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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:BORN
Suggested by theonewithda_gun
Robotics student Ryuichi Asakura is studying in Germany, but finds himself socially isolated. He is befriended by two other students, Maria and Rei. He immediately falls in love with Maria, however she and Rei also have feelings for each other. Ryuichi and Rei also bond over the experience of being Japanese in Nazi Germany, and promise each other to let Maria decide. A year later, Rei enlists in the German army, while his friend Asakura goes to work on the ЯR Project that spawned 'Proto', with the project entering Phase 2. Meanwhile, the cyborg super soldier project is in jeopardy because of Proto’s disappearance and Minus One's death. Ryuichi realizes that the missing cyborg bears an uncanny resemblance to Rei. Out of jealousy and seeing an easy way to remove his romantic rival, Ryuichi reveals this to the general in charge of the project. Rei is abducted and turned into a cyborg, his memories are wiped and replaced with Proto's data. Rei, now became Humanoid Assault Weapon Phase Zwei, known as "ZERO". Zero is now the Grim Reaper of Nibelung, and leads a new battalion, this time comprised of cyborgs like himself called "The Ghost Unit". Zero began to remember his most precious memories when he was human and slowly retains his humanity. This would lead to an eventual revolt against his creators.
