Sebastian Rudolph
Acting
Biography
Sebastian Rudolph is a German actor, born October 21, 1968, in Berlin. Son of actress Hildegard Schmahl and director Niels-Peter Rudolph, he trained in acting in Hamburg. Known for portraying Michael Kahnwald in Netflix’s Dark (2017–2020), he has also appeared in films like The English Patient (1996), Never Look Away (2018), Stalingrad (1993), and various German theater, TV, and radio productions. He was a long-time ensemble member at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg.
Born: October 21, 1968
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
December Evening
Student Annika returns home for Christmas, but the anticipation of the family dinner is overshadowed by tensions: stepfather Thomas invites business partners, mother Monika is focused on sister Maya’s career, and uncle Detlef stirs things up with his comments. When Maya decides she’d rather celebrate with her boyfriend Barir, Annika covers for her with a lie.
Dark
A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.
Remarque - Sein Weg zum Ruhm
"All Quiet On The Western Front" made the Osnabrück native world-famous in 1929. In 1930, Hollywood made a film of the novel, the Nazis defamed it as "treason against soldiers", Remarque had to flee to Switzerland...
In Wahrheit
Stalingrad
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
The English Patient
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
The Captain
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.
Der Pirat
Hamburg, end of the 1960s: occasional pothead Jan, also known as "the pirate", makes a career for himself in the local drug scene. He quickly becomes the "hash prince of Hamburg". But when he starts dealing heroin, he also draws his brother Ludwig into his dark business...
Tödliche Geheimnisse - Das Versprechen
On a Berlin construction site, the former editor-in-chief Karin and her journalist Rommy happens to witness a fatal accident. From Taras, the accident victim's brother, they learn that this is not an isolated coincidence: The Eastern European workers who toil on the construction site for cheap wages have to do their day's work under the most precarious conditions and beyond give a large part of their wages to shady "intermediaries".
Overgames
On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.
Filmography
as Detlef
as Fred Forthmann
as Novak
as Michael Hahn
as Bernhard
as Dr. Zaruba
as Andreas
as Self (archive footage)
as Hans Remscheid
as Rüdiger Bressin
as Gallery owner
as Paul Zeise
as Mc Foster
as Corporal Paul
as Michael Kahnwald
as Herr Mahn
as Dr. Andreas Barna
as Hans Remscheid
as Arzt
as Narrator (voice)
as Vater Alex
as Rudolf Augstein
as Self
as Lars Döbbelin
as Axel Eggebrecht
as Jan König
as Mats Kurschmann
as Peter Aschinger
as Ralph Jansen
as Himself
as Wolfgang
as Ralph Schwarzkopf
as Heiner Wagner
as Ludwig
as Rüdiger Münchhoff
as Lutz
as Enno Hallberg
as Officer In Square
as Karl Wieland
as GeGe Müller
as Bernd Adler
as Hans
as Manfred " Fred " Grabowski
as Alexander Hagenbach
as Christian Vondrell
as Axel Dietrich
as André Plötz
as Heinrich Vogel