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Ulli Lommel (21 December 1944 – 2 December 2017) was a German actor and director, noted for his many collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his association with the New German Cinema movement. [2] Lommel spent time at The Factory and was a creative associate of Andy Warhol, with whom he made several films and works of art. He moved ...
This is a list of notable German actors from 1895, the year of the first public showing of a motion picture by the Lumière brothers, to the present. Actors are listed in the period in which their film careers began and the careers of most spanned more than just one period. The list currently includes actors that appear in German movies ...
Zethphan Smith-Gneist (born 2001) is a German actor, best known for his main role as Josh Zimmermann in Druck, the German adaptation of Skam, and as Max, a Juilliard student in the 2022 psychological drama, Tár, written and directed by Todd Field and starring Cate Blanchett.
In 1966, Kier was cast in the lead role for the film Road to St. Tropez. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] An early starring role in Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1973) led to a string of art-house, low-budget, and mainstream horror films, including a number of vampire-themed pictures Die Einsteiger (1985), Blade (1998), Modern Vampires (1998), Shadow of the Vampire ...
New German Cinema (German: Neuer Deutscher Film) is a period in West German cinema which lasted from 1962 to 1982, [2] in which a new generation of directors emerged who, working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism, gained notice by producing a number of "small" motion pictures that caught the attention of art house audiences.
Weil later returned to play Oliver in the 2020–2021 revival series, Verbotene Liebe: Next Generation. Weil and Schölermann were celebrated internationally for their cliché-free portrayal of a same-sex couple. Oliver and Christian's 2010 marriage was the first church wedding between two men ever dramatized on German television.
The German magazine Theater heute solidified Ganz's reputation as a stage actor by pronouncing him Schauspieler des Jahres (Actor of the Year) in 1973. [4] One of Ganz's most physically demanding stage portrayals was the title character in Peter Stein 's 2000 production of Goethe 's Faust (Parts I and II); he suffered injuries during rehearsals ...
Thomas Kretschmann (pronounced [ˈtoːmas ˈkʁɛtʃman]; born 8 September 1962) is a German actor who has appeared in many European and American films.His notable roles include Lieutenant Hans von Witzland in Stalingrad (1993), Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist (2002), Hermann Fegelein in Downfall (2004), Captain Englehorn in King Kong (2005), Major Otto Remer in Valkyrie (2008), the ...