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Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

Swiss actor (1941-2019)
March 22, 1941 (February 16, 2019)
All. 2019. Biography by Terrence Malick with August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist. In 1940, an Austrian farmer, married with three young daughters, risks imprisonment for refusing to pledge allegiance to Adolf Hitler.
Runtime: 180 min.
Parental Guidance
Dan. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Lars von Trier with Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Riley Keough. In the 1970s, a serial killer, an engineer by training, explains how his crimes are an artistic requirement for the construction of his new home.
Runtime: 155 min.

The Tobacconist

V.O.: Der Trafikant
Autr. 2018. War drama by Nikolaus Leytner with Bruno Ganz.
G.-B. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Sally Potter with Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson. To celebrate her appointment as Minister of Health in the shadow cabinet of the Leader of the Opposition in the British Parliament, a politician entertains a few friends at home.
Runtime: 71 min.
Suis. 2015. Drama by Barbet Schroeder with Marthe Keller, Max Riemelt, Bruno Ganz.
Runtime: 96 min.
Can. 2015. Thriller by Atom Egoyan with Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Dean Norris. Suffering from dementia, a Holocaust survivor follows the instructions of a disabled friend to find the ex-Nazi who exterminated their families.
Runtime: 95 min.
Suis. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Alain Gsponer with Anuk Steffen, Bruno Ganz, Katharina Schüttler. A sweet orphan girl, who lives happily in the mountains with her grandfather, is taken away from him by her aunt, who wants to place her in a middle-class family.
Runtime: 106 min.

In Order of Disappearance

V.O.: Kraftidioten
Norv. 2014. Thriller by Hans Petter Moland with Stellan Skarsgard, Pal Sverre Valheim Hagen, Bruno Ganz. In Norway, a snowplow driver sets out to avenge his only son, who has been killed by drug dealers.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 2013. Drama by Arnaud des Pallières with Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot. In sixteenth century France, a horse trader forms an army to wage war against the authorities who have violated his rights.
Runtime: 122 min.
U.S. 2013. Mores drama by Ridley Scott with Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem. A lawyer engages in a daring drug deal with one of his clients, a nightclub owner whose girlfriend is a true sociopath.
Runtime: 117 min.

Night Train to Lisbon

V.O.: Nachtzug nach Lissabon
All. 2012. Drama by Bille August with Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Mélanie Laurent. On a whim, a Swiss philosophy professor travels to Lisbon to learn more about a Portuguese author he has just discovered.
Runtime: 111 min.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 2011. Thriller by Jaume Collet-Serra with Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones. In Berlin, an American scientist discovers that his identity has been stolen after an accident that temporarily put him in a coma.
Runtime: 114 min.

Le Grand Voyage de la vie

V.O.: Das Ende ist mein Anfang
All. 2010. Drama by Jo Baier with Bruno Ganz, Elio Germano.
Runtime: 98 min.

Fondu au noir

V.O.: Satte Farben vor Schwarz
Runtime: 90 min.

L'Homme-chat

V.O.: Der Grosse Kater
All. 2010. Drama by Wolfgang Panzer with Bruno Ganz, Ulrich Tukur.
Runtime: 88 min.

La Disparition de Giulia

V.O.: Giulias Verschwinden
Suis. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Christoph Schaub with Corinna Harfouch, Bruno Ganz, Stefan Kurt. While her friends are waiting for her in a restaurant in Zurich to celebrate her 50th birthday, a woman decides to take her time and take a stroll around the city.
Runtime: n/d

Le Grincheux

V.O.: Ein Starker Abgang
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 2008. Drama by Stephen Daldry with Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross. In 1966, a law student recognizes his former lover among a group of women accused of war crimes during the Nazi regime.
Runtime: 123 min.

The Baader Meinhof Complex

V.O.: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Runtime: 145 min.

