Bruno Ganz To Be Honored by European Film Academy

by Anne Thompson
September 15, 2010 5:15 AM
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Younger folks probably know Bruno Ganz best from those endless YouTube Hitler parodies taken from Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (2004); but he is one of the world's great actors and thus I am delighted to report that the European Film Academy will honor the legendary Swiss actor at their European Film Awards.

Ganz's resume includes Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987), Silvio Soldini's Bread & Tulips (2000), Werner Herzog's Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979), Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (2007) and Stephen Daldry's The Reader (2008). Ganz, 69, was elected with actress Iris Berben as president of the Germany Film Academy earlier this year and will receive this Lifetime Achievement Award at the EFAs on December 4 in Tallinn.

[Pictured: Ganz, in Downfall as Hitler, Die Marquise von O and The Reader]

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Brian | September 15, 2010 7:17 AMReply

Someone needs to compile all those Hitler parodies into a DVD collection and release that. It'll make a ton of $. And Ganz could then get some kind of honor at the MTV Video Awards for it and he comes out in full Hitler regalia to receive it and starts speaking German to the crowd and MTV types in its own subtitles. Oh, the possibilities...

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