Christian Berkel
Acting
Born October 28, 1957 · Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
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.
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Ein Taxi für zwei
2025
Entführen für Anfänger
2024
Querschuss
2024
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
2023
Black Box
2023
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
2022
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
2022
A Retribution
2022
Trügerische Sicherheit
2022
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
2021
Enfant Terrible
2020
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
2020
What Doesn't Kill Us
2018
Scheidung für Anfänger
2018
Elle
2016
Ein gefährliches Angebot
2016
Trumbo
2015
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015
Anti-Social
2015
Dreamgirls
2015
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
2014
Buddy
2013
Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
2013
Das dunkle Nest
2011
The Last Employee
2011
Inglourious Basterds
2009
Leningrad
2009
Valkyrie
2008
Mogadischu
2008
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
Haber
2008
Flame & Citron
2008
Der andere Junge
2007
Black Book
2006
Helen, Fred und Ted
2006
Eine Frage des Gewissens
2006
Flightplan
2005
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005
Der Vater meiner Schwester
2005
Hexenküsse
2005
Feuer in der Nacht
2004
Guys & Balls
2004
Downfall
2004
Soundless
2004
Der Unbestechliche
2002
Safe Conduct
2002
Erste Liebe
2002
The Experiment
2001
Verzweiflung
2000
Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben
2000
Halt mich fest!
2000
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
1999
Paradise Is a Trap
1999
Your Best Years
1999
Sweet Little Sixteen
1999
Tod auf Amrum
1998
Single sucht Nachwuchs
1998
Vickys Alptraum
1998
Simones Entscheidung
1997
Rossini
1997
Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns
1997
Lautlose Schritte
1996
Gates of Fire
1996
Spur eines Zweifels
1995
Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann
1995
Ich, der Boss
1995
Ein Herz für Laura
1995
Gute Referenzen
1994
Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!
1994
Das Schicksal der Lilian H.
1993
The Devil Kissed from Behind
1993
Münchhausens letzte Liebe
1988
Wallenstein
1987
Wind von Südost
1985
Das schöne irre Judenmädchen
1984
Frau Jenny Treibel
1982
New Year's Eve
1978
The Serpent's Egg
1977
Eine Jugendliebe
1977
Maiden's War
1977