The Dust of Time

V.O.: Trilogia II: I Skoni Tou Hronou
Runtime: 125 min.
U.S. 2007. Fantasy by Francis Ford Coppola with Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz. In 1938, a septuagenarian Romanian professor is struck by lightning and miraculously recovers his youth.
Runtime: 124 min.
Suis. 2006. Psychological drama by Fredi M. Murer with Teo Gheorghiu, Fabrizio Borsani, Julika Jenkins. A boy gifted in piano and mathematics tries to resist pressures from his ambitious parents.
Runtime: 123 min.
U.S. 2005. Biography by Jeff Bleckner with Thomas Kretschmann, Bruno Ganz, Joaquim de Almeida. The life and ecclesiastical career of Karol Wojtyla, elected pope in 1978 at the age of 58.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 2004. Thriller by Jonathan Demme with Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep. A military man discovers that a candidate for vice-president of the United States is under the hypnotic influence of a mysterious organization.
Runtime: 130 min.

Downfall

V.O.: Der Untergang
All. 2004. History by Oliver Hirschbiegel with Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler. The last days of Hitler and his entourage, hiding in a bunker while the Red Army marches on Berlin.
Runtime: 156 min.

Bread and Tulips

V.O.: Pane e tulipani
It. 2000. Sentimental comedy by Silvio Soldini with Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston. By a combination of circumstances, a disenchanted housewife takes a trip to Venice where she regains a taste for life and finds true love.

Eternity and a Day

V.O.: Mia Aioniotita kai mia mera
Fr. 1998. Psychological drama by Theo Angelopoulos with Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Achileas Skevis. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, a Greek writer tries to help a small Albanian refugee return to his country.
Runtime: 132 min.
It. 1995. Biography by Alberto Sironi with Sergio Castellitto, Ornella Muti, Bruno Ganz.
Aust. 1990. Psychological drama by Gillian Armstrong with Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz, Kerry Fox. A novelist struggles to overcome the indifference that her husband and her own father often show her.
Runtime: 96 min.
G.-B. 1989. Psychological drama by David Hare with Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda. A doctor learns that the man she married is not the man she thought she knew.
Runtime: 97 min.

Sins of the Fathers

V.O.: Väter und Söhne - Eine deutsche Tragödie
U.S. 1987. Chronicle by Bernhard Sinkel with Burt Lancaster, Julie Christie, Bruno Ganz. The tribulations of a German family who owned chemical plants during the first half of the 20th century.
Runtime: 480 min.

Wings of Desire

V.O.: Der Himmel über Berlin
All. 1987. Poetic drama by Wim Wenders with Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk. In Berlin, an angel fascinated by the beauty of a trapeze artist decides to incarnate himself in order to enjoy the pleasures of the human condition.
Runtime: 126 min.

In the White City

V.O.: Dans la ville blanche
Suis. 1983. Psychological drama by Alain Tanner with Bruno Ganz, Teresa Madruga, Julia Vonderlinn. During a stopover in Lisbon, an engineer deserts his ship and wanders through the city.
Runtime: 108 min.

Circle of Deceit

V.O.: Die Fälschung
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1980. Psychological drama by Claude Goretta with Nathalie Baye, Angela Winkler, Bruno Ganz.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1979. Psychological drama by Jean-François Adam with Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, Bruno Ganz.
Runtime: 98 min.
Runtime: 100 min.

Nosferatu, the Vampyre

V.O.: Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht
All. 1978. Fantasy by Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz.
Runtime: 107 min.

Knife in the Head

V.O.: Messer im Kopf
All. 1978. Social drama by Reinhard Hauff with Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 1978. Thriller by Franklin J. Schaffner with Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason. A war criminal who has taken refuge in Brazil launches a murderous plot to restore Nazi power.
Runtime: 125 min.

Black and White Like Day and Night

V.O.: Schwarz und weiss wie Tage und Nächte
Runtime: 103 min.

The American Friend

V.O.: Der Amerikanische Freund
All. 1977. Crime drama by Wim Wenders with Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer. Under the influence of an American, a Hamburg framer becomes a contract killer.
Runtime: 126 min.

The Marquise of O

V.O.: Die Marquise von O...
All. 1976. Mores drama by Éric Rohmer with Édith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Peter Luhr. A young Italian widow finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being saved from a dishonorable fate by a Russian officer.
Runtime: 102 min.

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