Christian Berkel
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: October 28, 1957
Place of Birth: Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Known For
Ein Herz für Kinder
Bambi
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Dalli Dalli
Realm of the Volga
The Volga is a myth, a unique river of superlatives and the natural lifeline of Russia. With a length of more than 3,500 kilometers, it is the most powerful and water-rich river in Europe. Their catchment area is larger than France, Spain and Portugal combined. While all the other great rivers on earth flow into an ocean, the Volga fills its own sea, the largest inland lake on earth, the Caspian Sea. On the way there it flows through rustic forest areas, through wide steppes and dry semi-deserts, each of which is home to a unique wildlife. In three years of filming and on countless expeditions, the Altayfilm team and their Russian colleagues managed to capture the fascinating stream in grandiose pictures and to fully portray it for the first time. Opulent pictures and breathtaking aerial photographs alternate with animal behavior that has rarely been documented before, told with fine humor and a special lightness.
Roche & Böhmermann
Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Die Kommissarin
Die Kommissarin is a German police TV series which aired on Das Erste. Its 66 episodes ran from 1994 till 2006. The series, which takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is notable as being the first, and as yet one of the few commercially successful, German detective series to have a female lead character. The main character is Inspector Lea Sommer, played by Hannelore Elsner. Sommer is divorced with custody of her teenage son, Daniel. She is looking forward to a new relationship with her new boyfriend, Jonathan. Although Lea and Jonathan telephone each other frequently, he has never actually been seen or heard on screen. Sommer was originally paired with Nick Siegel, but in a 1996 episode, Siegel was shot to death by an escaping criminal. His last words were "Lea, ich fühle mich so kalt". Sommer's current partner officer is Jan Orlop. Die Kommissarin airs on the German Language channel German Kino Plus in the United States. In Finland it airs on YLE TV2 under the title Etsivä Lea Sommer.
maybrit illner
Political talk show on current topics presented by Maybrit Illner.
Downfall
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Wer weiß denn sowas?
Filmography
as Gregor Basil
as Adam Lansky
as Andreas
as Sania
as Erik Behr
as Roland Murnau
as Narrator (voice)
as Simon Wiesenthal
as Self
as Magnus Mittendorf
as Minister Hardenberg
as Bertram Dinkler
as Interviewer
as Heinrich von Gems
as Louis Ziffer
as Narrator
as Steffen Marquardt
as Richard Diemer
as Mark
as Christoph
as Erich Kupka
as Jonathan Roth
as self
as Robert
as Michael Dithardt
as Amor
as Otto Preminger
as Udo
as Self
as Philip
as Herr Hegemann
as Ernst Udet
as Self
as Dr. Küster
as Dr. van der Meer
as Self
as Self
as Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg
as David Böttcher
as Heinrich Bockelmann
as Proprietor Eric
as Vinkelmeyer
as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
as Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
as Captain Eichholz
as Fritz Shimon Haber
as Self
as Hoffmann
as Jakob Wagner
as Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann
as General Käutner
as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
as Helmut Schmidt
as Mortuary Director
as Rudolf
as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
as Lang
as Alfred Greven
as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
as Self
as Rudi
as Arzt
as Self
as Thomas Reiner
as Rolf Spiekermann
as Self
as Hans Leinen
as Helmut Gittel
as Alfons Kleiber
as Weich
as Dr. Sander
as Self
as Lefevre
as Self
as Gregor Schell
as Maiwald
as Walter Neumann
as Sebastian van Leuyen
as Gerhard Brock
as Walter Gebhard
as Thomas Engler
as self
as Self
as Self
as Felix Dennison
as Schwedischer Hauptmann
as Bernd Marquart
as Self
as Self
as The Young Man
as Student
as Karol Djudko
as Mano Deller
as Thilo Müller
as Hans Fänger
as Werner Kuziemsky
as Erik Falter
as Peter Aulan
as Hausmann
as Peter Larsen
as Harry Westphal
as Self
as Alex Sierich
as Lussmann
as Jürgen Klose
as Dixi
as Andy Stein
as Rolf Laduhn
as Psychopath
as Manfred Kessler
as Max Ortheil
as Self
as Uwe Pfandler
as Erik Steinbeck
as Rainer Wenisch
as Alfred Waller
as Doc Decker
as Self