Movies by Bruno Ganz
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Unknown (2011)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones …
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra
Liam Neeson stars in this taut thriller as a man who regains consciousness after an auto accident only to discover that another man is impersonating him, and that no one -- not even his wife…
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The End Is My Beginning (2010)
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Elio Germano, Erika Pluhar …
Directed by: Jo Baier
Realizing he may not live very much longer, cancer-stricken Italian journalist Tiziano Terzani calls his son, Folco, to his remote mountain home in Florence, where he shares his dramatic life…
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Giulias Verschwinden (2009)
Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Bruno Ganz, Stefan Kurt …
Directed by: Christoph Schaub
With this ensemble comedy, director Christoph Schaub probes the complexities of age, and offers a charming and insightful meditation on the loss of youth and the challenges of growing old.…
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The Reader (2008)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Kate Winslet …
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
In this haunting drama, middle-aged lawyer Michael Berg reflects on the brief but formative sexual relationship he had as a teen with an older woman in 1950s Germany -- and his feelings years…
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The Dust of Time (2008)
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli …
Directed by: Theo Angelopoulos
While working on a film about his parents' lives and loves during the Cold War era, A's (Willem Dafoe) adolescent daughter goes missing in Berlin, triggering an investigation that…
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Vitus (2007)
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Fabrizio Borsani, Teo Gheorghiu …
Directed by: Fredi M. Murer
Pushed to succeed and live up to his parents' ambitions at an early age, young Vitus (played by Fabrizio Borsani and Teo Gheorghiu) is a virtual genius and a prodigy at the piano. But as…
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Youth Without Youth (2007)
Cast: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz …
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola spins a unique love story that combines elements of suspense and science fiction. Set in pre–World War II Europe, the film follows an…
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this remake of the 1962 political thriller, two U.S. soldiers are taken captive during the first Gulf War and brainwashed so they're programmed to rebel once they return home. Several…
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Downfall (2004)
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes …
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
One winter night in 1942, a group of young women are escorted to Hitler's headquarters. 22 year-old Traudl Junge gets the job despite her lack of experience in typing.
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Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence (2004)
Cast: Claudio Abbado, Bruno Ganz, Peter Esterhazy …
Directed by: Paul Smaczny
World-renowned maestro Claudio Abbado opens up about his life and work in this profile that effectively combines images of the conductor in rehearsal and in concert and interviews with…
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Luther (2003)
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina, Jonathan Firth …
Directed by: Eric Till
This epic movie follows the life of Martin Luther (Joseph Fiennes), author of the then-controversial 95 Theses and founding father of the Protestant church, who, with the courage of his…
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Bread and Tulips (2000)
Cast: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston …
Directed by: Silvio Soldini
A cosseted, unhappy housewife (Licia Maglietta) who's taken for granted by her philandering, self-centered husband (Antonio Catania) finds "bella fortuna" when she hitchhikes to Venice…
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Eternity and a Day (1998)
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio …
Directed by: Theo Angelopoulos
When Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a famed Greek author, learns he hasn't long to live, he sets aside his current project and soon meets an Albanian immigrant street urchin (Achileas Skevis),…
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Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Cast: Otto Sander, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Falk …
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Together with fellow angel Raphaela (Nastassja Kinski), Cassiel (Otto Sander) flies around post-Cold War Berlin observing the city and its mortals. Spying a girl (Aline Krajewski) in danger,…
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Especially on Sunday (1993)
Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Patricia Arquette, Nicoletta Braschi …
Directed by: Francesco Barilli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Marco Tullio Giordana …
Especially on Sunday is a collection of three shorts that occur in a dreamy Italian village. All three were written by Tonino Guerra, so there are common themes, especially in the first and…
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Strapless (1989)
Cast: Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Hugh Laurie …
Directed by: David Hare
After a vacation through Europe, newly single American expatriate Lillian (Blair Brown) returns to London to find her freewheeling younger sister, Amy (Bridget Fonda), at her flat. The polar…
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1988)
Cast: Karen Black, Bruno Ganz, Victor Garber …
Directed by: Jose Maria Sanchez Silva
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway (Victor Garber) is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted…
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Wings of Desire (1987)
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander …
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders won the award for Best Director at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for this captivating vision about an angel (Bruno Ganz) who falls in love with a beautiful circus performer while…
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Circle of Deceit (1981)
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet …
Directed by: Volker Schlondorff
Acclaimed filmmaker Volker Schlondorff meditates on the evils of war in this drama about a German journalist, Georg (Bruno Ganz), who trades the slow death of his marriage for the incessant…
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz …
Directed by: Werner Herzog
This stylistic 1979 retelling of Bram Stoker's &NFi;Dracula&NFi_; follows the bloodthirsty, undead count (menacingly played by Klaus Kinski) as he takes over the German village of Virna…
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Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht (1979)
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz …
Directed by: Werner Herzog
This German-language 1979 retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula follows the bloodthirsty, undead count (menacingly played by Klaus Kinski) as he takes over the German village of Virna and…
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The American Friend (1977)
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer …
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Idealistic German art restorer Jonathan Zimmermann is dying from a rare blood disease, so to earn money for the family he will be leaving behind, he accepts an offer from cunning American…
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The Marquise of O (1976)
Cast: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz
Directed by: Eric Rohmer
Director Eric Rohmer's period film based on Heinrich von Kleist's novella follows a widowed Italian noblewoman (Edith Clever) during the Franco-Prussian War. When soldiers attack…