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Christian Berkel

1957-10-28

The 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.

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Inglourious Basterds

8.2 average rating
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

7.091 average rating
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Valkyrie

6.936 average rating
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Elle

6.7 average rating
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Flightplan

6.454 average rating
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Downfall

7.9 average rating
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Black Book

7.5 average rating
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The Experiment

7.4 average rating
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The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes

5.7 average rating
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Trumbo

7.163 average rating
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Miracle at St. Anna

6.1 average rating
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Flame & Citron

6.8 average rating
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Leningrad

5.5 average rating
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The Serpent's Egg

6.2 average rating
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Once Upon a Time in Algeria

5.7 average rating
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Buddy

6 average rating
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Anti-Social

5.5 average rating
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The Last Employee

6.4 average rating
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Simones Entscheidung

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Rossini

6.2 average rating