Alex Brendemühl @ SPIELKIND

Alex Brendemühl

Actor | 1972 | Spanish | Barcelona, Berlin

Personal Data

Languages: German (mother tongue), Catalan (mother tongue), Spanish (mother tongue), English (fluent) French (fluent)

Residence: Barcelona, Berlin

Place of birth: Barcelona

Nationality: Spanish

Height: 1.77m (5' 9.7“)

Hair: darkbrown

Eyes: blue

Training: Institut del Teatre of Barcelona

Pitch of the voice: vocal training

Musical instruments: bassoon, saxophon

Sports: ski alpin, sailing, windsurfing (bon)

Driving licence: car (B)

Work as: Director and Screenwriter

Feature | Television

2022 | Stories not to be told (Historias para no contar) | mposible Films, Nocontarfilm | feature film | Director: Cesc Gay

2020 | La Sangre | short film | Director: Adrián López

2019 | Le Prince | Komplizen Film | feature film | Director: Lisa Bierwirth

2018 | 7 Reasons to Run Away | Compacto | feature film | Director: Gerard Quinto, Esteve Soler, David Torras

2018 | El pati i la lluna | Maldita Primavera | feature film | Director: Santiago Lapeira

2017 | La Prière | feature film | Director: Cedric Kahn

2017 | Mother | Apache Films | short film | Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen

2017 | Django | Fidélité Films | feature film | Director: Etienne Comar

2017 | La gallina | Txell Sabartés | short film | Director: Lalo García, Raimon Lorda

2016 | Marjorie | TV movie | Director: Mona Achache

2016 | In the same boat | Pere Portabella Films 59 | documentary | Director: Rudy Gnutti

2016 | 7 anos | Cactus Flower Producciones | feature film | Director: Roger Gual

2016 | Truman | Audiovisual Aval SGR | feature film | Director: Gay Cesc

2016 | Taunuskrimi - "Böser Wolf | All in Productions | TV movie | Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller

2016 | Rewind | Pandora Film, Peter Rommel Film | feature film | Director: Johannes Sievert

2015 | Call me Francesco | Taodue Film, Mediaset | feature film | Director: Daniele Luchetti

2014 | Ma-Ma | Ad hoc studios | feature film | Director: Julio Medem

2014 | Les petites femmes de Paris | Sommerfugl Productions | feature film | Director: Slony Sow

2014 | Twice Upon a Time in the West | Arthouse Blockbusters | feature film | Director: Boris Despodov

2014 | The Invisible Artery | Manium Produccions | feature film | Director: Pere Vilà i Barceló

2014 | Hedi Schneider Is Stuck | Komplizen Film | feature film | Director: Sonja Heiss

2014 | Egmont” (Symphony) Beethoven | Musical Auditori Kursaal | theatre | Director: Jun Märkl Quincena

2013 | Beste Freundinnen | Relevant Film | TV movie | Director: Thomas Jauch

2013 | Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades | Ad hoc studios | feature film | Director: Isaki Lacuesta

2013 | Eltern | 23/5 Filmproduktion | feature film | Director: Robert Thalheim

2012 | Measuring the World | Boje Buck Produktion | feature film | Director: Detlev Buck

2012 | Nemez | ZDF kleines Fernsehspiel | feature film | Director: Stanilav Güntner

2011 | Der Freischütz (El Cazador Furtivo) | Gran Teatre del Liceu | theatre | Director: Peter Konwitschny

2010 | Among Wolves | Arakao Films | feature film | Director: Gerardo Olivares

2010 | The Mosquito Net | Eddie Saeta S.A. | feature film | Director: Agustí Vila

2010 | Forever Young | Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals (ICIC) | feature film | Director: Pau Freixas

2009 | The Consul of Sodom | Infoco | feature film | Director: Sigfrid Monléon

2009 | Los sentidos de la muerte - "El sonido" | Filmax Televisión | TV series | Director: Andrea Traina

2008 | 199 Tips to Be Happy | 14 Pies | feature film | Director: Andrés Waissbluth

