Downfall mash-up: Hitler is informed he is Bruno Ganz: I was not really aware. The most recent of them was in 1996, when the Swiss actor Bruno Ganz became the new lord of the ring. "We've internalised a kind of taboo against playing him.". He was very famous, a big star in Germany. But it was really very funny. I didn't like that. Why this was is completely hidden. And I was wondering whether the role of Damiel has special resonances for you, to a greater degree than other roles you have played. At the same time he was a Nazi believer. And Wim is really different. And he's been a gambler. Once they wanted me to play Einstein and I was deep in preparation but then I stopped, I couldn’t do it. RR: I have heard about a scene that was included in the rough cut but was eliminated later: a scene in which Damiel et Cassiel throw cream pies at one another. ", On one point, all agree: Hitler himself remains an enigma. But I think he had to sell his father's house when we did The American Friend. He is convincing enough there with his irony as he thinks and so he keeps his voice on a level you are not scared of. Or a mother said to her child: "Look, there's your guardian angel." When I got home each day, I took a long shower and listened to Johann Sebastian Bach, and that helped. This whole aspect: "Dedicated to..." That's something I really like a lot about Wenders. Also unfortunately other things that Wagner had in mind as his anti-Semitism. A relatively lavish £10 million production with a large cast, it's based on historical sources: Inside Hitler's Bunker, by the scholar Joachim Fest, and Until the Final Hour, by Traudl Junge, Hitler's private secretary. Now we are safe." In the end. I don’t want to start to argue." Others had a real one so I said, "OK give me a small one." So he is very calm. It shows the Third Reich crumbling amid the bang of bombs and the whimper of recrimination. It’s all finished. Bruno Ganz: Yes, because the role itself is the first I’ve played of someone who really existed. He wrote me a letter saying, "Don’t fall into the trap of chewing the carpet. Wim was concerned about that. That’s what I wanted. He would have understood that evil can fascinate people two, three, four, five hundred years later. The only surprise was that I was happy with [my acting in] it. Incredibly fair. Between The American Friend and Wings of Desire, Ganz worked with novelist, playwright, and Wenders collaborator Peter Handke on The Left-Handed Woman (1978), turned in a wrenching performance as a man shot by police who then unwittingly becomes an enemy of the state in Reinhard Hauff’s Knife in the Head (1978), worked alongside Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani in Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu (1979), and appeared with Hanna Schygulla and Jerzy Skolimowski in Volker Schlöndorff’s Circle of Deceit (1981). Because often, when you see a film you have just shot, you say to yourself: "Oh, what was I doing there? Bruno Ganz (Zürich, 22 maart 1941 – Wädenswil, 16 februari 2019) was een Zwitserse acteur.. Biografie. Because, a century on, audiences would whoop and whistle when they saw their heroes on the silver screen. As we would say, auto-suggestion. RR: A critic writing about the film said that it was interesting that in this situation, it is the woman who defines the agenda for the couple. My first reaction was I was interested immediately because, as actors say, it’s a challenge. Some sort of humiliation. The private conversation was actually with Mannerheim, the Commander of Finnish Forces during World War II. I read about your reaction when you saw the rough cut of Wings of Desire, in an interview you gave before the film came out. I remember really liking Peter Handke's lines, which wasn't always the case. He overran France within two weeks. This is a very limited English word but it’s true. That was his quality. Have you ever thought what it means to be German with the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust to deal with? I know his name, I know that he is a doctor. BG: No, I very much like Henri Alekan just as Wim does. Even if you are bad as Hitler still you’ll look like him.". He was quite good at that. by Milord » Fri Sep 05, 2014 5:29 pm, Post And we have at least one more performance from Ganz to look forward to—if he’s made the cut. I have a tremendous respect for him, because he is a personal friend and a great writer. This time the aim, according to Bernd Eichinger, who produced both it and Syberberg's film, is to "grip the viewer, without preaching at him". “We still want to understand not just the historical background of German National Socialism, but also the psychological and temperamental forces that shaped its leader. Would have done pretty well as a high-quality telly series, though. RR: Concerning gestures - for example, in shot 1079 where Damiel is seated in the library, with his hands on the railing, his eyes closed and his head slightly bowed. They could not believe it. Now this is a problem when you are playing an angel. Ganz was cast as Judge Lueben in Terrence Malick’s Radegund, which was shot in 2016 and will hopefully be released later this year. I'm not sure. Their eavesdropping is “both empathetic and voyeuristic,” as Michael Atkinson points out in the essay accompanying our release, and “most of what the angels hear from their earthling subjects is worry, worry, worry.” Nonetheless, as Damiel confides to his close friend (Otto Sander), he’s been tiring of his “transcendent existence” and yearns to feel “a weight within that would end this boundlessness and tie me to earth.” He’s tempted to experience even the simplest of pleasures such as a smoke or a cup of coffee—“and if you do it together,” Peter Falk tells him, “it’s fantastic”—and reaches his breaking point when he falls for a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin). The irrepressible spirit of Pasolini wafts in and out of this month’s round. This is a full transcript of the fullest interview he gave to a British journalist about playing Hitler. Damiel casts off his wings, and with them, his immortality, plunging to earth where he can touch and smell and love and sense the passing of time. They were really the hardcore of the first Nazi group and in 1945 he gets this telegram saying if he doesn’t answer before 10 o’clock they will take power. The voice sounds… I liked it. There is a "poker player" side to him. I am very reluctant to do that. I know. RR: I imagine that an actor can be more or less attached to a particular role. He had a feeling of that. Simply enter your email address in the box below, 'I was scared just for two or three seconds. That’s not because in Switzerland nobody was in this way involved in Nazis. And even then, Otto constantly spoke to Bois and I to Minetti.

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