With Erika Halm in Es Dach überem Chopf (A roof over one's head), 1962, by Kurt Früh
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With Dennis Hopper in Der amerikanische Freund (The American Friend), 1977, by Wim Wenders
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With Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979, by Werner Herzog
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RDB
Der Erfinder (The Inventor), 1980, by Kurt Gloor
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RDB
With Isabelle Huppert in La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), 1981, by Mauro Bolognini
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RDB
Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceit), 1981, by Volker Schlöndorff
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RDB
With Tina Engel in Väter und Söhne (Fathers and sons), 1986, by Bernhard Sinkel
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RDB
With Otto Sanders in Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), 1987, by Wim Wenders
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Brandnacht (Night on Fire), 1992, by Markus Fischer
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Die Ewigkeit und ein Tag (Eternity and a Day), 1998, by Theo Angelopoulos
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Pane e tulipani (Bread and Tulips), 2001, by Silvio Soldini
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Keystone
As Oedipus in Sophocles's play Oedipus at Colonus. At the Burgtheater in Vienna, 2003, directed by Klaus Michael Grüber.
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Keystone
With Heino Ferch in Der Untergang (Downfall), 2004, by Oliver Hirschbiegel
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Keystone
With Theo Gheorghui in Vitus, 2008
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With Anuk Steffen in Heidi, 2015, by Alain Gsponer
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He has played an angel (Wings of Desire), Hitler (Downfall), a grandfather more than once (Heidi and Vitus), a vampire (Nosferatu the Vampyre), a waiter (Bread and Tulips) and many, many other characters. Bruno Ganz, Switzerland’s best-known actor, is celebrating his 75th birthday.
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From stage to screen – that, in a nutshell, is Ganz’s career. Ganz was born in Zurich on March 22, 1941. His Swiss father was a mechanic and his mother came from northern Italy.
He is now one of the most famous German-speaking actors in the world, but despite winning countless awards, he prefers to speak to the public through his performances than through the media.
In 2012, as Ganz was being given a lifetime achievement award by the European Film Academy, Swiss director Fredi M. Murer summed up to swissinfo.ch Ganz’s art.
“In private, he often strikes me as shy and introverted and from the countryside. And then on stage there suddenly appears this ‘grandezza’ [grandness], a certain Italianness.”
On the set of Vitus, Murer said he found Ganz a very precise and concentrated loner. “I think that when he’s in character, he doesn’t want to be spoken to as Bruno Ganz.”
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