Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

Birthday:Mar 22, 1941
Place of birth:Zürich, Switzerland

Filmography

2008
The Baader Meinhof Complex

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Action Crime Drama History Thriller
7.3

20082h 29min

Czechia, France

Director: Uli Edel

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

2006
Vitus

Vitus

Music Drama
7.6

20062h

Director: Fredi M. Murer

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 him.

2004
Downfall

Downfall

Drama History War Historical Drama Historical Event
8.2

20042h 35min

Austria, Germany

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

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 from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.


The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

Drama Thriller Mystery Political Thriller Political Drama
6.6

20042h 9min

United States

Director: Jonathan Demme

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 squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

2003
Luther

Luther

Drama History Historical Drama Biographical History
6.6

20032h 3min

Germany, United States

Director: Eric Till

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

2000
Bread and Tulips

Bread and Tulips

Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy
7.3

20001h 54min

Belgium, Italy

Director: Silvio Soldini

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

1998
Eternity and a Day

Eternity and a Day

Drama
7.9

19982h 13min

France, Germany

Director: Theo Angelopoulos

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.

1993
Faraway, So Close!

Faraway, So Close!

Drama Fantasy
7.2

19932h 26min

Germany

Director: Wim Wenders

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.