Bruno Ganz
25 titles
Filmography
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Downfall
(2004)Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of World War II.

Wings of Desire
(1987)In director Wim Wenders' (Paris, Texas) most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Presented in a stunning new restoration.

Knife in the Head
(1978)Bruno Ganz gives a tour-de-force performance as Hoffman, an innocent bystander who survives a gunshot to the head by the police during a raid on a group of revolutionaries.

Winter Journey
(2019)Based on American radio host Martin Goldsmith’s book about his Jewish parents, who fled Nazi Germany, and their beautiful and painful love story.

Heidi
(2015)Heidi spends the happiest days of her childhood with her grandfather.

Remember
(2015)A relentless man will stop at nothing to find and kill the Nazi officer who murdered his family 70 years earlier in WWII.

Faraway, So Close!
(1993)Having crossed over to the human world, the angel Cassiel finds that mortality is a painful experience in this sequel to Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire.

In Order of Disappearance
(2014)Dark comic notes pepper the tale of a father, who uncovers the identity of his son’s killer and unravels, as he embarks on a bloody quest for revenge.

The House That Jack Built
(2018)An architect-turned-serial killer who views murder as art recounts his "life's work" in this audacious film from visionary Lars von Trier.

The American Friend
(1977)Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game. Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider) oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman...

The Architecture of Doom
(1989)This unusual documentary feature makes the case that the whole Nazi movement was an outgrowth of a perverted German aesthetic which placed an inordinate value on cleanliness and magnified the bourgeois country's tendencies to elevate kitsch and sentimentality to the level of central cultural values. In order to make his case, the filmmaker has gathered an unrivaled collection of clips and photos of the art and architecture of the period which shows tendencies in this direction. Adolf Hitler himself is shown to have been a failed painter of architectural scenes with a strong penchant for all these obsessions. There are logical connections, the filmmaker asserts, between this aesthetic and the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis. Whether the logic is compelling to the viewer or not, this documentary contains a wealth of carefully assembled and thought-provoking images, many of them seen nowhere else.
The Last Days of Chez Nous
(1992)A writer's husband sleeps with her sister, and her teenage daughter falls in love.

The Tobacconist
(2018)Based on the bestseller, a 17-year-old apprentice in a tobacco shop forges a friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.

Of Women and Horses
(2012)One woman's journey of rebirth is chronicled in this drama, starring legendary actor Bruno Ganz ("Wings of Desire"). Gracieuse is a lost woman, troubled by the horse racing life, who leaves it behind. When she meets legendary horse trainer Franz Mann, though, Grace finds a horse that brings love alive - and the hopes of racing glory.

Nosferatu the Vampyre
(1979)Jonathan and Lucy live in Wismar and the Count wants a house there. Varna is a port on the Black Sea, close to Dracula's castle.

Youth Without Youth
(2007)1938 - Dominic Matel, an aging professor of linguistics, survives a cataclysmic event to find his youth miraculously restored and his intellect highly evolved. When his condition attracts the attention of Nazi scientists, he's forced into hiding. Whilst on the run, he reunites with his lost love, Laura, who may hold the key to completing his research into the origins of language.

The Party
(2017)A get-together to celebrate a politician’s promotion in the British government devolves into a confessional for a friend group’s scandalous secrets.

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
(2013)A horse merchant sets off a chain of irreversible events when he seeks vengeance against those who took his family and livelihood.

The Reader
(2008)In post-WWII Germany, a law student finds the older woman with whom he had an affair eight years ago, among Nazi prison guards being tried for murder.

Vitus
(2006)Switzerland's official 2006 Academy Awards® entry, official selection of the Berlin Film Festival, and winner of the AFI Film Festival Audience Award, Vitus is the story of a child prodigy who has everything he wants except the chance to be a normal kid. At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth that his real genius is in his heart.