Age: 68
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Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor. Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor. From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds. He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Berkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Christian Berkel
General Otto Steffenberg - General Harald Steffenberg
for General Otto Steffenberg - General Harald Steffenberg in The Dark Legion
Suggested by nikobatman
April 1945, Berlin has practically fallen. Since being officially recognized by the Allied Forces by saving New York, the Dark Legion has been fighting alongside the Allies, and the end is near. They're in the capital, in order to neutralize what remains of the Ahnenerbe, while their Soviet allies deal with the standard army. However, in neutralizing the secret stronghold in Berlin, the Dark Legion frees a dangerous prisoner : a Golem that, years ago, was summoned by a grieving Jewish father, the creature having massacred an entire German army in Poland before being immobilized and brought here. Once free, the golem decides to resume his mission and quickly outpaces the Russians, killing Hitler once and for all ! The Dark Legion takes him with them on their way back, thinking to focus on the Japan, now that Italy has already surrendered and Germany will soon do the same. However, General Marvin, commander of the American special forces like the Liberty Company, informs them that there are still two Ahnenerbe's generals at large who have in their possession what could restart the war for at least ten years ! These two are twins, one of them has taken refuge in an isolated place in Switzerland, while the other has just boarded the Orient Express to take shelter in Turkey, with former Ottoman Empire's unofficial allies. The Dark Legion will split into two to finish off these damned Nazis once and for all, provided that Marvin has been 100% honest with them...
