Age: 88
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Franz Buchrieser (born December 23, 1937) is a venerated Austrian actor whose career spans over six decades of excellence in theater, film, and television. He is perhaps most iconic for his portrayal of the gritty detective Adolf "Kottan" Kottan in the cult classic satirical police series Kottan ermittelt (1980–1983), a role that cemented his status as a household name in the German-speaking world. A master of character acting, Buchrieser has worked with legendary directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, appearing in the epic miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), and has graced the stages of Europe’s most prestigious theaters, including the Burgtheater in Vienna and the Schaubühne in Berlin.
Franz Buchrieser
German Defector
for German Defector in Black Lagoon
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The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
