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  1. A conversation about the film "Downfall"
    A conversation about the film "Downfall"

    with Oliver Hirschbiegel and Bruno Ganz on Feb 22, 2005

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Bruno Ganz is a Swiss actor. He is one of the leading figures in contemporary European theatre and cinema.

Ganz?s breakthrough in cinema came with a major part in the 1976 film “Sommergäste”. His performance launched a distinguished career that has included important roles in both European and American films, for which he has received several of Europe?s most prized accolades. He has worked with the directors Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Éric Rohmer, and Francis Ford Coppola, among others.

In 1979 he starred opposite Klaus Kinski in Herzog?s “Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht” (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night). More recently, in Bernd Eichinger?s much acclaimed film “Der Untergang” [2004] (The Downfall), Ganz may be the second native German speaker after Albin Skoda (in Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s 1955 film Der lezte Akt) to play Adolf Hitler on screen, a role that most German directors had tended to relegate to very brief scenes or bit parts, often shot from behind.

Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Ganz