Joel Basman
Acting
Born January 23, 1990, Zürich, Switzerland
Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor. Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel. 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). 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. Source: Article "Joel Basman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
- 2026The Girl with the Leica — Bertolt Brecht
- Kafka — Franz Kafka
- 2024Stella. A Life. — Peter
- 2023Lubo — Bruno Reiter
- Der Überfall — Daniel Kowalski
- 2022Late Shift — Sébastien Leclercq
- The Shadowers — Charles Lacroix
- 2021Adventures of a Mathematician — Edward Teller
- 2021Caged Birds — Walter Stürm
- 2021Chess Story — Barkeeper Willem
- 2021Dear Thomas — Klaus Brasch
- Ich und die Anderen
- KaDeWe — Harry Jandorf
- 2021Monte Verità — Hermann Hesse
- 2021The Colony — Paling
- 2021The King's Man — Gavrilo Princip
- 2019A Hidden Life — Military Trainee
- 2019Head Burst — Tim
- 2019The Working Man — Patrick "Sigi" Signer
- 2018Chris the Swiss — Chris (voice)
- Clash of Futures (1918-1939) — Rudolf Höß
- 2018Kursk — Leo
- 2018The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch — Motti
- 2017Bye Bye Germany — Lubliner
- 2017Once Upon a Time in Indian Country — Kondor
- 2017Papillon — Maturette
- 2016Paula — Rainer Maria Rilke
- 2015Amnesia — Rudolfo
- 2015As We Were Dreaming — Mark
- 2015Dawn — Elisha
- 2015Land of Mine — Helmut Morbach
- 2015Nussknacker und Mausekönig — Mausekönig
- 2014Keep Rollin' — Valentin
- 2014The Monuments Men — German Soldier at Ghent
- 2014We Are Young. We Are Strong. — Robbie
- 2014Ziellos — Pascal Saner
- Generation War — Bartel
- 2013Puppylove — Paul
- 2012Summer Outside — Theo
- 2012The Swiss Miss Massacre — Johnny
- 2011Hanna — Razor
- Homeland — Anders
- 2011Löwenzahn - Das Kinoabenteuer — Ronny
- 2011Picco — Tommy
- 2011Songs of Love and Hate — Fabio
- 2010Rosannas Tochter — Ruben
- 2010Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps — Albert
- 2010Wacked..! — Mani
- 2008Happy New Year — Oskar
- 2008Jimmie — Jimmie Berger
- 2008Luftbusiness — Liocha
- 2008Mein Schüler, seine Mutter & ich — Franz Hilbig
- 2008Mikado — Julian
- 2008Thousand Oceans — Eric
- 2007Breakout — Silenzio
- 2006Cannabis - Probieren geht über Regieren — Remo
- SOKO Wismar — Mike
- Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police — Nils Bauer
- Rosa Roth — Matthis Block
- The Old Fox — Leo Münster
- Polizeiruf 110 — Dennis Kuscinsky
- Scene of the Crime — Manu, Mike Nickel, Werner Weißenbach, Nurali Balsiger, Tim König
- Don't Be A Stranger
Appearances as themselves (5)
- Schawinski — Self
- G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten — Self
- Aeschbacher — Self
- Abendschau — Self
- German Film Award — Self