Alex Brendemühl

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. 
He started his professional career playing theater , tv series and tv movies. His first leading role in a feature film was in the film Un banco en el parque (Agustí Vila, 1998). 
Las horas del dia (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 the 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.
El cónsul de Sodoma (Sigfrid Monleón) Die Liebe der Kinder (Franz Müller) Rabia (Sebastián Cordero) and Herois (Pau Freixas) stand out among other titles such as Las dos vidas de Andrés Rabadán (Ventura Durall) , El Bosque (Oscar Aibar) or Stella Cadente (Luís Miñarro). 
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 he has two films to be released this year Von Zeit Zu Zeit (Johannes Slevert ) and Wann Endlich Küsst du Mich (Julia Ziesche).
In France he has released the film called Mal de Pierres ( directed by Nicole Garcia) co- starring french actors Marion Cotillard and Louis Garrel and will release Django Melodies (directed by Etienne Comar)  a biopic of the jazz musician Django Reinhardt. Currently he has two films to release Petra directed by Jaime Rosales and  La Prière directed by Cédric Kahn.

FEATURE FILMS                                                                                                                     TV

2019
”L’Ofrena” - Directed by Ventura Durall
”Akelarre” - Directed by Pablo Agüero
2018
”Madre” - Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
”El Silencio de la Ciudad Blanca” - Directed by Daniel Calparsoro
”Die Taucher” - Directed by Günter Schwager
”Die Tagebücher von Adam und Eva” - Directed by Franz Müller
”Transit” - Christian Petzold
”Tatort Dortmund: Inferno” - Directed by Richard Huber
2017
"La Prière" - Directed by Cédric Kahn
"Petra" - Directed by Jaime Rosales
”Rewind: Die zweite Chance” - Directed by Johannes Sievert
2016
“Siete Años” - Directed by Roger Gual
“Django Melodies” - Directed by Etienne Comar
"Detour" - Directed by Nina Vukovic
2015
“Mal de Pierres” - Directed by Nicole Garcia
“Von Zeit zu Zeit” - Directed by Johannes Sievert
“Wann endlich küsst Du mich?” - Directed by Julia Ziesche
“Il Papa della gente. Call me Francesco”- Directed by Daniele Luchetti
“Ma Ma”- Directed by Julio Medem
“L’arteria Invisible”- Directed by Pere Vilà
“Truman”- Directed by Cesc Gay
2014
“Twice Upon a Time in the West”- Directed by Boris Despodov
“Parisiennes”- Directed by Slony Sow
2013
”Hedi Schneider steckt fest”- Directed by Sonja Heiss
“Stella Cadente” - Directed by Luis Miñarro
“Beste Freundinnen” - Directed by Thomas Jauch
“Die Abmachung” - Directed by Peter Bösenberg
“Eltern” - Directed by Robert Talheim
“Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades”- Directed by Isaki Lacuesta
2012
“Wakolda” - Directed by Lucía Puenzo
* Best Actor Performance Award Festival Internacional de Cine Fine Arts Santo Domingo 2013
* Best Actor Performance in a Leading Role Award. Premio Sur- Academia de las   Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de la Argentina, 2013
“El Bosc”- Directed by Oscar Aibar
“Die Vermessung der Welt”- Directed by Detlev Buck
“Nemez”- Directed by Stanilav Güntner
2011
“Insensibles”- Directed by Juan Carlos Medina
2010
“Entrelobos”- Directed by Gerardo Olivares
2009
“La mosquitera”- Directed by Agustí Vila
“Héroes” - Directed by Pau Freixas
“El cónsul de Sodoma” - Directed by Sigfrid Monleón
“Rabia” - Directed by Sebastián Cordero
* Best Actor Performance in a Supporting Role Award. Biznaga de Plata. Festival de Cine Español de Málaga
2008
“Las dos vidas de Andrés Rabadán” - Directed by Ventura Durall, 2008
* Best Actor Performance in a Leading Role Award. Premi Gaudí- Acadèmia del Cinema Català, 2010
2007
“Die Liebe der Kinder” - Directed by Franz Müller
“El silencio antes de Bach” - Directed by Pere Portabella
2006
“199 recetas para ser feliz” - Directed by Andrés Waissbluth
“Lo bueno de llorar” - Directed by Matías Bize
“Yo” - Dir. Rafa Cortés
* Best Actor Performance in a Leading Role Award. Festival de Toulouse 2007
“53 días de invierno” - Directed by Judith Colell
* Best Actor Performance in a Leading Role Awardfor"Yo" y "53 días de invierno" .    Premi Sant Jordi,Barcelona, 2008
2005
“La silla” - Directed by. Julio Wallovits
“Remake” - Directed by Roger Gual
* Best Actor Performance. Primavera cinematográfica de Lorca, 2006
2004
“Vorvik” - Directed by José Antonio Vitoria
“Ausentes”- Directed by Daniel Calparsoro
“Inconscientes”- Directed by Joaquín Oristrell
2003
“Entre vivir y soñar”- Directed by David Menkes y Alfonso Albacete
2002
“En la ciudad”- Directed by Cesc Gay
“Las horas del día”- Directed by Jaime Rosales
* Best Actor Performance Award. Premi Barcelona, 2003
2000
“Nosotras”- Directed by Judith Colell
1999
“Sobreviviré”- Directed by David Menkes y Alfonso Albacete
1998
“Un banco en el parque”- Dir. Agustí Vila
* Best Emerging Actor Award. Festival de Toulouse, 2000
1995
“Puro veneno”- Directed by X. Ribera
“Razones sentimentales”- Directed by A. Farré
“El porqué de las cosas”- Directed by Ventura Pons

WORK AS A DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER

2012
"Rifirrafe" Shortfilm Director and Scriptwriter
2009
"Rumbo a Peor" Director and Scriptwriter.
*Official Selection 62th Cannes Festival
2006
"Yo" Co-Scriptwriter.
*Best Emerging Film Fipresci Award, Cannes Festival 2007
*International Critics Award, Rotterdam Film Festival 2007
"Special Mention of the Jury, Festival de Cine Español de Málaga 2007