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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
Captain Bruno Schmidt
for Captain Bruno Schmidt in MyCast: RE:Birth
Suggested by theonewithda_gun
During WWII in Germany, a young man attempts to join the German army, but is refused because of his Japanese heritage. He had fallen in love with a girl, who is then killed in an air raid before he's able to confess his feelings. Unable to stand the grief, he volunteers for a secret Nazi experiment which turns humans into cyborgs. In exchange for offering himself as a human experimentation subject, he decided to have his memories and ability to feel emotions erased and he becomes the cyborg super soldier Proto, The Death God of Nibelung. However, he is haunted by a sense of something missing and gradually recalls fragmentary memories of a girl who seems very important. As the truth behind her apparent death and the Nazi cyborg experiments slowly unfolds, he wanted nothing but revenge....
