Joel Basman
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Born | Zurich, Switzerland | 23 January 1990
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2004–present |
Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor.
Early life[]
Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss mother and an Israeli father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighbourhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual (speaking Swiss German and Hebrew). He has one older sister who resides in Israel.[1] Basman is of Jewish descent, from his father's side.[2]
Career[]
In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc.
In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film Jimmie. There he played an autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film Luftibus, written by director Dominque de Rivaz. In September 2008 Joel received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film. In October 2008 he got the prize for the best main part from Cinema Tous Ecrans.
At the Schauspielhaus Zürich Joel Basman acted 2003 for a youth-theatre project. In 2004 and 2005 he played with students, who were at their final project. He finished his studies at the"European Film Actor School in October 2008.
In 2012 Basman got a part as Bertel in the three-piece TV film Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our mothers, our fathers).[3] He also played Pascal in the Swiss TV-film Ziellos (Aimless).
Joel Basman played as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called ‘Late Shift’ in 2016.
In 2018, Basman played the lead role in Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa, picked up by Netflix.
Filmography[]
Year | Film | Name | Director |
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2004–2006 | Lüthi und Blanc | Zizou Imboden | Sabine Boss and others |
2004 | Mein Name ist Eugen | Michael Steiner | |
2005 | Ausgrenzungen | Liliane Steiner | |
2006 | Breakout | Silenzio | Mike Eschmann |
Cannabis – Probieren geht über Regieren | Remo | Niklaus Hilber | |
2007 | Mikado | Silvia Zeitlinger | |
Tausend Ozeane | Eric | Luki Frieden | |
Jimmie | Jimmie | Tobias Ineichen | |
Luftbusiness | Liocha | Dominique de Rivaz | |
2008 | Happy New Year | Oskar | Christoph Schaub |
Tatort: Liebeswirren | Werner Weißenbach | Tobias Ineichen | |
Mein Schüler, seine Mutter & ich | Franz | Andreas Linke | |
2010 | Picco | Tommy | Philip Koch |
Sennentuntschi | Albert | Michael Steiner | |
Tatort: Der letzte Patient | Tim König | Friedemann Fromm | |
Rosannas Tochter | Ruben | ||
2011 | Löwenzahn – Das Kinoabenteuer | Ronny | Peter Timm |
Hanna | Razor | Joe Wright | |
2012 | Polizeiruf 110: Eine andere Welt | Dennis Kuscinsky | Nicolai Rohde |
2013 | Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter | Bartel | Philipp Kadelbach |
Tatort: Freunde bis in den Tod | Manu | Nicolai Rohde | |
Draussen ist Sommer | Theo | Friederike Jehn | |
Paul | Delphine Lehericey | ||
2014 | Dawn | Elisha | Romed Wyder |
The Monuments Men | German soldier | George Clooney | |
Ziellos | Pascal | Niklaus Hilber | |
Wir Sind Jung. Wir Sind Stark | Robbie | Burhan Qurbani | |
2015 | Tatort: Borowski und der Himmel über Kiel | Mike Nickel | Christian Schwochow |
Land of Mine | Helmut Morbach | Martin Zandvliet | |
2017 | Papillon | Maturette | Aaron Guzikowski |
2018 | Kursk | Leo | Thomas Vinterberg |
2018 | Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa | Mordechai Wolkenbruch | Michael Steiner |
2018 | Zauberer | Marcel | Sebastian Brauneis |
2019 | A Hidden Life | Military trainee | Terrence Malick |
2020 | Adventures of a Mathematician | Edward Teller | Thor Klein |
2021 | The King's Man | Gawain | Matthew Vaughn |
TBA | Storm | Walter Storm |
Audio drama[]
- 2013: Hattie Naylor: Ivan und die Hunde; Regie: Reto Ott (SRF)
Distinctions[]
- 2008: Schweizer Fernsehpreis
- 2008: Shooting Star
References[]
- ^ "Joel Basman - Munzinger Biographie".
- ^ "Actors in the Swiss Oscar submission 'Wolkenbruch' share the loving dynamic of their mother-son characters". 2 November 2019.
- ^ "ZDF: Zeitgeschichte, zeitgemäß erzählt". Archived from the original on 2013-03-26. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
External links[]
- 1990 births
- Living people
- People from Zürich
- Swiss male film actors
- Swiss male television actors
- Swiss male voice actors
- 21st-century Swiss male actors
- 21st-century Israeli male actors
- German Film Award winners
- Swiss people of Israeli descent
- Swiss people of Jewish descent