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Classic Films
In reply to the discussion: Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only [View all]
CBHagman
(17,139 posts)129. Actor Bruno Ganz, 77
https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/bruno-ganz-dies-dead-actor-downfall-wings-of-desire-1203141712/
Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor best known for dramatizing Adolf Hitler’s final days in 2004’s “Downfall,” has died. He was 77.
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In addition to delivering one of the definitive cinematic portrayals of Hitler, Ganz played an angel who gives up immortality to experience earthly pleasures in Wim Wenders’ classic film “Wings of Desire” (1987). He reprised that role in Wenders’ 1993 follow-up, “Faraway, So Close!”
His celestial performance was so memorable that Ganz once recounted how people ascribed special powers to him when they recognized him in public.
“People in planes said: ‘Ah, no need to be afraid, because with you here, nothing can happen. Now we are safe,'” Ganz told the Danish film journal P.O.V. “Or a mother said to her child: ‘Look, there’s your guardian angel.’ They weren’t joking.”
More on his life and career:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/18/bruno-ganz-obituary
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/tobacconist-review-1177149
His IMDB credits:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004486/
Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor best known for dramatizing Adolf Hitler’s final days in 2004’s “Downfall,” has died. He was 77.
(SNIP)
In addition to delivering one of the definitive cinematic portrayals of Hitler, Ganz played an angel who gives up immortality to experience earthly pleasures in Wim Wenders’ classic film “Wings of Desire” (1987). He reprised that role in Wenders’ 1993 follow-up, “Faraway, So Close!”
His celestial performance was so memorable that Ganz once recounted how people ascribed special powers to him when they recognized him in public.
“People in planes said: ‘Ah, no need to be afraid, because with you here, nothing can happen. Now we are safe,'” Ganz told the Danish film journal P.O.V. “Or a mother said to her child: ‘Look, there’s your guardian angel.’ They weren’t joking.”
More on his life and career:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/18/bruno-ganz-obituary
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/tobacconist-review-1177149
His IMDB credits:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004486/
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CBHagman
Nov 2012
#24
these are the best made compiliations ...thanks for reminding me to favor this in my youtubes
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CBHagman
Jun 2018
#123