Bruno Ganz
Popularity:1.079
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1941-03-22
Place of Birth:Zürich, Switzerland
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Also Known As:برونو گانتس

Wings of Desire (1987)
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the...

Bread and Tulips (2000)
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful...

Downfall (2004)
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...

Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more...

The American Friend (1977)
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by...

Luther (2003)
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead...

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a...

Youth Without Youth (2007)
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the...

The Reader (2008)
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only...

Eternity and a Day (1998)
An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.

Children of Nature (1991)
An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.

The End of an Eternity (1999)
Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence...

Julia's Disappearance (2009)
A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you...

In the White City (1983)
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti (1982)
Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" (2005)
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

Knife in the Head (1978)
One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent...

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow...

The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.

Vitus (2006)
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for...

The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral (1997)
St. Stephen’s Cathedral ranks amongst Austria‘s most famous cultural monuments. Yet, one would not think of that Cathedral being one of...

Circle of Deceit (1981)
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between...

Lost and Found (1980)
Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited with a childhood companion at the central train station...

Unknown (2011)
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help...

The Marquise of O (1976)
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

Return to the Beloved (1979)
Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man. He is prepared to go far to make it happen.

The Day of the Cat (2010)
The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good....

Lumière & Company (1995)
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich...

Lady of the Camelias (1981)
A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique...

The Dust of Time (2008)
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in...

Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007)
A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth...

The End Is My Beginning (2010)
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in...

Colors in the Dark (2011)
Anita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They have two grown children, and their grandchildren are...

Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones (2005)
Documentary about the personal and professional life of Pablo G. del Amo. He is the most influential movie editor in Spain.

Strapless (1989)
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her...

Especially on Sunday (1991)
Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed...

The Counselor (2013)
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

Saint-Ex (1996)
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Of Women and Horses (2012)
This microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent, her fiercely stubborn character, and, most...

Black and White Like Day and Night (1978)
A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world...

Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2006)
The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the...

Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author,...

Lumière (1976)
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago...

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord...

Prague (1992)
Alexander is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to scatter her ashes and track...

In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose....

Hands Up! (1985)
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Polenta (1980)
Two men and a young girl meet at the end of the world

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the...

The Inventor (1980)
In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He...

The Left-Handed Woman (1977)
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own...

The Wild Duck (1976)
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal,...

Private Resistance (1985)
Otto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. Otto's place...

Success (1991)
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who...

Remember (2015)
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the...

Summer Guests (1976)
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their...

Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (1960)
Hugo Wiederkehr, as a dutiful bank employee, has to deal with all kinds of customers. Among other things, with the industrialist Meissen and his...

System Without Shadow (1983)
Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women,...

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)
Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his...

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1988)
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II (2001)
Second part of Goethe's Tragedy

5% de risque (1980)
A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior...

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary (2022)

Krieg und Frieden (1982)
The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

Killer aus Florida (1983)
A professional killer has been assigned to kill a woman he doesn't know.

Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts (2015)
Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized...

Im Dickicht der Städte (1968)
An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.

A Roof Over Your Head (1962)
A poor family with 6 kids that live in a ramshackle hut are suddenly offered a nice flat for cheap - with the landlord hoping they'll drive away...

Heidi (2015)
Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her...

Die Bakchen (1974)
Austrian flmed staged production of Euripedes' The Bacchae, portraying a conflict between the deity Dionysus, son of Zeus, and his cousin Pentheus,...

Night on Fire (1992)
Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the idyllic village of Schwant in Emmental. But, the more...

The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979)
Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

Der sanfte Lauf (1967)
Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical altercation with a right-wing extremist, he could no...

Amnesia (2015)
A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject...

The Party (2017)
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that...

A Hidden Life (2019)
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

In Times of Fading Light (2017)
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal...

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us (2003)
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and...

The House That Jack Built (2018)
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a...

WhoAfraidWolf (2000)
A group of actors making their way to Rome ends up losing its way due to the fog, the darkness, the ice and their own feelings of guilt, suddenly...

El río de oro (1986)
During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's...

Deadly Silence (1997)
A gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events.

The Ode to Joy (2006)
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp...

Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« (1986)
Thomas Bernhard in Madrid.

Fortuna (2018)
Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Together with other refugees, she is...

The Witness (2019)
An action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of justice.

The Tobacconist (2018)
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys...

A Jew Must Die (2016)
A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and Bruno Ganz as Arthur Bloch, Swiss Jew killed by...

Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler (2004)

The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution (2019)
In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King of Kings,” in Iran. Mass strikes and the...

The Absence (1993)
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.

Winter Journey (2019)
Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of...

Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years (2008)
The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became...

Bankomatt (1989)
With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn...

Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl (2020)
A 90'- documentary about Roger Raymond Rossmeisl (1927-1979), the most overlooked great guitar maker of all time. Roger's voice is spoken by Bruno...

Alias Kurban Saïd (2005)
The mystery of the author of the 1937 cult novel Ali and Nino - a recently-rediscovered Romeo and Juliet of the Caucasus - is explored in Alias...

You Can't Go Home Again (1999)
A 1998 Dutch documentary about Klaus Mann, the son of novelist Thomas Mann. An openly bisexual writer who spent World War II in Amsterdam, Klaus...

La provinciale (1981)
In this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the City of Light to be quite different from what she'd...

Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti (1982)

Anwalt Abel (1988)
Anwalt Abel is a German television film series, broadcast on ZDF between 1988 and 2002. 20 television films were produced, based on the detective...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie (1981)

Bambi Awards (1948)
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in...

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002)
"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the...

Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy (1986)
Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.