Moritz Bleibtreu Articles

Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan, Dorka Gryllus, Fatih Akin, Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu at the Soul Kitchen premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival Alberto Petrolini, Caterina Varzi, Tinto Brass, Vincenzo Varzi at the Hotel Courbet photocall George A. Romero Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Jared Leto at the Mr. Nobody premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival Click on the photos to enlarge them. Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, two of the stars of Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen, winner of the Venice Film Festival's Special Jury Prize Filmmaker and Venice jury member Joe Dante

Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died yesterday, May 14, in Hamburg. She was 65. Bleibtreu had been battling cancer for a number of years. Born into a theatrical family in Vienna on May 4, 1944, the dark, strong-featured Monica Bleibtreu had been working steadily on German-language television since the late 1960s. Among her TV credits are [...]

There weren't many surprises at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival awards. One of this year's favorites, Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica, the story of a 12-year-old girl (Luna Mijovic, above, hugging Mirjana Karanovic) who discovers that she is the end result of a Bosnian war crime — namely, rape — was awarded the Golden Bear for best film. Also on the political side, Michael Winterbottom and Mat [...]