2008 | Pretextos | Ovídeo TV | feature film | Director: Silvia Munt

2008 | Plou a Barcelona | Fair Play Produccions | TV movie | Director: Carles Torrens

2006 | Vorvik | Azalea Producciones | feature film | Director: José Antonio Vitoria

2006 | Ausentes | DRAX audio | feature film | Director: Daniel Calparsoro

2005 | L'ombre d'un crime | Jean-Luc Azoulay, Antoni Camín | TV movie | Director: Jean Sagols

2005 | Omar Martínez | Nadie es Perfecto | TV movie | Director: Pau Martínez

2005 | Mar rojo | Continental Producciones | TV movie | Director: Enric Alberich

2004 | Unconscious (OT: Inconscientes) | Tornasol Films | feature film | Director: Joaquín Oristrell

2004 | Searching for Love | Grupo Rodar | feature film | Director: David Menkes, Alfonso Albacete

2003 | In the City | Canal+ Spain | feature film | Director: Cesc Gay

2003 | The Hours of the Day | Fresdeval Films | feature film | Director: Jaime Rosales

2003 | Mónica | Prodigius Audiovisual | TV movie | Director: Eduard Cortés

2002 | Le secret de la belle de Mai | France 2 | TV movie | Director: Patrick Volson

2000 | Women | Canal+ Spain | feature film | Director: Judith Colell

2000 | Quia | Ovídeo TV | TV movie | Director: Silvia Munt

1999 | I Will Survive | Antena 3 Televisión | feature film | Director: David Menkes, Alfonso Albacete

1999 | A Bench in the Park | Alta Films | feature film | Director: Agustí Vila

1999 | Lluís Maria Güell | Generalitat de Catalunya | TV movie | Director: Lluís Maria Güell

1996 | Razones sentimentales | Visual Grup | feature film | Director: Antonio A. Farré

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Alex Brendemühl is a film and stage actor born in Barcelona to a German father and a Catalan mother. He studied in the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona, where he achieved a Degree in Drama in 1993. He speaks five languages Catalan, Spanish and German (native) and fluent French and English. He is an accomplished musician who plays several instruments including the bassoon and the saxophon. His first leading role in a feature film was in Un banco en el parque (Agustí Vila, 1998).

Las horas del día (Jaime Rosales, 2002) which obtained the Fipresci Prize in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes made a turning point in his career leading him to take up main roles in films such as En la Ciudad (Cesc Gay, 2002), Inconscientes (Joaquín Oristrell, 2004) and Remake (Roger Gual, 2005).
He is also the co scriptwriter of the film Yo (Rafa Cortes, 2007), winner of the Revelation of the Year Award in the 46th Semaine de la Critique, Cannes.

For his role in Yo, as well as his work in 53 días de invierno (Judith Colell) and El silencio antes de Bach (Pere Portabella) he obtained the Best Actor Award (Premio Sant Jordi) in 2008. The success of Yo took him to direct his first shortfilm Worstward Ho, which was selected in the Official Selection of the 62th Cannes Film Festival.

During the last years he has been cast in films shooting in different countries: Argentina, France and Germany. In Argentina he has played Josef Mengele in Wakolda – The German Doctor (Lucia Puenzo) and Franz Jalics in Il Papa della Gente (Daniele Luchetti). In France he has played a leading role in Le Sanctuaire (Olivier Masset-Depasse) and in Parisiennes (Slony Sow). In Germany Rewind (Johannes Sievert) and Wann Endlich Küsst du Mich (Julia Ziesche) were released in 2017.
In France he has released the film called Mal de Pierres (directed by Nicole Garcia) co-starring Marion Cotillard and Louis Garrel and Django Melodies (directed by Etienne Comar), a biopic of the jazz musician Django Reinhardt. Alex Brendemühl was part of the feature film Transit, directed by Christian Petzold, which was shown in the Competition of the Berlinale. In 2018 he could celebrate two other successes with La Prière (Cédric Kahn) und Petra (Jaime Rosales).