Joel Basman

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Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor best known for having played Franz Kafka in the ARD Miniseries Kafka (2024) {{cite web|url=https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/serie-kafka-hauptdarsteller-joel-basman-im-interview-711968656783|title=“We all have Kafka in us”|publisher=tagesanzeiger}}

Early life

Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father,{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-01/actors-in-the-swiss-oscar-submission-wolkenbruch-share-the-loving-dynamic-of-their-mother-son-characters|title=Actors in the Swiss Oscar submission 'Wolkenbruch' share the loving dynamic of their mother-son characters|website=Los Angeles Times |date=2 November 2019}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Joel+Basman/0/30481.html|title = Joel Basman - Munzinger Biographie}}

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 Basman 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, Basman 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 in 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-part TV film Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our mothers, our fathers).{{cite web | url=http://www.zdf.de/Unsere-M%C3%BCtter-unsere-V%C3%A4ter/Zeitgeschichte-zeitgem%C3%A4%C3%9F-erz%C3%A4hlt-26275822.html | title=ZDF: Zeitgeschichte, zeitgemäß erzählt | access-date=2013-03-24 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326004304/http://www.zdf.de/Unsere-M%C3%BCtter-unsere-V%C3%A4ter/Zeitgeschichte-zeitgem%C3%A4%C3%9F-erz%C3%A4hlt-26275822.html | archivedate=2013-03-26 }} He also played Pascal in the Swiss TV-film Ziellos (Aimless).

Joel Basman starred as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called Late Shift in 2016.

In 2018, Basman played the lead role in The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch, which was picked up by Netflix.

Filmography

class="wikitable" ! 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
rowspan=2\| 2006	Breakout	Silenzio	Mike Eschmann
Cannabis – Probieren geht über Regieren	Remo	Niklaus Hilber
rowspan=4\| 2007	Mikado		Silvia Zeitlinger
Tausend Ozeane	Eric	Luki Frieden
Jimmie	Jimmie	Tobias Ineichen
Luftbusiness	Liocha	Dominique de Rivaz
rowspan=3\| 2008	Happy New Year	Oskar	Christoph Schaub
Tatort: Liebeswirren	Werner Weißenbach	Tobias Ineichen
Mein Schüler, seine Mutter & ich	Franz	Andreas Linke
rowspan=4\| 2010	Picco	Tommy	{{ill\|Philip Koch (director)\|de\|3=Philip Koch\|lt=Philip Koch}}
Sennentuntschi	Albert	Michael Steiner
Tatort: Der letzte Patient	Tim König	Friedemann Fromm
Rosannas Tochter	Ruben
rowspan=2\| 2011	Löwenzahn – Das Kinoabenteuer	Ronny	Peter Timm
Hanna	Razor	Joe Wright
2012	Polizeiruf 110: Eine andere Welt	Dennis Kuscinsky	Nicolai Rohde
rowspan=5\| 2013	Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter	Bartel	Philipp Kadelbach
Tatort: Freunde bis in den Tod	Manu	Nicolai Rohde
{{Ill\|Summer Outside\|de\|Draussen ist Sommer}}	Theo	{{ill\|Friederike Jehn\|de}}
Puppylove	Paul	Delphine Lehericey
{{Ill\|Keep Rollin'\|de\|Vielen Dank für Nichts}}	Paul	Stefan Hillebrand, Oliver Paulus
rowspan=4\| 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
rowspan=2\| 2015	Tatort: Borowski und der Himmel über Kiel	Mike Nickel	Christian Schwochow
Land of Mine	Helmut Morbach	Martin Zandvliet
2017	Papillon	Maturette	Aaron Guzikowski
rowspan=3\| 2018	Kursk	Leo	Thomas Vinterberg
Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa	Mordechai Wolkenbruch	Michael Steiner
Zauberer	Marcel	Sebastian Brauneis
2019	A Hidden Life	Military trainee	Terrence Malick
2020	Adventures of a Mathematician	Edward Teller	Thor Klein
rowspan=2\| 2021	The King's Man	Gavrilo Princip	Matthew Vaughn
Tides \|Paling \|Tim Fehlbaum
rowspan=2\|2023 \|Kafka \|Franz Kafka \|David Schalko
Stella. A Life. \|Peter \|Kilian Riedhof
TBA	Storm	Walter Storm	Ivan Madeo

Audio drama

2013: Hattie Naylor: Ivan und die Hunde; Regie: Reto Ott (SRF)

Distinctions

2008: Schweizer Fernsehpreis
2008: Shooting Star

References

External links

{{official website|http://www.joelbasman.ch}}
{{IMDb name|2056274}}

Category:1990 births

Category:Living people

Category:Male actors from Zurich

Category:Swiss male film actors

Category:Swiss male television actors

Category:Swiss male voice actors

Category:21st-century Swiss male actors

Category:21st-century Israeli male actors

Category:German Film Award winners

Category:Swiss people of Israeli descent

Category:Swiss people of Jewish descent