
6.298/42
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...
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13 Semester
2010
We Are the Night
6.1/308
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We Are the Night
2011
Urban Explorer
5.1/105
Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, wh...
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Urban Explorer
2012
The Fourth State
6/55
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
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The Fourth State
2006
Hallesche Kometen
5.714/7
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 wri...
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Hallesche Kometen
2011
Playoff
4.5/11
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team.
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Playoff
2012
Forgotten
5.9/42
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Forgotten
2012
The German Friend
5.412/17
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The German Friend
2012
Partly Sunny
6.3/45
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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Partly Sunny
2012
Auslandseinsatz
5.7/5
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...
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Auslandseinsatz
2013
Free Fall
7.657/831
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 r...
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Free Fall
2012
A Family of Three
5/6
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...
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A Family of Three
2000
Bear on the Run
4/1
Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first l...
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Bear on the Run
2022
Talking About the Weather
6.4/11
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...
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Talking About the Weather
2008
Thousand Oceans
7/4
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...
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Thousand Oceans
2013
Der zweite Mann
3/3
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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Der zweite Mann
2014
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
5.4/5
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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Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
1999
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
3.667/3
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Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
2024
Two to One
6.277/47
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a communist family discovers a bunker full of money soon to be worthless. With the help of their neighbors, they em...
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Two to One
2003
Lottoschein ins Glück
5.4/5
"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 m...
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Lottoschein ins Glück
2001
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
9/1
Teenager Charlotte adores her cool father until she realizes that he is leading a double life.
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Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
2023
Ernesto's Island
6.6/5
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...
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Ernesto's Island
2013
Blutgeld
4.8/4
The film is based on a true story about HIV-contaminated blood products in Germany in the 1980s. The brothers Ralf, Stefan and Thomas are hemophiliacs...
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Blutgeld
2011
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
0/0
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Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
2015
Sanctuary
7.236/89
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: H...
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Sanctuary
2015
Amnesia
5.4/45
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 ev...
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Amnesia
2015
Storno: Todsicher versichert
7/2
On his way to the provinces, young insurance agent Rupert crashes his car into a jam cart and picks up a real piglet. On top of that, he's given a goo...
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Storno: Todsicher versichert
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Warsaw 44
6.718/284
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As...
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Warsaw 44
2022
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
6/2
Hamburg cab driver Axel Parschke finds himself in the Ore Mountains shortly before Christmas Eve: what begins as a lucrative job for IT analyst Jan Ol...
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Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
2014
To Life!
5.2/11
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 enti...
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To Life!
2015
Sense8: Creating the World
7.7/97
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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Sense8: Creating the World
2017
Berlin Syndrome
6.03/688
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment...
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Berlin Syndrome
2000
Brennendes Schweigen
7/2
The petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. Siggi Baumeister, tabloid journalist in Berlin, senses an explosive story
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Brennendes Schweigen
2016
Icons of Light
5/3
Katharina and Steffen seem like the quintessential successful Berlin couple -- they have well-paying jobs, a loving relationship and a spectacular apa...
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Icons of Light
1997
Eine Familie zum Küssen
8/1
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Eine Familie zum Küssen
2026
Home Stories
0/0
As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her special. She doesn't know and begins to slip into...
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Golem
0/0
Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf.
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The Angel Makers
0/0
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...
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The Angel Makers
2007
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
4.5/1
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GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
2005
Nachtasyl
3.667/3
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Nachtasyl
2019
My Mother's Girlfriend
3.333/6
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 de...
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My Mother's Girlfriend
2019
Head Burst
6.5/28
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 att...
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Head Burst
2020
Der Schneegänger
6/11
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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Der Schneegänger
2021
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
5.3/8
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...
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The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
2021
The Matrix Resurrections
6.333/6425
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
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The Matrix Resurrections
2025
About Luis
6.5/6
The two people in their late thirties, Constanze and Jens, have a very stressful daily life. Their situation intensifies when their ten-year-old son L...
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About Luis
2025
The Tasters
6.617/218
In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the R...
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The Tasters
2006
Die Zigarrenkiste
0/0
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Die Zigarrenkiste
2025
Spurlos in Venedig
7.8/2
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Spurlos in Venedig
2005
(Feinde)
10/1
1945 outside Berlin. A German and a Russian soldier meet behind enemy lines. Both are deserters. Both are desperate to survive this war without gettin...
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(Feinde)
Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
0/0
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