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Before Before the Fall – Napola and he received the award for Best Actor at the . Hezum Küssen Eine becameFamilie more widely known in 1998 when he

followed. Max Riemelt finally madehis breakthroughin 2004in Dennis Gansel’s drama Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. European Film Promotion named him as a Shooting Star at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005 and in the same year he received the Star Rising Award at Hamptons International Festival. Film alreadyappearedrenownedhasalongside careerRiemelt Max his courseofthe In actors like Moritz Bleibtreu, Uwe Ochsenknecht and Jürgen Vogel. knownMany directorswell- have supported the Berlin actor in his artistic development. Do- romanticthedramaof role leadingthe directed Graf in RiemeltMax minik sodesofsuccessful German series suchas in in his career, he combined further television roles with appearances in filmslike Dennis feature Gansel’s coming-of-age comedy

took the leading role in Matthias Steurer’s thirteen-part series ma Max Riemelt was born on January 7, 1984 in East-Berlin and premierranks league ofamong German theactors. Many national and international awards mark Max Riemelt out as an exceptionally interesting character actor. rie two-partthesupporting in a role in 1997 in debuttelevision his madeRiemeltMax series

10 MRA Y GE M N FRIEN D | actors 11 Presseheft | Der deutsche Freun d | Synopsis 12 Presseheft | Der deutsche Freun d | Synopsis talent behind the camera. Her 2008 short Limbo short 2008 Her camera. the behind talent great has she proved also has Argentinean The Festival. Film Málaga the at Award Jury the including awards many her won have intensity and authenticity an Her man. older with a relationship into enters who telephonist film, 2009 successful Mucci’s ding particular like series TV acclaimed critically in appearing from known well very became soon Cid Celeste literature, and drama singing, in studies her Following actors. and exciting successful most 19, and is country’s of one the on 1984 in January Cid Argentina, born was Celeste ci celeste directed by renowned theatre director Alejandro Ullúa) and a number of films. In Mariano Mariano In films. of number a and Ullúa) Alejandro director theatre renowned by directed Fedra Hipólitoy (2010). Celeste Cid had already proved her talent as an actor in various plays (inclu- plays invarious actor an as talent her Paraproved vestir already santos Cid(2010). had Celeste Motivos para no enamorarse no paraMotivos d , received numerous awards. numerous , received (2007), (2007), Identidad la Televisión por (Reasons For Not Falling in Love)Fallingin Not For (Reasons (2008) and in and (2008) Oportunidades , she plays a young young a plays she , 13 MRA Y GE M N FRIEN D | actors Presseheft | Der deutsche Freun d | Synopsis 014 n s like series well-known in appearances with M in 1994 began career His acting in London. Art Dramatic of Academy Royal the at studied 1976.Sadler in family his with Germany in arriving before Canada, in life his of years five first the spent 12,Sadler 1971, Benjamin Toronto. in February on world this into came teacher British a and designer graphic German a of son The benj Luther. Over the course of his career, he has appeared in films such as such films in appeared has he career, his of course the Over Luther. production international the in Ustinov Peter Sir and Fiennes Joseph of likes the alongside played Sadler Benjamin 2002 In films. television numerous in roles as ASordid as Affair such followed, soon roles part series series part and Pamir der Untergang Der He was acclaimed for his role as Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach in the the in Halbach und Bohlen von Krupp Alfried as role his for acclaimed was He Bambis. the at Award Jury Special the received Marko Denise and Wackernagel For his role in the film lawyer. aprosecuting also was who tragedy the by affected father a portrayed he which in ARD on shown Contergan a War and Peace Sadler (2008) and his Katharina fellow actors , a documentary about the victims of Thalidomide, was was Thalidomide, of victims the about documentary a , i A Light in Dark Places Dark Lightin A a Die Rache des Balthasar des Die, and Rache d Wolff‘sTurf and l er . In November 2007 the two- the 2007 November In . SK Babies SK . Early film Early . Dresden , as well, as , national Film Festival in 2011. Film Festival national Veiel’s film Andres Benjamin Sadler has in been Choice at Award recently the Bambis. Readers’ Most chronicle family Krupp – A Family between War and Peace and War between Family A Krupp– which was in competition at the Berlin Inter- Berlin the at competition in was Who?which Us, Not If , which won the 2009 2009 the won which , 15 MRA