Joel Basman
Acting • Born 1990-01-23
Biography
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
72 credits
Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Movie • 2010
Albert
The King's Man
Movie • 2021
Gavrilo Princip
Wacked..!
Movie • 2010
Mani
Puppylove
Movie • 2013
Paul
Hanna
Movie • 2011
Razor
Cannabis - Probieren geht über Regieren
Movie • 2006
Remo
Picco
Movie • 2011
Tommy
Songs of Love and Hate
Movie • 2010
Fabio
The Royal Game
Movie • 2021
Barkeeper Willem
Lubo
Movie • 2023
Bruno Reiter
The Swiss Miss Massacre
Movie • 2012
Johnny
Luftbusiness
Movie • 2008
Liocha
Thousand Oceans
Movie • 2008
Eric
Breakout
Movie • 2007
Silenzio
Ziellos
Movie • 2014
Pascal Saner
We Are Young. We Are Strong.
Movie • 2014
Robbie
Stella. A Life.
Movie • 2024
Peter
As We Were Dreaming
Movie • 2015
Mark
Keep Rollin'
Movie • 2014
Valentin
Dawn
Movie • 2015
Elisha
Nussknacker und Mausekönig
Movie • 2015
Mausekönig
Land of Mine
Movie • 2015
Helmut Morbach
Rosannas Tochter
Movie • 2010
Ruben
Happy New Year
Movie • 2008
Oskar
Late Shift
Movie • 2022
Sébastien Leclercq
Paula
Movie • 2016
Rainer Maria Rilke
Bye Bye Germany
Movie • 2017
Lubliner
Jimmie
Movie • 2008
Jimmie Berger
Mein Schüler, seine Mutter & ich
Movie • 2008
Franz Hilbig
Löwenzahn - Das Kinoabenteuer
Movie • 2011
Ronny
Summer Outside
Movie • 2012
Theo
Papillon
Movie • 2017
Maturette
Amnesia
Movie • 2015
Rudolfo
Kursk
Movie • 2018
Leo
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
Movie • 2017
Kondor
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Movie • 2018
Motti
The Working Man
Movie • 2019
Patrick "Sigi" Signer
Adventures of a Mathematician
Movie • 2021
Edward Teller
Mikado
Movie • 2008
Julian
Head Burst
Movie • 2019
Tim
Caged Birds
Movie • 2021
Walter Stürm
The Colony
Movie • 2021
Paling
Chris the Swiss
Movie • 2018
Chris (voice)
A Hidden Life
Movie • 2019
Military Trainee
The Monuments Men
Movie • 2014
German Soldier at Ghent
Dear Thomas
Movie • 2021
Klaus Brasch
Monte Verità
Movie • 2021
Hermann Hesse
The Girl with the Leica
Movie
Bertolt Brecht
Don't Be A Stranger
Movie
Ich und die Anderen
TV • 2021
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Dennis Kuscinsky
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Manu
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Mike Nickel
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Werner Weißenbach
KaDeWe
TV • 2021
Harry Jandorf
SOKO Wismar
TV • 2004
Mike
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Nurali Balsiger
Der Überfall
TV • 2022
Daniel Kowalski
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Tim König
Der Alte
TV • 1977
Leo Münster
Rosa Roth
TV • 1994
Matthis Block
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
TV • 1996
Nils Bauer
Clash of Futures (1918-1939)
TV • 2018
Rudolf Höß
Kafka
TV • 2024
Franz Kafka
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Schawinski
TV • 2011
Self
Generation War
TV • 2013
Bartel
Aeschbacher
TV • 2001
Self
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
TV • 2005
Self
Abendschau
TV • 2000
Self
The Shadowers
TV • 2022
Charles Lacroix
Homeland
TV • 2011
Anders