Angel and Hitler actor wins film award
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the European Film Academy.
The academy will present the prize to the 69-year-old at the European Film Awards 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 4.
Ganz was selected for “lending his face to some of cinema’s most unforgettable moments” while working with many of the film industry’s most respected directors.
The Swiss portrayed an angel in Wim Wenders Wings of Desire (1987) and more recently Adolf Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall (2004).
In the 1970s and 1980s Ganz worked with the greats of German auteur cinema including Werner Herzog (Nosferatu The Vampire, 1979), as well as French director Eric Rohmer (The Marquise of O, 1976) and British director Stephen Daldry (The Reader, 2008).
He also had a supporting role in one of the more successful Swiss films of the past decade, Vitus (2006).
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