Max Riemelt
Date of birth: 1984-01-07
Place of birth: Berlin, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Макс Римельт, 馬可斯·尼麥特
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Run for Your Life!
2008-04-24
He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record break
Snipers Valley
2007-11-10
Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. T
Girls on Top 2
2004-06-17
Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with L
Precious Ivie
2021-09-16
Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search
The Red Cockatoo
2006-02-16
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he
The Wave
2008-03-13
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to re
Der Untergang der Pamir
2006-10-08
The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
Up! Up! To the sky
2008-01-17
From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to
An die Grenze
2007-07-27
19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shor
Girls on Top
2001-03-29
The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first
Before the Fall
2004-07-04
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na
13 Semester
2009-10-29
When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, b
We Are the Night
2010-10-28
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly
Urban Explorer
2011-09-08
Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of
The Fourth State
2012-03-08
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret ser
Hallesche Kometen
2006-01-19
Ben lives with his father in a dreary highrise housing estate, earning a bit of money delivering lea
Playoff
2011-11-24
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team.
Forgotten
2012-12-20
During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in
The German Friend
2012-09-18
It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit
Partly Sunny
2012-09-06
Two young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her that t
Auslandseinsatz
2012-10-18
Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world - Afghani
Free Fall
2013-05-27
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. The
A Family of Three
2012-01-10
When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up s
Bear on the Run
2000-04-06
Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the C
Talking About the Weather
2022-09-16
Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment
Thousand Oceans
2008-10-02
Five friends spend their holidays on a faraway island in the sea. On the last day of the holidays, o
Der zweite Mann
2013-10-25
A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in t
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014-03-30
The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a n
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
1999-12-15
Two to One
2024-07-25
An East German community finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless marks during 1990s reunification, an
Lottoschein ins Glück
2003-06-13
"Bad luck in the game, luck in love": Astrid Seibel knows the saying, of course - but until now she
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
2001-11-09
Teenager Charlotte adores her cool father until she realizes that he is leading a double life.
Ernesto’s Island
2023-05-18
Matthias, a successful employee enjoys his luxurious single life in Berlin until his mother dies. Wi
Blutgeld
2013-10-28
The film is based on a true story about HIV-contaminated blood products in Germany in the 1980s. The
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
2011-03-14
Sanctuary
2015-06-18
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institu
Amnesia
2015-08-19
A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly wo
Storno: Todsicher versichert
2015-05-20
On his way to the provinces, young insurance agent Rupert crashes his car into a jam cart and picks
Warsaw 44
2014-07-30
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
2022-08-27
Hamburg cab driver Axel Parschke finds himself in the Ore Mountains shortly before Christmas Eve: wh
To Life!
2014-11-27
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet
Sense8: Creating the World
2015-08-01
Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at h
Berlin Syndrome
2017-04-20
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist w
Brennendes Schweigen
2000-12-01
The petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. Siggi Baumeister, tabloid journalist in Berlin,
Icons of Light
2016-01-07
Katharina and Steffen seem like the quintessential successful Berlin couple -- they have well-paying
Eine Familie zum Küssen
1997-01-01
Etwas ganz Besonderes
As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her
Golem
Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf.
The Angel Makers
During World War I, a group of women who are left behind in an English farming community become roma
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
2007-05-31
Nachtasyl
2005-10-01
My Mother's Girlfriend
2019-03-13
Family is complicated, no question. But Jan finds it particularly hard: his lesbian mother Victoria
Head Burst
2019-10-17
Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling
Der Schneegänger
2020-03-05
After missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of polic
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
2021-09-30
As soon as Jaswinder, the mother of Alice's friend Tarun, discovered a way to avoid plastic, it is a
The Matrix Resurrections
2021-12-16
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside t
About Luis
2025-01-23
The two people in their late thirties, Constanze and Jens, have a very stressful daily life. Their s
The Tasters
2025-03-27
The film follows in the wake of young Rosa who flees bomb-stricken Berlin in the autumn of 1943 and
Die Zigarrenkiste
2006-12-10