Bruno Ganz Articles

The 2007 Swiss Film Awards were announced yesterday at the 42nd Solothurn Film Festival. Fredi M. Murer's Vitus (right), which is one of the semi-finalists for this year's best foreign-language film Academy Award, was selected as best Swiss film of 2006. Vitus, the story of a reluctant piano prodigy and his grandfather, stars Teo Gheorghiu and Bruno Ganz. It has sold nearly 200,000 tickets since [...]

2006 London Film Critics' Circle Awards 2006 London Film Critics' Circle Award winners: Dorchester Hotel on February 8, 2006 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams in Brokeback Mountain   Best Film: * Brokeback Mountain The Constant Gardener Crash A History of Violence King Kong The Attenborough Award for British Film: * The Constant Gardener The Descent Mrs. Henderson Presents [...]

This past weekend, 480,000 filmgoers across Germany lined up to get tickets for the €13.5 million (US$16.5 million) German-made Der Untergang / Downfall, Oliver Hirschbiegel's controversial World War II drama depicting Adolf Hitler's last 12 days in his underground bunker. The figures for Downfall were deemed particularly impressive since the nearly three-hour-long production only allowed two showings per evening. Bruno Ganz, the angel who becomes [...]

One of history's most hated monsters has undergone a humanizing makeover in the German motion picture Der Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des 3. Reiches (Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Based on historian Joachim Fest's best-selling Adolf Hitler biography and on the memoirs of the dictator's last personal secretary, Traudl Junge, Downfall chronicles the last days of [...]