Y GE M N FRIEN D | actors 16 Presseheft | Der deutsche Freun d | Synopsis of the Nazi period that they hid their German passports when they went abroad abroad went they when passports German their hid they atrocities that period the Nazi the of of ashamed so were who men Young fathers. their of image the destroy to attempts their in fanatical almost were who age my of men German met I period this During Berlin. in Ulm and student a was I ‘68-era the In descent. Jewish of I was that them I informed when in Germany encountered I myself that interlocutors German young of incredulity the and Argentina, in days student my of attacks anti-Semitic are the autobiographical Also Nazis. children of prominent the were out, found later I as them, of Some time. that at Germans young of know lots to got I opposite. house the in lived family German a and screenplay, the in one the to similar Aires Buenos of suburb a in 1950s the in emigrants Jewish German- of daughter the up grew I that is element autobiographical The events. real on based film is the in narrative the of holiday.Much to similarplaces chose similarand to live, places favoured had insimilar in architecture, Argentina tastes to other.each It is and Jews Nazis the the German an that German irony of history circles, cultural German were able to get on and each with other how they reacted same the from came who and other, each of years few a within Argentina to ted up dealt been with tillrarely of people, groups emigra- now who is two how these German many has What their lives. to war safeguard or the during that before there emigrated Jews known also is It war. the after America South to fled Nazis German many It that is well known are autobiographical? of this story parts What co Director’s m m e nt Jeanine MeerapfelJeanine Berlin, January 2011 and heritage. origins our of differences the than stronger fortunately is which love a lim: an and Israeli,a and a Mus- Palestinian or a Catholic between love the be equally to helped Sulamit could have and Friedrich a love The between face. humane give today’s society doing so in and self-hate, and guilt of morass the of out selves them- dragged who generation my of Germans the to my also but safety, welcomed into family that country the Argentina, to love of declaration my is film This autobiographical. also are the unconscious the and know, invented we as but, invented is Friedrich and Sulamit between story love The survived. who but prison to taken then abducted, were who friends from time that at horrors the of details the know I one). being Zieschank, (Klaus known well are time that at Argentina in abducted being Germans young of Cases Germany. in was I while Argentina in dictatorship military of period followed the I others. loving of then and – themselves loving of capable were they before fury) of acts their survived they (if ahead road long a had who Youngmen groups. left-wing extremist to themselves committed recklessly and blindly and 17 MRA Y GE M N FRIEN D | director‘s co mment 018 Presseheft | Der | Der Presseheft d e utsche utsche F r eun d | S y no p s is is with Liv Ullmann in the leading role. leading Ullmannin the La Liv with Amiga completed also Meerapfel Jeanine 1988 In 1990. in Festival Film Havanna the at which she the received City of Award and Strasbourg the El caimán award barbudo Speaks) Memory documentary the on worked she 1989 and 1986 Between childhood. their spent have they place the and to findtrying their guest theirworkers truehomeland parents’home, tornbetween Remember to Days filmIn Film her 1987 Festival. feature at FilmAward Berlin the International Critics geht (Melek Leaves) won Prizeof the theInterfilm and EcumenicalJury the German documentary infollowed This was the by 1981 film and Chicago festivals. Sebástian San at the awards top received and Cannes in FIPRESCI award critics film international the film, feature first her made she 1980 In countries. various in Institute Goethe the at and Ulm in seminars film gave and journalist, freelance a first the of one as working continued 1970s been she the of end the Until having there. enrolled be to Design, women of Academy Ulm the the at at Reitz Film Edgar for and Institute Kluge ine Alexander under studied she 1968 to 1964 From journalist. and editor an as in Argentina worked then and Aires, Buenos College Journalism in in in was born 1943, Argentina attended Jeanine Meerapfel je a n In In The Country of my Parents , dealing with the time of military dictatorship in Argentina, for for Argentina, in dictatorship military of time the with dealing , , Jeanine Meerapfel tells the story of the young generation of of generation young the of story the tells Meerapfel Jeanine , m e er . Her next documentary . 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