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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.
Max Riemelt
"The Alliance"
for "The Alliance" in Doctor Strange: Sorcerer's Awakening
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Stephen Strange was a successful but arrogant surgeon. After he had a very realistic nightmare of a car accident, his hands weren't as steady as before. When he realized that his hands were damaged, he searched for a way to fix his hands, until he heard of a mystical healer called The Ancient One somewhere in the Himalaya Mountains. The Ancient One told Strange that he had to become his student to be healed, Strange was gonna leave, until Baron Mordo, the Ancient One's failed student, attacked them with dark magic. The guardian of the place, Wong, and Strange helped the Ancient One. After this Strange became his student. In the present day, Strange has become a master of the mystic arts. One night, Strange has the same nightmare, he wakes up and asks The Ancient One for an explanation, he tells Strange about Nightmare, a being that controls dreams and lives in his own realm, Strange believes he has become more powerful lately and convinces The Ancient One to talk to him. When they do, Nightmare attacks them and sends them into the Dark Dimension, there they meet a woman named Clea who helps them get back home. Nightmare has become stronger thanks to so many people having nightmares in the last years, and he has started to transform dreams into reality. Doctor Strange, Wong and The Ancient One fight Nightmare one more time and they win thanks to an artifact called the Eye of Agamotto, but The Ancient One dies after the battle. Leaving Strange as the new Sorcerer Supreme.
