Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz (March 22, 1941 – February 16, 2019) was a Swiss actor who debuted at the theatre in 1961 and gained there a good reputation as a solid, young actor. In 1970 he founded with 'Peter Stein' the theatre company "Schaubuehne" of Berlin. His debut at the movies was early and unsuccessful in 1960. Only in 1975 after "Sommergaeste (1975)" he could show his talent as a reflexive actor with tendencies towards introspection.
The Reader
as Professor RohlThe story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair...
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Downfall
as Adolf HitlerIn April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from...
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
as Jonathan HarkerA real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the...
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A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no...
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Wings of Desire
as DamielTwo angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling...
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Luther
as Johann von StaupitzDuring the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the...
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The House That Jack Built
as VergeFailed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most...
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Heidi
as AlpöhiHeidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling...
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The Manchurian Candidate
as DelpYears after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having...
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A Hidden Life
as RichterAustrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the...
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The Counselor
as Diamond DealerA lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
as Horst Herold'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody...
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Faraway, So Close!
as DamielDamiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The...
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The American Friend
as Jonathan ZimmermannTom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture...
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Night Train to Lisbon
as Older Jorge O'KellyRaimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles...
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The Boys from Brazil
as Professor BrucknerNazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Remember
as Rudy Kurlander #1With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with...
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In Order of Disappearance
as PapaUpstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns...
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Youth Without Youth
as Professor StanciulescuProfessor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards...
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The Tobacconist
as Sigmund FreudVienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look,...
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Bread and Tulips
as Fernando GirasoliAn endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her...
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The GovernorIn the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a...
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The Party
as GodfriedVarious individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of...
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Eternity and a Day
as AlexandrosAn ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
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The Marquise of O
as Der GrafA German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
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Lumière & Company
as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe...
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Vitus
as GrandfatherVitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu)...
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Lady of the Camelias
as Count PerregauxA young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich...
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The Dust of Time
as JacobA, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the...
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Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
as Cardinal Stefan WyszynskiThe eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a...
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Amnesia
as BrunoA young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an...
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In the White City
as PaulFed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship,...
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Children of Nature
as EngillAn elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the...
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Circle of Deceit
as Georg LaschenGeorg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self (archive footage)"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim...
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Of Women and Horses
as Franz MannThis microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent,...
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The Last Days of Chez Nous
as J.P.The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French...
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The Left-Handed Woman
as BrunoMourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has...
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In Times of Fading Light
as Wilhelm PowileitJust before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn...
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El río de oro
as PeterDuring a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country...
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Black and White Like Day and Night
as Thomas RosemundA scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates...
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A Jew Must Die
as Arthur BlochA film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and...
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Colors in the Dark
as FredAnita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They...
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Julia's Disappearance
as JohnA comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth...
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Knife in the Head
as HoffmannOne night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works....
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The Architecture of Doom
as German narrator (voice)Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture...
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Especially on Sunday
as VittorioFour lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by...
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
as SelfThis is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer,...
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Fathers and Sons
as Heinrich BeckFollows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them...
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Lumière
as Heinrich GrunSarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in...
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The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as SelfWerner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.
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The Ode to Joy
as Kurt HeinrichBased on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the...
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Return to the Beloved
as Dr. Stephan KernJulien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with...
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La provinciale
as Rémy MullerIn this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the...
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The End Is My Beginning
as Tiziano TerzaniWhen an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call...
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Fortuna
as Brother JeanFortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the...
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5% de risque
as DavidA troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without...
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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
as Narrator German (voice)In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King...
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Private Resistance
as GustavOtto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the...
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Prague
as JosefAlexander is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's...
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One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
as SelfThe early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the...
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Strapless
as Raymond ForbesAn expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling...
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Saint-Ex
as Antoine de Saint-ExupéryPoetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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A Roof Over Your Head
as Fred WeberA poor family with 6 kids that live in a ramshackle hut are suddenly offered a nice flat for...
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Hands Up!
as Self (1981 footage)The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
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The Witness
as Nikola RadinAn action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
as Ezra PoundLarger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles...
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Summer Guests
as Jakov ShalimovA group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and...
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System Without Shadow
as FaberComputer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private...
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Lost and Found
as WernerOppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited...
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Winter Journey
as George GoldsmithTucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of...
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Krieg und Frieden
as uncreditedThe third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German...
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The Day of the Cat
as KaterThe Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming...
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Der sanfte Lauf
as Bernhard KrahlBernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical...
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Bankomatt
as BrunoWith three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police...
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Night on Fire
as Peter KellerEnquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the...
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Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
as KammerdienerHugo Wiederkehr, as a dutiful bank employee, has to deal with all kinds of customers. Among...
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St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
as Narrator (German voice)St. Stephen’s Cathedral ranks amongst Austria‘s most famous cultural monuments. Yet, one would...
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Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
as Peter (archive footage)Documentary about the personal and professional life of Pablo G. del Amo. He is the most...
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The Wild Duck
as Gregers WerleConsul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the ...
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Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
as Voice of SegantiniArtist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He...
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The End of an Eternity
as SelfDocumentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998),...
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The Inventor
as Jakob NüssliIn this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an...
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Deadly Silence
as Hans PlacheA gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events.
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Polenta
as uncreditedTwo men and a young girl meet at the end of the world
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Alias Kurban Saïd
as NarratorThe mystery of the author of the 1937 cult novel Ali and Nino - a recently-rediscovered Romeo...
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The Absence
as PlayerFour nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a...
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Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
as NarratorThomas Bernhard in Madrid.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
as FaustSecond part of Goethe's Tragedy
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Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
as Narrator (voice)A 90'- documentary about Roger Raymond Rossmeisl (1927-1979), the most overlooked great guitar...
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Scene of the Crime
as BombadilTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
as Self"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" -...
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Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy
as Heinrich BeckFollows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them...
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