Bruno Ganz in WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders) Veteran Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, best known for his role as Adolf Hitler in the biopic "The Downfall", will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at tonight's European Film Awards, to be held for the first time in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Ganz was born in Zürich to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be an actor and found his first success in live thea...

At the 23rd European Film Awards the European Film Academy will Honour Swiss ActorWhether it is as an angel in WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) by Wim Wenders, in the Italian comedy BREAD & TULIPS (2000) by Silvio Soldini, or impersonating Adolf Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel's THE DOWNFALL (2004), Bruno Ganz has lent his face to some of cinema's most unforgettable moments. In the 70s and 80s Bruno Ganz has worked with the greats of German auteur cinema like Werner Herzog (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, 1979), Vol...

BFI Southbank Programme HighlightsWim Wenders: King of the Road, Part OneIn at the start of the ‘New German Cinema’ and reinventing himself constantly ever since, Wim Wenders is the quintessential post-modern auteur, seduced by Hollywood, but remaining European to his very core. Throughout January and February we will celebrate his career with a season that includes new prints of many titles, including The American Friend (1977) and The State of Things (1982).In Wim Wenders’ masterpiece In...

BFI Southbank Programme HighlightsWim Wenders: King of the Road, Part OneIn at the start of the ‘New German Cinema’ and reinventing himself constantly ever since, Wim Wenders is the quintessential post-modern auteur, seduced by Hollywood, but remaining European to his very core. Throughout January and February we will celebrate his career with a season that includes new prints of many titles, including The American Friend (1977) and The State of Things (1982).In Wim Wenders’ masterpiece In...