News and Updates
Family Drama "About Luis" Set for Release
October 14, 2024
Max Riemelt’s new film "About Luis" (German title: "Es geht um Luis") is set to release in German cinemas on January 23, 2025. Directed by Lucia Chiarla, the film stars Natalia Rudziewicz, Franziska Troegner, and Max Riemelt. About Luis follows the story of Constanze and Jens, a working couple struggling to manage their hectic lives between office shifts and taxi rides. Their son Luis becomes the center of a conflict when he is bullied at school for his beloved unicorn backpack. Refusing to give it up, Luis' defiance escalates tensions within the family, as his parents grapple with societal expectations and parenting challenges. Directed by Lucia Chiarla, the film highlights the pressures of modern family life. The first trailer is now available online.
Historical drama “The Tasters” to be produced with Max Riemelt
May 15, 2024
Shooting of the historical drama “The Tasters”, with which Italian director Silvio Soldini will give his German-language debut, begins tomorrow in South Tyrol. Elisa Schott, Alma Hasun and Max Riemelt are in front of the camera for the film adaptation of Rosella Postorino's novel “At the Wolf's Table”. “The Tasters” is set in 1943 and tells the story of a group of nine women whose task it is to test Adolf Hitler's meals in advance under the strict eyes of the SS at the Führer's headquarters in Wolf's Lair to ensure that they are not poisoned. The Tasters”, for which Cristina Comencini, Ilaria Macchia and Giulia Calenda wrote the screenplay, is being produced by Milan's Lumière & Co. in co-production with Belgium's Tarantula.
"Zwei zu eins": Cinema premiere on July 25, 2024
March 22, 2024
"Two to One" (German: "Zwei zu eins", director and screenplay: Natja Brunckhorst) will be released in cinemas in Germany on July 25, 2024. This was announced by X-Verleih. Max Riemelt plays one of the leading roles alongside Sandra Hüller and Ronald Zehrfeld. The plot of the comedy: Halberstadt in the summer of 1990. Maren (Sandra Hüller), Robert (Max Riemelt) and Volker (Ronald Zehrfeld) have known and loved each other since childhood. Rather by chance, they find the GDR's millions in an old mine shaft, which have been stored there to rot away. The three of them smuggle out rucksacks full of money. Together with their friends and neighbors, they develop an ingenious system to exchange the now worthless money for goods and cheat the onrushing Westerners and their capitalism. Because if you're a bit clever now, this summer could not only be a great adventure, but also the final turning point in their lives.
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"Something very special": New movie with Max in the leading role
March 18, 2024
Max Riemelt is currently filming the movie " Something very special" ("Etwas ganz besonderes") in Munich, Thuringia and Hamburg. The film (written by Eva Trobisch) tells the story of Lea (Frida Hornemann). As a candidate in a casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team: "What makes you special?" She doesn't know and begins to slip into different roles in search of what makes her special, developing an unexpected fascination for her aunt Kati (Eva Löbau). Kati's return home. This reunion raises the hopes of grandparents Friedrich (Peter René Lüdicke) and Christel (Rahel Ohm) that they can join forces to give their pension, which has few visitors, a new lease of life. But everyone seems preoccupied with themselves. Lea has moved in with her father Matze (Max Riemelt) after a violent argument with her mother Rieke (Gina Henkel). Her parents have only recently separated and Matze is not sure whether he wants Rieke back. Rieke is expecting a child - from Arthur (Florian Lukas).
Natja Bruckhorst's movie "2:1" stars Max Riemelt
August 12, 2023
In one of the main roles Max Riemelt is in front of the camera for the movie "2:1". The film, produced by Row Pictures and Zischlermann Filmproduktion, is expected to be released by X-Verleih in 2024. "2:1" is about three longtime friends who find the GDR's millions in the chaos of its collapse. And we get to watch how an old community of solidarity reinvents itself in a decaying society. Until someone turns the wheel too far and puts money into circulation that didn't exist before. Further leading roles in "2:1" are played by Sandra Hüller, Ronald Zehrfeld, Ursula Werner and Peter Kurth alongside Max Riemelt.
Max Riemelt plays lead role in movie "Es geht um Luis"
June 18, 2023
Directed by Lucia Chiarla, Max Riemelt will be in front of the camera in the next few weeks for the feature film "Es geht um Luis". The film is produced by East End Film and ostlicht film produktion, is scheduled for theatrical release at the end of 2024 and is about the two thirty-somethings Constanze (Natalia Rudziewicz) and Jens (Max Riemelt). Their already tense lives start to unravel when their son Luis (10) has problems at school. Balancing between fulfilling social norms and trying to protect their son, Constanze and Jens face a conflict of values that threatens to break them apart. Above all, Constanze and Jens lose sight of the fact that Luis is being bullied and is in real danger.
Sleeping Dog to start on Netflix on June 22
May 23, 2023
On June 22, Sleeping Dogs (German title: Schlafende Hunde) launches worldwide on Netflix. Sleeping Dogs is a series directed by Stephan Lacant (episodes: 1-3) and Francis Meletzky (episodes: 4-6) exclusively for Netflix. It stars Max Riemelt as Mike Atlas and Luise von Finckh as Jule Andergast, as well as Carlo Ljubek as Luka Zaric, Peri Baumeister as Lenni Atlas, Antonio Wannek as Roland Sokowski and Melodie Wakivuamina as Britney Adebayo. The storyline of Sleeping Dogs (book: Christoph Darnstaedt) is based on the original series "The Exchange Principle". The series is about a fallen top cop and an up-and-coming young prosecutor who, for different motives, open a closed murder file - and with it Pandora's box. Both get caught in the bloody trail of a conspiracy that seems to lead deeper and deeper into the police and justice system. Or is it all connected to a terrorist attack that shook the city a year and a half ago?
Ernesto's Island to be released in cinemas on May 18
April, 29, 2023
Ronald Vietz drama "Ernesto's Island" with Max Riemelt in one of the leading roles will be released in German cinemas on May 18, 2023. Following its premiere on April 13, 2023 as part of the Achtung Berlin Film Festival, this is the first time the film will be shown to a wider audience. "Ernesto's Island" tells the story of Matthias - played by Max Riemelt. Matthias works very successfully in a Berlin advertising agency and enjoys his luxurious single life. When suddenly his mother, a dropout and convinced communist, dies he has to face his past. Tasked to scatter her ashes in Cuba, she sends Matthias on a journey into his past. Matthias finds family he wants nothing to do with. He encounters love he cannot relate to and loses a friend he cannot rescue. When he manages to accept his roots and admits to himself that he is not the unscrupulous, self-satisfied cynic, only then does he understand what he has been missing.